skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Labour under Blair significantly increased the spending on the NHS compared to the conservative government before them.
We have enough nuclear weapons to kill off humanity. They have not been used because of fear of retaliation, the number has been reduced because of costs. But the US with it's largest conventional military would benefit from a removal of all nuclear weapons.

We'll see if Russia uses a tactical nuke when Ukraine enters Crimea.

Biological weapons have been killed because they are hard to be used operationally. You don't want to kill civilians, this creates more resistance (shown in WW2 and Iraq for example), also if you conquer a country you need people to run it. Biological weapons are not that useful.
no need to be shy...just dumpem here
It does not break down.

Chainsaw is very good at doing chainsaw things.

If what you need to do is cut down bunch of trees then chainsaw is exactly what you need. No one in their right minds would start with a knife and start building it into a saw and then attach a motor to motorize it. Mind you we were carving a bowl, but as per Internet argument you completely dismissed the use case and inserted your own.

If VSCode does exactly what you need out of the box exactly how you want it to do it, then you are set and you should use VSCode.
This was supposed to parody how some of Vim's default shortcuts just flat out do not work on non-US keyboards, because e.g. typing [ requires pressing AltGr+8 on German layouts, but Ctrl+AltGr+8 is not the same thing as Ctrl+[.

And yes, it was also a reference to the Gimli glider.
I've extracted a gist: https://gist.github.com/Radiergummi/fe14c4ed93c68f2928a6a275...

Let me know if that helps, or if you need more guidance. Maybe I could open source the whole thing properly, if that is useful to someone :)
This is cool and convenient but a bit bloated for my tastes.. It's taking forever to install, hangs and the usual Mason issues..

In my opinion there is no "One size sits all" configuration of vim that could be packaged up for mass adoption.
One of the reasons it's not so famous is that it's had various historical struggles, including being stuck at 32-bit for a long time IIRC (I'm hazy on the details and corrections welcome). I love it though.
My theory is that people will use the minimum 'whistles and clicks' to communicate with each other, so when there is a lot of shared context (shared society, culture, mannerisms etc) that does much of the heavy lifting for communication. For example there is the English I (unconsciously) use when speaking to English as a Second Language people, and a much cut down English for talking to native speakers that is apparently unintelligible to non-native speakers.
That sounds challenging - I'd love to see how you get on. I had a kind of related idea - train a model on a particular synth, then when passed a sample with a synth sound in it, it would try to suggest the patch settings that would most closely emulate the sound.
Pretty sure Lord Howe Island still doesn't have mobile phone coverage.
Hi Evanb,

I am an author of the paper. Formally speaking, the phenomenon we studied resembles a second l-order phase transition similar to those in ferromagnetic materials.

Keep in mind though that there are differences white conventional thermodynamics. The most obvious one is that stricktly speaking, Theta cannot be interpreted as a temperature.

Si said, the transition in the 1d example is almost identical to the mean field transition of the ising model (not surprising, it breaks the same symmetry group)

No we didn't derive the critical exponents jet but we plan to do this kind of research in the future.
It's vertical landing, not vertical take off. It's still a short rolling take off. I actually wouldn't be suprised to find they do a short rolling landing too (rather than go full hover, use the lift fan to allow them to land at lower than normal stall speed would be). They've tested the rolling landing on board the HMS QE

And yes, for full maintenance, you do need need a proper airport and hangars. But for a quick refuel/arm and launch, you don't need that much. It's a trade off in capabilities: do you want to have a highway strip launch capability, or do you want something that is much less likely to get shot down. It's doubtful that the F-35 will only be able to operate at a single runway, unless your country only has one runway. It should be capable of operating off nearly any concrete runway you have (highways are typically not constructed to the same standards as a runway).
Where bugfixes and new features come from
A very big German newspaper (https://www.spiegel.de/) runs on Statamic and they probably have an order of magnitude more pages. But not sure what kind of improvements/custom implementations they've done.
Making the bug fixes count. Or how to fix promotions in tech companies
A power drill can do wonders. /s

When everything else fails, ask an RF engineer. Metal is for RF like glass for light.
Whether a machine can sing like a human does not matter much as far as appreciation of art: all art is self-expression, and self-expression always requires a self to express and a self to receive. Someone programmed the voice to sing something to someone for some reason.

