skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, indeed, there are limits to copyrights that are supposed to be applicable when using trivial common names.

But ever since a certain company decided to call itself "fruit", and then go on rampage attacking small players which themselves used to be called "fruit" under the petty reason that they are actually producing and selling "fruit", there is a sense in US that, as long as you got the balls and the lawyers, there is just no limit. Limits of the rules, even when written, are for "others".
No, I just want a big change within tech without totally invalidating the specific technical parts of my skillset. I would like to also be somewhere I believe positively in the impact of the company on the world overall, rather than just neutrally.
The issue with software developers is that in some places there was no requirement to finish uni to work. Though, I would advise to finish studies asap, as later you won't have that much energy to share among work, relations, family, health and studies.

I am planning to finish my course after a very long gap in my 40s. Not sure if I need to, but for the sake of finalizing it, so it does not bother me anymore. The long gap seems to bother my university at my home country more than it should bother me and they have still the same irritating procedures in place that I do not like... but why should others care about how you spend YOUR money and time?
Apple trackpads haven’t physically clicked in a while. It’s just a virtual click now which you can turn off
I'm looking forward to the day when we can just feed books to a DL network and have it spit out a rendered movie.

I'd love to train it on the LotR movies and spit out a book-accurate rendition of the story with those graphics.
What about working harder than your peers? If you're 2x harder working than the avg phd student shouldn't you be able to dedicate half or a third of that time to work and still finish the phd in 5 years?
How much might one of these cost when they become available?
It's a thing on Windows, and they have a bunch of other ones (including triple taps, swipes..etc)

With that said, first thing I turn off on a new Windows install on a laptop is...well, it's telemetry, but after that it's the gestures.
I love discussing both this topic specifically, and all sorts of things I have a strong opinion on with folks who disagree. I'm always open to being wrong; I've added The Sovereign Individual to my Kindle library and my reading list. Hope you have a great evening. Enjoyed the back-and-forth as well.
I have Ubuntu 21.04 on a Thinkpad X1 and a 2017 (?) MBP and the difference in trackpad quality is astounding.
Sorry, my example was bad - my point is that if you have it literally be named parameters in the RORO case there’s much lower chance to screw it up since the labels are apparent without needing to hover or trigger any kind of dialog. Chance you’ll mix them up just goes down, so while in theory it’s basically the same as the editor help case, in practice it’s way more foolproof.

Would be cool though if VSCode and other editors had a way to make variable names somehow persistently visible on function invocations - that would be pretty interesting IMO!
My dad left school at 15 to support his family during the great depression, his dad was blind, he became a linotype operator.

When he went off to war he survived in relative safely, always a few km behind the lines in an HQ company, only got shot at a few times. This was because he had a rare skill for a man at that time - he could type (on a typewriter as well as a lino machine).

Skilled lino operators were very rare and were treated well they could quit, go travelling and always know they had a job to come back to. (Dad went to university under the NZ equivalent of the GI bill after the war and became an accountant - for the same newspaper).
I think your take is the crazy one. I’m not sure if you remember how this whole thing works with Zuckerberg, but it sounds like they’re in the “let’s gather a lot of 6 year old users” stage. The “let’s make billions of dollars off them now that they’re all on here” stage comes later. Most of the people on here (not you) aren’t falling for the same crap.
It is very cool, will be using when planning morning or afternoon hikes in the mountains. Awesome job, thank you for sharing!
> I can't afford dying (got dependents?), or long covid, which IMO worse than death in severe cases.

Good news. There's early evidence that the vaccines don't provide nearly as much protection against long COVID:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265508v...

> On the other hand, previous vaccination does not appear to be protective against several previously documented outcomes of COVID-19 such as long-COVID features, arrhythmia, joint pain, type 2 diabetes, liver disease, sleep disorders, and mood and anxiety disorders. The narrow confidence intervals (related to the high incidence of these outcomes post-COVID) rules out the possibility that these negative findings are merely a result of lack of statistical power. The inclusion of death in a composite endpoint with these outcomes rules out survivorship bias as an explanation.

With all due respect, your comments suggest that you really don't understand the limitations of the vaccines. It seems you think they provide a lot more protection than they do and your mention of herd immunity is especially ill-informed. Discussion of herd immunity has all but died because the vaccines are non-sterilizing and do not prevent transmission of the virus. SARS-CoV-2 is well on its way to becoming an endemic virus.

> And, I think in places where the vaccination rate fraction is over 90% (arbitrary high threshold) things will get back to normal.

You should consider moving then because this certainly isn't going to happen in the US. And every 3-6 months when VE wanes in large numbers of vaccinated cohorts, you'll see spikes in breakthrough infections (where testing is being done to even catch them) and pushes for people to keep getting boosted. Most likely, the number of people willing to boost indefinitely will decrease as time goes on.

