skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has a ridiculous learning curve to get to the same editing proficiency as just having multiple cursors.

It takes completing vimtutor to be faster than your average editing experience. What does it even have to do with multiple cursors?

> All Vim users imagine themselves to be editing text at the speed of light while users of "lesser" editors struggle with scalar editing. I have seen zero evidence of that.

I see it every day at work. Those who use vim are much faster on average.

> Meanwhile I can do anything I want very quickly in VSCode, and with immediate feedback!

Read and edit 100k lines file with syntax highlighting. I’d like to see that.

> It infests Unix by being the default editor in many situations (Git commit editing is probably the worst offender). Fine if you want to use your weird editor, but it should 100% not be the default editor EVER. There's a reason exiting Vim is a meme.

Right, because internet memes are a serious indicator of anything.
Proof of identity with a social network backing of people vouching for each other then. As long as ids are limited we can track and assign trust in a secondary market. Anyone pulling stunts like you mention is just selling out their credit for a one-time small gain. Of course that will happen still, but it can be disincentivized financially - and has been in irl societies less desperate or with more attached to their social credit
What kind of time? It spent around two months between the first proposal and being merged. Do you think that people would have trawled through the mailing lists and found this and given their reviews if only it had been given 1 more week?

Ultimately, the consequences of a patch, especially one that changes UX, can only really be evaluated after the community starts using it. People using the master branch of Emacs are basically those who wish to work as the QA engineers of Emacs. End-users use release branches or even pre-packaged releases from their distro.

So, the normal process for a UX change is to merge it to master in order to get comments on the impact. Based on comments, you can either revert, move behind a flag, etc.
You might be right about that. I had that impression mentioned in my previous comment because, while browsing HN, I saw 1 pro-Israel article that was unflagged and multiple (probably about 3) pro-Palestine articles that were flagged. That was enough to create an impression but is not a great sample size for a generalisation though.

I recall this article we're all commenting on being flagged too, but now it's unflagged for whatever that is worth (likely a sign of diversity of viewpoints on HN).
Ask HN: Best Kids' Educational Games?
What kind of educational games are recommended for kids at the moment?
About a decade ago, I tried both mercurial and git, and at the time had only subversion knowledge. I remember finding mercurial extremely confusing and git very simple, but don't remember the details about why mercurial was confusing.
Why your next touch screen will be made of wood
There are apps that are built on ratatui that support mouse already including an example in the repo[1], and crates (and some internal changes to the buffer) to support iterm/kitty/sixel based images.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/tree/main/examples#cu...

[2]: https://crates.io/crates/ratatui-image

Compared to TurboVision, Ratatui has a lot of missing things:

- Containers

- Dialog types (I'm working on this in https://github.com/joshka/tui-prompts)

- Higher order combinations of widgets (e.g. combine the scrollbar and paragraph)

- Menus

- Any event system (apps bring their own - we just handle display)

- etc.

- There's lots of things in TV that are provided as external crates (like editors, treeview, etc.)

The main thing is that Ratatui is at least right now, just the display side of things. Things to do with events or application shell aren't built-in. This somewhat stems from the immediate vs retained mode approach to the library, but this may change in the future.
Those numbers aren't that large. They aren't small in anyone's estimation, but the Empire State Building is a lot less than the amount of material a motivated earthmoving company can get through in a year.

There'd be some interesting technical challenges tearing down Everest, but it is conceivable. The part that requires creative thinking is why it would be worth it spending that much money.
Most people who use vim absolutely love it, otherwise they wouldn’t use it on day to day basis. Those who don’t usually don’t care.
I'm not sure if this will be satisfying because it is a mathematical explanation rather than an intuitive one. If you combine two of maxwell's equations, you get a wave equation for electric/magnetic fields. However, there is an extra term in there, which is the effect of a time changing current on the magnetic field. In a material, the time changing electric field induces such a current, which in turn has the mathematical effect of reducing the coupling between the electric and magnetic field, creating the equation for a wave that is slower.

Something that might be comforting about light going slower than the speed of light is that the speed of light is not a special property of light, but it is a property of space time. It just so happens that light is the only way we have experience on this magic speed. Light isn't physically bound to go "the speed of light".
> Utterly insane, we are sliding backwards into the "code is a munitions export"

Of course not. This goes hand in hand with such things as "being accountable". You can't spit out a black box that no one knows what it does and how it was trained? Too bad for you.

