skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are u refering just to ads or can you actually pay to get higher rank directly?
What you call an error is a matter of opinion. Marx was well aware that it served the capitalist class's interests to deny the existence of essential value. The Labour Theory of Value is more relevant today than it has ever been with labour's share of GDP declining decade on decade: https://www.futurework.org.au/exploring_the_decline_in_the_l..., https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/brent.neiman/research/KN.pd...
Is Software Engineering a Winner Takes All or Auction Profession?
It happens everywhere - similar concerns raised for cloudflare. Diversity is a good thing, big monolithic providers of services CAN be good as long as leadership is aligned, but once they start optimizing towards less altruistic goals it’s scary. You could argue government works the same way.
I agree we are likely at a point any single action is meaningless. For all we know, even with unheard of mobilization of global scale we’re heading towards a catastrophe that will shadow ww2. Nonetheless trying to do something seems the logical approach :)
If I say "don't open the door, there is a dangerous thing behind it, I saw it". Will you open the door or trust anecdotal evidence ?

The thing is, we need balance between facebook mum faith and requesting studies, numbers and white papers for every single little opinion.
If you’re in a fight with Amazon in a corporate culture that can’t stand losing money... good luck with that.
Depends how fast it happens. Cascading failure/collapse is a real possibility.
Asus Lets You Trade Your Old Nvidia Graphics Card, Rebates of Up to £270
Am I misunderstanding something here? You want a car driver to pull into the outer lane so that you can undertake him between the cycle and car? I'm a biker and that sounds suicidal to me. The drivers next move would be to move back into the inner lane, right into you.

I've got no problem with your complaint about them half-changing and blocking both lanes, it's the concept of nipping between them, knowing full-well their next move will be back in.
> Mapping the Esc key to caps lock works better for me

I'm mapping Caps Lock to Control, because it's way more useful. Yes, I'm an Emacs user primarily, but I know Vim users that do the same.

You can't remap Caps Lock twice.

And what will happen when Caps Lock itself will be gone?
Because the best way to tell if someone is being true to their stance, is to see if they apply it to those they hate as they do to those they love.
Founder here of a novel, recyclable, repurposeable, biodegradeable "virtually instant rubber on demand".
Non provisional patent already filed.
Research ongoing, but current versions are practical already.
Intend to start introducing in 2020.
That's both a quote, and an analogy. You're not wrong, but it's hardly relevant.
I agree it is stupid to ban such items on such grounds but:

with "actually improves personal security/safety" I do not agree. If you are not training daily watching video about martial arts does nothing to improve your personal safety. Though there is guy having gym in China who is explaining it better than me and he has martial arts channel. But that is one guy vs tons of "self defence bullshit".
I have great admiration for Boyan's Ocean Cleanup project.

I think more people should be aware of it.

It's about cleaning up the plastic soup in our oceans' garbage patches.

https://theoceancleanup.com/

I volunteered my help to the project, but they don't have a need for software engineers.
God that site needs some CSS
> non controversial, widely accepted as "fine"

This isn't what Apple does. There are many examples of them making changes that people dislike initially, but then over time emerge as 'the way'.

It seems in this case they may have gone too far and have not managed to convert enough people over to thinking the new keyboard is actually better than the old one - though this is certainly compounded by the reliability issue and might have been true otherwise.

But what they don't do, and shouldn't do, is drive for non controversial and fine. There are plenty of laptop manufacturers that use this strategy, and we can all agree that Apple make vastly, vastly superior laptops to those brands. Mistakes might be made, but they're part and parcel of what make Apple, Apple. Without the risk of mistakes, we also wouldn't have all the other great features that the MacBook has.
Thanks. I'll see if I get any reply? Every other week I get a message from an Amazon recruiter, maybe I should setup an interview just to ask if they can please sort out my account :)
Not a viewpoint I agree with.

Boeing has plenty of business. 737 MAX sales may suffer, but that will not kill the Boeing Company.

