skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrival’s design team brought in Stephen Wolfram, founder of Mathematica coding software, and his son, Christopher Wolfram, to analyze the language the way Louise and Ian might. They reasoned that each logogram could be cut up into 12 pieces.
I'm glad the truck bed is coming handy when dropping the kids to school. Sure makes up for all the kids getting crushed by big cars (1)

(1) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americas-cars-trucks-ar...
I saw the photos of snow and immediately realized it was fake.
Here's the blog post that shows the bad quality of a (pretty expensive) Oscilloquartz 8663 OCXO: https://www.paulvdiyblogs.net/2023/07/building-10mhz-master-...

"Lastly, I'm not going to use the Oscilloquartz reference voltage to power the frequency setting circuit. It seems the logical thing to do, but this so called reference voltage is anything but a reference voltage. They are typically created by using a zener (reference) diode like the TL431, but that is simply not good enough as you will see."
Really? I had no idea Teetotaling was the new in-thing. Welcome, friends!

(For me, it was a choice based on my own mental health plus a family history of alcoholism on both sides, but I surely never thought that not drinking would become a popular thing, given how awkward people who drink have historically tried to make it for me, since I choose not to.)
Gossip Protocol Explained
This is mainly a federal distinction though.

IIRC some federal countries like Canada or India have even greater variance between states.
I like a good starting point. All these things let you tweak them to your heart's content. AstroVim plus 20 lines of customization is my ideal Rust IDE. Really takes away my motivation to burn a couple weekends doing it all myself.
If she came out and said, "hey incels, your problems are your own fault, now grow a spine, take a shower, and get a job" do you think the WaPo would be more offended or do you think the "manosphere" would have an aneurism?
A few more comments:

- would be nice to display current score, as well as lowest
- trying to get a clear board is really difficult - need to have a multiple of 4 bricks from your latest reroll (1/4) and a sequence of pieces that lets you clear all bricks (really unlikely!)
- on the flip side, it doesn't appear possible to lose, either

Not sure there's enough control with the random block addition to really strategize effectively. Gets frustrating and tedious getting to low counts and then having random additions gradually push you back.
A few more comments:

- would be nice to display current score, as well as lowest
- trying to get a clear board is really difficult - need to have a multiple of 4 bricks from your latest reroll (1/4) and a sequence of pieces that lets you clear all bricks (really unlikely!)
- on the flip side, it doesn't appear possible to lose, either

Not sure there's enough control with the random block addition to really strategize effectively. Gets frustrating and tedious getting to low counts and then having random additions gradually push you back. Even got to 1 block once...
> a good tool is useful immediately and has the potential to be personalized.

Vim is useful immediately! I use it without customization all the time when I ssh into a new system for instance.
We have non-tech leadership (it's sales).

We also have too many decision makers. We also have too bad and always changing requirements/spec.

Yet we double every year because of pmf and a solid core product.

I think what to work on has also a big impact how productive (measured in $$$ instead of slocs) a team is.
The Game of Go
Fire in the Valley is the best computer history book I've read. It covers the very early history of the Altair (Hardware) and Bill Gates writing a version of Basic for it (Software). I would say it stops in the 90s since I've only read the first edition but apparently there are two more editions out now that cover events through Steve Jobs death. I think I'm due for a rereading.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1937785769/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...
You think a Kei truck can't make it up a mountain with a load of bricks? It may not be the fastest, and the biggest load of bricks it can haul is gonna be smaller, but let's not pretend a Kei truck can't go to Home Depot and back again with a decent amount of stuff. Like smaller trucks in the US, like the Ford Ranger or Chevy S10, they do just fine if you don't abuse them. If you do, giant 2-ton trucks don't last either.
Technically it's a drain on society's safety nets. If people hurt themselves it requires investments of health care workers and tax dollars. Now this isn't a really strong argument in the US, since we don't have socialized healthcare, but it's not nonexistent either.

