skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great: fast, interesting content, comments, voting, but... I can't do anything until I get an invite.

Tedious.

This invite only model sucks an 18-metre radius dog anus. We've seen it far too many times before. It's really boring and overdone and needs to die. Seriously, just let us in.

And I know what you're thinking, "Wow, this comment is super-obnoxious and we don't want this kind of person in here", but check my karma: it's pretty good. You've just crossed a line.

The problem here is I'm getting old and one day I'm going to die and I only have so much breath left in my body, so I don't have the time or the patience for your infuriating invite only model.

Please: stop arsing around and open it up.
Netflix Reports a Subscriber Bump as Disney Poses a New Threat
Tesla owners once famously banded together to help Tesla through 'delivery hell' [0]. They did this for the love of the company and the company mission, despite not being paid and their actions only benefiting Tesla's bottom line.

Is it not fair to say that volunteers have autonomy, and that we should respect that autonomy? In other words, if they don't feel they are being exploited, then why should it bother us? Why should we create an issue out of X when those who are actually involved don't see X as an issue?

[0]: https://www.autonews.com/article/20181008/RETAIL01/181009775...
For many of them you can and the number of unplayable games is gradually shrinking.

You can check here:

* https://appdb.winehq.org

* https://www.protondb.com
I don't know much Perl but 10+ years ago I read "Minimal Perl". For these purposes, I think it can act as the go-to tool.
https://pcbshopper.com/?Width=192&Height=60&Units=mm&Layers=...

;)
You know, that is a fair point!

The great Agile teams I was on had really good people on them. So, sure, they might have done great work in other environments.

Then again, this was the methodology they chose.

It also sounds like the teams you describe picked their own way of developing, which, in a Big Picture sense, is all the Agile Manifesto says: Let the team control their own work, and get out of the way.

Which, in a lawyerly and annoying, but still kinda true way, makes that team agile too :)
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That press release also says:

> Google’s quick-loading AdWords text ads appear to the right of the Google search results and are highlighted as sponsored links, clearly separate from the search results. Google’s premium sponsorship ads will continue to appear at the top of the search results page.
Haskell is easier to learn than Rust because it's literally just math. There is no "dropping" variables and no need to side-step the lack of GC, because you never "drop" a variable that you've stopped using in a math proof. You just let the GC deal with all that stuff. And you don't have a "stack" vs. "heap" distinction, instead you work directly in terms of function arguments and the returned values. You have currying so you can work naturally with parameterized and partially-applied functions, just like in math, etc. Lazy evaluation for "infinite" sequences and objects. That kind of stuff.
Hah:
> Thanks for buying one of these little guys, it’s a little wonky but I’m sure you’ll have some fun with it!
(from http://docs.gboards.ca/Meet-Butter-Stick)

Do you actually use this?
there's still a bunch you can buy. apparently many "toxic" plants are only mildly toxic for cats/dogs.

i don't think they make much difference for air quality, but i bought some "air purifying" plants and cross-checked them against the aspca list for safety:

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control

(my cat likes to munch on my spider plants, even with cat grass available)
This does seem the most likely, as hard as it is to believe. I guess when you have hierarchies based on blood rather than competency, this is what you end up with.
> This is still a personal transaction, even if you happen to profit from it.

It’s a novel interpretation, but sadly the Internal Revenue Code already defines “personal transaction”, and it includes all business transactions, or transactions made for the purposes of producing income. I guess you’re free to interpret the law any way you like, but i’d recommend that anybody who wants to avoid criminal charges should not base any decisions on your definition of a personal transaction.
Ok that's fine but should you change these politicians through what ends up being an essentially corrupt and biased process?
Plus you can get a referral for private lessons from virtually any public or private school music teacher. For free.
Posting like this breaks the site guidelines. Would you please review them and stick to them in the future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want more explanation, I posted elsewhere in the thread about a similar case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110856
Have a fully operational back end, in less than an hour.
I think lowering makes these unintended presses more likely; raising makes them less likely, but then I'm less likely to get a modifier when I want (because I type the combo too quick).