Perhaps this will lead to fewer things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38595751
The original Turok on the N64 had this too :) It just was very hard to trigger for obvious reasons, as humans and dinosaurs spawned far apart
I assumed OP was the website owner. But while my request is serious and legally binding, it was somewhat rhetorical as I do not expect the owners of a site with such a data policy would really be conscientious about contacting me to sort out which data is mine and removing it.
Hehe - yeah, I needed an example for the table, and figured traceroute was a good easy one. Then I remembered what happens when you traceroute bad.horse...
Remake of MS Paint – open-source and web based
How about brotli?
I had the same thought a while ago. My personal conclusion was - there is a place for well-written books that bring the reader along a step by step process to understand a topic and impart knowledge such that they can make their own opinions from then on. Example - Designing Data Intensive Applications, Effectice C++ etc from my personal collection.

There are other books to the tune of “Docker Cookbook” “Java Pocket reference” etc, that will lose their relevance when LLMs could do that job of digesting existing info into easily usable form.
Questioning the purity and peacefulness of thoughts and intentions of (a subgroup of) a people living under colonial occupation is satire at best. Check out [1] for one of many well-written articles on this topic.

I will only say that if Russia invaded and occupied Finland (again), that the Finnish probably would not appreciate being questioned whether their calls for their freedom are made under absolutely no ill will towards the Russian occupation forces and settlers that are colonizing their territory.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/10/how-internatio...
Please, also expose that you're subscribed to a blog's feed. I sometimes sent an email to site owners to compliment them with a nice article I just read. Sometimes I leave a short comment here on HN to let somebody know I subscribed to their feed. I hope it encourages people that put energy and heart into quality content to keep making that content. I try to not overdo that here on HN, because it adds little to the general discussion.

What I also do with my homegrown RSS reader (see https://www.heyhomepage.com if you're interested) is adding a parameter to the links I click, like /?rss_ref=heyhomepage.com Site owners get my traffic and they can easily see where it comes from if they happen to look at their visitor statistics.
TBF, a problem that twitter also had.
He literally just said that's not how volcanos work
The actual answer is the assumptions which define a self-propagating wave do not apply once the wave leaves a vacuum. When it becomes incident onto some medium, due to the coupling of electrons within the medium to the electromagnetic field, the pure electromagnetic wave gets transformed into a phonon, which is a combination of electromagnetic and mechanical oscillation within the medium (and therefore has speed <c, depending on the particular properties of the medium). When the phonon subsequently leaves the system, those traveling oscillations induce a new self-propagating wave on the other side, sending the light on its way as usual.
> The F in FOSS stands for free, so nobody is under any obligation to spend their time so you don't spend yours.

Your conclusion generalizes to no-charge software, not to all FOSS. The "free" in FOSS stands for free software, meaning free as in freedom rather than free as in price.

If a program is free software [1] then a user of the program can read the source code, modify it, and distribute (including sell) unmodified and modified versions of the program/code. A user who lacks the program or the code isn't entitled to the freedoms but can get the software from someone else who has it.

Developers of free software can charge for it. One way of making money from free software is charging for access to the developer's server. Another way is charging for more expansive user support. (Alternatives to charging for the software itself include requesting donations and selling physical merchandise.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Wow, just like that. Straight to the races. Thank you!

Kind of regretting not getting 64GB of ram now. I didn't think I'd need it, but... Here I am, wishing I could run some of these models.
Oh wow, I did not know this is what’s behind their low latency trials I’ve seen on dslreports.
Implicit products are a fascinating approach to universal quantification in dependent type theory, as well as proof irrelevance/erasure in compiler implementation.

I wrote this post to bring some awareness to a really cool idea. It is a crucial piece of Cedille's type theory.
I do not find Pitivi stable, or beautiful.

Blender is easy to use if you want to start with basic editing.

https://youtu.be/U4WlgU1I2Jg?si=etEsTOeCnAeKV-wL
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Intro to Finetuning and Open Source AI with Wing Lian of Axolotl
Yes, and also notably Dave Conroy of MicroEMACS fame. I do believe that as with QNX and MKS Systems and Watcom, Coherent was mostly built by former graduates of Waterloo university - their computing department is responsible for a great many notable products.
>That's hugely higher than the rate in the Netherlands and I wonder why there's such a difference.

Interesting. I wonder if average drug purity and common adulterants make up for this difference? What is the average "street" cocaine purity in the US vs the Netherlands? What do they cut it with? Inert substances? Amphetamines? Meth? Mephedrone? Who knows.

Also, what about the mode of taking it. Is there huge variability in how the users take it between the two countries due to different culture? (snorting vs smoking vs injecting, also multi-drug use). Finally, what if in one country this particular drug is more popular with the older population while in the other it's "all the rage" with the younger people? Death statistics will be different too.
I would use a work computer in the same manner as when I used the work CDC Cyber 205 despite not having one of my own, the work seismic survey vessel despite not having one, the work 100 tonne Haulpak despite not having one, the work airplanes and helicopters despite not having one of my own, etc.

