skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" I was told by someone still working there HR declared unfriending a fellow employee was considered bullying."

Would not go into detail but in my past I've encountered some peculiar things that HR was trying to impose on employees. I just told them to sod off and keep me away
from their kindergarten. The HR person I talked to was sort of shocked but they did leave me alone. No actions were taken. They just asked me not to promote my view among other employees which I was not interested with anyways.
Article here: https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-1-0-arrives-bringing...

8.7M users!
I consider it a downgrade, at least in the sense that I had something I liked (F-keys) that it's impossible to get back.

My two most common use-cases for the previous F-keys (changing brightness, music/sound controls) are precisely those things that I want to be able to do without breaking flow or looking away from the screen. What used to be muscle memory now requires looking down, hunting, targeting, making sure to not the hit the wrong thing, swiping to the correct value. It's a tiny annoyance, but it's the kind of thing I used to do constantly, reflexively, and now there's friction every time.

The Touch Bar would be great if it were optional or lived in a new row, but as it stands, it's been 3 years, and it's still a regression for my workflow.
You can use a Black Magic Design Web Presenter which allows connecting 2 pro camera/lens setups via HDMI/SDI, and XLR mic inputs. It shows up as a USB webcam like normal.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicwebprese...
>laptops with their own custom super nice Linux-based

They did, they're Pixelbook from Google. Once you build a competitive 'mass market' laptop with Linux, you'll inevitably end up with something like ChromeOS.
What the Nordic nations can teach us about liveable cities
New MacBook Pro: Apple Executive Phil Schiller on How It Listened to Feedback
example 312-202-9901

home recording????
> They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear

Well, apparently not. They sell all sorts of clothes, eyewear, jewelry, etc.

It's just a smaller Amazon that has less, offers no obvious upside, and is yet another place you need to register an account for and give your payment details to. Though if counterfeiting is as big of a problem as it appears to be, that would be one reason to consider Zappos.

I just clicked the "Men's" section and got everything from pants to cute jock straps[1] before I saw my first shoe. So clearly they gave up their "shoes only" shtick.

[1]: https://www.zappos.com/p/2-x-ist-3-pack-stretch-jock-strap-b...
If you are looking for a way to make a difference in protecting the abalone. Ruby for Good has a project that is helping conservation efforts https://github.com/rubyforgood/abalone
Keyboard re-design and bringing back the ESC key will be huge.

64GB of RAM in a laptop... yowza.
Putting stickers over your cameras might be a reasonable thing to do, but it's pretty silly to pretend your threat model is the same as Mark Zuckerberg's.
No idea mate but what I've noticed is that when I had the facebook app installed it used to completely trash my battery on every android device I tried it on while running in the background. Imo there must be some kind of processing that they are doing locally.
> The thing is, you are bound to come across someone who finds a feature useful even if the feature is not useful for the vast majority of the people.

Yeah, and I believe that the fn-keys are the exact symptom. I haven't encountered anyone that uses fn-keys to it's full potential (or at least, more than the Touch Bar can provide).

> The touchbar is a flawed design concept imho. The entire reason I touch type is so that I don't have to look down from my screen.

For simple actions, gaining muscle-memory on Touch Bar virtual buttons are possible. (I myself don't look the Touch Bar when performing simple & repetitive actions like open new Tab, or when pressing the escape key.)

> It's jarring and discontinuous for me to have to look down to use the touchbar.

Well, isn't it something like saying that it's discontinuous to move my hands from the keyboard to the trackpad to operate some GUI app? It's a glance away, and mostly the Touch Bar's actions are predictable & you know when you use it (for example, editing the formatting of some text in the MS Office Suite, or opening the emoji selector, or selecting autocomplete, etc...).

> That's why I personally never liked it.

Yeah, the feature has a variety of tastes. I think I can understand why some people just don't like it, but...

> I think the tactile feedback of a real physical button is essential.

I personally use HapticKey[0] for that.

