skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my personal desktop PC I've gone through a few mechanical keyboards of various switch types. Never got that into it as a hobby or anything like some people (expensive and honestly I don't care THAT much)

For work they provided me an Apple magic keyboard, and as much as those mechanical keyboard guys like to hype their fancy keyboards up... I actually think I like the Apple keyboard more. I can type faster and more comfortably with it. I did a typing test on both keyboards the other day and was getting around 80-90wpm on the mechanical keyboard, but with the Apple keyboard I could consistently get closer to 100. I think it's something about the low key travel, I can key my inputs in much faster.
Yes but “best pacing” again requires a judgment call, it’s not a numerical metric, and some things don’t add in a logical way (“The Big Lebowski” has almost no plot whatsoever but is an excellent film).
The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing
It sounds like the government is double dipping -- printing money to fill budgets and therefore causing inflation, and taxing capital asset sales whose prices are rising as a result of inflation.
I think it’s more like: a script running in your browser tab, given some untrusted input (say, an image you import into an editing program) could be compromised by malicious input, such that the script runs malicious code and exfiltrates other data from the app (say, your email address or other private data you used on the page).
Fun and interesting work of foresight from 26 years ago! I assume the DigiCash promotion was part of the inspiration... or maybe it was vice versa? Either way, an interesting connection to the article's authors as well.
I got a Nexus Player to use as a Chromecast, initially because it had 5 GHz wireless, but then I figured out that you can use an USB OTG adapter to plug an ethernet adapter into the micro USB port. That worked even better.

Frustrating that the new ones don’t have an ethernet jack on them. WiFi in a condo or apartment building is unreliable and slow.

EDIT: Nevermind, they have official ones built into the power bricks! https://store.google.com/collection/accessories_wall?compati...
Building New Cities May Be the Best Strategy to Fight Poverty
Maybe not that big, unfortunately a lot of the connections will end up going to that SoC that does most of the work and is probably obsolete by the time you want to repair it.
If you find a stronger one I'll be all ears
Tests are not bullet proof and subtle errors may go uncatched. If you can completely eliminate a source of errors, why not?
They're saying if that growth occured over 60 years then you've just kept up with inflation. Might as well have just put it in a standard savings account and NOT get capital gains tax. *Well, maybe a standard money market account or bond.
Soaring lumber prices add to the cost of a new home
Upload of 4k streaming video will be cool. I imagine we'll get some really nice live news videos coming out from independant journalists.
Ah, OK—if so then the total share of all household income from all government sources must be well over 50% right now, no? Wages, pensions, (including military, in both cases, and state and local government) Social Security, et c.
Well, yeah, otherwise I would be a Dogecoin millionaire by now :)
InputClub K-Type currently with Cherry MX Browns and MT3 profile Susuwatari caps.

I'm a fan of the TKL layout because I never used the numpad. I wouldn't go smaller because I have muscle memory for using the navigation keys and I use the F keys often. Browns give me a slight feedback when pressing they key and aren't too noisy or heavy. The MT3 profile feels the nicest of any I've tried. It has different heights for each row and a nice curve on top for your fingers to sit in.

For the board itself, it's got a nice metal chassis, though I still don't love the look of the floating keys. The configurator is handy, but I really wish changes could be done on-the-fly instead of requiring a reflash. I'm not into the flashy RGB stuff, but I do have the lighting enabled on the board. It's okay and I like the presence of the accent strip around the bottom but I wish it was more uniform. The light goes through a diffuser but there's still hot spots where the LEDs are.

Being able to hot swap the switches is a nice feature, but I think the mounting plate tolerances are too wide. I've swapped the switches out a few times and managed to fold the fragile pins completely over. I can't feel if that's happening because each slot requires different pressure to get the switch in (some require enough force that they're mildly painful!)

So I'm not sure I would recommend this exact board, but if I were to buy yet another mechanical keyboard it wouldn't be too different from this one.

EDIT: Forgot to add that the stabilizers that come with it are very rattly. I got better ones, but the plastic that mounts in place is very slightly larger than the holes. I had to force it in and let the edge of the aluminum shave off the plastic. I think this size difference makes them a bit tighter than they're supposed to be which was actually a problem for one type of switch I tried that didn't push back with enough force to overcome the friction of the tactile bump and the friction of the stabilizer bar.
It doesn't take much effort to unpin the Plex channels from your home page, or remove them completely from your account settings. It's annoying that they're the default, but it's not a huge deal either.
The failsafe (audible alarm) looks like it would take a couple minutes to disable physically:
https://www.iphonehacks.com/2021/04/airtag-teardown-reveals-...
I see a good intention behind it, but it only works only if only honest people and companies exist. It’s not the case in real world.