Both human and software-generated singing exist today, and either can be boring nonsense or speak to you and leave an emotional impact.

(That said, if said machine is actually a derivative work produced from vocal samples without appropriate licensing, that’d make it dubious legally or morally. To my knowledge, preexisting software-generated singing like Vocaloid does not suffer from this problem.)
Integrated healthcare systems in other countries like Kaiser can balance patient flows between hospitals and care homes. This is something that in theory the UK should be good at given it's also an integrated system, but the dysfunction caused by trying to have the government centrally plan everything means it doesn't work in practice. The issue isn't under-funding, the UK social/healthcare system has plenty of money relative to peers.

Beyond general disorganization the UK system shoots itself in the foot regularly. Care homes are bottlenecked by labor cost, so their solution was:

1. Raise the minimum wage, thus increasing care prices and ensuring more people can't afford to pay for it even though there's lots of available labor.

2. Fire huge numbers of carers because they didn't want to get vaccinated, even though the vaccines weren't reducing transmission and their elderly tenants were multiple-vaccinated anyway.

(2) was especially damaging because care homes were one of the few sectors that had vaccine mandates in the UK, so people have now learned that if they go to work at care homes then they will be forced to take experimental medical things even if they don't want to or if it doesn't seem to make sense. That's a big downside to a job that already had few upsides.
I... just explained that. I am confident that the commenters talking about these things are not qualified based on the things they're saying. I wasn't making any allusions to being an expert on military matters. I'm saying these people are obviously not qualified, and I explained what makes me think that.
Sadly, like any popular technology, it experienced its fair share of use and abuse (people wanted XML database, XLST, XML in Scala, etc.). It's a much-maligned tech, and with a few tweaks to the robustness, it could be pretty nice (see https://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/xml5).

I'd take it over YAML any day. And I speak from a YAML parser implementer perspective. Making a 1.2/1.3 YAML parser is hard. The number of edge cases and states is absurd, while the specification needs to be on HTML/XML level.

E.g. When I started working on YAML parser I didn't expect to be fixing errors in spec. But here I am.
If it helps I tried using it and the basic examples just straight up didn't work at all and regularly got broken in different ways. Even if it's going somewhere it was unusable for a serious project. I moved to custom code and left it on the "watch this project" list for the future.
This is super offensive!!
This is how it works, at least in this case.

J&J is liable for the full liabilities of the new child company.

The child exists to make sure a pool of at least its current assets exists to split between all claimants. If they’re found to be liable for more than that, then J&J will be liable for it and, if they can’t service that liability, they will have to declare bankruptancy.
Taken to its conclusion, doesn't this just mean we should outlaw all forms of mechanization in order to preserve human jobs as much as possible? Would this be better for a country than just allocating a portion of the economy's output and using it to provide social safety nets?
Some conference apps just suck at audio. Teams will always pick the wrong mic / headphones, even though I don't have any bluetooth headset connected. And even after I've managed to convince it to use the right one during a call, for the very next call it forgets everything.

But yeah, to your mic point, some people just don't seem to care. I have a weekly conference with someone who takes it from his open office. I can hear his colleague way better than I can hear him.
DevopsDays Amsterdam 2023 – Our notes
As to our yearly tradition, we were present at DevopsDays Amsterdam. Here are our notes.
State of AI and social media, capitalism unlikely to end with a robot rebellion
I don't buy it. I have so many custom little quirks that no ammount of integrated out of the box setup is gonna replace it in 60s. Thats unrealistic. I believe its good, but it must be for certain class of working habits (for example, its probably great for those people that use vanilla anything, including vim).
JavaScript, really?

