skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its the companies place to take the risk. The power imbalance is greatly in favor of the employer. At worst they hire someone not quite perfect but also have a pool of other candidates they looked at to move onto if it really is that bad of a choice.
Not sure I'd take advice on UI/UX behavior from someone who professes to not leave a terminal window... 35 years after better things came along. I know I live back when terminals were all we had. Boy were we happy when that wasn't true anymore.

No matter how much you like typing everything in a terminal, it is the least efficient environment for file system navigation. It lists file systems in 1-D where you...have....to...type...out...paths and cache the organization in your own memory. The poor UX of the terminal leads to lot of bad habits, like shortening names to acronyms, reducing hierarchy for typing convenience, and dumping files an unorganized mess (looking at you usr/local/bin). GUI file navigation is 2-D or even 3-D organizations of files that together with spotlight indexing I know I outrun terminal navigators by 10X in a real-world file system.
Private and public companies own power plants too.
The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you
incremental compilation is so slow in rust. it is ridiculous.

it completely ruins my flow
The same also applies to Javascript.
I think the social stigma attached to Herpes is more than "an annoyance".
The culture at Pinterest is highly toxic. Awful personalities abound. I know this from friends that used to work there and also from this lawsuit:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/1/21755406/pinterest-shareh...
While all true IME the ever growing stack of libraries, frameworks, languages, and infra tools one must learn leaves little breathing room for modest gains in text wrangling.

Most of my time isn't spent slicing and dicing snippets or juggling windows. Rather it's thinking, planning, a bit of experimentation, reading, repeat.

And powerful, built-in auto complete with visual IDEs like IntelliJ or PyCharm make them hard to give up.
This isn't about the IDFA or some future update.

This is about the requirement to disclose how much data you are collecting and what you are doing with it that rolled out as "Privacy Nutrition Labels" in iOS 14.3 a couple of months ago.

>Apple announced Privacy Nutrition Labels at WWDC 2020. Under the scheme, developers selling apps on the App Store must explain the privacy practices of each one they sell. That means detailed information concerning what data they collect, why, and what they do with it must be provided to users in the form of what looks like a food nutrition label.

Apple has asked developers to provide this information with their app since Dec. 8; while apps already available in the store don’t have to have it, as developers roll out updates, they’ll be expected to include where data is being used and in what category (including financial and personal data).

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600998/apples-privacy...

If you update your app, you must disclose the privacy information to users.

Google's solution to the problem has been to refuse to update their apps, and they have waited so long that they have triggered their own automated security warning.
This is super exciting. A high quality keyboard with first class linux support. Does anyone know the price? And it's a 75% layout, which is my personal favorite.
>If I read the article correctly the "cuts" are made to the DNA of the virus, not the nerve cell itself. [1]

To further clarify, the herpes virus leaves DNA plasmids inside the cell nucleus; the virus' DNA is NOT incorporated into the cell's genome (like HIV) and the meganuclease delivered by the AAV cuts apart those plasmids -- not the cell's own DNA -- and in this version actually leaves behind its own plasmid that acts as a sentinel making more meganucleases to guard against future HSV infections in that cell. The researchers are investigating ways to remove those AAV plasmids when the job is done for added safety.
> my pixel 2 had simply become unusable due to battery life and performance issues that I'm 90% certain were related to ad tracking on android apps.

Pretty sure that's just crappy google quality. My 2 year old Samsung is going strong. It became marginally faster with the latest update.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917347/

Just reminded myself that above frome couple years back
They didn't write the firmware. QMK is a popular open source keyboard firmware.

And fwiw, user updatable keyboards are usually configured require a particular key be pressed to flash it, or have a dedicated button to hit with a paper clip.
> The most interesting part of Taiclet’s response was, like Hicks’s answer, the ideological component. Taiclet suggested that antitrust enforcers look to “competitors, which are China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea for example, comparing our defense industrial base capabilities to those of the peer group.” In other words, while Hicks argued that our democratic competitive systems make us stronger, Lockheed Martin’s CEO said just the opposite. We should, in his view, mimic authoritarian societies in the way we run our commerce.

Ideology in this case is whatever answers the inconvenient questions.
When looking for the cheapest tickets, I tend to search all three (which tend to give dramatically different fares for some reason):

flights.google.com
fareboom.com
skyscanner.com
I'm not a huge fan of China's one-child policy, no, and I'd be even less of a fan if they'd done it with the intent to eradicate gay men.
I had this with one of my own projects - a complaint that it didn't support an s390. I proposed a patch based on the described issue and stated it would be merged the moment someone who actually had an s390 tested it. Noone came forward. I'm certain a lot of these compatibility complaints fall into a similar area.
Personally I've been really happy with my split 60% keyboard from UltimateHackingKeyboard [0]. It also has open source electronics files and firmware

I backed them on CrowdSupply some years ago and although it took a while to be delivered have used it extensively since and even purchased a second one for at home & the office. A huge positive while waiting for it was the regular, informative status emails from the founder.