Also, the other argument goes that "people don't know how to actually get what they want for themselves, and will act against their own true self-interests". Which is definitely true to an extend but the devil is in how far you're willing to stretch that.
"Can a board game teach the principles of impermanence, interdependence, compassion, and no-self?"

... out of curiosity, are there Go players here, and do you think playing it helps you in everyday life/work?
A long time ago, I actually bought a copy of BeOS 5 Professional to run on a pair of Pentium 3's.

I really did quite enjoy using it, it was snappy, however, rough parts, ... there was a leaked 'Dano' release that fixed some of these problems, but it was too late.

Rough Bits:

- Limited Software. Gobe Productive as an office suite was quite nice, but
not anything like Word Perfect or MS Office, and importing stuff was limited.
The web browser Netpositive was behind Netscape / Internet Explorer
- no Flash, or Java
- it had limited Posix support, so command line utilities could be ported from Linux/BSDs, but no X or GTK/QT
- no 'killer app'.
- No Colour sync, little/no accessibility, localization.
- network stack was slow
- even Linux was getting way more commercial software

Limited hardware support
- no 3d acceleration (at least released publicly)
- limited drivers for other hardware - e.g. printing support was .. limited
- USB support was limited

So, for day to day use, it was fine by me, especially for ripping CDs,
BeOS had a feature where CD Audio tracks would appear as AIFF files in the Tracker, and could lookup the names with CDDB (before gracenote killed that),

There was a bash script by BeOS evangelist and author Scott Hacker(?) that would rip tracks, edit the MP3 metadata and the Be Filesystem meta data, so you could do mp3 tracklists by query.

It was/is used as a Radio Station automation software, called Tune Tracker[0] though they may have switched to Haiku

[0] http://www.tunetrackersystems.com
Musk already has Water Isaacson following him around for a biography. Cant wait to read how Musk is earth’s savior and inventor of everything.
Static analyzers are a tool. And peer reviews are a tool. And compilers are a tool. Being able to combine tools together (as I noted we did) helps you generate better code.
Lots of detail supplied in the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Cathedral#Dome
I don’t mind slowdowns as long as they are synchronous and deterministic. But most IDEs and IDE-like plugins work asynchronously, so you have to wait and sync all the time. I think that this async-all approach gains technically but loses methodically, so I stick to basic editing. Ymmw.

What I would like to try is an asynchronous non-inplace helper. Like a side panel or a bg overlay to the right-ish that understands what you’re doing and suggests identifiers, reference snippets, full type info, etc. Like the whole page in a smaller font dedicated to what’s under the cursor. Then you could choose what to type into the code, or ignore it because I already know that. I don’t mind typing if it doesn’t require too much attention.

Another thing I’d like to try is mobile-style typing suggestions. First - semi-transparent popups above words in case there’s a typo or an obvious continuation, applied via M-CR. Second - 3-5 most obvious next tokens to insert without even starting to type. Like in

let start = new Date
let date|

Suggests [“=“]. When you choose it, it suggests [“new”, “start”, “Date”, “undefined”]. I bet one could type pages with this alone.

This might work nicely with any editing model, imo.
I use copilot, but I it’s not a super game changer in my opinion. I can live without it. I often turn it off when I’m using SQL or something when it hinders more than helps. It’s honestly best when I’m writing JavaScript because I’m not very good with the language. But when I’m writing a language like python which I’ve been using for a long time it kind of gets in the way.
> I use it without customization

i do too - all i know is :bn, :bp, b, e, ciw, v and shift+v (and :wq) and it's all i've known for over 10 years. i use the arrow keys on the keyboard too! fingers crossed it'll last me the rest of my career too.

but i mostly use clion/pycharm and there the defaults are reasonable and the ux of shift+shift is absolutely unbeatable.
Yet another example where profiting from society is more important than well-being of society.

And how come that with all this miracle communication technologies and sprawling cities we are more lonely than ever?

