skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bram had been spending over 30 years on Vim; and not just "the occasional patch/bugfix", but significant amounts, and almost every single day for some years.

The number of people who spent that much time working on Open Source is very small, and the number of people who have spent that much time purely in their spare time is smaller still. In fact, I don't really know of anyone who even comes close to Bram.

The number of people who spent this much time volunteering for anything is very small.

Bram's effort on Vim was phenomenal and exceptional by any standard.

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I only met Bram in person once, in 2014, when he talked about Zimbu[1]; at some point I must have given a bit of a skeptical look, and he promptly looked at me and asked "oh, you don't agree? Why not?" It was a nice talk with lots of "audience engagement" like this. We spent some time talking during the rest of the day and the next day; we discussed and joked about lots of things; I don't recall talking much about Vim: it just didn't come up. I found him a very friendly, warm, and likeable person.

Sven Guckes (who passed away last year) did organize a little "Ask Me Anything" type workshop with Bram, and I discovered Bram struggled remembering the ins-and-outs of some of the lesser used Vim features just as much as the rest of us :-)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-QdG2X1Lw)
A lot of people who are bullish on LLMs and AI are quite clearly excited to get other humans out of the loop. I think movie execs would absolutely love to get the writers and actors out of the picture, ideally not paid a dime for anything going forward.
a low end laptop is just a windows equivalent of a chromebook. the hardware may even mostly match. it can run windows, and it can run about one thing at a time. with a junk gpu. like a chromebook.

there are still plenty of arm models available. many of which are really just tablet hardware in a clamshell. which, so are many of the intel models if you look closely.

it isn’t so much intel occupying the low end laptop space, as commodity tablet hardware.
RIP. Vim is my main editor for 15 years already. I spend several hours in Vim everyday. It's so ingrained in my soul, I can't imagine how to work without Vim.
It has to be Fabreze or another PG product
But unlike you and I, when they die they'll continue as a fascinating relic of our species and our time. And in a strange way, that they continue out there as a proclamation that "We were here" sometimes gives me a strange peace of mind about my own mortality.
> In the US, people who are trying to avoid climate action focus on diet rather than our true sources of emissions.

This is a surprising claim that requires evidence. I am very involved in climate action in the US and I've never seen this attitude from anyone. And of course, diet is a "true" source of emissions. There's an interesting study you could read if you're curious how that could be.
Those magnets can be deadly to children of swallowed:

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/little-magnets-are...
no I won't eat less meat. another classic case of shifting the blame onto the individual instead of the hugely inefficient and wasteful processes and industries; its just carbon footprint BS 2.0. shaming people into believing their habits are causing apparently world-ending apocalyptic events isn't a good way to get people on your side, nor is it a good way to actually try and solve issues. it just makes people feel worse like the world is ending (it really isnt). doomerism is a disease.
And then it's mostly Harry Potter and LOTR
Why do regional trains need to be spacious?
I've also been intrigued about the owner of archive.is and have looked in to it a couple of times but what I managed to find is pretty much all the same stuff as mentioned here.

One interesting thing I'd like to mention are these tweets[1] by archive.is when he was supposedly questioned for something at the finnish - russian border and as a result he blocked the entire site in Finland, although later he lifted the block. I also couldn't find any information about the "Russia vs. http://archive.org case" he mentions in the tweet.

1: https://archive.is/Pum1p
> I was wondering how a dropout was able to pull it off. Nautral talent plus hardwork and good mentoring was all in there.

"Formal education" is just industrialized mentoring and compelled hard work. Dropouts and "uneducated" people built the world. If you work hard and have good mentors, you can do anything, whether it's in a school or not.

