skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They hate foreigners and some of them (especially in the east) like to beat them up. They are by no means something like anarcho-capitalists that are called far right because the mainstream is leftist.
Maybe they don't leave a paper trail a mile wide and deep, unlike this clown?

> Two days before Unix Mercenary was registered with the California Secretary of State, Kail signed a Sales Representative Agreement to receive cash payments from Netenrich, Inc., amounting to 12% of any billings ...

This is not to excuse the criminality, but rather to suggest an unhappy likelihood that the great bulk of graft flows by more sophisticated arrangements.
Why Zulip will stand the test of time
> It's a feature they do need though...?

That is an assertion with no evidence to support it, and lots to do the opposite (starting with the fact that this appeared a year after the initial M1 public avail).

> They test their hardware on Linux, if it doesn't work properly then they can potentially lose money.

That doesn't make any sense, apple does not support Linux on their machine (as demonstrated by Asahi having been working on that for more than a year now).

And even if they did "test their hardware on linux", that would have no relevance to the issue and change: Apple can build mach-o linux kernel files in whatever fashion they need, that is quite literally what Asahi did. TFA states that unambiguously and they're the Asahi project lead, they'd know.
Are neighborhood watches not a thing? Cell phones and baseball bats would probably help keep people from busting into cars. I mean this genuinely: When the police fail, it is up to the citizens to secure themselves and their property.
> it's a stretch to assume the students did anything other

No, because at least one (edit: two!) incidents like this has already repeatedly happened elsewhere. Chinese students sabotaged a panel at Brandeis University about Uyghurs ("Viewers interrupted a Harvard-educated lawyer as she tried to describe her brother’s plight in a concentration camp, scrawling “bullshit” and “fake news” over his face on the screen and blaring China’s national anthem." - which is pretty clearly harassment), and an Emerson College student was subjected to doxxing and death threats[2]. Given these incidents, and that the university president released a letter about this (so it's not just an unverified social media post), the reasonable assumption is that the students did engage in harassment.

Moreover, yes, students in a foreign country reporting an incident legal in that country to their repressive home government is definitely "collusion".

> Freedom of speech in west =/= freedom from consequences

Um, no, that's incorrect. "Freedom of speech" means that you have the ability to express the opinions that you want to without consequences, by definition (the two components of freedom of speech are the ability to express opinions and the protection from "consequences" (which is a misleading way to say "active retribution") of that expression).

In the United States incarnation, the First Amendment is a specific instance of a law protecting freedom of speech that prevents the federal government from punishing you from saying what you want, modulo a few edge cases (most of which aren't restrictions on freedom of speech/expression so much as restrictions on particular utterances (e.g. yelling "fire" in a crowded theater) or knowledge (disseminating classified information)).

But, beyond the government (which is the only entity that the First Amendment applies to), other organizations or individuals can take pro-free-speech or anti-free-speech positions, which (again) means freedom from consequences due to that speech.

The CCP here is clearly taking an anti-free-speech position by threatening the student through his parents due to an opinion that he has expressed about Tianamen Square.

> Rich Chinese kids with social media are playing the same cancel culture game

Also completely false. "Cancel culture" means that you're attacked by the culture specifically, which includes just about everything except the government.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29593320
Another area that this workflow really empowers is it frees you up to have infinite and arbitrary staging environments. In our case we have a GitHub action set up that creates a fully deployed version of the app for every PR automatically, and a bot that comments on the PR with a link to the deployment. You can of course do this with any kind of infrastructure, but only with a serverless sort of architecture is it virtually free to do this kind of thing. On the db side, we allocate extremely tiny instances so it is still quite affordable to just have one running for all of our branches. They are automatically destroyed when the PR is closed so the overhead is basically $5/month for each PR that is open for a whole month (in practice they are open for a few days at most).
Yes, I've even given them feedback asking for a nib or something somewhere. I used velcro to attach a trackpad to the middle of one of my Advantage2 keyboards and it helps. (If I had my personal choice, it'd probably be a trackball instead of a nib.)

Their keyboards are absolutely fantastic!
Other people in this thread have stated otherwise.
This version of "least bias" appears to translate into a wierd combination of:

* pro status quo
* more fact-based reporting

The first one is deeply suspect (though an entirely legitimate position to take). The second one is valuable, but far from the only kind of valuable journalism.
I have ruminated about the same questions that OP has the past few weeks as I reflect on this year. What I realized and simplified, as a software developer is that I get paid to deliver a positive result when it's expected.

