skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to clarify. This is kind've a ramble and I am stretching different related thoughts together.

I live in Texas now. Before moving here, I lived in California. There's a stark difference of opinion about guns between the states. In California, guns are... well they're definitely not part of the culture there.

I never fired a gun until I was 23 years old and hung out with a friend-in-law at their home away from the city. A few years later I bought my first gun and went to the range. The people at the range were somewhat reserved, somewhat mocking about lack of experience. They definitely didn't appreciate people who didn't know all the rules like the back of their hand. That definitely doesn't encourage someone to learn how to handle a gun. Interesting, yes?

So, being in Texas, where guns are part of the culture in many places, it's also interesting to find people who've never fired a gun. It's scary to find people who think that the only people who should own a gun are the armed forces.

In my experience, that latter is a statement generally comes from people who are naive about US history and their government; or they have been emotionally damaged by guns which I can respect even if I disagree.

However, someone who's not been around guns, doesn't know the difference between various "basic" types of guns (automatic, semi-automatic, manual; rifle, shotgun, pistol; etc) makes me feel threatened when they start talking about what you can or can not do with a gun. The information they talk about is usually wrong and they're not usually willing to listen to corrections. I work with scientists; someone who isn't trained and isn't willing to be trained is a threat to science.

Finally, someone who talks about something with no training or experience is worse than someone who does. Imagine a computer user who's not trained to write software but talks as if databases are "the worst". Sure you could ignore them. But remember that that person can also talk to more people than just you. They could be spewing the same nonsense to their government representatives. If the representative or political leader doesn't have two brain cells (which seems common these days), they're just as likely to write bad legislation or policy about computers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hguns.

Having lived in both California and Texas I can definitely say that I've seen many opinions first-hand. There's no "right" opinion. There's definitely wrong opinions though.
If you read through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan , there are a lot of issues, like exactly who Japan surrendered to, and the status of the governments of China and Taiwan given that they were opposing sides in a civil war that never officially ended. There are those on Taiwan who believe that they are the rightful rulers of all China. My take on it is that Taiwan, China, and even the US can argue their claim to having sovereignty over Taiwan, but in the end, it will come down to balancing "possession is nine tenths of the law" against "might is right".
A version of these will likely come back. Autonomous vehicles tech will enable on-demand, self-driving restaurants that park in front of your door.
My 13" i7 MacBook air is still my daily driver. I wish I could upgrade the RAM to 16gb, other than that it's plugged into an external monitor mostly and gets the job done, while adding very little weight to my backpack.
I still don't understand why Google's leadership believe they should support and serve the interests of the Chinese dictatorship.
>It shoudn't really be up to the peaceful majority to distance themselves from the vocal minority.

I totally see the reasoning behind this, and it feels intuitive, but at some point in my life I came to the complete opposite conclusion and I've rarely been so sure of anything since then. I've had numerous bitter interactions with people based only on differences in social politics, and have been mocked for what I don't think are particularly extreme beliefs. Then at some point I started recognizing opinions and ideologies that I strongly disagree with consolidate into subsets within groups of people I otherwise strongly identify with, and instead of just insisting that people outside that group give me "the benefit of the doubt", I started to be just as open about those topics as I was about any other topic. I decided to not let a feeling of allegiance or defensiveness or pride hinder my ability to discuss things that might sound like "attacks" on "my people", as long as I was being honest and level, and not hateful. This decision has created the ability to have useful, personable conversations and connections to people where previously we would have had absolutely nothing to relate to each other with. It's hard for me to describe how much this decision has helped me to feel more optimistic that we all have much more similar feelings and goals than it may seem considering the political atmosphere and the loudness of mocking, hateful sub-groups.
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Wish you could 'rent' one of these for a few weeks. $300+ is a lot of investment for something you may not like. I bought a Kinesis and it's just gathering dust on my desk.
There are plenty of very harmful conspiracy nuts. Some Parents of children killed at Sandy Hook have had to go into hiding to avoid people accusing them of being part of a cover-up. Employees of Comet Pizza have been stalked and verbally attacked.
SATA doesn't allow for DMA from the target device. SATA controllers can DMA, but that's not different from how NICs and USB controllers typically typically DMA. The target addresses are ultimately controlled by the device on the host side. Like USB it feels more like a traditional network protocol than a traditional bus protocol.

PCI-E does DMA, and AFAIU was inspired by Infiniband (another RDMA protocol).
>I hate that the choices are often three IPAs or a pilsner

It often worse than that - three IPAs, a "Pale Ale," a "Golden Ale," a "double IPA," a "Hazy Pale," a "Fresh hop Ale," and another IPA. Then they throw in a hoppy gose just to be edgy.

