skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced that it's the minority that want it though. It probably _is_ the minority that _need_ it.

But if I look around, I see a bunch of crappy big screens around, because "bigger is better" right? And sometimes, those bigger screens really are crappy. Some of them are decent quality, but they tend to also cost a packet, just like the iPhone, but not as crazy expensive as an iPhone. Still there are a lot of big crappy screens to be found around.
The UHK is a 60% keyboard which only features the alphanumeric block. The idea is that the hands shouldn't move, only the fingers should move. This design results in heavier chording, so it's a deliberate compromise with which some are comfortable, others are not.
Great comment.

2 thoughts: web browsing is a bit grim and the need for using 2 hands seems irritating, especially as you’ll be scrolling a lot on a small screen.
What Happens When Gig-Economy Workers Become Employees
It wasn't always like this.

I used Windows laptops from various OEMs up until I switched to a Macbook in 2011.

The quality of the software (all the UX/UI beauty and reliability of Snow Leopard, iTunes used to be good) and hardware (touchpad was revolutionary, backlit keys, great keyboard layout for toggling sounds/brightness, built-in HD camera) was YEARS ahead of the competition, which is just now starting to catch up.

If you look at the market now, all the laptops look like knock-offs of Macbook design, and the software is evolving to be that way as well.

Apple was ahead of its time for usability and a frustration-free experience, but it's a stretch to say any of their new products are cool. Apple Watch/Airpods/iPhone 10X SE are not cool...they just signal that you have a lot of disposable income
Having lived all my life through a period where it was safe to assume that eletronic devices would only get better, it hasn't been easy to adapt to this new trend.

We'll make it thinner, regardless of optical limitations, just leave a camera bump. We want edge to edge display, but need a camera on the front and can't quite put it under it yet: behold the notch. We will assume Gordon Gekko was ahead of its time and simply have everyone use preposterously large phones.
Scoold – Stack Overflow in a JAR (clone)
downvoters just don't understand :|

Funny how you can downvote a comment without investigating what it's all about.
>Venezuela is refusing international aid.

All aid from the IMF comes with punitive strings attached. Enforced austerity from abroad. A painful, unwarranted contraction of the economy primarily felt by the people most at risk.

>There are sanctions on their government bonds

You sanction a government bond and guess what happens? Debt becomes expensive, development becomes impossible. You are unable to cushion economic shocks like the threat of sanctions by a major economic superpower. The threats become liable to throw the entire economy into chaos, sending investors, domestic and international, fleeing for less risk.

We're keeping their oil cheap for a reason.
You Don't Need Moment.js
Sounds neat. However, the fact that `ls -l` either subtracts two numbers or calls a shell command, depending on whether there exist valriables 'ls' and 'l' in the Pythom environment, looks like a security nightmare waiting to happen. What if I create a python object 'ls' deep inside a script that does Evil when subtracted from?
Sabbath is not enough. There is so much progress in automation yet it has been so long since the last time the standard work week length has been decreased. Why the heck is it considered a norm that all the people are supposed to spend almost all the time (that is left after sleeping, home maintenance and gym) at work?
Not student loans (which are taken from your salary so barely worth discharging anyway), but overdrafts, credit cards etc.
Seems quite popular right now!
What do Pointer Authentication Codes mean for iOS jailbreaking?
I also had a Z3 Compact before switching back to an SE. There was some stupid crap, off the top of my head I believe the camera's image processing was DRM locked and didn't work in any 3rd part camera apps. Low light noise reduction was the most obvious symptom.

This might have been fine if Sony's camera app wasn't a trainwreck compared to the 3rd party developers'. It also meant that image quality in other apps like Snapchat suffered. I was never 100% clear on whether the better camera algorithms were available to 3rd party devs if they bothered to implement them as a Sony specific feature, or if they were entirely locked to Sony's own camera app. In either case, 3rd party camera apps were bad.

Similarly, if you unlocked your bootloader you'd lose those image processing DRM keys and the camera turns into hot garbage.

> Sony has updated the text of the bootloader unlock warning on its website to be clear about the camera impact. It reads, "...the removal of DRM security keys may affect advanced camera functionality. For example, noise reduction algorithms might be removed, and performance when taking photos in low-light conditions might be affected."

https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/10/02/unlocking-the-bootl...

I don't know whether they're still doing this nonsense or not. Other than that it was a decent phone. They didn't mess with the OS too much. I don't hate Android as an OS, but it seems like whichever OEM you pick you're just deciding which particular flavor of bullshit you want.
Good point, added updated date. This transcript is new, handcrafted with @craigcannon's Podscripter output.

https://www.podscripter.co/
2015 is the latest best macbook pro.
Not having comments is massively detrimental to most of our configuration use cases. Being forced to replace line-breaks with \n is also really painful for longer strings. HJSON was great at solving both of those.
yes, I've heard of California's ABC liquidation process, which also blocks creditors.

whats the drawdown look like? how much money do VCs lose, percentage wise given their liquidity preference?

there is no scatterplot or case study or statistics at all? maybe an obscure SSRN article? Publication from a VC itself?
I am a happy owner of an SE and I am afraid of the moment it breaks down. Can anyone recommend an alternative compact phone with similar build quality and the same features in terms of software and hardware?
If they have an office they have stuff like chairs and desks and computers that are at least worth a little bit.

