skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, sadly this paper is a reasonable example of the status quo. There is a contribution in there under all the cruft (if we assume a trusted leader, and we can authenticate message origin, we don't have to use Public/private key encryption to build a shared secret key, hash functions and k-of-n secret sharing are enough) it is just very narrow and they feel like they have to "dress it up" a lot.

If they actually wrote their contribution in clear terms they couldn't get it published because it sounds too simple. I think they should be able able to get it published without inflating it's complexity like this. They are just reacting to a broken system.
Burps, actually. Even harder to capture if you were going to try.
Now if you’re anything like me, in 6 more years you’ll decide to try eMacs, and in 16 years you’ll still be putting off committing to it.
given it's a very large and stable piece of tech, that's not bad. Also, after 2 weeks of regular usage you already have the most important pieces in place to get you going, everything else is like a productivity bonus of things you learn as you need more features.
I was in the same boat as I mentioned in the article, have you thought about trying a vim plugin for the current IDE you're using?
The best field to go to is electrical engeering with a focus on computer engineering (EE/ECE), and I say that as an ex Aerospace Engineer who taught himself how to code and worked at startups and big tech.

Most every single talented ECE person can easily get any software job with minimal prep. Half of the leetocde style coding questions are pointer manipulations, the other half rely on some n linked lists, both of which you get a lot of exposure to when working with low level algorithms.

Furthermore, in the scope of AI, we aren't really close to AGI, and even if we were, the power draw of compute is still quite large. There is a lot of progress to be made in making the compute more accessible to average person.
Certainly they won't keep up with inflation. So it's possible they won't exactly regress, but they will fall back as things get more expensive, and salaries don't go up.
Absolutely. We’ll see what’s going on when AGI comes up. Maybe I won’t be alive by then so no need to stress right now.
I know it’s basically cliche at this point to recommend psychedelics for anything, but one effect I’ve certainly noticed is a strengthened mind’s eye in the comedown and following days. More so with acid and more so for legitimately visual trips than smaller-dosed, heady trips.
I've been a die-hard vim (now neovim) user for over a decade, and here's my advice: learn it if it's fun. It's not going to turn you into a different kind of programmer and it's not going to make your productivity skyrocket.

I love vim, not because of some huge speedup, but because it just feels good. It's like being in a workshop where all the tools are in just the right spot. I figure if I'm going to spend 8 hours a day coding I want it to feel really nice. And it does.
> A Birkin bought at auction in 2010 would sell for around 50% more today... Hermès’s own stock has been a much smarter investment than the Birkin, rising more than 20-fold since 2010.

The more time goes on the more I think a good rule would be "however much I spend at the company, spend on the company (in shares)". I look at my Spotify sub, my MSFT sub, and an Apple IIgs sitting in a box and wonder 'what if'.
Those people still exist alongside all those idiots who think we have free will and that the universe is the embodiment of existence ;)
… so, the Internet? As read to us by a hallucinating magpie?
Around that time, I recall there being a lot of hype around RFID tags. E.g. the Touchatag was just a bunch of RFID tags and a USB RFID reader, but marketed as a consumer product. This never really seems to have caught on, though.

Nowadays, I suppose most consumers do have RFID tags (debit cards, transport cards, building keys, e-Passports), they just might not be aware of the underlying technology.
Well yes, but the same grass that these cows eat....would rot and release methane eventually anyway? Is that not correct?
No, emacs sucks. Vi forever!
Same happens to Emacs. The complexity of Emacs is grossly exaggerated.

You can get around with relatively little know-how. The problem is that knowing what you need to know is not easy.

Most tutorials, including the official one, focus too much on details and too little on concepts to get you bootstrapped.
I think the author is writing JavaScript which certainly helps. Some languages just have terrible support in Vim. C# was okay-ish, Java was annoying, Kotlin is almost non-existent. As soon as you either want tests or debuggers more integrated into your editor, it gets difficult even if the language is not very IDE driven.

