skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there should be fewer "bike lanes" in the US. Bike lanes are silly unless they are separate "roads" as in the Netherlands. There is absolutely zero chance of this happening in the US. Just stop with the pretense and stop giving cyclists a false sense of security. I rode a bike all over Los Angeles as a teen before the bike lane fantasies took hold. That takes a different set of survival skills and attitude than the suicidal bike lane followers of today. What we do now is just killing cyclists.
This is what posting sleep deprived gets you. I was referring to the cli[0] and server[1] components, which have most of the meat. Sorry for the misunderstanding. That being said, I'd love to know which severe bugs disrupt your usage.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/cli

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server
What are we actually talking about here?
VS Code is open source, the existence of a de-microsofted alternative, that's actually just as capable (VS Codium) is just confirming this.

> there is no oxygen for an open source effort to reinvent that wheel.
Also, VS Code is just a great product. I mean, why is it a bad thing? It's not like Micrsoft is exerting as much negative control if at all on the whole ecosystem like Google did with Chrome. What I can see is that the dev's are keeping a good and healthy relationship to the users. While I see that this can change arbitrarily, given that it's Microsoft, right now you have (or at least I do) give them the benefit of the doubt.
That amendment has never been tested in the grounds that the Trump administration is.

It certainly wasn’t intended for the currently used purpose and will very much come down to “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which anyone short of the best legal scholars in our country aren’t qualified to speak to.
Just here to say that the editor wars this comment kicked off are classic. It’s comforting to know that some things never change.

/written using pico on my Blackberry RIM. Because physical keyboards matter and pico is easy to use.
There is a post which was flagged twice that was submitted by another user.

That is the reason I actually found the post and was amazed it was flagged so soon, when I got back to HN post after reading it. (15 minutes).

the post does not discuss politics but a certain member of the new team and some of his past, and maybe future.

re 1:
why would somebody so respected in the cybersec community go after politics all of a sudden and not simply do that from curiosity?
also, why would there be only one of those posts? I would expect more in this case.

I am asking simply to understand, I am not from the U.S and really am not involved in politics.

edit: question to pt. 1 in parent
The roads in England are terrible, the roads in the rest of the UK are far better.

I live in England and commute to Wales, you can hear when you cross the border.
Not exactly because AI can excel at rote Leetcode problems by being dismal at actual work. This is in fact exactly the state of today's LLMs.
not an expert - yes, what would usually just be called training, with LLMs here is called RL. You do end up writing a sort of a reward function, so I guess it is RL.
I would imagine that is more due to age than anything else.
I wonder if this can be abstracted to accept interaction from a Daylight too.
If you don't want to use C perhaps you shouldn't contribute to a 33 year old project written in C?
When 94% of the 'good' jobs go to non-whites, in a majority white country, I guess you will need to explain how it didn't change things that much to me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-e...

DEI definitely did have an impact.
Baltics count days to syncing with European electric grid
> What open source alternatives?

Helix:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/

Like vim, but already has an LSP etc out of the box. Things are already there so the config files are minimal.
Discussion (37 points, 2 days ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42961192
> Someone does not remember (or was not around) for the ActiveX or Flash days.

"Hey wouldn't it be handy if every webpage can download binary code and run it? Oh and let it talk to every DLL in the system as well. Super handy! What could go wrong?" - Microsoft in 1998 :)

I mean sure we were all a bit naive in the 90s and 00s but did they really not see that coming?
Musk is a libertarian not an authoritarian.

His job is to reduce the size and power of government.

Authoritarians don’t do that. Libertarians do that. Two opposite ends of the spectrum.

“Misinformation” is a very subjective word, so I’m afraid you and I will have to agree to disagree that Musk is spreading misinformation.

Don’t believe everything you read about Musk in the mainstream media. Don’t forget that the media have a vested interest in denigrating Musk, because he’s their most significant competitor, and while X exists, and we’re able to hear directly from influential people, the legacy media is powerless to control the narrative.
It's become unflagged again. Enough users must have vouched for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187

It may well end up being re-flagged.
Discussion (108 points, 17 hours ago, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973131
Almost two decades later, for unexplicable reasons, every new client not piggybacking on an eatablished toolkit or a new toolkit/compositor struggles with clipboard support, I shit you not.
Relative to France, Germany, Holland etc etc
In EE news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981297
They overtly and actively lied about participation in PRISM, as did all companies involved (Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Facebook, etc) because they were legally obligated to lie about participation in it. It's all just so unbelievably fake and stupid. I suspect the main reason there's minimal to no anti-trust in big tech is because it's largely just become a branch of the US intelligence services.

