skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you are privileged you have no extra weight or leg up over someone else on standardized tests.

That is demonstrably not true. Wealthy people can and do spend legions on test prep and tutoring.

But that said, I generally agree with some of the underlying sentiment, which is that many wealthy people value education and status that can be attained through scholastic achievement in a way that many poor people do not. I think that even if you had loads of high quality, free SAT prep classes and tutors that you'd still see a large test score gap.
I have two Topre keyboards. I love my RealForce whole-heartedly, but my HHKB is nowhere near the same typing quality. The HHKB is still nice, but I only use it as a portable alternative (I have a bluetooth model). The RealForce feels easy, fluid, and solid, somehow.

I have the RealForce R2 with variably-weighted switches and it is such a pleasant experience to type on that I don't even bother looking at other keyboards any more - there's nothing else I want from a board.
There have been rocket engines built by stacking carefully made thin metal slices (with holes cut for coolant channels) and then using diffusion bonding to join them into a single monolith. I could see 3D printing being used for this instead, and perhaps more cheaply.
Apple Has Listened and Will Retract Some Harmful Phone-Scanning
https://downdetector.com/status/steam/ reports a dramatic spike in reports as of roughly 4:45 PM PST.
My personal favorite keyboard is the one built in to my old apple //e. I got the chance to type on it again last time I visited my parents.

It just feels great. Probably too loud, and no clickyness. Just a nice solid THUNK.

Also it puts the ctrl key in the right spot. I always have to remap caps lock and ctrl.
I feel like a lot of file formats came out of companies, but even protocol buffers isn't calling itself google protocol buffers. What is it with modern companies putting their name everywhere they can?
> Going out on a limb here, but I am betting that you and your friend weren't hanging out on the balcony at 3AM in winter in Chicago.

That's a strange assumption. Average temps in November aren't low at all either at night or during the day.
Grpc?
For what it's worth, I've heard claims/studies that cowbells are loud and constant enough to affect cows' eating patterns and cause deafness.
Got the Mini-M last year, love it (but I'm not exactly a keyboard-aficionado nor a fast typist). Best keyboard (well only 'proper' one) I had since my Cherry branded keyboard in the early nineties. Slight annoyance though is that there seems to be a well-known firmware bug disabling the 'q' key every once in a blue moon (three or four times so far). Nothing a disconnect/reconnect can't solve, but it's annoying if your password has a 'q' ...

And yes, too loud for the modern office. At home I got used to it and don't really mind anymore. Too heavy to carry around in the back-pack, but I do appreciate the 'heft' on the desk at home.
I don’t believe this is true, and I can’t find any confirmed examples of it happening.

There have been cases where users thought they lost a purchase, but it ended up being an issue where they changed storefronts to one where the purchase wasn’t available. The movie reappeared when they went back to the original storefront (and I believe even that behavior was a bug that’s been fixed).

I keep an eye on this because I’ve also purchased a lot of movies from iTunes.
I suspect that if you keep peeling away the layers here, you may come to find that this, in the end, is a struggle to find meaning. It is the same struggle that haunts many: we want to matter. How can we matter? We then grasp the idea that if only we could climb the mountain and reach the pinnacle of human achievement - if we could change the world - well then surely we would have mattered.

Well, I have news. If you were to radically transform the world, if your work surpasses any of our industry "titans" and creates the foundation of a utopia to last for thousands of years, if you are adored around the world by everyone alive young and old and captured in the annals of history... congratulations, you have affected the lives of approximately zero of the beings that have lived or have yet to live. And you will still die. And they will still die. And in time everything you have wrought will be destroyed. And you will be utterly forgotten. And all of humanity's history will disappear from knowledge. And the earth will be devoured by the sun. Inevitably. So it goes. It is irrationally tilting at a windmill to think that the degree of your impact in this life has anything to do with the meaningfulness of your existence.