Aviation is a deadly serious business. Design is done by people, which are highly flawed cogs in the system. The system was broken. (meaning design, verification, and certification process). The system can be fixed.

Incompetence at some levels; perhaps. Not murder and not criminal behavior.

Given a crew that has experienced an AOA sensor failure during MCAS operation in the simulator, I would fly on a 737 MAX as it was delivered. Without concern.
In my case if I don't know someone well, or at all, without thought I use gender-neutral terminology they/them/their and with pets and babies, again without thought, I naturally use it.
What's wrong with just going back to plain-old keyboards that work? Why do we need this 'innovation' in the keyboard space?

'My keyboard broke' has never been a problem. I used the same laptop for just shy of 12 years. No keyboard problems. I'm typing on a 10+ year old keyboard right now. The only 'problem' is that some of the letters are partially worn away. Why not just use what works instead of inventing something new, probably more expensive, with new and different failure modes?
Cue "protected by ROT13 encryption" jokes.

US wanted to have this as a law and got quickly informed how insane it is.
When society doesn't believe you exist, or that your existence is simply an expression of mental illness or moral degradation, then such labels are useful to establish an identity around which to build a cultural and political movement, particularly to counteract and attempt to replace the typically negative or hostile labels provided by that society.

But yes, it is also useful to be able to abandon those labels altogether, or not have them define one's identity.
And you can just pay another Chinese person to use their identity to sign up again and keep sending in more counterfeits.
short answer: yes :)
Perfect example: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1095076_ca-to-require-n...

As such these things are regressive against the poor, for which a electric car would be an extraordinary luxury, yet are required to implement it, else government thugs come to arrest you with guns in hand.
I have a Macbook Air (2017 version) which I spilled a can of beer into. I thought it was dead but after leaving it to rest for a few days it resurrected from the dead and it works ever since like nothing happened. I love that machine. Indestructible.
"In this benchmark, we extracted a list of the most common words in the book War and Peace, which contains over 500,000 words... Its accuracy was 100% in most cases, except for very high Ks where it ‘only’ achieved 99.9% accuracy"

Interesting how such probabilistic data structures can in most cases behave almost as good as deterministic.
bees are a central part of ecosystem.
I don’t own a Mac, but on behalf of anyone who has ever shared a room or train with that click clackedy mess, thank you Apple.
You do realize that framing the issue as a "them" Vs "us" is gigantically unhelpful?
We never worked out the gating issues to make them commercially viable. The last 10% is 90% of the work and whatnot.
Right now society is monolithic. As individuals we are part of a highly coupled system and we would die without it. What we need are small communities that are independently self sustaining. That will be much more robust and eco friendly I believe
> Not reproducing does not mean you cease to exist

In the long term it means that you don't pass your set of values onto the latter generations.

> consciousness about the environment does not transmit through genes

Intelligence, conscientiousness and empathy are all heritable to a degree. More importantly, your kids will likely inherit most of the socioeconomic factors that made you become environmentally-conscious in the first place. And I'm assuming you want the next generations to be as eco-friendly as possible.

I'm also incredibly skeptical of the environmental impact of antinatalism among hardcore environmentalist first-worlders vs the exploding birth rates across the globe. It just seems performative and hairshirty.
What I think is more interesting about this outage is that Instagram and WhatsApp were affected. This means your images are stored on the same servers, and possibly subject to the same AI scanning. I wonder if WhatsApp images are E2E encrypted...
Upon clicking that link: annoying survey popup, long loading times, chat with a Lenovo specialist modal on the side, not a great color scheme, buggy scrolling.

Just a bad experience from Lenovo overall.
When they relaunched a year or two ago I tried to find an issue to buy. I went to the local chain bookstore, a couple supermarkets, and Walmart and couldn't find it. I didn't know if that was because none of those places had ordered it or if it was already sold out.
Since then I have picked up a couple issues and found them to be pretty good. Sad to see them coming to an end.
The Vigenère is the classic example of an historically important cipher. This cipher is a substitution cipher: each letter of the plaintext is replaced by a different letter in the ciphertext.

