skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using windows keyboard on mac is totally fine I think. How is it a big deal if just two key switched.

And the 2016 buildin keyboard is just bad. Lack of feedback and having low travel distance. You are going to destroy your own finger if you actually decide to use it as your daily driver.

I think it is probably even worse than a $30 keyboard you can pick from random shop in case of ergonomics. How come apple designed a thing like this. (Fortunately they regretted it now)
On the other hand, Business Insider has a giant paywall that doesn't let you view anything at all, and Slashdot links to Business Insider.
10 percent of children in public schools report being abused by a school employee?? That seems insane and almost certainly wrong.
Project files are a semi complex file format specifying a lot of configuration that a given project has. One project file has no bearing on another project.

Workspaces are a convention built into the language that requires no configuration. This convention applies broadly across projects equally, using identical rules for all projects. You need to download/checkout your repos in a certain way, but then they all play together.
Yea uhh this kind of blanket statement in a resume would be a red flag to me if I were hiring. It would come across as entitled.
This is obviously about money supply. And UBI is not necessarily an increase in money supply (as it’s usually paid for by taxes and reduced welfare programs), whereas a government stimulus during an economic slowdown is, nearly by definition, an increase in money supply via government printing.

(And the relationship between money supply and inflation would be covered in 101, not 102)
Great, clear and honest write-up.

But in the end, with so many users that still loved the product, it's not completely clear why they had to sell the remaining assets instead of scaling waaay down and make watches for geeks again?

Was it financially impossible, or were they simply exhausted? It seems the market was still there (and probably still exists today).
The rest of the world needs a country to send all the crazy asshole libertarians to. America has gracefully accepted that burden as this commenter points out.
Oh, that's crazy that it still lasts 7 days. I guess it's had a lot fewer cycles than a smartphone battery typically gets in that time, because of the long battery life.

And looking on eBay, used Pebbles are actually surprisingly affordable, like $20-50.
Nothing, but I don't think that was the company's aspirations.
It's funny how that happens. I read it in this voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gou1cspUfdY
I'm also stunned at how much better it was at connecting and staying connected to every single phone I've owned.

Every other smartwatch I've tried (a couple fitbits, fossils, etc) has been absurdly flaky. It's common for all of them to just not react to notifications for a couple hours. Or they'll connect to some wifi but not others (why wifi anyway!?? it's insane! it's SO much more complicated!). Or their apps have utterly monstrous installation and/or permissions setups (looking at you in particular, Fitbit) and any connection they use breaks randomly every few days.

If I could just get another, I'd stick with a pebble time for probably a decade. It did almost everything right.
Yet oddly enough I don't think chinchillas are smaller than gophers
This is such a big frustration I have with phone based 2fa. It's obvious that the people that push for this are from the first world and have never been mugged or even worried about it.
> watch their eyes light up if you tell them you are a Canadian and not American.

This is such a cliche. I just deleted a long wordy message as to why, but I've lived abroad, speak Spanish, traveled all over and have tons of extended Canadian family, including my maternal grandmother. This sentiment is 100% not true.

I could be in the middle of Tehran or Cairo and tell someone I'm from California and will inevitably get bombarded with friendly questions and stories about how their aunt visited Vermont once, and have I been there. This is the case anywhere I've gone.

I've personally travelled with Canadians. Trust me, no one's eyes light up outside the English speaking world, if that. "Oh, you're from Calgary? Interesting... Is that on the West Coast? Oh, sort of in the middle. Like near Montana?" I mean, it's Canada.

Also, it's not as if anyone wouldn't already know someone is Canadian. They wear red Maple Leaf patches from head to toe, and will even apply fake maple leaf tattoos.

Anyways, it's completely untrue. The US government may not be the most popular all the time, but Americans are treated just fine.
In the case of alt+tab window switching I suspect it’s only faster if you are going to the last used window. If you’re hunting for an app through multiple alt tabs, you’re almost certainly going to take more time than using the mouse gestures to switch.
Oh, you and your silly little math.
/s

Really, though, things like this should be taught and demonstrated from k-12. A kindergartener can understand the cognitive dissonance when the Monty Hall problem is demonstrated, especially if an adult "cheats" repeatedly when they know the mechanics. After the big reveal, the kid knows the difference between 1 out of 2, and 2 out of 3. They'll play it smart by the time they hit third grade, and by graduation, they'll have an intuitive understanding of posterior probabilities.

Drug tests, statistical sampling used to validate polls, and misleading sales tactics would be neutered by a well informed, Bayesian thinking public.

Exponential thinking should be introduced early and feedback loops explained. If legislators could rationally deconstruct a problem such as racist false convictions they would be equipped to modify the systems they legislate to prevent or mitigate the damages implicit to reality-based statistics.