(While I am vehemently opposed to the modern method of education, I don't think that formal education in a classroom setting is inherently bad, nor do I think most people today have the social support, intellect, or temperament necessary to drop out and still be successful.)
> Anyway, at the time I did these measurements, my 4.2 GHz kaby lake had the fastest single-threaded performance of any machine you could buy but had worse latency than a quick machine from the 70s (roughly 6x worse than an Apple 2), which seems a bit curious. To figure out where the latency comes from, I started measuring keyboard latency because that’s the first part of the pipeline. My plan was to look at the end-to-end pipeline and start at the beginning, ruling out keyboard latency as a real source of latency.

> But it turns out keyboard latency is significant! I was surprised to find that the median keyboard I tested has more latency than the entire end-to-end pipeline of the Apple 2. If this doesn’t immedately strike you as absurd, consider that an Apple 2 has 3500 transistors running at 1MHz and an Atmel employee estimates that the core used in a number of high-end keyboards today has 80k transistors running at 16MHz. That's 20x the transistors running at 16x the clock speed -- keyboards are often more powerful than entire computers from the 70s and 80s! And yet, the median keyboard today adds as much latency as the entire end-to-end pipeline as a fast machine from the 70s.

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
The key point is that a program can generate inputs far faster than you can. So a testing system based on generation of inputs can create and execute far more cases than manual creation of individual unit tests.

The problem becomes determining if the test has failed. You should be creating properties to test, not inputs.

There used to be, back in the stone age of computing, this notion that random generation of test inputs was bad because it would waste valuable computing time. It was thought to be better to manually create carefully crafted individual tests. But the relative cost of people vs. the computer has changed by many orders of magnitude since then.
The harebrained patch you describe has already been applied, and I can't find the reboot button.
:wq!

Eternal rest grant unto him. May perpetual light shine upon him.
Agriculture did not shape monotheism. It happenrd both on nomadic and non nomadic nation's, as well as polytheistic religions of Asia. No correlation here.

Meanwhile currently AIs are just an empty linguistic models that have no proper knowledge, nor can tell what's true from what's fully BS, and will defend both or ask for forgiveness for telling both: truth and rubbish hallucination
Fixing America's transport emissions is necessary, but not sufficient. This is time for "yes, and" rather than "instead".
Very sad to read this. Thank you, Bram, and see you in another life!
So you don't vote either?

I'd argue reducing meat intake is like voting. It's impact on the environment individually is tiny. But it also impacts the market and other eaters (voters).
You are describing neoliberalism, the economic system which has lead to the most prosperity in human history.
A book instead, the Haynes NASA Voyager Workshop Manual goes into plenty of technical detail.

https://www.amazon.com/NASA-Voyager-Owners-Workshop-Manual/d...
ok we believe you
What a legend, the VI message stood out in my memory of Bram, what a kind and clever person.
I have to say, it gets really old seeing this sentiment on HN anytime a post about older technology gets made. We absolutely can and do make technology designed to last this long - it’s just that the vast majority of us don’t work on anything with those kinds of requirements or priorities. There’s no reason you need to be building your CRUD API, data pipeline, or cell phone to last 50+ years and doing so would probably be actively harmful to the actual goals of those projects
The Netherlands you can check-in using a bank card

How does that work for a family with kids? FAFAIK you can't check in twice using the same card, so does every child need its own bank card or travel pass? In that case, when travelling with a group, I'd choose the app over a stack of plastic cards any day.
This is a very odd question to me. All research is essentially this may or may not work. That's why you test it. In a sense finding something cool is a very large part luck.
Not to mention the report included 119 countries
It has lead in it.
NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California
LOL, most liberatrains are not even aware how deeply they depend on the "nanny". Starting with law enforcement and capturing those who counterfeit money.
Was annoyed by that too but all you have to do is identify the small characters on top with the distorted ones in the picture, in the right order. That said, it came back with an error message so I just clicked the small x to make it disappear; I could then watch the video.
Some people already face dying in complete agony. Why can't they take an informed risk?
> The TOP 15 Dreaded Programming Languages [list that includes] Haskell, Scala, HTML, Shell, and SQL.

Okay.