I initially lowered it from the default of 200 to 150, and I've been slowly raising it back. I think it's 185 now but I might go back to 200. Only that will just make it miss more quick combos.

As for index: I don't think it's so much about strength as it is about getting used to it. Mostly everyone with a normal keyboard probably uses pinky to press ctrl, and I have a hard time imagining the pinky would be stronger than index finger. But yes thumb keys work better if you have them.

My Plank EZ is a bad compromise on that front. Not only does it lack a proper thumb cluster, it also has a 2U spacebar, which removes one precious thumb key. Only the middle 4 (or 3, due to 2u space) keys on the bottom row are easily presesd with thumb. The rest of the bottom row keys go virtually unused for me.
Going through a remote control or to your phone directly makes no difference. So the remote control is an additional point of failure.
Latex.
>I co-founded a firm 13 years ago that now employees 50 people that most certainly would have been killed by this type of analysis.

Which is the goal, because these guys aren't looking to build 50-man companies.
Sadly, I think you are absolutely correct. Lindsay said outright that either tech companies figure it out, or senate will do the figuring for them.

I am not sure Apple made the right move, but.. average person does not seem to care and/or understand the ikplications. Now.. Apple could make them care. They are big enough to make waves and I am not certain goverment could deal with bad PR come election time.

edit: corrected grammar
Yes, actually. Animals in the wild don't experience _chronic_ stress. I recommend Robert Sapolsky's book "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers."
Yelp has also done this. It's very (or rather, isn't very) noticeable on mobile, where it takes some attention to see if you are in algorithmic or sponsored results. Looks like Overture/Goto.com was a bit too early, and a bit not-monopoly-enough.
It doesn't matter. The Whatsapp exploit affected both IOS and Android: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/whatsapp-vulnerab...
And if you don't know the name for the generic product to search for?

Jacuzzi, styrofoam, and Super Glue are all brand specific trademarked items[0], but I doubt most users care about that when they're searching for those terms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
I’m generally good at avoiding procrastination. I have bad periods but months go by without me reading news or social media during work periods.

OTOH, a friend is the opposite. He’s the biggest procrastinator I know. Between us I don’t see an obvious explanatory factor. I would guess therefore that it’s something innate, perhaps a genetic factor. He just doesn’t seem to have the same discipline as me. The only thing I see that works for him is to have external pressure.

What I’m saying is - if you’re a super procrastinator like my friend, maybe all the tricks in the world won’t help you to be motivated without a real and pressing deadline. Compare yourself in those situations to your every day, see if there’s some insight there.
Maybe it's my big lanky adult male meat stick hands but "weird reach" isn't a concept I would have ever perceived as being a thing. That's interesting. Is it uncomfortable or painful or just weird?
20 keys? Is this some kind of joke? Here's the real deal:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375892
I bought a kit and busted one of the pcb pads when trying to solder it together :'(
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China has been covering it up for 2 months. Minimal action was taken to prevent the disease from spreading and they kept denying until a couple days ago when it was no longer possible to cover it up because it is spreading to neighboring countries who have been complaining for the whole time. Regional/local governments have been trying to downplay it because it makes them "look bad". It is essentially a replay of SARS. Only admit and take action when it's too late.
Amazon needs to vet the products sold on it better - it can use ML if it can prove that ML is sufficient, but in the meantime it should just be forced back into using manual labour for vetting and being held accountable for that vetting.