It's cool, I get it; there are a lot of beer drinkers who like a heavy hop flavor, and they are often passionate and outspoken about their beer. But I about lost it when I went into a place and ordered a schwartzbier that had the flavor profile of an IPA. There is a rich tapestry of beers, for all palates, and I really hope US brewers get back to realizing that.
Could you share pointers to their work?
Flexible PCBs Make the Fins of This Robotic Fish
Honestly I like seeing the fretboard patterns to identify funky triads or strange chord fingering patterns. It's especially useful for when you change tunings to something you've not used
Oh, I misunderstood. Saying that gay marriage is disgusting reads to me as calling out the policy, NOT saying that gays are disgusting. I completely agree that calling a group of human being disgusting is an uncalled for, personal attack that goes beyond sharing your political opinions.

Sorry about the misunderstanding :)
Presumably their shareholders would like them to "don't be unprofitable."
Nvidia GeForce RTX Explored: What You Need to Know About Turing – HotHardware
What is the deal with the wire between the two halves I see on all of these split keyboards?

My first thought is that if they were two wireless pieces, then timing of the receiver could be an issue and it could see key strokes in the wrong order(?)

I guess power is also a thing. Perhaps it would require two usb sticks a receivers?

I've been keeping an eye on these discussions for some time and seeing some that are so close to my vision of a perfect design, the wire in between the two pieces limits one of my use cases.

Noticed mention in the thread about "Let's Split" - a quick search shows some pics that appear to show some without a wire between them, so maybe it's an easily solved issue, or could be trick photography hiding the in between wiring(?)

Glad to see more and more people working on better keyboard layouts!
> iTunes used to be good

I'm always surprised by this. I remember trying to use iTunes back when I had an iPod Video and it was a piece of garbage. I guess it's different in osx?
> When we combine this with Google’s destruction of millions of person-years of (part-time) work in Picasa, is the only reasonable conclusion that Google has re-hired Marissa Mayer?

Huh?
Is there a plug-in for fzf searching your command history?
It wouldn't call it "propaganda." Countries routinely have territorial disputes. I get China is viewed as a competitor to American interests, but the situation in Taiwan is historically complex. It would be like if Texas or California unilaterally seceded from the U.S., various countries would recognize or not recognize their legitimacy as an independent nation.
I have Caps remapped to Esc and Ctrl swapped with Alt. This way both Ctrl and Esc are easy to reach, and my left pinky doesn't hurt.
Tesla Model 3 Over-The-Air Update Left the Car Without Key Safety Features
Why discontinue old SE then?
In some places, you can combine the two; my commute is 50 mins, but 30 of those are on a bicycle, which is pretty nice.
Consider explaining enough details in your comment so that it doesn’t require readers to investigate?
I love technology... But voting machines are a bad idea, especially in their current implementations.

Paper voting, with manual counting, scales well, and has far fewer attack vectors than electronic voting.
Wine 3.16 Brings OPC Services Support, Various Other Fixes and Improvements
> commentators on Weibo accused Apple of disrespecting China and threatened to return all their Apple products.

Is this a thing that people will actually do?
Just add "inoremap jk <esc>" to your .vimrc and you're set.

Only drawback is you get so used to it you start typing it all the time in editors that don't support vim.jk
I feel you are stretching here. It seems everyone who ends up involved in a major internet conspiracy gets serious harassment. You can't disconnect conspiracies from the harassment they cause.
If I had to guess, I'd bet that it was going to happen anyway. After all, the nation they belonged to didn't exist anymore. The optics of keeping them would be questionable and they weren't all that useful anyway.
I've been using this keyboard for 8 months, always split; in my workplace we tend to move stations very often to work in pairs, so I can just merge them, move around and split them. Turns out it is very easy to carry them from home to the workplace, and around the workplace.

I'd say it's what makes this keyboard very different from other splits, since all the rest (remappable keys, layers, etc.) are commonly found in keyboards that lack the function row or arrow keys anyways. If it weren't for the ability to carry it easily I would have definitely looked at the competition for other split keyboards.
It appears there was an error with the form with some browsers, so I switched over to a Google Form which can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/k8eEWqAIe68GcBrs1
Lots of people, myself included, received it. You can find some real photos if you search for the #GotMyUHK hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/GotMyUHK
So are you agreeing or disagreeing with OP? Sounds like you're disagreeing at first, but your example seems to agree.
The IPAWS National Test
I recently bought iPhone 8 256GB. I paid a lot for it. I would buy iPhone SE, but it's hardware is too old, its fingerprint reader is old and it lacks force-touch. If there was iPhone 8 mini or something with identical hardware, I would buy it for the same price.
> get any small Android device

Examples? I was shopping a while ago and the _only_ option I saw was Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact.
Oh, lordy lord. Then don't read Gomez DaVila.

