skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there industries where mobile apps are a must have?
Well, there are apps in basically every industry. But are there industries where mobile apps are a must have?
Not a silly question. However, (at a guess) I reckon a lot of the underlying net code is probably POSIX based, which MS-DOS is not.

I notice there's a framebuffer version, so building a nano-linux distro that boots instantly into that shouldn't be that hard.
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That looks very similar, but this one was an older game. I'd look it up but I was playing it on XBOX Live free trial and I let my subscription lapse..
I did not get any touch-typing lesson as a kid (the Amiga 500 keyboard felt so massive...), so I developed a pretty fast 6-finger technique that helped me into my early 30s - I was considered a very quick typists in chats and the likes, but writing code was still error-prone. At one point I saw a colleague touch-typing properly, and I felt so envious that I decided to do something about it. I started doing lessons but somehow always ended up peeking. Eventually, 5 years ago, I moved to COLEMAK, and that forced me to learn proper form. I can now push 60 to 80 wpm on regular text with no effort.

I still struggle somewhat with special characters, because of my short pinkies. I am currently experimenting with alternatives (see http://blog.pythonaro.com/2020/06/better-access-to-special-c... ) but I've never been good at layer-switching and it makes me still pretty slow.
This is a story of capitulating to bullies. "Sam" is a bully.
Had this very experience happen to me a few years back. Took a cab to the advertised address. Door locked. So I call the host and the host gives us a different address.

Catch a taxi to the other address and report it to Airbnb along with a request for cab refund (Airbnb just ignored the request). Host just started listing in a different address afterwards.
This can happen on sites where you have an adblocker removing modal overlays elements but there are still an invisible part or other CSS means limiting scrolling.
It may be the case that the greater understanding will lead to a greater need for change.
I order quite a bit from amazon.de to Denmark, hoping this will be a better experience. I do feel quite bad knowing how the german workers are treated at the warehouse/fulfillment centers, I am definitely hoping Swedens labor unions can make a dent here while still keeping the price low enough.
At lest in web development, the website is always changing thus so is the code. Therefore the maintenance burden favours bespoke code over libraries as the former is easier to adapt to changing requirements.

However ultimately in reality a decision based on product ownership culture, when it’s more important to produce results now ( velocity) rather than in a few months time (maintainability).
It’s hard to change culture.
1. Barcode UPN lists are closely guarded secrets. Knowing that 123456 is a lot of hummus is valuable to a lot of retailers.

2. The supply chain for who made the hummus, who grew the chickpeas, were they sprayed with what. That basically does not exist, let alone in public.
> the 0.1% is stuff like video encoding & decoding

I would use WebGL and WebGPU for that, and AssemblyScript for WebAssembly, so nothing that Rust would make a major difference.
Microsoft Kills Windows 10's Automatic Driver Search
Yeah, I very much agree. For a diverse Web development needs to be good on as many browsers as possible.

Maybe this could be one of the separate parts some of the devs could split out as a donation/patreon project or something. You pay for them giving you better dev environment in Firefox.
All of these censorship resistant communication projects tend to assume that the network needs to be low latency, always connected, etc. It’s far easier to build a robust network if you relax that assumption, and cheap hard drives + e2e encryption mean you ought to be able to route a large volume of private p2p messaging / email in addition to any curated content that’s distributed more widely.

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/03/inside-cubas-massive-weekl...
https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cubas-diy-internet-revo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal
Lambda Functions in Java
How would that work? What should an antitrust order demand Google to do in order to allow competitors to emerge?
> Google had the advantage of plastering Chrome all over google.com when people performed searches. That's how it got installed everywhere.

That, and aggressive bundleware campaign in early-mid 2010s.

Google paid above market rates for authors of popular Windows freeware like CCleaner, Adobe Flash etc. [0]. They even tried to bribe VLC at some point [1].

I'm always baffled to see commenters in HN were aware of Google Search banners but not this bundleware business. I guess it's due to people here having disproportionately high use of macOS and Linux compared to rest of the world.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15280808
Black farmers’ markets work to “redesign the food system”
> Introduction

> There is a lot of praise for weekly reviews. [...]

What are you talking about? Reviews of what? Predictions for what?

I finished reading the "Introduction" completely clueless what this article is about. I continued "Benefits", still not having a clue what the article is about. After another paragraph I closed the tab.