The issue, IMO, is that Amazon isn't getting more than a slap on the wrists so there is no motivation for them to fix the issue.
you can defiantly get 104 key mech boards, and 120 key mech boards are easy to find if that's your thing. With that said, when you're paying $1+ per switch, there's a a good chunk of the market that doesn't mind saving the $40+ to have the extra keys removed. Adding keys to a cheap board is an easy way to add functionality, but once you pay to have customizable firmware, it's just as easy and cheaper to put those keys on a layer.
This chapter by Brian Wowk is a good start. It explains the basics and compares optical phase arrays against holography (that poor word, keeps getting abused!):

https://www.phased-array.com/1996-Book-Chapter.html
I had a Lyft driver trying to explain to me how they’re going to make it big on Medium. I still am not sure what they write about or how exposure on Medium works, but they were convinced that it was THE place to blog. I could only politely nod and smile thinking about how often I saw that obnoxious user hostile popover.
>Wearing an N95 mask and washing your hands properly will prevent the overwhelming majority of transmission.

My understanding is that there is no evidence wearing an N95 mask reduces transmission to the person wearing it. It prevents transmission from the that person to others.
> With Rust 1.26, there’s a simpler but completely equivalent notation:

fn new_invoke(f: impl Fn(f64)->f64, x: f64) -> f64 {
f(x)
}

That actually isn’t completely equivalent. With the former example, `invoke::<_>(x)` works, but with impl, `new_invoke::<_>(x)` doesn’t work. This is a deliberate aspect of the design of impl in argument position, and part of the reason why it can be better to avoid it in libraries.

In the case of functions, this difference probably doesn’t matter, because you normally can’t name the type of a function anyway, and are extremely unlikely to wish to; but in other cases being able to type the turbofish can matter for ergonomics.

As an arbitrary example, take std::convert::Into::into: the type parameter is on the trait rather than the method, so you can’t do `x.into::<T>()`, but if you need to constrain the type you must do so otherwise, e.g. `let y: T = x.into();` or `<_ as Into<T>>::into(x)`. (In that case in particular, you’d write `T::from(x)` instead, but there won’t always be such an ergonomic replacement.)
I'm in the exact same boat. i know I'm capable being jack of all trades but mastering none except procrastinating. Can't quite seem to get my ass in gear. I'm at the thought that I need a partner/moviator/need to answer to person besides my wife ;-) ping me if your in the valley. I'm in SJ. lakota @ gmail
Bummer :(

Tried youtubing for how it looks in real life usage; no luck.
This matters and is long overdue. Google, Microsoft, Digital Ocean, and other providers have managed Kubernetes services and don't charge for the control plane. I honestly expected AWS to drop the charge altogether, but cutting it in half is certainly a move in the right direction.
Tell me how you think public/private keys helps Apple from skirting Chinese law that stipulates that they must provide access to user data.
I've often thought "What happened to companies that just make and sell things"
ProtonMail isn’t supported by iOS’s default mail app, which for me personally meant I hardly used it. It’s just too much hassle for everyday email.

I ended up trying fastmail and found the transition much easier.
Distributed things are more resilient, but centralized competitors tend to scale faster.

Once a given centralized competitor has scaled sufficiently they will achieve a monopoly due to network effects and predictably abuse that monopoly to reduce future competitors. Tale as old as time.
We have anti-virals now, when back then we didn't.

Not sure if they'd actually work on these strains, but it's something.
Based off these dark patterns, the penny pinching at Google is real. A company that is penny pinching -- both by spending less on employees, and nickeling/diming customers -- is a sure sign they're struggling to grow. When you to get to be Google's size, how do you continue the growth trajectory of your past? It gets harder and harder to do so. Their offers to engineers are less competitive, YouTube serves tons of ads, and Chrome is going to ban uBlock It's obvious where Google is at: strict monetization. They don't see any further growth, or they wouldn't be degrading their services.
First, this isn't a flu. This is a coronavirus, related (but not identical) to both the common cold and (more closely due to subtypes) SARS. That said, while I am not an epidemiologist, this doesn't seem nearly as fatal - about a 2% compared to a 9.5% of SARS and 10-15% of the Spanish Flu. Remember that known cases will usually have more serious reactions than less serious cases - milder cases won't go to doctors.