But it’s true most of the money went to employees.
Yea, it's pretty awful. Beyond that you also have to trust that the phone is doing what it says (not broadcasting wifi beacons when wifi is off). A faraday caged messenger bag has been on my list for stuff to make. I've also been trying to think of an acceptable mask to wear in public and I saw someone on my train home with a mirrored face visor. [1] No time soon, but good to keep in mind. License plates are pretty bad too, photography in public is legal, so anyone could set up a dense enough camera network and track you everywhere you go via license plate. The most obvious case would be governments processing the video / images from cameras on traffic lights.

1. https://www.amazon.com/_/dp/B073WB4KSF
Get a 2015 macbook pro. That's the highest spec macbook without the things that would annoy you.
a few ways to slice it
1) hardware is still really hard

2) hardware in it of it itself is defensible/a moat because apparently software first companies may not know how to do it well

3) software for hardware is particularly dangerous because its you can get pushed off of someones hardware platform in favor of a homegrown, good enough, alternative
- Will lay flat on a surface without requiring a case to do so
Shameless plug, I made one that uses an AWS Lambda and S3 and encrypts everything before it gets sent over the wire. You can view a live version of it here (https://todos.md/) or view the source here (https://github.com/Prefinem/TODOS.md)

EDIT: grammar hurts
> some take it even further by abstaining from things like online shopping or even watching television

I used to believe Mormons don't have TVs at all and that felt admirable.
With the Touch ID that isn’t really a button but is, and the headphone jack. With current generation internals I’d pay more for that than the current phones.
The SE was what drove me to buying an Apple smartphone and I'd very much like to stay with iOS, which clicked in a way for me that Android never did. I will not buy a phone ever again bigger than the SE. It really is the perfect size, and it even looks and feels very good, too.

It's the first smartphone I've ever used that I actually enjoyed.

(Even though it is rather inconvenient and cumbersome to move data from or to the device.)
I had a similar issue when I was in a studio apartment. My desk was right next to my living space and bed. I'll never do that again. Now I have the luxury of having an additional bedroom that I converted into my office and so when I'm done with work, I close the door.
> I don't get however why you don't consider the current model compact.

Are you referring to this?

> This is not a portable device.

The way I read it, drewg123 wasn't saying that this particular keyboard is not compact compared to other keyboards. Rather, a keyboard in general doesn't need to be particularly portable, so why attempt to shave an extra inch off by eliminating useful keys?
Glad you caught the reference! I was born in Toronto and Trinity Bellwoods is one of my favourite spots in the summer. The name also has a second meaning with the sound as you noted.

I can't take credit, it was @mlissa_h who suggested the name!
I current have that set in vim when using fish shell.
have you ever repeated that line in an Apple store or any other tech shop?

it turns into the twilight zone with the rebuttals they come up with. mostly it is related to the sells and extrapolating that to consumer satisfaction.
I don't want to have to charge my headphones or have them run out of battery.
Does that really benefit from a drone vs a wheeled vehicle with a bunch of fixed cameras on it? I would think a gigantic planar environment is pretty much ideal for an industrial SDV; a lot of things get easier when you're no longer worried about weight— you can carry a full day's worth of batteries, not to mention having higher quality optics and safety lasers.

(disclosure: I work for OTTO Motors, which has customers in this space)
That’s why I want to incorporate free time into “wealth,” not replace it altogether.
Without some sort of pressure to maintain a standard like 40 hrs/wk, employee work hours become a race to the bottom. This pressure could take the form of a formal collective bargaining agreement. It could also take the form of a strong social norm. In either case, it doesn’t work unless a lot of people buy into the idea.

It would be a lot easier if it were much, much easier to negotiate work-life balance while negotiating compensation. Unfortunately, I’ve never found this to be practical. Management has certain expectations set by company social norms. Any employee found violating those norms is punished in one way or another.
Edward Snowden Reconsidered
Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
Airware raised money from Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/airware-yc-w13-raises-10-dollar...
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh.
Of course this is a matter of taste, but I seriously don't get the hate for the new keyboard. It took me two days to get used to it. The one thing I concede is, that it is loud.
Wasn’t the keyboard the same size as on the smaller laptops, just with acres on each side?
I grew up Mormon as well and have since left. But I find a lot of value in traditions like this. We (post-Mormons) tongue-in-cheek call the Sabbath "Second Saturday," but I do think there's a loss that includes both the Sabbath as a communal good and the individual "day of rest" (except for lay member leaders who are exhausted at the end of a 10-hour meeting-filled Sabbath).