Like I mentioned, it's overly simplified, but looking at any responsibility that you may have, it ends on delivering. Delivering a feature, functionality, a product, a result. Then it's up to you to take it further.
I'm late to this thread, but the two of you broke the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that engage in this sort of tedious flamewar. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.
Anecdotal but I currently have Omicron. I had COVID in March 2021 and got vaccinated in September. I have no symptom except back pain.
> If you're shipping something new that could affect production…

Which, again, is everything. I’m all for feature flags, but they cover very specific cases. There are many changes that feature flags cannot cover. The addition of the feature flags itself can introduce bugs. They are a great feature but only one small piece of protecting production.
Yes, I believe that would be correct. Apple is plural in the sense that it is made up of multiple people acting in unison. Same as "My family are visiting over Christmas."

However, the word Americans is not a group of people in the same sense that USA, England, Apple, or family is. Its kind of like the distinction between people and persons.

Edit: the term for words like family is "collective noun". More at https://blog.harwardcommunications.com/2017/02/07/the-family...
Mine? Because I'd be very surprised to see any comment in my history where I opposed the vaccine for any reason, much the opposite I've been always supportive of them and taken quite a bit of flack from vaccine deniers.
TikTok says it’s removing ‘alarmist warnings’ about school violence
I find the “Bay Area exodus” an interesting phenomenon as someone who lives in Austin. I’m curious to see if the same mentality that ruined living conditions there (and other large cities in the US with large tech presence) will repeat itself here or if Austin/Texas have better conditions to avoid that fate. Anecdotally I already feel the changes to Austin are negative, as I assume the old residents felt when I moved here in 2007. What I can’t discern is whether it’s a sign of the times or specifically a consequence of the tech worker affluence/politics coming to the city.
I wonder why they’re using Gateron switches rather than Cherry ones? Is it just about cutting costs, or is there a solid technical reason for using clones rather than the originals?
Another American here. I never knew this. How common is this? Have I just assumed it’s a typo every time I see it? Or has (have?) the British media just become more Americanized like most places?
here are the criteria they used in the adversity score:

Crime rate, Poverty rate, Housing values, Vacancy rate, Family environment, Median income, Single parent, Adversity score, Education level, ESL, High school environment, Undermatching, Curricular rigor, Free lunch rate, AP opportunity

Each school got a score.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-...
>you don't need to report things you buy online on your taxes

In at least some states (e.g. Massachusetts) you are indeed supposed to report out of state purchases brought into the state whether or not the company selling to you collected the state sales tax or not. (Larger companies shipping to you now have to collect.)
Note that the same vaccines are still effective against omicron, just less than against delta.

It's also still a coronavirus that binds to ACE2, it's the same mechanism with several new mutations.
Even taking the view that the media's sole goal is to win eyeballs, it seems like making an investment in the longer term reporting that OP is talking about would do that.

Surely inducing people to read the same story multiple times, get's more eyeballs. Being reliable enough that people check your news every day, wins eyeballs. Being frequently uninformative, makes people less likely to come back (loses eyeballs). Etc.

You say that "subtle nuance doesn't drive engagement", but don't we also see that people like "knowing more" than everyone else, or even just thinking they do (the latter of which seems to be a large driving force behind conspiracy theories)?

So I don't think that this really explains the entirety of the media's behavior. I think a lot of it is based on things like institutional inertia from when news was delivered via physical news papers, and optimizing for just the metrics that are easy to measure.
I'm not questioning that there are great engineers working on crypto, there are amazing engineers working on ad tech and high frequency trading too. Just like those examples I'd assume it's mostly because it's an interesting engineering problem and there's a ton of money to be made.

The only exciting potential use case of crypto that I've seen so far are DAOs, but I'm not convinced that there's any reason why they need to be on a blockchain instead of postgres or sqlite.
A whole new market is created (out of nothing) for Faraday bags?
I was hopeful, when I saw the headline, that Fedora and Debian developers were looking to find commonality in more than just support for a GPU.
They could try to get money but they could also try to get a cease and desist order to compel them to stop if they don’t even post suit. Not sure if that means violating is criminal or anything but means you’re ignoring a court order which is a big no-no legally.
Kinesis Advantage 2 is great, but it's massive and hard to travel with. Looks like the 360 might be a bit easier to travel with.

The Kinesis Advantage 2 fits a Magic Trackpad perfectly right in the middle of the keyboard. This lets you perform mouse actions with you right and left hands.

Emacs keybindings never made sense to me till I tried them with the Kinesis. I feel like Emacs sucks on a standard Mac keyboard and is awesome with a Kinesis. See here for a blog post on the topic if you're interested in learning more: https://mungingdata.com/emacs/learning-emacs-keybindings-aft...