[0] https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
Just like people complained when they dropped floppy and and PS/2 for CDs and USB? Or when they introduced a smartphone with no physical keyboard?
Anecdotes don't make it fact.
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I wonder about the inclusion of the adjective "hot".

I mean, how hot? Did the homeless man put it over a fire and bring it to a simmer? Or just leave it out in the sun?

And then there's the issue of why the reporter/editor chose to put "hot" in the headline. It's definitely funnier with "hot" in it, but is that good journalism?
No. Reverse that.
I also wondered if the recent success of sea otter conservation efforts would be in conflict with abalone restoration. However, there seems to be evidence that, at least in the case of black abalone, abalone thrive in habitats where sea otters have been re-introduced[1]. One proposed mechanism for this is that sea otters prefer to eat sea urchins over abalone[2], and keeping the sea urchin population in check improves the overall health of the kelp forests which abalone need to survive.

[1] https://futureoftheocean.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/sea-otters...

[2] https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/animal_blog/of-ot...
Google plans to offer checking account next year
Buried in this press release:

> Today, Apple also announced that the all-new Mac Pro... will be available in December
It's ridiculous when some of the Instagram ads are drop shipped from China at 4x the price of AliExpress. At least relocate the product to the US for faster shipping if you're going to charge more. The fluffy soft shiba inu pillows are advertised at like $30 on instagram with 2-3 week shipping and AliExpress has the same lead time and they're $8.
This is a solved problem now. It no longer does the restart thing (or hasn't for a long time). It gives a 7-day pause option too.

The two things that break Windows are spaces-in-filenames, and max-filepath-length. Urgh.

MacOS is broken in a different way: no more 32-bit (so the death of legacy applications) and notarization (need an Apple thumbs-up to run programs).
Zuby on politics, social media, technology, and mainstream media
Ancient earth: a visualization of continental drift. (WebGL)
Oslo's Plan to Decarbonize Its Port
I'm slightly surprised there isn't room for a logistics company that can give smaller retailers Amazon-level efficiencies, but not have ecommerce ambitions, itself. And it should be branded (like Amazon Prime), not just someone in the backround, so people know it will ship quickly, arrive quickly, and have a good level of support.
"Today, Apple also announced that the all-new Mac Pro"

"Mac Pro starts at $5,999 and Pro Display XDR starts at $4,999. Both will be available to order in December through apple.com."

They keep announcing it, yet you still can't buy it. I wonder why.
An intense earthquake swarm is ongoing at Askja volcano, Iceland
This is fair if you're working in an environment where you can do that, but if you're designing stuff for anyone in a highly regulated industry, which is increasingly where ML is making the big bucks, doing mission-critical ML on someone else's servers is a no-no. There is still very much a need for beefy GPUs in laptops.
Here’s the Weird number Wikipedia entry with the diagram, as it seems to have been edited out very recently by an anonymous editor:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weird_number&di...
You can still return it. Apple has a 14 day return policy, no questions asked.
Many of us remapped Caps Lock to Ctrl years ago. I know there's a way to use it for both but it's not smooth because it adds a firing delay.
Dancer is actually really nice, but that ship has sailed.
I'm seeing the man pages for find on my Centos 7.7 boxes. Are you looking at a docker container or a cloud image?
I guess the return of HDMI and MagSafe was too much to hope for :(
> An EPROM is probably the most widely used example of a PLD.

Upvote for this. When I used to think about PROM, I think it as a medium of data storage, or sometimes think it's a lookup table. But it's actually simplest form of programmable logic device - a device that can transform x-bit of arbitrary input signals to y-bit of arbitrary output signals, so you can build any digital system that uses combinational logic in PROM (and RAM for sequential logic), including a CPU. And since it's a PROM, you can reprogram it to implement another different logic device, simply by burning a new truth table.

