skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so how... exactly does microsoft lobby the governments into paying them a truckload of money in perpetuity for something essentially free and libre? sure there is consultancy involved in foss and IMO that is a better use of money because locals are being paid instead of a megacorp. still, why do you rely on "macros" ? why isnt cash being paid to developers in adding more missing features in libreoffice instead of microsoft?
I like this kind of keyboard:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9bypxi...

IBM KB-7953

Weighs as much as a tablet PC.

Mine is from 1999, one of the most silent mechanicals, it's PS2 not USB.

It's beginning to stand the test of time and show proof of being as durable as you would want.

The office PC it is connected to is no spring chicken either.

>why can't they make smaller mice??

For an inexpensive less bulky office mouse ASUS AM1D is somewhat smaller than average and ambidextrous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEMyuDKRmnc

You get surprisingly more use out of your limited mousepad/benchtop area.

Only takes up half as much room in a laptop case and anything smaller can be much less ergonomic.

It looks like about the same size as the Viper Mini gaming mouse.
So the car needs a greenlight from Tesla server to be unlocked, right ?

What could possibly go wrong ?
The Jelly was my son's first smartphone, much to his chagrin (imagine being a 15 year old pulling that thing out when your friends had iPhone Xs or whatever massive Samsung phones were on the market at the time). I've been using an old iPhone SE because I love that form factor. The Unihertz Titan is very tempting, though, particularly given the hardware keyboard.
The primary purpose of finance is to move money through time. Finance can turn streams of income into lumps of capital, and vice versa, so you can do fantastical things like buy a house — without working out a 30 year installment plan with its current owner.

Finance can IPO a startup so that it can hire people to write code and use that code to make money.

Finance can let a farmer enter a contract to sell his future crop today, when he’s buying seed and fertilizer, without worrying that the grain price will plummet.

Insurance — finance’s cousin — moves risks using money, so your life won’t be ruined forever if your crop dies or your house burns down.
The main issue is review of material, outside of being a domain expert how would an end user determine which content to trust as rigorous?
When the city and the state stops taking 50%+ of my money, I'll start cleaning the streets (or, more likely, will pay for someone to clean them).

San Francisco 2020 budget is ~$13 billion (https://londonbreed.medium.com/san-franciscos-budget-how-it-...)

This is the money that is supposed to pay for cleaning the streets and many more things.

For comparison, Austin budget is $4.5 billion (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/austin-city-counc...)

What you see is unbelievable corruption and incompetence of city government, not the lack of money for cleaning the streets.
Exactly. The early history of telephone systems was rife with refusal to interconnect.

And the analogy is terrible because the whole purpose of telephones is interconnection; the value is in the size of the network. But from the consumer perspective, portability for music purchases or game assets is at best a secondary concern.
The reputation they have of being the makers of the most popular desktop operating system and most popular office productivity suite. You may not like them but most of the businesses in the world use their software. I can’t believe they think it’s worth it to harm their professional image in exchange for whatever pennies they will be making by sticking in a layaway feature into their browser.
Looks cool! Would this also work for "explainer" type videos, showing how to use a software product or similar?

If yes, you might consider a page or callout about that use-case, as it might attract some additional users. Just a thought.
https://www.se-radio.net/

Eg:-
https://www.se-radio.net/2008/01/episode-84-dick-gabriel-on-...
The mandatory-voluntary PTA work reminds me of a college course I had (sociology). The professor was also a Scout mother and told us we'd be doing X hours of "volunteer" work for her son's troop but it would be part of our grade for the course.

As the first in my family to go to college, I was working multiple minimum-wage ($5.85/hr) part-time jobs on top of a full course load just to afford to eat and live. I wrote the professor a letter explaining that this "volunteer" work would be an undue hardship because literally every waking hour that I wasn't in school I was working, so these "volunteer" hours could only come at the expense of work hours and loss of income (which was already not making ends meet).

Her response was that she didn't believe I couldn't spare X hours/week and wouldn't "bend the rules" for me - everyone had to volunteer. The exchange grew increasingly tense until I asked her how much was the activity worth? One letter grade. "Guess I'll be down a letter grade then." (It was a small university and required core course, so I couldn't just drop the class or take with a different professor.)
Could this be a SaaS? Anonyzon?
I can’t believe how much it feels like 1984. “War is peace.”

‘University of California Regents Chair John Perez said, "The failure of Proposition 16

[repealing that the government and public institutions cannot discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.]

means barriers will remain in place to the detriment of many students, families and California at large. We will not accept inequality on our campuses and will continue addressing the inescapable effects of racial and gender inequity."’

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
> Life expectancy for most of human existence, and right up until early 1900s, was mid-50s.

LE in the US started ramping up around 1800 and increased all through the 1800s.
There are pros and cons of the LTS approach.

