skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet 49% of the US ONLINE market share...so you just are moving goal posts so that you can feel that everyone else is confused about "not a problem"?
Having "Open Source" in the name is slightly misleading...

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Their ambi mice are decent. I use a G300S at work, and I think they have some fancier mice that are also ambi while having features like wireless charging and the toggle for smooth/ratcheted scrolling.

The only company I know of that makes an actually left handed mouse is Razer. Decent hardware, but if you're on a Mac their drivers are even worse than Logitech's. There's nothing worse than having your mouse stop working because the internet is down.
It's literally in a <link> element on the very website you're posting on, dude
Yes he makes similar points there. A few scattered critical thoughts:

* I don't see any problem with stored procedures. They can make good sense for, say, auditing, as well as for performance.

* People describe their software systems as "Using Oracle" because it matters, not because their design is stupid. It tells me that Oracle skills are relevant, for instance.

* NoSQL is generally, in my experience, awful and chaotic, rather than liberating. Lots of good work has gone into making serious grown-up relational databases. Schemas, normal forms, constraints, rigorous work on the ACID properties. Something like MongoDB is just sloppy amateur-hour by comparison.

* In the YouTube video, he says that solid-state drives render relational databases obsolete. This strikes me as absurd. Not even ultra-fast SSD storage technologies will do that. The relational model is effective, and the associated DBMSs still well justified. Joins belong in a query language, not in imperative code. Why would you want to try managing a huge complex dataset manually?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint

(Edit: formatting)
DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests
Discuss it with https://www.yegor256.com and publish the result, I guess it would be an interesting discussion :)
Madison WI has this around that time from when college students move. I feel like that might be a University-town thing.
Your recollection is off.

LMI bought Hamachi in 2006 and I was involved in the development until 2009. Through that time there were no known issues with older games. Nothing was broken. What was tunneled before was still tunneled the exact same way, including IPX, IP4 broadcasts and multicasts. We did rewrite the client, cleaning up all the cruft, separating the engine from the UI, adding compression support and what not. It still wasn't fully integrated with the LMI core and no LMI account was required. The UI was redesigned in-house, without my participation, and while I didn't like the result, the original look wasn't a pinnacle of design either :)

What happened after 2009 I have no idea. The devs I worked with were really good, so if things broke, most likely it wasn't accidental.
> The headline probably needs qualification that the fine was in Europe

I think the first word of the title, France, is a giveaway here.
That's really nice ! I hope the work on riot UI will continue.
Avalonia 0.9.0 – a cross platform XAML framework for .NET
Radioshack is still around, but has scaled back extremely.

From thousands of operating stores to 500. Had a few in our area all close, so instead of 2-3 miles, now requires 20 miles to get to one. Effectively to some towns/cities it feels like Radioshack is no more because of such a drastic hit to their footprint.
Early formation&recent starburst activity in the nuclear disk of the Milky Way
This may have contributed to the immiseration and decline of the Jamestown colony, some thirty-five million years later:

"Chesapeake Bay is the remains of a giant meteor crater. The impact shattered rock for miles, letting seawater infiltrate. Few Indian groups lived in the saltwater wedge, presumably for just that reason. Jamestown was bordered and undergirded by bad water. That bad water, the geographer Carville V. Earle argued, led to 'typhoid, dysentery, and perhaps salt poisoning.' By January 1608, eight months after landfall, only thirty-eight [of the original 144] English were left alive."

From Charles Mann's "1493", which is a fantastic read; it's full of satisfying connections between environmental and historical forces like the above.
While I expected a chemical solutions analysis approach, I secretly hoped for a sequel to “How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea” by Tristan Gooley, an excellent book that explores the implications of the surface conditions of water.
I have a Mac Plus at home, and the smoothness of the mouse basically feels the same as my magic mouse. I do notice a bit of difference due to the tracking ball vs the magic mouse's laser, but it doesn't seem like the mouse sample rate matters much.