In some way I find the Chinese system preferable in that they're completely transparent about spying and domineering the companies within the country. The only difference in the US is we actively lie about and engage in all this utterly ridiculous LARPing that makes anybody with half a head on their shoulder just despise every player involved.

About the time a country has secret courts and is forcing private entities to lie to others publicly, something has gone very wrong with the direction of the country.
Chronic underinvestment.

Since ~2010, the UK started cutting costs everywhere. Current costs were harder to cut, broadly speaking investments were cut more. Things like fixing roads was on the list - because a slightly broken road is still mostly usable. But of course that cascades quickly into an unmanageable mess of potholes. It's also one of those things where small frequent repairs are presumably cheaper in the long run than leaving things until you can't ignore them anymore, then having a major repair job to do.
Being CEO is as part time gig apparently. Turns out the workers do most of the work, who knew?
You should try more remote areas. If you have to pass another car on the lanes around here, expect to hear your suspension bottom out
Most banks don't have an API, and statements are (often) lagged, sometimes even by a week or a month depending on how archaic the systems are.
Aw man, first off, my condolences :( Second though, I relate very well to your story! I definitely had some "dialed up when I wasn't supposed to be" times, enough that my dad once simply cut the phone line with a pair of scissors when I was caught chatting online at 2-3am _yet again_ :) hehehe .. I have more stories but I definitely won't record them here hahaha
a bad joke is in no way as peculiar as this.
> The material could be scaled up for use on British roads in a couple of years, the researchers believe.

As per usual these optimistic solutions are inhibited by cost. All municipalities that I’ve lived in have ignored potholes until the complainants become a choir. It is always cheaper this way.
In the case of Paris, you would not really have that with the Metro which is confirmed to Paris and relatively immediate suburbs but with the RER (they share the same stations with the Metro) you can easily get off in the middle of nowhere (again - relatively, I am thinking about the south of Paris, mostly)
Would be interesting to see if any municipalities have experimented with self-healing surfaces at small scale to gauge cost-effectiveness. If it reduces long-term maintenance, councils might actually save money instead of just patching potholes endlessly.
My attempt at a summary: authors characterize the data-compute pareto front (aka how bitter is the lesson, exactly?)

For a different perspective, error vs compute, see

https://youtu.be/5eqRuVp65eY

and comments

(I particularly liked the one about string theorists rediscovering a fundamental theorem in GR decades too late-- rediscovering how to integrate happens in every field, it's nothing to be ashamed of :)
Discussion (108 points, 17 hours ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973131
I want to like/use Doom (also to be able to recommend it to to new-comers), and it neatly solves many "beginner issues", but I can never get it to do code-folding like in my own emacs-config.

Specifically, I'd want these 3 types of folding in the same buffer:

- "Chapter & Block-based", like in `org-mode`
- "Arbitrary lines folded", like in `vimish-fold`
- "Semantic folding, any level", like in `hideshow`

(Un-)folding should always be done with TAB, only for folding vimish-style, initial visual selection is needed.

When doing that in DOOM, I always end up with visual corruption, when some of fancier default eye-candy is switched on and then I use several types of fold in the same document.

I think, I saw code-comments, that there is an all-encompassing folding function in the works, but not yet finalized/activated. Hmm, maybe I should give it another spin, last time was 5ish months ago.
The Importance of Getting the Foundations Right – Cybernetist
What I've heard (with regards to Irish roads) is that it's several wet months each year where the ground temperature frequently goes above and below zero degrees.

So the water keeps filling any small cracks, freezing and expanding, then defrosting and refilling the now bigger cracks. There's many days in the winter where this process might happen several times over a single 24 hour cycle.

It's basically the worst possible scenario for road longevity, or any kind of buildings.

However, while this sounds plausible, I don't know if it's actually true. I haven't heard it confirmed by a civil engineer.
Principles – Nabeel S. Qureshi
Glad I wasn’t the only one who saw the reference! Now I just need a version that ties in M.C. Escher’s impossible staircases with infinite loops.
Almost the same, but very different from XT/PC.
I haven't seen any entry level positions or on the job training at any company I've worked at. I've always been jealous of these training programs that Japanese game companies had, where you'd be working alongside future and contemporary greats.
I got the macOS hang a few years back (a decade?). On attempting to report it, I just got it closed with "can't reproduce". And attempting to reopen or discuss got permission denied errors.

So I kinda doubt we'll ever see that one fixed.
But you only have to figure that out once. Amortized over many contributions the cost is essentially nothing.
I guess the alternative would be for MS to make this great product fully FOSS, so that there wouldn’t be a problem in the first place. But ofc that isn’t realistic for a plethora of reasons.