In simple substitution a fixed mapping from the plaintext alphabet to the ciphertext alphabet is used for the entire message. This can easily be attacked by study of the frequency distribution of a message's intercepted ciphertext.

Simple substitution:

plaintext: A B C D E F G H I J K L M ...
ciphertext: K R P E X J A T O U M S T ...

message: HIDE A FIG ...
cipher: TOEX K JOA ...

The Vigenère is an example of a polyalphabetic substitution . In polyalphabetic substitution ciphers, multiple mappings from plaintext to ciphertext are used throughout the encipherment of the message, thwarting simple frequency analysis. The Vigenère uses a particularly simple plan, a key selects which substitution mapping to use for each letter.

Vigenère:

plaintext: A B C D E F G H I J K L M ...
cipher a: A B C D E F G H I J K L M ...
cipher b: B C D E F G H I J K L M N ...
cipher c: C D E F G H I J K L M N O ...
...
cipher x: X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J ...
cipher y: Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K ...
cipher z: Z A B C D E F G H I J K L ...

message: HIDE A FIG ...
key: xyzz y xyz ...
cipher: EGCD Y CGF ...

Here the key, "xyzzy", is short enough that any reasonable message will be broken easily with a paper and pencil attack. On the other hand, a key that is only used once and which is as long as the message makes the Vigenère equivalent to the unbreakable one-time pad ciphers.

Many variations of the Vigenère make the cryptographer's work much more difficult. A scrambled tableaux (rather than the simple Caesar ciphers) or a key controlled by the message itself (called autoencipherment) present interesting but not difficult challenges.

When I was around 12 years old (1963) I was fascinated by codes and ciphers and my aunt gave me a book by Gains, titled Elementary Cryptanalysis[1]. I can't recommend it highly enough for those interested in the pre-computer treatment of ciphers. The book was best treatment of cryptography available to the public when it was originally published in 1939 and it covered the cryptanalysis of several important ciphers that had seen diplomatic and military use before World War II.

For example, Gains covers the important Playfair, Double Columnar Transposition, and Fractional Substitution, and Nihilist ciphers. A famous Soviet pencil and paper cipher that was never broken (the VIC cipher[2]) used a combination of the these last three.

[1] Gaines, Helen Fouche, Elementary Cryptanalysis, 1939. Republished by Dover under a slightly different title. This newer edition contains hint or solutions to the over 100 samples found in the original. https://www.amazon.com/Cryptanalysis-Study-Ciphers-Their-Sol...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC_cipher
Title reeks of clickbait -- especially since this is innocuous and clearly just an oversight in packaging
I don't necessarily want ads blocked, especially on sites that I regularly enjoy that I don't pay for with money.

I do want to block the underlying tracking/fingerprinting/profiling etc.

This is why I'm very much against Brave - I don't really see why they have the right to edit or censor other people's revenue models and replace them with their own. That seems.. unethical.
> Abrahamic values teach this literal self-hatred

Have you actually ever read the "Abrahamic" scriptures? How about the Hindu scripture, say the Gita? Any Sutras?

Ego Sublimation is not "self-hatred". It is the next "inevitable" step.
I may be in the minority, but I've never used an ad blocker. Content makers need to make a living and cutting off their ad revenue seems sleazy.

That said, they may have gone too far with tracking and other excessive bloat that I might just start using one.
We likely are in the minority, but I find the 2016-19 era MacBook Pro to be the only laptop I can comfortably type on all day without triggering RSI pain. I also make extensive use of the Touch Bar. I will think twice about buying an updated machine.
Show HN: moment-emoji, get a emoji for the time of the day
Story of the “Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater” Error Message on Multics (1993)
https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Read the whole thing it's funny as hell and frightening at the same time. But as to internet focus on the header "A lot of work is done on the internet and the internet is its own special hellscape"
The new keyboard is less wobbly than the old keyboard. It would have been an awesome keyboard, if there is little more travel and they had completely fix the keys getting stuck issue. Maybe returning back to the scissor keys confirms that there isn't a solution yet.
Is the "Earth is facing a potential temperature rise of more than 10°C or 18°F by 2026 from pre-industrial levels." published in a serious peer review journal? How does it compare with the IPCC predictions?