Food for thought.
I use IntelliJ Idea for work, and the most bloated NeoVim setup in the world doesn't even compare. I type "vim ." in a project directory and NeoVim, with a billion plugins, has come up by the time my finger is a cm off the enter key.
Probably most of them. I don't think the limiting factor is access to capital, but rather the risk.
Best protip I heard about (n)vim customization: use git branches when you want to switch between different configurations. Eg something like:

- vanilla/default

- minimal

- fancy

depending on what you want to deal with. If I go months between using all these plugins I forget what they do and what changed and it’s just noisy distractions that invariably lead me to open my init.lua file rather than what I actually had intended to work on
Sounds like a good way for students facing huge student loan debt to discharge it in bankruptcy (just kidding, I know that's not something the US government would allow for anyone except well-connected corporate lobbyists etc.).
Even if it did largely comply with FMVSS, it wouldn't be importable if less than 25 years old, because it doesn't meet US specific regs, including US crash testing. I couldn't buy a brand new Skoda and bring it over, even though it met all the Euro crash testing and safety regs, because it doesn't have everything done to be sold over here. The only exceptions are stuff that's 25 years old, and stuff that's so limited production that it doesn't have to meet it (like a Koenigsegg, I think).
I've got some crazy news for you: you can actually post other people's tweets on HN! Crazy, right?

By the way the OP of the Twitter thread commented in that thread you linked. He has the same HN username as Twitter.
A much simpler alternative to this is kickstart.nvim. My approach to customizing my neovim config was to use kickstart as a reference, and slowly add things that I needed.

https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
I have the same problem here and I'm considering buying a 6GHz tri-band (2.4 + 5 + 6GHz) Wi-Fi 6E router. Problem is: the only ones I can find are "gamer" routers bloated with features I will never use and priced 5x to 10x a regular Wi-Fi 6 (without the "E") dual band (2.4 + 5GHz) router.

Both my phone and computer supports 6GHz, but it's still hard to find a reasonably priced router.
There is no need to kick anyone out of bed. You can adjust policy.

For example no lockdowns, that sacrificed young people over old. I still have bad health from that. My daughter has developmental issues.

And overweight people should not have publicly founded insurance. We should respect their wish to die!

And no publicly founded health insurance for non-citizens. That even has strong political support!
> but I really am a big advocate for learning how to customize vim (or emacs) yourself

I got caught into this and, for me, it was a waste of a month. I found that configuring your editor serves as a great way to procrastinate doing "real work". There's always that one last thing you wanna get right
If instead of Rust you'd take its close enough relative, OCaml, but without the GC and with more low-level machine access, maybe ATS would fit your bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_%28programming_language%29

To my mind, BTW, Typescript is not that "straightforward" or "simple", but it has a pretty powerful type system, and I like that.
They certainly can under executive privilege, and stuff is taken to court quite often. Waiting for congress to act is futile in this age sadly. In this age it’s a game of executive action with judicial review.
ruffle is such a cool project - and one of the early successes of WebAssembly as a platform for the web
In the context they were in, the answer to all of those questions is "shut the fuck up, we can talk about it later".

In the normal course of business, it's a different conversation. Even then, if you're making some poor dev refactor a bunch of code because they had the misfortune to touch it, maybe you should have done the work yourself a long time ago. Or written a linter and ticketed owners.

You don't want to make feature development some sort of pain lottery.
> Absolutely. The author's gender shouldn't matter if the writing stands well on its own.

shouldn't, but we're clearly not in a post-sexism world yet. In hindsight, the same article should have been released under a male-sounding pen name.
With some select exceptions, the quality of AAA storytelling has detiorated.