But I used neovim for a year at work. I write Python. I can totally see how you can live in neovim for languages like this. But I missed a proper test explorer and debugger though.

I don't think I'd go back to VSCode though. Either JetBrains or neovim. VSCode is in that awful middle ground spot where it's great if you are tying together tools and extensions anyway but if your whole suite of tools is supported in JetBrains products, I'd rather use those. Or use the tools on the command line and stick to neovim.
Interview with a VIM Enthusiast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1dtmzqnCU
I wonder if:

0) any businesses are successfully using calculator numbers in their marketing? Like a clown service that hands out business cards with their phone number 5376616?

1) there are any non-English languages with a substantial amount of calculator words? It's not like there's some inherent bias the Hindu-Arabic numberals themselves should be expected to have in favor of upside-down English, although the seven segment display was developed in the US, so perhaps there's some argument to be made from that angle.
Interesting perspective. It did start off for me as trying to be a "cool kid" indeed, but once I I realized how much better vim motions are I just couldn't go back. It just feels natular, I'm not sure how to explain it but it's really satisfying in a unique way. Heck, I'm even writing this comment with vim motions using a chrome plugin.
With certain biases, yes. But I don’t see how the hive mine can be truly representative given that the people building foundational models work for a few companies, in a few locations, and so on. There’s also the issue of access to internet which will leave some populations’ views underrepresented.
It's noticeably more of a joke than using tabs vs spaces vs null bytes for indentation. That has some legitimate arguments in a few directions, even if there is only one reasonable choice: null bytes assure everyone that you're not secretly writing C code, and they have no visual representation so you're free to display the code any way you like.

Not everyone gets that it's a joke of course, but they're probably government bird operators and you are free to just nod and quietly back away.
To think no one in history has ever tasted mammoth burger—milled flour bread buns wouldn't have coexisted with Neolithic mammoth hunters, that was an expensive specialization of the agriculture era.

(Or perhaps Neolithic people would pity us and our culinary traditions—the bland, meaningless ennui of takeout fast-food. The true enjoyment of mammoth steak, we shall never know, is what it tastes when you've chased it down yourself for three days on foot).
Maybe a bit more than that. I'd say a week to start and about one or two months to achieve the previous speed.
potentially they can have an even smaller footprint than plant based protein.

Maybe one day - the potential of fungi is amazing. It's a whole world that is fundamental to ecology and comparatively poorly understood or mapped. However, I remain skeptical at present once you factor in one or both of the lab costs (steel vats, process control, power consumption, thermal systems, and lab employees) and the raw inputs (fermentation doesn't happen on thin air).

By the time you've grown the raw input, why not just grow a food crop?

I feel virtue-signalling regulatory moves are meaningless. Case in point: many markets are totally unregulated, by your logic they're ahead of the curve. I don't disagree.
I use Vim mode in sublime/zed and I love it. But not for productivity reasons. It's just... Interesting. And somehow cool. And I like learning new things.
In a way it's a meta-game that makes writing code more fun for me.

I simply don't think that the bottleneck for doing my job is how quickly I move the cursor around a document. Or that it makes me write better code in any way.
I've been coding for 12+ years at some top tech companies. I think salaries will drop like a rock for anyone that is not absolutely top knotch. Claude 3.5 Sonnet can code a near perfect UI widget from a screen shot. The game is over on this whole thing, software development as we know it is over.
> One could measure the tonnage of tree farm wood extracted per day against the estimated tonnage of the trees in a non-farm environment pretty easily I would think.

Old growth has a far deeper and broader root system which is a relatively permanent and ever increasing store of carbon in relation to farmed new growth. Roots and stumps of cut new growth are sometimes extracted and used for biofuel, transferring that carbon back to the atmosphere immediately. At best they are left to decompose or converted to mulch and biochar. But the growth process has been halted and no further carbon sequestration will occur. Any further human processing will itself release additional carbon.