It takes a while to get used to the keyboard layout, but only takes a week to get fully productive. You're eventually able to train your brain to operate fluently on Kinesis & Macbook key layouts without any extra thinking. It's a great investment if you're willing to put in a bit of effort.
EncFS is more elegant solution than zipping your files.
Sometimes laws are not just and governments are not aligned with their people. Some examples:

sci-hub is not legal in most jurisdictions despite its immense positive benefits. Since being deplatformed, their primary means of receiving donations has been crypto.

Then there are the unplatformed (from a global transactions perspective), where the cruel realities of poverty, scams and fraud means the majority are punished as collateral damage for the actions of a minority. Poverty means a cost benefit calculus has deemed fine-grained distinctions are not worth it. I can understand the justifications but still feel it as deeply unfair.

When social media are used to highlight and organize protests of corruption, extra judicial killings and more, governments will ban social media and block the financial accounts of anti-corruption organizations. Coupled with being in countries where global transactions are already high friction, crypto provided real benefits.

A non-crypto example is having to use VPNs to access certain university websites because its administrators subscribe to a lazy service that has blanket banned IPs from certain countries.

Not unlike Tor, it's one of those things whose main use is by criminals in sane regimes but a high positive option in despotic or oppressive ones.
I had an employer that, once or twice a year would send out mandatory agreements we were "required" to sign-- under threat of dismissal. (I don't think this was legal at all).

One day they sent out a particularly onerous "agreement" that said that we agreed not to use a phone while driving a car and doing so would be cause for termination etc.

I went down to HR and asked them if they were really trying to regulate what I was doing in my personal vehicle with my personal phone and they replied "No, its only meant for when you're in a company vehicle or using a company phone."

But the agreement itself clearly stated any phone any car.

The workaround I came up with was this-- a friend of mine and I swapped forms, and signed each others names. HR had their illegal, unenforceable agreement, and life moved on.

I got my "revenge" 6 months or so later. HR was frantically calling me for some reason-- I was stuck on the freeway as is our custom in Orange County. I ignored them for something like two hours, and explained that "I was stuck in traffic and as they were no doubt aware, we are prohibited by company policy from using our phones while operating a vehicle."

The HR gal was visibly pissed off, but to be fair, I could have been fired for answering that phone call.
The 3rd solution is terrible, because:

ForMid = 4 # padding for middle box in px

And:

FormId = 3 # ID of the form in the user process

Should definitely not be resolved as the same variable.
I'm sure you have some sources for your bold claims. Also, I think you may have gotten the point of my comment wrong. The comment I replied to made it sound like it's a bad idea to build in the saxony area because of racism, which is a wrong way to think about this, because this will only let the problem persist. Of course, this will only work if law enforcement will punish right wing violence.
I know this is just an off-the-cuff quip, but the real answer is probably zero. He's minimum security. He's going to have very little problems like this, even as a rich white guy.

When I was locked up, I was in Max with mostly murderers. I got tricked out of a $10 phone card in my first week, and the guy said he'd protect me as a thank you. After I realized I'd been dumb I never made that mistake again. I found just being polite, but firm, was enough.

He'll be fine. He'll probably never get into a single fight. He'll be asked for commissary. He'll share some of his commissary, but everyone does that in prison anyway, especially with the guys that have nothing.
"creating bioweapons that kill only non-Chinese people"? I've never heard of this before...
The point was about public keys, not private keys. The answer then is going to sound similar, but is in fact entirely different: the public key is often specified as the X and Y coordinates of the point ("uncompressed"), but only the X coordinate and axis disambiguation is required ("compressed").
Working in finance, I have to report any gift above €50. This includes when I would receive a gift or lottery for a training, a conference, etc. So for us it is at least treated like a potential personal payment.
Demand most likely. Lots of people think the clones like gateron are superior to cherries.
Characters for good, created by artificial intelligence
Yes, it's definitely a economic decision. They're going to run this type of software on their own fleet and want it on everything connecting to the network. If you're willing to run it on your own device that saves them the hardware cost.

That said, a lot of users _want_ to use their own devices (maybe they have better equipment, maybe it's less locked down, maybe they don't want duplicates). It's not sane for the business to allow a device that is more likely to be compromised and/or have poor security hygiene on the network.

