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Didn't know iTerm2 did that. Thanks, I'll check it out - might help a lot.

Not just scrolling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(computing)#Focus_follow...

I used linux on all my laptops/work machines for about 7 years, then switched to macbook pros 5 years ago. Definitely some things you have to adapt to (I still miss focus-follows-mouse). But for the most part, you'll find it's a smooth ride. When bumps like this happen, they tend to push out a fix quickly - especially when it gets traction on HN like this.

There are several reasons, but a big one is that they cannot be mass produced with consistent quality as easily as synthesized chemicals.

Here's part of my HN comment from yesterday's article about this, which I feel is worth repeating here:

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An excerpt from [that previous article]:

> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

Some of the questions you want to ask when you see an article quote like this:

- Who is this unnamed source, exactly?

- Is the article accurately representing what they said?

- In particular: does it accurately represent their intended meaning, in context?

- Does that person speak for the German government? Or is this one government employee's opinion?

- If a German company moves its research labs into the USA, but remains a German company - like the article says - wouldn't that make it impossible for them to hide the secret formula for a vaccine?

- Why would the USA (or any country) even try to keep a vaccine formula secret, in the face of a global pandemic like this? If you think about it, is that comic-book-villain scenario even plausible?

Dear God, HN, exercise some reading comprehension.

The part that's making so many commenters here shut their brains off:

> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

The quote above is manipulating you into believing that the USA is attepmting to prevent Germans from getting that vaccine. THAT'S the part that is completely not real.

EDIT: Some of the questions you want to ask when you see an article quote like this:

- Who is this unnamed source, exactly?

- Is the article accurately representing what they said?

- In particular: does it accurately represent their intended meaning, in context?

- Does that person speak for the German government? Or is this one government employee's opinion?

- If a German company moves its research labs into the USA, but remains a German company - like the article says - wouldn't that make it impossible for them to hide the secret formula for a vaccine?

- Why would the USA (or any country) even try to keep a vaccine formula secret, in the face of a global pandemic like this? If you think about it, is that comic-book-villain scenario even plausible?

American here. Get off your own high horse - you're embarrassing us. The US response needs to get better, fast. We're lucky that we've been relatively isolated so far. But if we don't learn from the experiences of other countries closer to the source, we're wasting that good luck.

Yeah, good points. I guess such non-tech articles serve several purposes.

I do think this one gives non-technical people get something useful, though. More broadly, it'll increase science understanding among the non-scientist/non-technical public, at least on this topic, and good does tend to come out of that.

Okay, fine... what do you want to be different about the situation, then?

Do you not want any non-technical summary articles like this to be written? So that only those with the training to understand a Cell journal article would be able to learn anything about the result?

Or do you prefer that no journal articles be published that rely on 2020-era NN models, because older articles based on less state-of-the-art NNs have been published already?

> There's literally nothing new about the idea. The real trick is being incredibly lucky and finding something that actually works in humans after multiple trials.

I guess I'm not sure where the dismissiveness is coming from here. Are claiming this could have been trivially done before? If so, why didn't you or someone else do it already?

Or are you claiming it's an uninteresting result that is not worthy of publication or attention?

Why?

How does it matter? Not meaning to challenge you in any way, just sincerely want to understand your thinking.

Lots of great suggestions in this thread.

Another you might consider is starting your own business.

This path is not for most people. However, being successful as an entrepreneur does require a wide breadth of knowledge, and plenty of new things you'd need to always learn.

If you go this route, keep your (current) full-time job while you start building it on the side. Your one and only test of when you're ready to go solo is your ability to make consistent profit.

Came here to say this. Engaging, thoughtful, truly well written... This excellent piece is a real contribution to the body of knowledge of language design, and I'm grateful I got to read it.

Exactly. My business lifted off when I realized my market isn't the people who benefit from what I'm selling. My market is people who benefit from what I'm selling, and are willing to pay for value.

Freeloaders are simply not in my market.

And with that focus, I've been able to exponentially improve the value of what my company provides.

"Non-apology..." "Completely incompetent..."

What are you talking about? This letter from the CEO of the company clearly apologies, takes 100% responsibility, makes zero excuses. And among other changes, it plainly promises the devices will be supported for the foreseeable future.

To quote: "[T]hey will continue to work as they do today. We are not bricking them, we are not forcing them into obsolescence, and we are not taking anything away."

If you worked at this company in any role (CEO or something else - you choose), what specifically would you have done differently so far?

Consider that the tone of the article, as you're experiencing it, may have more to do with your own attitude and preconceptions, and what meanings you're choosing to read between the lines.

Where you wrote:

"Entertaining the idea that..." "... is revealing ..." "The tone of the article sounds like..." "It almost sounds like..."

These are all places where one could interpret things very differently.

I read the whole article also, and drew none of the conclusions you did.

Many of the interpretations you have, and the intents and beliefs you claim Zuckerberg holds, are not evident in the article.

You're coming across as someone with an intense confirmation bias.

It's important that Facebook and other tech giants not be allowed to harm society in the coming decade. But an intense and emotional overreaction only makes that position seem less credible to the uninformed.

Here's my brilliant idea for saving Fry's.

Two of their biggest problems are

1) Not enough people coming into their store to buy, and

2) Past real-estate investments that left them with too much indoor space.

Solution:

Take half the space of each store, and turn it into a maker-space/education center.

Hold workshops there. Free, or dirt cheap, on how to do fun things with a Raspberry Pi, or build your own PC/gaming rig, or whatever.