Meditations is an outstanding book. You don't have to read "through". You can browse and see what connects with you. What made a strong difference to me: the translation. First, I could not connect with the book. Then I found another translation and started liking it. Later I realized that the fist translation, while harder to read and understand, was much better. It was, like he wrote. Short. No unnecessary words.
I think Excel would be the best tool for that type of analysis, not an app.
Hmm that's very interesting. Reminds me of what Netflix did to Hollywood but played out internationally.

China (Netflix) takes what the United States(Hollywood) doesn't want to do/finds little value in. Once China (Netflix) has a foundation of manufacturing know-how (media catalog)they move up the chain to more complex technical (media) products.
I switched over to Yahoo Finance. Works pretty well, the UI especially on the phone leaves some to be desired but it gets the job done.
They should do the same with Palestine so they piss off the other side as well.
You can easily remap escape on the "Mouse" key (which is where Caps Lock is on most keyboards) using the agent software that comes with it.
I don’t think your referenced case has anything to do with the technology. That is clear and obvious subversion of the law and destruction of evidence. If it were paper ballots instead, they could put in place “safety” and “privacy” “environmentally friendly” procedures to shred all paper trails just as easily.

Laws aren’t worth a damn if you’re not willing to enforce them.
7 habbits of effective people was well worth the read.

Too early to speak about benefits but I have a feeling it was very beneficial long term.

Don't expect something about getting things done it's not really about that.
Also perhaps it should be noted that if it is a USB-C connector it may be a Thunderbolt 3 port in addition to being a USB port, which may support PCI-E and allow direct access to memory by a peripheral even if there is no driver installed for that peripheral.
And that's fine, but if you do anything active while wearing headphones, wireless is so much better. Even my cheap bluetooth headphones last 10 hours on a short charge (and tell me when they need to be recharged). I couldn't imagine going back to wires at the gym or while doing yard work. I do use a wired pair at my desk, but then why would I plug into my phone?

And AirPods? If you keep them in the case between uses they should always be charged.
As a Seventh-day Adventist (we observe the Sabbath by going to church on Saturday -- but that can lead to an entirely another discussion), I personally view it as a time to disconnect from work, and focus on God, relationships, and the nature around us.

In terms of hobbies, this is interesting a point of debate with many Adventists. Some are more 'conservative' where they won't do anything close to resembling work or hobbies (similar to some Orthodox Jews), and you have the other spectrum of people who more liberal in a sense where they will still do their hobbies (like going to movies, playing sports etc).

I think it is a personal thing to each person, but the overarching themes is really taking a day out of the week to disconnect from the trials of the world and spend a day for a mental reset however you choose to accomplish this.
I was responding to

> If co-worker comes to work and says guns are bad. Ok whatever your opinion man. But if they come to work and like yo guns are awesome, 2nd amendment bros. I own one, then for other side this person might be perceived as threat.

If you genuinely feel like you have been threatened by the above to the extent that your work is now an unsafe place for you so conservatives should keep any chat about their guns to themselves, I'm sorry, but you are having an extreme emotional response disconnected from reason. Aka hysterical.

> I can easily imagine a non-hysterical person feeling threatened if they have zero experience with gun owners and zero context with which to personally relate to gun owners

Look, I can see how someone might have been brainwashed to find all guns so scary that the concept of someone near them who isn't a police officer having access seems like a direct threat to them...just like I can see someone being so brainwashed as to view all African-Americans as innately dangerous and feeling unsafe working with them. But in both cases I'd claim you are being irrational to an extreme sufficient to call your reaction hysterical.
You can, it's just that most companies don't put that into there iOS version of the app because Apple takes a cut of all in-app purchases.
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Looks like it's already taken by a number of things:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eos
Blogger who never worked in an office and thinks remote work is moving to another country to be a nomad after you breakup with your S.O. False dichotomy.

Remote work from home is dissimilar from nomadic work.

Mental illness is a real problem but I don’t see the correlation.

Some kernels of good in there but 8 weeks vacation? Why not 12 weeks vacation and 3 hour work days. Irrational proposals.