I am hoping that this ends up being an overreaction. That said, SARS most definitely wasn't, and I wonder if we could make life a lot better if we generally treated the common cold and flu the same way, preventing the outbreaks in the first place.
I did it because of HN's 80 characters limit. I think that including the name of the author is more important than orthography.
If you add a lot of solder to a joint, it will wick and the excess will climb along metal using surface tension.

You can cut through the solder when cutting the tops of the header pins off, but it's bad to stress the solder itself like this so you need to reheat it with the soldering iron so it relaxes from the physical stress of cutting.
I guess that's a nice job for adblockers, to rewrite the search results pages into something that doesn't look (and isn't) ad-ridden.
I have a pro-Google stance, but I usually wouldn't talk about it on HN because people just love to assume the worst about Google and anyone defending them just gets attacked. Personally, I think that Google's pushing websites to use HTTPS has done more to improve privacy than anything else I can think of in the last decade.
A group has come up with an alternative design, with a far higher flow rate, and similar in concept to US-based box-fan + furnace-filter designs (materials for which are not readily available in Australia), with workshops in Canberra, described here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/making-your-home-smoke-proof...

Materials for DIY Air Purifiers are:

- Floor Fan of any variety (BYO or we will be providing options for large and small fans)

- PM2.5-suitable Air filter (we will be bulk ordering the best type of Ryco MicroShield Cabin Filters for this purpose)

- Carboard & tape (we will provide these materials)

Efficiency of the US-based version seems to be quite good:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
I just set up my tilde key to change the right half of my keyboard to a numpad when held down, so I'm not missing anything. Seems like a good tradeoff.
It doesn't take Bruce Schneier to understand how laws work.
That's pretty cool, thanks! :)
Well, I think that any keypress that requires you to move your wrists in any way is weird basically. How do you reach 5, 6, or 7 on your number row for example? what about 1 or ` or esc? I like making it so that I can reach all of these buttons without moving my wrists and with the "correct" fingers.
That supreme court case has no bearing on Brazil. You might as well be quoting from the Talmud.
Aggressive taxation is a prisoner's dilemma involving every government in the world.

Good luck solving that problem. (Honestly, I wish good luck to anyone trying to solve it. Corporate tax is fucked.)
umatrix says there is one site: tildes.net no subdomains, no cdns (which nowadays track instead of cache), no third party anything. refreshing.
Browser specs can be improved, and new ones introduced. And even if safe prefetching is deemed technically impossible, the question remains: should we give Google and a handful of other companies disproportionate control over how we publish and consume content, for 50ms of load time?
We've reached Peak Google. It's time for newcomers to reinvent video, reinvent search, reinvent email and start all over again.
Privacy Pass – A privacy-enhancing protocol
That link says:

Backup Encryption In Transit: Yes

Backup Encryption On Server: Yes
> surprise surprise--different costs

The surprise is NOT that the costs are different. The surprise is the order of magnitude of the difference. The surprise is also the absolute value of the cost of IEEE given it's apparent activity.

I have no idea if the massive spending on IEEE is reasonable given I have no insight into their org. I do agree the size of the costs as associated with the activities is suspicious.
Another tip: block js globally(uBlock Origin) and white list sites you trust.
Awesome article, I definitely relate to a lot of the things mentioned. Wondering if I have ADHD as well. I was always smart enough to make it through school without applying much effort, so perhaps it went undiagnosed..
Not sure of the wording, but the acroynm should be SLUM.
Do you have any link to what The Daily Stormer actually said? All I can find is various rewordings of it. They will of course be reworded in the least charitable way in most cases.
Latex and Literate Programs.
Today I realise that I have mutant hands. None of those things require much movement at all from me.
Emulation is typically reserved for processor emulation. A NES emulator works by simulating the CPU, PPU (GPU), bus and other parts of the NES system on the computer running the emulator. DOSEmu, QEmu, and Amiga Forever work in similar ways.