A big CON is that even on Ubuntu LTS, lots of softare is incredibly out of date and full of unpatched security vulnerabilities.

Consider Roundcube, probably the most popular PHP email web client.

On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS the last update is from, well, April 2018: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/roundcube

Now consider the amount of CVEs (remote code execution and XSS) published for Rouncube since then, which are all unpatched in that Ubuntu: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-8905...

If you are running Ubuntu LTS on your server, that's a big problem.

The `roundcube` package is in the `universe` repository, meaning "community maintained". In this case for this LTS that meant "no security updates at all for 3 years". The newer LTS, 20.04, doesn't seem to have those CVEs fixed either.
Chrome itself benefits from being pushed by Google properties, including it being the only ad on the Google homepage. Back in the day it took off in popularity after being bundled with Flash Player.
>If you log into any Microsoft product (Office, Teams, Skype OneDrive, etc), Windows forces you to log into everything else.

No? Unless something changed, I specifically remember it asking me whether I wanted to sign into the OS, or that app only.
So there's still Chrome, Brave, Opera, Gnome Web, Falkon, etc...
Or get fired at your workplace.
Credmanifest CVE-2021-42306 scanner
Azure "Credmanifest" CVE-2021-42306 vulnerability scanner.
There's a benchmark test in the go implementation that gets 30-50% better performance than go's stdlib JSON. Mind you, this is a reference implementation and built for study, not speed.

Ultimately, performance in go comes down to how many allocations you do.
Why isn't Russia a nation? Its a large group of people ruled by a single government. Isn't that a nation?
Bad example because none of the "cloud gaming" companies have been very successful
That seems like it would be tricky, as the video and audio would get out of sync. You would have to remove, then "fill" to keep the timing. Though this product does mention it works with multiple speakers on different tracks...so they are already somewhat in that space.
Isn’t the mini missing one of the cameras? When I got my iPhone 12 i would have preferred a smaller screen but prioritized the third camera over the smaller size.

If I could get a smaller screen with all the cameras I totally would.
I believe they scrape all links pasted in Skype conversations too
who is your target user?

> to democratize formal software verification in order to make it much more feasible and realistic to write perfect software

to me that sounds like only people curious by nature or propense to try new programming languages as the language seems like an unfinished typed APL dialect, but perhaps I didn't get the idea enough.

Could you add some practical examples next to the theoretical points at each step?
Stadia isn’t even a good idea in the first place. Even if it is the best implementation of the idea, I still have no idea how it could ever make much sense. Other players in the space, like GeForce Now, don’t exactly look appealing either.
FWIW, I've been on graduate admissions committees for many years. Standardized tests work both ways; it really depends on the admissions committee and how they use the test scores. To borrow a phrase, "test scores don't prejudice, people do."

I've seen both sorts of problems.

When test scores are used well, they function the way that some people here see them. They provide another bit of evidence of potential, and can help to provide some signal as to what is going on with someone who might otherwise be underresourced, or facing sociopsychological challenges, or whatever. It's also much harder to score well on a test than to score poorly, so I think that asymmetry is helpful: a mindful admissions committee doesn't hold a less-than-stellar score against someone, but will give credit for an exceptionally high one.

At the same time, I've been in committees where controversies have erupted because of the stereotypical bias situation. There are minorities applying, they have tons of extra-score stuff to attest to their promise, they are coming from ridiculously challenged backgrounds, and they get a middling score, and someone on the committee is arguing that this single score, at a single point in time, should somehow override really high GPAs with challenging courses, volumes of very impressive letters, scores of accomplishments in research and the real world, etc. This is in the context of a program that has lots of experience with disadvantaged students, where you can see that they have this extra "learning the ropes" disadvantage but are equally smart, etc. This is also with committee members who, on paper, seem ultra-woke, but for some reason when it comes to stuff like this become really irrational and ultra-focused on test scores, and come across as highly bigoted.

Anyway, I feel a bit torn in all of this because I've seen both sides of the test score problem and think both sides are right. The problem is that the challenge is really trickier than "are test scores good or bad", the challenge is really about how people in power use them, and that's murkier, and more complex, and fraught with all sorts of obstacles.

The China example is a good one: why have any limits on how often you can take the test? What, really is the basis for that other than some kind of bigotry about human nature? Can people not change? Don't they have rough spots? We're just going to pretend that all those other sources of corruption don't play a role? That tests can't be gamed?

It's not really about the test per se.
It depends on how you develop. In most cases, it's arguably easy to separate your code from cloud-specific stuff. If you do that, you have high portability.
First you pay hundreds to bridge to a rollup, then you don't get to interact with any defi protocols since they're all on mainnet.
Are you being forced to use it?
No, you pay for it with your assets. Someone else pays to settle your debt and get your assets.