I get the practical reasons why it’s useful, but I’m surprised it’s anyone’s choice for the design of a high level language. Is Python or Ruby not a much better choice?
The End of Software Versions (2015)
You get exactly the same functionality with (neo)vim plugins.

Only difference is that because vim has been open-source for decade, there are many many more plugins, and hence the choice is harder to make. VSCode also helped improve the (neo)vim experience (e.g. language servers)

Comparing VSCode and Vim is like comparing a standard calculator with an RPN one.
It's 100% the responsibility of the founders and leadership.

I think enshittification is more a consequence of either 1) current metrics not matching costs 2) loss of long-term vision of further innovation (often once it's no longer founder led) 3) no competition.

It's either an attempt to make up for the bleeding short-term (1), unclear path of expansion (2) or an excessive ability to maximize costs due to no alternatives on the market (3).

In many ways, I'd argue VCs decrease the risk of enshittification or delay it. They're comfortable funding the delta between current metrics vs. costs (1) – up to a point, of course. They also love to fund competition in proven markets (3).

> Incumbents [...] would simply pocket the bounties for issues that never got picked up. Is this a risk for yours too?

This is a combination of the problem not having been solved at scale and of such actors needing cash (1). At Polar now, we have runway for years even without $1 in revenue – thanks to VCs.

Of course, I understand what you mean and ultimately the problem in our industry arises when "the party stops". At some point current metrics & costs need to balance. However, I'd argue this is the responsibility of the founders. VCs will always be the voice of "invest in growth" because it's fundamentally what their capital is for. Founders need to know how to leverage it, track current metrics and obsess about how things are progressing to match up eventually and spend + invest accordingly. Combined with having a long-term mission & vision spanning beyond quarterly goals. Enshittification is duck tape for lacking these things and ultimately fuel for competition.

So to answer your question, I believe I'm to be held accountable and not VCs in case we enshittify the product. Having worked at Shopify, I'm inspired by their 100-year mission and being founder+product led and obsessed about merchants – knowing money comes as a reward and is not the pursuit. Having also started a company before, I've learned to "not get drunk" by the party.

We're building towards something new in the pursuit of creating an independent pathway towards careers and small businesses within OSS for those who want to pursue it. It will take time and it will cost a lot of money to make this bet. It would have been impossible without VCs and I've chosen really great ones who align with this mission. I'm beyond thankful for them making this possible because that's what it boils down to.

Finally, we're open source so you can hold us accountable :-)
https://github.com/polarsource/polar
> ... are all excellent requirements documents.

No, they are not!

They can be a wonderful resource for the validation tests, but a developer needs a model to start. The documentation of existing tools may be a nice requirement document, provided it is exhaustive enough.

By the way, every time I was requested to implement something "exactly like this gizmo here", I proposed to just keep using that gizmo there, and then the discussion became interesting: "No! We want the same, but...."

As soon as the "but" was pronounced, the person in front of me realised the gravity of the situation: they didn't know what they wanted, and by handing me an ancient (despised) tool they were just planning for me to fail and for them to throw me under the bus.
I have been using LazyVim as my daily text editor/IDE on my 2014 Macbook Air for about 6 months. It is the only IDE that runs smoothly and provides good Language Server Protocol (LSP) and plugin support.

After delving into the configuration rabbit hole, I started prioritizing 'getting things done,' and LazyVim proved to be a good choice.

1. It is easier to disable a plugin than to configure it.

2. It's Vim, so it is fully customizable. For instance, I use it to write LaTeX and compile it upon saving using my preferred LaTeX compiler, thanks to LSP.