The takeaway here is that you are no less important and your life is no less meaningful than any mogul or genius that you can think of. It is reasonable to think that nothing that you or they do will ever matter. Or even can. But that's ok; life is still beautiful. And if you have others in your life, you matter to them incomparably more than any of those geniuses ever could. I think if you look, you can find meaning there.

It's not settling, it's understanding the reality of things. You don't need to change the world to matter; you can just be you.
NASA's first planetary defense mission will nudge an asteroid
The Realforce 88u I had came with alternate Caps Lock / Control keycaps in the box.
I've got a totally different experience... I own three HHKB: two HHKB Pro JP (for they have a narrower spacebar and more modifiers: so less thumb travel: I do have very close Japanese family but I don't speak Japanese) and one HHKB Pro 2 (the first I got).

They are, to me, out of this world. They ruined me forever in that I'll never be able to use something else than a Topre. I've got lots of IBM Model Ms, several Cherry boards (including the ultimate Cherry MX brown: the split MX 5000), I worked for years (when I was doing typesetting) on the best keyboard Apple ever made (Apple Extended Keyboard II is the name I think, from the early 90s): it wasn't bad.

But Topre is the best thing that ever happened to keyboards: I don't know how to put it in any other way.

My only gripe is that there are so little models to chose from: all the enthusiasts making their own keyboards are using Cherry MX switches but it's not because they're better than Topre, it's because they have no choice. There are many MX switches to choose from, yet, to me, they're not anywhere near close the greatness of Topre.

I'd totally be in the "build your own keyboard" community if I could easily build one using Topre switches. Heck, I considered cutting two HHKB Pro JP in half each to build me a split one... (it's doable).

Regarding the noise: I'm that guy crazy enough to go live somewhere quiet. Not the city, not full rural either because I don't want to hear animal farms and tractors. I'm the crazy one who'll splurge $$$ to get a high-end luxury car only for the sound insulation.

I'm also one of those dinosaurs who know what it was it was like to type in a room full of IBM Model M terminal keyboards (or similar) hooked to an AS/400.

Topre switches aren't that loud: no need to apologize for coworkers (moreover there are different Topre switches, some of which are quieter than others).

I'm not saying it's for everybody but I do really think anyone who's never tried one should try: it may be the keyboard switch they'll use until their last day.

I know I'm not the only one who's tried everything that exists out there and settled on Topre for life.
Because the phone companies are not held accountable for facilitating it

If they were this would have been solved yesterday
For the curious, bf296b125b21 was from 2008, f993bc25e519 was from 2014 and e20cf8d3f1f7 was in 2018.
I have purchased and tried many of the high-end keyboards over the years. I always switch back to my IBM Model M made in 1985. I have a couple of spares for parts. Every few years, I take it apart and put it in the dishwasher.

update: I just flipped it over and see that the particular Model M I'm typing on is from 1991.
Not all mechanical keyboards are loud. I have used fairly quiet cherry brown switches that nobody seemed to mind in my office settings. And not all require as much key travel and force. I am using louder and heavier keys now and I do agree with the general sentiment of your comment. I think the linked site has the best reviews but favors louder and heavier.
I worked at Nike and we had the same thing occur. Basically change any and all references of Taiwan to “Taiwan - A province of China” or they threatened to shut down Nike.com in China. Everything else stopped until we made the change. I thought it was weird and showed how much influence China had over even a huge American company and brand. I quit three months ago, have vowed that I will never work for a corporation that chooses greed over people again.
What's wrong with barbed wire fences?
They're preparing to lock down in Austria right now. 2022 is only a month and a bit away.

So yes, I very much expect this "prediction" to be more like continuing current news.
It's not our responsibility you refute your claims. It's yours to prove them. How is turning a blind eye to China's human rights abuses going to force their hand when it comes to climate change? What exactly is your plan here? Clearly explain how we get from point A to point B.