Old growth is itself a habitat for other carbon stores. New growth…not really.

Old growth is a habitat for animals which themselves assist in the storage of carbon through indirect means such as pollination and defecation. New growth…not really.

This is just the tip of the iceberg and what I could come up with quickly off the top of my amateur-environmentalist head. It’s complex. A simple estimation of wood tonnage is not going to account for the complexity of the system at all.

> Frankly, the claim, to me, seems incredibly intuitive and your skepticism sounds like stubborn environmentalist thought.

Nice.
Streamer Beats Elden Ring with Neural Interface, No Controller
Ah yes, it's not quite there, but almost. Contactless payment directly at the turnstile is coming to Boston MBTA this year, I believe. Like how NYC works now, where you can just use your credit card for entry.
Does this effect the switch from Google to Microsoft

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/cabinet-offic...
Also https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl - if you want a conventional repl, also cross platform.
You keep on insisting I said art has no value and implying people don't pay. Please show me when and where I said that. I said art has a low real value and that its perceived value has historically been vastly overblown.

Yes, people pay money for art (including me), but the pricing has been steadily falling due to increasing supply (more artists) and efficiency (digital technologies). "AI" in particular is likely going to slash the perceived value lower than humanity has ever seen by making the creation of art dramatically more democratic, thereby reflecting the low real value better.

I consume a lot of art just like most other people, and also realize that I probably pay far too much for it all too because art just doesn't serve any of life's needs other than perhaps killing boredom and flaunting social status.
At what point does the high-effort labmeat become more economical for Singapore than importing meat? I suspect this is the nontrivial bit of the equation, massive quantities of imports are already inbound every single day.
I find the habits of the very wealthy fascinating. What incentivizes your behavior when you have own all the traditional incentives?
Lab grown human flesh would remove the health risks around cannibalism but I assume the taboo would remain. Otherwise I'm imagining tasting menus of an extreme variety of creatures extinct, endangered or just previously hard to fit into the supply chain.
There is no evidence or explanation here, you seem to just be saying that if people can hurt other people with some sort of automation they will, but you're not explaining why that would be or giving any examples of it happening.
Except the only ones building products and services actually used every day by humans are corporations - not “the EU”. Hardware, software, stuff I use for fun, work and live, comes from corporations of all sizes - not politicians.
This. I have loved and used Vim since I was 18 years old, but I did because I fell in love with the tool right away and felt right using it, not because it was "cool" or whatever.

I tried other editors, it didn't feel right, I didn't force myself to continue using them. My advice if you're trying vim is the same... if it doesn't feel right, if it doesn't feel like the tool works for you, look somewhere else.
In the systems I’ve ridden, there’s usually some kind of plastic stored-value card for regular riders, and the (more expensive) disposable tickets are only used by occasional riders.
RFP-MSR Hybrid Reactor Model for Tritium Breeding and Actinides Transmutation
I'm a user of JetBrains IDEs for the last couple of years, and I'm using the IdeaVim plugin on and off. Maybe you would like it ?
I think what we're discussing is "S0 sleep" vs S3 sleep, AKA "machine stays running and pretends to sleep while hopefully saving enough power to be okay" vs "the only thing getting power is RAM and the chip(s) that will wake the machine back up when you hit a button". So yes, largely an AMD/Intel problem; while other hardware parts are somewhat relevant, they're secondary. At least, that's how I think it goes; happy to be wrong. I'm sufficiently behind the curve that all I have is second-hand accounts, including people complaining that S0 sleep doesn't even work right on Windows.
Self driving cars, for one.
Surely ,nds?
Her argument that convinced me, is that the same result can always be better represented with multiple histograms - z-stacked, side-by-side, 3D or ridgeline-plots (ridgeline plots look awesome). Check out her examples at 21:11.

Compared to these alternatives, violin plots are comically bad.
My current client, since recently, is running several Kubernetes clusters to support DTAP on NKE (Nutanix Kubernetes Engine) on several VMs on a single physical Nutanix cluster.