Sorry, this article seems to be targeted at some niche audience, and I'm not in it. It would be great to have some actual introduction to indicate what you are talking about.
And then Jesus spoke untu his disciples, "Hey, sorry guys, but this do-gooder miracle business just isn't cutting it anymore. All the other carpenters are making bank, and my quality of life is reduced."
> The social network will also prohibit stereotypes about Jewish people running the world or “controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government.”

Sure, the most well known social media founded by a Jewish person censuring conspiracy theories about Jewish controlling the media will absolutely not fuel the said theories... /s
Not a female here, but one reason to have a list is that people are always looking for a relatable role model. As a women you would want to avoid looking at these CEOs as role models. You should have a list of reasons why you're avoiding them and bring it up when somebody else non-critically tries to put them on a pedestal.

EDIT: on the other hand as an immigrant (really my only "discriminated against" feature) I wouldn't search for immigrant CEOs as role models, so I'm not sure if it's worth it to look for women role models as a woman.
Call for Debian 11 (bullseye) artwork proposals
Its made of panels of thin perforated aluminium. See these photos https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-close-view-of-the-perf... and https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos-and/...
Trocker: An Email Tracker Blocker
Incredible to see the resemblance with her brother Richard.
The audience is her employers.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
Another wave of unpleasantness heading over to Voat. At a certain point you just write people off.
30% is a lot.

For me when I actually am typing it is a complete thought already and now I am waiting to get it out so I can move on to the next thing.

If I could type infinitely fast I could spend 100% of my time thinking.
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Good correction - although I would say its more or less a two-way influence system.
A taste of honey: how bees mend fences between farmers and elephants
Could you expand on what's wrong with their search ?
Same here (mostly buying books). I look at the reviews on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Goodreads.com (great because it has reviews of Swedish books as well), then order from Adlibris (mostly) and Bokus (occasionally). Often the prices have been about the same. Even if they weren't, I don't mind paying a bit more if it means the warehouse workers are treated fairly.
Actually that is how we were writing web apps in 2000, with Apache and IIS plugins written in C and C++ plus some scripting language like Tcl, but I wouldn't do it today, besides providing Web UI for IoT devices.
What VR headset are you using? I've considered switching to a VR monitor setup but I feel that the quality of existing headsets is too low to compete against an actual monitor and having a screen with text that close to the eyes for several hours will accelerate the accumulation of eye damage most developers already receive.
You can add domains to protected sites. No addons will work there.

So if you want no extension to be able to read gmail,

Add mail.google.com or google.com to

extensions.webextensions.RestrictedDomains in about:config
I remember an old manager, who was probably born in the mid 1960s giving our team's intern (around 2008) a hard time because it was taking her time to get used to QWERTY again because she spent the previous 6 months in France on an AZERTY keyboard. I can't be the only one who noticed that he looked at his hands noticeably more than anyone else on the team while typing, even the intern he was giving a hard time. I think it just takes a lot of motivation to learn to touch-type if you didn't grow up with ubiquitous computers. My manager was so used to looking down at his hands that he didn't even notice he did it.

There's a golden window for touch-typing where most people in the U.S. grew up typing on computers constantly (especially IMing in multiple windows concurrently) and before smartphones arrived. It's nearly impossible to keep up with multiple IM windows without lots of typing and spelling errors unless you're at least close to touch-typing.

I grew up on a Mac, and it took me way too long to get used to using the delete key on a PC. (I think very few Mac users make much use of Fn-Delete to get PC-like delete functionality.) Typing habits die hard.
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With all the fuzz about FB, I find it remarkable when I engage with millenials : FB is irrelevant to them.

So, what gives?
The local Amazon in NL is Bol.com (along with the actual amazon).

But whenever I see: "sold by X" through their platform you can usually find a cheaper offer on their own website.
That is more an issue with the current implementation than anything else, there are other managed languages with much better AOT compilation support for WebAssembly.
> users typing things into the browser's search box are by default sending this data to Google.

This is incorrect. Firefox will prompt you whether to enable search suggestions on first use, and will not fetch suggestions until you say yes.
7 day retention in Prometheus, pushing to something like VictoriaMetrics for downsampling and long term storage. Prometheus is great for collection but rubbish for managing large data sets
Do some pages on the website need a little love for the copyright date?