And when has this strategy ever worked? We did the same thing with Poland in WWII and look where that got us. You can't make deals with despots.
I was so excited by the possibility of an EmDrive engine for a bit it really seemed like everyone was trying and that there was maybe something to them. But also they would violate laws of physics so remained skeptical. Watched too much Star Trek as a kid I love to look at the skies and imagine humans travelling across the galaxy. One day.
Exactly. That site I linked has a lot of examples like that. But just more intuitively, imagining that committee mark-up sessions have lobbyists sitting in the back reporting almost every single move, decision, word, etc., does not make me excited to want to be in Congress.

For me, I used to believe that it was the most deliberative body in the world, and yet, with the current over-the-shouldering, I don't know how people deliberate. But I think we can restore it, if we want to. I think we can get caught in the trap of wanting others to not manipulate Congress into doing what they want them to do, but wanting us to be able to manipulate them to do what we want them to do. Personally, I'd rather elect people who I think are smart, talented, kind, and considerate, and let them make the best decisions they can.
in what way is the library ecosystem more robust? if anything library use is down due to centralization around specific frameworks and tool chains.
> ... especially in contrast to the complete waste of taxpayer money that is the SLS.

Time to chop down the knowledge trees of economic theory and bureaucratic budget proceduralism. Crazy to think of all those 1960s concepts left on the drawing board in the U. S. A. meanwhile Communists in China were subsisting in caves.
No, there is no misunderstanding. The paper has falsely defined wash trading to mean fake trades.
I don’t think the point of the collar is to stop a cow going somewhere stupid, but rather to influence them to move to feeding areas and milking stations.

If a cow automatically moves to the right area then they don’t have to be herded. This reduces time. Some cows will likely need encouragement but it sounds like this reduces not only time, but stress on the livestock.

Fences are still likely needed.
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Except torrents provide that, and have for 20+ years. All this time and streaming sites haven't quite caught up.
Matrix has bridges for a lot of other services.

https://matrix.org/bridges/

Some are in better states than others, and most will have trade-offs when it come to stickers and media. But definitely worth a look.
A fun anecdote:

My grandmother says that before telephones, she used to make plans by post! At that time there were 4-5 postal deliveries per day, so she could exchange messages with friends while at work to make arrangements for that evening.

Bu I agree that it’s nice to have that separation. I think email used to provide that long-form channel, but it’s too swamped by transactional rubbish these days.
That’s cute but if I’ve got a touch screen in my car and scroll through Spotify playlist, I’m as distracted as if I would be doing that on my phone if not worse.

We need something general about distractions and may be a mandate that requires cars to disable touch screen whilst moving. “Put gear shift lever in park to enable touch screen”
Unlike controlling a cow by yelling at them and herding them with cattle dogs?
LH2/LOX engines (and most others) typically are operated a bit fuel rich. At stoichiometric fuel/oxidizer ratio, the flame is so hot the mixture has significant dissociation, so it loses some of the chemical energy. It's advantageous to win back some of that by adding extra hydrogen, reducing the temperature slightly but also significantly reducing the average molecular weight of the gases.
Itinerary Through Your Cluster
It's always better if you don't explain it.

Now Raoul Duke will never again be accompanied by a sense of mystery for me.
I skipped the whole mechanical keyboard acquisition cycle (thanks to a comment or two from HN), bought a Niz, totally happy with it and best keyboard I've used, haven't been tempted to keep searching.
Regarding crypto fraud, why isn't anyone talking about the massive amount of Elon Musk spam and hacked twitter accounts.

https://scaminvestigations.substack.com/p/better-than-the-ma...
It's funny, I didn't realize protobuf was a Google thing for a long time because of that. At least `protobuf` is a reasonably-specific search term. `ion` returns too much noise. Almost a good reason to name things weirder, like `iyon`. But then they'd get laughed at. EDIT: oh, its a Tagolog name too, and a light company.
Are you subjecting yourself to this sort of punishment for more than a few minutes at a time? b^)
> Although an attentive driver should also be doing that.

Society doesn't allow people to say that they're good enough to opt out of safety mechanisms designed to protect us all.