Things are going to get back to normal in places where people accept living with the virus.
FWIW with the Apple trackpad, you can still do that? You leave your thumb on the bottom and use your index finger to move and it knows what you are doing. It even simulates the device clicking with haptic feedback so good it is like evil magic... when the device is off I find myself accidentally nearly destroying it trying to click it as my brain is just so thoroughly convinced that it is a physical button but in fact it simply doesn't move.
How do you enable three-finger tap to be middle click? The only thing I have found is Cmd+two-finger tap to be the middle click. I just took a look in the track pad system prefs, and nothing about a 3-finger tap. I'd love to have a one-handed middle click option.
"presented as Chosen Ones" -- from the Goyer AMA, he said the show explores when believe think they are Chosen Ones, but that there are no Chosen Ones.

In fact, the whole thing about Salvor believing she's a Chosen One is falling apart, as every one of her schemes (involving violence as well) are falling apart.. and it seems like she's where Gaal was supposed to be, therefore she's being mistaken as the leader that Gaal was supposed to be, and things are going off the rails as a result...

What's sad is it took an AMA to fully understand this, rather than being understood via watching the show, at least in the first 7 episodes...
The number is higher now than during the Dot-Com Bubble and 9/11

Although it's puzzling why it only barely reached 40% then
I'm all for changing the "Vision", for the book is not easily amenable to a show adaptation. But this new version is just turning out to be trite lately.
On “Trojan Source” Attacks
I can't imagine wanting physical buttons (places for gunk to stuck and things to get physically worn out) over a good touchpad.

Apple may have gotten it wrong in the past with the fragile and bad feel of butterfly keyboards but Taptic Engine touchpads are the gd best thing to happen to input devices in a while.
I only read "Foundation and Earth" before the show began (that's what was on hand where I was, I had little choice, as much as I hate starting in the middle of a series), and that book is VERY different from what I'm reading in the first book and what's in the TV series, and would indeed make for a pretty interesting show or at least a movie.

It's literally about three people's journey across the cosmos to discover the origin of humanity and really, very little of the original story re: Seldon comes into it. It makes me wonder what happens in between.
> But Tether's been around more than seven years, more than enough time for the "smart money" to profit by obliterating them.

How would the smart money profit from obliterating them? If you’re referring to a Soros/GBP style trade, how would one borrow enough USDT to pull it off?
The problem with small trackpads is if you’re trying to drag something from one corner of the screen to the other you run out of space unless you have the sensitivity jacked way up. But then it’s too sensitive for smaller movements. Anyway, I carry a wireless mouse with me everywhere and plug it in whenever I need to do real work so I’m probably not the target demographic.
Likewise. I can’t see myself going back to a mouse from the Magic Trackpad. I didn’t expect to like it, but the transition was practically instantaneous. What a nice device.

Like other people commenting, this sort of thing is part of what keeps me in the Apple ecosystem. I dislike so much, but really, really love a few things.
Not sure what specifically you mean about surprises. I guess not?

I bought health insurance on the state marketplace where my permanent residence is.

Just feel like it's time for a change, and I'm willing to accept the likely paycut that moving into a less hot segment of the industry will likely mean.
These things are so stupid. But... they keep bored B-list tech journalists busy, so that's something.
I have to wonder what OS OP is using. I once installed Linux mint on a MacBook and found the trackpad immediately very frustrating and had all the issues listed. But on macOS or even fedora, I did not have any issues at all.

Big trackpads require good software along with them and it sounds like OP may be running an OS without this software.
> The city said a nondisclosure agreement with Google prohibits it from disclosing such information and it seeks reimbursement for the legal costs associated with the public records dispute.

> “Under Oregon state law what Google has submitted and has asked the city to keep in confidence is a valid trade secret and so we are obligated to keep it confidential,” Jonathan Kara, attorney for The Dalles, said at a city council meeting last month.

It sounds like the city is trying to hold up its end of an NDA. I have no idea how Google might feel about the information being disclosed, but I suspect the city is at making the effort here in order to be a good partner.

The article also says the city has disclosed that the additional capacity is less than 5 million gallons per day. The issue at hand does seem to be the exact specifications, which is strange, because I doubt citizens would care about that over the ballpark figures:

> Even now, though, The Dalles’ water system capacity is limited to about 10 million gallons a day, and the city says demand is growing whether or not Google expands.

> The deal with Google would expand The Dalles’ capacity to 15 million gallons a day by ceding some of the company’s groundwater rights to the city and by pumping treated water into the aquifer. State law limits subsequent withdrawals to 90% of what is pumped into the aquifer.