I welcome any tech that makes indies more competitive.
If an email admin looks into your private correspondence your first thought is to get the hell out of his servers, whereas if a mastodon admin constantly monitors public posts from your and other instances then it doesn't seem like a big deal
My wife grows plants in our shower for that reason. Not scallions, but it's other the same story. I bet he did have plants in his bathroom and for some reason switched gears about wanting to talk about it.
OceanGate Is Getting Majorly Sued
In the back of the toilet.
I recommended a specific site that works. And here you are getting mad at me without even trying it, lol.
The last suggestion seems somewhat similar to what copilot does, although copilot tends to suggest whole statements instead of a word
> This website is begrudgingly generated by the use of software. Letters to the
editor are welcome via facsimile

What does this mean? Is it a reference I'm missing, a vague disclaimer for generated text, or am I reading too much into the footer?
I don’t like “exceptionalism” arguments in general, and I think “muh homogeneity” is bunk as well, but Japan has a very strong and unique culture that results in outcomes that the rest of the world would not see in the same conditions.

See for example Japan having very few public trash cans but also very low amounts of litter, or even very low wage workers taking pride in their jobs, or Japan having both extremely low unemployment and also low/no wage inflation for very long periods of time. Japanese business culture is one of seeing a duty to the public/consumer in a way that most other capitalist countries do not. They have a cultural aversion to screwing people over and ripping them off, and in working very many extra unbilled hours because it’s expected of them - they’d never have the same healthcare failure modes as in other countries
What languages and LSPs are you using? I've never experienced this with Python (pyright), Go (gopls) or Rust (rust-analyzer). I'm using tree-sitter for syntax highlighting. The only special thing is that I'm using lazy.nvim (the plugin manager) to load copilot.lua on the InsertEnter event.
The problem is that even if you have a perfectly preserved box of modern cell phones, they're intentionally not really hacker friendly.

Half the time, you have a locked bootloader, and even if you don't, you probably need a bigger machine to stage and load new software. Even when you're done, you're stuck with a form-factor that's of limited alternate utility. Phones make a decent media player or ereader, but they're not really useful for many use cases. I'd expect, once you've got a few devices up and capable of preserving, say, human knowledge as defined by Wikipedia, you start looking for devices that are more GPIOs and less screen-and-storage. Access to something Arduino-esque could be a big force multiplier, because it allows process automation with relatively low manufacturing skill. Even something like an old mechanical clothes washer timer-- open and close a few relays over time, maybe respond to a few sense switches for emergency stop if the tub leaks-- requires a fairly high degree of mechanical tolerances to get right, or you could implement the same functionality in a few dozen lines of code for an Arduino-esque device, as long as you have the GPIOs. Phones are hardly amenable to that-- you try soldering a big relay to a tiny BGA processor pin.

Some of the documentation seems also focused around the idea of salvage at the component level. This may be a more feasible option too-- when you start to look beyond "computer/phone devices", there are a lot of embedded Z80s and EEPROMs that you could desolder and press into service, and they represent a lot more of a consistent baseline than 400 chips that are all theoretically ARM family, but have wildly different memory maps, peripherals, and varying instruction sets.
I use lazyvim and you're still going to be configuring a _lot_ of stuff by hand with it. It's really just a framework for configuring neovim with an opinionated file structure. Compared to other neovim plugin 'distributions' this one is pretty hands off as far as out of the box config--it really just has the bare minimum to get popular language LSPs up, and a lot of missing LSP features that neovim hasn't implemented yet (like autocompletions). For everything else, like defining your own little shortcuts and commands, it's wide open and up to you to figure out just like regular neovim.

Basically this distro is useful if you want to play with neovim plugins but don't want to spend days surveying the landscape to see what are the most popular and usable plugins... lazyvim is doing that for you. As far as using neovim goes this doesn't do much and it's still up to you to do the work to learn and configure it.
Few last times I tried VSCode it wasn’t immediately useful. I believe that you’re speaking from your own familiarity with it. How big is your settings.json?
Company I worked with had a rack with two functioning DEC terminal concentrators with an uptime just shy of 10,000 days. They were used 1-2 times annually because of a legacy mainframe print operation, but weren’t actually needed anymore. In their prime, they were part of a system that probably managed 40-50k terminals and printers.