Prisons for profit would lose 80% or more of their fodder. The broken family, broken community cycle would be effectively ended.
What is this doing on Hackernews?
U.S. State Department orders non-emergency staff in Shanghai to leave
The endgames of bad faith communication
How would that look in active voice? "Our trainers and students caught covid, so we had to cancel their classes"?

Active voice there feels like they're shifting the blame to their employees, which is never a good look for an employer. I think they did the right thing by keeping it focused on their lack of planning/foresight.
I'm 100% sympathetic to their growth issues, trust me. Their support team is stretched very thin, and I always try to be really understanding when tickets sit unanswered for a bit. At the same time, if they're cutting off someone's livelihood (especially in a case like ours where we're being too successful for their algorithm), it really, really should be reviewed by a real person before the policy is enacted rather than depending on the AI to not have issues identifying real problems.

The truly annoying thing is that when it is reviewed by a real person, they have strict policies about how long things have to be a certain way before they will reverse what is obviously a flaw in their algorithm. We ran into "well yeah obviously you didn't do anything wrong but bans like this are a week long so you have two more days to wait" a couple of times. I'm guessing they had someone new take over their T&S team who feels like strict enforcement across the board regardless makes things more fair (which I can see from one angle), but given that Etsy's whole pitch is making commerce more personal, it'd be nice if things like that were also more personal.
It’s just a simple question. If we’re going to add more to the tax burden with the promise that the money then be equally distributed, it’s fair to wonder who would be in charge of making sure it’s actually done correctly.
That's a Republican narrative, not really backed up by any sound historical analysis. Whereas creation, nurture and development of wedge issues is a standard right wing tactic across the world. Be it love-jihad in India, miscegenation in USA, jewish hatred in nazi Germany or recognition of Ahmediyas as muslims in Pakistan. It incentivizes voters to vote on ideological lines while ignoring/ letting politicians/wealthy industries get away with looting public monies and resources, legally or illegally.

Case in point- gun laws, abortions, gay marriage are simply not a focus of right wing parties in India. Because these were never nurtured and developed as wedge issues by BJP. Instead the wedge issue they have nurtured and developed is the hatred of muslims and Christians. Absolutely no one gives a shit about abortions or who does what, (except for the government preventing female infanticide). Whether right/left wing they consider abortions as personal business of the woman/man involved. This topic has not been nurtured as a wedge issue because it doesn't align with the BJPs wedge issue- presence of muslims/Christians in society.

I am not sure what the significance of Bangladesh 's creation is in this context. The primary reason for independence was Pakistani governments failure to cede power to the east Pakistanis who had won the elections .
This feed has been working for me: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/feed
I don't get this constant acknowledgement of which peoples' land we're on. If you feel this is a bad thing, would you not simply get off the land? If you feel that it is a good thing, are you not gloating about your conquest? Question asked in good faith.
I don't totally buy that -- that they're in charge of the integration with Etsy's catalog? That there's no device ID fed back from the referrer links I click that Etsy could be using to pull over my computed advertisement characteristics, given that I've logged in there with Facebook? Etsy knows I've been clicking on those Instagram ads run to certain groups -- surely they could use that to improve my onsite recommendations.
Amazon customers can use their voice to plant trees
>"Why even have a Mac with that setup?"

It was given by employer. People get used to particular keyboard, mouse, big monitor, etc. etc.

I had to write and debug some docker scripts on Mac. Since I was in no mood to buy one just for that I asked my client to supply me one. They gave me Mac laptop and I used it in exactly the same configuration with the lid closed.
Higher percentage have been reported:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/10/almost-all-you...
> the agricultural yields are already falling almost everywhere because of climate dereliction

Sorry, but that's not necessarily true. Photosynthesis intensity increases with elevated CO2 [1] and decreases with higher temperatures. The exact effect of higher yields from more CO2, lower yields from temperatures, and increased arable land area from higher temperatures is not well known.
Shortest Foot Forward
I read this comment and realized I don’t even remember the last time I powered down my Mac! You’re right that it’s not something I do very often. Is that not the case with Windows and Linux nowadays? What’s the point in powering down?
I have to speculate that the reason why "social media is indeed corrosive to trust in governments, news media, and people and institutions in general" is oftentimes because it highlights their apparent failings (biases, lies, etc). That is, the problem is not primarily one of people failing to trust in trustworthy institutions, but due to a hyper-focus (retweeting) on the failings of those institutions.