> The TOP 15 Loved Programming Languages [list that also contains] Haskell, Scala, HTML, Shell, and SQL.

Hmm.

> There is a pattern in this list. Can you see what it is?

Yes… but, with all due respect to Adam, when the Venn diagram of both of those lists share 1/3rd of the languages, I really don’t think the pattern actually there is the one he expects us to see. What I see is really unreliable data.

Especially given that more than half of the overlap are DSLs rather than GPLs.
Teen Gamers Targeted Michael Terpin in Major SIM Swapping Theft
> Hopefully it'll do the same for any other government or company, so nobody would even think of it.

The security services in my country, Romania (an EU and NATO member), are already doing that, or something similar to that. For example trying to access https://sputnikglobe.com/ sort of times out, either way, it doesn't work.
In theory, an easy workaround would be a clean fork stripped of blacklists etc.

But that is why there is an effort to introduce drm in browsers: to make you unable to use unsigned/non-lcomplying browsers to use the web at all.
It probably helps a lot to grow in an academic household, seems his dad was a stats professor and his mom a linguistic one, his informal math education growing up and work discipline must have been way above average. I bet he was a straight A math student.
> Does Kagi work as a business if it doesn’t grow to millions of users?

You're paying for the service. One would hope the unit economics are immediately positive, unlike ad-driven businesses or VC-scale-at-all-cost growth businesses
> I feel like I'm the minority suggesting the cli as a good way to use git.

I used Mercurial a lot before trying Git for the first time, the projects then switched to Git.

With Mercurial I felt right at home with the command line. Everything was simple and made sense, and I seldom had to consult the documentation after a short time learning it. I never felt the need for a GUI, or that it would improve things.

With Git it was the complete opposite. Nothing made sense at the command line. I had to do web searches for just about everything I did, either to figure out what arcane set of switches to use or to make sure I didn't fuck things up. After a short while I gave up and found a GUI, which made Git much, much better to use.

Perhaps things have improved somewhat, I hear they've cleaned up the command line options a bit. But looking at the manual[1] its clearly still far from Mercurial-level of usability[2].

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset#Documentation/git-reset.t...

[2]: https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/undo.html#rolling-back-a...
Could also be called “America’s most fucked up region intent on killing the Golden Goose”
Theoretically, yes. Practically, the fact that no coaxial cable internet prominently advertises upload bandwidth leads me to believe there is far less upload bandwidth available than fiber networks.
https://www.braveclojure.com
> But don't you think quantum computers are mature somewhere by now?

Nope. No I don't. The amount of compute required to actually operate on Shor's algorithm is immense, to the point that it's probably smarter, faster and cheaper to bruteforce with traditional HPC these days.
And then they'll ban those. Don't forget that in the end the state has a monopoly on violence.
[Re-posting my comment from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000572]

> Part of the reason it hasn’t taken off is because of the additional complexity it imposes on programmers.

My take is that it's specifically the additional complexity it imposes on _database_ programmers - the impacts across storage design, foreign keys and schema evolution when all data is bitemporal are profound. SQL:2011 introduced "temporal tables" but the design was arguably incomplete and implementing it ubiquitously requires a real re-think of database internals, so we're now over a decade on and these capabilities are still far from commonplace.

> However, I think part of the reason it hasn’t become more popular, given the benefits it brings, is just the name.

No disagreement from me there!

Disclosure: I work on xtdb.com, building a new database engine where bitemporality is the default. I also spoke with Kent about this last week and am running a webinar about bitemporality more generally on Thursday: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/296060701290006793...
The web page says DALL-E still. Are you using the Stability.AI API or ClipDrop or RunPod or Replicate or what? Just curious.
I can't speak for all the others, but JavaScript is basically a different language than it was pre-2016. I am very good at reading modern JavaScript, but give me some 10 year old code and it's like Ye Olde English.
Amazing it happened at all. Some scientists determined that 1977 allowed a once-in-a-millennia planetary alignment and pushed to get NASA money to send a prob. It was touch and go as to whether the funds would be allocated and if there would even be time to get it into the proper trajectory in time.
I stared leaning it a few agos.

