skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know your specific situation but this is a pretty common fallacy that has been undermined by studies that show that most people do not experience increased happiness beyond income levels that cover their necessities and a bit more (it used to be around $75k/year in the US and with inflation might be around $100k now - I.e. having $5m / year isn’t going to be as impactful as you’d think. Money isn’t a panacea, and “wherever you go, there you are”).

I thought this way too, and then made a bunch of money to the point I no longer had to work after around 35. I can tell you first hand with my n=1 study that more money is not very impactful. You’re still you, with all the hangups and other things to work through. Focus on achieving income to meet your necessities and a bit more and then put your energy into relationships and your health and fitness, and hobbies. More money at the expense of these other things is a fool’s bargain.
That was an interesting Firefox crash.
Good observation! I think we generally imagine China as an adversary too often. Instead, we should sometimes think of it as a neighbor country, where people that are similar to us are faced with an interesting system.

But I think even then, the best way to understand would be to make comparisons to your own culture.
They won't have a choice at some stage. The population is declining so rapidly, and they're struggling so hard economically they are, whether they like it or not,importing more and more immigrants and the truth is, they can be as racist as they like but it only worked when they had the clout to get away with it. It's less and less viable for them to continue on this trajectory. People might never be "accepted" but the face of Japan itself will likely be different in the future simply because they've failed to embrace change properly.

Visit Japan now and there are more and more Americans, Australian, Indian and Chinese working, buying property and setting up businesses there.

I'm not really celebrating any of this, I just don't see how an old and tired population can continue to put so much energy into xenophobia when literally one of the only things between them and China are the US military having a base on Okinawa.
Too many people competing for everything AND no system to check whether what they publish makes sense. Peer review only works if these doctors are not part of the same system, if they are then all of them are equally interested in covering up for themselves and for others.

If the system existed, it would actually make the expectations more realistic and make doctor's lives easier rather than increase the amount of research. But I assume the government isn't interested in the truth, i.e. realistically to fix this situation you would also need to admit that plenty of work done was basically bullshit and your numbers go down as a consequence.
A garden of niche product design
I came to realize that the most inspiring, authentic design on the internet today comes from niche places.

To escape mainstream design culture where almost every app and website looks the same, it's worth exploring some under-the-radar spaces.

I've been collecting product references for what I consider 'niche product design':

[1] Opinionated by design
[2] A small team/individual effort
[3] Niche focused

The best gems are hidden in the remote corners of the internet galaxy: https://productidentity.co/p/niche-product-design
Looking on the bright side: will GenAI be what convinces the general public to finally get into our habit of checking if references actually support claims?
Omelette du Fromage
I don't know (or care) if Emacs is dying, but that is a point suggesting death is on the way.

We have in Emacs an editor where the default keybindings aren't great (literally designed for keyboards that no longer exist). The configuration language is Elisp, which is not a great language (being a lisp is great, but by lisp standards it is eclipsed by Common lisp or Clojure depending on personal preferences). The overall feel of the editor with lots of extensions is a bit patchwork and unprofessional. The model of editing text is a relic from a time when multiple threads didn't exist and window managers were not yet a thing.

I love Emacs to death and it isn't leaving my hands until they are cold and dead; but for the life of me I don't see why anyone should invest the time to learn Emacs. The greater programming community would be better off letting it die then rebuilding something similar with different defaults.

All Emacs is good for is as a platform for building a completely different text editor out of extensions.
Others may have different experiences than this author.
It's not a given. Many people pick up the phone at the slightest pause or hope to not have to put down the phone for the conversation.

It's known as phubbing and is detrimental to a good conversation.
Yes really.

Those listicles exist because Google became stricter about a different type of content- product reviews. https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

The business model of the listicles is: clicks from Google + commission from Amazon/similar = revenue for the website

"In 2022, e-commerce accounted for nearly 19 percent of retail sales worldwide." So imagine if 19% of all retail decided they needed to rank highly on Kagi to get a slice of that huge revenue. Kagi's team wouldn't stand a chance against what they thought up.
Need to hide it behind a terminal with scary monospace letters.
I came to the game at the tail end of the Vim-vs-Emacs war.

People pick up a particular editor not because it's always objectively better, but rather because it was the only available thing they liked at a certain point in time. Then, over the years, Newton’s first law takes over.

Since I stepped into the industry only a few years ago, I didn’t see the appeal of spending so much time configuring a tool. So, neither Vim nor Emacs seemed like a sensible choice. I went with VSCode and forgot when was the last time I had to configure something.

Now that we're seeing new editors like Zed making some splash, I'm exhibiting the same bias for VSCode that older programmers show for Vim or Emacs.
The experiment ran for only 13 months.

