skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My knowledge of (not Russian but) post-Soviet bureaucrats comes from personal experience, I speak fluent Russian and follow their news/politics sporadically but over the past few decades. I think the way they are portrayed in Chernobyl is brilliant. It's a structure so permeated by apathy, corruption, bullying and grandstanding that it simply cannot effectively transmit information in either direction, whether top-down or bottom-up (but especially bottom up). It's clear that Putin was fed a steady diet of his own wishful thinking / propaganda, and he bought into it fully. If he had a realistic view of the world around him, he would have prepared a lot better for this war of aggression that he staked everything on.

And, as an aside, I think COVID started for the exact same reason as what's portrayed in Chernobyl. Chinese model of governance is not that different. When accurate sober assessments of facts on the ground are needed and speed is of the essence, its ineffectiveness takes over. Once the genie is out of the bottle and there's nothing to hide from superiors, and once Beijing sends over some adults to whip things into shape, the sheer scale of China's economy allows it to power through and suppress the crisis using draconian means. But for the first who knows how many weeks (certainly well before Jan 1 2020), it was much slower motion Chernobyl.
My experience with MX switches was that they were terribly underwhelming, they felt cheap and in the case of MX browns they somehow made my keyboard accuracy decrease.

Topre switches, on the other hand, have been worth every penny.
iPod Modders Give Apple’s Abandoned Music Player New Life
I'm a python developer and within the last couple years I've encountered some interviews where they explicitly told me not to code in python.

Its because it's the language of choice for bad programmers who dont learn languages with any amount of depth. It's getting associated with mediocrity because it's so easy to pick up and low quality coders turn to it.

Your job solidifies this point. Literally, they need to hire someone to type annotate their code base because they don't know how? How low can you go?
@dang pointed out when I commented similarly on another thread that early comments on threads seem to tend towards the negative, and sentiment often shifts more positive as things go on (which is exactly what happened on that other thread)
This is due to the fact that European indices are heavily weighted towards stocks in low growth industries: banks, mining, utilities, cars, chemistry insurance. Lack of incentives in Europe has led to poor equity and economic growth versus the United States and this pattern will continue for decades to come.
Trying to imagine how close you would have to be to the screen to tell the difference between 1080 and 4k...
It has been increasingly difficult to do that, probably because a lot of these "smart" appliances sells for more and thus have more "vote".

Last time I went to buy a refrigerator, there maybe only one or two that were freed of the extra features that I did not want, compared to the 30 or so that were on display. And TVs without wifi were nonexistent.
At some point you'll realize that you just don't have the energy to continue with your employment and do a side project. And hopefully your side project will be making enough money that the decision on which to marry isn't too difficult.

I'm in the middle of making this transition right now. Juggling full time employment and a booming side project is exhausting.
> Since we are clearly not in a utility maximizing world or anything close to it,

opens an interesting debate, "for what does our world maximize?" Which is another one of those things where your answer expresses your assumptions.

Clearly our world optimizes for burning resources as fast and wastefully as possible... Like algae that created a world of oxygen breathers. Right? If you're one of the critters whose mode of life that is, may be. We barely recognize the successes (and sometimes existence) of critters with different lives.

See also Ian Banks' book "Matter".
Which tool do you use to track all active tasks(professional and personal)?
I have tried almost all task managers and todo lists.
I miss out on tasks that does not need to be done immediately bit after X hours or days. How do you keep track of all these tasks?
No, on a regular keyboard I regard 4 as corresponding to 7, since they are both pressed by the index finger directly above the home position. I see the numbers as split in odd and even between the left and the right hand.

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Yes, but how exactly. Poland especially is already looking after 1M+ refugees, what else can they do.
Why CO2 from air vs. extraction from seawater? I remember seeing some papers (e.g. [0]) suggesting the from seawater route was way more efficient per m^3 processed with a lot less environmental disturbance.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1021/ie502128x
That isn't limited to Electrolux in my experience, it may be fairly common. Samsung, for example, has exactly the same arms-length third party warranty support pattern. Wait a while, get a tech to come see what part needs to be replaced, wait some more, tech comes back to actually do the work. Meanwhile your appliance is out of service. Pretty soon it starts to look preferable to just discard the appliance and buy a new one even if that means spending a thousand bucks. Perhaps this is all by design.

Oh, and in case it needed to be said -- I strongly, strongly recommend avoiding Samsung for appliances. They are awful. The part of Samsung that does monitors and smartphones seems pretty great, but their appliance division makes abysmal stuff.
Yes. Classical keyboards are inefficient in so many ways.

Consider that thumb is responsible for 50% of hand function [1]. And we use it to press only one button - the space bar. While pinky is the weakest finger andd we use it for the greatest number of keys...