When Wine runs an application or game, that program is executing directly on the computer's CPU, so it is not an emulator.

Think of it like when you have a Qt/KDE or Gtk/Gnome application and run that on the other platform, or on Windows or Mac. You have the APIs the application is calling (Qt or Gtk) which are the same regardless of the platform they are running on; for Wine these are the Windows APIs. The libraries then map the library APIs to the platform APIs, like how Wine is mapping the Windows APIs to Linux/Mac/etc.
Thanks!

I figured it had already been tried.

I wonder if it can still be done.
Only in Transylvania plus strictly the royal family outside of Transylvania. I'd say it's the German rigor we don't have.
I agree. When I switched to Mac, I missed Explorer more than anything else. Still do. It's a fantastic design. Finder annoys me still, 4 years after my switch.
I’d say look for a new job. Sounds like the IT department at your company is poorly run. Especially at the start of your career I think it is important to work at a well-run company so that you can learn from the best and not start to resent your career choice.

Most decent companies and interviewers will give you a chance to explain your reasons for leaving after only six months. It’s quite normal for devs, especially for recent graduates, to move around before finding their niche.
Very cool thanks! I'll look into what I can do to contribute!
This isn't insanely high given its traffic and that it's attached to an educational (not for profit) institution. They need developers, infrastructure, support, people to process the papers, etc...
I bought a counterfeit hummingbird feeder on Amazon, which leaked sugary water everywhere.

I didn't even know it was counterfeit until I saw the identical one at Home Depot. Surprised that HD would sell something so non-functional, I took it apart and noticed it was assembled entirely differently - excluding the screw on the bottom that caused the Amazon one to leak. Both were completely identical on the outside.

Imagine what else we're buying if something as banal as a hummingbird feeder is counterfeited and sold via Amazon.
I procrastinate extremely hard over things I don't want to do, and maybe things I am intimidated by their difficulty.

And yet, I am capable of steady self learning and can quite comfortably find the motivation to exercise 10+ hours a week.

I don't think it's very black and white because along certain dimensions I am hyper disciplined but others heaven and hell would struggle to get me moving. I do respond to external pressure tho.

So sample size of one, YMMV
All right, well if you want to use a reasonable definition of lying by omission then I agree with your premise that most journalists are not lying by omission. I would extend that to say that Greenwald also does not lie by omission. He has his beat, he covers it well, and he has been good about accuracy.

Edit: That's not to say that he's completely unbiased (especially on Twitter), he is human after all. But generally I have been very happy with his reporting, especially since he dares to report on subjects that other parts of the media ignore completely.
> little cultural impact

How many people are dying today from preventable causes? Have you heard songs about them?
I think at the very least they would have bet on the WH looking the other way while they conducted an attack on a prominent US citizen. At worst it could be another "favour" attached to military procurement.
Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class
Ask HN: What will the state of AI be in 10 years?
Hey HN,

I'm a graduate student studying ML and Theoretical Neuroscience, and I've been thinking about what the state of ML will be a decade from now.

What are your thoughts?
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873
I'm a bit slow with the keyboard so maybe that's why I don't have problems with these unintended presses. Yet. It's 200 for me, but also like 50 wpm until I manage to get back to speed.

Nah, I'm palm-pressing the Ctrl key on a classic keyboard. I wrote about it here [1]. It was fine for a few years, until I got wrist pain and back problems from leaning on the right side (to reach the right Ctrl with my palm comfortably). So that article needs an update, but I kid you not, there are non-pinky users out there :)

https://mihaiolteanu.me/emacs-palm-press-the-ctrl-keys/
This is really solid advice. Thank you so much!! I really appreciate this.
> I wish for an economic, unexciting, conservative evolution of C

That's not a bad description of Cyclone, Rust's direct predecessor. It went nowhere because it was so "conservative" over C as to be deeply unintuitive, and it lacked features that matter to modern programming. Rust is nonetheless far less complex than C++, and that in itself makes it a plausible C replacement.