skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hum... I assumed the GP was joking. You don't seem to be.

Try finding at history some place where the society isn't fundamentally organized around commerce or under some heavy kind of authoritarianism.
> Expanse authors have paid careful attention to the physics of space-flight, which they then use create their vision of "realistic" space battles

Yes and no. I'm told that if you do the math on the "Epstein Drive" fusion rockets that are in use throughout The Expanse, they are actually _impossibly_ effective regarding reaction mass.

Still, unlike the star gates, they don't take you across light-years in less than actual years, so they're "harder" than the later books. There is indeed no hard boundary.
I picture someone furiously reverting changes on a 2,000,000 line COBOL monorepo
>> exposed to it over the course of a full lifetime would be expected to get cancer

> The average person might be expected to get 1.3 cancers

Same same, expect and guaranteed are only loosely the same in English. The weatherman expects rain.
I don't really agree with this framing.

Science fiction is usually differentiated between hard sci-fi and space opera. The line is blurry. Hard sci-fi is, or tries to be, rooted in actual science. The science can be speculative (eg FTL travel, FTL communication, wormholes) that really have no basis in any actual theory but these still count as "science". The focus of the work is to explore the implications of some technology or science.

Space opera, on the other hand, doesn't focus on the science (speculative or otherwise). It's just "there". The focus is more on traditional melodramatic elements of narrative.

Hard sci-fi examples: pretty much anything by Larry Niven, Archur C. Clarke or Alastair Reynolds.

Space opera: Star Trek, Star Wars.

I see science fantasy as the mixing of sci-fi and traditional fantasy elements (eg wizards in spaceships) or where technology takes on the appearance of fantasy elements (eg mental powers that are essentially "magic").
Given how big oceans are, you'll probably be getting more exposure from living in a coastal city and breathing in the fumes that blows ashore.
It didn’t occur to me until now that vim is perhaps the oldest tool I’ve used continuously since the early days of my education and career. And I don’t just use it, I use it every single day and have for probably 30 years.

Thank you Bram.
That’s what everyone one does with FreeBSD. Most network gear is some stripped BSD variant.

The difference with say Oracle Awesome Linux or whatever is that they are selling RH’s value add work and ecosystem as a service. As in they literally come in “Buy this stuff to be supported with our other stuff, we ship whatever RH ships.”

IMO, Red Hat’s changes are really making it more expensive to create exclusive “Oracle Red Hat for X” or similar business models. The people who can’t afford RHEL for their academic HPI still can’t, and just pick something else. People here quacking about Fedora are just quacking - Fedora is a project with a commercial purpose that serves the company’s needs. It will exists until it doesn’t.

RH isn’t Microsoft - everyone acknowledges that lots of distros exist and many are excellent. You can start a distribution today. But “fine, I’ll just use Debian” isn’t really a valid answer either. Debian is an awesome project and product, but if you chose Red Hat in the first place for reasons other than “I got a CD with a magazine in 1998”, Debian probably isn’t ideal without you doing alot of work. Then it’s a money discussion. (Cost of humans doing stuff vs paying RH to do stuff and humans to do other stuff)
When to Dig a Moat
For a point or ball, the formula is F=A/r^2

For a complicated shape, the formula is (something like[1]) F=A/r^2+B/r^3+C/r^4+... , where r is the distance to the "center" (and some parts are closer and some parts are more far away).

An important property of magnets is that A=0, so the r^2 term dissapears. And in many cases it can be simplified to F=B/r^3 [1, again].

[1] The complete formula considers also the directions, so it's longer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipole_expansion
I want everyone to be able to do that too. I just don't want everyone to be forced to do so.
The very first time in life that I reported a bug to an OSS project was to Vim, by email to Bram, when I was in high school. Thinking back from now, that was definitely not a good way to report bugs, but Bram was super helpful and responded kindly to this ignorant kid.

Thank you Bram, and RIP.
My iPhone has a satellite distress beacon incase I get stranded without cell service…
> I tell all my Apple friends to name something their $1000 iPhone does that my $200 Motorola can't.