Now they are on to v2 [1] with backlighting and better keycaps.

The "Agent" firmware is also regularly updated and makes customising the keyboard a breeze. I won't go extensively into the functionality here but it's worth checking out.

I am in no-way affiliated with UHK but if anybody is looking for a split, open source, customisable keyboard I would highly recommend.

[0] https://uhk.io/

[1] https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog/2020/11/05/introduc...
Why are so many keyboards tiny like this? If I want a small keyboard, I will just use a laptop.

I have a huge desk, I don't want a 12" keyboard with 2 weird small space keys, and the arrow keys smashed into the right side.
As a Mac user who uses command prompts all day every day, I don't open Terminal.app.
Supercookie
That board looks like it's for north facing switches. Like the Drop CTRL. This seems to be a universally disliked switch orientation.
Another advantage is that the keymapping can get saved onto the keyboard itself.

Plug your keyboard into a new computer and the keymapping stays the same.
Rest In Peace Larry, you old curmudgeon!

I had the pleasure of working for Larry and can say that in some ways he was a hero of mine. Not because he was a pornographer, but simply because he did what he pleased and fought like hell to protect that right. He risked everything he had to prove his points because he knew if he failed he would have nothing. I didn't always agree with what we were publishing and producing, but I supported our right to do it. Larry on the other hand eternally supported others right to do the same without question.

America IS a more free place because of Larry. Say what you will about the man, he would not have cared less!
The notion that people will wait days or months to settle survival transactions after a catastrophe is absurd. As is the notion that after major global collapse there will be a robust global network so that planetary consensus can be achieved. Ditto that enough people will care about global transactions when global trade falls apart.

Bitcoin can't even build a significant user base now. Approximately nobody buys anything with it. Compared with debit cards or cash or mobile money systems like MPesa, it's a rounding error. If it's not better than any of the existing payment systems, it's not going to get better in some sort of prepper-fantasy collapse.
I thought this was amazing until I realized there’s only 12 base patterns. I expected the base patterns to be generated too, not hand authored. While you can make adjustments the changes are minor. Really undercuts the name of the tool. Sorry to be a downer.
Check out UltimateHackingKeyboard [0] for a developed, split, open-source keyboard. Can definitely recommend.

[0] https://uhk.io/
Has such a bloc been formally proposed?
How to choose your RHEL file system
Previous to this the Google apps got frequent updates. It’s documented out there. Nothing since Dec 8 is probably as notable for devs working on features (but not this effort) as it is to us wondering when the apps are going to be updated.
Hafele–Keating Experiment
Is there any eMMC or other non-volatile storage on the PCB? I tried looking through the PCB files but I don't have KiCad.

I've always wanted a keyboard with a keylogger inside the keyboard itself. That way it doesn't matter which OS or computer it is attached to, every keystroke is secretly logged inside the keyboard (to be dumped at a later time for examination)

Edit: looks like the microcontroller is an Atmel chip [0] which has either 16/32 KB of flash depending on which one. I'm not sure which the system76 keyboard uses. I'm assuming part of that flash is for the firmware itself, but maybe there is extra room for logs as well?

[0] https://github.com/system76/launch/blob/master/pcb/docs/Atme...
Is Bitcoin now using more resources than gold mining?
That’s a good point, but without Bitcoin those trusted authorities have no irreversible way to transact between themselves, it’s an infrastructure technology not a customer facing one.

Similar to how no one says we shouldn’t have encrypted web traffic because sometimes you want to see the raw message, you don’t need to weaken the protocol to solve a higher up issue.
Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine, dies at 78
Absolutely, there's no reason to write your own when QMK gives you so much.
I've basically given up on finding a mechanical keyboard since only Matias actually makes any with a Mac keyboard layout and finding a good/available 100% PCB seems nigh-on impossible.
Which is why I said since Nixon.
Here in New Zealand, Apple Maps is more or less on par with Google Maps with a lot of variability in different areas. I switched from Apple to Google about a year ago and to be honest even if Google Maps is sometimes better than Apple, it's not always better. There are times I wish I had access to Apple Maps as they actually have better data (or in some cases they have data while Google has nothing at all to show) in certain areas. New roads for example take ages (sometimes in the order of years) to show up on Google whereas they're on Apple relatively quickly.
Why does Apple have to allow this? Because you want it? You do not have to build in the Apple ecosystem. Android has 85% market share. Write for that if it makes you happy. If you want access to that other 15% of the market well then you have to play in their rules. If people where not happy with that then they would not be successful. The lack of side loading has not hurt Apple because most people just do not give a damn. Allowing side loading would NOT suddenly open a huge market because the average person that buys Apple would not use it. On the other hand requiring Apple to create a method to do this imposes on Apple all the development, testing and security issue that would be created by this “feature”, not to mention the public bad will of some dumb user that follows some random webpage and gets pawned and then blames Apple for allowing it. It is not magically free. It has a cost to Apple that they have to right to say no to. People have a choice of what phones they buy with 85% of the market being Android. I am sick of everyone complaining about this. You have a choice to of where to build and play. Just because you are a developer that does not want to pay Apple what the market will bare does not give you the right to tell them how to run their business.

