skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have other people around, you'll almost definitely want a "silent" switch. I've been using cherry blue (loud clicky) switches for a decade and then when my family joined me at home for covid they all complained. I changed to a silent switch and it's been great.

I would recommend the "CODE" keyboard. They make almost every variation you would need (including "silent red" version):

https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/products/mechanical-keyboards/...

It's essentially a WASD brand keyboard with a nicer font on the keycaps and some different switch options.

Pay close attention the key layout you want... especially the enter key. You might be mad if you buy the layout you're not used to.
there's a great bit from Louis CK on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-7AKx_4Ug

"You get to read to kill a mockingbird." when he says it is hilarious and I often remember that when moments seem shitty.
I just want to pop in and say something, as a blockchain dev deep into this tech and pouring my heart and soul into technology that will one day help everyone whether they understand how a blockchain or NFT works or not. (How many car owners are also mechanics or auto industry experts?)

The level of discourse I see on Hacker News surrounding NFTs and crypto is abysmally arrogant, misguided, ignorant and so profoundly vitriolic that it is incredibly energy-consuming to engage with the amount of misinformation.

There is no hope for a reasonable discussion, everyone is coming to the table with their own opinions and not listening to what industry experts have to say.

These are some of the most toxic discourses I see on HN, and some of the most fruitless. I have so much to say on the subject, one of my favorite subjects, and I'm scared and nervous to contribute anything lest I get bombarded with narrow-minded, played-out talking points.

Can we as a community please improve this situation? We're forming our own crypto bubble, an anti-crypto bubble. It's just as toxic and just as misguided.
To combat some of the anti-curious stances in this thread are there any new cars with too much digitization?

I would love something like a Tesla with a repl that I can program to do donuts; dynamically adjust the ride height from my Apple Watch, or just make the headlights flash in time to my music. Booting Urbit on the infotainment device is a bonus.

Basically a modern car for a hacker that still loves technology. Absolutely loved the Rally Motors concept as a kid. The Grenadier looks promising too. But I’m not aware of anything that’s computers + Hoonigan. The more digitization the better.
The problem is that a lot of safety features came into the market along with a lot of really terrible cabin UI choices and wiz-bang display electronics that I do not want.
Nice, I’ve been looking for something like this. The typical advice I’ve seen for getting started with this sort of thing involves jumping directly into published papers, which seems a bit inaccessible.
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback and kind words yumraj. My thoughts:

> once a day delivery is going to be problematic. Perhaps a once an hour, or once every 2-3 hours delivery could be supported.

I've gone back and forth on this many times myself. To the point where the backend actually does support two deliveries already :). It's been a really tough call! Ultimately I decided to double down on sticking to the unique value proposition that this offers. I don't mean to sound too self serious but although this app tweaks one little parameter (instantaneity) the result is pretty dramatic. Lessening the impact of that result, as you observe, would defeat the point. I think traction/adoption will involve the people intuitively "get it" right away using it (fortunately such people do exist, which has been a really nice affirmation for me), and helping spread and explain the concept.

> requests for delivery at the same time you will have very high peaks with mostly idle time in between.

The infrastructure is described here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29280539, but essentially I have not optimized yet for peaks etc. This will be a great problem to have, and should be solvable with telemetry, scaling, "pre-delivery" etc.

> How about delivering the messages via email over SMTP, so that this becomes an email client and takes care of having person at the other end also having Pony.

The first iteration of Pony was an email service. It turned out that breaking the cardinal rule of "Don't Fix Email" was, indeed, a bad idea. I didn't even try to properly launch it, because the very first piece of feedback I got was about how "wonderfully rebellious" Pony was—which was pretty sad for me because the last thing I wanted was for Pony to be perceived as anti-social by people. I wanted to make a platform that was pro-social. It turned out that established platforms like email have their own set of norms and expectations, and trying to unilaterally violate those norms is a big social no-no. That's why this version is a self-contained platform. It's less accessible, but with all parties on the platform, all the expectations are really clear.
Intelligence is what you make of it. It sounds like you're at a point where you're satisfied to stare out a window, and there's nothing wrong with that; unless you want otherwise for yourself, or if you feel that's not your authentic self. Its up to you how much you want to engage with the world - and the people you mention earlier sound like highly engaged individuals. Likewise, your medical situation could totally be impacting things as well! So worthwhile to look into that too.
Setting aside your remarks about GDP not being relevant for government financing, The government is not a household, it exists in perpetuity. The time scales with which it can service debt are completely different.
>Your minimum cable outlay back then would still cover the cost of a couple streaming services.

