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I am mostly mouse-free too, so I feel inclined to answer.

For many pieces of software it's possible to use it with a keyboard-only. This is neccessary for accessibility, but it's also just what the good old hotkeys do.

Doesn't work for everything but it already gets you very far.

On top of that, there is some software that is made to cater specifically to keyboard-only use. Many tiling window manager work well with just a keyboard ( I personally am partial to i3[0]) and even for webbrowsers there are extensions like tridactyl[1] that make it easier to use without a mouse. That doesn't work for everything. It's possible to do 3d work without a mouse - but I find it easier to have access to a mouse. Specifically a trackpad.

This can of course be turned on it's head, and you can use something like dasher[2] to do your typing and - to get this back on topic - dasher can be used together with eye tracking to live a "keyboard free life"

[0] https://i3wm.org/
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
[2] https://dasher.acecentre.net/
[3] https://www.inference.org.uk/djw30/dasher/eye.html
The parent was referring to US presidents which have all been males.
The money supply expansion of 2008 was loans which were repaid, thus not likely to be a big factor inflation (and it wasn't). The money given to the populace this time around is a much more likely culprit.

Inflation is not likely to take 12 years to show up. Markets and people are not that slow or dumb.
> the thought that there are events that are going on right now that we will never be able to detect because we arent listening gives me major FOMO.

I can relate to the sentiment but keep in mind that human timescales are downright puny compared to cosmological timescales. And there's lots of stuff going on all the time (lots is an understatement) so I would say you won't lose much turning off the detector for a year.
I don't really se a lot of evidence for that, and I don't see how it relates to peoples' general displeasure with policing.

I would also note that the kind of policing like stop and frisk that people hate, is not the kind of policing that actually prevents crime. THere's a giant body of research on this. Across America police departments, regardless of how "focused" they are on high crime areas seem to have abysmal closure rates for murders, assaults, rapes, and property crimes. Police in the US are far too focused on dumb shit like clearing corners, and policing nuisance crime.

Moreover, who cares if a police chief, a political appointee, resigns? It means almost nothing for day to day policing which is governed by lower level union members and informed by trainings selected by the police unions.
JPEG2000 is a big one that seems to be missing. It is used in medical imaging or something, because laws? But its visual quality is worse than old JPEG, despite a PSNR advantage. Apparently, compression researchers used to think that people care about PSNR.
The newer MacBooks have easy repairable battery and connectors.
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That sounds hilarious, but you must be quite unique in having this approach right? Or are the particule physics people playing similar games?
If we were really going to prevent catastrophic climate change the realistic time to act would have be probably 50-70 years ago.

I've become fairly patient with climate deniers over the years since it is both a difficult to imagine idea and contains serious amounts of existential dread, making it very hard to reason about. Because of the latter I don't know anyone, climate scientists and myself included, that aren't in some way climate change deniers.

The only possible pathway to dramatically reduced carbon intensity in our economy is the potential of physical resource limitations, not intentional human action. If you study the way energy impacts our civilization (highly recommend Smil's "Energy and Civilization"), it's fairly obvious, if not hard to swallow, that we cannot reduce carbon emissions radically enough in a short enough time span without also destroying the global economy. Destroying the economy today to mitigate the worse case scenarios is risk that even right now no sane person earnestly wants to take.

That destruction, on the timeline somewhere in the next 100 years, is inevitable anyway, but nobody really wants to suffer now when the more extreme suffering we're putting off might be in 20 or even 60 years.

This is really the heart of the problem: the immediate cost of addressing climate change has always seemed too high given the perceived uncertainty of outcomes. In 1950 it would have been fantastically easier to put a cap on carbon emissions than today, but the real threat of climate change was more than a lifetime away, and seemed ludicrous to even most educated people.

But today, meeting the emissions goals required would make the pandemic seem like black Friday as far as economic activity goes. And at the same time, while we know the impact of climate change will be bad, we still don't really know how much we'll each live through and how bad it will be immediately. Maybe we'll see the AMOC shutdown in our lifetimes and Europe will suffer massive crop failure and starvation... and maybe it will just get unlivably hot at the equator, and people from the American Southwest will have to move to the Northeast.

As many have pointed out, the pandemic is basically a toy problem version of climate change. In order to really prevent the pandemic we would have had to globally shut down the economy for a few months, much like China did. The problem is if we did that and prevented the pandemic, our world today would remain an imagined counterfactual that would not be perceived as worth the harm by the majority. We completely failed to address pandemic, and we will completely fail to address climate change. We'll find out what that means.
They also export .tv domains (e.g., twitch.tv)
The best I've come up with is doing as much bike riding as I can. I set a 40 mile / week goal for biking, across MTB'ing, road biking, and (if called for due to weather, etc.) pedaling on the stationary bike at the gym.

