skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of IBM's mainframe terminals used a solenoid which would hit the side of the keyboard's case to indicate that a key-press was successfuly registered. This was in addition to the well documented clicking noise of IBM's keyboard switches.
Congrats! Your submission got almost no attention on HN. Just curious, how did you find your first customers?
My last Windows machine was twenty years ago. Keeping ads and assorted malware at bay was no great challenge then, nor has it been on Linux since then - before there were decent Firefox extensions, there was Privoxy.

I have rarely ever seen an unwanted ad on the internet. Whenever I have to deal with other people's computers, I'm taken aback by the amount of unneccessary crap everyone seems willing to put up with.
What are the security implications? Does this make password cracking more feasible?
There are already a lot of replies, but let me sum it up:
1. People don't spend much effort on configuration unless they like the process.
2. You won't get "narrow slices" of functionality. You win at some things, you lose at others - similarly to situation when you compare programming languages.
3. "Comes out of the box" equally applies for a canned IDE, and for Emacs/Vim (it's not forbidden to download other guy's conf from github). The real difference is "sealed box" vs "open box".
4. You are not obliged to like other people's ways, but really do you believe that multitudes of experienced developers decided to suffer constantly while writing their code? Seriously?
This is why i hate cars.

Cars should be the most taxed and difficult to obtain. Cars are why humans in dense to be areas suck. Work backward from eliminating cars from daily life.
Pretty cool. macOS's Font Book says "Do not use these font files" and then doubles down with, "Serious problems were found with these fonts and may cause system problems or even crashes if installed," and if you still insist on continuing it will copy the file into ~/Library/Fonts but it cannot be used.
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Eric Elliott has been making claims like these for years now. You can see the comments here taking apart the last round (which was more substantiated than the one you linked to).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977700
This is untrue. Voter participation is among the worst in most Conservative, and especially Southern states. So the root cause for why Republicans get voted repeatedly is also voter apathy or the inability for non-white voters to vote easily too. These choices don't reflect the will of the majority in many instances.
When I first looked into Rails I ended up learning Ruby because it was so fun but Rails was overwhelming. After I got Ruby I found sinatra and my fascination to use Ruby for the Web was finally born. After that I discovered Padrino. Essentially sinatra packed with a ORM and backend.

When I then looked into Rails again (years later) everything felt so natural and right suddenly. However beginner documentation also got a lot better so this was surely part of it.
I have always wondered which discipline is responsible for designing the rigs that various components are bolted on later ? Are there any online resources to learn this craft ?https://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/v3/foundry/image/?q=60&url=h...
It's possible they are selling the hardware at a loss but my experience is the opposite case. If you compare specs of laptops generally a chromebook laptop seems to cost more than a windows laptop of similar capabilities. I think the reason chromebooks cost more not less is because they sell fewer of them. You can buy a cheaper low end windows laptop and install any old os, usually.
I described a scenario where more foreigners are helped than Americans are hurt.

You're criticizing the opposite scenario.
If you send power to one coil, some % will be induced in adjacent coils, right? And I guess that radiates interference like an antenna?

So question: could an inverse signal be applied to adjacent coils to cancel out the interference (from induction)?
SQLite is not open-source. In fact, they actively sell licenses for a one-time fee of $6000. https://www.hwaci.com/cgi-bin/license-step1
Learning a language as an adult is completely different from learning as a kid. Your hypothetical “dumbest French person” would not have been able to learn French as an adult, the same way that the most physically fit 100 year old could not survive the falls down the stairs that 3 year olds do without even crying.
Precisely as I said. If you are going to get a tripod rig and long exposure then might as well save some effort and just do a full astrophotography system (star trackers are cheaper than you think) instead of trying to squeeze more light from tiny phone cameras.

Fwiw the OP's point of reference in the child post is Google Sky Map. The Pixel's AI post is so far from the UX required for AR that there's honestly not much point to it. If you are going to do night time photography, go get a lens or at least a photomultiplier. The Pixel's AI camera is a nice gimmick for improving nighttime photography but using it for AR live celestial navigation is a bit like key chording a Gameboy to control a XBox. Theoretically usable given enough patience and time but way out of the horizon from its intended UX. I have tried out the Night Sight before and it's nowhere close to Point and Shoot for astrophotography.

You can build a celestial navigation system pretty easily for e.g. your car. You don't even need a lot of computational power. A Raspberry Pi would be overkill but considering how cheap the RPi Zeros are, might want to consider using one.
Which makes it very easy for all people who were born in 1988, but inconvenient for everyone else :)
Now that storage and processing power are cheap and plentiful, there are a range of options for navigation

1) using visual keypoints ala https://scape.io

2) a much older idea, used in cruse missiles: radar contour mapping.