Or is this a deeper question about "What if there were no computers"?
I found this useful and don’t understand the downvotes.
I wish the authors of those unreadable dark mode web sites would read this.
Windows Feature Exploration: Default CLI Text Editor
Yeah it seems the notion of time is sort of not built in conceptually to current systems. You could pick a fixed time constant like 0.1 seconds or 1 second, but it's clear that it's sort of missing something more fundamental.
I think the prevalence of these sorts of issues is why ECS is such an appealing architecture in game design. OOP seems to always devolve. A new feature is needed for the game, the feature breaks some well established design rule, it's challenging/slow to refactor everything to make sense while considering the new feature, and so a kludge is implemented where existing objects are forced to be more flexible than planned.

Of course, this can happen with ECS, too, but it feels easier to avoid. Systems which are coupled to individual components of entities, rather than whole objects, provide an extreme degree of flexibility as long as the components stay small.

(bonus: another example of this occurring in Fallout 3 - https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-whats-happening-inside-fallout...)
Yes. If you want to pursue them, but not if you add a side project just to battle your burnout.

A core part of burnout is lack of control, and a side project can give you that feeling back - if you do it for the joy of it.
Typography matching I think cannot be learned, same applies to choosing which color goes well with other colors. Either you have a knack for it or not. Nonetheless, I'll check this one out.
Emacs is a community-driven project. And the author of this patch identified several issues with the feature, created a fix, proposed it for review, debated the impact with other devs on the mailing list for weeks, addressed all concerns raised, and then finally other more senior devs merged the change to master, where all new unstable changes go.

Then, people who agree to test out all changes to Emacs by using the head of master found, basically the QA department of Emacs, came back with feedback that they like some of the improvements, but that they don't like one particular aspect (the extra RET). Thierry started addressing them, and a setting to disable the feature was added - but the initial version missed the mark. The article author also was part of this process, and even proposed a patch, but their attitude made others ignore it after the initial review (their patch reverted all changes and only implemented a tiny subset of the original, behind the discussed flag).
> I found this useful and don’t understand the downvotes.

It's easier to downvote than post a refutation /s
Now that I have had a chance to recall this story a bit more, I should not have mentioned the nation state actor aspect, it was distracting.

I believe the point was that they wouldn't have to do the paperwork, and wait to run it up the chain for the big guns.

Also, maybe the big guns would not be authorized for this particular op. I think what they were getting at was that there was probably no need for all that as there was no end point protection agent.

And, now I am inferring, that on desktop Linux, with all of the additionally installed attack surface combined with how often people actually run apt update && apt uprgade && apt dist-upgrade... "it was going to be (relatively) easy."
I agree with everything except your conclusion. Even if we could resist our fundamental nature how do we know that our current values are more correct than the evolutionary forces that have kept us alive for millions of years?

We keep getting in to trouble and getting away with it. What if whoever didn’t get into trouble also didn’t survive.
I made gears for a few years (no experience required!, learn on the job), and ended up knowing way more than I thought possible about the involute gear form, bevel gear generation, helical and spur gears, etc. I didn't have a computer at work, I did have a $10 Casio calculator I used to verify gear ratios, etc.

In one of those civilization reset type of scenarios, I'd likely die quickly, but if I managed to survive, I'm teaching how to make gears and analog computing systems from them.

I'm one of the odd birds who knows how to make Slide Rules, and compute logarithms by hand.
This is really nice to have for ChromeOS. The main selling point of ChromeOS for me is that the environment is secure because I’m not installing anything. I don’t want to install some app in ChromeOS just for simple notepad usage.
> dissolve Israel and give it to the Palestinians

That's not what I'm asking for. In the US, Native Americans and descendants of slaves have full legal and political rights (in fact, Native Americans have extra political rights not granted to other citizens). Israel also can give Palestinians full legal and political rights, either in a separate state or as part of a one-state solution, without compromising its continued existence.
I like to think that I didn't reinvent it (just like react, et al didn't reinvent it), I only refined the concept into the simplest form that works :-)

After all, a custom element that takes a front-end newcomer 30m to write is absolutely preferable to a large infrastructure-based standard that, after 22 years, is still not included in the spec.

Look at the options for including HTML fragments in web pages:

1. Complex client-side react/vue/etc,

2. A server language ,

3. A build-step including a non-spec bundler/packer,

4. A `<remote-fragment src="..." />

My point is that webcomponents make quite a lot of complicated things redundant for particular use-cases. As time goes on I see the fat front-end frameworks having more of their functionality being replaced with less complex (to use) custom elements.