The nice thing about this for me is that I genuinely enjoy biking so it (usually) doesn't feel like a "chore" to go riding. And I have the good fortune to live about 2 miles from the trail-head for a set of MTB trails that I ride a lot, and about 2 miles from another trail-head for a series of gravel roads that make for a good workout. So I don't have to go too far out of my way to get MTB miles in. And if I want to go road riding, I can just carry my bike downstairs, hop on, and go.

Cutting edge? I don't know about that, but this pattern is what I've settled into.
There is a precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...
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That article is about world food prices, every single link I give in my comments contain US-only food prices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114501

I have never said that inflation is not real, only that this price inflation has merely returned prices to 2011-2014 levels (excepting beef, which is actually at a new high).
I want to be pedantic and point out the Nokia 3310 used to illustrate WBMP didn't support WAP. It should be the 3330, which has a reversed (white with blue details) case. (I know the "XpressOn covers" are swappable, but it's clearly a PR shot not someone's random phone).
Google contributes so much to open source that news like this makes me react ambiguously.
Greg Mankiw's introductory economics textbooks (one for micro and one for macro, if you care about the sort of stuff in this thread you care about macro) are well respected and neutral. You don't have to read the latest edition, an edition from just a few years ago would be fine and should be quite cheap used on Amazon.
I just want to comment that your wife sounds like comedy awesomenesss.. So be kind and (in whatever way is your style) show her some appreciation....

EDIT: Its date-night bitch - figure it out
> In ALL of any of these 'fine-ings' can we have a document of where the fines were applied and what they accomplished?

Usually, this is impossible, because fines are tossed into a large pool of fungible money which is periodically allocated, but the allocation isn’t done per individual fine.

Of course, the budget which applies to the fund involved is usually public, so insofar as it is approximately and imprecisely (in relation to a specific fine) possible, it is already done routinely.
But a real insurer also isn't facilitating bringing the people who made the damages into your house.

Airbnb has the means to properly screen guests, but does not adequately do so.

I've always personally thought both sides of the AirBNB transaction were crazy. When I was a teenager, long before AirBNB was a thing, we used to rent houses to party in and it was always a disaster.

I've never found that getting a hotel was significantly more expensive. Getting my price might be less convenient distance wise but the experience is consistent. To me, AirBNB seems like all of the risks of unprotected sex without any of the upside.
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The Federal Reserve Board Chairman is appointed by the President of the United States, not Congress.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/defaul...
They will raise it as soon as inflation goes up, even if it cause the entire economy to struggle. Volker did exactly that in the early 80s.
Hi,

it depends on what you are working on and what you want to do. Generally, screen readers are not as good for programing as they are for plain text stuff, so they will be a limited substitute for whatever you are using now. If you are okay with working slower, they can help you listen through code and tool's messages providing relief for your eyes.

If you are using Windows, NVDA is the screen reader. Jaws is a bit too expensive for my taste without any significant edge over NVDA. The builtin narrator is still immature in my opinion. VSCode has excellent accessibility with a dedicated and involved team. Visual Studio also has extremely good accessibility support though I'm not using it. InteliJ sucks. Not completely, but enough that people do not see the benefit of using it. Eclipse is not popular these days, but it has good accessibility as well as far as I know. Sublime is not accessible.

If you are on Linux, the screen reader is Orca. It does not have the same level of support as the Windows stuff, but I know people who are developing on linux boxes so it is doable. Emacs must be good enough because it has self-voicing plugin and people who like and use it. As far as I know, VSCode for Linux has some accessibility features but I don't know how they compare to Windows.

If you are on Mac, your only choice is Voice Over by Apple as screen reader. It is good but not always perfect to my knowledge. I know people who use TextMaid, XCode, VSCode, and Emacs, but I don't have much feedback from there. It is totally doable though.

On Windows, I'm also using notepad++ as secondary editor because it is faster and works better for large files. Also, it is a good notetaking tool.

We can connect offline if you need some more info.
Why is it self reinforcing? Is it inherent to economics or is it psychological? If bacon goes back down 25%, will the local breakfast shop see those savings? Will they pass them on to their customers? Or will their supply chain or the restaurants themselves absorb the profit and keep the prices high for consumers? Even if they keep the prices heightened, if they don't raise them further, then that'd be a leveling off of inflation, right?
in the US though. did I really need to write that? its about the opposition party without being partisan
> What do you mean by "number of dollars approximately doubles in 2"?

