skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a section in the link above "Further Recommended Technical Reading relevant to the Compression=AI Paradigm" and they define it in a reasonably precise mathematical way. It's well accepted at this point. If you can take input, predict what will happen given some options you can direct towards a certain goal. This ability to direct towards a goal effectively defines AGI. "Make paperclips" and the AI observes the world, what decisions needed to be made to optimize for output paperclips and then starts taking decisions to output paperclips is essentially what we mean by AGI and prediction is a piece of this.

I have no stake in this btw, I've just had a crack at the above challenge in my younger days. I failed but i want to get back into it. In theory a small LLM model without any existing training data (for size) that trains itself on the input as it passes predictions to an arithmetic coder that optimally compresses and the same process on the decompression side should work really well here. But i don't have the time these days. Sigh.
Curious, why Sublime Text in this day and age of VS Code dominance?

Sublime text was my first "in the middle" text editor, more featured than vim/emacs, but lighter weight than IntelliJ. I somehow got my internship company
to buy me a license, which I ended up using for several years after leaving.

But then VS Code came along. I was a skeptic for years, as it was based on Atom/Electron, which I found really sluggish, and it was Microsoft.

The thing that converted me was the "it just works" extensions system. Most coding languages have syntax highlighting and intelligent code navigation out of the box, and if not, it's a few clicks away to install very well written extensions. Comparatively, it was a nightmare installing Sublime Text extensions.

And over the years, Microsoft has poured immense amounts of money into developing features for VS Code.
Hell, even with word processors we have auto save enabled by default for at least a decade.
Plenty of games are free to play, but come with micro-transactions and/or ad revenue. If anyone can pick up your game and play without spending money, it is generally accepted to be a free-to-play game.

Part of the change (unless it has since been walked back) was getting rid of Unity Plus licensing, leaving just Unity Personal and Unity Pro.

Also assuming the per-game stipulation was not something Unity made clear after out-cry (like the multi-installs on the same PC or game-update), they have previously gone to great lengths to prevent studios from spinning up a new company per game. It is reasonable to assume that there is nothing stopping them from later tightening the noose and applying this fee on a company basis instead of a game basis.
Awesome! How?
Funny enough I once built a metallic USB volume knob in a box with multiple modes, and one mode was as a controller for a WiFi bulb (along with other modes like screen brightness and of course volume) https://iams.pro/projects/knobbox/

Ultimately that was more of a fun concept than useful.

This is not as creative but is more useful: well-placed motion sensors with rules in Home Assistant to trigger lights to the dimmest possible setting at certain hours, for a late night stumble.

Even less creative but even more useful: plain old timers set up in HA that are synced with the sunset to slowly fade the lights in, and a bedtime to turn them back off.
I think Sublime Merge is also deserving of the small chunk of cash they ask for it. I’m not embarrassed at all about it, sarcastically or otherwise. It’s great software and I hope they keep developing great things.
> tone of the article was to be critical

I mean... it's Musk. The shit-on-Musk phenomenon has transcended normality. Reddit has about six subreddits that do nothing apart from constantly shit on him. Twitter is infested with users/bots that do nothing apart from post the 'this mf paid for twitter' meme. Articles like this come out week after week after week. And yet, the site stays up and the products, by and large, work.

It's just one of those things that presumably makes sense to somebody but doesn't to me.
There are actually authentication providers that will pretend to be LDAP server for your apps, regardless of what auth backend you use.

But yeah, once your clients are big corporations you'd at least need to know how to implement some kind of cloud mess of authentication provider(s), still, doesn't need you need to infect your own stack with it.
The phone has a finite thickness.
> I was a skeptic for years, as it was based on Atom/Electron, which I found really sluggish, and it was Microsoft.

This pretty much still sums it up for me.
So? They believed a lie. Doesn't turn what happened there on that day into a coup. When you want to take power, you don't do the utterly pointless stuff they did. You want to seize power, you don't show up to an empty supreme court to shit on its chairs. That's just stupid.

I think it's far more likely that it was a false flag operation from the start designed to justify the judiciary dictatorship we're currently living under. How else could we possibly go from a democracy to a state where a supreme court judge can openly and publicly showboat to an audience about defeating Bolsonaro alongside his fellow judge-kings? Can you imagine a US supreme court judge openly bragging about defeating Trump, stopping his campaign its tracks?

And don't accuse me of "spreading misinformation". Everything I post here, I post in good faith because it's exactly what I think. I simply do not agree with you. You're not on brazilian social media. Either reply to me with respect or don't reply to me at all.
Why is paying money for ethical, user-respecting software like Sublime Text a bad thing?