"Copyright 2003 - 2009 The NetSurf Developers". (eg; Downloads)
Doctors may have found the link between severe Covid-19 cases and obesity
Controllable Video Sprites That Behave and Appear Like Tennis Players
I think it's pretty generous of the writer to consider 70-90 wpm an expert typist.

I've never spent any actual effort of learning any techniques and I can easily get 120 wpm on almost any basic keyboard and up to 140 wpm on my main keyboard at home (which happens to be a regular gaming keyboard by logitech).

Blank key caps seems more like a gimmick than actually helpful and personally I couldn't drop the arrows either. I know Vim bindings are all fun if you IDE supports them, but you can't really navigate around the OS comfortably if you have to hit Fn + your faux arrows every time you want to move the focus around.
It's as stupid as it gets.

They are literally censoring the truth. Not that I have anything against Jewish people controlling/owning big corporations, I actually admire them because despite of everything they're still strong on the game.

But you can't tell me that censoring talking about them won't have a backlash. I can already see it. "See, they own everything and have so much power that now they won't let us even talk about it".
Instagram isn’t though.
Yes, and this is very important. A wide keyboard can cause you to rotate your arms outward to reach a mouse. A neutral work position is to have your elbows near your sides with forearms horizontal (parallel to the floor) and pointing inward somewhat so your two hands could hold something in front of you or work together on some object, such as peeling an orange.

If you turn your palms down and rotate your forearms outward until they are pointing straight forward (parallel with each other), you are probably at the outer limit of where you should routinely work. Keep most of your work inside that limit, in front of you.

If you are mousing right handed, for example, and your keyboard is so wide that the normal position of the mouse requires you to rotate your forearm so your arm isn't pointing inward or straight ahead but is now pointing outward to the right, you may start feeling pain under your right shoulder blade, which may become quite severe.

The problem is that people with this pain don't usually feel it when they are mousing. Perversely, they tend to feel it when they are away from the keyboard, so they don't make the connection. If you know of anyone with sharp pain under the shoulder blade, see if they do a lot of work with that arm rotated outward.
> This lay-off is not because of Covid or racism. It is because of the overwhelmingly awful executive leadership at Mozilla.

Yeah! They are cutting out key technical employees while not cutting top-level exec salaries.

https://twitter.com/lizardlucas42/status/1293232090985705478
I definitely identify with all of that.

It goes both ways: I hate shipping ugly code, which makes me a slow coder. On the other hand I love spending weeks refactoring pieces of code which will have no repercussions on the end user but will make life easier to the rest of the team.

I've also been accumulating home-made scripts for debugging and such for the last 10 years. The fact that I made them makes them more powerful.
perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the idea, as there's an interesting link with emergent gravity, the central claim of which is that the density of quantum entanglement in a volume is proportional to how strongly space curves there.
I agree! Budbee in particular has been very good in this respect! Often you can get free shipping with delivery between 17:00 and 22:00, and if you want a specific hour, you can pay 39 SEK to get that.
No he didn't, you fell victim to the fake news media.

During one of the press conferences, he asked some scientist or doctor guy if disinfectants can kill viruses on surface, would it be possible to create an injection that works like a disinfectant cleaning the body. He never said people should do that on their own.
Sounds like everyone and their mother is scraping stuff off Genius, not just Google; they went after Google specifically because they knew they couldn't just disappear and they had the financial means to pay for compensation, unlike the thousands of crappy lyrics websites.

That said, it would've been just if Google would pay for access to Genius' particular, well-curated, "source" database of lyrics, especially given that they're basically stealing traffic.
That's how I learned to touch type as well.
Or actually, I learned to touch type before I got blank key caps but I still had a bad habit of looking down at my keyboard to make sure that the letters were where I thought they were, and getting blank keycaps got rid of that bad habit in like a week.
The only issue was learning all the symbol keys which took a little while.
We have the same tradition of strong unions in Denmark.
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My bank account went up £3000 in one day, the day before I got £0. That's a growth rate of infinity percen, I'm a bit worried how the universe is going to accommodate this growth rate.
"But I would walk 804 kilometres,
And I would walk 804 more,
Just to be the man who walks a 1,608 kilometres,
To fall down at your door..."
Two-way satellite modems were banned long ago in Belarus, so there is not much equipment on hands.

Mesh / opportunistic network solutions are great in theory, but require the installation of special software, which is difficult to coordinate on large scale. Also, this is an adversarial environment. We need to assume that every new network will be infiltrated by pro-government forces.