As we communicate more, we find we don't agree as much as we thought we did, and that is divisive. Social media allows us to highlight and amplify the information about our disagreements.
Supposedly it was stolen from Africa, at the time they were flying gliders off the pyramids.
I actually bought a second phone just so I’d have a mini and a max. Serves its purpose well (backup to main phone and for when space constrained).
Have a Pebble 2SE on my wrist right now. Have more in storage as spares, unfortunately the buttons on these start to disintegrate after a few years.

I was hoping something better would come along and dethrone it by the time I ran through them all or decide to replace the buttons completely, but nothing has. PineTime might do it, should order one and help move it along.

Pebble has always done exactly what I wanted out of a smartwatch with a terrific community hitting all the hackery and FOSS things.
> "This process, called grooming, has the purpose of gaining student trust, as well as the trust of parents and colleagues."

I hate this, I hate this in society. I hate that certain people have made it so that we are destroying trust in all things.

I had a scout leader when I was a young man and going through a difficult time as my parents were getting divorced he built a relationship with me, made friends with me, and helped me out a lot in life.

It seems like that would be impossible now. How are you supposed to build a relationship and really make a difference in someone's life without building trust in the first place. It seems like this abuse and fear and these bad actors are destroying the foundations of society.

And just so we are clear I understand why things have to be like this now I am not upset at the research I am upset at the prepatrators.
What surprises me is how little overlap you see between TV and monitor panels.

I figured that there was a lot of crossover due to the NTSC/ATSC transition basically occuring simultaneously with the CRT/LCD switchover. The demand to replace every TV set in the country meant they'd be making a bazillion 16:9 panels in every price and size grade imaginable.

The obvious assumption would be that the monitor industry would just exploit that, putting the cheap scale panels into good-enough monitors.

But even in the transition era, monitors were very different. Most affordable <32" TVs were 720p until well into the 2010s. I think the trend eventually reversed-- you started to see a lot of small 1080p TVs (back in the last few years you could even get small TVs) and I suspect it was because there were loads of 21-24" 1920x1080 monitor panels on the market.
Painting a Landscape Using Mathematics
As you say, there are essentially only two mobile platforms today, and only one of them has really been successful extending that platform to a watch. If none of the Android device makers have been successful selling a smart watch, what hope did Pebble have?

So again, Pebble's only hope was to remain a niche product. They were never going to compete in Apple's market.

It's fine to remain a niche product, but I don't think that was Pebble's aspiration.

(I too have a Garmin watch and I gave my Apple Watch away to my sister because it didn't fit my use case. I hope you recognize that having multiple smart watches makes you not just a niche user, but a niche niche user.)
What is success to you? If success means customer success and probable longevity of the company (and growth and valuation are secondary factors) then Niche Coffee’s espresso grinder is a consumer hardware success.

Thinking about it a lot of third wave coffee products fit the bill. The Decent espresso machine is another and makes the “should buy an Italian machine” argument no longer apply.

There are also successful coffee scales. Lots of new stuff!

Fully automatic machines that are better than a great barista are probably coming. Maybe an upstart could do it.

Of course the sales volumes might be too low to be consider a success on HN or even shark tank for that matter. But i would be happy to have that much success in a new product.
the social media review equivalent of https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
A lot of new projects turn into this within a few months.
>Lasting about 2 minutes and 40 seconds, the video shows a number of instances in which Pythom employees appear to be handling the Eiger rocket and its hypergolic propellants (furfuryl alcohol and nitric acid) with less than industry-standard care.

That reminded our ROTC training on handling SCUD missiles which also had nitric acid as oxidizer - even for training without actual fuel/oxidizer we had to don the protection suits :) Anyway, looking at those guys i think i definitely can go ahead with my SpaceX competitor rocket project.
> What do the homeless mostly suffer from?

Not having a home.
I thought Mint came with Cinnamon.
(Wow that was a funny sentence :D)

> macOS can use different backgrounds for different monitors, GNOME can't

That'd be the least of my problems. Also, on xfce you can set different backgrounds for different monitors.
I don't see anything about school employees in there
Yes... although the Projucer does not make it very obvious since it only shows "personal", "education", "indie" and "pro" license options.

This page does mention GPL3: https://juce.com/get-juce
> The "How we got here" section blames pilots leaving (or being forced out,) covid illness, and storms.

> Now, mind you, Alaska supports BIPOC pilots. Can't leave an opportunity to signal that hard on the table.

Exactly, I don't want to know how they are training new BIPOC pilots, I want to know how they are getting the old ones back. The fact that they will have mostly inexperienced pilots is far from ideal.

