skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so refreshing to click on a page and just see the answer to the question in the url.

I've gotten very conditioned when urls contain a question, to expect a bloated, ad-ridden , 5-page editorial, focusing on a tangentially related long sob story of a guy and their dog, with the answer to the question barely hinted at, buried inconspicuously somewhere around page 4.
Parking signs in SF are crazy (Twitter example)
The only way any of this is ever meaningful is if it interacts with the non-Web3 world in a defined or enforced way. If there is an NFT that the US Copyright Office can enforce as being tied to the copyright of The Hunger Games, then that is definitely a valuable and tradable asset. Otherwise it's just one person telling another person that their Hunger Games DVD is super duper special.
Exciting news but that 69% does sound a bit suspicious ("almost 70%" haha)! The link here between vasodilation and neurodegeneration isn't obvious though and it s going to take a lot of searching, but it is an interesting research direction
How much earth? Quoting https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S02177323125... from 2012

> We report on the performance of a low-rate communications link established using the NuMI beam line and the MINERvA detector at Fermilab. The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.05022.pdf from 2016 upped that to 810 km.
that's also true, in a former life I was a contractor and while I didn't work in the public sector at any point by pure circumstance, a few friends did and they pulled a similar rate to when they were in the private sector.
I work in retail for 20 years, last ten years in C-level jobs. You are mostly right. Modern retail floor we call internally "battlefield", "bloodshed", etc. It is tough, it is non-human (not anti-human, but very robotic), yearly employee turnover hovering at 50%+
Do you mean compile time?

> what you save on the computer center gets spent in developer workstations.

um, that cat is already out of the bag. unless you work on mobile or web frontend most backends are big, ugly, have a lot of dependencies, running them needs ALL the RAM anyway :)
That's a good point. Is it politics or economics though?
>all thanks to your critical component

Like to give a real world example for that? Or is it just theory?
I don't know about boosting productivity but the mechanical keyboards I've used have been much more comfortable than the mushy rubber dome keyboards or those extremely thin apple keyboards that feel like you're just mashing your fingers into a metal plate. I've never compared typing speed across keyboards but I definitely do feel more confident that my keypresses are going in the order I intend when I can feel the click of the switch actuating. Also I've found I'm able to type much longer without shoulder/wrist/arm pain when I use a split keyboard with the two halves spread shoulder-width apart.

I've used a Rosewill RK-9000 (basic full-size keyboard) with Cherry MX Brown switches since around 2013 and have had to replace a couple switches but otherwise it has served me well. A friend spilled diet coke all over it early on but disassembling it and washing all the plastic parts in soapy water and the pcb in distilled water was enough to clean that. It still works wonderfully but either I've gotten used to more tactile switches or the browns in it have gotten less tactile in the last 8 years.

A few years ago I got a Matias ErgoPro with quiet click switches to use at work. I love the split profile and the layout with the bigger left ctrl key and the right ctrl key on your right thumb. Unfortunately a few switches started giving me problems: they'd either keep sending keypresses even though the key was not held down or they'd not send keypresses when I press them. I've heard lots of people have similar issues and I think there was a bad batch of switches or something. From what I've heard Matias is really good about customer service and will replace your keyboard but I wanted to have extra switches to use on diy projects anyways so I just bought a bag of 200 switches and replaced them myself. I'm tempted to have a go at writing some custom firmware to turn the hard-coded shortcut keys into real macro keys. The switches are super quiet but still feel clicky which made this perfect for work.

Most recently I picked up a Tex Shinobi kit with green switches which are extremely loud (especially on the metal plate in that keyboard) but feel good. The keyboard is laid-out like classic ThinkPad keyboards and even has the little red pointer nub. I don't use it too much now since my work keyboard is at home. (Also my partner is always home and it really is loud so I tend to just use it for when I've got a laptop hooked up to a television and this keyboard in my lap where it won't resonate as much as on a desk.)
With the high popularity of these and LEDs in general, I’m wondering why cubes like these are not yet a throwaway commodity on AliExpress. What’s preventing it? Or is it really much more niche than we think?
Well, here in that case they were using an approach that would be illegal by EU regulations (not sure about US) considering the EIRP limits :)

And if you want real low-power long-range communications with the other side of the earth, you may be interested to have a look at WSPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software) !
> Idle life took a huge dive from the originals. My OGs haven't been charged in something like six months, and the case is still at something like 20%. Meanwhile, the case holding the APPs would die in less than a week and the buds inside of them a week after that.

That shouldn't happen. Try to unpair, restart and pair again your headphones
When asked to improve a system, people tend to add to it rather than remove. There is a research article explaining this beautifully but I lot track of it and couldn't find it. (someone please point me to it if they know what I am talking about).

