skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Curses" is a library for writing, well, TUIs[0]. I get that's a bit circular, so let me explain.

With a normal CLI program, you essentially just output to STDOUT line by line. You type `git status`, and the git program basically does `print(status)`. Then you're back to your terminal and you type another command, git or otherwise.

A "curses" program renders fundamentally different. It's much more like how video games render. Every time it renders, it'll draw to the entire screen. You're not in an empty command line where you can type any command, rather you are "in" the application. Take a look at this screenshot [1]. You can imagine how pressing up/down keys might move which input is selected. If you want to get back to the normal terminal you have to quit the TUI application.

While not commonly thought of TUIs, generally vi/emacs/lynx/etc would all technically qualify (tho people might give you a strange look if you called them TUIs). To be clear, these do not use curses. They kind of predate curses and just wrote it manually. Curses is not a requirement ffor a TUI, but is by far the most common library to use when writing TUIs now-a-days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library)

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/oD7mJ.png
As a counterpoint, the non-techies in my family have become so used to the iPhone and iPad mail client that they look for (and find, and use) the desktop mail client on their Macs. Even my mom knows she has to "find the mail and give it my GMail" when she gets a new device.
> asics cost more to build than a commodity GPU

Why would this be true? The R&D costs of a commodity GPU can be amortized across more customers than an ASIC, and the same is somewhat true for capital costs (masks, etc) -- but the manufacturing cost of an ASIC should be at worst the same as a GPU (with one fewer middleman adding a margin on top of those costs), and in general cheaper (since die size can be reduced, or an older process can be used).
I want the freedom to do whatever I want.

If I can live off my million in savings , I’d make games and music all day.
The functional part of the test, the piece of paper that lines appear on, is less than $0.10 a piece. It is mass manufactured, you could mail people a hundred test strips. You could reuse the $1 plastic housing. What do you think people are doing in other countries? This is a failure of leadership.
There isn't much money to be derived from the product (as is) and it takes a small team of people to focus on it in order to maintain it. Someone with at least a modicum of influence has to care about the product and drive resources at it persistently so it doesn't rot. Google is unlikely to want to go further and build or acquire a stock broker business, so they're going to struggle to extract much money out of the category over time.

This is Google doing the bare minimum as an alternative to just shutting down another product. I'm surprised it has survived this long.
>Blatant protectionism isn't popular in developed countries

Depends which developed countries and which industries. It is much more common than what it appears on the surface.
Well, at least for me, Safari is often still the fastest browser and has long been the best at power management (important when you're running on battery power). And I like its UI a little more; its tabs, for instance, are native macOS tabs. Firefox and Chrome both make up their own stuff.

As far as "least standards-compliant," I understand that when it comes to supporting progressive web apps, Safari has largely dropped the ball, but in day-to-day practice there just aren't many sites that I have trouble with on Safari. (The biggest one seems to be new Reddit, and I am not entirely convinced that issue is on Safari's end.)
There is a permanent free usage limit though. For example Lambda has it. But agreed that they could differentiate between the different free tiers.
And yet the general interest (per google trends) is only twice as much as in 2013 when it first became popular. IMO this shows more speculation than actual demand.
I just hope any Firefox-only developments at Mozilla won't strand Pocket, one of my favorite apps (and which I pay for).
It doesn't really matter that IV is not the main source of his (or anyone else's wealth).

Nor is it really a place to "play with ideas", instead, it is a place where ideas go to die--literally. In addition to filing lawsuits and/or collecting fees, they [IV] sells patents to other trolls who then proceed with lawsuits.

It's really appalling that someone so talented would be involved with such a parasitic business. I really can't respect this person at all. He should be called out at every opportunity.
The exact opposite would be that bitcoin value eventually drops to zero. No use, no value.

It's a possibility. And I don't have a crystal ball. People will make that choice. Fiat currencies may solve its deficiencies and we will happily with them. Given how global and digital the world is becoming, crypto currencies would most likely be somewhat popular anyways, unless something better comes along.
You can do IP to location if you deploy a Lamda@Edge and get the cloudfront headers

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/cloudfron...
Are those the money laundering services that hide transactions in group payouts?
Charlie Munger CalTech Alum Interview
MacKenzie Scott Announces $4.2B More in Charitable Giving
They just caught the biggest electricity thieves in the Bulgaria - Bitcoin miners in a rural area, stealing electricity straight from the lines and using as much as 4,000 households. And it was a small-scale operation!
Though it is embeddable on Android via GeckoView.
Robinhood complaint filed by Massachusetts regulators
Fedora is the RHEL upstream. It's very useful to Red Hat/IBM. This is where community contributions happen.
This site smosa.com has ton of science related stuff - pretty useful for highschool students looking to grow in science.
Honda recalls 1.4M US vehicles for software, other problems
Someone has to feel sorry for Btc. Many people are going to lose money. Bitcoin has value. It is only Btc people that took a very nice technology and crippled it. The put a cap in it's block size, and they removed instructions of the Bitcoin Script language.