I think OP was talking about monetary inflation. We nearly double the money supply so it should translate to a nearly double price inflation.
Rigorous global change... But we all know that's not going to happen.

So now the plan is just 'improvise, adapt and overcome'.
You mean, it all started twelve years a-go :)
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Interesting. That's a restriction on Tesla's infotainment system as well. I wonder how the underlying standards differ. What makes group messaging so much harder to implement?

I agree it's a pretty key feature.

Of course, there are a lot of other problems with SMS. There's a reason other chat apps are so common, and a lot of it is key features like delivery confirmation and message length.

Perhaps Mudita should offer a cloud service that bridges various chat apps to their phone. If they take a privacy-first approach, it could be a really nice service.

Similarly, I would love to streaming music on this thing. Spotify runs on everything, so why not here?

Maybe I don't totally agree with their product vision though. I like the idea of a slimmed down, privacy-respecting phone. I just don't want to give up ALL the benefits of a smart phone. I would welcome a unified chat interface and a simplified Spotify app.

I would probably be willing to pay a subscription for secure backends to give me a streamlined, integrated experience.
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6% inflation is nothing to panic over.

People equate the fed not hitting their 2% target with hyperinflation and it’s absolutely maddening to see the level of discourse drop to astounding lows when this happens.
Validation and invalidation of SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors using the
Out of curiosity, did you come up with 'stayup' or where did you come across it? I'm really liking it.
Try this: https://nypost.com/2021/11/09/how-the-media-pushed-hillary-c...
I think that was the control group, not placebo. But I didn't read the study in depth.
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iOS devices do full backups to iCloud†, restorable onto a new device just like macOS full Time Machine backups are.

So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS.

† You can also make an iOS backup onto a local macOS computer running iTunes, which is, I believe, what they do for you when transferring your data to a new device in store. I haven't looked at them lately, but if they're just plain-old Time Machine backups, that's even more damning, as that would imply that iCloud is already perfectly set up for receiving Time Machine backups.
I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them. Either at home, or at school or at a friends house.

Told them there was stuff on the internet that could harm them, that there was stuff they could NOT unsee.

They're 18 now, the results of the science experiment are still out, but they seem to have turned out okay.
~3/4 out of Firefox users have their analytics disabled

if you're invisible your vote doesn't count anywhere ....
Just started using this app it’s pretty dope
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> 2.8 Billion is a LOT of money

> Alphabet only ever has ~120 Billion USD on hand at any given point in time

To them, 2.8 billion USD is change. It's a tip for the government. Make it something like 70 billion and they might start caring. And if it looks like they aren't caring, fine them again until they do.
> Some European cities are very expensive to live in when you factor in taxes, like Zurich, or real estate, like London.

Yes, but we have generally better public transport in EU so it's easier to live farther away.
in the case of the whales, whom returned to the deep sea 40-50mya and have since rarely had a use for visible light, it's interesting to wonder what they have evolved to care most about if no longer visible light, especially in the sense of their song, and when you compare the visual acuity of their cousins the dolphins in the same timespan, and the incredible hyper-evolution of the human eye since ~1mya
Seems like a fantastic solution - congrats
> I am curious as to what HN readers think is different about the two situations. As in, why can't it work in the USA?

Unfortunately we are still stuck with the legacy of Reaganism, which was essentially the undoing of the New Deal notion that the government could do good for the country and the average person.
Ah yes mr crypto says hyperinflation is coming. I believe that.
I worked in smart phone/PDA support before the iPhone came out. I was actually working tier 2 for a Sprint call center vendor when the iPhone was announced. There was a ton of third party support. The big three at the time (this was in 2006) were Blackberry, Palm, and Windows Mobile. Blackberry didn't really have any third party software, but they got by with their BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) integration. Palm and Windows mobile both had lots of third party software available. I did a quick check to verify and Wikipedia says that Palm OS had over 50000 third party packages in 2008.

Apple, and later Google when Android got better (who remembers the pre 1.0 releases? They weren't great) changed the face of mobile, but they didn't invent smartphones, or the idea of a third party app ecosystem. They made it much better, but Apple didn't even originally support third party apps. Steve Jobs thought that everyone who wanted other types of apps would just use web apps, but that hasn't really happened due to a number of factors (partly OS manufacturers locking down which APIs are available, although I haven't worked on that side of development for a few years so it might have changed).

edit: I forgot about Symbian. I worked in the US and it wasn't really that common, at least I never talked with a customer that used it.
In remission after three weeks is pretty impressive, too. There's many antidepressants which take a lot longer to ramp up to being effective, even assuming they work for you.
Feels almost like the setup for a horror story. It turns out everyone's inner monologue is saying absolutely terrifying things, but then we just immediately forget. Schizophrenia turns out to just be the ability to remember and notice the things we're all saying.