You do this all the time?

> I can name several simple, practical, useful things an iPhone can't do --- not because Apple can't do it but because they don't want to.

Name them. We have plenty of electrons.

> I made the mistake of showing an Applehead how I could use a Windows PC to archive photos from an iPhone to a memory card and free up space.

Were they using iCloud Photos? Did they want to same physical space on the phone (could’ve used “Optimize iPhone Storage” in Photo settings), or did they want to not pay for additional iCloud storage?
I for one have built enough Linux kernels from scratch, and patched enough Linux drivers into working — thanks, so no one can call me an average Joe when it comes to tech. However, I mostly left all of that behind outside of work years ago, I’m desperate for time, not money, and I have way better things to do with my time than dick around with a custom android build, thanks. You do you, but Apple provides me with a ‘good enough’ service that saves me a lot of time.
You're optimistic if you think there's source control.
Sounds like they're sniffing the SNI header and blocking based on its value. Completely unrelated to the Kazakhstan root CA fiasco.
If that's the point yoi thought I was making, i encourage you to reread my comment and its parent
Neovim seems to be going strong. https://github.com/neovim/neovim
The problem is that near everything in 40k has been a part of a classic or hard scifi at some point.

Its a shit dichotomy. Authors should be able to play around with demons, philosophy, psychics etc etc, without being slapped in the face with some kind of demeaning label designed to lessen them.

The real point of comparison is shit vs good. 40k is largely terrible. Dan Abnett can string a yarn together, but Graham McNeil and most other authors coming up behind him are hot trash. This isnt just because Abnett can write, but because he has a lot of experience outside the Black Library can spread his wings and grow the thing in new directions without being hampered by some nard yelling "lore" like it means anything.

My touchstone is something like Dying Earth. If you can weave a story that contains unicorns, grues and wizards and still have it be an exploration, a what if, wizards controlled the world immediately before the explosion of our dying star, its legit. I really hate labels. But its legit scifi, its legit fantasy. Its legit critical mans thinking material.

But you can have all those same elements, write it poorly, and its at best popcorn trash.
Yah, I was wrong on the speed.14.4k sounds right. I believe I started on a 9600 baud, then 14.4k.
The parent company would sue anyone who cracks the drm. The company has probably an replacement product for the end of life one and doesn't want to hurt sales.
Car diagnostics are often easier with a laptop. It's easier to use a computer on your lap while in the drivers seat to cycle power as needed.

I'd look for off-lease corporate laptops, maybe CDW outlet. Chromebooks can work too, but you've got to be careful about specs. Need to be sure you can get a 3rd party firmware, that there's windows drivers for the mouse and keyboard, that there's enough storage (ChromeOS needs much less than Windows, and some Chromebooks are using soldered storage). For modern Windows, be sure to boot from a SSD or there will be much sadness.
I suggest that you change your browser’s default search engine to be Wikipedia.
What the world needs is decentralization across the board. Finance, internet, media, and government.
Bram was really important for me. I remember the joy of learning how to use vim and how easy it was to bond with other fellow users.

Who would imagine a text editor could instill such a strong sense of identity into its users?

The first time I’ve been to SF I even got a “:w” tattooed on me.

Bram, you will be missed.
I was curious and did a patent search. This may be it:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en (Piezoelectricity-induced High Temperature Superconductor)
The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)
RIP and thank you for vim, your effort and for caring about good software.
ZZ
The only thing keeping us alive is that skynet is an electron app.
Thank you Barm.
:wqa!

R.I.P

From a man who use vim everyday.
My opinion is that "star trek has strong elements of science fantasy" because everyone cruises around the galaxy at many multiples of the Speed of Light. There is routine FTL, with not even a nod to the effects on causality known since 1907 (1)

The shows plots are optimistic, promoting teamwork and an utopian social structure, IMHO that is far secondary to the "easy FTL" issue.