Bitcoin's usage lies in it's use as an immutable ledger, that no one can change the past. We can put other information inside it,alongside with the money transactions, and we can be absolutely sure that no one messed with that information. An infinite number of use cases.

For example say a cop makes an arrest. How can we be sure that the arrest was legitimate? A random person with a video camera may record the arrest, go to his home, edit it however he likes, upload it to the internet, and boom huge civil unrest! The solution lies with the cop recording the arrest by himself, uploading the information right away to the blockchain, and no person on the planet, no state, no goverment, can mess up with that information. The timestamp of the arrest is important too!
Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's iOS Privacy Changes
Yes enthusiasts care about adblock, manifest v3 and performance. That is a very tiny minority of users.

>Chrome didn't dethrone IE and displace FF because google advertised it.

This I almost heavily disagree with. Surprisingly, marketing and advertising is far, far more effective than product performance. Performance helps retain users, but advertising is what moves users. That is nearly always the case.
They have hinted at what it will be, which is essentially an expanded developer license that’s allows use only in limited ways. There’s no indication they will be releasing anything that allows wholesale replacement of production CentOS infrastructures with something officially RHEL.
"Institutional investment and mining are at an all-time high, indicating this may not be a bubble" is where the news is.
>ETFs are a hobby?

Bitcoin is not a bundle of securities, nor is an ETF a currency. Why would you confuse the two?
> There is value in keeping non-paying users in your own ecosystem.
Always great to have an alternative to Google but I'd encourage anyone to have a look at Leaflet.js which is a great free alternative and doesn't take much JS knowledge to get up and running

Edited to say: and of course it runs on OpenStreetMaps
Facebook Publishes Newspaper Ads to Criticize Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Updates
Ah, thanks for the information. Interesting that such vibrations can only affect the attitude and not the orbit itself. Keen to hear from anyone who cares to share more of the science involved here!
modern equivalent of DoubleClick

Nitpick: they are DoubleClick:

> DoubleClick was a company acquired by Google in 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleClick
> It's also the one that uses the least battery life

Battery life has always been very top priority for Apple. That's the reason why Apple stopped supporting Flash and basically killed it (thank gosh).
ETH2 is moving towards Proof of Stake and that should be a major step forward in reducing the energy consumption without making any major security trade offs.
I gave up on Windows long ago.
1) You don't need trust the watch tower, they can't steel your money. 2) you can host a watch tower yourself on your server.
Look, yes SFTP is an extension of SSH and is a completely independent wire protocol with some different features and semantics. But from the user’s perspective it looks just like a different flavor of FTP and all the security comes from the underlying transport. It’s remarkably easy to accidentally let your users accidentally have more access than they should with SFTP because SSH is a complex protocol. A good example is that “SFTP only” users can still port forward by default unless you remember to turn it off. And SSH doesn’t have public CAs so in practice it’s a lot of blindly accepting keys. And with FTPS you have to remember to turn off anonymous access and that that dynamic port range makes firewalls annoying. There are trade-offs and no tool is going to be better in all situations.

The idea that FTPS is bad and you should feel bad is more like the JSON vs XML debate than it is legitimate security gripes.
That’s a jaded view. The truth is that most enterprise customers are not making a decision based on a front page blurb and are going to Vercel because they have a problem they already need solved.

The problem here is “I want to avoid increasing the number of backend and SRE engineers for the customer-facing portions of the business and I have a team bought into next.js already or are platform-agnostic.”

People are not Stumbling upon vercel. The developers are coming through next.js. That said, I think this is evidence they could have better copy on the front page.
There are also exchanges that use numeric symbols like the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, but ADR shares won't. It's actually quite a shitshow.
In Dutch nu also means now.
Asthma from air pollution completely destroyed my life, that's all my life is about at this point.

The first signs are that it's harder to sleep at night, because the mucus goes into your airways. If you feel that, move away far from any street with many cars while you can.
Will be interesting to see if this becomes the Google Reader replacement missing all these years. Substack is uniquely positioned to offer this kind of product.
I love the idea of this. But what exactly should be stripped away? I can think of Pocket but thats about it. What do you mean by legacy support?
At $30 per test, I doubt we will get much regular testing with this. Family of four would by $120 per day of testing.
Yeah, that second thing. :)

The chaos itself should be random, but the time and place should not be.
Since CentOS is 100% based on RHEL what exactly do you mean by maintaining? It's not like it takes 100s of engineer to do that.
In other words, what Ubuntu does.