Another tradition I value is the monthly single-day fast. There are contemplative, compassionate, and health benefits to fasting.

But traditions don't require you to know all of the benefits before you start doing them--they just give you the program and ask/cajole you to get with it. IMO, a memeplex that comes with "arbitrary traditions bundled with turns-out-to-have-good-reasons traditions" is better than arriving in life with a zero vector for direction--i.e. no tradition at all.
See, I'm the opposite, but I know exactly where you're coming from. I stayed away from the iPhone until they started increasing the screen size, because the original was waay too small for my tastes. But when it came time to get a work phone, I purposefully chose the 5S and then later the SE because I was already carrying a huge phone. I didn't need to carry two.

I still feel the SE is a bit too small to be my main phone, but I do wish they kept making a phone that small. I know my sister prefers it, I prefer it for my second phone, a lot of people liked it.

Plus the 5S/SE industrial design is 10x better than any phone that came before or after. It's just beautiful, it's easy to hold, it's durable. It's just a great small phone, even if I think it's too small for my tastes.
> the engineers are free to choose a core with functionality that suits their particular needs

Doesn't Intel pay license fees on every ARM core sold?
Do you have a view of Airmap?
It was on an SGI workstation, IIRC.
I think all I'm saying is that there's a middle ground where you go screen/internet free, and avoid things like housework, shopping, planning, and meal preparation in favour of spending time with family, but don't sweat things like non-religious reading, turning lights on and off, and walking to the park.
Well ya the prohibition is about creating fire, why wouldn't you step on the elevator if it's just going to be going up and down anyway?
To be clear, I do think your point/distinction is valid in a technical sense, but not relevant to explanation of the crime.

He walked right up, made a phone call and Tesla support literally handed him the car. What encrypted bits got shuffled around to make this happen are secondary to the fact that he did steal the car (and yes, had Tesla fabricate an ethereal key) using nothing but his phone.
Typically companies don't shut down until they are out of money or almost out of money so VCs lose basically everything.

Common shares go to zero (as they should).
My solution was to work fewer hours. I'm down to 4 per day, divided into separate slices. It's easy to hold focus for those individual time periods and the net result is as good or better as trying to focus for 8 hours.

I'm same as you, natural recluse who never feels lonely. I do get out and interact with people but have found that most are so overflowing with negative emotion that being alone is more enjoyable.
It’s not a change of target market, it’s profit margin. Now people will need to pay more if they want an iPhone, it’s as simple as that
That's fair—rereading more closely, their terminology is neutral on the matter. I jumped ahead because typically when I see this brought up that's the main point folks are talking about: since the physical system is 'computing' whatever, then let's get into the limits and capabilities and classifications of the computation etc., skipping over the question of whether it actually should be called 'computation'.

It's also just an interesting question imo—so I'd be okay hearing a discussion about it whether the original statement introduced the philosophical quandary or not.
It sounds like there aren't any small Android phones either, at least not high quality ones.

I sympathize: I actually prefer the original 3.5" screen iPhone. Even the 4" screen seemed a bit too tall for comfort. I finally decided if I was going to need two hands periodically anyway, I might as well bite the bullet and go with a large phone.
Although this was modded down, he's right.

Here's the history of Cadillac tail fins of the 1950s and 1960s.[1][2] Each year, the tailfins were re-designed to make the previous year look un-cool. Apple follows that approach. The new models are not better, just different.

(The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado [3] was "peak tailfin". The tailfins almost reached the height of the windshield. We'll have to see how far Apple pushes their "notch".)

[1] https://justamericanautomobiles.com/cadillac-tail-fins-1948-...
[2] https://justamericanautomobiles.com/cadillac-tail-fins-1960-...
[3] https://jalopnik.com/5915106/1959-cadillac-eldorado-biarritz...
Couldn't the control L. humile by increase the "super-colonies'" genetic diversity by in introducing drones from its native range to them? That could fragment the super-colonies into regular colonies and give the native ants a better chance.
The thing about Christianity is that you can always be forgiven. It's understood that people are imperfect sinners and while there are ideals and moral codes, we will fall short of them.
“Key” in the context of cars means a long thin metal rectangle with notches cut out on the side matching the pattern encoded in the lock cylinder.
Would you mind elaborating a bit? Why 2015, as opposed to something a bit older or newer?

I’m considering getting a MacBook but I’m thoroughly uninterested in a new(ish) one.
Also that they have no clue what the real needs within the market are, and so would rather spread their bets around a portfolio of other entrepreneurs who they hope have better information than them rather than focus on one single market opportunity.