The screen, on the other hand, is much smaller and therefore faster to navigate by mouse. The top menu bar, in particular, doesn't feel like a chore to reach for like it does in modern macOS.
Agreed.

Google obviously has a firm grip on what they’re willing to call unacceptable losses for an investment, but they need to realise that there is reputation damage every time they axe one of these projects that they don’t seem to be accounting for at all in their decision-making.
Yes, I am in the bay. I read this labor code, but figuring out what actually is covered by a. seems difficult with such a large corporation.
Time and money aren't Google's scarce resources. Engineers are. Every Google project would love nothing more than to steal other Google project's staffing for themselves.
I precept students at work.

One of my Day1 line items is “if you have to go to the bathroom, just go. You don’t need to tell me.”

Which is right up there with:

“Don’t hurt yourself trying to get here on time.”

And maybe a sarcastic: “Don’t worry, your work/projects will still be here when you return” if I size them up as being appropriate for that.
PeoplePerTask Best freelancing services and jobs site
Reminds me of https://spark.laravel.com/
PeoplePerTask Best freelancing services and jobs site
PeoplePerTask.com
PeoplePerTask is the fastest growing platform for experts and service providers. It’s a one-stop-shop for experts from different domains to let people earn and keep their hard-earned money instead of taking a big chunk of percentage for every transaction.
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2.9% fee charged for payment processing for freelancers for the first 3 months and then 4.9% which (others charging 10–20%).
2.9% payment processing fee charged to the employer/company.
0% — No commission or fee charged to users (employee) applying for jobs
0% — No commission or fee charges to freelancers to post services.

Posting Job is free
Posting Project is free
Posting service is free
Bidding on projects is free for freelancers
Applying for Job is free for Employee
Only when freelancer gets paid and Employer pay for project or service, we charge a minimal payment processing fee (bank fee)
Nevertheless, it's not about the lowest commission, in terms of features its caters far better features than its competitors like associating exams with jobs as a prerequisite so only those users can apply for a job who passed that exam, that will help an employer to only deal with primarily vetted candidates.
Very powerful dashboard to show earnings, jobs, services and much more. I highly encourage to explore
I hope he makes a twitter account that tweets one comic a day.
But "common pre-shared secret" (well, public key allowing verification that there is a trusted secret being used) is at the root of https security today (a preset list of root certificates distributed with OSes/browsers).

If someone presents as your web site to a first time visitor (or a previous visitor but on a new device), there is no way for them to really trust your web site. Basically, it's the equivalent of you using self-signed certs, and likely even worse because there are more attack vectors even outside the initial connection.
Deepest land canyon on Earth discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet
Fighting environmentalv issues with extra consumption may not be a good idea. Manufacturing a vehicle pollutes a lot. Up to 50% of the enviromental costs of a vehicle seem to happen at manufacturing time.

https://archive.attn.com/stories/13637/hidden-environmental-...
Ah, shoot, I didn't connect this to LastPass. Thanks for pointing that out.
The strongly-typed higher-order theory Ordinals is consistent because it has a unique up to isomorphism model by a unique isomorphism. Consequently, ZFC is consistent because it is a special case of the theory Ordinals.
And check lists. Check lists completely remove the stress of traveling, providing a training, or putting a site in production.

GTD is great, but "the checklist manifesto" should be merged into it IMO.

It funny, I used to thing those boring tools were going to turn me into a mindless drone. But in fact, it's the opposite. Removing the need to involve brain power for useless things frees my mind to be creative and get involved with people more.

I wish I did that 15 years ago.
If you are interested the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/sebst/pythonic-news
I am in the bay.

Great point, I would definitely be using 0 corporate resources for any work I do for myself. I would not want to do anything in a gray area, thus the questions.
True, but the optics are terrible on this one. They should have seen this one coming and promoted her instead. They also should stop trying to prevent googlers from unionizing. The google of today is not the google of 15 years ago that's for sure.