Sublime HQ the company maintains an excellent reputation, and does a wonderful job.
I personally use VS Code 98% of the time or something but I want companies like Sublime to continue competing and making better stuff. I also paid for Nova from Panic. I really, really want all of these guys to succeed and keep trying to innovate. I also want options that aren’t tied to Microsoft.
sublime merge looks pretty good and is worth paying for imho.
They knew what they were doin with that title
"More featured than emacs"?
I paid for sublime. Used it for years. Then VSCode overtook it on so many levels.

I even used it for notetaking because it opened faster than vscode but then that was fixed. Good stuff but hard to avoid a solid ecosystem that is constantly evolving with the backing of big companies. kinda sad actually.
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Many years ago I bought Sublime Text minutes after using the plugin system to install some support for the languages I use.

This was a decade before VSCode took over, and at the time I was a Vim user for most of my career. It was a breath of fresh air compared to the Stockholm syndrome I had built around VimScript, and I never looked back.

We (people like me) owe ST for opening the door for innovation in the general-purpose IDE space that created what is frankly a golden age compared to the century prior. Heck, the command palette has bled into tools well outside the scope of developer tools these days and it’s probably my favorite UX pattern in modern complex software.

To any Vim users preparing to inform me about how much better Vim is these days, I’d argue that we still owe ST for raising the expectations that developers have of their editors.
There are commercial companies offering Godot-based games a path to consoles, so it isn't technical at all. It is entirely a matter of licensing with the console makers not wanting to allow open source support. But they don't mind 3rd parties developing proprietary extensions to support consoles and following their licensing restrictions.
I’m with Elon on this and I really dislike him.

Pentagon doesn’t own American companies and if the U.S. government really wants to have global telecommunications everywhere they can build the infrastructure themselves.

Good on Elon for being the only company standing up to the U.S. military industrial complex.
I still like Sublime Text better for most day-to-day text editing. It's snappier, something about the text rendering just looks better to me, and it has more features w/r/t text manipulation, or at least I haven't been able to find equivalents for certain things in VSCode when I've tried to look in the past.

I like the Python support that Anaconda provides in Sublime better than the VSCode alternative I've tried.

I still use VSCode for Rust dev though, and merge conflict resolution, and certain kinds of debugging.
A database isn't designed to be used this way. You'll eventually need it to do something "extra", and your company will probably find some workaround or hack, but eventually make an API.

APIs are an intermediate layer of abstraction needed because their purpose is separate from that of a DDL/DML/DCL/TCL. Having raw database access does not solve the use cases the database doesn't account for.
But what if it were a secure government database?
i GOt it at least ;)
> And I know some of the early concern was download-bombing, but they have addressed that, and most of the articles I read didn't cover that explicitly

They addressed that in FAQ update. They have also previously committed to not retroactively change ToS for the version you downloaded (https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/16hjic6/unitys_sta...) but they changed their mind.

Given that history I would not put much trust in one vague answer in FAQ without at least consulting lawyer first (including asking how much it would cost to defend if Unity lawyers disagree with your lawyer's take).

And even in the current FAQ answer it's essentially fully up to them to determine what is fraudulent installation or if the install was part of install bombing.
This is the 50 person vfx crew hired directly by marvel. It is probably production organization and on set people. This isn't the thousands of people in the dozens of big companies that end up actually doing the vfx for their films.

This has nothing to do with software engineers and even less to do with "AI engineers".
I guess I haven't explored it well enough, but I have not learned how to get VSCode to operate properly with virtual environments with python. Am I not supposed to create/manage venvs myself, and point VSCode to the path?
Honestly, 7zip seems to be better at the job than WinZip and lightweight too.
The "it just works" factor for extensions varies a lot depending on the language/ecosystem in question. For some things the store is littered with old broken extensions and figuring out which ones are "right" (if any are) can be a task.

I also think it tries to do a little too much and has too much in the way of modern UI-isms going on. Sublime Text is basically cross-platform TextMate, and I found TextMate more or less perfect in those regards.
Do you think those employers want to turn away qualified people and keep the positions vacant?
Awesome. Let’s say they are successful and they recoup a million dollars from each one. That’s $1.6B in extra tax revenue.

If they do that for 900 years then they will pay for last year’s deficit.

Our financial problems aren’t solved by “taxing the rich.”

Of course, $1.6B is nothing to sneeze at. It should just be part of an overall sustainability plan.
I believe this is a topic of sufficient intellectual weight for HN. There is certainly something wrong with the law enforcement system in the US and this is just such a blatant and clear example of it that we can point to and discuss about.

You do not have to engage if it makes you feel uncomfortable but these issues are real and very relevant to a significant number of people, including HN audience, and they deserve to be addressed.
Yes but modern iPhone designs uses the metal casing as antennas. Did you not realize that?
Nick Fury is doing one heck of a job
I paid for it earlier this month. I have a "charity" budget. I didn't get any dialog. But like OP, it's something I used since my first job (if you count ST2 as the same). So I figured this time instead of building wells in some remote location, the money should go into legally paying for something that's I use.