1 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone
RIP Bram, VIM is an awesome gift to humanity
How though? By making concurrent pipes companies? How many for an unregulated free market? 8? 10?
NFSv4 differs a lot from NFSv3. It's almost as big of a change as ipv4 and IPv6 are. Seems pretty reasonable to give it it's own name.
Indeed. Won’t someone think of the attorneys!
I guess you're right. I haven't seen them in a while either. But for a while there they would be among the top results for all kinds of searches, and the content itself was always garbage.

But I don't get pinterest very often lately either. Not never but not most of the time either.
Thank you Bram for creating something that is truly useful and we use nearly everyday. May you Rest In Peace. My condolences to his family.
Apple media messaging integration in the blue bubble is the killer feature
Another recent study found that coffee brewed with a paper filter reduced the chance of type 2 diabetes. That did not happen with espresso or other coffees brewed without paper filters. The explanation offered is that among the coffee compounds, one protects against diabetes and another counteracts the first. A paper filter seems to capture the second compound letting the first through.

Perhaps you need espresso filtered through paper to get both benefits? ;)
Things aren't any better. I've given up on the Git command line. I'm never going to remember the various flags-vs-unintuitively-named commands.

TortoiseGit is ugly and sucks, but the only time I've had to drop to the command line is when I need to look for the intersection or disjoint commits
Your quote missed a few crucial words. The claim was that "every person exposed to it over the course of a full lifetime would be expected to get cancer".

Suppose you get a bunch of people to flip 3 coins. You'd expect the average person to get 1.5 heads, but it would be inaccurate to say "every person would be expected to get heads".
No, it is due to the way you phrased the question.
>Humans today are much less expendable, and much more valued

These people don't sound valued to me

https://www.boredpanda.com/toxic-baby-boomer-advice/
The EU is currently proposing to mandate the inclusion of roots that have been government approved, and to limit browsers from removing/distrusting them without notice/approval.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/eidas-20-sets-dangerou...
Feel less bad about that 5th coffee now...
I learned vim as a kid in the 90s and used it my entire life. I've never used anything else. The hours it has saved me through its efficiency and productivity has probably extended my lifespan.

Vim was born out of a simple system and a deep empathy and understanding of what a developer really needs.

In every line of code, every efficient series of keystrokes, his legacy endures. May it last forever. Rest in peace.
RIP

vim might seem small on the grand scheme of things (npi), but as an interface to almost anything on a computer and for so long.. it's a real wound to read this

saying this as a mostly emacser..

:T_T
Exploring Generative AI – how can it get in the way?
I like this, although I feel like there is something missing. The Martian, for example, is fantasy in that it imagines a Mars climate that doesn't exist and can never exist.
Hmm. I also first used vim inside of Slackware and also use arrow keys in vim.

Not sure I've ever run into another person who admitted that publicly. Not that I think it's something that one should actually be ashamed of, it makes total sense. Just not a popular approach.
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Mine is janky as well, but here's a writeup of what I do - https://www.bbkane.com/blog/monthly-banking-report/

I'm very interested in improvement suggestions or comments you may have (just reply to this comment).
If Hank was less excited about it, the video would not reach nearly as many viewers, so from an educational perspective, he’s succeeding at educating many more people about this topic. It matters less when we “figured this out”. The educational value is in the details.
Damn… I have been using Vim for decades and never thought once about the people responsible for it. I need to be more thoughtful of this to acknowledge people’s excellent work.
What is the typical root cause of these issues ? Is it improper architecture / transaction management that only gets exposed when certain things that usually work become unreliable ?
It looks like this worked in this material for years, perhaps the would have taken a few more years.
The unwholesome horror is finally revealed.
if it follows the trajectory of cryptocurrency, then the opposite will happen - even more expensive custom chips will replace GPUs
I had a toshiba T3100 laptop that was impossibly finicky about what OS it would run (I only sold it off to a collector finally a few years ago).