Have spaces where people can assemble their gear. With a few knowledgeable staff around - plus the friendly neighborhood volunteers who will be naturally attracted to just come hang out at this space - to help out. And since it's right there, they can just walk over to the store and BUY ALL THE PARTS.

Make it FUN. Family friendly. A place where people want to come and just hang out, to be around other technical hobbyists...

A place where local tech enthusiasts go to meet their friends, and make new friends. And spend money.

(Heck, Fry's could even sell food and drinks. Popcorn. There would be people there who need to eat and drink; why not?)

Would this work?

Maybe. Maybe not.

But I bet it has a better chance of working than the direction they're heading now.

I wrote Powerful Python in Emacs.

In short, it worked great. Can't imagine choosing to write a technical book like that in any other editor today.

Anyone have a link to that? Sounds interesting.

What specifically in this graph invalidates a point in the linked article? And which point?

Speak for yourself, friend. I'm working hard every moment I can, because there is so much I have to give to the world, I can't imagine finishing it all even if I live 200 years.

Someone asks for heretical ideas. Someone else replies honestly. Honest reply is downvoted, hard.

Regardless of the merit, or not, of that idea... this whole process perfectly demonstrates the article's point.

Not looking forward to the phishing that will exploit this.

Going to call my parents today and warn them. If they ever hear something from me that's not adding up, be skeptical, and verify it some other way before taking any action.

Speaking for myself - I find hitting the normal escape key location natural and easy. Especially when I'm typing fast, I can hit it without accidentally hitting another key (e.g. tab).

This might be in part because I'm a tall man, with large hands and long fingers, and also Esc normally has more of a separation from adjacent keys than capslock does.

But another reason I don't want to remap caps lock is that when I am typing on a coworker's computer, odds are high they don't have things remapped the same way. Imagine looking like an idiot in front of your peers, because your muscle memory makes you not know how to type :)

(Also, I'm not sure if people who do that remapping swap caps lock with a different key? Personally, I fully utilize the caps lock key - it wouldn't be much of an improvement to put it in an unusual location, and getting rid of it is not something I'd consider.)

tl;dr - Different people have diverse habits, preferences and needs. Apple's challenge is to design a keyboard layout that works well for as many as possible.

I have different goals, my friend. But congrats on how you've set things up, sounds like it worked out great!

Wow, this is epic! Nearly 2,000 pages, that's amazing.

Weird as it sounds, some of the happiest moments of my life come from deeply studying mathematics like this. When I finally cash out of the entrepreneur game, I'm looking forward to spending several decadent hours each day studying something like this again. Great fun.

> few libraries actually have a good excuse to do I/O (though logging might be thorny).

Yeah, logging would be tricky...

Maybe a "logging" capability could be created. Separated from other I/O.

Such a capability would be weird, and nonstandard, and messy, cutting across several several abstraction layers. But if pulled off, it might be worth the effort.

Years ago, I was part of a a guided tour at the San Francisco modern art museum. And they had this wooden sculpture of Popeye (old cartoon character, you can look him up - kind of a tough/strong but lovable sailor guy). It looked old, bedraggled and beat-up looking; I think it was assembled from found driftwood or something.

But when I looked at the sculpture, I saw strength. Good-natured defiance and tenacity. That even though it looked like bits of wood were about to fall off, the figure stood with fists up, straight posture, ready to fight. Appearing calm in the face of whatever challenge lay ahead.

As I thought all this to myself, the tour guide asked each of us (about a dozen in the tour group) what emotions we felt looking at it...

And I was shocked. One by one, everyone said how it reflected the worsening state of the world, the fall of the USA, the hopelessness of life...

Which was the exact opposite of what I saw. I saw a spirit of overcoming. That regardless of circumstances, even though one's body (or whatever the body is a metaphor for) is beat up and falling apart, you don't let it drag you into darkness. You stand up straight, you fight with all you've got, and never give up.

Inner strength, resilience, and an unquenchable spirit. Only giving attention to that which leads in the most positive direction availble in that moment.

I told everyone this when it was my turn, and nobody (including the tour guide) seemed to know how to respond. We just kept going on the tour.

I'm not sure what the lesson is here...

But that was about a decade ago. And in the time that's passed, I've created a immense amount of freedom, success and happiness for myself and my family.

And I think a huge factor in me creating that has been my ability to see the good in people and situations, even when no one else seems to... to hold my focus of attention on that, regardless of what others are talking about... and persistently act on the opportunities it lets me perceive. Doggedly keeping this mindset, even when it seems no one else around me does.

American and moderately successful entrepreneur here.

I had to look up the Law of Jante. My reaction:

Holeee crap. That's one set of beliefs that is practically guaranteed to block ANYONE from manifesting even a fraction of their innovative potential.

(Is it even real? Can anyone from the Nordic region confirm or deny?)

Going even further:

If someone wants to shape their mindset, etc. into that of someone who is on a path to massive entrepreneurial success, and compelled to create something of lasting impact and value to the world...

You could almost take those rules, reword each to their opposite, and then read those opposites to yourself as daily affirmations.

That'll start to program your beliefs into something much, much more self-empowering. Rather than massively self-limiting.

(Maybe I'm indirectly revealing part of the answer to the OP's question here.)

In the USA, we have the metaphor of the crab bucket, and it's a real social effect. I had to escape it myself in my own family (which I basically did through over a decade of sheer grit and tenacity, plus self-programming with techniques like affirmations).

[Happy ending: having got to the other side of it, I'm closer to my extended family now than ever before.]

But if I got to pick, I'd take the crab bucket over the Law of Jante every day.