3) decca or loran

3.5) passive radar

4) inertial dead reckoning(sensors are much, much better nowadays).

5) laser painting way points.

6) multi spectral, multi viewpoint cameras with slam/visual odometery (with a database of coast lines for pinpointing land fall.)

or better yet, a combo of all of them. The more data points the better.
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That sounds like a horrible suggestion when considering the stories of most successful start ups. Look at Theranos, it would have died a quick death like this, but ended up being a hugely successful business right up to the point of collapse. And had someone with the tons money and resources solved the core issue a month before the collapse Theranos would be a gigantic success overall. The one mistake of Theranos was committing outright fraud instead of just doing legal bullshiting and being honest about potential critical failings.

The key to building and idea is to ensuring the resources are there to build it, not to kill it while it’s still in the idea phase. No one ever became the founder of a billion dollar company by being cynical early on.

And sure you might think that you save yourself from “wasting 5 years of your life”. It my experience is that founders who work 5 years on establishing a vc backed company that ultimately fail just walk straight on to another leadership role in another company, and they had a great sallery and job for those five years, so what is really wasted?
If you’re willing to go halfway and live with the verification screen (which doesn’t require opening up the computer), I wrote up a guide for dual booting: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/03/13/dual-booting-chrome-os.... But back to the article, the author seems to fundamentally misunderstand the reasons for the warning screens. They are there to alert you if your system has been compromised; if you’re looking for the ability to verify what you’re booting it’s either that or iOS where you can’t install anything else at all. I think I vastly prefer the former option.
Also, worth noting, given that the main argument is "defending freedom": https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL-AD(20...
Elizabeth Warren did a lot of research on the topic before going into politics. The bulk of the income went towards transportation, childcare, housing and medical care.
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This would be a good opportunity for a bunch of people to collectively buy a handful of villages and turn them into creative spaces!
Thanks for correcting me and sorry!
Ok. But why is blind faith a bad idea?
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IT's funny how my understanding of warfare changes over time. As a youngling, it's all about sleek shapes and speed and boom boom (that may be a criticism of how society raises men as well).

Now, it's more about how one side's nerds outthinks the other side in terms of sensors, data, etc. Even in the macho world of fighter planes (i.e. JSF and how everyone is thinking of detecting signals vs. hiding signals).

It's a weird juxtaposition - the techworld and silicon valley's general ethos about changing the world, democratizing tech, etc, vs. nerds coming up w/ ways to better kill each other...
I think that you're right, but it can be tricky to interpret manufacturing data since the US went from a manufactured goods net exporter to net importer since the 1970s.

My favorite example uses mining and energy.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coal_and_jobs_in_the_U...

Per the second table, American coal miner productivity more than tripled between 1970 and 2000. US coal production tonnage peaked in 2008 with about 85,000 miners while employment peaked in 1920 with about 785,000 miners.

Primary energy consumption per capita in the US peaked by 1978 and has been roughly flat for 40 years:

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/sec1_13.pdf

We're producing more energy per worker and not consuming any more energy per capita. My personal interpretation: we are bumping up against the Limits to Growth, and finding they are more on the demand side than the supply side.
It calls for some company to create an efficient electronic nose. Build a database of disease markers, save lives, and say farewell to the health condition privacy.
How's the bootstrapping going?
I’ve used that for over a decade, but eventually gave up and signed up for NewsBlur so reading on my phone and my laptop would be in sync. It is open source and you can run it yourself but I gave up and let Sam host it for me.

The other in-sync option would be setting up an rss/imap gateway, which is not even available as a SaaS afaik, so would cost about as much in hosting (unless you already have a server you can use) and about 20 times in labor.

Happy paying NewsBlur customer - even though the iOS app is a battery hog.
In my experience, the 100-year leases (or similar) are typical of anglo-saxon / ex-British nations. AFAIK, in Spain, Italy, etc, you simply own land or not, there's no lease.
From my personal experience, most developers that discover list comprehension etc. get excited about how much they can achieve with little code that they try to keep everything as small as possible. They end up using short, non-descriptive variable names and you need evaluate the code in your head to find out what a variable/list contains. It's even worse with non-sequential callbacks and closures.
what is the solution? runtime errors?
Just a house in a nice village close to constansa with fiber would do. But for us that don't know much of the country or langages it not so easy to find
Or they could have made their point without the rant and increased their chances of being taken seriously. As it stands, it’s not clear that the author understands why the things he’s annoyed about exist.
Fortunately people are insatiable, and demand ever more goods and services as they get cheaper, and sometimes even when they don’t.
fyi

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/se...
Tokyo is not a city. It's a metropolitan area and one of the 47 prefectures in Japan. It contains a bunch of special wards, towns and cities inside it with their local governments.

