skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some have even seen a decrease. Chicago has just made it back to peak 2008 level:

https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Chicago-Illinois/market-t...
The problem is that dust gets trapped underneath it.
When the US was a backwoods nation, London and Berlin were world capitals, and Hong Kong was a backwater fishing village, so American culture does not have the same ingrained respect for Hong Kong that it does for European cities.
That being said, I don't know if you are using Hong Kong as a stand in for major Chinese cities, but Hong Kong emigres make up a disproportionate amount of ethnic Chinese American immigrants, and the way many of them talk about the mainland, one might think mainland China is having a problem with the keeping the lights one.
MagSafe caused fires.
They should not have constructed it this way in the first place.

For how long will they replace those keyboards for free?
> If anything the drug you are looking for is Ativan or Xanax.

No it really isn't, even if it might seem that way in the short term.

Source: Personal. Xanax for occasional stress turned into Xanax for sleep sometimes turned into Xanax every night or insomnia. Kicking the habit now and it really sucks.

Stick to exercise and meditation. Actually agree with grandparent about the benefits of psilocybin, but you probably shouldn't listen to a stranger on the internet about that anyway.

Throwaway for obvious reasons.
It’s dust.
Yeah, I agree, it makes sense to target the legibility at small sizes, given the expected use as a coding font - rather than a 500pt poster printout on a classroom wall!

I wonder, is there any tool that measures the similarity of letters / glyphs(?) in a font, specifically as a way to highlight ambiguous letters? That might be handy when designing or choosing a font for coding.
In my mind, it does count for something that he seems to have turned everything around from being a black hat towards doing proper security research and generally trying to work towards the common good.
I couldn't tell you what they were designed for, but they were absolutely stronger in practice, as I have seen friends turned away from shops (yes, I'm in the UK) due to dead pixels, and the exact same shop would be entirely powerless to prevent you returning exactly the same laptop if bought online. It's not about easier - it's just different.

By the way, I didn't refer to the regulations as the Distance Selling Act as that no longer exists - it's been replaced with the Consumer Contracts Regulations.
This. So much this.

I've spent all my adult life bouncing between the US and China. It's fascinating to see the biases from both sides. In some cases, it's outright propaganda, but most of it is just plain, simple lack of familiarity further fueled by otherwise benign nationalism.
Maybe confirm that butterfly mechanism, for all its faults, limits RSI
It's not that dead pixels are common, instead that it's hard to guarantee none will occur at n% across a population of screens.
Similar in the US.. but will vary greatly depending on where you're going to/from. Of course, the NIMBYs are really against expansion of nuclear power, which by all means should be much more common than coal at this point. Especially in relatively stable locations like inland Texas, for example (and most of the non-coastal southwest us).

A little NIMBY/FUD goes a long way.
I'm guessing you're from the USA, expect the USA to run it, and expect nobody else to mind.
> The IRS treats BTC [...] like stocks

This is also not correct. Crypto-tokens that are not securities are considered property. As such, they are not subject to wash-sale rules, while stocks are. (Not legal advice.)

Before anyone gets excited, despite being considered property, crypto-tokens are explicitly not eligible for 1031 like-kind exchanges after the latest tax bill (although it's debatable that they were allowed prior.)
Completely Apple's own fault, too. A rating of only 1 on iFixit's "Laptop Repairability Scores":

"The top case assembly, including the keyboard, battery, speakers, and Touch Bar, is glued together—making all those components impractical to replace separately."

https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability
> Tuning our VM instance sizes and autoscaler configs

Do you run kubernetes in VMs on baremetal?
Software bought for iOS should work on iOS. Forever.

What you're glossing over here is that for literally decades, that was a pretty good baseline assumption, because we actually valued backward compatibility. The lengths that Microsoft went to in order to maintain that compatibility in the first several major releases of Windows are legendary. The lengths that Linux developers still go to are also remarkable.

It's only in the crazy new world of X-as-a-service and not even controlling the OS on your own devices that anyone thinks deliberately breaking stuff every few years to force the upgrade treadmill is a good thing. And the people who think that are largely the ones who also see you as nothing but a data point in a revenue maximisation model, not the actual users.

Ask yourself this: Have you ever met anyone who isn't a software developer who told you joyously about how much they appreciate the endless stream of updates that everything they buy now gets? I haven't. But I have lost track of how many friends and family have bemoaned things being changed that they didn't want, older devices that seemed to be working perfectly well but then got broken by some software update, some service they depend on being broken or switched off, some content on a service they pay for being removed or blocked unless they pay more, etc.