Example. You have $1000 btc deposited in a lending platform, you can borrow up to 80%. You borrow $800 usd. You keep the usd no matter what. If btc drops to $850 then someone pays $800 (usd debt) and gets btc worth $850. The buffer is so assets never drop below debt value.
Knowing Musk, I’d expect Tesla to regain the record. Obsessive people want to win, and Tesla’s vehicles and Supercharger network could support the charge rate required for a dedicated run.
The audio is edited in several phases. It uses different algorithms, but most of them are deep learning based. It is surely overengineered, but as a Data Scientist, ML is the most fun part for me.
That's what I was thinking. A dispenser of garbage information from a garbage hack of a person? I can name a few narcissists I know that have no technical knowledge, despite their claims. Is that what you're looking for?
Interesting. Seems like that would be an everyday issue...plenty of dead spots in cell coverage, underground parking garages, etc. Or perhaps they check for "no network", but not "network is there, endpoint is borked".
US FDA Approves Early-Stage Breast Cancer Detection Blood Test
Wanna know Apple limit the iPhone camera to 12 megapixels?
> the fact that right now that are hundreds of people/bots checking it.

As has been shown plenty of times, “more eyes looking at the code” is a fallacy as those eyes are very much not looking to find security vulnerabilities. Also, the lack of security in userspace GNU/linux codebases is something really worrying, much much more so than hypothetical hardware attack when you can just append to the end of .bashrc from a goddamn npm install and basically do anything you want, including streaming every single keypress?
There's another common thing in all of those: Computers.

For many people, "Just stop using Microsoft" is about as useful as "Just stop using computers"
Ah, Henry Kissinger, wouldn't trust someone who backed a fraudster (theranos) and enabled her to scam even more people. Maybe his judgment isn't what it used to be.
> or rather, I don't know how they continue to find enough reward in the activity to make up for the deprivation, repetition.

I totally feel you on this. I’ve done a reasonable amount of backpacking, and more and more, I’m not sure if I like backpacking or like looking back and saying I’ve done it. I certainly feel a sense of accomplishment from the treks I’ve done, but in the moment, it often just feels like drudgery, shading into misery when the days get long and the trail gets hard.

The exception is when the natural beauty of the surrounding area is high enough, the whole experience is totally worthwhile. The American west (Tetons, Sierra Nevada) still does it for me, but the AT definitely does not.
Maybe the negativity is due to the fact that Eric chose an unindicted war criminal as his co-author?
I think this does not acknowledge how incredibly asymmetric the difficulty is on each side. It is expensive and difficult to protect against security breaches, even with specialised software and expensive dedicated cybersecurity teams. Meanwhile, top-notch offensive capabilities might set you back up to seven figures which is easily achievable by unfriendly regimes (eg Russia, Iran, China, North Korea) or just criminals in places where they have little interference from authorities (eg most ransomware).

One small fuckup is sufficient to have the whole thing compromised (though cybersecurity people do live to talk about defence in depth) and security doesn’t compose well. That is, security is a property of the system as a whole and security of individual parts needn’t imply security of the whole.

I think analogies to physical security are bad because when you think of physical security you don’t imagine stealthy strangers constantly trying to pick your locks or open your windows or even tailgate people into the office at all times of day or night. But once one has a tool to breach a common system, it can be quickly tried on many systems at little marginal cost. When the marginal cost and risk are low, you may see more attacks. The real difference these days is that cryptocurrencies have made the potential payout high and so there are a lot of incentives to carrying these attacks.
> Apple probably gets more value out of Android than anybody else since Android’s existence keeps Apple out of antitrust court.

Kind of an odd statement given Android's 3x worldwide install base. Unless you meant specifically for US consumers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...
Defi fees can be cheaper than the very worst cex fees such as the ones you quoted, but only if you are trading huge size or not trading on Ethereum mainnet. Trading on Ethereum mainnet means the fixed fee of $100+ will probably dominate the exchange fee.

Robinhood Crypto does not guarantee you the NBBO because the NBBO doesn't exist.
Lex Fridman. At first I thought, who is this unheralded plebe and how is he
getting famous people to talk to him? Turns out he's thoughtful, oddly
charismatic, sufficiently smart, and most importantly, non-cringey.
For photos I can understand it (if they contain meaningful content), but to me this seems like a text-to-speech tool saying "a black button with white text, slightly rounded borders that sits close to the preceding text and slightly down from the menu above" instead of stating the buttons text or aria-label.
But should Microsoft be making value judgements or just support any reasonably popular payment methods?
Apple is obviously one of the richest phone manufacturer for capital, human resource, and equipment. So it can't be simply applied for other competitors. (But I believe Samsung/Huawei can do)