Only mobile internet was affected so far, so for now the most effective response was encouraging people to remove their WiFi passwords.
The penny has just dropped with me. This scenario is exactly where Starlink[1] can shine (no pun intended). Find a way to get uplink routers into the locked down country and it would be impossible for totalitarian governments to block internet access completely.

--

[1] https://www.starlink.com/
How the Ministry of Health amplified Covid-19 awareness through viral marketing?
(1) This is not related to current discussion.

(2) 2G internet was available

(3) 4G service is restored now. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/4g-internet-to-be-allowed-on...
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I think blank keys are the way to go if you want to improve your typing ability. It may not be worth it for you in particular since you already type at 90-110 WPM, but in general I'd argue that if blank keys are frustrating, that frustration is evidence of your need to have those blank keys.

I too learned to type at a young age. I can type without making mistakes at 120 WPM. I also used to be a stenographer, which for the uninitiated involves typing on a specially designed keyboard for the purpose of recording transcripts. In order to graduate as a stenographer you're required to type at 240 WPM with at least 98% accuracy (which is achievable thanks to the keyboards special design).

I know from this experience that looking at your hands / the keyboard while typing drastically hinders your ability to become a good typer. Given that you type at 90-110 WPM already, the benefit for you would really only be for the obscure keys you rarely press. It's clearly very effective for breaking poor typing habits, though.

You really just need to force your brain to form a complete model of the keyboard in your head. Even looking at an image of your keyboard layout while typing (and thus not looking at your hands) hinders how well you learn. During the first semester of stenography classes they had an image of the keyboard layout blown up and hanging on the wall. How well people did correlated very well with whether or not they ever glanced at this image.

Blank keyboards prevent these bad habits from forming, and break the bad habits if they're already formed. Considering you already type at 90-110 WPM, the frustration you'd experience may not be worth it to you, but arguably you're not the target audience.
If you buy a e.g. 2+ plus some mods you can attach it to a modern TV and use SDs or even harddisks to load roms in a jiffy, which exeeds, at least my, childhood dreams. That you get for half the price imho.
A large part of the reason for the blackout is to prevent people from organising protests. Mesh networks are perfect for that kind of thing, as generally you only need to communicate with people in the same city.
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How can you ban a stereotype, especially when it's based on a fact so easily proven and incontrovertible that you can simply wait for 3 seconds after the latest Hollywood film and note all the -bergs, -steins, and precious-metal-laden surnames as the credits roll by.

Am I a conspiracy theorist if I dare to read what they put right in front of my face? Is observing the world around me now tantamount to hate speech?
Sail is not at the register-transfer level (RTL) [1].

Why? Because
Sail does not offer abstractions for clocked digital circuits, which is what characterises the RTL. The most widely used DSL for the RTL is (System)Verilog [3].
Instead, Sail is a stand-alone DSL for the ISA (= instruction set architecture). The purpose of the ISA level is to talk about that a processor looks from the outside, to the programmer (most specifically to the compiler writer). Sail is a minimal programming language with a single purpose: writing ISA specifications, which means writing an interpreter for assembly language.
Technically, Sail is a simple imperative language with first-order functions. What makes Sail suitable for specifying ISAs is its typing system. Sail supports
types that are frequently used in ISA interpreters, such as dependent typing for numeric types and bitvector lengths. Sail is closely related to Arm's ASL (= architecture specification language) [2].

Since Sail is Turing-complete, any ISA can be modelled, including Mill. For the same reason any RTL can be modelled, for example by coding up an interpreter for an RTL language like Verilog, but that would be mighty inconvenient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register-transfer_level

[2] https://alastairreid.github.io/ARM-v8a-xml-release/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog
> Dutch outlet NU.nl reported that a Facebook spokesperson clarified to them that the ban extends to Zwarte Piet, also known as Black Peter, a folk character that accompanies St. Nicholas on Christmas.

And here is exactly why it's a stupid idea, different countries have different culture and history.

We also celebrate the exact same event in my place and it's just a part of kindergarten, nothing related about US culture. People needs to be less stubborn and understand that not everywhere is the same as the place they grew up.

Edit: Although I've just learned that the Dutch & German versions look indeed different compared to my place. The massive black-beard ones we have in my place would still be okay for Facebook I believe, but it's the same concept really.