After I realized this, the existence of reprogrammable hardware like FPGAs no longer sounds like magic to me anymore. From this, you can also see that computers with finite RAM and ROM is not a Turing machine, but a Finite State Machine.
Yeah. My "F" key broke in a way that isn't fixable without replacing the whole thing (one of the ultra tiny pins that keeps the keycap in place snapped off). At least you get two shift keys.
National parks becoming less crowded seems especially unlikely. It's not that hard to rent a car. Hopefully electric cars will become more easily available?
Isn't this Shopify [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify
Brendan Eich named his browser 'brave' because he thinks that he is "brave" for attacking a minority group.

When I was young, in a trashy town, big groups of guys would get together and go 'fag-bashing', which is when a bunch of grown adults beat someone up because they suspect he's gay. Often, the target is a little kid. Since a lot of cops were former fag-bashers, there wasn't much to do about it. Fag bashing stopped for about a year when one 13-year-old had to get multiple surgeries. Even after all the surgeries, his face is deformed to this day, about 25 years later.

The fag bashers were still much more brave than Brendan Eich, because they had the courage to look their victims in the face. Anyone who uses Brave should seriously reconsider what kind of person they've become, and what kind of person they want to be.
The arrow keys are the biggest pain point from me.
I ran into the same issue.

I don't know if was the marketing, just wanted the commitment in dollars before telling everyone she's engaged or the status symbol to show off to other people but it had to be a significant diamond. One of the things that surprised me was man made diamonds at the size and quality she wanted weren't actually cheaper.
Some specific reason to not recommend it?
What type of ports are you using that require USB-A on the laptop end? Pretty much every port I know of has a USB-C cable for it, no dongle necessary. Since 2016 I've slowly gotten USB-C-to-Lightning, USB-C-to-micro USB, USB-C-to-HDMI cables, etc. I gave away most of my USB-A to friends.
Mind if I ask you what you used to capture source changes if Debezium didn't work out for you? Is there a specific Kafka Connector for JDBC that you're using?
> He misapplied science to make a point that's not supported by science

Perhaps other Google employees should have responded with "You appear to be making a flawed argument. Here's where we think your argument goes off the rails, and why."

Assuming Damore was arguing in good faith, such a response might have changed the minds of Damore or other like-minded employees.

But simply firing Damore was at best a missed opportunity, and at worst evidence that the majority view is simply a matter of opinion with no real justification.
There's enough space to put this iphone stripe above normal keys, why kill the row?
If you can't prove that the unique id is associated with a particular voter, it isn't good enough because it can't prove that their vote was altered. If it can be associated with a particular voter, it can be used as proof to satisfy a vote buyer or intimidator.

However it does have the advantage of not being entirely public, making the voter less open to influence or retribution by family, employers, etc.
This freaks me out soo much
Additionally, isn't this just a call to create another echo chamber?
lower cost of doing business; better user experience¹.

¹ ymmv.
I categorically disagree with this, but let's run with the logic. If we are talking about financial commitment and signaling to a partner, why not gift a house, a car, a long term bond, cash, expensive clothing, a watch, literally any other piece of jewelry, etc? Why does it have to be a diamond which is literally the worst possible use of the money short of burning it? Why does it have to be publicly displayed on a ring if the intention is personal signaling? Why does it have to be the guy that does it; shouldn't the wife also signal equal levels of commitment or is she incapable of that?

Also, we can bypass this kind of thing and did up until the last century. Further, certain couples bypass this type of thing all the time routinely. You don't see gay male couples giving each other diamond engagement rings and yet their marriages aren't exploding in spectacular fashion.

It doesn't even make sense from a financial penalty standpoint. Anyone who is on an upward trajectory would be able to bounce back from losing a month or two of salary relatively quickly in which case it's not really forcing long term commitment.