It was second choice - first was Fork, which is even more embarrassing as it means I don't use the git CLI. But Fork rejected my card so ST it was.

It does feel weird. There's no satisfaction. I don't use it that much these days; it's just a text editor that I paste logs into. It's pretty damn expensive for a text editor.
FWIW engaging simultaneously with both the FBI and the USAO/DOJ and putting pressure on DOJ to act on the case typically results in better outcomes than just assuming the SA assigned is going to follow through and bugging them about it.
Here you go - don’t say I never gave you nothing!

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After the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub (including Atom/Electron), they really made immense efforts to speed it up! It's been years since I've used Sublime Text, but I imagine VS Code is as fast if not faster at this point.

As for "Microsoft". It's funny, I use to be a Windows/Microsoft fan in the 90s/2000s because that was the only way I was going to play computer games. Then they lost my trust during the Ballmer era, at the same time I started programming and appreciated linux/apple more.

But VS Code has singlehandedly reignited my love of Microsoft. Despite the name "Visual Studio Code", it does not at all try to shove Microsoft languages like Visual Basic or C# down your throat. Support for common open source languages like python and javascript are amazing.

It's as surprising to me as it is to you that I'm defending Microsoft in an online thread right now.
This is awesome! It looks like a fantastic way to play with boolean logic and learn/teach how computers work. I love the ability to encapsulate circuits and abstract them into higher level components.
TBH, I did pay for Sublime but lost my license key years ago.

Ever since, I’ve been mired in the dialog pop up because I don’t want to buy it again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's been superseded by Mometasone. It's more lipophilic.
I've been enjoying Construct 3. Not the visual scripting but the Javascript portion. It's a really good Javascript engine at its core. For some reason people don't know this? DragonRuby has also been pretty fun and hot reload is nice. Godot is the main answer for Unity but web support is just better with Construct, obviously since it's built on web technologies.

My main issue with Unity and why I never picked it up is, I have poor vision and the editor doesn't scale on Mac. You basically have to have perfect vision to see anything that's going on. A scalable editor is a must. Godot / Construct fit these. Game Maker looks so poor on 4k that it hurts my eyes.
The Remote extensions in particular have changed how I do development. I use VSCode for coding in all languages now and have micro set to $EDITOR for quick stuff in the terminal. It's the comfiest setup I've had in my career.
The title was quite a clickbait
To put this very directly, Godot is a meme in the commercial games industry. Most of companies with above AA cash would rather write their own engines than use Godot, as the maintenance effort would probably exceed the effort to write the own engine to spec.

Maybe Godot is more seriously considered by indies and open source fans. But then, Unreal Engine is also practically open source for any licensee, including ones that won’t ever pay a cent to Epic. So even in indies, it’s rare to see Godot.

I champion all development in games. So I wish good luck to Godot. I’ve actually been thinking about contributing, too. I think in some ways, the ethics of Godot are a breath of fresh air. But contributing to UE looks much better on a resume.

There are a lot of forces working agains Godot: inertia, economics, instability, lack of talent, lack of appeal to talent. No marketplace actually is the least of its concerns as we don’t use marketplace stuff much in AAA/AA. The engine makes a lot more sense on paper than in reality.
Man they totally had me until they mentioned Basecamp and Hey. DHH can go eff himself.
> fuck this country

Are there other countries that allow you to put "homeless" on your driver license?
Great, something new to distract me from work!
I switched from Sublime to VS Code, but man, I find VS Code pretty ugly.

It's not the colors, because obviously there are a near infinite number of themes. It's just a mishmash of text of varying style, size, and spacing and it realllllly all runs together visually for me.

I know some of it is tweakable but a lot isn't and I'm not sure it can be fixed...
I paid for it and feel no shame. The core editor still beats VS Code by far, even though its plugin ecosystem really died off in the mid-2010s when the devs went nearly silent, and sadly never recovered.
Note taking. Quick edits. Plugins are easy. Just copy in a bunch of JSON > CMD+SHIFT+P > "pretty"
Most attacks like this use stolen credentials for VOIP providers, i.e. Twilio. It's likely the FBI quickly obtained a subpoena which produced a recording. The attacker may not have known the call was being recorded.
You miss the point, why should Europeans fund a foreign proprietary tech to build a key infrastructure for the green transition? Haven't EU leaders learned from their Russian gas mistake? What's the goal?

I don't understand why Americans expect Europe to become their 51st state, and I don't understand why EU leaders keep funding their dependence to foreign companies, I can only ask questions

Take it the other way around, why should Huawei build US's 5G infrastructure?
No, it wasn't luck, it was a consequence of the 2014 election, in which the Republicans won net 9 Senate seats.
I’m having trouble determining the effectiveness here. The article repeatedly uses the phrase, “no increased spending on temptation goods”.