[1] https://musculoskeletalkey.com/restoration-of-thumb-function...
To be monsterous and justified, what a triumph of moral expedience. Soros experienced WWII as a teenager in Hungary(?) where growing up he saw the rise of the movements that would become NSDAP and Stalinsim, respectively. My view is that the most powerful thing he has ever experienced was that evil, but in seeing the power of them, he understood what was possible, and his intent is to use them for "good." Trouble is, you need the power to do good, but once you have the power, why do you need to be good?

I think what we now recite as Popper's paraphrase is just a cheap slogan for organizing banal minds, and not a model for reflection. My objection isn't to Popper and so-called open socieites, it's to the belief that the "problem," is the lack of a sophisticated plan with a system guided by ideology to run them in the first place. It's a technocratic presumption, that if we just come up with a system, we can impose it on reality and human desire, and we will "fix the problem."

What Popper has been used for (regardless of what he may have written), and the viral idea that critical theorists today have made that people fundamentally want was this very justification for their own monsterousness. This is the liberation they're offering. When you revisit the idea of being a victim or being oppressed as just an infinite will to power, moralized by an ideology designed to dissolve truth and inconvenient perceptions of reality, it's pretty obvious that the OSF and its appendant bodies in the WEF and other networks are just recycled totalitarian junk from a new generation of demagogues.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe a bunch of billionaires and bureaucrats have had Damascene conversions and are really just self sacrificing martyrs and saints.
To give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he meant faster to develop in?
The split I use is the MS Sculpt, which is regular, not ortholinear.

The only way I've ever used a laptop with a position of the display kinda comfortable while also being able to type was with a bed tablet [0]. I've always actively avoided laptops with numpads, so the keyboard was always well-centered, at least as much as a desktop one, so no issue with staying on finding the home row.

[0] Something like this: https://www.amazon.fr/Cooper-ordinateur-portable-r%C3%A9glab...
As a real world example:

Cherry MX Red and clones engage at about a mm from the top and require almost no pressure to activate. Simply resting your hands on the keys is enough to get accidental keystrokes. Every single miss gets you a key press.

Blues engage about halfway down at the click. You can accidentally touch keys without activating them. They are harder to press so resting on them doesn't activate them either.
Seems to me a lot of this is possible because developers are lazy and want to shoehorn application delivery and runtime into a system originally designed for sharing documents.

Those same developers seem to heavily overlap with the group that loves to shit on FTP and DNS etc., because they were designed for a less adversarial internet. I'm not sure what to make of that cognitive dissonance.

But, maybe browsers as we know them should die and be replaced with something better.
Just because something is high value and resources from lower valued production can be diverted into them, doesn't mean that the production capacity of the economy as a whole isn't fixed. At the end of the day there's still only so many people available to do stuff, and so many machines/raw materials available.
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Index investing does eliminate risks:

- an index contains a basket of equities, so it is less risky compared to picking one stock

- an index eliminates the risk of the fund manager's investment choices, which may be wonky

- it eliminates some management fees (the "risk" of which is 100%).

Value investing is almost certainly will be more risky than index investing.

If it uses fewer stocks, it's risky due to poor diversification.

It can make poor choices. Even if some companies have objective value, they can succumb to a host of other problems and competition. The stock market isn't the only irrational market; the consumer market also is: it doesn't always reward value.

If you get someone else to do value investing for you, you may be paying fees. As an individual, small investor, you may need to get into a bigger value fund to get the benefits. And now you're just into another managed fund.
I'm actually afraid of visiting Saudi, even for business. A new woman in the office shared her experience growing up in Saudi (her father worked in oil and gas) in a high end foreign person's compound. schools are in English and women can wear whatever they want. She had an Australian neighbor that made homebrew wine in his basement. He was decapitated. They moved back to Calgary shortly thereafter.
Does Firefox Focus (for Android) do the same?

It does have a "Send usage data" option that is enabled by default.

There is also a "Studies" option which I had not seen before.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-opt-out-studies-fir...
Personal opinion

Until I'm free (FU money) seems have to stick to 9-5. Especially if you coordinate/work with other people at normal business hours.

I develop/maintain the tech/servers and I was sleeping during business hours one time and something broke... yeah. Panic like "it's broken help" but I was not there.

My problem is my sleep pattern keeps shifting... I'll get back on 9-5 then I overshoot it, I'll force myself to stay up to the next day so I can sleep just before normal time and wake up normally eg. before 9 AM.

The goal will be to not care/not need to abide by 9-5.