There is no real point to this ritual other than showing off. The guy gets to show off how much cash he has and the woman gets to show off to everyone else that she has a guy with a lot of financial resources. It is completely arbitrary and we have arbitrarily converged on a diamond as a mechanism to do this. Sure giving rings makes people feel good; receiving and gifting any present makes people feel good; but it's absolutely not a necessary requirement for a healthy relationship.
Can you login to the StackDriver metrics console with Brave yet? I had to disable everything, literally all protections, to get this to non-endless redirect, its difficult to whitelist as there is dozens of domains from (gcloud to accounts.google.com, to some sd/stackdrivers one) at this point it I gave up
I'm interested in why you think only one menu bar is a bad thing. In my experience it makes it easy to use. On Windows, a menu bar is maybe 20-50 pixels high, and you have to hit that small target to use the menu bar. On Mac, because the menu bar is at the top of the screen, it has effectively infinite height, and I can get my mouse into it with a quick and imprecise motion, which is ideal.
In 2 days the Black IPv6 Friday campaign starts
I think it was more than just an emoji in a comment but happy to be shown otherwise.

Someone was violating youtubes rules about posting repetitive comments. You can't post the same thing over and over on youtube without running into problems.

They ban entire accounts that are not paying. We've had reasonable (not great by any means) service with some of their paying products.

And paypal locked an account of mine for something like 10 years (based on nothing). Wasn't worth the fight, but was randomly contacted to claim my money oddly.
My personal site which has never had ads made a couple bucks last year of BAT. Pretty easy to get set up. Can't complain.
I'm sorry- I'm extremely confused about what this has to do with this web browser.
T and N went first for me

It's like a global monte carlo letter frequency measurement experiment
This comment reminded me of a thread I read on r/baltimore a few months back that compared 1M houses in Baltimore and DC, it was pretty striking: https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/aw9476/what_a_mi...
There's some quote (I thought it was Peter Thiel but can't find it now) along the lines of "when they mention how important diversity is, ask them how many conservatives there are" at silicon valley tech companies.
But seeing $100 shoes then seeing $5 shipping fees tacked on separately will make people feel cheated, and abandon the purchase. They made a decision to spend $100, and now you're trying to make them make another decision to spend $105 instead.

Disclosing the shipping fees up front helps a bit, but not completely.
That's interesting. I did work for a company, that had itself registered as a certificate authority on the computer's browser, and for most sites, e.g. Wikipedia, it would use its own certificates and presumably monitor what you were looking at, but for internet banking, it didn't intefere.
Two minute papers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sR1rU3gLzQ
Yeah, the cost of the gold may be $50. But the cost to make it more than just the gold. It's also the skilled time of the guy making it, and the cost of other materials used (wax, plaster, etc. for the mold), and amortization of the tools.

I mean, if you just have a plain, unadorned ring, those costs are pretty low. But if it's got interesting designs on it, or is multiple materials, that's going to cause it to be more expensive.

Looking at Zales' website, they've got a 4mm 14K plain men's wedding band for $225. That's probably around 5 grams in weight, with an actual gold content probably around 3 grams. a gram of gold is ~$50 right now, so they're only getting $75 at most in profit from that ring.
Not nearly inedible, just not commercially practical for the effort versus the amount of meat inside. I prefer their taste over the commercially sold reds, they are sweeter in a wider range of seasons. Purple uni crushed up with soy sauce is the perfect sauce for sheephead sashimi.
Damore's essay seems to be a kind of Rorschach test. People sympathetic to Damore's views (or at least, to his approach to debate) seem to trust that he's arguing in good faith. People strongly opposed to his views seem to think he's being disingenuous.
Seattle has tons.
I used Brave for a while on Android and found it to work well. However, in the last month or so something changed and it started freezing constantly.

I've since switched to Firefox, which is much better on Android than when I last tried it.
"We're planning for a future for all the people who fit our plan" is not a recipe for a successful (or workable) plan.
So everybody who knew about it and didn't do anything is a criminal.

Take their fingerprints, at least.
It was released today and that’s Jason Snell’s podcast. The PM was authorized to talk.
I don't know if I understood it right, but BATs are only given when users see the ads, right?

If this is the case, it seems that Brave fosters the use of ads, not reduce it.

Is my understanding right?
I am all for fighting capitalism, but I wont tolerate any form of ads. Ads are a threat for free thinking. They are pollution, poison, for the mind. I dont want to face any form of manipulation.