I know of at least two really prominent cryptocurrency ICOs that are in this boat.

(As a side note, I wonder how often the opposite situation - an investor who gets so excited that they found a company - occurs, and whether that's a strong positive sign. I can think of at least 2 such big successes - Jeff Bezos with Amazon and Jim Clark with Netscape - and a bunch of more minor ones, like FriendFeed or TripleByte.)
> You must also have possession of all keys to be programmed. You can't just add a key and leave the others in place.

Sure, if you do it at the dealer.

Find someone with a programmer and they can add a key without having the other keys - I've done it myself on my own vehicle.
Ask HN: Deleting HN comments
How’s that one cannot delete old comments? Wouldn’t it be more user friendly and privacy aware, allowing users to own their data?
Python variables are scoped as normal, so the security story for xonsh is the same as for Python. We are always open to suggestions and PRs to harden the code base as needed.
> In a Sabbatarian economy, the right to rest – the right to do nothing of value to capital – is as holy as the right to work.

I realise this article is for American readers, and I'm not sure how to compare the holiness, but the EU Working Time Directive includes the right to a day off. It's more flexible than a simple day off, and has other rights.

Enforcement against the gig economy companies might need to be improved, but otherwise seems to work fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive_2003
> Claiming the problem must be with the user and their inability to learn the system

Please do not put words in my mouth.

I agree that the interface could be a lot better and honestly hope it improves. I do not expect this to happen anytime soon so I work with what I've got.

That being said, the problems git solves in the way that it does so are tricky to wrap your head around. This is why I push people to learn the concepts, not because I think people are stupid for not committing (heh) a bunch of arbitrary commands to memory.

The fact that the interface is so unintuitive is exactly why I like to promote learning the concepts instead of just the commands.

Once you understand the concepts (with or without knowing any of the commands), not only is it sometimes easier to remember the commands, it makes things like cheatsheets useful.

> Indeed, nearly all computer systems demand that when you get to a developer, operations, or admin level. It's actually kind of condescending to keep seeing people repeating that over and over.

Some people, for whatever reason, just don't treat git this way. I've seen plenty of people treat it like they treat tar or some other tool where they just remember a bucket of commands and wonder why nothing ever works.

If it's obvious to you, then I apologize for it sounding condescending, but it's just not obvious to everyone.
Great, wealth is a much better term to be using here, but you're still hand-waving away the method by which increasing capital assets, productivity, etc. would happen under a capitalist free market. The traditional way you increase these things for everyone is by collective bargaining (unions) or collective ownership of businesses (employee-owned companies). These two things are pretty much directly at odds with American-style capitalism.

Do you think we should be aiming for something more akin to the labor situation in Europe, or do you think there's a different method by which we could create wealth for everyone more equally than today?
The automaker told Electrek that the alleged car thief likely had previously rented the vehicle and had an already-authenticated phone as a result. The owner of Trevla reportedly refuted this claim, stating that he had removed the phone's access following this person’s prior rental.

I suspect that the service desk could see that the phone was previously authenticated with that car. My theory is that between that and the VIN, the thief was able to social engineer the service desk into re-authenticating.

As currently realized, service desks can't be hardened against people with inside information, unless bad customer experiences for innocent customers are tolerated. This isn't just Tesla. Any company with customer service is probably like this. Either they're pushovers with decent customer service, or customers think they're a pain.
> Nothing they released after it makes sense to me. Too big…

The iPhone XS itself is 13mm wider than the S.

As someone who uses an iPhone 7 Plus with one hand, I'm surprised that 13mm would make a difference. I'd be curious to hear what you thought after using one for a week.
Python introduction and Fundamental program
Many folks who used to write 0x86 assembly code love size coding compos, especially demoscene folks.

Me and a couple of friends were able to implement the game of Nibbles (Snake on old Nokia phones) in 70 bytes. Someone else managed to accomplish it in 48.

http://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/compoold.htm#compo1
I was actually referring to the World Bank [0] but feel free to attack me personally.

I wasn't initially sure why you shifted to ad hominem all of a sudden but I see that you're on a throwaway for a reason. You don't have a base belief, you are simply shouting a tautology that things are happening because things are happening. It doesn't take a genius geopolitical expert to see that China is doing things because it's in China's best interest.

If you can't see that China has a unfair advantage in the global market and that their regime is a threat to our democratic system, then there's no point arguing. If you feel that their political system is superior to ours, I pray that you're not an ethnic minority.

China entices all business and western powers with "look, we're shifting towards free(er) markets but our big monolithic government is just slow at enacting changes" while ensuring that they fail.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1067056070119447...
Are cherry browns less force than the MS Natural keyboard? or was that in comparison to other cherry switches?
Network effect is one for sure. I'm not a fan of the redesign (and submitted my thoughts several times), but the content is there, and it's a reasonable platform overall.
The People vs. The Internet