1 (the last result)
2 (the result two expressions ago)
*3 (the result three expressions ago)

oh yeah. I cant see this giving problems in the future....
“drivers not crashing is basic stuff” sounds like an argument for not bothering with anything that would rely on the cards, like tooling, because what’s the point if the drivers are just going to crash.

it would be like saying it isn’t enough for your car to run to win a race. while that may be true, if you enter a non-running car into a race, your car isn’t the biggest hindrance to your success.
Pretty much the only way to download the cool warez that you FTPd down (from some Scandinavian anonymous FTP site that displayed the warning "our transatlantic link is only 128Kbit, so Yankees please only leech at night") to your VM/CMS account. Can even be used to transfer stuff over 2400bps AX.25 hamradio channels. The 1980s equivalent of zip ties and bailing wire.
This approach seems incredibly out of touch.
"Tax the rich and less tax for the poor"

I could be wrong, but don't the poor pay very little tax anyways?
we have a bike path that crosses town and the next town over is working to connect. Once tbat is connect it will be 22 mile bike ride to pittsfield.

Public transit exists but luckily there arn’t many places to go.

If it’s not within 3 miles mostly likely you have to travel 20 miles. This helps keep the carbon footprint low because it is easy to go without.
There is the WASI SDK if you want to target WASI from C/C++:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk

It comes with a libc implemented in WASM.
TFA uses 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea as a prototypical example of science fiction. I'm not sure that's a good example, because Jules Verne took his science and technology very seriously. As I recall, he didn't put fictional technology in his stories, but only things he had actually seen demonstrated at industrial expos. Verne used his plots more as support for descriptions of new technologies and scientific discoveries rather than the other way around.
Please refer to us with our chosen demonym, it’s just basic manners.

I could dunk on Germans by referring to them as Nazis then acting indignant when they protest, but I won’t, because that would be bizarre and make me look insane
from landing page "We do not log or associate searches with an account"
I guess it's nothing technological like FHE, but rather how they set up their system.
This is the way to do it. Public transport is tax paid, one way or another anyway.

This completely gets rid of bullshit overhead like ticketing, ticket checking, payment processing, maintenance of payment terminals, manning of ticket counters, planning departments, billing and finance departments, third party payment fees etc etc etc
Birth rates wouldn't historically have been a big differentiator. There are edge-cases, I suppose (some early Christian sects encouraged complete celibacy, for everyone!) but in general effective contraception wasn't available, and even where it _did_ exist (Romans _may_ have had some sort of somewhat effective contraceptive/abortifacient drug, say), it didn't attract all that much religious interest until the modern era.
What accounts for the smooth “settling” into place after the last touch around 10s?

I have no idea what I’m talking about, but in other flux pinning demonstrations the sample seems to oscillate around the fixed point. That smooth settling looks like some sort of damping, like maybe a force that increases with distance, like maybe spring tension.

(Of course, “we have no idea” is an acceptable answer if that turns out to be the case.)
A non compliant website wouldn’t care about that though
Don't kid yourself. This is only another smokescreen. In fact Abraham Lincoln after his stunt as a vampire hunter was able to seal god. They know use gods body to slowly extract secrets of the universe.
My father was an engineer and I guess saw the value in uninterrupted Internet. We had three phone lines in our home..maybe we should have just gone with ISDN now that I think about it.
Having worked in a group with new developers, a big challenge was git ... a big flowchart image of the next action to perform was passed around. Will check this out.
Bullshit on both. It’s just a bunch of corrupt intelligence folks running a psyop.
What's the category for Dune? I think it has aspects of both, the Science Fantasy description fits.
An USB-C charger has much more computing power than an Apollo Moonlander.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/11/21133119/usb-c-anker...
Assuming Russian looking spelling, Alexandra is a female name and Denis is a male name.
> I often see this interpretation that monotheism is somehow more “advanced” than polytheism, even Age of Empires suggested so but why exactly?