For battery, Apple makes iPhone, not Android phone. It means they need less batteries because its OS is efficient and they make great SoC with the best fab (be sure that efficiency of Samsung 5nm is similar to TSMC 7nm). iPhone 13 mini only have 2,406mAh.
Land Bank Proposals from 1650-1705 [pdf]
Oh wow nice. I wish the Tesla had that. We just have to leave it at home when we go on long trips. :(

It’s hard to justify adding like five hours to our trip. Just have to take the old Prius.
So if our behavior is the result of neuronal networks processing information, what is the 'causal relationship'

'Higher level' stuff like behavior is the result of our cells communicating, there's no magic 'soul' that act on our biological systems. It generally goes from low->high but there is some feedback that occurs at 'high' and induces changes at 'low'

The reality is a combination and thinking it just goes one way is flawed reasoning. Nothing is unidirectional and nothing is binary
What happens when there is a feature in the future that you also do not like and you can not turn it off, but you are already locked in?
Mozilla is more morally bankrupt after taking Google money and letting the rise of Chrome going unchecked.
The non-fungibleness of land requires a central authority to agree to ownership. It may live on chain but if the state does not consider the chain to be the source of record, it's useless. This is why armies exist.
Having worked in the ClimateTech sector for a few years (and with no intention to stop) - I can definitely emphasize with the potential for burnout. It's really ease to start caring immensely about your work, which can be great - but also needs some sort of balance so that it doesn't hit too hard when it doesn't work out.
> If anything, many would likely be happy to have layaway at their fingertips for all of their purchases.

A severe indictment of society’s innumeracy.
> unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to require hospitalization

Next up: increased likelihood of hospitalization of other choices that aren't choices for a minority of those groups that everyone wants to demonize, like the obese.
NFT's are for the metaverse. Content will have to be authenticated via the blockchain. Anyone angry doesn't understand what they bought.
Yes exactly. And yeah Django automatically maps transactions inside transactions to savepoints.
Chrome is still the best, by far. No ads and random anti-patterns I don't want in the interface (looking at you Firefox), no MS shenanigans (10x worse than FF), it just gets out of the way and does its job. Bonus it runs DRM (I don't like it but necessary evil), casts to Chromecast, Google is still the best search engine, etc...
Stadia is a service. Actually very few people have the luxury of being able to choose their software. When compatibility, previous knowledge or an specific feature is key, people simply can't choose.
A few months back, I was actually saying good things about Edge, and recommending it to new Win10 users. Now I regret that. I feel betrayed.
There was an amusing example of this yesterday with The Economist saying, `The sharp increase in inflation over the past year has blindsided many economists. Almost no one saw it coming`

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1461651190144503808
The problem is, there is no paid browser you can pay for at the moment, so you don’t really have any choice in the matter.

If some current/former Mozilla devs fork Firefox and start a new paid browser, I would gladly give money to them. ($5 per month subscription would probably be the sweet spot for such a paid browser program.)
> I believe the joke is on us as technical people.

Quite the opposite? We can be paid for migrating current applications to "serverless", and when the tides of tech fashion change we can be paid again to migrate to the new fashionable tech.

If the joke is on anyone, it is on the shareholders of the companies getting locked in. But, it is their money and if they want to trade some CAPEX for OPEX that is not really my problem.
Analysing Covid vaccine efficiency and safety statistics
This whole reductionist notion that an 80-year-old company with 300,000 employees has a single goal is part of your problem. Embrace complexity. But if you're looking for their take on the basics, start with their website: https://search.newsroom.toyota.co.jp/en/all/search.x?tag=Vis...
Whose job is it to prevent Armageddon?
Wow, it's impressive to see 80% of HN doesn't understand the difference between Bitcoin and MySQL.
Anyone know if this sort of thing happens with enterprise users of Microsoft? Exfiltrating user data would create a shitstorm at one of my previous employers.
Not really that hard to believe, considering where the "don't be evil" company got part of its initial funding from [0] and what these funding outfits have been up to themselves since then [1].

[0] https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest. But in the case of Toyota and most Lean companies, profit is a metric, but is not the goal.
I think HN drastically underestimates how many average folks would actually enjoy having an easy to use interest free payment option. Not everyone lives in the valley and makes 6+ figures. With Christmas right around the corner I'm betting a ton of folks will welcome the option to spread their bills over 6 payments for free.
You can’t compare a hipster wanting to flash a cane with a senior citizen giving up going up and down stairs in pain because a painless alternative exists.
When was Kissinger's judgement ever good?
I'm curious, how is this achieved?

The way I logically group commits is by stacking branches which are merged without fast forward. Works well with interactive rebase.
Well if that's all you reduce Rogan down to, then sure. But it would totally ignore why so many people tune in to his show.
GP said it’s just an Express app, right? That should be pretty easy to run anywhere.
Ethereum Foundation historical dumping log chart
How does this compare with MsgPack?
How Tesla Spends $0 on Advertising:

https://www.themarketingish.com/newsletter/tesla-advertising
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