> Wörgl was the site of the "Miracle of Wörgl", beginning on 31 July, 1932 during the Great Depression.

> the "experiment" was ended by Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank on 1 September 1933

So all the fancy demurrage stuff could not have had much effect at all. Sounds like they could have issued pretty much any kind of currency with the same end result. With that time period being economically tumultuous in general, drawing any sort of conclusions is pretty much impossible. Maybe the biggest learning here is that rallying local community around some stunt like this can provide genuine, if temporary, boost to the local economy; the exact details of the thing matter less if you just get community to buy into it.
> Never going to happen. Chicken-egg problem here and a complete fantasy.

I dunno know, man. I hate reality TV but I would totally pay per view for a show like Big Brother: Jersey Shore in Spaaaaace where people get tossed in an airlock when they’re voted off.
That's only true for older version of specifications (which do NOT include json.org, however). The current RFC 8259 simply defines `json-text` as any allowed value.
This is enough detail that:

- If you understand it, it's a nice visualization but you don't learn anything new

- If you don't, you won't understand it.

Going one click in brings up a paywall, with no pricing. You need to give up your email to get a price.

This feel like a not-very-good business model. This would make a lot more sense as either:

- A fully-baked business model, competitive with other paid resources

- An open-source project on github.

To be a fully-baked business model, it would need:

- Enough teaser content to get people hooked and for people to be able to reshare content

- Things to do (e.g. writing Python code), a place to do it (e.g. an online repl, like most other similar systems), and ways to evaluate it for correctness.

- Clear marketing / branding copy (who did it? what's the privacy policy? what's it cost? etc.)

As an open-source thing, it could slot into a community of similar projects which fill those gaps. It has very nice interactives, but it takes a "tell" rather than a "do" approach, which is helpful in context, but isn't adequate for learning by itself.
research is mixed about small class sizes (maybe 1 in 10 as you said, on 1 in 5, would be beneficial but there is very little difference between 1 in 20 and 1 in 50). Not a rebuttal, just adding some info
Even that Economist opinion piece has this line: "That was the role of UNRWA: to preserve the status quo."

> The idea that UNRWA is the primary party responsible for perpetuating the situation, in order to therefore perpetuate its existence, couldn't be further from the truth.

The article elides much. The reason for neighboring Arab nations not really trusting Palestinians, for instance. The work of UN Watch in exposing UNWRA as being too cosy at best with Hamas, for another. "... couldn't be further from the truth" is quite a stretch.
Baja California is not that similar to Mexico City, but I will just mention that when I lived in Tijuana and Ensenada for a few years, the water being shut off for a few days or even a week at a time during the summer was fairly common. Many businesses or well-off families have backup water tanks.

But I never saw a point where there wasn't normal bottled or reverse-osmosis water available to buy in stores.

And in northern Baja, although it is semi-arid, the weather is not nearly as variable and the population is minuscule in comparison.

I'm just remembering the times when I had refilled water jugs stockpiled in the bathroom for flushing the toilet. If things get really bad in Mexico City, who knows, but there might be millions of people doing that sort of thing for a month.

And then if it gets to the point where you really can't flush your toilet or get water to drink, times a million people (supposing only a fraction of the 22 million are really cut off for a significant amount of time), times a month, people will get desperate and probably resort to doing things they normally wouldn't in order to survive.

It sounds apocalyptic to me.
Hopefully this trend will result in population growth slow down to give other species a chance.
The people always do the right thing when it is almost too late. Same thing as World War II, we Americans ignored and avoided the war as long as we possibly could. I still wonder at the miracle of Japan attacking Pearl Harbor, had they not, it is likely that we'd be in the middle of a Nazi new world order. For this climate challenge, perhaps we can hope for some disastrous flood, or horrific hurricane, to help convince your average voter that this is not something that will just go away by itself and we need to take it seriously.
"A little"

That's the key
It was weird for me as a kind-of part of the rationalist movement, I can imagine it's weirder for you.

Then again, your views have effectively become semi-mainstream, or at least have shifted the Overton window so far that they're solidly within it. So it's not that unusual.
Look to Your Neighbors
I would argue it is. Not because of Emacs itself though, but because they are the default gnu readline keybindings.

This means that by learning these, one can use them in almost every application on every platform that has a "text input field" type component. Browsers, Adobe software, most native macOS software, any REPL such as python, etc. Even in the shell, ones workflow is just so much better after learning these. (Yes, I am aware that vim input mode exists).

But then again, that's as much of emacs that I bothered to learn...

I do see emacs often used in competitive programming, mostly by undergrads too. But of course, that is already a very small subset of all undergrads.
Your LLM Intern
Why? Are we running out of good escalation protocol?
The US has thresholds at the federal and state levels for domestic food contamination. The federal limits tend to be lower to allow states to decide what they consider safe, not because they're goals, which also implies they're regularly sampled.