In the first graphic the variation of the experimental data is so high that it can't confirm or refute the exponential curve that is draw in the same graphic. So it is not interesting and it may be misleading for someone that don't understand how to read graphs.

Try to stick to serious reports, like the IPCC. See you in 2026.
While I agree on societal change I don't think Extinction Rebellion is the right group. AFAICS it's just a collection of the same Greenpeace-type students and hippies who've been embarrassing science-minded environmentalists for decades
Meat from grazing animals has a lot of additional positive effects re. biodiversity, and preventing desertification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI (How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory)
I agree with you. I like the new keyboard, as long as it's reliable. After using the new keyboard for awhile I certainly do not want to go back. Hopefully the new keyboard keeps the current feel while fixing the reliability issues.
ROT13 is for rank amateurs. I protect my data with multiple rotations of ROT26 encryption.
Sounds like a good idea since they never did communicate effectively about what pocket is and why I should get it. Even the website is vague, I'm not looking for an "ad-free space", not sure what that even means. I'm not interested in renting a room.
Most of the technology works just hates any sort of change. Apple’s core base is different, they embrace change regardless of its utility. So that makes it hard to evaluate this kind of tech online.

I’m also noticing that the article suggests that apple’s real reason for change is poor yield and reliability. Those are objective measures, so I think we can agree that the current keyboard is bad.
Happy Interdependence Day!
I assume these are regulations and not the criminal code. I think those are two different things.
There were probably people saying very similar things around the time when the “thou”/“you” distinction was being replaced with always using “you”. Both changes of the language make some changes, but not very large changes, and you’ll probably get used to it.
Absolutely not. Some regions have different weather, flood and earthquake liklihood than others.
What do you mean by removed

Sorry, bad choice of words -- "unfastened".

And isn't it a personal safety issue if the door unlocks everytime you stop?

I've never seen a car that unlocks the doors automatically when stopped, only when placed into park.

I'm not sure what personal safety issue you're referring to, but if you're talking about a carjacking, if someone opens your door at a stoplight and unbuckles your seatbelt (or forces you to do so), I don't see how it's any less safe for you if your car shifts into Park automatically -- less chance that it will run you over when you're pulled from the car.
What if their stance is about not being racist?
> Seems like a bunch of publishers that have a leftist bias.

Fair point. This is unlikely to appeal to anyone without left-leaning politics.

> The Daily Stormer

Very bad example of "the other side" which derails the point you're making. Better: "I wonder if they'll give The Federalist, National Review, Quillette etc. ..."

There are examples of conservative (or just heterodox, in Quillette's case) media outlets that don't endorse genocide.
> so I can search for in-store only items

Their landing page doesn't have a filtering option, but the bar at the top of the search results page has a "Store Availability" option.
> Given a crew that has experienced an AOA sensor failure during MCAS operation in the simulator, I would fly on a 737 MAX as it was delivered. Without concern.

How about if the crew failed to recover in the simulator?
It's far more likely that their tech staff are simply not given sufficient resources, and are constrained by business leadership than that they "aren't good enough".

Walmart is notorious for having terrible compensation for their tech staff--staff who are motivated to look elsewhere due to poor compensation aren't going to do good work no matter how good they are.
> One of the issues in the butterfly is many people hurt after typing for some time

Is there a source for this?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/250572
You can make some limited deflate bombs, but they are nowhere near as massive as this one.
It's almost always better to strive for what's better.

Innovation can lead to more accessibility, time savings, etc.
Thank you - I hadn't seen that before, and this is basically how I feel about having to attach a gender to anyone I refer to in the third person.
The problem is that corruption has already reached the core.