This is not progress. This is a failure of regulation, the triumph of capitalist free markets in consolidating so much power in so few places that competition is no longer an effective protector of the customer's best interests.
Lenovo stuck pixel policy is that 1-2 dead pixels is not a defect: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht004254

This is just bad reporting by "hot hard ware".
Meanwhile California can't even put together a high speed rail line between SF and LA because of Human rights.

Your right to have good public transit is being violated by someone else's right to not have a rail go through their lawn. Protect that man's right to a lawn at all costs.
I don't see what you're saying the connection is to Quicksilver, but I believe the modern replacements are Alfred and LaunchBar. I have licenses for both but ended up sticking with LaunchBar for my MacOS machines because I don't need the more powerful automation features of Alfred.
Resistance to Chinese Mobile Provider Grows Among German Conservatives
You don't see visible homelessness nearly as much as in US big cities. Chinese friends I've discussed this with attribute it to familial piety acting as a much stronger safety net; people will make big sacrifices to save their relatives from total failure. It's expected, and a stark contrast to the American notion of extreme individualism. There's also no opiod epidemic.
> It would be insane for me to try and track the value of the rupees (in USD) for every time I bought something, and calculate the deltas between that and what I originally gave to the money changer. It is completely impractical to do that,

It is much more impractical to track the value of fluctuating (maybe x1000 more fluctuations than the USD?) cryptocurrencies though.
Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain
I believe they valued at time-of-transaction. e.g. if you had no other transactions except for a $100 buy in 2013 that you immediately withdrew to personal cold storage, and then that appreciated to $20k+ today, you shouldn't have been included, assuming they supplied only the minimum amount of info legally required.
Wikipedia seems to confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#African_p...
What's wrong with charging for upgrades?

I hear the big downside is that you have to offer enough improvement over the previous version for your customer to be willing to pay for them. That's just crazy talk!
Oh I've seen NIMBYs lose their minds over wind turbines too...
Ah, das ist Richtich - ich habe nicht "y" sehen viele Gange/Hären in Deutsche texten ...

Alle Germanischer Sprachen verstehe ich am bisschen :-P

omg that was very, very bad... sorry for butchering the language but it was fun :-D :-D
The comment basically says that China has forced the Tibetans into slavery. Is that typical of Chinese propaganda?

> the Chinese government has also forced Tibetans to build a massive amount of greenhouses...they have to work in the greenhouses taking care of tomatoes.
No one? Ever?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cpe.3746
How often do we play this game?

How often would it hit something we care about on the dartboard?
One thing I'm amused (not in a good way) by, is that there's so much FUD and marketing around the use of Coal etc. for energy and alternatives (Nuclear, wind, solar) ... I'm not necessarily knowledge enough to favor some over others. But I always felt, "because pollution," should be enough reason alone to look at alternatives, and considering the impact of building/supplying/disposing of the materials in the alternatives as well.

I tend not to travel to/through some locations in the US simply because of the pollution. I remember the taste, smell and my eyes burning when I drove through eastern tx, la, etc to florida a few years ago... I don't get how people can just put up with it. Last two times I've been in LA, the air was just nasty.

I mean it really shouldn't even be a D vs R or LP issue... it should be an issue of sanity. And nobody seems to be willing to budge from a fringe position in any case.
Absolutely, and I think there's a very strong case to be made for that. One of the points I'm trying to make is that you have to solve it somewhere. People who focus narrowly on "correct gamma" often miss this, especially when "incorrect gamma" is also plausibly a workable solution.
In that survey, there’s no less than seven different choices for “I’m not happy but I’m staying with my provider because of $X.”
Your math is off because the bullseye gravitationally attracts the dart
That looks like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- a model that could have been a beneficial arrangement for everyone, turned into something overtly customer-hostile with a rip-off feel to it.
It may not change this encounter much, but it could change
the orbit just enough for some future earth-orbit
crossing - as could the gravitational effect of any of
the other planets, their moons, and all the other asteroids
change the orbits of anything out there. Solar systems
can be messy places, over geologic time frames.
Sometime, sooner or later, we will have a significant
impact.
A bit off topic - but does anyone remember VRML? Did it die out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
Second asteroid hitting country 2
If you ever open-source your rightsizing scripts, I think a lot of people (including myself) would find that useful. While the vertical pod autoscaler attempts to solve this problem, it's incompatible with horizontal pod autoscalers based on CPU and memory, and thus unusable in a lot of cases. Going with a semi-automated solution might be ideal.
There is also: "Some of these Uyghurs, Kazakhs are sent to the reeducation camps and they are forced to learn Mandarin Chinese and the latest drip irrigation techniques to save water and reduce costs."
Indeed. And software developers have largely enjoyed a free ride where they haven't been pursued under consumer protection laws for providing defective products because of the good will built by providing updates to fix defects for a reasonably long time after purchase. If the latter stops, why shouldn't the former?
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
By Delmore Schwartz

Calmly we walk through this April’s day,

Metropolitan poetry here and there,

In the park sit pauper and rentier,

The screaming children, the motor-car

Fugitive about us, running away,

Between the worker and the millionaire

Number provides all distances,

It is Nineteen Thirty-Seven now,

Many great dears are taken away,

What will become of you and me

(This is the school in which we learn ...)