"Oh you want support? You want this extra server management software? Let's talk."
Yes. I do really think that is gonna continue in the future.

I've said this before and I'll probably say it in increasingly irascible tones, but "next year macOS is gonna become just like iOS" is becoming the new "next year is the year of Linux on the desktop."

Yes, Apple will almost certainly keep making security decisions people (including me) don't like, but there's no compelling business decision for trying to lock the Mac down to only App Store installs. Yes, I know Apple gets 30% of software sales that way. No, that is not enough of a reason for them to take the hit to their hardware profits that would undoubtedly entail. Even if it were just a loss of a few percent of Mac sales -- which I think is extremely optimistic -- it'd be coming out of the sales of the most expensive Macs, and making up one lost Mac sale literally requires hundreds of sales on the App Store to make up for it. Any executive at Apple who suggested that would be beat senseless by their accounting department.
Gold is something that exists IRL.

It has value even in the absence of a market to buy/sell it. It can be melted down and formed into jewelry, as a simple example.

The reason I won't buy into crypto is it's impossible to make informed investment decisions because, as an investment, the price is driven too highly by unknown market forces (at least unknown to me...).

Perhaps it's a good investment if you truly feel you understand what drives the price of bitcoin, or have insider knowledge that you know will affect its price that others don't.
Ack! Ugh see this is what I’m talking about. I use Lambda for some side projects but I forgot about this because all the different products have such different types of billing and free tiers. I just wish it wasn’t so confusing. Thank you for correcting my mistake!
Do Not Use Syncthing
I can find the most trending books and other best products on various technologies on the link:
https://www.packtpub.com/programming
Thank you Packt for this initiative and one of the best offer and happening deal of 2020..
I believe you are mistaken. They did not trade it away for WiFi and internet, this dispute is over 20 years old and isn’t because “now that the value of .nu went up”, and there is no deal to unilateral Revoke
Yeah, those eyeballs certainly are not without value!

200 million monthly users is still a lot of people.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
(I work for Mozilla and was there when this all happened)

That is false. Only one of them quit "because of" him. You don't need to take my word for it: Stephen Shankland's piece [1] is the least-inaccurate account of what happened there.

And in fact, your statement is not even logical. Think about it: Who hires a CEO? A company's board. Now you're saying that a huge chunk of the board quit because of a hire that they themselves were responsible for making? That makes no sense.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-da...
Because the impeller spins, heat transfer between the base of the heatsink and the impeller relies on jumping the air gap between them. Which means the impeller isn't actually doing anything and a heatsink with no fan and more surface area would work better.
I don't think its fair to say it's "the only thing", although I'll give it that its the most popular aspect that it's talked about.

The truth is excitement and hype around price is the lowest common denominator for people interested in cryptocurrency so naturally it would be the most visible topic.

Tech around this is still very... technical, young non-vital, niche.

I understand why people worry and even discard the value of price-obsession, but (at least for bitcoin) price of the token (along with other variables that indicate adoption) is crucial for security and growth of the platform.

Even Satoshi recognized that hype-cycles would be important for adoption of bitcoin.
Got it yeah, this is probably why I was confused. URL schemes are the only way to do a lot of things on iOS, whereas (as far as I know) they're additive to the *nix ways of doing things on the Mac.
Have regular forms with action attributes, and regular links (potentially styled as buttons if it makes sense). Add a little JavaScript to make xhr (or fetch if you prefer) requests in place of the default behaviour.

A couple of data-* attributes can help control the specific behaviour of the JavaScript meaning you probably don’t need inline/page specific is code for every instance.

This isn’t a new approach, we were doing this back when IE6 was the “mainstream” browser.
I notice that some rando on github can make a chart of my financial transactions since they're all public.
Gold is not just a store of value, it's a material with many practical uses (like all the electronics that make having this conversation possible). Even gold's decorative value gives it a serious advantage over BTC in my book (though I like silver and platinum better, to be honest).
I'm trying to work through this lately and finding it hard: findings so far — https://wincent.com/wiki/Modifier_keys

Biggest hurdle is finding a clean way to do application-specific overrides, because even if you can get the general case working right, there is a lot of per-app variation.
> I don’t have a read on Edge

My guess it's MS will let Chromium do the heavy lifting, and they will integrate it nicely with AD etc and all IT departments will make it the new corporate default.
Yes it can. JavaScript and the web DOM use UTF-16 and nobody says their Unicode support is basic.