Although we faced some initial hickups setting it up because the client does not have physical equipment for application delivery and Nutanix does not provide MetalLB out of the box everything seems to work beautifully as we speak.

Management of the cluster is basically a combination of webbased Nutanix tools and kubectl, and nodes are virtualized and thus will survive hardware outages.
Repent, sinner!
I’ve been curious about the orientation of these devices. For examples, if I want to track an item’s presence in a box, would I have to coat the entire item in these chips to get one to be in the right orientation?
It is unfortunate few devices come with unlockable bootloaders. I take a harder line on that issue; I see it as a malicious decision by the manufacturer and a very strong reason not to pick a particular device.

I run LineageOS and don't have to concern myself with manufacturer updates. That's not to say everyone should take that approach; it does involve more effort and demand more knowledge than leaving the OS stock.
Starting with just the motions in Vim is a good start if you want to take the time to learn Vim. It gets you used to modal editing without going too deeply into it.

That said, the article focuses too much on the fact that using Vim makes you look cool rather it being a good tool overall. Sure, quick and precise navigation is a good benefit of using Vim, and it is superficially impressive at first glance, but the real power of Vim comes from its terse command language, which is something the article does not mention. There are so many tasks that I can easily do in Vim that would take minutes to hours in other editors, and it is all due to the command language. I guess my point is that Vim doesn't just look cool and there's more going on than what you superficially observe looking at somebody else's screen.
Shares do nothing except gain or lose value. The other stuff can actually, you know, do things! Some people value the ability for things to do other things.
The parent's point is that the engine isn't the largest contributor of noise. At low speeds the engine noise dominates, at "high" (meaning normal driving speeds) speeds the tire noise dominates.

Go listen to a highway and see
if you can hear the engines over the wooshing.
Tangentially.. this is one of the things I don't like about a lot "newer" languages, like Rust and Zig. They seem to really love adding these single character sigils to the language that drastically change the meaning of a line of code or maybe an entire function.

As I get older my eyes strain more and all of this power packed into a single character really just puts me off. It seems like a strategy to emphasize writing code quickly rather than correctly, which is odd, given that this is opposite to the value proposition these languages purport to bring.
I was vim for more than 10 years. I have now switched to VS Code with the Vim extension. I get to keep my Vim motions and gain the ecosystem of VC Code.

Being able to view images, read pdfs, and have html based components from extensions is really nice, as is intermixing terminal tabs with code tabs.
How an arrival tax could stem the overtourism tide [in Japan]
I’m glad the author pointed out rock bottom interest rates - basically free money has created a nightmare and we are in the adjustment period now - curious to see how the luxury sector goes.
Android manufacturers not understanding market.
https://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-every-traffic-engineer... says one lane peaks around 1,900 vehicles per hour. Even if we assume each vehicle only carries one driver, we need 38 busses per hour (one every 95 seconds!) to match that capacity. In practice we're lucky to see two busses per hour scheduled.
and miss the human interaction and ability to learn something else or get invited for a coffee :)
It actually contains less fructose than cane sugar, it just has more fructose than normal corn
Strangely, I've noticed mixed opinions from developers about whether learning vim is a productivity boost. Some people believe it is while others disagree.

I'll admit my FOMO was what originally got me to start learning vim. I still barely know the basic motions but I'm starting to think it could lead to a productivity boost once I get over the learning curve.
I dread the privacy implications. No thanks.
Now take this code and replace hats with bombs.
There are multiple ways to "override" a file managed by dpkg:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.h...
Depending on where tastes go, you could even have celebrity meats.