So, when we have these systems/products and the constant need to improve/upgrade we are endlessly adding more things to it. There are multiple motivtations here, one is by adding more features they can charge more money. Or they are looking to integrate into existing products or cover new markets. In the end the users are going to suffer the cognitive load.

I don't think its' the age or the person. It's the tools which are becoming overly feature rich or I would say, feature greedy.
You can't even buy the Dell 4K 24" anymore. My guess is buyers don't know what they are getting so just go for size.
I have replied to

"buys because their $300 external display isn't working"

with the fact that our external display was $1500. I'm confused now :-)
We already know what "enforce" means. You said blockchains can enforce "digital" whatever that means. The only thing blockchains can "enforce" is that data are added to the chain according to some rules. There isn't any type of property right, digital or real, that can be enforced in this way.
I'd be nervous about negative pressure and its effect on the eardrum, but I suppose a professional knows how to avoid any problem that could cause.

That said, far preferable to avoid the need for professional intervention in the first place, I'd argue. (And have!)
My mechanical keyboard (Razer Huntsman V2, linear keys) is quieter than most membrane keyboards. Loud keyboards of any kind don't belong in shared offices.
>Thing like 70% off on pair of shoes, that just had their price increased by 90% for 1 minute, just so there was a record in the database that they actually had higher price, nobody cares that they never sold at the high price.

In my country this is explicitly illegal. A good or service must be sold for a certain period of time (2 weeks I think) before it can be used as the pre-sale price.

I've only heard this in relation to physical stores though, not sure how it works for e-commerce.
I would be lying if I said they made me more productive but they are very satisfying to use. Make sure you get a full size one.
Why were all the fish dead?
Mac-cinated: Pattern identification in coronavirus vaccines – Nanorouters
Nuking BP's corporate headquarters could have prevented another disaster like Deepwater Horizon in the future.

Maybe they should have nuked Exxon's corporate headquarters in response the the Valdez disaster, which might have prevented the Deepwater Horizon disaster by teaching all the remaining oil companies a lesson.
IOKit remains the only way to write kernel extensions, which are still supported but discouraged if DriverKit does the job. NeXtTSTEP using Objective-C for drivers was certainly very cute but I guess they just didn’t want to have driver makers learn the language :(
How much UBI could we realistically afford right now? Keeping in mind that there'd be an incredibly huge reduction in economic productivity, since pretty much everyone hates working

I'm guessing we could actually keep people fed, but I'm wondering if we'd end up living in really crappy shacks without first world quality utilities

I dunno if I'd want a UBI utopia if it requires a 1700s-quality lifestyle
>Take their broken SMB implementation in OSX as an example.

That doesn't make sense as they completely rewrote their SMB implementation to improve it.
Using Inkscape instead of an EDA...
When would customers ever know that the number was fake?
Firefox 95 Release Notes
I don't know if 69% seems suspicious as much as it seems...nice
"no honestly babe, a scientist told me"
Hmm, similar to how heavier than air flight was thought to be impossible for humans?

Interesting how the will of a few can shape humanity. I love it.
I have _never_ had any issue with C++ templates on _modern_ µControllers such as the ESP32. Unless you have an incredibly minuscule flash, modern GCC or LLVM are very good at deleting unused code when you compile everything with -Os. Even -Og isn't that critical either.
> Perhaps it is just travel anxiety?

It was just an illegal consumer practice.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_...
I've had decent luck with Blokada

The nice thing is that it's open source
This. Even if someone is not convinced that this guy had nothing to do with the crash, think about the alternative. An individual, living in a parent's house with everyday equipment, can crash a trillion-dollar market in a couple of minutes. What would that say about the stability/security of that market?
I normally have the highest regard for GDS, but I'm entirely convinced they are correct in this case.

Last month I was browsing my energy supplier's website and was thinking how refreshingly easy their FAQ approach made things:

https://help.so.energy/support/solutions/folders/7000045023

It's not called an FAQ and not every item is couched as a question - but it's basically an FAQ
I agree with pretty much every point besides the author's desire for significant whitespace. Please no. Whitespace is for people and readability, not the compiler.
This is very close to home (sadly).

Someone I worked with recently put the "X of these sold in the last 24 hours" across a load of product pages as an example of "things we should be doing to increase conversion."

It didn't increase conversion because the target market was all wrong (I suspect it might, for a single click from FB/native ad to a single landing page for an 'on a whim' product). More so, much like this example, it refreshed every time you reloaded the page. If you went back to the product it was a different number. If you HAVE to do this, at least use a cookie or something. The changing number makes the product, and by extension the whole site, look completely suspicious. One of the absolute number one things I want to do on a landing page/PDP is build trust. This falls at the first hurdle.