I'm a fan of privacy but... At least on my team, we're definitely not spying on you, we're making sure you have a password, encryption, antivirus, and updates installed before you can connect to resources. It's shocking how many people don't have authentication enabled and run as root, if they have a choice, on their home system. That said - we could flip switches and do a lot more spying if it was mandated :/
And what I'm saying is that interface was created after os.File was created and after go 1.0 was released thus that change now cannot happen without breaking the backward compatibility guarantee. Hence my point about go v2.0
West Lafayette resident here, fuck Purdue. As a Purdue employee, I was exposed to/directly victimized by so much institutional sexual assault at Purdue that it still makes me upset. They get away with murder because our local news agency is beyond a joke (https://www.wlfi.com/), nobody in town even knows that this is happening!!! Anyone remember when Daniels referred to black student as "animals" and got it swept under the rug? I fucking hate it here, and will be permanently transplanting to distance myself from this toxic community.
lol. Now do credit cards.
When I read things like this, I can't help but think of how no one went to jail after the 2008 financial crisis. $700k from a group of private companies? WHO CARES? Congress just said insider trading is ok when they do it, can we maybe go after some of that next time?
that doesn't matter. Look at frameworks in which you have states that when mutated, trigger a rerender, such as svelte. Suddenly (scattered) setState calls are not very different than (scattered) assignment statements
A Scalable Approach for Partially Local Federated Learning
5 years ago, I would have loved to move to the Bay Area, despite the expense. Today, I'm looking for a new city and the Bay isn't really even in my consideration set.

I will say that as an outsider, the Bay and San Francisco often seem to get conflated when people discuss them. I've heard plenty about the issues the city of SF is facing right now, but my sense is that many parts of the Bay are still thriving - just prohibitively expensive for most. Is that true? Or is the lived experience in other parts of the Bay also getting worse?
Fair enough, and if my original response made it seem that I was suggesting that this was a one-off I certainly didn't intend for it too - but I am willing to bet that the frequency of these will continue to increase and from more reputable sources.
Rust has better tooling, more direct control in performance-sensitive contexts (no opaque performance traps like, arguably, Haskell), and more community/industry support (meaning more useful and high quality packages). So from the perspective of practically solving problems, it seems better to me. But I could be convinced otherwise by a good argument.
Redmond was a rural town before Microsoft. Now it's one of the best places to live in the US.
Well, since the booster seems to protect, no?

I am hoping that Omicron will boost immunity versus delta while being more mild. This makes me suspect that this will be the case:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/omicron-dominant-was...

"Even though there have been practically no cases of clinical infection, wastewater samples show that the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Florida county that is home to the nation's largest theme park resorts, officials said this week."
Having principles mean you support those even for the people you disagree the most with.

In this case, people could have had the video because they agreed with the shooter, to using it to show people how horrible terror really is.

Regardless, I fully support peoples right to have videos of terrible events.
You could argue that people who moved away from Bayarea to other places are not as aligned with the far left, so in theory their ideology and politics should be more deviated from the Bayarea norm.
The same thing happens when you use a calculator. And yet nobody says "don't use a calculator; you lose too much precision."
You wouldn't lose the content just the ability to share it, if I read it correctly, which is something I wouldn't normally want anyway. My backups are done with restic so Google can't tell what's present since it's encrypted.
Sounds like 1) something about the business is either too inefficient to account for such a low-output performer OR it's efficient enough to get by even with low output, and 2) their manager and team are not doing their jobs in keeping them honest.

Either way, this true impostor situation you're describing doesn't seem to represent the OP. It sounds like a lot of work, which they ain't doing. It doesn't sound like they're some sort of master of disguise engaged in an elaborate con.
The Kinesis "contoured" design with thumb clusters is almost 30 years old, and itself was a clone of the Maltron design - so I think it's accurate to describe the Ergodox as a clone of the Kinesis.
For those questioning the online taxes - if you are in California you absolutely have to pay taxes on these purchases. You can pay actual taxes or an "estimate" based on your income if you believe you have normal levels of purchasing.

From [1]:
Generally, if sales tax would apply when you buy physical merchandise in California, use tax applies when you make a similar purchase without tax from a business located outside the state. For these purchases, the buyer is required to pay use tax separately.

[1] https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/use-tax.htm
IMO, this is driven by the middle class learning to optimize their spending. No more spending middle prices on mid-tier products when you can buy cheap garbage for things you don't care about in order to save up for the top shelf on the things you do. Suddenly, mid-price mid-quality items are unavailable at any price.
I bet the kinesis foot pedals would take emacs to the next level too. I use spacemacs in evil mode so I never bothered having to learn all those key chording things for emacs.
They were asking what it was for. I suspect the person reviewing the list had no idea what they were doing. If there's going to be security threat lurking in there its not going to be in the package named "itsdangerous", its going to in the one with a typo in the name.