Besides the photo and the memory?

(... that time is the fire in which we burn.)

(This is the school in which we learn ...)

What is the self amid this blaze?

What am I now that I was then

Which I shall suffer and act again,

The theodicy I wrote in my high school days

Restored all life from infancy,

The children shouting are bright as they run

(This is the school in which they learn ...)

Ravished entirely in their passing play!

(... that time is the fire in which they burn.)

Avid its rush, that reeling blaze!

Where is my father and Eleanor?

Not where are they now, dead seven years,

But what they were then?

No more? No more?

From Nineteen-Fourteen to the present day,

Bert Spira and Rhoda consume, consume

Not where they are now (where are they now?)

But what they were then, both beautiful;

Each minute bursts in the burning room,

The great globe reels in the solar fire,

Spinning the trivial and unique away.

(How all things flash! How all things flare!)

What am I now that I was then?

May memory restore again and again

The smallest color of the smallest day:

Time is the school in which we learn,

Time is the fire in which we burn.
One thing to note: the Tunguska meteor was ~50-200m in diameter, and was equivalent to a 3-30 mega-tonne explosion.
I think the laws are intentionally unclear for political purposes. They want a lot of subjectivity in enforcement. A lot of law is written this way.
It was such a well written article, both part 1 and 2. Subscribed to your RSS feed now.

One thing if you are interested you should look into is how Visa and MasterCard are basically shunted out of the next generation payment systems in China and India. It actually shows they just can’t keep expanding with economy as competitors either complexly bypass them (WeChat/Pay, Paytm) or the government builds their own (Rupay, UPI by NPCI) which leaves them trailing.

UPI is a system built by National Payments Corporation of India and it is now the most dominant payment system in India in less than just over 3 years since its launch. They support both offline and online payments and increasingly people are not even thinking about credit cards.

I’m still a fan of credit cards and their utilities but increasingly competition is catching up to established behemoths Visa and MasterCard.
Mozilla has really gone off the rails. They have deprioritized html 5 compliance and keep chasing spectres like VR and mobile. I really wish they'd just stick to making sure there's a solid, viable alternative to chrome, instead of getting distracted like this.
https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml The talk

https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM <-- Youtube backup in case it doesn't work (YMMV)

I wish I could force any audiophiles to watch it before they waste their money on snake oil. I think a similar point can be made about analogue synthesis, e.g. You pay Moog £1500 for what is ultimately a fancy box for a relatively simple analogue circuit.
I know my dad was loyal to the company he worked for, and he declined many other better offers, gave up seeing his family, and devoted himself to them. Some time later, the corporation was bought up, his immediate boss left and he was downsized.

The issue with large corporations is that there is no real person behind them. The board can change, the owners can change - and these changes can happen dramatically overnight.

It's impossible to maintain trust in an organization like that because when an organization makes a decision, it's difficult to know who the main actors are and impossible to know who the main actors will be.

But I suppose there can be short term trust for corporations that have dominant individuals with dominant philosophies. We know that as long as Bezos is head, we can trust Amazon to think long term. We knew that was long as Sam Walton was around Walmart would prioritize low prices. But on top of that it's difficult to assign trust to an entity whose actions are the result of an ever changing and difficult to identify set of people.
They're covered for four years after first retail sale from Apple [0].

[0] https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...
is this CA and is this a pay in 3 days or quit notice you're talking about? because if it is, you don't have to leave in 3 days. you can wait for a default judgement and then the sheriff to come actually post notice to leave. that gets you about a month, not 3 days, which should be enough time to find a new place and move everything. burst pipes means you have a habitability defense, so you could have represented yourself in eviction court based on that, which at the very least would have given you more time to move out, if not compensation and the right to stay.
Baton Rouge, Lake Charles and Beaumont as well as St James, St Charles, Laplace are where all the refineries and chemical plants got plunked. NOLA is somewhat better
I like to describe “learning to draw” as “installing a 3d modeling and rendering package on your brain, along with a decent collection of base models to modify”. It’s a complex skill set. If you start animating you get to add in a physics simulation. And you become conscious of so many little things that the layman only notices when you get it wrong.
So once again Oracle tops its own reputation for being a bunch of manipulative scumbags?
> I'm sorry to say but you eggs are probably fully aware of why only men are so crazy about Asia.