While they're at it, they should stop bending (and probably breaking) export controls regarding China, and stop doing immoral DoD and ICE projects.

And heck, why not implement a process by which all private contracts are approved by a company-wide vote? Including the guy that sweeps the floor. Oh, afraid that employees will leak the details of the project? There's always NDAs, but if you are so concerned about leaks, maybe that's not a project you should be doing then.
When ransomware is the issue, that's the wrong way to be right.
Jesus, i would not want this guy's job, nor would i want to work for him.

"His colleagues describe a demanding manager who is impossible to bluff. During the holidays, Clark’s team meets daily to review metrics about Amazon facilities around the world. Clark can zero in on any signs of trouble since he’s been scanning the same figures for 20 years. A key metric is the estimated delivery time shoppers see when they view a product on Amazon, which is broken down by geography. If the number is moving in the wrong direction, Clark demands an explanation and a solution. The culture is far from pleasant, but current and former insiders marvel at its effectiveness."
That, and the strong signaling it would create if they did drop it. That signal being, never ever use a Google product for Enterprise purposes.
One of the things I learned about LDS today from reading reddit threads on this was how much land the church owns not just in the US ( I believe they're the largest land owners in the US) but also abroad.

It's basically a real estate company operating tax free.

One article on their land ownership I found that details some of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/30/from-book-to-...
MS-DOS is descended from CP/M.
Biofuel powered glucose detection in body fluids with n-type conjugated polymer
Calling Webassembly dumb is really dumb. Look at their github repos and consider how much very cleverly done work is there.

Calling it useless in a world where most people are running JS is also weird, but that's more subjective.
Why Voting with Your Dollar Doesn't Work
I'm deeply unsettled by the economic relationship between China and the rest of the world, particularly with the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Since the end of the Cold War, nuclear nations have tried at all costs to avoid arms races and armed conflict. However, war still happens, but on more subtle fronts.

China is waging economic warfare in earnest:

- Government subsidizes real estate investments in Western nations by Chinese investors, driving up real estate and turning a significant segment of the US population from homeowners to renters.

- Severely undercutting manufacturing prices for decades, to the point that Western nations have lost the ability to manufacture many products.

- Devaluing the Yuan and opening trade agreements around the world to protect itself from US sanctions and tariffs

- Purchasing billions annually in US treasury bonds (they hold around 30% of outstanding treasury bonds - over $1.1T)

At the same time, China's might is costing its 1.4B citizens dearly: unsafe or abusive working conditions, severe human rights abuses, and an Orwellian surveillance state.

I know the choice to do business with China is complex and nuanced. But I suggest prioritizing the moral implications--both to the world and to China's citizens--of a Chinese government with ever-increasing power when considering to what extent one should do business with China.
Companies are welcome to offer a multiyear contracts, with clear requirements for early termination, and payouts in a structure that we can negotiate on, if they desire. You know, like they do for their various C level folks?

Instead, they offer the "right" to work at X number, in an open ended format where either party can cancel at anytime. In that system, it makes very little sense for either side to show anything but token loyalty, as it is a purely financial transaction.
Mostly I was thinking of Reddit and Slashdot. On Reddit, even outside /r/hamradio and /r/amateurradio (why are there two? don't ask me!), I enjoy /r/electronics and /r/askelectronics, /r/rfelectronics, /r/rtlsdr, /r/carhacking, /r/arduino, /r/embedded, /r/engineering, /r/askengineers, /r/homelab, /r/datahoarder, /r/vintagecomputing, /r/askscience, /r/asksciencediscussion, and a few more.

I still enjoy Slashdot because, like HN, it's a single feed and gets me stuff I might not find in my regular subreddits.

I also read Arstechnica and The Register on a fairly regular basis, but not daily.