After hundreds of hours of attempts I managed to get FreeDOS 0.4b to boot up successfully off a 720kb floppy. I tried a ridiculous number of DOSes (including 3.2 that it originally shipped with) and other OSes and THAT version of FreeDOS is the only one that would load for some reason.

Anyways, all that to say I used that laptop for years with a kermit lite client to act as a serial console to some of my ccmp machines (Sparc Station 20 etc). Worked beautifully and gorgeously as that (640x400 orange gas plasma display) .

If you are a fan of old systems and want a nice serial terminal get a t3x00. They arent that expensive and they have a wonderful keyboard and beautiful screens :)
This law would inadvertently be a good thing for the open source movement.
This is beautiful and hilarious. Thank you for the uplifting on a difficult morning.

Now to figure out how to give my best gist[1] a million stars :D

https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b... (Making a Nice zsh environment: Quick HOWTO install fzf oh-my-zsh powerlevel10k fd ripgrep on MacOS)

PS. Gimme stars! I crave stars!

PPS. More seriously, the 47 stars on that little guide have a disproportionate impact on my happiness. Plus some of my most respected peers said it was useful to them. The lesson here is that you can meaningfully improve our software world without writing an ubiquitous and elegant framework or new language. Instead, people still need good curated content, guides that glue things together, and plain old documentation.

PPPS. So start writing gists and improve project documentation with PRs: I believe in you!
‘One step at a time’: entrepreneur buys stairwell in London to help startups
I feel that Event Horizon is the most effective science fantasy movie produced. I've seen it once, which was enough to leave an indelible mark on me.

Event Horizon combines the supernatural with some elements of vaguely plausible science fiction. The movie comes together in a way that traces back to the present-day with a pretty bright line, especially in prop and spaceship design. It keeps you connected and then dumps the fantasy element on you hard. Disturbing but well done stuff. Deeper nerd-cut, it's a 40K prequel, if only unofficially.
Duplicate. The actual story behind the EPA's decision: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23863526-epa-hq-oppt...
Ya crypto has shown how well that works.
Related: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/fuckstalkerware-1/
This would cross a line in the US where there would be 1A challenges, although there have been other stupid things accepted which are even more obviously unconstitutional. If they do this, I hope they do it on a very broad basis so the vast majority of people evade and it feels "normal", followed by legal, electoral, or other action to address the underlying problem.
When asked on Twitter how the Epstein Drive works, the authors responded: "Efficiency"
>> Science fantasy stories tend to be space operas: focus on characters and their adventures rather than technology

Now I'd like to see a definition of 'space opera'. Here's Brian Aldiss' take on it: "Science Fiction is a big muscular horny creature, with a mass of bristling antenna and proprioceptors on its skull. It has a smaller sister, a gentle creature with red lips and a dash of stardust in her hair. Her name is Space Opera".

This is a great definition although arguably not as useful when you have to classify actual stories.
Read lips? Siri wants to feel them, according to fresh Apple patent
I totally agree with you. However, I rationalize this in my mind (in a very biased manner) with this mental gymnastics.

If there was a paper that very thoroughly proved that caffeine was detrimental, it would rocket up into a high tier journal. So I suspect many people may try to look for negative outcomes but aren't finding them. But also I haven't searched for negative chronic effects of caffeine and only hear of results like this. So maybe I'm totally wrong and there's a conspiracy against publishing results on negative effects.
It’s the grinder that gets ya.
Love and War in Cyberspace – Texas Monthly
We can have high expectations for those who aspire to improve on Git — that they will grok its strengths, weaknesses, and underlying model thoroughly.