In your life of plenty, poor people with nothing, were being ritually humiliated several times over, damming their mental health in hell. One god is less harmful to mental health.

Considering religion is psychological warfare in the absence of todays personal surveillance technological world, you would have thought some religions could be more forgiving for peoples misfortune, but is polytheism a classic example of power unchecked?

Hinduism was designed to normalise human deformities in a region struggling with environmental toxicity and poor health.

Christianity is best for a European climate, Islam is best for a Middle Eastern climate.

Religion was an attempt in the absence of simple items like pen and paper or infrastructure like schools and roads, to educate people through story telling & place names in order to protect them from harm.

Thats why all Christian churches are typically built on natural healthy springs and is considered holy water.

Christian churches are typically in the shape of a cross, Knights Templar churches are round.

And dont look a gift horse in the mouth when its smuggling gold to and from the Crusades! Has anyone tried that in their computer games or is that a knight mare?
Netherlands is better but here is my spot but I think we are a close second. The food culture is what one gives up to live here. Might as well cook for your self.

https://destinationwilliamstown.org/
Yes, duh, the aliens are fake. Everything other than the craft is a hoax!

I said this was like pulling teeth. Sheesh.
There is a solution coming that I believe will be 100% fool proof except for the strange nature of foolishness vs wisdom. Wisdom says becoming rich and successful, having fame and reward from your peers, respect from friends as well as enemies. But there is a different wisdom that does not care about money, crowd following, fame, status, or even social gratification. Most people would say, pure foolishness man wtf? Of course we all want to be Bezos or Jobs. Look how happy they are. Or were..

What the heck then? Here come rando guy again talking foolishness.

It's like this, what would you trade for safety? And ultimately if doing so made people that didn't make that trade incredibly vulnderable and by nature your foe? Is love at all important? One thing to note is that anyone who has studied love knows it has little to nothing to do with a carnal relation. My parents loved me when I was totally unlovable as a baby maybe but also as a full grown adult.

You can see it right here in fact. I'm not writing this to make myself popular. I'm writing this because I love people. Even people that hate me. Besides perhaps someone might have reason to hate me. Some people hate everyone, they are known as misantropes. Others can't deal with women and they become misogynists. Others are always outraged and it spills out to someone and rifts appear.

Okay, hopefully I can get to the so called solution to the so called problem of internet security which is a problem as much as the entire internet has become now.

The solution you will be presented with is the distinct pattern that is found on your right hand or on one of your eyes. Both of these patterns are so unique that I can't really find anything else more unique than them besides a DNA sequence.

I don't want you to be afraid. I want you to consider that once this is done, your uniqueness no longer belongs to you. It really never belonged to you in the first place. You could basically give something to a power bent on crushing us all that God made only for you. If a man gives up his soul for gaining the whole world, he has no soul to enjoy. You can't bring money and cool shit to heaven. But there is something you can bring. You can bring not only yourself but people you love. And you will see all kinds of people there you may not expect. I hope you can appreciate the fact that love and gratification are not the same. Don't forget someone did love you when you didn't deserve it.

I sure didn't deserve grace or love.
Their active user count was artificially boosted via instagram.

This is the equivalent of putting Sirius satellite ratio in cars and counting 100% of them as active Sirius users when they turn it on once…
Why would, say, FTL travel being possible imply that we needed to be “impossibly lucky” to build the things we have?

I’m not a physicist, but I am mathematically literate, so please feel free to direct me to technical sources.
because they are often used by people commuting and there needs to be enough space for everyone?
Ironically at the same time as the Digital Markets Act makes it legal to use third party browsers on the only platform this could affect: iOS. Missed the boat much?
Fun so far. Thanks.