What would prevent a competitor simply copying the whole product and offering a cheaper price because they didn’t have to invest in R&D, and those engineers who spent many years working on a finished schematics will be out of job because the company won’t be able to make a living selling more expensive products?
First thing on my wishlist would be something less weird than shift+function keys for zooming.
Nightfox, came as a kit. Love the keycaps, mx clear switches, layout is great except for the tilde in the top right. It was pricey, soft screws that got stripped while I was assembling it.

https://kono.store/products/nightfox-mechanical-keyboard
If you invest a dollar today and get ten dollars tomorrow due to inflation rather than an actual gain in value, have you actually gained 9 dollars?
Billing exists for servers as well.

Servers need to be configured as do lambdas.

Servers also have backup needs.

Servers also present security problems of access.

It's not that hard to configure a lambda to run in just as limited a way as a physical machine.

Not having to worry about MCEs or disk failure patching makes the concerns less like a "different set" and more like a subset of things to worry about relative to managing servers.

I know most of this stuff is really well trod-over, but from your comment I think one'd get the impression that people are switching just because of a trend or something, not because there's an actual layer of management they're paying to have outsourced.

(I would acknowledge that view of it being a subset rather than a different set is invalid once you're debugging performance at a gritty level, where cold starts etc. etc. introduce their own equivalent layer of complication, but most people doing most things never need to)
That’s a bad point, because the first dollar won’t be subject to cap gains, so there is no double taxation happening.
Right, but at that minimum wage job you're not going to blow that $60k on a Tesla. You're not even going to blow $10 to go look at a Tesla. You're going to blow $2k on a root canal because your food is crap and your medical coverage is worse.

Also, that $60k on a Tesla for the FAANG worker amounts to a small percent of the worker's disposable income. But that $2k amounts to over 100% of the minimum wage worker's disposable income.
Why did consumers kept buying cars with no ABS or airbags?
Replay the Execution of MySQL with RR (Record and Replay)
>They're not sunk costs if you literally don't have money to pay for them.

Food isn't optional. Getting a job that pays you money which you spend on food doesn't magically make the cost of food a cost of getting the job.

>You're saying that minimum wage is a livable wage which is a demonstrably false statement

I made no such statement. Please point out where you think I made that statement.
Apple and Facebook have had heated exchange over the much awaited iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency feature. Neither of the companies or their CEOs have shied away from taking a dig at the other.

I decided to aggregate the timeline of events in the form of a comic strip.
Here's a pic: https://twitter.com/KarlTheCool/status/1388185172189741064

It's the YMDK Split 64: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000074426801.html

I wanted a split for ergo while working and an easier time gaming since I play with my keyboard 90 degrees. Not many options in the split market, but hot swappable is a killer feature considering the price difference between switches and a new keyboard. The small right shift was a pain since it's the one I use the most but I got used to it. Other than that the firmware is programmable so you can do whatever you want.

I have it paired up Kailh speed copper switches. They feel like laptop switches where there's no travel before the bump. You're just immediately pressing the bump.
I'm ashamed to say I have had one sitting in its box for years while I use a crappy keyboard I got for free out of an IT closet at some point. Eventually I should commit some time to getting used to the Kinesis.
Old Google gave us Google, Gmail - new Google has been continually making it worse and/or more evil. Maps and Android are probably a bit more of a mix though.

Regardless i'm not questing what Google _was_. I'm commenting on what Google _is_.
Thank goodness we have states with different policies so you have some ability to move if you don't like the tax policy of your state. Obviously many can't.
I think if real estate is like stock, most real estate holders will be happier. Real estate is subject to property tax, which is pretty much a form of wealth tax.
How's this different than physical retail? https://www.entrepreneur.com/answer/222356
Thanks man, you really understand. Good post.

It's sad to say, but the pandemic was lifechanging for me. With the unemployment benefits I received, I was able to save up some money and had time for myself to start thinking about what I needed to do before the money disappeared into rent. I applied for the local community college and trying to get financial aid here in California, and if it works out, I'll "only" pay like $3.5k for each of the two years. If they don't give me financial aid, it's time to give up lol. I wouldn't have been able to afford even entertaining this idea before, because all the money disappears into living expenses. The pandemic saved me...the only way for someone like me to get a higher education, is for a global pandemic to happen at 24 years old haha.
For those that support this, I have a question:

Combined with the federal tax changes, this may increase LTCG rates for Washington residents to more than 60%. I can see folks wanting this for people that regularly make more than a million a year, but what about the situation more common amongst this community where you take below-market pay in exchange for a potential lump payout in one year.