I’m reading that as, “If the person had an addiction to meth, they still spent the same amount on meth, but they did it from the comfort of a new couch, in new clothes, in a new apartment. Sometimes they spent less on meth.”

Is that a fair interpretation?

Also, how do they know the person is spending money on temptation goods or not? Self-reported?
Sublime Text is a great text editor. It opens huge files quickly. It has all the features I need for programming via LSP packages. It just feels comfy to use.

I happily paid for sublime text.
Typically electricity demand goes down at night because commercial and industrial operations tend to cycle with the workday.

In the US, it is not uncommon for KWh prices to go down off peak at night.

Also in the US, utilities are regulated and the political impact of changing rate structures upward usually requires public hearings.

Finally utilities infrastructures are capital intensive and the investment models are based on long maturity bonds. Utilities operations are structured to the goals of investors who buy long maturity bonds. I.e. utilities are operated for low risk and stable cash flows that bond holders expect.

Basically, if you have the financial wherewithal to arbitrage utilities, there might more fruits on lower branches than what you describe.

I could be wrong of course and your billions of dollars could prove it.

Good luck.
"My humble scribblings have led to technologies that reach the stars and devices that fit in the palm of your hand? How gratifying to know that you've taken the seeds of my theories and grown a veritable forest of innovation! Well done, future humans, well done indeed!"
Don't need so many programmers when you've got AI trained on your code base writing code
To be fair for charging purposes I find wireless charging so good I never use the cable to charge my phone these days. After moving to the Belkin MagSafe stand it got even better, I think Apple could have easily just stuck with lightning until they killed the charging port altogether.
You could have just used emacs and simply passed on a thank you to RMS.
Its a very high quality piece of software that is fast, light, and has a rich plugin system, and it gets out of the goddamn way.

This is such a weird insecurity to have. Are people so insecure that they have to be ashamed for buying a product?
I feel a small amount of satisfaction every time I open Sublime to take a random note, knowing that 1) once upon a time my work depended on it, and 2) I did my part to support its development.
No matter how morally right one side might feel, it won’t stop competition.

The USA and Detroit had unions and the industry and city became gutted. Tariff and import laws to stay afloat only go so far. There will be times industry will be gutted because there’s something better.

Hollywood seems poised to lose itself - whether AI, moral grandstanding, or strange rules with skin color quotas. The writers strike is going poorly, the general American populace has no sympathy for them, and the big money maker of super hero movies is losing steam.
If you have access to the email address you can easily recover the key here: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/retrieve_key.
Impressive performance. In your experience, is there a range of vector dimension for faster search results?
They are still on twitter?

It’s nice to save the world but we also want it to be a place worth living in.
The government literally has bombed its own citizens because they dared to rise up against them.

Look at the MOVE protests in Philly. The government is not “us”. That’s a fairytale they tell you in AP government classes. If the government “was us”, we’d have actually addressed many of the problems plaguing us today.

Our input to the government is picking from a candidate from a bunch of actual fascists and proto fascists. Whenever they don’t like our pick, the very rare time someone has been outside of that choice pool, a bunch of unheard of systems come into place to nullify our choice.

Princeton did a multi year study into this: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
I chuckle to see someone that read it sort-of like I did - my grandpa had it in his collection and I picked it up around age 14 or 15, read maybe 100 pages, then didn’t pick it up again until my early 20s when I then tore through it in a few days. I’m 41 now and the entire book is seared in my brain as well, from the saloon to the range, and I’ve only read it that one time. The only other book, I think, that has stuck with me like that after one read is Sometimes a Great Notion.
One more example of Microsoft acting against the best interests of users which they do often (like making browser choice a pain, hiding settings they really don’t want users to find, etc.) How about work more fixing crappy UX or improving security? Asking for a friend.
I think to add to this.

If you're a fully employed professional of some means, which a huge amount of folk reading this are.

Pay for your shareware software. Usually with independent SaaS software, after I've used software for 6+ months or more, I pay for the lifetime license.

It's just polite.
Not for a while. I do know the big chains and particularly McDonald's have searched far and wide for beef sources. They also compound the pathogen problem by mixing meat from many animals before grinding it to make hamburger. Whereas your butcher shop would be lucky to get 3 cows into a single burger, a big mac may have 1000. One. Thousand.

I stopped eating beef for a long time after the vCJD scare. But it was a good excuse to reduce my carbon footprint. Chicken and pork have a much smaller footprint. Now I try to avoid cheap cuts and especially cheap ground beef.
The emacs out-of-box experience is notoriously poor, as evidenced by the rise and popularity of emacs starter packs, some of which have been on the hn front page of late.

I've been using emacs since 2002 or so and until very recently it needed a ton of third party config to approximate the ux and utility of what was available in other tools built in.
There's also Hotpot https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim
I paid for sublime 3. I should pay for 4, but I havent yet.