Or get another person that is like me so they can cover/replace me.
12ft link:

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%...
(This was back when ryzen 3000 dropped, it worked flawlessly on manjaro but failed on Debian. I’m sorry I should have mentioned.)
If I don't authorize the GitHub sign in I get an error page with only this text: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
Or you could be a university student, they sponsor terminals.
Nope. Get the multibillionaires to repay all that stuff. Why would I want to be productive when the value of my local currency has inflated away to about 50% of it's 2019 value and the businesses I work with literally can't afford to raise my hourly rates?
Usually I think of what software I use the most frequently. If there's anything I've missed by the time I need it, it's usually quick to install it right then.
There's so much wrong about this, but please don't assume that an oven with internet connection is useless just because you have no use for it. Having food in there and turning it on so it's ready when you come home is convenient - I did this with an old oven and a HomeKit-enabled outlet. Now we have a new oven that has to much electronics for this to work (but not enough to remember the f**g time when unplugged).

So if I _would_ trust these internet connected devices (which I do not, because of stories like this and other user hostile behavior), I'd really like to use the features that would make possible.
>You save now to protect against future income risk (e.g., emergency fund) and future income needs (e.g., retirement). You convert savings to cash flow when non-savings (e.g., employment income) dries up.

Everything you described works at an individual level, but fails at a societal level, which is what the GP was talking about. If society as a whole saved a bunch of money, and a few years later there were some sort of society-wide income risk (eg. war), those dollars won't do you much good.
> That's a confrontational mindset

We need to confront the problem of blind globalism.

> Escalating competition further and further is not the answer

Blind globalism is not the answer either, but that is what we've had for decades. It has resulted in a wide variety of terrible things for the countries advocating globalism. For example: a global pandemic, a decrease in biodiversity due to invasive species, slave-like conditions in countries like China, and IP theft on a staggering scale. I'm sure there are more consequences of blind globalism. My point is, we need to have a serious conversation about whether we should be traded with certain nations, whether we should be trading in certain essential items, etc.

Edit: just thought of a couple more problems with our current global trade setup: China can manufacture outside of the west's regulations designed to protect people's health and the environment, and the west has lost so many strategic skillsets and manufacturing capacity to China.
Um no, not really. It was more a familiarity decision, and also because Netlify is quite popular ATM, so there is a marketing attraction. But you could probably the same thing on Cloudflare too (for example). They have identity and access management (IAM). I have not used it but it looks good.
You see the same thing with non-profits. For-profit companies can ask $50 for a product, do whatever they like with the profit, and everyone is happy. A non-profit asks for voluntary donations for a similar product and gets all of their receipts to local pizza joints examined.
Yep, history is my go to Rosetta Stone for remembering other commands.
Surely, sitting in front of a laptop or iMac would make it easy to tell.
What if you misspell “fuck”?
It's the same horseshit with smart thermostats. I expect a thermostat to last ten years minimum, if not twenty or thirty. How many times do these companies have to fuck their customers before people stop buying them? The very instant you become more profitable to abandon than to support everything you bought will stop working. If it can happen to Revolv customers it can happen to you.

I recently bought a thirty year old home complete with its contents whose owner was an old man. The newest thing in it was an air conditioner from 2007. Know what? Every single thing is in perfect working order. AC, fridge, stereo, dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, thermostat. The list goes on and on. Everything from electric can openers to garage door openers works like it was brand new. If Google can't match that standard it can get stuffed.
Yes. Try pycharm.
As a fellow Bosch dishwasher owner, I have to say they do seem to make a pretty decent appliance still. Not all of their appliances get the same acclaim, but for dishwashers the only real competition seems to be Miele (and they don't necessarily outperform in any short-term way, but have a reputation for just lasting 20 years instead of the usual 10).
George Soros conspiracy theories have been a dogwhistle for antisemitism used in right-leaning politics in the United States for decades.
Someone who believes the Kremlin propaganda that Zelensky is a neo-Nazi is not going to be swayed by Reuters. I wouldn't waste my time if I were you.
Show HN: Calenday, real-time collaborative calendars for trip planning
The numpad is just on the wrong side for keyboard+mouse work.
The problem with Mozilla is that most of us seem to be holding them to a higher standard. It's not minor details that are scrutinized but more like "HOW IN THE HELL DID THEY THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA", and sadly there's been about 1-2 of those per year.
Simple, small, awk analytics HTTP log parsers
cool, so is your side project like a site that generates money or you sell direct to users or you go to clients who you invoice for work?
These ads are not targeted ones, one may find them intrusive, but they supposedly respect your privacy.

More information about this (and how to disable these ads) can be found here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
It's hard to tell for uncompressed, but easy for compressed YouTube videos
I disagree that "geostrategic cause" is a thing that exists or justifies a war. If it is only geostrategic, it is not cause.
The 401k funds are effectively an automated advisor.

It’s tough to draw the line in a conversation like this because I completely agree with everything you said.

An advisor only comes in at the point that a person is investing their money directly and consistently. Your average person doesn’t have the market knowledge or the time to learn it so an advisor is likely the best bet for the average person in that scenario.