> While The Dalles won’t say how much water Google wants, the city says the added 5 million gallons a day in capacity would meet the company’s needs and leave an unspecified additional amount available for general public use.
>Three-finger tap to middle click

How do you drag with that though
There are effects in both directions. Increasing wages increases prices and not having labor available reduces production, which also leads to higher prices.
It's still better here than most other pseudonymous public forums, with the exception of carefully curated feeds (and such curation has a fairly high opportunity cost and difficulty)
Choosing the wrong language doesn’t usually come with multiple order of magnitude differential in energy costs. Or changing the security guarantees being offered - that’s usually at the application layer.

As an example, you’re open to Sybil attacks, and ongoing costs of mining. You need to understand the economics behind the chain you chose to make sure it doesn’t die, and hand off the key management to land owners.

When we have a simpler solution that doesn’t burn the planet, and is easily understood by everyone - as engineers it is our responsibility to have a really compelling reason to ignore it. I don’t see it here.
This sounds like a check that's signed electronically rather than physically.

I think another thing to note is that the other party is ASKING your bank/credit issuer to debit. The transaction can be stopped if not approved.

Normally I see the argument for crypto being that this helps merchants by avoiding charge backs, etc.
Be aware that the meme that any developer with a pulse can make so much money they can retire in their 30s plays out very rarely. (ADDED: And if you're in that top tiny percent of success, will you really just drop out?) That said, you'll almost certainly make more money as an SWE than in academia.

I do know someone who got a PhD in their early 40s or so in a pause from tech and is back in tech. I gather they thought it "OK" but basically are back doing the same thing in industry as before.
Dune wasn't exactly untouched by Hollywood politics. They completely eliminated the themes of European/Arabic cultural conflict (replacing everyone except the bad guys with a generic box-ticking multi-ethnic cast) and they completely nuked Kynes' character to replace him with a forgettable "generic strong woman" character.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

It’s under the heading “Film”.
> If this pandemic does not teach nations, governments and people why it is so important to have short local and capable supply chains, I don't know what will.

I doubt it will. I order a lot of construction materials, so I've been exposed to most of the supply chain issues. Some of the worst and most unexpected delays have been from the local suppliers. Presumedly because they are also constrained on some parts, and they don't prioritize me simply because I'm local. So going forward, I certainly don't see why I would pay a premium for local suppliers..
> I've yet to see a single thing here that is physically smaller than its version in India.

Statues sure are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues
I’m not much older than you but I eventually learned to enjoy friendships as just a moment in time. It’s nothing personal but people get busy and make new friends or get new responsibilities. I used to message tons of people to keep friendships alive because I felt similarly to you. Once you let go and just treat the people around you with your full attention, you will be happier. I fully understand covid has made that more difficult though. You could try Triva nights, board games, volleyball, events like that to get out there. I found that if you just walk up to people and start a conversation at those they are very likely to be like you and want to make friends.

I hope you feel better soon. Just know many people go through this and just don’t give up, get out there the best you can.
That kind of makes sense; the argument is that the supply of deposits so far outstrips demand that depositors lack any leverage to increase prices.

This would also raise the question: If the current low costs of retail deposits allow banks to print money, then why aren't we seeing more banks open up to print money?
MAGMA. You heard it here first
The beautiful powers of unconscious thought (2009)
How many PhD students have you known? The successful ones at least work extremely hard already; there is no such thing as working twice as hard as them.
I have been. AMA.

Yes, there was a severance of sorts - They gave me about a month "off" at the end where I was technically employed but no longer there. I took this as an option instead of going on a PIP, after my boss had literally given me nothing to do for a quarter. Before that, things had been great - Exceeds expectations or better on every review until my team was dissolved under me and I had to find a new team on short notice.
> police lights are bright

Completely agree. U.S. police lights are actively disorienting. loud sirens and the lights make me feel a high degree of anxiety each time I see/hear them.

> Most cars will immediately stop if they see you’re about to cross the street. It takes some getting used to at first. Pedestrians are given first priority, a concept alien in India.

Disagree. Indian cities are a lot more pedestrian friendly. Parts of US Northeast are the exception, not the norm. In India, you just kinda walk and the trafffic stops/ manouvers around you.
N. O. NO!
Not quite. Inflation makes the value of debts lessen. Most rich people are creditors, that's why the Fed is such an inflation hawk. However, the inflation in consumer products without wage increases just doubly screws the working class, though it could lead to widespread bankruptcy if it gets intense enough. That would affect rich people.
No, it was refreshing, but it wasn't really quite long enough to break the mental patterns that I'd built up for so long around computer / internet / use. I did come back excited to read HN etc., I was no longer tired of tech news.

I don't have really any advice for others in this stage yet, since I'm still right in the middle. I hope I move into my next job, whatever that turns out to be, I have more perspective on the post-quitting period.
I mean at the end of the day the pad itself is just a piece of capacitive plastic or glass.