The military-industry complex, the revolving door scheme, pretty much everything. I mean the system still works because the United States, so far, is still the most powerful country.

But for how long?

The elites are not doing their job, so the people should pick up from here. But the thing is, the people are not able to do this either.
It baffles me that anyone would even attempt this, considering that a very similar technology -- not touchscreen keyboard, but with roughly similar properties -- has been tried in the 1980s, repeatedly, and has been, well, pretty much a failure for general-purpose computing.

(Edit: for confused readers, what we used to call a "membrane keyboard" looked like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Magnavox... . I.e. literally a membrane, with key outlines printed and nothing else. You'd press on the outlines which would go down, traveling no more than a few mm, a distance that was barely perceivable).

The ZX81 (Timex Sinclair 1000 in the US), the Magnavox Odissey, all had membrane keyboards and they were absolutely miserable. They weren't laggy or anything, it's just that the nearly complete absence of tactile feedback made them extremely annoying to use for any kind of productive purpose. They were beyond terrible and I can't imagine why anyone would want to go back to almost that. I say "almost" because membrane keyboards actually had a modicum of tactile feedback, and some manufacturers did eventually give in and produce membrane keyboards with some sort of tactile hints (e.g. embossed letter outlines). Touchscreens are even worse than that.

Membrane keyboards were ok (and still are) for things like limited consumer electronics controls and 16-key industrial touchpads (they're basically immune to liquids and dust). But they turned out to be useless for typing more than 20-30 characters at a time and they were abandoned save for a few niches.
the same basically happened with the ABN AMRO bank in the Netherlands.

Goverment did a bailout and turned the bank into a state owned enterprise until recently.
maker here. This was pretty quick and dirty, but wanted something a bit cute to add to a time zone widget i built. Might save some others some time
As Mises wrote: "When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace."

https://mises.org/library/meaning-market-democracy
> Firstly, using influencers to present a product is fundamentally stronger than classic advertising. Secondly, it's cheaper for the advertiser, while the influencer just needs a few thousands/month to quit their job.

Assuming you're right, I would argue that the kind of "influencer" who sets their price point to advertise your ice cream truck at "one free ice cream" is unlikely to provide enough value to offset the opportunity cost of actually selling an ice cream to a paying customer, moreso if we take into account dishonest freeloaders.

There is no value in providing products for free to self-proclaimed advertisers who just arbitrarily show up at your business.
They're going to require solar power on all new houses? That's insane.
Libra cryptocurrency users don’t have to trust Facebook, says social media giant
Blendle has been offering this service for years, though I believe they recently are backing away from it. I used it for a while several years ago, but I found using small transactions frequently to be very uncomfortable (as in off-putting, not so much inconvenient).
You would look at how much that costs and make a different decision. It can’t scale economically to Twitch size without massive amounts of investment into POPs (source: I built the HLS transcoding stack/infrastructure and HTML5 player at Twitch). A voice only service, sure because it’s 100 times less bandwidth.
> divest fossil

Any hints on divesting from fossil fuels with index funds? It seems that the choice is between underweighing high carbon emitters (e.g. MSCI World low carbon leaders) or removing companies with fossil reserves (e.g. MSCI World ex-fossil fuels). The first will still keep you invested in all companies, even Exxon-Mobil, and the second ignores CO2 emissions. I'm looking for better options.
You're saying that not wanting to support Nazis and wanting a better funding model for content on the internet are mutually exclusive?
It may make a bit more noise than the older one, but it certainly does not make "a lot" of noise. And the short travel is also not a problem, just a personal preference. As I said, I much prefer it, as do many others.
Thanks for backing up your argument with evidence, it's a lot easier to consider feminist arguments when they are substantiated.
Trusted setup or Trustworthy setup? SNARKs and key generation
If you're using mobile Facebook like - 0.facebook.com then this is well known for you.