So UTF-16 is not the problem.
Thank you for using 33mail - and for the suggestion.

We try to walk the line between keeping users informed of new features without defeating the purpose of 33mail by sending emails they don't want.

About how often would you be happy to receive emails about new 33mail features? A few times per year - perhaps?
It might be because it's searching using the IMAP server, for some reason those can't often deal with non-ASCII characters. Searching with diacritics seems to work for me in locally-downloaded folders.
I consider them a scapegoat in the sense that they're sort of a catchall target for negative feelings about these problems. I also think they're not a scapegoat insofar as they're responsible for their actual bad practices. It's not really either-or for me: they're blamed for things they really are responsible for, but I also think they catch a lot of flak in general for things that are largely beyond their control. I'd like them to be accountable for the bad things they actually do while keeping our eye on the broader problem, which I'm not as convinced as you are that everyone is doing already.
I periodically see sites broken in Firefox until I turn off uBlock and/or Privacy Badger - including issues with paying like you describe. But I've always assumed that the same would happen in Chrome if I had the same extensions installed there. This seems more like 'locking out people with adblockers' than 'locking out Firefox', even if there's substantial overlap.
Another thing working against Firefox on mobile is that it seems like every software update for Samsung phones resets the default browser/URL handler to Samsung Internet. Anyone not paying close attention will just click through the EULA and suddenly no longer be using Firefox.
I read longform articles and journalism voraciously. When I'm not pulling overtime at work, I usually read 20-50 in-depth articles a day. But the challenge is how widely I read. Sure, there's a bunch at NYT (which I subscribe to), and a bunch at open-access blogs and journals around the net, but the middle are tough.

I might normally want to read, over the course of a month, 10-15 articles from each of 15 different paywalled magazines or newspapers. Which is more than the 2-5 free articles typically allowed past their paywalls, but little enough (especially compared to 15 or more competitors) to justify $15-25+ a month per source. Maybe if I was a Wall Street trader the WSJ and Bloomberg are no-brainer expenses, but right now I wouldn't get enough value from them to justify their sky-high subscription costs, but I would like to read a decent handful of articles a month. A few publishers, like NYT or WP, have picked up on this market, and regularly discount to capture various price points, but lots have held onto a 'big subscription or none' model.

What I really want is an (expensive) subscription to something like Spotify Premium across publishers. I'd happily fund the pool to the tune of $50-100 a month, if it could get me access to my top 15-25 paywalls. Everyone gets some, some get close to standard subscription rates, but it'd just enable me not to have to worry about whether I've used up my free articles for the month at each origin. And it'd also let me contribute to lots of magazines and things I do appreciate, just not $25/mo appreciation.
Nice to know I'm not the only one weighing these costs.
There has to be a goldilocks zone where high power theft and corruption is balanced with reasonable physical security and guarantee of stable power delivery, or your miners will short out the entire town supply, if they aren't simply stolen first. Also thy need cooling and are very noisy, attracting attention.
This chart shows the amount of BTC that's locked into the Lightning Network over time, one measure of adoption: https://embed.theblockcrypto.com/data/on-chain-metrics/bitco...

It hasn't grown much in the last year and a half. Personally I don't see Lightning Network winning the battle for high-bandwidth, low-cost transactions against all the other protocols.
If you're looking for more substantive discussion among Bitcoiners, touching on its relation to economics, politics, and society, YouTube and Reddit are not the spots. I'd try Twitter. Start with @saifedean and go from there.
Gain of Function virus research is evil and is still happening.

Sars-Cov-2 is man made and is obviously an effective military and economic weapon against the USA.

Lab rationale is to study vaccines for possible virus, and procedure is to make the virus instead of waiting around for a natural origin.

There is no proof of natural origin. Its far easier to argue for lab origin.

Ban GoF research now.
Is this true? That isn't typically the Google way. Traditionally they build something and then let it linger for years before killing it.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
It was interesting to see the author specifically call out the joys of working in a University environment. It is a unique environment, and working with/for some of the smartest people in the world is a nice perk.
Since I didn't know what it was, I looked it up.

Org-roam: A plain-text personal knowledge management system.
Good, I hope they get it. The fact that anyone other than the Niue people get to decide what to do with their domain is ludicrous. The claim of "neo-colonialism" is exactly right.
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I switched from S3 + Cloudfront to Vercel, simply because it's even easier.
There are two types of posters on HN. Tesla pumpers, and Bitcoin pumpers.
One exception to this that pops to mind is computers, which have gradually gotten cheaper. Even though you always get a better one if you wait, it hasn't deterred consumers.
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Krishna