skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your fear here for comments opposing Audible's hegemony? This discussion and your other discussions have devolved into "yes it does!" and "no it doesn't!". Could you just explain why Audible and its scheme needs to be the only one standing and everyone here should just not express any concern about it?

Edit0: BTW, no one has forgotten what books are for. It is Audible with its restrictions that has made reading (or listening) into a hindrance. Are you able to accept that this is my experience/opinion?
So, you still can't disable the pointless and annoying "message sent" tone in iMessage.
Tipro keyboards, designed for POS systems are similar. E.g. this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digipos-Tipro-Black-Keyboard-MID-...

Look out for PS2 and a hard requirement to program them via a real PS2 (not a USB emulated port).

I've bought one (cherry switches sans keycaps), filled it with blank keycaps and now I need to put together some electronics to make it useful (it looks like it uses something like SPI internally).

But first, I'm stuck trying to remember why I thought it would be cool. Because it's just an 8x16 grid of switches.
China, Russia weaponized space with 'killer satellites': Defense Secretary
It was literally the first HN article I sent to my friends?
What's supposed to be the take-away from this? Is it to prove that knowing one or two bits of trivia and maybe a formula, by rote, can make your (unaided) estimation of related things vastly more accurate? That's all I'm getting from it, but maybe that's what's intended.

Examples: if I didn't happen to have an accurate-enough figure for the diameter of the Earth in miles, plus a formula for the surface area of a sphere, plus roughly the proportion of the Earth's surface that's land, all in my head, there's no chance at all I could produce a useful-for-any-purpose-whatsoever estimate of "area of the Asian continent" without researching it (at which point I could just look up a fairly exact figure, without knowing any of that). Year of Alexander the Great's birth, well I happen to know roughly when Aristotle was active and that they were alive at the same time. Otherwise, again, I'd produce a useless-for-most-any-purpose guess. Total US currency, I bet knowing something like the current annual GDP of the US would at least narrow that down, and is something someone might plausibly have at hand (I don't, my guessed range on that would be hilariously bad). If you have a sense of blockbuster movie budgets and/or returns, which one can acquire from paying attention to entertainment headlines, it's easy to come up with a reasonable range for Titanic's box office receipts. And so on.

Is the point that trivia's highly valuable, actually, if you have to estimate a bunch of arbitrary stuff purely from memory?
It was surprisingly easy to make a Nova theme -- if anything, it was a little easier than TextMate's theming (which is what virtually everybody else bases their theming on, it seems), and unlike VS Code, it supports changing background color in text runs. Which is actually something the theme I wanted to port uses!
Yep and it's also short sighted, eating their future user stream.

Hobby users often show up later in the workplace, where they'll naturally lean toward tools they're familiar with there's an option.

Hobby users also tend to form communities, where they share what they build and learned, more free advertising and more new users.

Plenty of companies would die for a curated new user stream like this.
But I need a facebook account to use one of these dont I ?
That's as of the 2010 census. The demographics of EPA have shifted pretty dramatically since then -- Facebook moved into the old Sun campus around 2011, making the area highly desirable for their employees. Combined with the growth of Google (a few exits south on 101) and other tech companies in the area, EPA has seen some significant gentrification.

(This is a relatively recent effect, of course; the "residents only" limitations on the Foothills Park are much older.)
Those points are not wrong per se, but you don't mention them being a result of the NIMBY phenomenon, supported and enshrined by law.

If we built hundreds of Tokyo-sized apartments over every metro station, the housing shortage would be over.
iPadOS doesn't have the app drawer :-(
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. We have enough celebrity flamewars as it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So Mr Jobs said file sync was a feature, yet Apple sell it as a product...
My wife and I are living with her parents... because my mother-in-law has moved in with us so that she can moderate our kids remote learning sessions while my wife and I both work.

It's not _great_, but it's not bad. Either way, I think we should get used to it.

The Economist [0] had a great special report recently that highlighted something I think we all know but don't think about; old people need care and we don't know how we're going to pay for it.

The idea of elders going off to homes is relatively recent. Multi-generational homes are not just, as the OP points out, geographical unique, they are also historically unique. I suspect the next few decades will have more multi-generational homes.

What this means for gender roles (the burden of all sorts of care tends to be disproportionately carried by women), work-life balance, rural vs urban preferences, remains to be seen. Either way, having family nearby will become increasingly relevant, which is a big deal for the U.S., where people tend to move around more freely.

[0] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/08/27/the-big-...
There’s a big difference between a parent and the adults in charge at a boarding school, in terms of the emotional support and things that those adults will do for them.