I'm paying twice as much for cable internet as I used to pay for basic cable, before even starting to pay for a streaming service.
After the "Cultural Revolution", what is left of Chinese history, to learn from?
Carbon 3D printing software for use on any printer
Given that cars are by far the most common cause of violent injury and death, I think it's kind of silly to call it an irrational fear.

You are not exceptional. You are maaaaybe in the top quintile of driver competence. Very likely not if you've been driving for forty years- your reaction times are trash compared to a twenty year old. These driver assist features would help you be a safer driver.
I have the privilege of owning a Happy Hacking 2, it has topre keys. I used it for about a year. And I hated it! It's insanely noisy, to the point of distraction. It's so damn loud. But the dealbreaker for me is how heavy and deep the keys are. It's just too much energy and travel time for efficient typing IMO. After long sessions my fingertips felt sore from the blunt damage of pushing down the keys.

But I'll recognize they have some merit. The chunky feeling has a sense of physically I never experienced in other keyboard. The 60 keys and compact form factor is great for transport and leaves a lot of room for other things on your desk (this is actually super useful). The physical switches for changing the layout are very handy. And honestly the thing look like it could survive an impact from a deep space object. I would be surprised if it starts to show wear within the next 10 years.

I still prefer my cheap Cherry Mx-Board 3 with brown cherry keys. The thing is clunky and ugly, but the more muted noise and lower pressure required to activate the keys is what I'm comfortable with.

I'm so sorry for my former colleagues that had to go through my topre period and deal with the noise I even personally was very annoyed with.

Edit:spelling
Yes, a common conception of race is nation/region/tribe- eg. Trojan, Roman, Mongol, or the various SA tribes. So, a modern US-centric version could be the state you are from, or rural/urban, etc. It's meaningless, though, unless society adopts the concept, and given the worldview nowadays it's hard to imagine anything more granular than continental origin gaining traction (at least in US).
> When I'm interviewing, I prefer interviewing with multiple companies while still earning an income

That's what I do too.

But my strategy is taking vacation for interviews, and then taking a "real" vacation in-between jobs. Not possible for everyone, but so far it has worked for me.
I'm totally not up to speed on Tesla details, but weren't those only added later for the higher-end models, so people that bought before might not have those? (+ of course you can bet that a pile of people doesn't carry them because the phone method "always" worked)
This is a delightful sentiment, and I'd go further and say that things as simple as being kind to the people around you, cleaning up after yourself, etc. are similarly important and impactful. They sound trivial compared to acts of "genius" but a ton of people are jerks, every day. It's not trivial at all to make the people around you feel better, it's not easy to do it every day, and if everyone actually did it, the world would be a vastly different place.
Do childhood colds help the body respond to Covid?
> If a dependency needs to be bumped a version for e.g. security purposes, then the app obviously wasn't tested with the new version (which didn't exist at the time) and needs to be retested

The burden of updating multiple copies of the same library across many packages grows exponentially and is simply untenable for distributions.

If you can find an army of volunteers to do that, distributions would love their contributions.

This hasn't happened in the last 20 years. I'd love to be proven wrong.
The point of abs isn’t to improve your braking system. It’s to stop you from panicking in an accident situation, locking up the front wheels and losing the ability to steer.

Abs actually very slightly reduces the stopping potential of your brake system. But being able to steer and control your car is a bigger benefit under these circumstances.
Consider human evolution and human psychology. What has been most important to most individual humans, for all of history? Having a safe and satisfying individual life, providing for and integrating with those friends and family in our immediate presence.

That's the biological firmware running in your brain. The Internet screws with this perception. It can be a "make yourself feel bad" machine under the right circumstances.

Hold those 0.0001% up as personal heroes (keeping in mind most people have no connection at all to writing Corkscrew Follies in Assembly) and use that inspiration to live your life to your own satisfaction. That's what Chris Sawyer was doing too.
> And then of course the "Rigorous Japanese Quality Standards", because obviously QC is better if the factory is located in a country containing people of the Japanese ethnicity compared to other ethnicities.

I think the Japanese part is being brought up to talk about the cost, as Japan is a higher cost of living country and has higher labour costs as a result. Lots of mass produced "Japanese" goods aren't actually produced in factories with Japanese workers as a result, so the fact that the manufacturing is only done there I think is just highlighting a supply-chain reason for the higher cost (using labour in Japan), without making an argument that the quality comes from that supply chain decision.
> tetanus is not, as an example

And at least in some places, you have to redo a tetanus shot at different ages to keep up the immunity.
If you read through the posts, some are saying they cannot get into their car at all. Others are saying you can call Roadside Assistance for a remote unlock, but I wonder what the hold times are there right now...
Thank FSM for the developer who did that. How many times a day do you try to complete a task and just get a generic "Error" from an application?