They were powered down and scrapped when the datacenter was shutdown.
The traditional definitions by linguist tend to exclude anything that can't represent "all oral communication" as proto- or partial writing systems, which are often pejoratively labeled mnemonic systems. Systems that can represent the full range of spoken expression are labeled "true" or "full" writing.

This had the convenient side effect of neatly classifying all the American writing systems as protowriting in the early 20th century, as well as some more controversial examples like Chinese. Some of those have since been walked back (e.g. Mayan), but most remain in that limbo. We have a somewhat better understanding today that there was a huge variety of visual communication systems across the Americas prior to European contact, but properly redefining the term "writing" to include them is a slow, ongoing process.
I have noticed that people on HN tend to equate neoliberalism with classical liberalism, being clueless about the difference.

Classical liberalism was a naturalistic belief in market supremacy, understood to be a colossal failure by the middle of the 20th century. It was associated with the Gilded Age, which spawned the so-called Progressive Era, the ideological camps that followed, and the catastrophe that was the world wars.

Neoliberalism is what the capitalist class have insisted is a reformed liberalism, invincible to the problems that classical liberalism motivated.
It is a far more centralized, 'managed' market supremacy without the naturalistic perspective. Neoliberalism claims to acknowledge that markets are not natural and must be tightly managed by experts.
Yeah I've heard about it for at least 10+ years and actually had to install this once for a client ha ha. Wondering why it's trending now.
FYI, the link from the first bullet point "human friendly syntax" (aka syntax) points to https://pointillistic.com/ren/ which is broken, returning a page that states:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Kickstart.nvim: launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Wouldn't that require a pretty hefty amount of redundancy and error control, heavily lowering the throughput ?

The actual device speeds is already way lower than what is touted in the title, so at the end of the day it would be less practical than plain wi-fi from an antenna in your room (except if you're really affected by other longer range signals that touch even the 5Ghz band)
ty, had no idea about this.
I haven't had cold, flu or COVID since 2018.

I'm just introverted and don't have kids.
I’ve seen design docs that are vague, and design docs that are so detailed and specific that they can’t be kept up to date. I don’t know that anyone has found a happy medium.
I had luck using gnu stow to switch configs easily too.
Yeah, a couple friends recently told me they're teetotaling now, based on research (sent by another friend) that there is no safe amount of alcohol consumption. I talked with them for a while, but never could determine how exactly researchers had determined that 1-2 drinks/mo, for example, is less healthy than 0.
Not me I daily drive a GTK Boxer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(armoured_fighting_vehic...)

(I don’t actually drive a gtk boxer but it’s the logical conclusion of this dumb trend).
> Everybody already knows that stress can trigger a herpes outbreak

Also stomach ulcers, psoriasis and so on.

Every knows this now. This was an extremely hard fought against piece of medical knowledge though, from my understanding. Up through the 80s and 90s it was a radical view.

Now, fortunately, it's got a fancy name (psychoneuroimmunology) and is treated as an important field of study, as it deserves.
> That is, at the end of the day, something like Shor's algorithm can be reduced to some math constructs we roughly know.

Ok, what's the programmatic model there then?
Why is spoken language so hard to understand?
External-use-only products based on talc have been yanked from all shelves in every pharmacy and grocery store nationwide, while ironically, talc still remains on the shelves in pill form: alli® is an OTC weight-loss medication. https://www.myalli.com/content/dam/cf-consumer-healthcare/my...

I don't really want to think about the mechanism by which talc induces weight loss along with the active ingredient.
I once built a rudimentary Cookie Clicker type interface sitting on top of my To Do list. The idea was that only by accomplishing my tasks could I progress through the arbitrary hamster wheel of levels that I had set up for myself. It didn’t work, and it seemed like the reason why it didn’t work was a lesson worth the ~2 hours I wasted on it: doing your tasks isn’t fun.
"Controversial" in that the general topic is controversial, or in that the specific content of the article is controversial/unsubstantiated?
Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England’s Must-Have Garden Accessory
For those who have not heard of the Canyonero reference -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA