skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this, some shortcuts favorite to some users are used millions of times. Think of all that mental overhead that is saved in the long run.

I am a heavy user of shortcuts and a lot of the times I don't even know what the shortcut is, it's all muscle memory. Intent turns into an action and feedback is both tactile and visual and there is usually an easy way to get back of that also with shortcuts. Using the mouse in some scenarios is like looking through a keyhole. That is not to say that using the mouse is bad all the time, because the mouse beats shortcuts in other scenarios.

To me scrolling using the mouse scroll wheel or using keyboard keys are somewhat similar. Where the mouse workflow is eating the mental overhead is aiming a fly on a small landing 200th the size of the screen thousands of times or more daily.
If it's that bad, we should stop nibbling around the edges of the problem with complex and wasteful solutions that make a few percentage points difference, and just ban cars.
With all due respect, it’s a microphone connected to the internet that you are meant to install in your home. How are you surprised to see it used as a surveillance device?
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Like everything alcohol consumption is a power law.
> No, an OS is what you see when you turn the damned thing on.

Maybe, a bit, if it's a chatty OS, but, mostly, no, that’s a shell.
I will argue that like the stock market, the revelation of a lab leak has already been “priced in” to the politics for anyone who actually cares. So I would expect nothing dramatically new to happen, let alone an earthquake.

For example, if there was a Russian-sponsored hack of a big Western company in the news tomorrow, would that cause a political earthquake? How about an invasion of Ukraine. No, it probably wouldn’t. In fact, it didn’t.
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WhatsApp is in a good position to become a "lightweight" Slack competitor, since so many small companies already use it for work.

In my country (Argentina) it became a de-facto platform for selling for small businesses, grocery stores and restaurants. There are a couple of 3rd party e-commerce platforms that generate the order and then simply drop it through WhatsApp so you can continue through there and handle the payment manually.

... There are many ways in which WhatsApp could have explored making profits. Facebook simply made it stagnate.
This is by far the clearest explanation for how to approach this problem. I really appreciate your taking the time to respond.
I bet their executives didn’t view themselves as running a tech company. Funny how that works these days.
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> Was anyone else talking about domestic travel?

No, no one else was talking about domestic travel, but I was. Because it's important to me, and because I can see how it will be lost easily. And it is a liberty that I have.

Also, what about being shut out of the economy? No one was talking about that either, but it's already happening, and I also don't want to lose that.

> I don't know what age you are, but you must not be talking statistically.

I am at an age where I could have kids. There is very little evidence that the vaccines do not affect the ability to have kids. So no, I am not talking statistically, but if I was, 99.97% of the people who get COVID in my age group do just fine. So statistically, the virus isn't very dangerous to me, while the vaccines are unknown. I'll go with the devil I know, thank you very much.

Also, your questions show that you have no good faith interest in engaging in healthy debate and instead wish to make me look bad. So this will be my last message to you. You can have the last word if you want.
Great commentary. Regarding 'I miss software design sessions with my team, we would go thru issues 2x faster being together.' My team struggled with this at first, mainly because we had a massive markerboarding wall in the office. We tried setting up whiteboards in our home offices and doing some whiteboard sharing. There was just something about marker on markerboard paint we missed. Then we found Miro which allowed us to virtually markerboard remotely and asynchronously with ease. It doesn't hurt that our video conferencing app Whereby has Miro share feature so we do it directly within Whereby and not have to context-switch so much.
It's not required by the EU. If not all the sites that have content not appropriate for children, such as porn sites, or Reddit, would need to implement this. And of course you wouldn't give your ID or credit card to a porn site.

Google is the only company that started to implement this. To me it's not required by law but they decided to do so to get more user data. Also because having a credit card doesn't confirm nothing about your age. I use a credit card to buy things online since I'm 13, you can have a credit card even if you are not 18, simply your parents need to sign for it, but then it can have your name on it.
> There are many political points for Putin to gain within Russia by annexing Belarus, so that's something that could very well happen in the next few months.

But it won't happen until Lukashenko thinks there is benefit for Lukashenko. On the bottom line, he doesn't care if it benefits Putin or not.
Post Brexit the EU thing is no longer applicable, but the news recently makes me fear for anyone trying to travel here for work or leisure. EU citizens visiting family being thrown in jail and deported. We are turning into Gilead. I’d wait it out a few years until we’ve managed to get rid of Johnson, Patel, Gove, Raab and all the other swivel-eyed loons.
Asian women somehow like huge phones for some reason.. I've seem some that were literally small tablets (think 7-8" without folding) and they were always carried by Asian women when I saw them. Maybe this is coincidence. But I've never actually seen these phone models on the market in Europe so I don't think so.

Personally I don't like phones too small, for me the Samsung S-series (5.8" with bezels e.g. S8, 6.2" without bezels e.g. S21) is perfect for me. I have a OnePlus 8 now which is S8+ sized and that's too big for sure. It's not even the one-handed use, it's just clamping it in my hand, it's just too wide for comfort. Especially with a case on it.
Can apps require tracking permission to be granted? For example, if you start the Facebook app and it detects tracking is disabled, can it pop up a message telling the user that they have to allow tracking to continue?
To be fair the Netherlands is a unique republic dating back so far that even Louis XIV complained that any opinion held is represented in The Hague.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/439669?seq=1
I've been under the impression that because I can't pay salary and need to compensate him in equity pre-funding that he'd be a co-founder of the venture with me instead of an early employee. Am I wrong?
Good! The M2 will be even more faster. Can't wait to skip the M1 then.
So trustworthy qualifications solve nothing and we already have them, except we don't and they do solve the issue for structural engineers and doctors as you pointed out exactly they are more trustworthy than anything we have in software.

For the fourth time, yes, thats exactly what I want. Having two years of supervised work would dramatically improve this industry

But i am the one arguing in bad faith.
Splintering and fragmentation is somewhat a problem in Linux ecosystem, but on the other side competition is always good. Linux as a whole (kernel + various applications) supports wide range of use cases (IoT, hosting, desktop, mobile devices and more) and there is always room for building a Linux distribution optimizing specific use cases. One of the biggest gaps with CentOS in the past was missing conversion from previous versions to latest one (e.g. 7->8). This is one of the biggest requirements to get rid of "major version re-install process" and it is one of the strongest focus areas of VzLinux. Right now such conversion can be done without downtime for CentOS 8 -> VzLinux 8 and in particular case of system containers running on-top of Virtuozzos' containerization product, it supports mass conversion without access to container from inside, dry-run, rollback in case of errors and fully unattended conversion. The same - beside conversion without downtime - will be supported in near future for CentOS 7 -> VzLinux8. So can be perfectly used for large scale environments with big amounts of environments to convert them in scheduled maintenance windows.
On a related note: I’ve recently become interested in creating a database for everything in my life with the view of enabling digital assistants to do my bidding. Best described as WolframAlpha for your life.

My thesis is: Digital Assistants are limited in their functionality due to not knowing enough about me.

For example I can't say: "Hey Siri, my son has a cough. Please book him a doctor's appointment and ask his school for his homework".

The value of having a structured knowledgebase of my life is only going to increase with brain machine interfaces.

Resources around "personal knowledge management systems", "building a second brain", etc seem to be all around stuffing unstructured data into a system (Evernote, Notion, etc). The "Quantified Self" folks seem to be just stuffing a limited set of metrics in a database.

Would anyone have any resources or materials I can research further on this field?
Oh no, I was trying different bits of routing trickery. I'm pretty sure if I sat down and gave it a solid 3 hours straight of methodical effort, that I'd have figured it out once and for all. Instead, I would have 5-10 minutes total per attempt, try something, see if it worked or didn't, then the next time I tried the Chromecast (possibly weeks later), it wouldn't always be repeatable. I also had the Casts being powered off the TV, so they got hard shutdown and cold-booted pretty often.

In short, I never really cared enough to get it working right as the FireTV was "winning" the convenience battle by enough to make it not matter most of the time and I always had an HDMI cable for the times when I really had to get a screen "sharing" to work.
I'm a mouse user, but moving you hands out of your keyboard to get to the mouse is annoying, and can cause shoulder strain.
Depends who clicked the agreement and what the company bylaws of who can agree to terms. Some low level IT person will not have the authority to bind the company into an agreement and the injured party is the company.

https://www.binadox.com/blog/clickwrap-held-unenforceable-na...
> not much (if any?) cocoa is actually produced in the EU,

I was curious. I know France's overseas departments include French Guiana, which is part of the EU. There is native cacao in FG. Using Google Translate of https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_(cacao) :

> Genetically, they differ significantly from other cocoa trees in that in the Quaternary, after a period of global warming, the Amazon rainforest remained only patches of humid forest separated by large expanses of dry savannah . In one of these islands of humid forest in the south-east of French Guiana , cocoa trees have survived, which, being isolated from other cocoa trees, have evolved differently

I found one chocolate production facility in FG - http://walapulu.fr/ - "WALAPULU @ CACAO ET CHOCOLAT DE GUYANE FRANCAISE". Last updated 6 years ago so perhaps no longer in business?

https://cheeseweb.eu/2015/09/french-guiana-cacao-market-boat... comments "Sadly, however, French Guiana’s Cacao de Rivière does not yield the delicious Belgian chocolate we know and love." Elsewhere comments mostly that FG cacao might be a source for disease resistant strains.

Anyone else know where cacao might be grown in the EU?
Yeah, companies with strict security measures dutifully provide them for free.
Curious about those swarms. What is a use example.
What does it take to power the Python Package Index?
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Wouldn't you rather keep evenings/weekends free of chores and do some of them during the work week? That's what I prefer and do at least.
True but my doctor tells me to cut down on the leaded solder at breakfast time.
They don't put much pressure on the head, certainly not enough to describe it as crushing anything. A characteristic of this type of headset is light weight, so the clamp pressure does not need to be strong to keep them in place.

As a result they're significantly smaller than over-ear cans, and able to be stuffed in a laptop bag easily.

The style can become fatiguing with extended wear, that is probably their biggest flaw along with limitations on how much sound isolation they can achieve.
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Presumably you wouldn't be blasting ads for luxury goods or premium products. You'd be blasting ads for payday loans, gambling, get-rich-quick schemes and other scams.

Morally, ethically and potentially even legally wrong (technically the ad network should be held complicit if they're promoting a scam), but it does work. "No discretionary income" doesn't mean the mark won't spend money if they believe they have a high probability of making it back + more.
> right after

I really don't understand the point of that.

It's not like breakfast cereal. I'm not going to buy another TV because I just bought one.
You're conflating true positives with false positives. A conversion outweighs a lot of non-conversions.
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>what are we hoping to get out of sending them to jail/giving them a fine?

disincentivizing them and/or others from doing the same? As GP argued they're basically annexing public land for their own use.
People want convenience, nothing else matters.

All that will happen is the small new comers to the market will be avoided and people will simply put their "trust" in big names like Amazon, Google, and Apple.

Events like this ensure that more and more IoT/ home automation will actually end up being LESS open and more consolidated into the big 3 locked down echosystems.

Those of use that I not want to use Alexa, Google home, Or Apple HomeKit will be screwed.
I'm not sure if Emacs qualifies as an editor for saving time. As you say yourself, Emacs people tend to play a lot with customization (and Emacs didn't seem useful with default config to me; what the hack is C-x 2?). At the same time, it doesn't add anything useful to editing itself. It's basically scriptable MS Notepad.

Try a text editor that does something for text editing, not scripting. Vim is an option. I personally used Kakoune with (almost) default config for some 3 years and I'm sure it saved me a lot of time. I never redefined default keys, they were good enough, I only added a few user mode bindings. (Although I felt a lack of some features over that time; Kakoune with no plugins is a bit too minimalistic.)

Recently I spent a few days setting up LSP and some useful plugins, now I'm going to forget about customization for few more months again.
Silver Lake was only a source for money, not “management expertise” on that deal.
A big myth often told in the tech world that things are developed by startups using private equity. We often forget the large and dynamic public sector. Biggest "VC" in the world is DARPA and other US government entities.

EDIT: I meant to say, it's a big myth the tech industry tells the public.
…and another:
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Hi HN !

A few days ago I wrote Shared [1] a library to store, expose, read and edit data collections. Data collections are stored on the hard drive in separate files. I needed a mechanism to know when the content of a data collection has changed, so only the updated data collection will be stored. Thus came to me the idea of writing Probed.

This is a work in progress, I will write some documentation and tests later. Tell me what you think [2].

[1] https://github.com/pyrustic/shared

[2] http://sl4.org/crocker.html
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Their complaining is music to my ears (or whatever the analogue is for eyes in this case).
>These motels will be slums. There will be prostitutes, and drug dealers, and crime.

sounds like a refugee camp to me.
> For the fourth time, yes, thats exactly what I want. Having two years of supervised work would dramatically improve this industry

You do see that this is the first time you've mentioned in this thread spending time (years!) on a certification process apart from school, right? I've re-read all the text above and can't find the other three times that you answered my question with anything concrete.

What problem, exactly, does this solve?

> So trustworthy qualifications solve nothing and we already have them, except we don't and they do solve the issue for structural engineers and doctors as you pointed out exactly they are more trustworthy than anything we have in software.

I feel like you're not being either clear or fair with your jumping between talking about interview process and certification process for other fields. Maybe I'm not being clear either. Let's be more clear.

When I said we already have trustworthy qualifications, I was talking about school degrees, because that is the primary thing we have in software. In your reply here, you are conflating apprenticeship programs (doctor's qualifications) with school degrees (software developer's qualifications).

School degrees, unfortunately, while they are trustworthy in what they provide, are not providing a guarantee that an applicant is fit for industry work. That's what an apprenticeship program does. Again, like above, the issue is not one of trust. The issue is what the qualification is qualifying, and what the hiring company wants to see.

Ultimately, I'd rather do a few easy coding tests when I change jobs than have to spend 2-4 years in some kind of certification program. People who have to do certification programs complain all the time that the work is bureaucratic and jumping through hoops and irrelevant to their eventual jobs.

And, certification programs have not solved the only concrete reason you've cited as a hiring problem: cultural bias.

Be careful what you wish for.
You are using strange logic there.

"The majority opinion of state A got screwed over" => the state didn't disenfranchise the minority in favor of the majority? It's funny to say that you "got screwed" by having your vote count for only your vote. The reality is that the minority in large states are the ones getting completely screwed today, and that a proportional system would result in a more fair outcome. That only "screws over" the majority voters in the sense that it takes away their privilege that they enjoy today.

Yes, other states would continue to "screw over" the minority, but that's hardly an argument in favor of you doing so given that the whole argument against the electoral college is a moral one (one citizen, one vote). The ol' "everyone should be moral, but I will only do so if it doesn't disadvantage my majority" isn't a great look.

If we all agree that a national popular vote is the ideal because every single vote counts, then surely a proportional electoral vote is an improvement over winner-take-all per state. The only reason to say otherwise would be that it doesn't produce the outcome that you want. (Which is why I find the electoral college arguments somewhat cynical -- they seem to be interested only in that aspect.)
I mean, they have a right to _try_. Publishers can put (basically) anything they want on their channels, and take money from (basically) anyone to promote their content. Whether that's a winning strategy for publisher or advertiser is down to consumer choices.

Hopefully the worst offenders here (Samsung Smart TV ads?) are rightfully punished by their users here.
The Wikimedia Foundation plays absolutely no role in editing or moderating Wikipedia content. I employs no editors/moderators. All that work is done exclusively by unpaid volunteers.
What I meant by "the signal" was the opposite.

But it's also true that something that remains liminal while sensors radically improve, is actually retreating fast. And that is a signal.
Apparently 15% of our countrymen believe the QAnon pedophilia hoax/theory [0]. That gives me a certain thirst.

[0] https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/05/31/qanon-poll-americ...
I'm intrigued (because I like to see experiments in the modal editing space), but I'd really appreciate a "why" section.

The editor space is crowded, and I like understanding which pain points new ones address. I mean, "neovim, but in Rust" is a perfectly valid decision, but is it the only reason? It looks like this might be an ongoing experiment for the author? (See also the github remark on alternate renderers)
It's interesting the emphasis of the CAFE standards. Of course what a dumb way of dealing with fuel economy.

As CEO of Ford, Alan Mulally went to congress and argued that CAFE was expensive to follow and ultimately counter-productive to environmental ends, proposing instead a one-size fits all carbon tax.

It was obviously a fraught endeavor, while CAFE creates misery for consumers and producers alike, it's at least obfuscated away from the public eye, unlike a carbon tax which would be political suicide.