Also interesting that Photoshop, with dozens of developers, didn't deem this format interesting enough to add support for it.
Don't fall into the trap thinking that the Rollercoaster Tycoon person is merely talented, and a kind of measuring stick for what talent is. They are extremely gifted and if you're not that then you can still be OK and impressive in your own right! There are many other things that can be said, but start with that.
I'm in the DC area, have friends in the lobbying space. Lobbying generally doesn't involve money changing hands, or campaign contributions, or anything like that. Lobbying congresspeople generally consists of contacting them and convincing them the value of certain positions. Realistically, lobbying is essential for Congress to function. You can't possibly expect every single member of Congress to be an expert on everything they could ever possibly legislate about. They require someone to provide them with background information so that they can make an informed decision. To some extent they can use their staff, or the Congressional Research Service, or do some research on their own, but generally speaking that's not enough. Legislators often maintain active relationships with lobbying groups that they agree with, and can use them as a source on input on legislation. This is no different than a citizen choosing to support a particular bill because a group they trust and respect supports it. A significant amount of lobbying is done simply because a legislator values that group's opinions.

When we're talking about more coercive lobbying, it's often done on influence rather than money. A good example is the NRA. There are a significant number of voters for whom gun rights are very important, and will vote for or against a particular candidate based entirely on what the NRA says to do. The NRA thus has a lot of power, and I'd argue more so than could be achieved simply with money.

Businesses can lobby based on influence too. If a particular company or industry employs a significant number of your constituents, as a congressperson it is in your best interests to cater to that company or industry. If legislation is passed that helps that industry, they may expand and you can come back to your voters at election time showing you created jobs. If you pass legislation that hurts that industry and people are laid off, on the other hand, people may blame you for it. Even the thought that you might pass a law that might help or hurt an industry can change votes.

Don't get me wrong, we need to reform campaign financing. But lobbying in general is a perfectly reasonable and necessary function.
I have a feeling you are correct. Exchanges have the lowest barrier to entry, non-public client position information, and cheaper access to capital than most market participants.
Spike does this. Spikenow dot com.
they said "truck/suv", not "suv"

pretty sure members of ((the set "truck") + (the set "suv")) have existed for more than 50 years, because that union includes trucks
> peoples dependencies keep getting updated.

Updated maybe with malware sometimes? Is it unbelievable that the admins sometimes would hand over an inactive module to the wrong person?

Maybe Perl is a less interesting target than npm so it works (so far) for them?
When you build a new residential area, people move in with kids. After 15-20 years, kids move out, population collapses, and local services die. The best way to avoid this is building within / next to existing areas instead of building completely new areas.
We're on a rock floating around. An asteroid took out the dinosaurs, we could be next, no one going to remember anyone if that happens. What's the point of being remembered, when at the end of the day none of it will really matter in the future. Kind of a downer but I just do what makes me happy, even if I know I'm not smart enough to write code.
"iron" probably underwent a process called r-metathesis after the spelling was standardized (or the spelling was based on a different dialect). If the spelling had been based on the later version, it would've been "iorn". I was going to give a lengthy explanation, but someone on StackExchange already did: https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/264662
It will depend on the specific vaccine. The tetanus, diphtheria and another one last 10 years and are redone occasionally, so the same logic applies.
The anticipation on the executives part is probably something like a total squeeze on consumers, where they have no other option but to pay for these services to be in the know with the times or whatever (like how Squid Game memes have popped up everywhere overnight).

The reality on the consumer end is that people are paying less money over all. Me personally I pay for like one service and have the logins from like six family and friends. I don't even know who is paying for the underlying account, someone's mother down the line I'm sure. I'm not alone with this either. As more services pop up, people become less likely to want to have yet another individual subscription, and its very common to hear about people sharing account info among friends and family.

However it's gotten to the point of annoyance where even I will just resort to piracy half the time, with access to every streaming service at my fingertips, because there are still some movies that for whatever reason are rented digitally for something like $4 for 72 hours as if we've stepped back in time and reverted to the brick and mortar blockbuster business model for the information age vs offering a sane alternative.

It really blows my mind how merciful the RIAA has been on the otherhand allowing Spotify and Apple Music to have such a vast and unsplintered catalog.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "digital" features.