But honestly, my main firehose of news and ideas is IRC. I'm on 5 networks and about 25 channels, and I try to read all the scrollback in about half of those. There's lots of good stuff on Freenode and OFTC in particular, but I feel like this is one I should leave as an exercise to the reader. ;)
Noorda’s problem was that his product - a file server was swiftly turning into a commodity
I would say it's not clear from the GP's comment whether the review says it's different from other pencils of the same brand or the pencils on the picture.
Am I right in assuming that Ring, a company that was later acquired by Amazon, has an entirely different infrastructure than something like Alexa? From what I can tell, Alexa uses the same login system as my Amazon account, and (I assume/hope) is as safe/vulnerable to remote brute forcing as my Amazon account. But this seems not to be the case for Ring?
Whirlpool washing machine danger revealed as recall launched
I'd be willing to bet that on average google interns have pretty good engineering credentials.
Glass half full.

Think how good your rates might be for the last six months of 2022!
But the moon does disappear. The moon as I understand it is a glowing disk with particular patterns on it. That disc and patterns only ever existed in my mind. When not looking at the moon, it goes back to being a very large number of particles near each other and nothing more.
New Attempt at the Healthcare IT Problem
But I don't think you would disagree the following is worthwhile:

"There is a hurricane, and we're hearing initial, unconfirmed reports that it's to the south. We want to stress these are unconfirmed at this time, etc etc"

Which is something that would traditionally be broadcast in an emergency.

Obviously, we're really talking about an extreme hypothetical, but as long as it's clear the information may not be complete or accurate at the time of reading, I see no problem (as long as it is eventually accurate).
MS-DOS user experience was extremely similar CP/M. In fact, one could safely say MS-DOS/PC-DOS only existed in the first place as a "quick and dirty" approximation of CP/M. (because IBM and Digital Research could not agree to licensing terms to bring CP/M to the IBM PC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research#CP/M-86_and_D...
Hello fellow HN'ers -

My team and I are recent graduates from YC SUS Summer 2019 and we thought we'd be a bit silly to not try and utilize some connections and opportunities that became apparent through that avenue.

We are in a demo phase - not fully functional mind you - and need feedback. Our product is aimed at patients and healthcare professionals alike. The goal is to reduce the amount of time professionals stare at a screen by giving patients the responsibility to enter some data themselves and really brings all members into a patient-centered care team. The benefits consist of including the patient and not leaving them out, emphasizing the relationship between patient and professional at the heart of healthcare, and bringing in a healthcare IT solution that is actually modern.

We're happy to chat and answer any questions or you can provide any feedback on the site, survey or get in touch to see the demo.

Happy hunting,
Erik
Preact, Inc.
thank you for your very figurative analogues, they are fitting quite well imo.

The point you make about chess about having "no room for the slightest error" is also why I never liked it as much as Go (as most westerners, i grew up with chess but then learned Go as adolescent): In Go you are baffled by genius strokes, in chess you are baffled by idiotic strokes (funnily, in both cases it doesn't really matter if it comes from your enemy or yourself). At least that's what my impression is. Opinions may differ :)
I'd be interested in more modern studies on this.

1989 I didn't really use the mouse that much it really was amigas / ataris / macs and those interfaces were really built for mice.

Also you need to make a distinction between applications you use all day every day and applications you use sometimes.

A lot of games achieve a lot through mouse/keyboard cooperation. As do people in various designers photoshop/blender/unity etc

For coding, a lot is achieved through things like VIM bindings.

Then we have things like browsers, which are really mouse first UIs that you can drive through keyboard and enhance with plugins like Vimium.

Also add into the mix trackpads. Useless for somethings, awesome for other things ( especially through multitouch gesturing )

So, all these scenarios it would be interesting to have a thorough analysis of perceived speed, actual speed, etc.
Googler here. My opinions are my own; I have no non-public knowledge on this topic.

I do not understand the hyperbole around this report. Nowhere does it say that Google plans to shutter GCP if it doesn't reach #1 by 2023.