The special wards of Tokyo are even called cities in English by the wards themselves. One example is Shibuya City: http://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp
Title of linked article: "How to know if an idea is any good."
Key distribution is generally the weakest link in any public use crypto system, both because it's a fundamentally hard problem and because people are the weakest link. If you built a "peer to peer" crypto system based around offline token sharing for identity, 99% of your users would email or text message their secrets to each other and more importantly 99+% of your users would accept a token they received from the other party that way.
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Do you intend to engage with the Lisbon startup community? What are your thoughts on it?
Blue colar workers did not profited from slavery. The interests of free labor were one of reasons for slavery opposition. Blue colar worker can't compete with slave (or ther slaveholder using slave).
That's a value for selling it to someone else in its entirety, but no one who runs a stable business is going to sell 6% of their company at those rates because it literally means that every share sale will turn a profit guaranteed in 6 months merely from dividends.

Imagine what the stock price of a company who boasted such dividends would be.
TheOldReader is a really nice RSS reader built after the demise of Google Reader. They've been consistently solid.

https://theoldreader.com
It's not just companies driving to more productivity.

For example, those open office layout are about putting more people per square foot. No matter what they say otherwise. Nobody "communicates" in an open office layout and they know it.

This is an example where per-employee productivity is sacrificed for other goals (getting more people into one building). And it is directly affecting stress and burnout.
> there are other venues for labour activism than changing the license.

This argument would work just as well for all of these other venues. That there's something else you could be doing is not a valid argument against doing the thing that you are doing.

"Why strike when you could change software licenses?"
Another thinly sourced article with the intention of plugging a book (nice PR work to the firm behind that).
Crazy idea: what if management was a licensed, regulated career, like traditional engineering, or being a nurse. Like if you have more than 5 "direct reports", you need to get a certification?
No, that doesn't work, because Twitter shows tweets to you if their algorithm thinks you will like them, whether you have a follower relationship to it or not. Twitter's newsfeed is nothing at all like an RSS feed.

You can turn twitter into an RSS feed with various other apps (I like Feedbin), and it greatly improves the experience.
Many of the same people that talk about burnout will then vote up the same political party that prefers that you work yourself to the grave and not tax their inheritance.
Huh? Everything always has a type anyway. It's sometimes just harder to know what it is. Specifying doesn't make the types appear out of nowhere, it just documents them.
Have you or someone you know successfully ran a company for 5 years on an idea that you/they simply had a blind trust on? My goal is not to insult your intelligence. I merely want to point out that this is the strategy I have seen most experienced entrepreneurs around me use.
Or slightly later the use of a 2-digit year in x509 certificates. The standard assumes that dates with year <50 are 20xx, and >=50 are 19xx. It doesn't help that this is one of the best designed, most understandable, and well-thought-out parts of the x509 standard.
I would like to know if you’ve had a successful startup using that technique, or if you are speculating about the correct approach.
This is a great post. The fact that you're bootstrapping is nice but I love how clear you are on why you're doing that and how it helps your business.
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On an unrelated note, I wish somebody made a modern portable and low-power hardware terminal. Something with eInk, or maybe even reflective LCD, like those old "electronic organizers", but with a full-size screen. If it can do serial and serial-over-USB, that can come in handy with headless boxes, RPi etc.
I strongly suspect that every estate agent in Romania, as well as at least one person in every office of RDS (the fiber-based ISP) speaks English comfortably. Foreigners shouldn’t have much difficulty compared to certain other European countries.
As a counterpoint you're unlikely to be doxxed, lose your job, or any of the other social "features" using RSS. While one could simply say nothing and hope to avoid this, it's still up to the Twitter algorithms to display relevant content, which could change at any moment. Effectively it's about control, with Twitter you're hoping for benevolence as you're the product, with RSS you're the customer.
The USAF would prefer more accurate inertial systems. Modern bombing runs are often near the ground, not at high altitude where the stars are visible.

DARPA is working on this.[1][3] They're trying to get MEMS gyros up to navigation grade, and funding work on something called "single atom interferometry".[2]

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/program/adaptable-navigation-systems
[2] http://web.stanford.edu/group/scpnt/pnt/PNT07/Presentations/...
[3] https://www.darpa.mil/program/micro-technology-for-positioni...
I think employees also need to start taking care of themselves by not following up on every single spontaneous request and also to find something else in time when things turn too toxic.

At least for me I can say that I don't follow up on every single request I get, especially when it's many little ones after "the heavy lifting" is done. Management must also learn that this is not bearable.