And with that thought, I wonder if this sort of technology might be really useful for people with intrusive thoughts or schizophrenia, etc. Being able to objectively measure how well any given medication or therapy is working feels like a win to me.
Pure theater.

> Kofe said he delivered the video address, scheduled to be aired at COP26 on Tuesday, in a place that used to be dry land, adding that Tuvalu was seeing a lot of coastal erosion.

Coastal erosion, not climate change, not rising sea levels.
For me this "offer" sounds like that the Sever app with the includes Profile Manager now basically becomes obsolete and will not anymore supported.

That will become an expansive solution for small business like the one I manage with 15 employees.
That's an interesting point, has that ever been done?
> I just took another look at the numbers, the flu kills ~27k people total every year and Covid kills ~33k under 50's every year, which largely covers the attend a concert and eat in NYC crowd.

I have never seen a more clear example of "The statistics don't fit my narrative, so I'm going to abuse them".

Compare the COVID deaths under 50 with the Flu deaths under 50.
Wait until the banks raise interest payments to compensate. They're going to make their money back somehow. You can't game economics like that. There's always a cost.
This 29.1% effectiveness is awesome considering it is a single dose that was given.
>Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell

I can't recommend this book highly enough. And for those with a short attention span, 30 Second Economics gives a nice overview of many economic concepts (a few paragraphs per concept).
This is the new "you can't be a bad person if you are an animal friend" equivalent I assume?
> Citation needed. (Or in less polite words: stop lying, it doesn't.)

Sorry, you are right, let me clarify my answer. Dumping of radioactive waste in Europe was prevalent back in the 80's, but the effects of this are still felt today. Just recently a large number of barrels were found in the Baltic [1]. Japan also has announced it will be dumping large quantities of radioactive material into the ocean, because they simply don't know how to handle the situation any better [2]. The Japanese government claims that they intend to make the waste safe, personally I wouldn't trust such a statement.

> Have you seen how brown coal is mined? Obliterating entire towns and villages as a matter of routine?

I never mentioned the environmental impact of burning or mining coal, nor did I claim it was any better or worse than nuclear power.

I'm highlighting that mismanagement of Nuclear has historically been a problem and I don't feel confident that those mistakes aren't repeated in the future.

[1] - https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/2800-ra...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/13/fukushim...
I've spoken to Abe Caplan, one of the Braingate researchers a few times online on clubhouse. https://clubhousedb.com/user/abecaplan https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Abraha... He said it did not need a high resolution to work well off the top of my head (it did not need to be very accurate, it does not have to be a single method of working, there are many places it can be linked and still work, this refers to the signal processing on the BCI), companies like neuralink often repackages these research projects with slick marketing as original but it was simply rebuilding this project with another interface (they used clunkier probes while neuralink wants to do an implant, but that was before they filed a patent for an implant as well).

This says it requires an implant, but I am not sure if its true, his contributions are much older though and they might not be the same as the current Braingate research, but they were also for aiding with disabled people with controlling prosthetics, and also with signal processing and calibration to the user, they have made text input before inplants were required, so I don't see why its required, its benefit is being more convenient than setting up the probes or as a wearable. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2012.0007...
Apple is a systems company. I would not bother with macOS for use on other hardware. I would not buy Apple laptops if not for macOS.

For a given feature, the user might not know how much of the implementation was done in software versus hardware. Apple excels at integrating their software with their hardware.

I was using Linux on laptops until 2004. When I bought a 12" PowerBook G4 and experienced WiFi, sound, and printing working reliably, I realized I could no longer bother with Linux on laptops. This reliability has suffered lately and I hope they can get it back.
JRE/JDK is a rather simple thing to set up. Compared to the complexity in most other stacks Java is rather straightforward to setup and start building things with.
And before that they financed a significant part of their government's budget selling postage stamps to kids like me. Recognized sovereignty can be a source of money in all sorts of ways.
There's a reason exactly zero of top econ journals or economists[2] are Mises.org Austrian economists - they don't have a track record of anything resembling accuracy, predictions, or theory that works.

In fact, it's hard to find much even on Google Scholar....

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.all.html

[2] https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html
Surprised at how far I had to scroll to find Hawking's name. If he were still with us I bet he could type circles around this guy.
Except for birth cert, passport, and ss card - totally paperless. Scan everything instantly. Maybe a little fanatical but it really keeps my head clear.
There is no "the" lab leak theory. There have been a ton of different lab leak theories. And none have went to "probably true".
Awesome, thank you for the hackaday link... ;)