3. It's Vim, so my mental muscle are grateful.

The only aspect I feel could be improved is the AI-assisted experience. The available plugins cannot compare to Copilot X Chat on VSCode, so most of the time, I find myself switching between the editor and a browser window with a ChatGPT-like chat to ask for boilerplate code. However, I'm confident that the Neovim community will rise to the challenge (zbirenbaum/copilot.lua and jackMort/ChatGPT.nvim are good starting points).
Why would you choose to synthesize audio using such awful valley girl accents?
Australia has 'sunk' USS carriers in war games also - there are entire books written about how carriers are hard to defend in modern warfare - they're painful to lose but (shhh, don't tell anyone) relativey easy targets in all manner of ways.

The wikipedia entry is about 1400+ ships that were mostly Dutch - from the days of the Dutch East Indies and Spice trades.

It's of interest as that coast was one of the main drivers to develop "GPS 0.1" aka clocks capable of reliable determination of Longitude and one of the (relative to monetary value at the time) largest technology prizes offered.

They stopped stacking up on the West Australian coast once accurate navigation became commonplace but for a while there .. yep, Dutch ships sank themselves.
if you any suggestion about articles to read about wgpu plz share. I kind of struggle to find good articles with good examples for beginners to get started with wgpu
The graph uses 2008, 2019, and 2022 as indices.

This could just as easily be a graph exploring the effects of the pandemic. I doubt Germany’s last tick would be in that direction were it not for the pandemic, for example.
This. Be kind to new speakers of your language by (a) waking up your points of articulation and enunciating more clearly, and (imho) (b) pausing a bit between clauses. Maybe stir in techniques like placing the topic of the sentence at the beginning: "My goofy cat, I had to call the fire department to get him out of a tree yesterday."

Correlate for writing: deploy commas strategically and effectively.
For those s who want a nvim experience without the hassle of a config file as long as my arm : I warmly recommend you to try helix.
Exploratory terminal based interface (much like zellij if you use that) , terminal based, fast as fk, minimal config required(just having the LSP in your path is enough) and the documentation is mostly complete.

Try it out
It's mind-blowing to think that the CEO of Vercel is also the mastermind behind technologies like Mongoose and Socket.IO
People are more cattle-like than they'd like to believe.

Once I realized this, the world makes more sense.
Did you forget what the OP asked? Is anyone using Forth in production?

I very much doubt it.
Then predict the future and tell me what will happen tomorrow. If you can't do that, then it's an if.

Legislation and regulation is not the solution. It makes the assumption that those in charge have our best interests at heart (spoiler alert: they don't.)

I put up two options for the future, you choose, I don't care about your future nor your choice. If you believe legislation is the answer, go for it. I don't.
So what's the point of the sticker? can't put your phone in your backpack?
Laughs in Google's Protobufs
Just some musing on the logistics and difficulties etc. of theoretical "distributed" highway F-35b operations..

[Numbers found by google search :_) ]

30 ISO containers for just the runway, = 30+ vehicles, + munitions, spare parts, maintenance personnel, that computerized logistics thing - ODIN/ALIS, food and water, security for the personnel, generators to power all the computers to support the aircraft, . would there need to be SAM support? anti-drone support?

Fuel would seem to be a real issue especially - an upgraded refuelling tanker-truck holds ~20k litres, and an F-35b can take ~10k litres I think. One refuelling tanker-truck = two air sorties.
TSMC sends deputy director to 'rescue' delayed Arizona fab
No, Vim can be an excellent IDE. Just not a "works out of the box" one.
(Low effort comment, but) money laundering?
I love the sticker idea to break habits. Very smart.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) is another old movie dealing with the topic of computer controlled nuclear weapons. I think it did a much better job portraying the AI than wargames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
> people recommend me their IDEs or some new text editor from time to time by telling me that the editor supports Emacs style keybindings assuming that is the main difference between editors

I get that too but with Vim. People think Vim is just about the controls because all they know about Vim is the :q joke. No, that IDE's Vim plugin doesn't cut it, because unfortunately it comes with an IDE and its distracting overloaded UI, weird tab switching behaviour, absolutely infuriating popups and other annoyances.