I’m sure most 13 year olds plead with their parents to take them certain places or buy them certain things (e.g. specific food and clothes, etc.), and while I’ve never been to boarding school, I imagine you have to figure out how to get things for yourself.

The point is taken re: not being “sink or swim” (you won’t be left on a ditch on the side of the road), but surely it’s obvious that more independence is needed living without a primary caregiver in the same home.
Stripe workers who relocate get $20K and pay cut
On the glamping line of thinking, I've seen some families around here use an RV as a mother-in-law apartment. They are a bit expensive right now, but still way cheaper than full renovation to add the same amount of space. Plus, then you have an RV.
For someone that worries about his identity that much I would recommend removing the 4 social network accounts linked, including facebook, from your public website. I would also check your FB privacy settings to remove photos, friend list and workplace history from public sight.
Hate to be that person, but I'm surprised people like mech keyboards. I ordered one, hated it so much, I actually decided to return it. Too loud, too much force required to type. My ideal keyboard is the low-profile laptop keyboard, especially the thinkpad one, the one before chiclet keys became a fad.
The temperature is expected to remain above plasma temperatures even if a neutron star could cool for a billion years, so presumably normal chemistry couldn’t occur.

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/14387/what-hap...

The coldest neutron star detected “T < 42,000 Kelvin” : https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07998

Disclaimer: I am not an astrophysicist.
I’m surprised, I didn’t expect to have resonating words ;) Listen to Karen Straughan for example, she’s a good resource on how to learn to see boys where they are, not for what we project of them. She shakes me every time.
otrmobile.com - low price though price has been increasing this year, they’ve started throttling video on AT&T network (can circumvent with VPN), recently ended T-Mobile option, allows you to use your own modem.

neverthrottled.com - more expensive, only uses AT&T network, allows you to use your own modem, no throttling.

4gdata.net - offers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon service, limited availability, only AT&T allows you to use your own modem, no throttling.
Seems like Panic is billing Nova as a text editor only—not necessarily an IDE. They’d have to add in functionality for a whole host of other things to make that a reality, including compilation, build, debugging, and so on. I doubt all of that can be done with their build scripts and extension framework alone, but, hey—I’ve been wrong before.

The state of the IDE landscape on Mac amazes me. It seems like there a $#!*-ton of Java/C++ developers using standard-issue MacBooks at Big Corp, Inc. who are staring at ugly IntelliJ windows for eight hours a day.

If there was a native-feeling, good-looking IDE for the Mac I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t print money. (Or if XCode ever decided to branch out beyond honest-to-goodness support for things other than Objective-C and Swift...)
How to help Deliveroo solve the plastic problem (Phase 2)
It looks great, but I really can't see myself ditching JetBrains. The refactoring tools alone make it a better solution for me.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494075.
Mask is marginal as well with very weak scientific evidence yet people wear it and even have to.
Quote from a piracy thread:

"Red Dead Redemption uses some obfuscation written by the same folks that sold previous obfuscation as 'Arxan'. The HWID-bound license probably plugs into the DRM such that it enables continued execution of the game code. This has become a feature of complex DRM."

"It also has a lot of custom checks that Rockstar wrote."

"That's it. There's no grand mystery, it's a classically challenging problem using new ways of writing frustrating-to-reverse bullshit."

src: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/h0j17y/red_dead_red...
This matches my experience that children of immigrants from intergenerational living cultures choose to live separate from parents if they can afford it.

No one makes compromises unless they have to, and unless you have a big soundproof house, two or more couples living together are going to bump into each other.

I see older parents moving back in with kids due to declining health, but otherwise the consensus seems to be that having grandparents nearby in a separate home is ideal.
So you're acknowledging the possibility that some might sink?
File_id.biz – A Mysterious Web CLI?
>it's a lot more than just "an inconvenience" to your career.

Luckily, we're talking about rare cases. Would you extend the same to a doctor who puts a patient at risk because he needs to make a mortgage payment?

Maybe I'm unreasonable, but I think if someone isn't willing to hold an ethical line they shouldn't be in a career of public trust. There's no shame in pursuing other professions, there should be shame in undermining the public trust because you aren't willing hold that line.
It's refreshing to hear I'm not the only one who doesn't like those. As stupid as I know this is, the Minimap actually kept me from trying Sublime Text initially, because it seemed like that was the big feature it was pushing in its earliest days. :)
Netty 4.1.52.Final Released
What does yak refer to? Is it a reference to gnu?
It depends on the manufacturer, Android one users get security updates every month
Tips for Ramping Up as a Senior Engineer
Does anyone actually complain about #1? In practice, congress members in very safe districts then get primaried from the left: Ocasio-Cortez knocked out Joe Crowley in NY-14, and Pelosi is currently fighting a primary election. The people disadvantaged in a democratic district in a gerrymandered republican state are... republican voters in that district. But they own the state, so what?
Highly disagree. Having support for “python” is good, but useless without support for the ecosystem (poetry, pipenv, requirements.txt, virtualenvs, pytest, a REPL, Django-specific stuff, etc).