Swiftie Burgers. Kardashian hot dogs. Nixon ribs.
Depending on your definition of very wealthy, a lot of luxury spending over the last decade is not from actual ultra rich, but mostly the middle class trying to signal something.
Might be it's just not something we are used to in NZ/AU - in Italy you get like 20ml of espresso or if it's cappuccino it's something like 50ml. Quality will be ok. But I can't remember getting 100-200ml drink (i.e. cortado, flat white) for longer enjoyment.
True, but while all humans have chimp dna, many humans have 0 percent neanderthal dna - are they more human than me?
[Edit: I had misread the above comment, which is not saying 'per year']

While cats do indeed kill wildlife, I suspect that "thousands of animals per year" is a big exaggeration even for ferals. It might be true if their sole diet was wildlife, but in most cases the diet will include a lot of contributions from humans (from people who like cats, scavenging in bins, and occasionally, theft). And of course almost all of the wildlife they do take will be mice, which is the original reason we live with cats. Even today, if a cat near you is taking thousands of mice per year, few people would prefer to live with thousands of mice.

Pet cats, of course, don't take anything like this number. I've seen figures of <5 per year, and that's consistent with my own cats.
Banned just like we banned pirate iptv and hard drugs.
I find these systems fascinating. Hermes does make high-quality bags but really where they shine is in marketing.

You see a similar thing play out in the mechanical watch world. Rolex is the master of marketing. They make a good product, make no mistake, but they don't over-produce models, still have scarcity despite selling millions of watches a year and have a limited inventory so Rolexes have the strongest secondary market.

Compare this to Omega who simply produce too many watches and too many watch variants such that you just don't have the strong secondary market that Rolex has. This is despite Omega producing in some cases a better product in utility purposes (eg Planet Ocean vs Deepsea Sea-Dweller).

But there's a dirty little secret with all these brands, including Hermes. As much as they say it's about spend ratios and the like, ultimately it comes down to whether or not they like you. If, as a woman, you're attractive, stylish and likely to be seen with their products (eg red carpet events) you will have WAY more offered to you than your spend ratio might otherwise warrant.
> My point is this: if I tell you to close your eyes and form the image of a teacup in your mind, images certainly have colour and shape, so either your image does too, or you don't have an image. It's really just down to a differing definition of image.

Not really. I mean, I have some aphantasia-type aspects with faces. But my mind's eye is quite amenable to the semi-lucid mental image of a cup that doesn't have colour until I ask myself what colour it has, doesn't have fine shape details until I consider them.

After all, not all of our eye even sees in colour! Part of our visual apparatus only provides black and white imagery to our brain. So there's plenty of colourless imagery within our cognition.
That seems like a question for @lxgr :-)

As far as I can tell, the NFC ecosystem is a mess of competing, incompatible protocols from different companies, as well as incompatibilities for historical reasons.
For example, Clipper uses MIFARE DESFire, which is the more secure sibling of the Ultralight chip that I examined. Washington's SmarTrip cards use MIFARE Plux X. New York City's OMNY, on the other hand, is apparently built on top of the Mastercard payment network using EMV. Montreal's rechargeable OPUS card (not the disposable one I examined) uses the completely different Calypso standard. FeliCa was developed in Japan along a different path and has a different standard (NFC-F vs NFC-A) with different modulation, protocol, and data rates. The NFC chips used in phones try to be compatible with as much as possible. These NFC systems all use the same 13.56 MHz frequency, so the radio hardware is compatible across them.
Eight megs and constantly swapping. Give me something lean any day.
The payoffs don't really seem worth the effort here in my case. Most of my time at work is spent thinking or talking, not typing. And plenty of that typing isn't code: logsearching, Jiras, planning docs. I think this is true for at least a lot of SWEs not building things from scratch.
Backdoor defunding by not adjusting for inflation is definitely a thing but that seems like a separate issue from what I was responding to re: where the funds come from and if they are kept separate, not how much should be spent in total.

> Repeat as needed until general fund is handing the equivalent of 90m with the slack taken up by the lottery.

The lottery picking up the slack so that the general fund doesn’t have to do all of it is the whole point.
What's the relevant p value looking for?
I know AI can do a lot but predict wind patterns? LOL

Imagine using AI to drop an object and it falls perfectly where you want it.