> said people with knowledge of the matter.

As in, people who may not have even been at said meeting which took place nearly two years ago, under a different VP and now a different CEO, and saw some meeting notes.

> The group’s leaders told staffers that if Google couldn’t reach a certain size with its computing and storage business—two of the most commonly used cloud services—the cloud unit might never become profitable, the person said. To reach such scale, they said, Google would need to be in a top two position in the market.

So it's not about being #1, it's about being profitable.

In other words, this was a conversation about literally every product at an executive level ever.

You set goals, you decide what happens when those goals are met. Furthermore, there is no concrete assertion here that what happens if this deadline is passed. "at risk of losing funding" can literally mean anything from changing FTE allocation to capital expenses to a million other things that get discussed at an executive level.

And finally:

> A Google spokesperson declined to comment prior to the publication of this story, but after it appeared released the following statement: "Reports of these conversations from 2018 are simply not accurate."

There may be some truth to these accounts--reality is often between the lines--but this is extremely soft on details and actual first person accounts.
Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring
I generally run apache/nginx in front of most things for SSL termination — this allows you to simplify SSL setup significantly.
Since French highways often refuse non-EU credit cards at their toll booths, they have a special place in my heart.
Sure I guess.

I don’t think I want more from formal systems than they can offer. I definitely don’t think of truth as “absolute”.

I think it’s actually the opposite: I’m skeptical of the “absolute” and almost mystical truth that some mathematicians seem to ascribe to mathematics. Do you believe in it? :)
Would you expect a human to say that 'without any prior input'?
Why would there be less guns on the street? Aren't the vast majority of those illegally obtained anyways? IMO the more likely response would be that all the guns that were previously stolen/criminally obtained legal guns would become fully automatic since there's no reason not to at that point. (Manufacturing cost difference is basically nil, and if you're already smuggling an illegal rifle might as well make it automatic)

Guns aren't exactly rocket science to make, and the plans are available online. Good guns, reliable guns, safe guns? Not so much, but why would the criminals in question care?
Bring your whole* self to work.

* but please leave some tiiiiny little bits home
Thanks, excellent summary!
Back in the preinternet days, a catalog company called Service Merchandise had a business model similar to this. Catalog company with retail stores that had a subset of the popular items.
Are there any good mice with replaceable cable? I no longer buy keyboards without replaceable cable (usually mechanical), surely the same could be applied for mice, how would one combat obsolescence otherwise.
Anything full stack with Python/PostgreSQL/Angular?
*Court orders FBI to present a proposal on what it has done or plans to about preventing people from lying on applications. No actual changed are required.
> At least a non-cloud service will work after it has been officially declared dead.
I haven't heard about SteerMouse in over a decade. I didn't realize it was still around. I should check it out.
TLDR, but the example of not buying beauty products in order to reduce animal suffering is the opposite of voting with your dollar, you are withholding money. Buy beauty products which use humane methods. That is voting with your dollars.
DNC Recommendations for Combating Disinformation: Social Media Policy Analysis
Just today, in Canada, LifeLabs released that they paid the ransom after info for 15 million people was stolen.

https://customernotice.lifelabs.com/
A skeptics guide to a "Skeptic's" guide; The author of this writes economic textbooks of competing/mainstream theory
There is rumor Bitmain (creaters of Antminer, see Ant Financial aka Alipay) was really owned by Jack Ma. Now everything that was Jack Ma is now owned by CCP I would bet Bitmain is the CCP.
Gravity Anomaly
Tesla, GM Lose Bid to Raise Ceiling for Federal EV Tax Credit
FreeBSD made a new release a month ago:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html

OpenBSD released OpenBSD 6.6 in October of this year:

https://www.openbsd.org/

Both of these do not use GNU Make, and both of these are living and vibrant *NIX distributions.
Thumb buttons are hugely under-rated in my opinion. Its the sole reason I bought my G600.
Does a MS from US help in getting green card?