This wasn't implemented in the UK, but with a little Googling I ended up under the impression it would break trading laws over here.
I love how a finding in science usually means there are now twice as many questions!
What I had in mind is CUDA vs. openCL

Also the field is not static. Amazon does a lot of lobbying. Let's imagine you can check a certain legal compliance box simply by running on graviton.

Or the next industry trend which might be funded and hyped by AWS requires a specific feature for isolation that only really works on graviton.
What happened to the hype around IoT and Big Data?
Is time getting quicker but I feel like it was just the other day everyone could not stop talking about the 'newest' emerging technologies we MUST all jump in on. IOT and Big Data.

Just curious what every came from the hype, or did we all just realise we didn't want out garbage cans communicating with our refrigerators and companies realised maybe there is such thing as too much information?

Was it all just replaced with the ever more important blockchain hype..
Hahahaha, you are probably right, too.
For most people not using macos 4k is overkill and 1080p can be enough not by itself but because the other two major OS (windows and linux) have antialiased text with subpixel hinting. I.e. they can exploit the pixel internal structure to display sharp text even on low resolution monitors. Apple deliberately decided to ditch their own implementation as you don't need it for retina displays and they only sell and care about retina displays.
> It seems like best practice for any professional who needs to use Google

Use single-purpose Google accounts for each professional need, so only one thing gets "banned" or logged out at a time.

Preferably for those accounts you should have email-forwarding to a different "human" account you can check even when logging in to the account is suspended.

Basically an unusual variation of defence in depth?
I'm not sure about that 90% figure, seems a little high.

25 million people receive the earned income tax credit (i.e. they are poor), and are at high risk of audit
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-now-audits-poor-ameri...

9 million are expats, for whom US tax filing is a special type of hell

15 million are self-employed, which means lots of extra filing
https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2016/self-employment-in-the-un...

putting us at circa 50M out of circa 167M returns filed
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/filing-season-statistics-for-we...

means US tax returns are rather complicated for 30% of people before we start to consider high-income earners.
Battery life and hibernate behaviour is unmatched on a Mac. Nothing else comes close. I’ve never rebooted less.
> if it's FAANG level salaries and you hate LeetCode interviews, you're in for a pretty bad time.

Or if you interview anywhere else and you hate take-homes and all the other whiteboard alternatives. Personally, I want more whiteboard interviews, not fewer. I need something like a "onlywhiteboard.org".
I've played with both the Quest 2 and the OG Vive and have never really been able to find a way to conveniently use it for productivity. The main issue that no headset seems to really have been able to solve is text legibility at any reasonable, real-life text scales (i.e. 12pt fonts are perfectly legible 2+ feet away in real life but few, if any, headsets are able to pull it off). Now, you can work with 36pt fonts and enormous system UI controls, but that almost defeats the purpose of virtual displays because you end up seeing less than you would be able to with a conventional display.
This is right. The author is quite loose with influences, though I wont discredit the story of the article for not having a full description of history.

The first Latin translation of Euclid's Elements noted in the article was not translated from the original Greek but via Arabic - by an English monk, who also brought Arabic numerals and translations of other texts on geometry from Arabic. It was Islam that kept the science of Geometry after the ancient Greeks and developed it further.

The Norman conquest of southern Italy including Islamic Sicily was critical to this knowledge transfer. This happened not long before the first Gothic cathedrals appeared. Al-Andalus was also an influence.

Worth noting too that while the Gothic Cathedrals were clearly developed with a geometric influence, none of them have a simple and exoteric geometric structure. Not even the Milan Cathedral mentioned in the article where we actually have some surving discussion of its geometric design has an exact and clear structure to it.
Helios-NG: An open-source cluster OS that links the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga
They are biased. By their definition of “anti-vaxxer” people who merely oppose vaccination mandates are anti-vaxxers as well. [1]

Which is, frankly, quite insulting to me, because I’m vaccinated, and consider myself by no means an anti-vaxxer, I oppose vaccination mandates.

But Merriam-Webster says I’m an anti-vaxxer so I guess I must be one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer
Playstation Plans Launch New Game Subscription
> their post doesn't come off like mud-slinging, at all.

Sure felt like mud slinging to me. Just the whole list of complaints they had at the start of the post was hard to get through.

They could just tell us what they did differently and show the result.
>At some point, when Retina was introduced

It was later than that, if I recall correctly it was available until Catalina although you did need to modify a config file to enable it.
The author was able to confirm (see https://arunmozhi.in/2021/12/06/goodbye-brave/comment-page-1...) that they had been using version 1.18.77 of Brave (released nearly one year ago in December of 2020). This version of Brave did not contain service-keys for authentication with the proxy-server which shields users from unintended contact with Google. As a result, when Brave began to enforce key-requirements for requests (a recent change), this out-of-date build of Brave could no longer install extensions (since it could not utilize the proxy service).