Beside, Brave is chromium based. If you want to fight the chrome monopoly, go somewhere else.

I could be fine with a fork of Firefox with a preinstall uBlockOrigin, Privacy Possum, facebook container, etc.
I've been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker. It's really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today.

For the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards:

- You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). You set a budget (e.g. 10 BAT/month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. if you watch a particular YouTube channel 30% of your browsing time, it will send 30% of 10 BAT each month to that content creator.

- As a user, you can get paid in BAT. You tell Brave if you're willing to see ads, and how often. If so, you get paid in BAT, which you can then distribute to content creators. Brave ads are different: rather than intrusive in-page ads, Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page. This prevents slow downs of the page, keeping your browsing focused, while still allowing support of content creators. And of course, Brave ads are optional and opt-in.
So another 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and a better display for $2000? That does not seem like a great bargain.
A question for you, given your expertise: why do most (all?) spell checking/correcting not take into account key locality (is, neighboring key accidentally pressed). A big one for me is hitting n or b instead of space. I think it has gotten better recently, but has a loooong way to go. Just curious on your thoughts. Cheers!
The episode was recorded earlier with Apple's blessing, given the presence of an Apple employee speaking on the record.

The episode was released this morning, after the embargo lifted.
Also the SD-card reader. That was a deal breaker for me, I use these as much as USB keys.

I use a laptop with a reader, the card is flush (not sticking out) and it's a great way of expanding storage. It's also the best way of getting photos out of digital cameras. Wireless is so much slower.
I agree that the improvements like the ESC key and 16" screen are good things.

But is it strange to anyone else that a company that prides itself on being innovative and motto is "think different" is parading around a screen size change and a keyboard regression as the biggest selling points for a product launch?
This is pretty scary.
You can write a script (in Bash, Python, Go, whatever) that accepts the arguments passed by git (filenames for $BASE, $LOCAL, $REMOTE, and $MERGED)[1] and launches whatever diff tool you'd like to use. You can then tell git to use it by setting the merge.tool and merge.tool.cmd configuration variables.

If you want to invoke different tools for different types of files, you can either handle this in your script, or you can explicitly pass the --tool flag in cases where you want to use a non-default tool.

Writing the wrapper script is generally pretty straightforward - the only "gotchas" are making sure the file patterns can be handled by your merge tool, and making sure you write the result to $MERGED. Sometimes you need to have a "clean-up" step in your script that copies the merge tool output to $MERGED and maybe deletes tmp files that were created.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mergetool
Reading this headline I begin to understand certain people’s worry about having their soul stolen upon being photographed.
I learn computer programming with basic, then Pascal, but only felt in love with python.
I work in a factory and support factories in other countries. Headquarters have many engineers, satellite factories have only dozen. Mostly for maintenance and quality control. All the thinking and decision making happens in HQ.

Edit: typos
Is anyone else wondering about that 8TB SSD bit? Unless they have four M.2 slots which I doubt they must use 4TB SSDs and that'd be QLC which sucks.
Even in Europe we suffer from this. I never buy from Amazon anymore due to their website being as bad as the average small webbshop if you are not in one of the countries Amazon is in (e.g. US, UK or Germany).
FB Threatens Legal Action Against Instagram Audit Site
I've posted this before, and I'll post it again: the touchbar is not for the HN crowd. It's not for software developer "pros".

It's for audio, video, designer, animation "pros". It's for scrubbing and equalizers and color picking. Which much improves the workflow.

And to join the chorus, no -- you always have to look when using the F keys, for the simple physical reason that they're too far away from the home row to hit accurately touch-typing -- certainly for myself, and I've been touch-typing since I was 10. The only key I can hit without looking is Esc, because I slide my whole hand/finger to the edge and feel it at the corner. (Well, and the eject/power button at the other corner, of course.)

Also, to post on HN attacking other commenters with "I don't believe you?" Not cool, man. Not cool.