Also not saying that MS is somehow unique or worse than Apple, or Google or whatever, they each have their good and bad bits.
One of the big differences between the USA and Russia, is that the US doesn't actually need to annex a country to get what it wants. The US historically acts on behalf of US owned businesses so they can extract mineral and fossil fuel wealth which is funnelled colonial era style back into the US economy. There is no need to plant a flag when it is cheaper and more efficient to achieve the same effect with Chevron.
Fascinating read! So if arsenic helps gold concentrate in deposits, does this mean arsenic-rich environments are better places to prospect? Or is it more about how existing deposits form rather than finding new ones?
You can write non-open source emacs plugins, too.
Nope, this doesn’t create gold, just helps existing gold accumulate in certain conditions. Actual gold creation requires nuclear reactions, which are technically possible but not practical.
This is so cool!

I went through similar struggles when I implemented my js emulator last summer (though, admittedly, FPS was never so low there).

You just made me wanna pick it up again (:
> > The only reason Linux managed to survive so long is by not having internal boundaries, and adding another language complely breaks this. You might not like my answer, but I will do everything I can do to stop this.

If a maintainer of a major subsystem has those objections, it is a good chance to try to convince them otherwise.

If something is not clear, ask him to elaborate.

But blackmailing with a social media campaign is not productive. Even more it’s anti-productive. This just adds to rust=drama=stayaway feeling.
Right? Turns out fool’s gold has a bit of wisdom after all. It won’t make you rich, but in the right conditions, it can help concentrate the real stuff!
The real improvement is to lift nullability up to the type system. That way, every type acts as an optional by default, and the computer can infer when a nullable type has been null-checked.

This is what Kotlin does - it's truly freeing to work with.
Do-notation is a thing in eg Haskell.
Hey, author here! Yes, that's how I see it as well.
Well, it only needs to be a functor (in the Haskell sense) for map to make sense.

(Of course, all monads are also functors.)
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There absolutely have been twin studies that showed IQ (and therefore income) is largely heritable.
Well, monads get their map from functors, and they call it 'map' (or fmap) because of map on sequences.
I meant the whole “we are on the right side of history” and if you’re not with us you’re against us and we’ll wage a public drama campaign against you.
Thanks for your answer I really enjoyed it :)

I cannot treat Mises rejecting all verification. Of course this might be due to reading his works long after seeing how world has developed. This way it is easy to downplay the faults and see the things that had insight.

To take a concrete example of supply and demand. We can logically understand that raising supply cannot raise prices. Similarly increasing demand cannot lower prices. We can reach this conclusions by just starting with axioms that humans have a priori ideas how their situation can be improved and human acts with a goal to reach ideas. This is shown by Murray Rothbard in his book Man, Economy and State.

We cannot reach the same conclusion by just calculating ratios from historical data, due these being complex phenomena that have many confounding variables. We need to have a priori ideas to be able to start unconfound variables in such historical data.

I don't really get from his writing that he mistook the perfect algebra as representation of the real world. It just that to gain actionable insight with the real world you need to process with series of logical steps to the conclusion. The real point is not that can you make up a logical chain of statements. You always can add an ad hoc proposition to save a theory (and this was his outgoing criticism against the German Historic School). The point is to tease the statements and reasoning chains so that only things that are true remain. This is the way (Von Mises saw) to get the universal laws of human actions that he hold would be as universal as the laws of motion.

I don't think that RCT in modern economics are trying to answer same questions. You need a priori theories to devise the trials and then you need to use the same a priori theories to make sense of the results. The results might force you to change your a priori before devising a next trial. And for that process you need to use the reasoning that Von Mises advocated.

Most likely he wouldn't think that Development Economics is Economics proper. It doesn't mean that it shouldn't be studied, but it is a different realm from the laws of human action that he studied. He also didn't think that a good economist shouldn't understand other sciences and shouldn't take inspiration from them.

If you look how much insight and a priori knowledge and reasoning people like Kenneth Arrow or Milton Friedman had and used, I don't see the concrete gulf between them and Von Mises so large. They have major differences and had opposite views, but I feel that it is more a difference in degree not in kind. I think that economists have a bad habit of overstating their differences and downplaying how much they agree.

But I would believe that Von Mises would have rather drank hemlock like Socrates than admit faults on his views. But this is an characteristic of many great economists :D
Or what's keeping the US from asking for Data, too.
Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas' least vaccinated counties
The one useful feature of syntax highlighting is easily distinguishing code from comments.
Wild to see the concept of the plea bargain being defended. It's a blatant retraction of the due process clause from the bill of rights, and here you are defending it.
Why Everyone Is Selling Big Tech [video]
ty! It fetches from the api so it technically shouldn't run out, tried to fix the issues with it prefetching repos so feel free to give it a shot now
Absolutely anecdotal, but I see a very strong correlated connection between what I eat (and the effect it has on my digestion) and my mood.