It shows that Apple with its gobs of money can pay engineers to work on the unsexy bits like the touchpad drivers.

Meanwhile libinput on Linux is still immature and I can't blame anyone for that.
Tl;Dr: dad having cancer. I can't visit him.

24 hours ago, my dad has just been diagnosed with Stage II stomach cancer. This is by far the worst news I have ever received in my life so far.

What makes it worse: my dad is in China but I am a non-Chinese citizen living in North America. It is very time-consuming for me to even get a China Visa. I heard that unless my dad is gravely ill (ICU etc.) my Visa will be denied.

Suffice to say I have no motivation to work today.
Young teenagers should be learning how to moderate who to trust and who not to trust. Seven year olds should not have that responsibility.
"Asimov's Vision". The guy himself has said in interviews that it was entirely inspired by gas/fluid dynamics theory, where you could predict the motion of the whole but individual molecules would be random, and then "what if that could be applied to people". Everything else is just exploring and extrapolating.

It's far from perfect but I feel that if it was a new IP work the reaction to it would be very different.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, both Foundation and Dune are almost impossible to translate to screen faithfully and still appeal to enough people to have a decent budget. Why should we judge the show by the book at all, if that's going to be the case?
Any character without its own key required manually inserting the appropriate mat in the line which was a time consuming process. You’ll notice if you look closely that there are keys for fi fo ffi and ffl as well. f was the Achilles heel of the Linotype machine. Because of the way it worked, it wasn’t possible for one character to overlap the next so even with the f ligatures, it was possible to get ugly combinations like fifty fifes. One 1920s design had f-ligatures available for most combinations of f+a letter but was incapable of being used to typeset Kafka or Afghanistan.
I bought nine of them and they are still in service, although they have always been slow and I wondered why until I got the class action settlement letter. I'm not even going to bother redeeming the settlement. It's something like $5 per drive.
The mini interview about the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System from Gail Tilden the manager of NIntendo Power magazine (mentioned in the article) after the video game crash was pretty interesting.
https://youtu.be/Sn5v09L_uDg

Apparently the initial version came with a robot? Which seems weird to me…
On the other hand... Dune had also been widely considered 'unfilmable' in the industry and that same thing had been said about it: https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/why-denis-villeneuve...
Dune explicitly was adapted to satisfy PC morality. Villneuve said so (using other words of course).

They made Jessica into a physical fighter, converted Liet Kynes into a black lady, excised the distinctive word 'jihad' to refer to Paul's vision of war. They removed the Baron's homosexuality and sexual perversion and changed his servant boys into (bald) servant girls, etc.

The damage wasn't too bad all things considered, but in Dune 2021's case the source book was not the Bible and it was definitely messed with.
I'll grant you, Salvor is definitely turning into a false Chosen One (also, this would be the first Seldon Crisis which they weren't even supposed to know of until after the first one, and she's already name dropped the term). She's got an idiot ball grafted onto her somewhere that she just can't shed.

However, Seldon, to Raych, tells him that his decision with respect to Gaal will determine the fate of the galaxy. That's way too much weight for Seldon to place on one person in the context of the series, especially at this point unless he already knows about people like The Mule (which would be unfortunate, that'd be something best explored as it throws a wrench in your plans, not from the beginning of the series).
Sugar here is powdered, it doesn’t come in tiny cubes like I’m used to. It’s very easy to confuse salt and sugar (as I have done) because they look exactly the same.

What? Yes, it does. It's actually the cheapest to buy if you are a bit poor. https://www.walmart.com/ip/C-H-Premium-Pure-Cane-Sugar-Cubes...
If you were somehow twice as productive as the average PhD student you wouldn't worry about finding a professor...
What are they doing with that money to be able to give such high rates? Are they FDIC insured?
I used to struggle with RSI issues until I stopped using an external keyboard / mouse, and started using a macbook many years ago. The trackpad under the keyboard minimizes wrist movements.

IMO, this is far more ergonomic arrangement than a mouse next to a keyboard will ever be.

In fact, I'm kind of annoyed there isn't any external integrated keyboard/trackpad setups with the trackpad centered below the keyboard.
I have not once in my 36 years of life had to middle-click-drag, so... I don't know.
Please do not perpetuate flamewars on HN.
Doooo iiiiittttt.
It's not the inflation component which is killing real personal income (ex transfer receipts)...it's the bad modelling which is used to generate current estimates that are subject to revisions.

The revisions show the real picture, and it is not pretty.

See https://alhambrapartners.com/2021/07/30/inflation-estimates-...
You've been posting a ton of unsubstantive and flamewar comments to HN. That's not what this site is for. In fact, you've been doing it so much that I've banned the account until we get some indication that you want to use HN as intended.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.