Of course one needs to be in a somehow comfortable position and one probably needs a few years of work in the field. Still, for employers it's also a risk to find good (replacement) employees which I have never heard management would admit but seen after leaving positions.
Further to this, isn't this the basis for evolution?

Some selective pressure emerges that didn't previously exist, whether that be a predator; change in nutrient availability; disease; climate; etc.

It's possible the loss of habitat in Tasmania has either slowed spread of the DFTD, because the Devils are more widely dispersed, or hastened the spread because there are fewer Devils reproducing to potentially adapt to it.

I find it interesting to ponder how it has come about that the Earth isn't just covered in, say, that pathogenic fungus¹ reported on recently, but rather something like 8.7 million species².

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19515362

2. https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110823/full/news.2011.498.h...
Chromebooks can be dual booted. So are they open enough for you?
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The way those ad company executives spoke about how consumers "valued targeted advertising" is truly disgusting. I would like to see the statistics of how many users had installed their adware directly from the company website. If the software is valuable, the consumer will seek it our, correct? The reality is most of the people buying products from adware are hostages with Stockholm syndrom.
That always seems a good idea for those not living in the interior.

It is an urban myth to imagine one can easily move to the interior and then, by means of instantaneous willpower, cope with the most ruthless solitude. I've heard my share of stories about city people moving to the countryside to start living off their organic orchard. But when we stop dreaming and look around, people who were born there are going away or dying of old age in ever smaller villages. Alentejo still has the highest suicide rate.

I work in Alentejo as a farmer, and I recently moved from Lisbon to Beja. Beja is the capital of Portugal's largest district. Before I came here, I knew beforehand the kind of obstacles my family would face.

Close to where I work, less than 10 miles from Beja, the local school was converted to a multi-purpose building, because there are not enough children living there.

Infrastructure is still bad: on the farm, on windy days I have poor to no reception on the best available operator, and the Internet connection quality drops considerably around 5 pm; power shortages are frequent, which is a major problem for those with irrigation needs; the roads are in miserable condition; fuel is also more expensive; the central hospital still does not have an MRI machine.

And I say this having in mind all of those that, each day, fight for bringing to south Alentejo the investment it desperately needs. I fight for that too. In terms of agriculture there have been major changes, but there is still a lot to do.

Meanwhile, across the country, postal services, banks and public schools are shutting down.

In the past, several ideas have been put forth to combat abandonment, but I don't think any of those ideas are working. The abandonment of old villages is not fought by artificially populating them with people coming from large urban areas. Until proven wrong, I still believe that investment in fundamental infrastructure is what attracts people: energy, water, transportation and communications.

Selling whole villages to the rich as a solution for this problem is a gimmick, and an insult in my opinion.
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I think it is mostly an issue caused by how managers are evaluated. Do the teams you supervise outperform (in a short-term metric set) the other teams? If so, you are deemed a good manager.

Upper management usually does not seem to care whether the people you manage leave the company eventually or try to change teams to get away from you.
I wouldn't call that an antipattern.

I treat other systems like I do the database and enforce consistency at the API level.

I wouldn't ask for a database to be totally untyped (and thus silently coerce things into its internal types in reality), so I don't ask for the same in an API.

Though, I can understand some people have differing preferences---MongoDB is popular for example---but I wouldn't call it an anti-pattern no matter which choice one makes.
As amusing as your response is, there's a pretty sharp distinction between discoverability in an IDE/GUI vs discoverability in Vim/bash. The former I can usually find the feature I'm looking for by clicking around a bit and see the keyboard shortcut for it for later use, and I can find features I didn't know existed. The latter I pretty much have to google everything that I haven't memorized
It is true that engineering and management are a different skill set. However, why is it that we simply throw people into being managers, while we realize that even after 4 years of training and engineer is still highly inexperienced.

Management is a skill, and it can be taught. Why does nobody do so?
Thank you, that's what I was after.
Thanks :)

For us, we're really not that dogmatic about bootstrapping vs VC. VCs are definitely not evil, just optimized for a certain class of business, and probably not in our best interest at our stage.

For another business, VC might be perfect, but in our space we've seen it cause one too many "reading tech" startups to drive off a cliff :)
…which is pretty much what they do? You flash your alternative OS on it and the Chromebook tells you that it can’t verify what it’s booting.
The key to building an idea is inducing blind faith in others.

...imho.

Edit to expound: if you have blind faith in your idea, then when it is about to fail, you will go down with it. If you don't, and it's about to fail, you will recognise this and extract yourself in time to survive.

At that point it's up to your personal moral compass whether you help the others whose blind faith you've built to reach the escape pods.
Are you insinuating I didn't read the guidelines?
Now following their examples clearly.

Why not just make that "let x" a "const x" which JS already allows?