Having a regular quantity of fermented foods as part of my diet has a noticeable effect.

Fermented foods are worth trying out, but your milage might vary.
Right but the HN criterion is repetition. What difference should it make if the repetitive thing is professionally written? People flag dupes all the time and many stories are covered by multiple reputable sources.
Vavr is nice! But I understand the want to make the get exception checked. It makes it so that you can use try/catch as a Java-man’s do-notation, and not fear having forgotten to deal with the None case.

You can then make lots of utility functions which all get without handling it (only declare that they throw) and then you compose these into larger functions which make sure to catch at the end.

Having to declare it makes it really clear what the function actually does.
I'd guess that there was a mixup:

https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server

For what it's worth, we have been using code-server instead in prod (prod being internal) for over a year now.

https://github.com/coder/code-server

https://coder.com/docs/code-server/FAQ#whats-the-difference-...
Original source: (4 points, 5 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979975
“How did you hurt yourself today?” - “I threatened Linux devs with social media shaming and publicly quit contributing to Linux to teach them a lesson. But it boomeranged, and now everyone is talking about my behavior”
Everything about Musk is already awkward for Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-musk-tesla-nazi-salute/a-71403...
It was good. I voted for Biden which was implicitly a vote for Kamala. I don’t think this was an actual concern given that only partisans - definitionally - vote in non competitive incumbent primaries.
Mercury loves lots of metals. NileRed has some fantastic videos playing around with the stuff on YouTube
At least in the towns and cities, I believe it is because the utility companies can cut up the roads, but the cuts are never repaired to the same quality, allowing water ingress and creating weaknesses that seem to 'seed' potholes.

I used to live in Edinburgh and the roads were like an uneven tar patchwork.
Cursor does exactly this and it’s pretty wild the first few times it happens. Then you realize it does it only sometimes so you change its “English script prompt” file and make it do a full lint scan so it catches all the linter errors and then you watch it fix something in a wrong way so you stop it and ask WTF it was thinking, and then it apologizes and 50% of the time does the fix the right way and 50% of the time you chase a rabbit hole. Also sometimes it selectively ignores some of your script file prompt so you have to reprint and tell it to fix its script in a way that ensures it understands it… and it does that so you commit the new script document to git (or have it do it)

It’s the future. We live in it.
Dreamy: The Algo [video]
That's not terrible for a dictionary where you control what you're looking up. I found poor segmentation to be way more annoying when trying to do stuff like selecting words for highlighting on my Kindle - it invariably breaks up a chengyu or selects nonsensical groups of words. Same with the Mac 3d touch quick look.
> Spending significant time adapting core kernel code or developing a safe Rust abstraction for DMA, only to be summarily shut down by a single gatekeeper who cites "not wanting multiple languages" is demotivating

Christoph Hellwig is one of the oldest subsystem maintainer.

Maybe the Rust developer shall have a more careful behaviour. Nobody wants to break core kernel code.
Apple should and can just sever its relationship with the British public and let them reap the consequences of submitting to their nanny state.

Although it's worth wondering why anyone would use any type of corporate cloud backup, anyway. Certainly if you had anything worth hiding, you would disable that first. That just makes this whole endeavor that much more dubious.
Metallic gold alloys easily with mercury, so it can be dissolved by mercury.

It also alloys easily, i.e. it is dissolved, with other liquid metals, e.g. silver, copper, indium etc., but that is less obvious than with mercury, because those metals must first be heated to great temperatures, to become liquid, before dissolving gold.

The relation with arsenic is different. It is an affinity between ionic gold and arsenic, not between metallic gold and arsenic.

The gold ions are very big, among the biggest metallic ions. Because of that, the gold ions have great affinity only for some big anions (negative ions), i.e. for the ions of arsenic or of tellurium, which have approximately the same size.

This is in contrast with the smaller ions of silver and copper, which have great affinity with the smaller anions of sulfur.

It is well known that the gold ions have the greatest affinity for the anions of the size of arsenic and tellurium. Tellurium has an even greater affinity for gold than arsenic, but tellurium is extremely rare at the surface of the Earth. Due to the rarity of tellurium, even if minerals with gold and tellurium are well known they are less frequently found than those were gold is associated with arsenic.

While the maximal affinity of gold with tellurium and arsenic has been well known, this research has elucidated details of the mechanism how this creates arsenical minerals rich in gold, which may help in the prospection for such minerals.

Because gold is normally much more scarce in the environment than arsenic and than other metals with which arsenic combines easily, the minerals with arsenic and gold are seldom straightforward combinations of arsenic and gold, but as explained in the article, gold infiltrates arsenides of other metals (usually of iron, whose arsenide is the most abundant).