Not a reasonable article in my opinion.
That, to me, is unacceptable.
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
Posting this shit again?
For those curious, here's a recent photo of Lawrence Chambers and Buang-Ly pictured together at a 2014 commemoration of the event: http://www.navyhistory.org/2014/04/the-opportunity-to-make-h...
> Am I so wrong for thinking the conservative side of US politics demonstrates a lack empathy towards the poor, minorities, and women on a regular basis?

You might be somewhat wrong, yes. It depends on your definition of "empathy".

I'm going to give my personal opinion, not backed by data, and I'm going to paint with a broad brush. But my personal opinion is as valid as throwaway2975's, so here goes.

If you, individually, need help, I think you're slightly more likely to get it face-to-face from a conservative than from a liberal. As I said, no data to prove that point, and note the word "slightly". There are plenty of liberals who are generous in person.

But maybe you are a member of some kind of group, and you want more than a hand that helps you individually. You want help for all 10 million of you, and face-to-face with generous people is going to leave a large number of your group falling between the cracks. You need some kind of organized help. Well, the liberals are far more likely to be in favor of a government program to help you, and to work to bring that about. You could consider that as the liberals having empathy.

But the conservatives don't think so. The conservatives think that government programs have a rather poor track record of actually helping. They burn money by the metric ton (literally - IIRC, a ton of $100 bills is about $100 million), and they help some people, and sometimes they actually hurt some people, but they don't do nearly as much good as you'd expect from the amount of money being spent. The conservatives might say that empathy should move you to do something that actually helps, not just something that makes you feel good for having done something.

Are some of the conservatives using this as a rationale to hide a hard heart? Probably. But some liberals are probably using ineffective action to make themselves feel good about their empathy and caring, too.
Honest question as I don’t read Breitbart: Can you cite an article on their site supporting your assertion regarding “white supremacist propaganda”? I went looking just now and saw a lot of stuff liberals would disagree with but my cursory look revealed nothing to the degree you mentioned.
Ads for google probably is monetization schema now days, and not single stream of revenue. Stream is likely very diversified: search, youtube, mobile search, maps, AdSense, AdMob, shopping. So, they have incentive to try to build new product and monetize them using Ads, it just doesn't always work, and they shutdown products/features.
I've been using it for a few months now. I didn't know how to touch-type before it arrived and I forced myself to learn. Without that, this keyboard is not very useful.

That said, after learning to touch type, I found some layout decisions surprisingly intuitive.

Most notably, it turned out that having arrow keys on my home row is a great idea. Only after I got used to that did I realize how annoying it is to leave the home row on a normal keyboard.

Still not sold on escape and fn keys. I believe that it would've been better if had an extra row for those, but I might learn to appreciate that too in the future.
All valid point and I would add ignorance to it. They simply don’t know or care.

I file radars when applicable, my gripes are more general:

- No universal 3D Touch puts it in a weird spot. I like 3D Touch! Why not say we equip all models with 3D Touch, similar to when they made ips display the standard even for entry level MacBooks.

-prohibiting self signed applications. You have all the right to keep Steam Link off your shop, but not off my device. And if I had the desire to install Alex Jones’ app I would like to do that. You’re not my mom Apple. I’m still hoping the EU will fix this at some point.

-iTunes. I use it. It’s awful. If they would at least kill it off I’d know not to use it anymore.

-Seriously lagging behind in standards like PWAs, wireless charging or NFC.

-iMessage and Airdrop are awesome. Too bad I can rarely use them because the majority around me use Android.
This aspect of Tesla has always been particularly worrying for me, even though there are upsides.

It would be interesting if Tesla let drivers opt into to different versions of their software, like Stable, Beta & Nightly channels so you could rely on your car functioning the same way it did yesterday, or try out the latest features based on the users preferences
Another question is if gmail content is source of targeting data.
Through Google Spreadsheet you have access to many of the same underlying functions for finance, like quotes, financials etc. I have always kept portfolio tracking through the spreadsheet, which in addition offers more powerful functionalities when it comes to numerical computations.
I try to use iBooks for audiobooks because I haven't found other great options that play nicely with audio volumes etc when I'm driving.

iCloud Drive also doesn't allow me to open audiobooks in the iBooks app (maybe my settings are wrong?)
According to Laci, power + modules made them decide not to go with wireless: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3tkyme/iama_lászló_mo...
Since I've not used fzf, I don't know how good this is, but there is a "xontrib" (i.e. plugin) for some of fzf capabilities in Xonsh:

https://github.com/shahinism/xontrib-fzf-widgets

You can get a list of (known) xontribs here:

https://xon.sh/xontribs.html
iCloud drive does work, but then I can't get it to open in iBooks to properly handle audiobooks