Languages are important, but I wouldn’t say they are ahead by a large degree.
Cathie D. Wood, founder and CEO of ARK Invest, also does periodic YouTube videos. I love her!
"Powerful Updates to Messages", lol. Apple hasn't put an ounce of power into messaging. It's been 10 years, and they haven't innovated at all in the message space in any meaningful way (no, Memoji is not a meaningful extension of the messaging space). It's sad to see the lack of energy to actually create powerful and useful software, rather than to doing the bare minimum to compete in the smartphone market.
I am not OP, but I moved to a 40% (44 key minivan) about a year ago, and I am using it as my daily driver at home and work. I find that the fact that I can reach every key on the board and barely move my hands has helped a lot. The other interesting notation is that I can put the mouse really, really close by. So the motion going from keyboard to mouse is greatly reduced. I find that my wrists are much better off with this.
Seems like you are referring to sex. Obviously, when you are living in multi-generational households, you can't be having loud sex on the kitchen table. You can either do it quietly in your bedroom, or use the Asian practice of going to love motels when you want to let the monkeys loose.

Regarding your second point, I'd like to point out your particular phrasing which makes clear your point of view, that you consider a multi-generational house "someone else's house". It would be your home that you are living in, even if it is not your name on the deed or rental agreement. Now, whether you can develop your own relationships and life and way of doing things has to be independent of whether you are living with family. For every person that is an example that living with family is a burden, there surely is another example where it is a benefit. The growth in your relationship with your family can be hindered or accelerated by your time with them, I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all answer to that.
Pick a manufacturer that gives you timely updates with a support duration you're happy with, and you're fine.

And before you complain "it's insane that I have to do that", you've already done that: just you picked Apple.

The mistake people make is in thinking of Android as some monolithic, consistent thing. It's not, and can't and won't be. Buy a Google phone, or a Samsung phone, or whatever, and stick with a manufacturer you like. At least if they start doing things you don't like, you have options in the same ecosystem. If Apple does something you don't like, you have no other options without jumping ship.
What's something you wish existed/suggest?
I'm using Virtual Desktop and it works flawlessly with Alyx. It's so puzzling that you need to enable developer mode and sideload stuff to enable wireless while they allow you to connect with a cable out of the box.
I traded absurdity for salary.

I just said, I'll need to work Saturdays to make this happen, and will need at least 2 others in on Saturdays (in office - full day work). I asked for +50% and got it.

It helped I'd been clear that my schedule was 8:30-5:00 M-F to start and was younger at the time.

Ironically - these days I just wish I had free time and curse myself fairly often for being over-committed. So rarely worth it even for more $ especially if you have kids and are a stranger to them. While I'm paid extremely well QOL is WAY down and stress is very high.
I'm pretty sure comfort is one of the top priority there, so I really doubt the comfort was not improved between two Quest versions, it makes no sense to me, better check other reviews.
Yeah, I haven't given solvespace a try yet, but it looks very promising. Its workflow is just the same as the one I was using most of the time in autodesk Inventor/Fusion/Solidworks: 2D plan, place constraints like parallelism, angles, lengths, collinear, etc. extrude. Repeat, with maybe 3D constraints in some places (coplanar etc).

The only thing I'm unsure of is if it supports some functions such as milling, threads, etc. I think interfacing it with OpenSCAD just for this use-case would be huge (define the function in OpenSCAD, apply it in solvespace).

I tried hard to use FreeCAD, but maybe not hard enough, as I really had some difficulties using that workflow (IIRC, finding the 2D planner interface was difficult enough, and constraints didn't work as expected). It did have an OpenSCAD interface, though.

The last point is something worth mentioning: an opportunity FLOSS has that proprietary software often lacks is interoperability, either with the save formats, or directly with APIs, or calling each other for specific parts. I wish this was leveraged a bit more in this space.
California is the same, the Statements of Information must be filed annually with the Secretary of State and subject to a filing fee (separate from the franchise fee).
I feel like imessage takes up too much space to my computer hdd. It's like 25gb. Seems like a lot.
I've seen this a lot lately. I'm not an app developer, so forgive the ignorance. What was the surprise? The actual release date? Does Apple normally send out an email to devs saying you have 1 week until it drops? From my experience with Apple, the GM was always a closely held secret and divulging knowledge was grounds for loss of Apple privileges. Just curious what is so different this time.
That's a bit of a stretch. Facebook uses data to improve ad targetting on their own platforms. They're not selling your HR or fitness data to your insurance company or anything crazy like that.