Even if they cater to novice users, they aren’t novice users themselves and lack of experience is no longer an excuse when Git wrapper authors make bad choices about defaults.
There's an old saying "two is an impossible number". In programming, we either deal with one of a thing, or a collection of things. The cases where there are exactly two things are uncommon (cue HN coming up with a bunch of exceptions). In the case of points in time, even bi-temporal leaves out a third, implicit point: now.
CISA strategic plan aligns with National Cybersecurity Strategy
It's so surreal to me that I can look at his commit graph on github and see he was working right up until very recently. Rest in peace.

https://github.com/brammool
I am so sorry to hear this. I will make a contribution today in his memory.
I'd like to see what Hector Martin -- you know, someone who actually knows something about Apple device internals -- says about this. He had a Mastodon thread recently on how full of shit Louis is about almost every engineering decision Apple makes. Apple prioritizes speed, security, and usability over repairability. Peripherals such as the touch screen in an iPhone or iPad, for instance, have signed firmware and encrypted configuration to prevent the touch screen being used as an attack vector.

Doubtless something similar is happening with the SSD. Given how sensitive the data thereupon is, it would make sense to have signed and verified SSD firmware and keep the encryption keys for the SSD in the Secure Enclave or something. Apple's integrated approach allows for the design of a far more secure system than the bucket of swappable parts we normally think of as a PC. Part swappers like Louis badmouthing them for lack of reapirability is in poor taste; Apple is doing something way different (and far more advanced, and far more protective of the user) than the typical PC vendor.
Magnetic fields can move the probes.
Malicious PyPI packages resemble a legitimate VMware vSphere connector
Additives labeled P-21-0152 and P-21-0158 are the specific substances with the extreme cancer risk as modeled, I think?

These appear to be complex hydrocarbon byproducts of plastic, so it's extremely difficult to model what they are or their actual behavior. The EPA basically use a combination of analog substances and "stuff they think might be similar" and then add the risks together to make a score.

The EPA analysis is much more useful than any of these articles. I don't think the analysis itself supports the breathless claims in the news article. I do ultimately agree that this feels odd, though: while I don't think any of these materials are actually that likely to cause cancer, it seems a bit strange to be approving fuel additives with this much uncertainty in analysis. But, I don't work in hydrocarbons so maybe this is normal.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23863526-epa-hq-oppt...
High-risk patients with heart failure and cardiac arrest hospitalized in teaching hospitals had lower 30-day mortality when admitted during dates of national cardiology meetings.

A rare case of meetings proving beneficial? But why?
> feature overload

Can you just not use those feature which you do not need?

I say this because iterm2 with zsh and oh-my-zsh is what I have used for years and I barely scratch the surface of the tools or any of the features, but it's just a comfy environment that works fine.
Every large bank is the merger of thousands of banks, and the it systems are just strapped together.
Name them. We have plenty of electrons.

I just named two --- add storage and use wired headphones.

did they want to not pay for additional iCloud storage?

They just did not want to pay for additional storage.

And why should they? Oh, that right --- because Apple intentionally engineered this into their "walled garden".
Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone
On the other side, if it was said about lawyers nobody would ever complain :)
Being ‘Too Busy’ Means Your Personal Strategy Sucks
Threat Actors Abuse Cloudflare Tunnel for Persistent Access, Data Theft
It's reasonably common for people to use aeropress paper filters in their portafilters. But I think more people who use a screen opt for a metal one.
Why isn't 10^-2 Pa enough? Clearly they mean absolute pressure. What would 10^-2 of vacuum mean?
Postgres and Indexes on Foreign Keys and Primary Keys
I picture someone furiously unzipping WELLSFARGO_2023_V5-FINAL-3.zip.
IMO if there is no fictional science in your story, then it is engineering fiction, not science fiction.
Cloudflare already MITMs most of the internet so they will do it when the time comes.
millennials were right actually
TMI: I'm stressed, in pain, behind on work, tired from caring for my partner, and I have a constant headache because my short range work glasses broke forcing me to use a much older pair.

You made me smile and laugh, so I'm grateful for you today. Thank you.
> Does anyone know of a system that successfully did/does event sourcing at scale?

The git version control system.

> Even simple things such as fixing a typo require a Command to be stored as an Event etc etc

Yup. It's a commit in git, but yes, there's a command and it's store in the git history as an event.
Back then memory latency was faster than a cpu clock cycle so it was not needed.
Determinism should always be an option in any system.