For example, say a startup employee works somewhere for 6 years. They reach a moderately successful exit and realize $1.2m all at once.

Do you feel it's fair they lose more than half of at least some of that money to taxes, even though if they would have realized it equally over those 6 years they would have paid far less in taxes?
IDK how most of these are considered motels. Lone Star Court, for example, is basically located in a Mall and it isn’t cheap in any sense. Is it just because the doors open to the outside? Really?
if C is a "child entity" of C then it's primary key should have the primary key of B as a prefix.

This is how I design all my table schema. and it make database partitioning easier too.
We evaluated them and I was not overly impressed.

It seems like their target market is mid-level executives that can be dazzled by fancy marketing.

It doesn't seem like a bad product, just overly expensive, with largely the same pros and cons as similar vendors.

Anyone have any experience with the product in operation, and would you onboard them again if you had to do it all over again?
Indeed. So if a virus is able to replicate it must have a replication-competent E1 gene which normally encodes for the spike
Is it not well known that smart people tend to have smart children (though there is also regression to the mean).

I’m not talking about it being correlated with other traits, just intelligence itself being heritable. Well, I say “itself”, I imagine the same genes also have other impacts on other unknown things that are not noticed, because the interactions between genes is super complicated (I think?), but that’s practically the same as “itself”.

Why else would intelligence be attractive, if it weren’t heritable?
I held my nose and jumped in feet first. Actually, I spent 3 months backpacking around Europe first, then went home and just didn't get a new job. It took 6 months to land a client, then 2 to land another, then 1 to land a third and then I was off to the races.

I would not do that approach again.

You've already got some consulting revenue, that's a great start. Do you have a solid 6 months of living expenses saved up? If not, do that. Do you have a portfolio of different projects you've done and a good way to communicate them? If not, do that.

In the small amount of free time you currently have, I'd look very selectively for a large contract. Once you land it, put in your two weeks and make the jump.

Once you're on your own, never stop prospecting. Even when you have too much to do to take on a new client, you have to keep the pipeline full - it's the only way to make it work because you'll invariably have some contracts end abruptly. I was real bad at that part of it, and that's why I stopped after ~4 years.
It means doing something high risk but the risk has low probability, and for low reward.

No rational mind would do anything high risk low reward, unless the risk has low probability. Then it's just like selling insurance.
I don't know data science topics, but I can tell you a friend of mine was working on a Computer Science BS while I was in Lambda Schools CS section. He had a semester each on Algorithms and Data Structures. I had 1 month on those 2 + Graphs. At the end of my month, I was teaching him these things because his Data Structures class was basically SQL.

I can't directly answer your question, but I'm sure the answer has something to do with figuring out and teaching the base requirements of the topic, methodically, with well experienced industry professionals.
You can add drives to a ZFS pool, but you need to either replace or add them in massive chunks (or smaller chunks if you're happy buying 2x as many disks as you actually need).

If I want one disk redundancy.

Today I can afford 2 10 TB disks.

Next year I need more than 10 TB capacity and I can afford one more disk.

Two years from now I need another 10 TB capacity and I can afford one more disk.

How can I perform this migration with ZFS? Going from 10 TB - 20 TB - 30 TB of capacity, adding one disk at a time, without losing redundancy.

Or say next year and two years from now 12 TB drives are cheaper. So with (10TB+10TB) + (12TB) + (12TB), Synology will give me 32 TB of usable space and I will have one drive redundancy throughout the whole time.

Honestly curious, this is a real-life situation that me and several of my friends have done with Synology NAS. For this use case, I would love to use cheaper and more performant used hardware, and not have to rely on proprietary software that phones home. ZFS requires upgrading your disks all at once, unRAID has single-disk performance, straight-up Linux BTRFS is "unstable".
Why? I understand the argument for restricting access to things needed to function (housing, banking, etc). But I made a flashy twitch shooter. Why is it wrong for me to advertise by age?

Ads cost money, why is it in the public good that I spend money to bother people with ads they'll never take part in?
I understand the why, but I feel like they could also ask TSMC to pay their workers more.

Say India did the same for software engineers leaving for the US, we'd see it as government overreach.
I don't get it either.

I actually sat in a management meeting not so long ago, where we all agreed that efficiency and productivity was higher than before (according to our metrics) – and still, one of the people present said that they missed being able to just pop up, look over direct reports' shoulders, etc.

The rest of us confronted them with the fact that all of us – they too – had celebrated our progress moments earlier, and agreed employees delivered better than ever, but we were still unable to totally persuade them.

I find that infuriating, and kind of frightening.