Many thanks to the author for diligently assisting with this investigation.

Sampson (Brave Team)
Probably a pretty good analogy! Even now, it's not known whether time has directionality in any way that is meaningful in physics. FTL travel would resolve the "Arrow of Time" question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time) but this wouldn't invalidate much/any of physics because the arrow is essentially non-observable at the micro level
I think the way AWS does it are great. I understand why some companies doesn't like benchmarks, mainly because it is subject to marketing spin and picking specifics without context. But giving out exact methodology so others could repeat the test seems fair. Basically the whole benchmarks should be open source if you do intend to publish it.
Seems they've removed it: https://dafnihair.com/dafni-rose-go/

Although I find it suspicious how all their products have full 5 star reviews.
Resolved: User had a very out-of-date build of Brave. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471236 for more details.
At least at quantum level there are experiments where the outcome depends on things that did _not_ happen (according to our intuitive understanding of causality). Mostly in weak measurement research.

So I'd say while causality is real, there are still some surprises to be expected.
oh, this question is so good. governments have history of getting millions of people into unpopular jobs. maybe, one day all people not rich enough, will have to serve 2-3 years at amazon logistics, when turning 18 years old.
He still should take some responsibility for it being there in the first place. "Our legal department insists on adding user-hostile clauses everywhere they get the chance" is an OK excuse for a Cloudflare sales rep or engineer, but it's disingenuous coming from the guy who is in a position to tell them to take a friendlier approach by default.

I'm assuming this isn't the only overly restrictive clause in the contract. Maybe it's an anomaly in an otherwise respectful ToS.
I was once tasked with upgrading a small desktop application used by warehouse workers to fetch imprint data for an apparel printer.

The data was stored in a really inefficient way and so the operation took a stupidly long time. I decided to add a progress bar so that people don't think the app is busted (which they occasionally did). Turned out, much of the time spent was on the server's end, so I couldn't track the majority of the "progress".

I had already put effort into the bar, so I replaced the "real" progress tracking with a script that randomly incremented the progress. I tweaked some heuristics until it roughly matched the amount of time the server tended to take but was random enough to not be super obvious.

After the progress bar launched, someone from the warehouse actually walked up and thanked me for the progress bar.

Of course, that's all fun and games. Weird psychological manipulation in e-commerce is horrible.
A little meta, but certainly in the spirit of the article, and this is Hacker News after all.

When clicking on the 'comments' icon in the article, a sidebar open with the heading Responses (36). I'd not noticed I'd gone offline. After some time, the sidebar updated with There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. which is incorrect, as there should be 36 responses with the heading still there.

So not only don't have fraudulent counters as mentioned in the article, also provide responses that correctly reflect a state, error, etc, handling the response correctly rather than falling back on an inappropriate default.
>And also unfortunately, the build quality is very, very bad.

I think the early models had some problems. I've got the later version and it is rock solid.
> You, the holder of rocks, get the increase in business value as "rock price appreciation" rather than dividends, but you still get it.

So BTC for you is at the same time an asset AND a currency ?

How does it work ? It goes to the moon forever, so a loaf of bread cost goes ever higher forever ?
Free ecommerce website in Angular with headless CMS connectors
I used to have a variety of heavy, clicky blue switch keyboards. I now primarily use a Realforce R2 TKL. The capacitive switches are faster, quieter and easier on my hands. I can go as long as I want without hurting now. Takes some getting used to but it's better for me in every way.

When is the last time someone made a bunch of noise on your conference line because of their keyboard choice? Imagine being able to type furiously while unmuted and no one able to hear it. This is almost like a super power compared to where I used to be.
I don't know any developers in the public sector, but friends in various civil service roles love the other perks. Decent pension. Loads of flexidays. One friend could almost work a 4 day week all year.

They all seem quite fulfilled, too.
An acquaintance of mine was quite heavily involved with the CSIRO in Clayton.

Their observations suggest the latter - a lot of very smart people, but also some serious conflicts of interest when it comes to funding allocation.

Apparently this was always an issue, but accelerated in the mid-2010s after their funding was cut by the Abbott government (this is not intended as a partisan statement; for what it's worth the person who told me this was quite politically apathetic).
But how can you write the information in the right way for everyone? I can imagine dozens of different customer journey maps for the gov.uk website. It seems useful to maybe duplicate some information here and there to make different customer journeys more straightforward.
A generation of steroid using bodybuilders shows that the body has no trouble utilizing even very large amounts of testosterone.
What is the enhancement Optimal Max Keto?