I purchased a 2021 vehicle, its a GM vehicle. Its my first GM product, my last was a Toyota but very basic model, no tech. This has everything and while I enjoyed it at first, a few things started to happen in the vehicle that made me realize that I don't want this vehicle anymore. Primarily the OnStar "feature", I get an ad like chime every so often, asking if I would like to sign up or that this vehicle has OnStar and I should activate it.

I get the world we live in and I get that everything has a subscription service attached to it but when that OnStar kicks in while I am talking to someone in the car it creeps me out. Its like when Siri asks how can I help you when you didn't ask for help yet its feels a bit more awkward. Can't explain why except I will be selling the vehicle very soon, just not sure what I will be getting next. Older, like 2000's, low miles and base model.

Its why I have not purchased an EV, while they don't all have subscriptions its started to feel like they are all going in that direction. I love tech but
it has become a bit overwhelming in vehicles. If I paid for the car I really don't want to have ads while driving the vehicle (old school thinking I guess).
It sounds like from the forum that some people rely on only the app, and Tesla markets this as an option. Seems like a big issue to push that feature and then for it to be down for hours.
>Topres are expensive because it's a luxury item and they get away with it.

Because it's a high quality tool, long time ago the US firm IBM made some high quality keyboards too...long time ago.

BTW: I can buy 6 HHKB for 1 Iphone (what is the luxury item here?)
I always appreciate a good fact checking, thanks! I'll have to look into it more for myself, great counter-perspective. I'll add an anecdote about the book's effect re: the claims about brain chemistry: talking to the friend who recommended the book about Hari's claims to the ineffectiveness of medication, she said "Even if my medication only makes a few percent difference, for me it's the difference between killing myself and not." I liked that reading of Hari's book not as anti-medicine, but as an explanation for why people who've been ratcheting up their dosage over the years, as a lot of my friends have, still feel totally insane: medication can't fix the whole problem itself.
I would recommend Mazda vehicles.

Their entire lineup offers a small set of effective and minimally intrusive digital/smart features. But, outside of that, they keep it simple.

The no-touchscreen is a much safer way to interact with the vehicle, and afaik they have stuck to the traditional 'car' formula. Most of their cars can be purchased in manual and have pretty good driving mechanics for a honda/toyota competitor.

The Mazda 3 Hatch, is IMO the best deal in cars right now.
They have a way to deal with this, considering the original article either it is the fault of mozilla to not have a signature to submit to this list or it is the fault of users committing secrets to public repos. Either way it is not the fault of github IMO.

In my mind it is mostly the fault of users.
> Some of the more prized NFTs are entirely on-chain

Oh neat - that's definitely better, I'm sure it increases costs significantly though.

> "treated as a copy."

Are consumers able to easily make informed decisions about which versions of NFT are primal and which are derivative? Seems like a hard problem that would require a lot of expensive moderation by the ecosystems.

> Best NFTs are CC0 licensed and don't confer any legal rights

I love me some CC0, but I'd also love a system where I can self service:

- Identify the owner of a song I'd like to use as background music in a video

- Buy an NFT that represents a license to use that song in a single streaming video

- "Point" that NFT at a file hash of the completed video

- Upload video to youtube and other streaming platforms including a reference to the NFT, making it immune to arbitrary takedown requests.

There are stories of creators who own the rights to a song getting takedown requests on a video that includes it and getting stuck in kafkaesque bureaucracy despite having a valid license. There is no public registry of who is licensed to use a piece of content, so Youtube would have to manually inspect contracts to resolve this - it seems they are grossly understaffed in support to be able to do this. Sure, this is partially due to Youtube's extreme subservience to the IP lobby, but a public system to validate licensing would be extremely valuable IMO.
A bit off topic but I wish SQL syntax was:

FROM `employees`
WHERE state='CA'
SELECT name
, company
, salary
, state
, city
It's 'cognitive dissonance' to contemplate those getting prescriptions for diabetes, cancer and chemo as 'drug seekers' who are in any way remotely similar to those buying illegal drugs, most of which are not purchased for therapeutic value.
We have no plans to ever sell the two cars we have. I highly recommend copies if you can find them. My wife has a 2007 4Runner. 150K on the odo and all I've ever needed to change was an alternator and brakes. If you do your own work, nothing on the planet is better for a mechanic than a Toyota. Ours is also the V8 (unicorn-ish) but I don't recommend that unless you need to tow something significant. Mine is a 2014 Subaru BRZ with three pedals. IMHO, it's the best car ever made. Like a shifter kart with airbags.
Adding more:

It's a distributed R-C circuit, along with discrete R of the bulb.

C per unit distance depends on the positioning of the wires. How fast current ramps up depends on the distributed C and the bulb's R (as wire's distributed R is ignored in the problem statement).