I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, but I can only imagine that you're referring to Asia's sex industry?

I don't know where this stereotype comes from. Is it a holdover from older generations, perhaps? I've traveled nearly every East/Southeast Asian country, met hundreds of fellow male travelers along the way, and hundreds more otherwise, and only a handful (literally less than 5 that I can even think of) that openly partook at all in any kind of "red light district activities". Most looked negatively on it and it certainly isn't something that would cause men to be "so crazy about Asia".

(If that isn't what you're referring to, please explain your comment)
4 took me hours. Give up any visuals.
One thing that's not mentioned is that the freshness and variety of produce available in China is fantastic. There's much less refrigeration and transportation, so there's a good chance the produce you buy at the local street market came from nearby fields very recently. Seeing this as a visitor from the US is quite a revelation.
When I first got it I was like "This isn't as bad as people make it out to be"... but now 1 year in and I want to throw this thing across the room at least once a day because my finger grazed something on the touchbar and totally messed up whatever I was doing.
Other than Delete instead of Right-Ctrl, it looks like a UK layout to me: https://www.pine64.org/2019/05/06/may-2019-news/
Introducing Neuralink
Ok, so it's more like the business is in the market for a $80k/yr developer, and not a $300k+ developer. The words changed but the result is the same. The work they're doing, it honestly doesn't make sense to pay anyone that much.
I'm fairly sure it's not satire. Some people just think that way.
It is, in general, not illegal to write/sell something that can be used to commit a crime. What’s illegal is creating or selling tools to knowingly knowingly facilitate crimes. (Selling guns isn’t illegal, and indeed is constitutionally protected. Selling a gun to known mobsters under circumstances where one can reasonably conclude you knew they were going to use it to commit crimes, that’s illegal.)

In this case, Hutchins created Malware capable of stealing banking information and worked with a friend to market it to people who would use it to steal banking information: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/wannacry-slayer-....
In/Near-Memory Compute: How much power is spent storing and moving data
Because rich people don't get rich by spending money. With unfettered capitalism taxation is the best system available to keep the wealth from pooling at the top, so the government is needed to decide what to spend the money on.
Pre-production, but their blog has a top-down shot of the ISO keyboard: https://www.pine64.org/2019/05/06/may-2019-news/
I agree with this, provided that you did notify them in a reasonable way.

A random email from an unverified address to the first point of contact you can find with Google is not a reasonable way, for the purposes of this discussion. Nor is a casual ambiguous statement during a long phone call whose meaning clearly wasn't understood, if you don't clarify it at the time but then quote it out of context later.

Personally, I like the rule of thumb that it should be no harder to cancel a subscription than to take one out and you should be able to give that notice via the same channel(s) you could use to sign up in the first place, but no-one on either side is required to go any further than that. It keeps everyone honest, but it's also obviously reasonable and proportionate.
Probably accompanied with a bunch of colon cleansing, essential oil, and antivaxx pamphlets.
This is not unusual for a laptop, although on the lower side.

What's the power draw?
Yeah but what about the highly skilled employee who spends 90% of their time playing online poker and spends 10% of their time producing output on-par with other people in the org that work 100% of the time. There is almost always one of these in any given org.
SoftBank Vision Fund 2: launch of $108B fund to invest in AI
But how will your students learn to think outside the little boxes?
Thinking out loud time! My favorite!

To matter for a single pass, the object must be small and/or traveling slowly. Otherwise, itll just keep on cruising.

Iteratively is a different story. Many objects repeatedly cross earths path. How that orbit changes over time i suppose is a function of the other gravity wells the objects pass when they arent near earth. I expect there are so many confounding gravities that only a certain belt\torus exists in the universe where, inside that torus, space stuff is capable of running into us.

Side note: this article is clickbaity because it implies no one knew asteroids almost crash into us without us knowing, but thats not true. People know. There are hard reset buttons floating around in space and we might just press one without warning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_hazardous_object
Evolution as Fact, Theory, and Path (2008) [PDF]
Maybe. I don’t know if I think he should be punished further or not and don’t have strong feelings on this outcome one way or another. I generally think hacking crimes are treated disproportionately harsh.

All that aside, I do not appreciate that he rallied support from the security community and raised legal defense money by convincing sympathetic folks that it was all untrue and he was being set up, when he was actually guilty the whole time.

Manipulate the legal system all you want for all I care, but manipulating good natured people in the community who put their own reputation and money on the line is not exactly a class act. I didn’t give him money, but I did fall for his original story.
Upon finishing the article, I tried to click the back button. It reloaded the same page I was already on instead of going back to HN.