skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, if you get a nice one then it should last quite a while. Problem is when you want to buy another one for work or something and they no longer sell them :/

I have been using a Tex Beetle TKL Mechanical Keyboard for about 10 years and they no longer sell it which is a huge bummer. I'm sure if it breaks I'll be OK with another TLK keyboard out there on the market but I do love this one.
Is it really the case if the user isn't conducting business in EU with their website?

Genuine question, because I thought that this was only a requirement if you are trying to conduct business with EU.

But if you are only running your website for fun, for example, and aren't making any money off of it at all, would you still be in trouble for not following those EU guidelines (as a US resident)?
> Having to point at things with the "magic remote"

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Yeah accidentally switching that one caused some grief the first week as I fumbled for the "right" button to dismiss it. But Having to use it is not my experience. Does the previous generation insist you use it?

We generally use the same 3 or 4 apps. Embarrassingly it took us a couple months to figure out we could program the keypad and hardpress the button to launch custom apps. Not its merely telling the other to "turn on 2" etc.

> . I guess I'm the only one who still sometimes watches linear TV but the on-screen program guide is basically unusable; it takes literally a full minute to load 2 hours'

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That is a fair complaint. I've not really had that experience, but I don't watch much linear tv. But I doubt you are not the only one to watch tv this way.

We chose this TV after our Roku TV broke after 2 years. Surprisingly enough Amazon gave us a full refund for the broken TV. Even gave us an extra $30 to purchase a TV box.
Excellent points
Agreed, but the tide is shifting there, too. It's not a problem getting an off the shelf part for your vehicle. It's the software for that part that's the problem.

We already see phone manufacturers locking 'easily' replaceable parts to the rest of the phone in a way that the phone rejects the replaced part. As our cars gets smarter, look for similar tactics to be applied there.
Because casting isn't great. It requires 2 "smart" devices to perform the task.

If Chromecast had an interface (which it might on the latest ones), that would be better.

I am liking the FireTV stick. It's small like the Chromecast, but has a really snappy UI and all the streaming apps that I need.
Scaling: upload file to another server.
They charge for it in the developer program membership fee already; that is all you have to pay to distribute free apps.

Everything else is just for payment processing, at 10x markup over market rates. Ten times!
Share the Intellectual Property on Covid-19
In the meltdown of 2008, about $4 trillion disappeared. The Feds pumped $4 trillion into the economy. Net result: close to zero. That was good, because the result of $4 trillion disappearing was going to be quite a deflationary crash.

The trick was going to be removing that $4 trillion that they injected at the right rate. And what actually happened is that they didn't remove it. Is it showing up now, years later, in asset inflation, because they failed to remove it all this time? I could see that.
Great pick, looks very much to my liking, I love the colors that are kept close to original IBM keyboards. And your description is convincing. No surprise I never came across it, they sell it in the scanner store. For 230-250 it must be very well made.
> have to pay your Spotify subscription by cash or checks.

Not a good example - Spotify takes PayPal, which can be topped up from a bank account transfer, trivially done with the bank app or site.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/payment-methods/ (just learned there's also "pay by mobile" which adds it to your phone bill ...)
What is incorrect about those statements?
FB are paying influencers to advertise tobacco on Facebook and Instagram.

Yes, it’s proving hard to enforce a ban, but are we supposed to be sympathetic to Facebook?
I see a Tweet with one reply. Is this a discussion of the NYTimes.com article[0]?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/technology/big-tech-pande...
Isn’t it easy to miss the bad days because after it happens, you can buy stocks?
Ecology tracking Hanford WA radioactive waste tank leak
ohh that makes sense, thanks
Interview questions and red flags when hiring a VP of Engineering
They use websockets and a set of plug-ins to support redis, rabbitmq, or many other things. However, Apollo is planning to remove subscriptions for the next major release.
Fair point.
I know they have 'paid partnership' annotation in posts. I didn't notice they are circumventing that.
That's because everyone can make their own hotdogs or eat something else if they want, and there's little barrier to your local deli getting into the hotdog business if they wanted to.

Google search, not so much.
This brings back memories for me, but I don't know if they are "great." I have memories of being in high school and downloading Linux binaries and HOWTOs over a dial-up modem, messing around with Debian on the family computer. So much of my youth spent (wasted?) on this. I wish I had spent more time making friends and playing sports, or learning something more fundamental like math or programming. I don't even work in the tech industry.
there u go a updated video of current version
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/819516082154242048/83...

5 times the players(250), tops out at ~35% scheduler utilzation
https://litestream.io/ ?
Tech is an amplifier. Everything is at least volume x 20. And that includes risk as well. No one seems to want that part. No one wants burnout.
I think “Linux From Dummies” better describes the current trend of blogspam that are all just copy/pastes of each other.

But back in the day, “Linux FOR Dummies” was quite popular.
I personally believe that the "serendipitous random hallway conversations" thing is totally overrated. I don't deny that it probably once in a while leads to a great product, but how often? Quantify it! Moreover, if your business depends on this element of randomness to provide value, I'd argue the opposite: you have a process problem that needs to be addressed. Brainstorming and ideation should not be dependent on the roll of dice.
Uh... they aren't?

They can be bought and sold. A company is a government-granted monopoly on the resources of that company, including its contracts with employees and contracts for services. You can buy and sell that company. Originally, all corporations were government-granted charters, and a lot of that notion is retained.

Government manages your monopoly over your real estate -- if somebody tries to use it you're not left to your own devices to defend it.

In a sense all property is a government-granted monopoly, including intangible rights. Intellectual property is a special case and you can argue that it shouldn't be included, but to dismiss government grants in the role of property seems to miss a lot about how the law works.
Why is it not the same issue? By preventing the users to replace the battery, you force them to buy a new device after a couple of years.
I agree with you - it's an awful article, it was just the first one I found searching for the quote I was looking for. And you are right, more in the last four years Western and specifically in the US, coverage of China have been dubious, particularly some media entities. But I don't think the Strait of Taiwan tensions and the recent South China Sea escalations are anything that I need to find an article to document, though.

If China can drastically weaken the semi industry in Taiwan by hiring away their top talent to sit around and do nothing, it would be a stunningly inexpensive way to help achieve this long term strategic objective. They would be foolish not to try, and it's understandable and correct Taiwan would see it in this light.
Condo prices have gone down in the Bay Area since COVID. The problem is everyone wants a SFH suburban lifestyle in the Peninsula, Marin, or East Bay hills. That’s a luxury and you’re going to pay a premium for it.
I also have an Advantage 2 (Cherry MX browns).

Likes: The ergonomics! This keyboard is really comfortable to use for long stretches. It has reduced the strain of using the computer. Thumb keys are great.

Dislikes: It took me a while to get comfortable with it, especially for programming. I had to really focus on it for a while, but it was worth it! Also, as mentioned earlier, it's not great for games. The placement of some of the modifiers makes it difficult for some shortcuts, but you can always customize/reprogram it.
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Do bars and other venues who stream PPV fights pay per head in their establishment? Tangentially related
Interesting counterpoint from Lubos Motl https://motls.blogspot.com/2011/08/once-more-gravity-is-not-...
You can though. Most of the labor is in skills that are easy to teach. You can take your half your seconds and promote to foremen, the other half as seconds under the old seconds. The foremen get the old third line as seconds, and you hire all new third-line people. There are a few people who aren't worthy of, or don't want that promotion, but overall the limit is how fast you can convince inexperienced people to work for you. This process can repeat yearly. You can also work more overtime - money talks to a lot of young people.

You do take a small productivity hit, so it isn't all smooth. Still there is plenty of opportunity to expand to meet demand.
> I don't need to look at my keyboard to type.

What a god.
I guess current TSMC employees can not leverage other job offers (most of them are from mainland China) to increase their salaries anymore. Essentially, the government is helping TSMC to keep the labor cost low.
That's how you cater for high density devices.

If you take a 320x image and display it at 320x CSS pixels, it'll look blurry on the vast majority of mobile devices, and a lot of laptops, because 1 CSS pixel is larger than 1 device pixel.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devi...

Fwiw this is covered in the article https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/#what-is-acce...
Amen.

How many times did you update your Node.js AWS Lambdas or GCP Cloud Functions because of the Linux kernel CVE of the week? You didn't because all you're responsible for is your few lines of Node.js logic that kept on scaling and humming along. The cloud vendor cares for the rest.
Bitcoin enters the game.
San Francisco’s tech fiefdom is dying
They must just give 50k as the baseline. I asked for the minimum, which I think was 200, and they gave me 50k. I was surprised because my plan for handling bounced email was “by hand.” Lol.
That's not what 70/30 means. It's the lean to fat ratio. So 70% lean, 30% fat beef went into the hamburger.
Consumer vs. Enterprise Hard Drives: Is an Enterprise HDD Worth It?
I think the anchor contract is a great idea. Basically, try to make the type of time commitment that you've been avoiding due to your FTE status.

If you're able to do that, it's both a good indicator that you'll be able to do it again in the future, and a good way to avoid too much of an income gap when you quit. Signing that contract is the trigger to quit your FTE job.

However if you can't do it, it's a good idea to figure out why and address the issue before making the jump.
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Nhost is a very similar offering, built on Hasura

https://nhost.io/
Vimeo has a bunch of great content.
This is an interesting visualization, but if I'm understanding it correctly it does oversimplify in a big (and potentially misleading) way:

This is what happens if you do all your investing in one big lump sum, e.g. putting one dollar in the market in 1970 and getting out less than a dollar (after inflation) in 1985.

Outside of getting a major windfall (and not dollar-cost averaging), this isn't how investing is done. Investments are typically made as income allows, over the course of decades. Yes, that means some of the dollars you put in are going to be massive losers in the long run. Others are going to be massive winners. What's important is the average over 30-year period of investing followed by a period of withdrawals spread out over another couple decades.

I'd be very curious to see a similar visualization which illustrates the same point for spans of time rather than lump-sum-in and lump-sum-out.
lol perfect
I’ve had this for several years. It works. The lack of override is a HUGE plus.

From my understanding, if I really want to override I can email the company and ask for help, but that hasn’t happened in the 4-5 years I’ve had it.

The main uses I found for it are sticking my phone in there during pomodoros, and sticking cash in there on weekends that I can’t afford to spend.

One idea I’ve had that I haven’t implemented is putting a password on my computer or phone that someone else generates for me. For example, I might have my wife scribble a bunch of nonsense letters on a piece of paper, have her input that password on the device, then I would throw the piece of paper into the lockbox.
The ransomware surge
Panther Going Closed Source
You could also go entirely into the matrix and write custom functions + wrappers for SQLite that are able to parse & pass-through shell commands. For instance:

./customsqlite "SELECT 1, 3, 5 FROM MyLogParser(Shell('tail -n 50 mylog.txt'))" | grep 'something really important'

This stuff is dangerously powerful. User/Application-defined functions in SQLite do not have to be free of side-effects. You could also do something like:

tail -n 50 mylog.txt | customsqlite "SELECT Shell('ping ' || ip.IpAddress) FROM ParseAsMyIpData(STDIN()) ip"

Where the following are custom UDFs:
- MyLogParser
- Shell
- ParseAsMyIpData
- STDIN

See: https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html
> The real innovation was using a tsunami of cheap financing to engage in a predatory pricing war to gain oligopoly status and opening up being a taxi driver to anyone with a car.

I agree with that 100% but I wouldn't say that they "didn't change the game." The sheer availability of taxi services outside of a handful of densely populated urban centers was almost non-existent before Uber. They existed but I certainly wouldn't call them "on demand." In my relatively small college town it was basically impossible to get a taxi to pick you up in less than an hour from when you called the dispatcher (and sometimes they would just not show up at all....). Now I can have an Uber pick me up within 10-15 minutes basically anywhere at almost any time.

As you said this is mostly because they are subsidizing all of this with huge gushers of capital and it remains to be seen whether they can actually operate that sort of service profitably.
Funny, I kinda disagree for the same reason you state.

A physical object that you "own" was created from something literally no one created. The person you bought that from had no more right to that natural resource than anyone else (except that people with guns say they do). By "owning" that natural resource they had no process in creating they are keeping it from other people that could have made other things out of it.

However, ideas and digital things are not created from a limited, natural resource. Me keeping it from you is not keeping you from making your own idea or abstract thing from the same "stuff".
Audacity has a lot of low hanging fruits in the UX department. E.g. every single one of these "You have not selected anything to apply [feature X] to. Try pressing Ctrl+A to select everything and try again!" dialogs should just not exist (if nothing is selected, apply to all, done), or when exporting to a format which doesn't do separate tracks and there are multiple tracks in the same channel, Audacity just silently merges them (throwing away data). When recording while a track exists there's some way (outside of punch-and-roll, I think) to have it record into the same track again with no warning, throwing away data. Scrolling is vertical for some reason, even though horizontal scroll is the primary scrolling timelines.
Ultimately it's about risk (permanent loss) control, and if you've done the research into those couple of companies, have high confidence in their continued success, and are diligent in continuing to update your views, then it sounds like you're managing risk well. There's always the chance of unknown, idiosyncratic, and potentially disruptive factors though--from a financial planning and risk management perspective, even founders are urged to diversify away from their own company's equity eventually, regardless of how successful they are.
Component level schematics should be freely available for all products. It's not like there are no schematics available for e.g. Macbooks. Third party repair shops use them all the time. It's just that they are not legally available.

I might entertain the argument that you don't want to show all internal details of your 6 layer PCB but those are also not necessary for repair. Just hand out the component level schematics.
> Nearly everything then was also not easily repairable, and certainly not by an average consumer.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anyone's saying that "an average consumer" in the terms of "I can't tell the difference between a hammer and a soldering iron" should be able to repair their devices.

But I think that if the consumer can demonstrate some minimum level of interest (education, certification, or at least competence) then they absolutely should be able to repair devices they own.

And, further, that owning devices and software should be the default and normal thing. The trend today of renting/leasing things is clearly anti-consumer.
You dodge all of the difficulties of inheritance that they reference.
I agree that the exposure drives it higher, but it's also cost of opportunity. If my tech job was not paying me enough, I'd quit and try to launch my own thing because cost of entry are laughably low (which are not in the other industries you mentioned) and potential to have a good self-started business is decently high.

In real estate, finance and oil and gas I believe you need to either start with big bucks yourself, or convince people to loan/let you manage them to you. Tech is ridiculously easy to get started with compared to almost any other legal high paying job, you can learn just following a few free courses and from that build apps that people are willing to pay.
In that case, the Facebook app should be paying the highest premium. But as it stands they are charged $100 per year.
The meat of the article is essentially saying "big tech got more customers because everyone moved online during the pandemic." Which is fine I guess, if a bit shallow and obvious. The last paragraph though, shows NYT's typical anti-tech bias.

> Big Tech is emerging from the pandemic lean, mean and ready for a U.S. economy expected to roar back to life in 2021. Meanwhile, there are still long lines at food banks. Some American workers who lost their jobs last year may never get them back. Housing advocates are worried that millions of people will be evicted from their homes. And being Big Tech is an invitation for everyone to hate you — but you do have towering piles of money.

They're trying so hard here to link "Big Tech"'s growth with pandemic-induced unemployment and housing crisis. What they say here is true in isolation. Big tech grew. There is unemployment and houses are getting pricier. But there's no evidence, in the article or otherwise, that these are linked whatsoever.
You have a magnet.

The magnetic field emitted by the magnet falls off at a rate equal to the square of the distance:

https://socratic.org/questions/how-does-distance-affect-magn...

>"Magnetic force obeys an inverse square law with distance. ... If the distance between two magnets is doubled the magnetic force between them will fall to a quarter of the initial value. (F/4) If the distance between two magnets is halved the magnetic force between them will increase to four times the initial value."

That is, magnetism is an "Inverse Square Law" effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law

So now, here's my question:

If you have a non-magnetic iron or steel screwdriver, or other piece of iron or steel -- you probably have at one point in time or another connected this item to your magnet, and observed that magnetic objects -- could now be attracted with the tip of the previously non-magnetic ferromagnetic metal item...

Simple enough, right?

But here's the thing:

You see, I observe that in addition to this happening, via the non-magnetic iron or steel screwdriver or via a non-magnetic iron or steel bar, or other piece of metal --

THE MAGNETIC FIELD HAS BEEN EXTENDED, IN SPACE, AWAY FROM THE MAGNET

So now, my question can be formulated thusly:

What's the maximum length a magnetic field can be extended, via a non-magnetic metal, from itself?

Also, what's the mathematical equation, the mathematical relationship, for such field extension?

Because it's not the inverse square law anymore...

In other words, I have a magnet.

It's field falls away as the inverse square root of the distance.

But,

Now I connect it to my non-magnetic iron or steel screwdriver, or my non-magnetic iron or steel bar.

It's field is extended (although it might lose some strength) -- to the end.

Now the inverse square law, via the non-magnetic iron or steel item -- does not apply, because we've actually "moved"/"extended through" the magnetic field, through the ferrous metallic item.

Of course, at the end of this extension -- the inverse square law applies again... But it applies how it always did, that is, through space!

But, through an object made with a ferromagnetic metal or alloy (Iron, Steel, ?) --

what's the max distance a magnetic field can be extended, and what's the exact mathematical equation for such field extension?

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> It never worked out particularly well for the Army, either.

Which is funny, because as the original comment points out that until after we'd been attacked during WWII, we didn't have a significant standing army. After we were attacked, we started a large buildup, and ended up on the winning side. Every war the US engaged in since then, we've both already had a standing army, and we've LOST. So statistically at least, having a large standing army is more likely to lose us a war.

To be fair, in all of those wars we've lost, there has been strategic ineptitude from the top down in each one. Vietnam was a bad idea, which is why the people of the US protested it so hard. Anything in the middle east has been a clusterf, and even the people choosing to go there knew it was stupid. I'll allow that Korea was somewhat sensible in terms of long-term defense, but even then it could've been handled better. But a standing army hasn't been winning us wars, that's for sure.
I was distracted a bit by his screen capture. Is he... editing an audio file sample by sample? Is that a thing people do?

I assumed people worked from samples, recordings, and primitives like sine/square waves and noise, and applied filters...
Those days are long gone. Also, governments around the country recognized they could raise taxes on a certain population that cannot vote against them. So now, hotel taxes everywhere are 15%+.

I laugh when Oregon claims to have no sales tax, and yet hotel room nights have 15% sales tax.

Also, no government/populace is going to approve new construction of cheap motels that could invite drugs and prostitution. So the only new ones have to be ones that cost $5M+ to build. Close to $10M or more in any popular area.