The average Apple customer does not feel they are being screwed by Apple because they do not support side loading. If they did they would not buy the product. I am willing to bet the % of the install base or really people that side load on Android is insignificant vs the daily user base.

Oh I am not a blind fan. I am someone that has been in all the roles from support to development to product management. I have done this long enough that I think about the cost (money, man hours) for the simple thing that everyone seems to think is obvious until they pull it apart and understand the real details involved.
If you have home charging and mostly commute within the range of the plug-in hybrid, it’s the same as a full electric car with the added advantage of an ICE for the rare longer drives.
> Everything is animal spirits now in search of yield.

Zirp explains exactly why asset prices are inflating, as I said before, animal spirits are an unnecessary hypothesis.

> Because people are expecting it to get to $100k, which means it's a hot commodity in a speculative bubble. Not everyone who buys into a bubble believes that the underlying fundamentals justify the price in the long run- they just believe that there's room to grow, and that there are greater fools to sell to.

When there are underlying fundamentals, as in the case of bitcoin, its not necessary to speculate on why people might buy a thing otherwise. Certainly there are people who buy because its trendy. Thats not really relevant though.
What bothers me is that every single good news coming from science has the same old "but".

>It will still take a long time before these experiments lead to the first human trials

And we'll never hear from them again. You betcha!
Not only are there blind vias, some multilayer boards have capacitors in the middle of the stack.
First Look at the Bigme B1 Pro Color E-Reader
I've always heard that ITA Matrix is the most powerful flight search tool that exists. Not a polished UI like Hipmunk though. https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ I have no real complaints with Google Flight search though.
I’m not sure a minimum wage is a good idea.
Keychron, gmmk, drop, ducky.. filco? These are all boards you can add to cart right now.
Ok but I still don't want them impulsively robbing me when they are coming down and need money for the next fix.
To commenters asking why do paid sites use them: because fraud is real and the fact that you pay doesn't mean you aren't a bot.
I don’t think Trump is a racist.
Check out this infographic that illustrates the frequency of Google app updates before and after December 8 https://twitter.com/Thomasbcn/status/1356645088697454596

After seeing that, one can not help but to assume that 1.) the lack of updates are related to the privacy label deadline and 2.) that most of its apps are in need of bug fixes and aren’t receiving those updates.
We are still trying to figure out if some neurodegenerative diseases are caused by herpes viruses.

Having a vaccine is probably about the slowest way to figure that out, but if it turns out to be true then the problem is already solved.
That is correct, but not a fair comparison, imho. Google, as a centralized entity, is one of a few companies devoted to go 100% green. Bitcoin consuming that much energy is akin to saying that production of wine all over the world is 14x what's being produced in France. Where's the logic?
Hi,

I liked your answer here on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26093675. Would you like to write for our website on topics finance and crypto as a volunteer?
One of my favorite things to do when I am depressed due to negativity is to read Hacker News comments when Dropbox launched and the NYTimes story on space flight being impossible.

I am going to add this submission to that list.
In my opinion hybrids are the worst of both worlds, resulting in excess expense and maintenance in the long run. We've had two Toyota Priuses in our family over the last 10 years, both of which had to have their battery packs replaced somewhere over 100k miles. The number of places around that refurbish hybrid battery packs or sells completely new ones tells me this is a common issue, an entire industry has built up around this problem. It cost us over $2,000 for each car which completely negated any money we might have saved on gas over the lifetime of the vehicle. On top of that another dirty little secret about Toyota's hybrid system is their Atkinson cycle engines like to burn oil as they get older, there are literally hundreds of threads on various Prius forums and sub-Reddits about the problem. I see it all the time when I'm behind Priuses at a stop light now: there's that little puff of smoke coming out of the tailpipe when the engine restarts. It is literally Toyota's dirty little secret. How can you have an environmentally friendly car that burns oil? Here's just one example of such a thread:

https://priuschat.com/threads/excessive-oil-consumption-expl...