(Hence my experiments with value propagation using custom elements)
To me, Kundera is a better writer. Havel is a better thinker and better person overall.
It's never this simple. There are multitudes of interested parties in either direction not just at the federal level, but below it from state, to county, to city and more.
Really? I think you are mistaken. There are rules for the things you mentioned, so you learn the rules. Both through reading them and through experimenting, because there is also a subjective component. You'll discover you like certain fonts, color combinations more than others.
Florida 'Joker' Calls Out GTA 6 for Using His Likeness
>able to attract VC money

pass
It was actually a human doing the entire call.
But that is not what happened. The author of this article is misrepresenting the attitude of everyone involved. There was a single reviewer who noticed the patch and started engaging with it, Michael, and while he originally raised the concern quoted in the article, he discussed with the patch author and they finally got to a common ground, he suggested several other improvements that the patch author worked on, and finally he is the one who approved the patch to move further - in a process that took almost two months.

This is not to say that both the patch author and the reviewer didn't misjudge the importance of a workflow change. But no one was being hostile or dismissive - they discussed the issue, and concluded (probably wrongly) that the new behavior is overall better and wouldn't significantly impact anyone negatively.

Then, two days after it became available, other users started seeing it and raised bugs on the behavior, which the patch contributor started addressing. The author of this article was the first one to raise such an issue, and it wasn't initially clear how many others would agree with them. Still, the maintainers and the patch author agreed immediately that a flag to re-enable the old behavior would be a good thing, and asked if the article author would like to contribute it (the patch author wanted a break from this feature that they'd worked for weeks on). The article author came back with a patch that reverted all of the changes made by the original patch except for one. When told about this, they said that they only kept the changes that had any value, and that they'd require proof the other changes are also useful before going further - to which they didn't receive any more replies, for obvious attitude reasons.
Javier Milei: New president tells Argentina 'shock treatment' looms
Check out FreeRSS, it's an iGoogle clone, just Add Widget, paste in the url of the website, and it auto-detects any RSS feeds in the site.

https://freerss.robdelacruz.xyz/
It seemed that NeuroLink would be getting to the point where they could reliably do it. But since seeing the facts underlying Tesla's "self driving", and the fast/loose nature of that... I no longer have any confidence in their work.

Elon pushes people to get results, but he pushes too hard, in general, to be sustainable in the long run.
Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using Sun for Oberth maneuver
Lol, thats a quote from the article.
I see John Romero uses the same logitech webcam I do that makes me channel AvE every time I have to yell "focus, you fuck!"
In a world where security flaws are so common, I'm not sure I want to run old software outside a virtual machine.

I also wish I could agree that win32 is a stable target on Linux; it may run old software, but in my experience it is often quirky. It's usually a better use of my time to just boot windows thanks to figure out how to get software to run under wine.
Now you're talking about words, above token abstraction - they're fine with that. They're bad at subtoken level.
If you're looking for any unusual recommendations, I'm not the best person to ask! I've only tried the more popular ones, but The Seventh Crystal, Gathering at the Inn, The Inverted Manse are my favorite stand-alone missions.
I think a lot of underperformers end up in a hole where they're burnt out to such an extent that they don't have the energy to leave. It takes clarity, introspection, positivity, and extra work to find a new job; those are exactly the things that burnout saps.

Of course, most people are really good at hiding their emotional state, since that's a requirement to fit into a professional workplace. The facade of happiness stays up well after the real thing is gone.
The phase shift is dependent on both the resonance frequency of the medium and the incident light. In the case of X-rays, the refractive index can go below 1, resulting in total external reflection for a few tenths of a degree. Even in this case, the speed of the X-ray itself stays below that of C, even though the "wavelength" appears to be longer than in vacuum.
You have an option in user settings to allow search engines to index your profile and public posts. (It's off by default.)
Nope, Musk literally invited Jones and Tate to babble with him for three hours.

Just a grand old time :-/
People forget the released version is v0.1

If the commerically-served model has improved capability and is exclusive to Mistral's service, there is a possible moat there.
Related:

Decompressing a Gzip File by Hand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29336271 - Nov 2021 (18 comments)
No. What should be is that everything is open source and proptietary code is illegal.
If you want to really go back to oldskool way you could use XML for this.
There are some workarounds. In my company we have a script that generated IDE files automatically. It uses `bazel query` and `bazel build` to find all external and non native dependencies, and then generates IDE config and files for rust, java, python, etc.

Positives: your IDE experience becomes native and you don't need to interact with bazel for normal IDE work flows.
Negatives: need to run the generate script anything non native changes. Also need to deal with bazel build files etc for the git workflow, obviously.

We're small company, and this method has worked great, and we have a pretty complex build with python accessing rust and java (via jni). Java accessing rust and c (via jni).
Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Vivek Ramaswam