Besides, I don't care if my pilot meets a BIPOC quota, I want the _best_ pilot they can find. Their situation is quite dire and they should get their priorities in check.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Unless you've been living under a rock, stories about "grooming" abounds. Here is a study made by experts on this topic, before it became a meme.
Title wouldn't fit verbatim: U.S. State Department orders all non-emergency government staff in Shanghai to leave as Covid surges
I actually think they’re carving out an odd model line with their small iPhones. They’ve gone back on the larger is better meme twice to make the first SE and then the Mini. I suspect we’ll get another mini model after enough demand has backfilled enough. I’m guessing it really is a size preference for certain people and budget for others.

The model line of “cheap enough for the people who absolutely have to wait until price drops to their level to upgrade.” And also whose numbers swell just enough every 3-5 years.
In the same vein, as an old unix dog, I'm very annoyed by golang's -help vs -h and --help. Given the pedigree of the creators, I really am quite puzzled as to why they took this approach. Is there some sort of injoke where -help meant -h[elp] which would therefore expand to e.g. -he, -hl, -hp, -hel, -hlp, -hep ad nauseum?
The overall industry has been profitable since 2010, peaked at 15% average in 2015. 2020 was a slaughter for obvious reasons.

You have a weird definition of "barely profitable" given the average corporate profit margin in the US is 9% and your claim "others are near 0% most years" is an outright fabrication.
> Love this country but fucking hate how ruthless healthcare can be.

Vote for representatives who want free healthcare.
Most knew their aggressors, and a lot of aggressors were in position of authority.
Typically everyone does both freight and passengers, but it'll be better at one or the other. Passengers want fast trains with few delays that get close to population centers. Freight doesn't care about speed as much but cares about the overall throughput and wants to end up in distribution centers.
John Oliver Blackmails Congress with their data purchased from data brokers
Last year, I switched from Windows to Ubuntu and it was an incredibly easy transition and while there are some oddities with Ubuntu, like some software is hard to update and I've had a couple weird things with audio settings, everything has been quite seamless and easy.

I mention this in support that switching OSes does not necessarily have to be difficult.
Yes but not in the way I think you're implying. Labor makes a rational decision to make as much money as they can, and as highly paid software jobs have become more common, more labor has entered software. Rather than the past when most people were in software to try something new or start something, most software labor these days is in it just for a living. The distinction between labor and capital itself in software was a bit arbitrary as many engineers would go off and become founding or otherwise early engineers in other firms.

Thus it makes rational sense for capital-disinterested labor to maximize what they get out of a job, much as corporations are criticized/observed to try and extract as much labor as possible out of employees. Hence it's become en vogue for labor in software to loudly criticize companies for any small slight to extract as much value as possible much just as corporations make decisions to maximize shareholder value. Just as companies can treat their workers badly, labor can malign capital unfairly.

It's the end result of corporations with disinterested labor. The two sides try to fight a war while extracting as much value as possible. Labor isn't interested in joining capital the way it once did when software was newer and sees them as permanent adversaries. It's also probably why we're seeing increased attempts at software unionization despite software being so well compensated; labor doesn't see itself as being similar to capital.
> There's a couple of repos at work which contain multiple Go modules (each in their own subdirectory, with their own go.mod files).

There's almost no reason to do this. 1 repo = 1 module. Even for monorepos.
Humans have to learn sight while learning speech though. I don't mean knowing that this is a dog, I mean making sense of noisy vision inputs.
Totally! No notifications by default and then if some are necessary, copious use of Do Not Disturb-type features, and if you need to see things quickly, a smartwatch with the most limited notifications you can get away with. It's still just half the battle.

I confess that I was hoping to read the word "book" in this article.
Michael Crichton, MD, and author of Jurassic Park (any many others) wrote a book about the state of the art of medicine in the 1960's called "Five Patients". Each patient was a case study for some particular aspect of modern medicine. Through that lends, Crichton examined the costs of the hospital and noted that they were growing well beyond inflation 50 years ago and assumed that the obvious fix was a single payer system to manage costs.
The average income needed to buy a home in the Bay Area today: $235,000
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I did eventually buy an iPhone 13 mini. Still somewhat disappointed by it. What I really wanted is something like an iPhone 13 mini pro. I used the zoom on my iPhone 12 pro and never the wide angle, if they only pick two cameras, please give me the zoom.

It also would have been nice to have the better screen.

The 12 had bad battery life is what I heard.
“Reason” is finely-honed satire.
They were also contemporaries:

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.

I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

— Kurt Vonnegut
Can you find any information showing that most European trains pay tax on diesel? Plenty are electric, so any tax would be indirect.

This report seems to show that trains mostly pay for infrastructure and the network: https://cedelft.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/CE_Del...

I think British trains pay for “red” taxed diesel?
I have bought some stock in the company, yes. That's what I meant by my disclosure statement.