My wife drives a 2 year old Tesla Model 3 now and it's been completely maintenance free for 32k miles so far, we've barely even seen any degradation in the battery pack capacity. I will never buy another hybrid vehicle from Toyota and I can't recommend them to anyone else either. Toyota would do well to accelerate their transition to full BEV vehicles like VW and others are doing if they want to be able to still claim to be an environmentally responsible car company.
You're essentially you're willing to trade security of critical infrastructure (and potentially risk lives) for the convenience of being able to do your job from home.
It’s an interesting question i was contemplating while writing the post, is it possible to cause damage by hacking the plants I work on? Exceeding conditions set forth in Environmental certificates, yes, destroying the machinery ... would be possible only because some modern equipment is used and connected to the network, if the Ethernet ports on the devices containing the sync-checks were disconnected, or an older dumb device where any setting adjustments are made with a screwdriver, then it wouldn’t be possible to damage about half of the plants. The other half with oil pumps you could cause some significant damage by telling it the oil pump is running when it is not and suppressing all the bearing temperature protection.

I wonder what if any cyber security requirements are imposed by their insurance companies.
They publish textual articles too. Their tone has gotten a little more slanted in the past ~6 months but they're still better than a lot of what's out there
Every single custom mechanical keyboard supports fully customizable open source firmware called QMK or Via. Nothing about any mechanical keyboard with QMK is inherently second-class when it comes to Linux.

The other weird thing about this keyboard is that the keycap compatibility is a little bit awkward. The wide delete key, short backspace, small return, and split spacebars are not impossible to replace, but many common MX sets don’t have those keycaps in the base kit. Most GMK base sets will only include the smaller backspace. You’ll need to shell out for the additional “40s” kit for those keys.

I don’t know the price but I would estimate at least $250 USD depending on the volume they intend to produce. A keyboard like this run through GeekHack and co would easily go for $350 without keycaps.
Look up when the electron was discovered, and how long electronics took to become a thing.
Isn't this just the reality of science? A lot of things seem promising and then turn out to be duds?
Going from OP's story, his whole website was blacklisted from using Google Ads.
So cool that they're using the QMK firmware and open hardware. They also include a split space-bar, taking one of your digits "off the bench" :) [1] I made a crazy ergonomic keyboard, but I think the most useful things in practice are to have a keyboard be programmable and to have multiple keys for the thumbs to use.

Backspace is one of the top three most used keys for common computer usage, putting it on the thumb is a huge win over the corner to be used with the pinky (or a Shift, Control, Enter, etc.). The layout is otherwise fairly conservative with dedicated function keys, arrow keys, and navigation keys (albeit in a non-standard cluster).

[1] see key layout and mapping: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/8ec5e9026d616e...
Because other people want small keyboards, I'd imagine.
“Designed for Mac

Unlike other keyboards on the market claiming to be Mac-friendly, Das Keyboard Professional for Mac is specifically designed for maximum compatibility. Give your Mac some love with the best mechanical keyboard on the planet.”

https://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional-for-mac/
Would you prefer that only 100% finished and completed science is communicated to you? It's nice to see the evolution of knowledge; and since it is a long process, most of the reports will be about incomplete stuff. Regarding such a common virus like herpes, I'm sure you'll hear from it very soon again!
I have often wished there was a way to set certain dotfiles to be unhidden, without hiding everything. It could be done with extended attributes (which can already be used to hide a non dot file, this would just be the reverse).

I don't think this would be an overly severe UNIX violation? Dot files would still be hidden by default, the extended attribute would just be an override.
That's right. Deep UV. They all but threw in the towel on EUV.

But the difference is that ASML + Carl Zeiss absolutely run the market.

Nikon has about 10% market share, and Canon 5%. The rest is basically ASML.

The thought on my mind is that any one of the major American semiconductor equipment manufacturers could partner with either of the two Japanese optics houses. Canon is worth about US $25B, and its semiconductor business generates about a fifth of its revenue. It's big enough to be useful, but small enough to be acquirable.
There is also the correlation between HSV and dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Just get replacement keycaps with Mac legends and remap with software or firmware. That’s what I do with my keyboards.
> It's also the first step in a new field of computer software that would augment mathematician's abilities and save them time

It's a step, not the first step. Automated theorem generation has been published at least as far back as 1975, and it's been a field of interest since before the creation of the first computer.
Also not affiliated at all and seconding this, love mine and would have bought another by now if I still had to go to an office and also work sometimes at home. I've tried all kinds of keyboards - the microsoft ergonomic ones, full size mechanical ones like the das, split ones like the kinesis and the ergodox. UHK I can honestly say is perfect in my opinion and the best of them all. Excitedly awaiting some of the attachment modules for a trackball / trackpad
That's a real risk but closing the design doesn't really mitigate it, famously: https://semiaccurate.com/2009/07/31/apple-keyboard-firmware-...
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One wouldn’t expect them to use Ripple, given the current SEC investigation.

It could be Stellar XLM, but I haven’t heard any specifics in Stellar groups.