Anyone willing to do some research and learn will likely find their own comfort zone without an advisor.
My hands have been spoiled by topre. My ears as well. It is the absolute best typing experience I've had (and I've tried a great many switch types).
API calls are being restricted for me, and streetview/map tiles will not load anywhere including their own website.
As usual google status page shows business as usual:
https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform/
So I feel there's two sides to the hobby, the aesthetic side and the function/feel side.

There are plenty of people who customize their KBs for aesthetics first and plenty who focus on function/feel. And I think the number of people who focus on exclusively one side is almost non-existent.

Sure, there's a lot of people who talk about the thock or clack of this key or that, but for some it's all about the feel to their hands or the comfort of typing on a particular type of KB.

I've suffered from RSI in my pinky and ring fingers for over a decade now. If I spend too long (greater than 2-3 hrs) typing on a standard 104-style keyboard or laptop KB, the pain flares up. If I don't desist within a day or two, I start loosing grip and arm strength, to the point where I was unable to hold onto coffee cups or soup cans.

For a long time, I used the Microsoft Natural 4000 [0], a split membrane KB. I probably bought about 10 of them over a 5yr period, and I think I still have 3 in the closet.

But moving to a split mechanical was like going from sleeping on the floor to sleeping on a cloud. I could adjust the tenting and angle perfectly for my body, so it feels natural to me. I was able to try out a half-dozen key switches 'til I landed on one that was quiet but still gave a lot of tactile feedback on switch activation.

So yeah, there's definitely a bunch of aesthetic mumbo-jumbo that most people don't care about, but there's a lot in there that's not just thock & clack.
I had one for some years, but I couldn't deal with the maintenance. At one point it began to double type, and then I had to take it apart, clean it a bit, put it together and hope that the issue went away - which it sometimes did, sometimes needed another round of cleaning. So I sold it and now I'm back to a solid rubber domed office keyboard which "just works".
This is a pretty ok framing. The author's already had to reply to some backblow against the idea but generally the big picture rings true enough, isnt horrifically wrong.

But while true & a reasonable framing, this view doesnt cover the most important thing about the kubernetes "operating system". Yes unlike many other cloud systems Kubernetes has pretty wide coverage of concepts it has under it's roof. Versus serving a purpose or two well, it, like an OS is a fairly general & comprehensive platform, with the capabilities you'd need for most tasks, & built in OS extensibility via CRDs. This is all trye enough but still shy of how we ought think about Kubernetes versus other things, what came before, cloud or no cloud, os or other.

Kubernetes is autonomic. Kubernetes, through a variety of controllers/operators, enacts all changes to the system. Rather than being, as most automation or other aoftware, a tool wielded by the user to make ends happen Kubernetes wields itself, & the user is simply stating what they want, makes their intent known, & Kubernetes makes sure that happens & stays that way. Taking people out of the loop of having to learn how to do computers, how to build a house themselves- Kubernetes knows how to build what you tell it. It's something so unlike software of any sort which came before, this ongoing (as opposed to single shot), autonomic (self maintaining), self-operating system, and I cannot contrast strongly enough how liberating it is to have the machines working for you, adjusting themselves, based off the manifest of inventory you've told it you want.

It's a totally different operational paradigm, beyond just a system & having developed a weak internal agency (a control loop & it's suite of tools to stay on happy paths through the loop), and it means way way less figuring out how to run the dozens of various whirligigs and gizmos that comprise the computing environment. Kubernetes is more than an operating system; it is a self-governing control loop.
Personally, I ended up in this niche world because of discomforts, RSI and other similar motor issues.

Mechanical keyboards are also programmable, so I can move around keys to avoid painful or unhealthy movements and combinations. With harder switches I can also feel my finger and hands getting tired faster than with smoother switches.

Oh yeah, and the arrow keys are usually super inconvenient to use if you touch-type all day. Having a special modifier to use vim motion keys everywhere is really handy.

I don't speak for all aficionados of course. Plenty of people do it for fun or merely to research new way to build keyboards.
For the record people were making "MMO's" as hobby or academic projects many decades ago. The earliest MMOs were text based multi-user dungeons and folks were programming them by themselves and running them on university hardware in the 80s. The biggest difference is obviously the lack of graphics, but you might be quite shocked at the sophistication of the gameplay mechanics and multiplayer in the MUDs of the 80s and 90s.
Ansible against localhost is a good choice. Pair this with a git repo that you keep the setup in
Would be better off getting some therapy and buying index funds. I'm guessing in the long run this person would make a lot more money even after paying for therapy.

Unless the plan is to turn this into a paid subscription newsletter. In that case, there are tens of thousands of similarly high anxiety people looking for a similar way out that are willing to pay for this.

Paid investment advice is a form of therapy when you think about it.