This is why 'I don't wear a seat-belt I can brace myself' also doesn't cut it.
100%. i’ve tried everything. model m, model f, cherry, etc. nothing feels the same way the hhkb does for me. and the layout, as an emacs user, is sublime
Pretty neat, but isn't it like *two* formats: one binary and one textual?
Visual apps, shortcuts, autocomplete, and a JavaScript API for the terminal?

Hell no.

The terminal system was built as a no-frills, bloat-free, real-time interactive interface over a 1200 baud serial line.

I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole even if it was open source, and didn't have the creepy telemetry and mandatory email signup that others are rightly complaining about.

I wouldn't recommend this to a beginner either. The terminal is confusing enough. The last thing you want is a bunch of extra menus, icons, plugins, and JavaScript addons, together with a thing that types commands for you which interferes with learning and building muscle memory.
Disambiguation. There is one thing called protobufs. There are hundreds called "ion", a lot of which are more notable than an internal file format.

Edit: I was going to paste in a relevant quote from Zarf (i.e. Andrew Plotkin) on naming. Some of his most important programs have total nonsense names like "glulx", and the reasoning was that at least it would be easy to search for when the name is unique. But ironically, "Zarf" is so common a term that I can't find the quote.
THey are probbly checking to see if it is active.
Kubernetes best practices for Multi-Cloud usage
Definitely call from another phone if using a landline.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/100268/does-han...
That's a pretty narrow minded view, considering I didn't pay that factory, I paid Apple. Or Dell. Or whomever. I have zero control with my vote as an American relating to working conditions in India, China, Malaysia, Pakistan or the like, and I refuse to be held morally accountable for something entirely beyond my control, especially when it's not even theoretically possible whatsoever. But I can at least vote in the US for whatever candidate(s) seem most likely to affect positive labor market changes, and hopefully those candidates will be able to leverage their office for geopolitical influence in a positive direction, ultimately contributing to positive changes in that country at some point in the future. That is at least theoretically possible, unlike your flawed notion that I have to reject all technology entirely because it was sold by people who abused vulnerable populations to create it, even though I have absolutely no control whatsoever even in theory over that.

Besides, you ever bought computer part, chip, etc. that was made entirely ethically in a first-world country paying good wages to skilled labor with rights, benefits, pensions, healthcare and so on, where the company and all its officers were entirely free of moral flaws? No you haven't, you know why? Because there aren't any and there never have been.

So compounding your error in logic here is the inescapable fact that no alternatives exist, which just further demonstrates the impotence of your combative argument and intent.
(Geekhack veteran here). My impression is that all kinds of people are on Geekhack and that all keyboard topics are welcome, but some users are definitely louder than others: mostly about pushing their preferences onto newbies and (mis)lead them into buying expensive things they won't like.

The forums I find worse are /r/mechanicalkeyboards on Reddit (elitist about customs) and Deskthority (elitist about vintage, and also unmoderated)
For mech newbies, I have found various PC-hardware forums to be the most welcoming.
Do you have a bell that can be heard over 5,850,000 acres? Because I’d like to buy one for Anna Creek station in South Australia.

Though it may well also be that you have an extraordinarily freakish range of hearing.
The g is (allegedly) not for Google.
Not certified I guess. Remember, medicine. :-)

In practice, VMs on PCs for non-technical personnel are a major pain. All kinds of stuff breaks in curious ways e.g. the pass-through of the protocol or the specific interface might not work reliably, there is a custom setup to support, some pop-up causes the windows to overlap in a way that makes it hard for the medical personnel to get going quickly yadayada. Yes, you can do snapshots and other stuff.

Also, the technicians setting this up are usually not trained in IT DevOps/ broad sysadmin tasks so much as in the setup of special medical devices. They also tend to cost a small fortune, because again, they are certified to work on those machines costing on the order $100000 when used and multiple that when new and there might be a handful of them for the whole region. In this particular case, as a patient you also don't want more x-rays than you absolutely need to get. Doing a panoramic x-ray multiple times because e.g. of some software failure could breach some daily/ monthly whatever irradiation limits so you would need another appointment etc. Not something you want to go through as a responsible doctor because of some custom setup.