FDA and USDA are occasionally the testers (like for PFAS) and always the arbiters, but it's the individual members of the self-regulated farming and import organizations who are responsible for getting the testing, and only the high level aggregate reports are published, I believe. Look up lab testing services - it's a big business, and they're required.

You're also asking a question that you probably aren't aware of the scale of. US ag is huge and time sensitive. It's a miracle it works, and its systems run on the labor of millions. By the time that processed seasonal Starbucks muffin gets sold, the various parts of it have travelled farther than most Americans will in their entire lives.
isn't Mexico city built on a former lake?
A brief smile makes faces appear more joyful
Never. That might make it sound less like an emergency.

For example, one of the first things you'll read in the wikipedia article on "Drought" is this:

> The longest drought in recorded history started 400 years ago in the Atacama Desert in Chile and still continues.
Unfortunately I don't understand French. Do these people back up their statements in any way, or are these just opinions from a small selection of the 8 billion people on the planet?
>Zygomaticus activation through facial neuromuscular electrical stimulation (fNMES) induces happiness perception in ambiguous facial expressions and affects neural correlates of face processing

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/19/1/nsae013/7604386

Abstract

The role of facial feedback in facial emotion recognition remains controversial, partly due to limitations of the existing methods to manipulate the activation of facial muscles, such as voluntary posing of facial expressions or holding a pen in the mouth. These procedures are indeed limited in their control over which muscles are (de)activated when and to what degree. To overcome these limitations and investigate in a more controlled way if facial emotion recognition is modulated by one’s facial muscle activity, we used computer-controlled facial neuromuscular electrical stimulation (fNMES). In a pre-registered EEG experiment, ambiguous facial expressions were categorised as happy or sad by 47 participants. In half of the trials, weak smiling was induced through fNMES delivered to the bilateral Zygomaticus Major muscle for 500 ms. The likelihood of categorising ambiguous facial expressions as happy was significantly increased with fNMES, as shown with frequentist and Bayesian linear mixed models. Further, fNMES resulted in a reduction of P1, N170 and LPP amplitudes. These findings suggest that fNMES-induced facial feedback can bias facial emotion recognition and modulate the neural correlates of face processing. We conclude that fNMES has potential as a tool for studying the effects of facial feedback.
I'll honestly take this is a compliment.
The guideline says "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait", so you're both right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah I use nano if im remoted in and need to make a quick change and vscode the rest of thr time.

My thinking is that if you need vim you actually need an ide or lightweight ide.
It depends massively what you're searching for. If there's a whiff of money attached then the results are crap. However if you want to know why the sky is blue then Google delivers.
Yes. If you want to make something that works, your life is figuring out evaluation and LLM ops.

At that point, you know its not thinking, its doing token prediction.
ADX Florence? Probably not. Fort Dix? Almost certainly if the price is right. It's more like a glorified summer camp than a prison.
Many of the countries claimed they are service sector dominated, until they understood that service sector jobs are basically menial, low income positions doing things that do not scale. There is proliferation of those. I can't imagine most of service sector workers ever buying a home, raising kids or having pension savings (unless they pivot to other occupations). Unless they are recent immigrants and have much lower expectations, and even then. The economy is inherently negative to that, since their direct customers are often other service sector workers, who can't just pay more for the services.
From Back End Dev to Front and Center: A First-Time Speaker's Journey to PHPUK24
Any prompt can give you different results - LLMs cant do things "step by step" or "check their work" but yet giving them that prompt often improves their results because it's basically setting up the context in a way that's beneficial to your output.
I believe James Hansen’s latest paper about long-term feedback effects actually predicts 10 degrees Celsius as the new equilibrium after a few centuries which seems… apocalyptic?
I guess me and my friends who are all programmers with 20+ years of experience working across multiple industries in senior roles are not serious programmers.

Who knew!
For what it's worth, setting up a language with the LSP is dead simple in a .emacs file, editing my config is something I enjoy a lot with emacs, make a change, M-x load-file .emacs, boom, face highlighting, autocomplete, pretty much everything and more, surprisingly it ran better than when I tried VScode
That is comforting, thank you.
It's Time We Addressed Time-Zone Selectors
Amiga sprites were also unlimited in height.

BTW. On AGA (Amiga 1200, 4000 and CD32) each sprite could be 32 or 64 pixels wide but I don't think that feature was used much by games.
They were using it because they were forced to. I remember all the complaints people had why they couldn't use a real operating system and text editor for their code when they first showed up to classes.
Your first link is for 1900 but that is way too recent to explain why some contries got rich in the industrial revolution.