Facebook generated $29 per user in the US last year. A small bit of extra info about people's gaming habits is not going to improve ad targetting enough to make up for a $100 gap in price.
Assuming your father's peak income was in 1980, inflation has been about %315
I'm still using Sublime. I guess it's less customisable than Atom, but you can't fault it for performance.
You can't attack another user like this regardless of how wrong they are or how strongly you disagree. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again. Please also stop using HN for ideological battle, as it makes the threads predictable and nasty. That's in the site guidelines.

You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. However, you've also posted some good comments, so I'm not going to ban you—but if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I struggled to understand the relevance of Dropbox as soon as the alternatives of Google Drive and OneDrive came on the market with vastly more storage capacity.

Is there a sizable market for people who require locally-stored content synchronised to the cloud (e.g. video editors?) Beyond that, the only people I encounter day-to-day who mention Dropbox are those not sufficiently tech-savvy to have known about the free alternatives mentioned above, and are still coasting on Dropbox's first mover awareness advantage.
No, once you upgrade with iOS, you're stuck on it as an user
Michael Kramer and Kate Reading (husband and wife team) are some of the best fantasy narrators available (in my opinion). I would pick up a book I've never even heard of if they're attached to the narration.
Lets go back to IRC...An Android client would to the trick
Netgear LB1121 modem works well and is inexpensive. Been using cellular internet despite living in an relatively urban setting because I’m done with Comcast/Xfinity. OTR Mobile was the best (unlimited bandwidth, no throttling, $60 per month) until AT&T apparently hiked their fees back in March.
Having more than one supplier is unnecessary complexity, insofar as there is no competition or market forces at work anyway, nor will there be any permitted by the participants.

It'd require a lot more ass-covering to pretend that the company isn't just an arm of the government, entitled to a neverending stream of practically unlimited tax dollars.

Look at the whole kerfuffle that Amazon is making over JEDI being given to Microsoft. Under the current system, that's probably better avoided.
Sketch has a 'soft' way into making you constantly buy subscription. Plugins usually target only the latest released version of Sketch, so if you are dependent on plugins (and you ARE dependent on plugins if you use Sketch), then you either upgrade or eventually lose extended functionality. Because plugin manager will update plugins regardless of their compatibility with your current version.
> Perhaps that's because you want the wrong thing for some reason.

I can't really parse this but from the best sense of it I can get, I reckon the most correct response is, "no, u".

[EDIT] Oh and also:

> You have never experienced this, so how could you possibly know? Also, no it wouldn't.

It's really incredible how often relatively straightforward conversations on HN end up veering, pointlessly, into theory of the mind and epistemology.
Is it love of a tyrant or closer to Stockholm Syndrome?
One thing similar to Catalina with iOS 14 is the “over” security. It does nice to have scoped location permission or scoped photos access. But sometimes those permissions just pops up at a time when you’d click on them by mistake.
For less techie people it would be impossible to go to settings and change it.
I stumbled upon this site when taking a trip down memory lane. Recalling the FILE_ID.DIZ file format[0] from my BBS days, I typed in the closest matching URL (file-id.biz) and found this curious interface.

I've only found one command so far after a bit of exploring:
help → "I am not what I am."

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ
How do you guys nowadays find cool things online?
I honestly don't trust this review
I interpreted it as:

Parametric modelling is something F360 is really good at, and then I could do useful things with the model.

Now that I can't do useful things with the model (they removed all those features), it doesn't make sense to use F360, no matter how good the parametric modelling is.
I remember our family of five children, two cars, pool (but above ground), most vacations were camping but we did make it to Disney World. We had lots of nice stuff as kids, but it was solidly middle class.

My mother stayed home while my father worked an eight hour day as an engineer at the local factory. He never worked overtime or weekends. All this with a bachelor's degree. My mother eventually went back to work so my parents retired quite early.

American workers have been conned into creating the very wealthiest people in the world by continuing to give up more and more earning power, every year, and for being more productive. Europe is slightly better thanks to good public benefits, but it has also gone in the same direction: making the wealthy far wealthier than they were in the past.

I can understand why this latest generation has little enthusiasm for doing anything extra at work. Good for them. Maybe things will eventually head back in the right direction for the middle class in developed countries.