I get it, I am also enthusiastic about Windows never touching bare metal if at all possible for long running professional stuff precisely because of snapshots and e.g. the possibility to cut the network remotely and bring it back up if needed. But I also come in contact with non-technical folks that don't want to risk stuff, deal with more stuff than they already deal with etc. I respect that, it is an approach that works for them.
Looks like a bit of a shell game to me. Make whatever elaborate, obtuse system you want, at the end of the day:

1. BC needs on and off ramps with fiat, or it's DOA for general use.

2. Those ramps have to be organizations, not individuals, and they have to abide by KYC rules, or they'll get shut down.

3. No technological system is going to change #2. Make all the weird digital ID systems you want, at the end of the day you still need a CoinBase asking for 3 different IDs, a voice print and a vial of your blood before you're allowed to buy BC.

The real problem though is that BC is just a terrible product. If it was good enough, the ramp problem would solve itself because people would be breaking down the door to use it any way they could. But it isn't. It's awful. BC is:

1. Painfully slow

2. Agonizingly user-hostile

3. Completely pointless to 90% of the population.

I'd LOVE if BC actually worked well and was widely available. But that's because I'm a nerd. We all are. The vast majority of people don't spend their days thinking about how evil the Fed is or all the ways banks and Credit Card companies are screwing them. If they think about it at all, it's just a passing thought about "Man, I wish these fees/interest rates weren't so high." But there's not enough frustration there to drive a new product.

BC was an experiment, and experiments take time. But the experiment has been run now. The results are in. BC is a scam. A grift. An eternal revolving door where new suckers are lured on board with promises of riches and then drained of their money as the market is manipulated by a few whales for the millionth time. BC isn't capable of anything else. It's time to move on.
That's certainly a possibility. Essentially "GPU over non-transparent bridging".

The idea was to stay open hardware / open software if possible though. Admittedly the xilinx toolchain is very closed source, but the "project x-ray" reverse engineering effort of Series 7 parts is quite far along.
Nope. All evidence shows that human psychology is a mix of biology and culture. That’s why you often see sisters and brothers being very different even though they were brought up the same way. Also, you can’t make somebody have a high IQ through culture. It is a biological trait. And your IQ has a high impact on how you perceived the world and learn.
This is also known as a mid life existential crisis. Don’t worry everyone has them, because there is always someone smarter at some aspect of life than we are:)
Good. As a mechanical keyboard nut, I might consider buying one.
It also depends on how many typed. Also, IIRC cheap bundled keyboards in 2002 was better quality compared to in 2021. I remembered membrane keyboard bundled with server in 2005 was comfortable.
>> Putting a junkie in prison will indeed stop them, for the time they are in jail

Sadly, no. The junkies I knew, back when I knew junkies, were terrified of rehab, not of prison.

One of them told me, to justify behavior that was mystifying to me, "I can still use in prison".
Airbags since 2004? What's the working age for such things?
I'd be really curious to know how many people actually answer calls they aren't expecting, on their personal phones (e.g., non-work phones where you must answer customers).

I bet that graph is U-shaped of % of people that answer unknown messages vs. age. Kids want to be social, and old people don't know any better. With salty Gen-Xers in the middle.

99.99% of the time I let it go to voicemail. I have since the days of cassette-tape answering machines. The only time I don't is if some just texted and said they are calling. Even when my insurance company hold line asks if I want a callback, I'm too paranoid that a scammer could have infiltrated the callback process.
It will fail. It has failed in all countries pushing this hard. Just look at the Scandinavian countries.
My uneducated guess is something like Mondragon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Check the front page of downdetector, there's a lot more that's down I think including origin, it all spikes up at the same time.

Either an backbone issues, AWS or something like that.