Vim being just a really flexible and fast editor with a mostly empty status line as the entire user interface is a feature.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

You probably meant to call my argument an appeal to nature. You seem to really know your stuff.

>Where do you think our ancestors got their water?

Lakes and rivers.

>Should we go back to drinking from lakes and rivers?

Preferably yes. I came back from a camping trip yesterday where I strictly drank from lakes and rivers, and it's very refreshing compared to city water.

I suppose this wasn't the gotcha you had planned in your head.
SCORM is so limiting, one probably wont be making any modern interactive online courses with that. Focusing on that standard will most likely render a project useless or so boring, that no one will learn anything from using the system. If anyone is making another LMS and hears some distant call for SCORM from anyone not directly involved in making content or learning from the content they should run. It is likely to be just a silly checkbox some management wants to tick off, because at some point they heard about a term and now think it is relevant.
There's not-dissimilar cases moving thru American courts.
Beware of <%== in Your Erb Files
The difference is the default YouTube client is actually good. 3rd party clients only exist to implement paid features for free.

When you pay for YouTube you get a really nice experience with no dark patterns. When you pay for reddit or Twitter you get the exact same dumpster fire.
that's even funnier.
Let them eat environmental fanatics
"Ma'am, we can process your papers as soon as Frank gets back from vacation."
Linux Mint 21.2 Released with Cinnamon Enhancements, Other Desktop Polishing
Sure, but I’d imagine if you’re healthy and strong minded, you’d stop when you’re tired or hungry or something. I guess I’ll be more convinced if someone figures out the mechanism of action at play here the explains this dancing plague.
Python's biggest inherent issue is it lacked async syntax for a long time. Haven't used the newer versions that have it, so idk how well it works. JS also has a way better package system and nicer syntax for objects and lambdas. Then the more practical issue is all the UI stuff integrates with JS rather than Py, and Py is even slower than JS.

Ruby, idk, never used or even encountered it. Python was my main language for a while.
On using Emacs for 20 years
The subscriber count for Premium and the YouTube revenue have been growing exponentially for the last few years. YouTube premium is cheaper and has better content than almost all the other video subscription services.
I think you're going about the wrong way if you're reaching to plugin for every simple thing in vim. Granted, I will say that vim has steep learning curve, it kinda gives you the power to do your _own_ way which is probably why you're seeing people do their own way.
Also, you sort-of have to shift your mindset to embrace unix/shell as your IDE. But definitely reach out to other tools if it's not your cup of tea. Like many others have said, if you're trying to force it into something it's not then you're going to have a miserable time.

As for your e.g. it would be a simple autocommand to run black that's installed in your machine on buffer write event in your neo/vimscript.

`autocmd BufWritePost *.py !black %`
No offense, but that soccer team just can't score any goals!
Please understand that this "company" and "CEO" are most likely a teen skiddie. I doubt they care about vulnerabilities in their software and I'm not sure if their users would know about them either.
Don’t they have the right to stop serving you content?
I am using mostly default settings on my neovim setup for most plugins.

I can't do much with vscode before also install tons of plugins and eventually setting them up. The only major difference to me is a central marketplace for vscode plugins instead of relying on github search engine+recommendations and being subject to telemetry I don't want.
I can't comment on any implementation details, but at least with LunarVim (which I use for daily coding), a slowdown when interacting with LSP is very noticeable. Some others have attested to this on a GitHub issue.

I'm not doubting your experiences with the lack of a slowdown, but there is truth that others do experience it. That might be more of a problem with LunarVim itself rather than Vim, but how likely am I (as someone who would like to avoid what he calls "config hell") or other newcomers to avoid whatever pitfalls there are, if a distribution designed for ease of use by people who know better fall into them?

https://github.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/discussions/3359
Where I believe LiFi options would be great is to eliminate HDMI / Display Port cables to monitors or TVs. Just one less wire to run and figure out how to hide. Well at least until wireless energy systems get better. ;)

Or to have a desktop computer across the room from a display and be able to switch displays.