It also has British Empire as #1, but this includes India. On its own Britain was much smaller.

When you seperate "overseas territories" out, then you are still left with Asia (incl India) as #1

Where did industrial revolution start? In Britain or in India?

On this page you can go back to 1700 and see that Europe was way down the list: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1006557/global-populatio...

So your own method of arguing leads to the opposite result than your conclusion.
Weather extremes driven by climate change hit low-income communities harder. The reasons include poor housing and lack of access to safe and comfortable public spaces. This makes “climate readiness” a pressing issue for governments, city planners and emergency services in fast-growing areas such as Western Sydney.

We work with culturally diverse residents and social housing providers in Western Sydney to explore how they’re adapting to increasing heat. Residents hosted heat data loggers inside and outside their homes.

[ ... ]

The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of all co-researchers in the Climate-Ready in Social Housing team.
I'd suggest the answer to the question you posed is likely 'yes'. The points the author raises under More options tells me much about the person he is and I've encountered his type before and they think like that.

As I said I don't see much point in discussing population as much as I'd like to. With the world as it is, it's easy to be disparaging against those who argue for a larger population and that we'll always find or develop more resources but it serves no purpose when those who are in favor hold those views as beliefs rather than having arrived at them objectively.

We shouldn't forget there's long social and religious traditions concerning fecundity and 'go forth and multiply', and these beliefs are deeply ingrained in much of the population. Also, one has to be heartless not to feel very sorry for a grieving couple who've been told by an IVF clinic they can't have any children even if that would benefit the planet. Much of the world's population see the biological urge to multiply as normal and fundamental so it's understandable why those who question the doctrine such as Paul Ehrlich and Jane Goodall have been verbally pilloried over the years. Their message is repugnant even if correct.

That said, we need the discussion and we need to listen to Ehrlich et al but it's not going to happen for reasons stated. What I find most disconcerting and hypocritical are environmentalists and groups like Greenpeace arguing about pollution, limited resources and environmental issues whilst they blatantly ignore the population 'elephant'. When asked why they've been known to say "it's too hot handle, we wouldn't touch it with a barge pole."

I'd like to discuss your point about population control through war as history of warfare is an interest of mine but it's too big to post here.
syntax error 1:30
Top tier comedy. Even the Github bot replies to the question are LLM nonsense: they simply agree with the above comment and apologize for not knowing the answer.
Seriously people. Tramp mode is your friend. It can even two two or more hops.
If those were facilitated by structural decomposition, one might expect that this kind of physical treatment might accelerate it, no?
Amen! Ive used sublime, vscode, jetbrains stuff, and others.

They've all worked just fine.
China will very soon have exactly the same "old and tired" problems. What are they going to do, beat each other with clutches while being accompanied by their drip lines? And why?
Grab a hose and cover the concrete with water in the morning, get a fan and face it outwards to blow hot air out of the house.

Having a sprinkler with a timer which can release just enough water to cover your roof helps too.
> And then if it gets to the point where you really can't flush your toilet or get water to drink

These are not similar standards. If you can't get water to drink, you'll die in a matter of days, maybe about a week.

If water is scarce enough that you don't want to flush your toilet, you'll relieve yourself outside. You'll hit that point long, long, long before not having anything to drink is a risk.
>All Emacs is good for is as a platform for building a completely different text editor out of extensions.

Yes, we call those modes.
> And they should have been held accountable, were they?

Huge stock hit (since recovered, of course), top executives lost their jobs, fines, had to give away a paid product, extra oversight, cost of fixing security, several rounds of layoffs for the employees, etc.

> It is not unreasonable then we should actually physically destroy their premises and all related collected information as an active threat to the nation

This is why we can't get real, meaningful change. No wonder our "leaders" think so little of us.
This has zero sum written all over it. And yet, it might be true.
In the US, the homeless commonly refused aid too. Mark Laita, who runs the large yt channel where he talks to the homeless, has spoken at length about this.
It might be a bubble I've been pulled in long ago. But I get a lot more content in general on vim/nvim.

I've tried a few times to move to emacs. Partly FOMO (I might be missing out, by sticking with vim/nvim). But found it hard to find good lectures, articles, beginners guides, and YouTubers on emacs. At least not as good, frequent and omnipresent as such content for vim.

I might've searched wrong. I'm probably biased, and quite certainly in a filter bubble. But the accessibility of good, modern content on vim/nvim is what made me decide to just stay there.
The larger issue with the article for me is that it waits until the second paragraph (after a screenshot and so below the fold) to even name what the feature is.
AGI will be the most profound technology we will have invented and it'll be the last technology we have to invent. Significantly more profound than the internet. And yes I think AGI is coming soon, 5-10 years or less.
Would second these observations …