Not only have managers all over the world done things like stuff people into open floor plans (despite the fact that it was never backed by science, and its selling points are now actually refuted by science), and thought that there is something "special" about physical co-location (ignoring the possibilities of video-conferencing for fifty years);

They are now actively going against better knowledge because of their own need for the feeling of control (which they'll never achieve, of course – slackers will slack anywhere), and will continue to use butts in chairs as a metric.
> because once you're market place, you lose control over your own products to the government.

This is bog standard anti-trust. Yes, if you become massively successful, in a market, then you are now no longer allowed to do certain things. That is how anti-trust law works.

If you take over a market, or become massively successful, you become a monopoly/duopoly, and have to follow certain laws.

These laws aren't hard to follow though. You just have to allow competitors to use your stuff, and you can't use your market power against them.
He has a point. Imagine capital gains in a sustained high inflation period. Even if your investment exactly tracked inflation you’d end up with a very substantial nominal gain, and LTCG uses the nominal value.
> That Hokusai employed the hue as the principal actor in his oceanic drama suggests that he was depicting Japan on the cusp of change. As much as the wave portends instability and danger, it also suggests possibility and adventure.

Does the author have any real evidence to believe the wave was intended to be a metaphor of change coming to Japan? Or that the choice of blue pigment was anything more than using the best technology available at the time?
Would it really help, though?

A stalker, not stupid and well-aware about the protection, visits iFixit for a picture of internals, takes a drill, and physically obliterates the buzzer, right through the case. Epoxy or superglue for protection from the elements.

So they plant an Airtag, it gets found by accident, shit hits the fan, Apple's name goes in the news, journalists start journalist things, people don't are outraged and demand Apple's repentance, AirTags made of diamond-covered vibranium, including a microphone to control the buzzing and stopping working if buzzer is broken. PR problem not solved, and the core problem of humans not understanding technology is not solved.
This also crashes on iPhone 8 running iOS 14.4.2.
What apps even support Miracast?
Without circumventing protections you cannot install old versions of iOS. Many phone models have flaws in the protections that allow you to circumvent the protections, but officially installing old iOS versions ends when Apple decides.
I tried to get the 507 but it's no longer available.

They messed up the arrow key layout on the 512 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075GZVD4T

I just want to buy an MS Natural 4000 but they stopped making them and now you can only find them for outrageous prices! Good thing I still have one at home and one at the office.
> Avoid becoming entirely dependent on this single client, though.

I watched a friend grow his business over the course of 10+ years from a sole proprietorship to a small LLC to a great digital agency which employed dozens.

One of his first contracts, somehow, was doing design work for a Fortune 100 company. As his agency grew his relationship with them did as well. His company ended up essentially becoming their outsourced design shop, and 65%+ of his revenue came from them. Towards the end he and his team were being flown to Dubai to set up exhibition spaces and shows, then flown around the country for meetings, and times were great.

Then Covid hit. Nobody wanted on an airplane, which tanked his client's financials. Costs needed to be cut, so his client axed their design projects for the next few years. 65% of his revenue went away – along with a huge chunk of his pipeline. The ending wasn't pretty.

Avoid becoming dependent on a single client.
Start by reading Steve Friedl's excellent "So you want to be a consultant...?" http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html .
I was on my own for 14 years.

Yes, doing the work and selling the work and getting paid are 3 different jobs.

It is possible to build a sustainable business on top of 90 day engagements. I don’t recommend it, but it is possible.

You need to consider yourself a small business. Not a freelancer, not a consultant, but a small business.

Get a good accountant to keep you um…accountable.

Alan Weiss is my favorite author on how to run a high margin solo business.
I don't know. It feels like the demand from complex software systems would fluctuate more wildly than a relatively predictable human consumer base, but I could be way off the mark.
The difference is that the individual employee advocating for WFH is doing so because it’s better for them, not because it’s better for Google. The interests of capital and labor are not necessarily aligned here.
I like the mental shift that focusing on process entails.

For your process goal, do you have a list of activities or tasks you do for that?

Here are some of mine, although I’m unsure of relative ROI’s (maybe “return on investment” is antithetical to the process goal lol):

- Read well-established repos and type the code, for example, I’m currently going through all of the React source and typing everything up as I read it

- Add research comments and questions as I retype code, eg ‘// What is React Fiber?’

- Use typing.io to increase my typing speed

- Use anki to memorize the most important API’s (this helped me learn Sequelize and GQL really fast)

I might want to incorporate more “do it myself” projects, but I think my main focus is really grasping best practices and being able to scaffold my solutions with ideas from code I’ve already seen. I think that helps me focus on the logic of my solutions, and helps minimize bad “cowboy code” habits.
> Wondering, can that be called a planned obsolescence or not?

I don't think it can, for reasons elsewhere in thread.