skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like Denmark is any better, the Minister of Climate Dan Jørgensen shares the view that nuclear power is bad.

Makes you question if Europe is really able to do anything seriously about the environment.

https://energywatch.com/EnergyNews/Policy___Trading/article1...
Window snapping is a pretty basic thing that every non-Mac OS and DE does... And it's annoying AF to not have it.
Yeah this is the crazy thing about shell redirect syntax

2>&1 # descriptor redirect

2>& 1 # identical to above

2 >&1 # runs a command "2" and then does a descriptor redirect

And likewise for

2>1
2> 1
2 >1

The 2 is really part of the operator, but the 1 isn't !
Several of the missing capabilities mentioned here can be done with 3rd party tools.

* BetterSnapTool for window snapping and maximization (although I prefer Moom for better control).

* Afloat to force a particular window to always be on top.

* TinkerTool to mess with various other settings.

Sure, these may not be “built-in” as first party capabilities, but Apple has a history of slowly bringing such capabilities into the OS over time. Flux (for altering screen tint at night time) became standard. So did TextExpander (for auto-expanding abbreviations).
Another reason why non removable batteries are crap. I have an old Nexus phone kicking around, if I were to repurpose it I’d just remove the battery and power it via USB. But you can’t do that with newer devices.
Hardware Accelerating ROS 2 Nodes for Perception
Robots moving faster require faster perception computations happening at the edge. This article discusses how hardware acceleration empowers faster robots and how it's important to select the right accelerator. Benchmarking results hint speedup differences of more than 500x between accelerarion solutions for ROS Nodes.
CTO here, thanks for the comment.

The scan is 100% automatic and performed live - There might have been a small config issue, once fixed your system would be up and running in minutes :)

We would be happy to help, you can contact us:

- our support at support[at]flycode.com

- or me directly at etai[at]flycode.com

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It's not just control. It's control plus stability, as we said.

Control is deliberately withdrawn to preserve the commercial interests of the producer, not because it is technically impossible to add it to stability.

You want stability? Provide a perfect default configuration. You want control? Allow tweaking that configuration in detail for users that are willing to do it.
Clickbait title with boring content

Everyone has known for a good few years that spending $100,000 on a film degree is not a high-ROI decision
> For every wacky feature or option someone wants, that has to be built, maintained, tested.

No, it doesn't. We seem to have forgotten that there are more general ways to think about software and engineering and math and the world.

You can just design a system that is guaranteed to work fine:

- regardless of where widget X is positioned

- regardless of what font and font size (from an interval) and color is selected by the user for a certain UI components

- ...and you can have all UI on all apps on the whole computer be customizable in the same way without having to write any (zero!) extra lines of code by just inheriting functionality for some common components

- etc.

You don't have to just dumbly test all scenarios to guarantee sane global behaviors of systems.

And you don't get the burden of maintaining the "test cases for all possible scenarios" because you just don't write those tests in the beginning, they are useless in a well behaved system that follows LAWS and properly preserves INVARIANTS and just burn money through their tests-maintainance costs! (Like lots/some of pre-web systems actually were!)

We've now built for ourselves a crazy computing world where there are no longer stable (across years and decades) contracts, laws and invariants in software, so we have to defensively code and over-test everything! We could've had-the-cake-and-eaten-it too if we would've just put the effort of building more solid software foundations for ourselves, but instead we're torturing ourselves building Electron web apps on desktops in languages with lacking or handicaped type systems and run them on operating systems that offer no sane components with contractually guaranteed interfaces...

</rant>

...imagine if physics worked like that, you'd have to re-test the laws of physics every time you wanted to build a house because the laws could vary by neighbourhood and not even basic invariants like the conservation of energy were guaranteed to hold. Oh, you can't just ask for more than a 1-room rectangular uncostumizable house of standard size, because properly testing anything else doesn't crash on you in our universe with non-uniform physics is just too expensive! Just get used with you sensible defaults citizen, stop questioning the party and the world!
You can do it in the modifier keys section of the keyboard control - https://imgur.com/a/Mch75L0

I've done this on my Macbook that has the Touch Bar and lacks an escape key to make vi possible.
Technically true, but you're missing the point and the heart of the debate. Yes they have legal standing to do this. Is it healthy for society though? A lot of people think not, hence why they're about to be bought and the board is likely to be replaced.
Cowboys would say otherwise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31167165
That's one of the greatest albums of the 00s, should be on people's Top 50 if not Top 25
There's a larger determinant in the US depending on what you chose to go into; entry-level or not, children or not.

If you were self-taught in IT or development, then you essentially won. Even the junior worker does well. You could self teach way faster than a degree program. If you were stuck to retail just trying to make ends meet, then you were fucked, comparatively.

If you were former enlisted military and did IT/dev/security and have a clearance, you can easily beat out civilian IT or development with salary and probably work twice as less. I bet it's even more ludicrous for former officers. So does that mean military is better than college?

Even though there were studies on lifetime incomes for degree-holders vs. not, there are a wide number of options so that you can avoid being a statistic.

College would have been great if internet education had never been a thing.
This new Bowley Rotasera Disk Detainer Lock with 9^8 = 4,304,6721 combinations looks like it could resist for some time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8vvD-z8eQ
I graduated 6 years ago and finished paying off the ~$120k earlier this year. I went into tech so paying it off wasn't really a problem.

I've wondered at times whether it was worth it or not. I'd been programming since I was 8 and for the most part I only felt like I learned something in a handful of the upper division CS classes (computer architecture set up my love of FPGAs, operating systems was another favorite). The math classes are something I'm happy I was exposed to.

I do know that I matured significantly though. I also obtained a large group of friends that I stay in contact with to this day.
I just configure Karabiner-Elements to disable the internal keyboard when my travel keyboard is plugged in.
Harvard leaders and staff enslaved more than 70 people, report finds
No I meant it in a broader sense. Whenever I ask someone why companies are so hyperfocused on growth every single quarter they usually cite fiduciary duty or something. I am not sure if it's a law or a company by law
> China switching sides is one of the many factors. An important one, but not as important as US/NATO matching and outspending (adjusted per-capita) the USSR in military buildup and proxy wars.

China switching sides is the factor. USSR was never going to outspend the US let alone NATO.

> Sorry, what? You're responding to someone who was born behind the Iron Curtain, and you're saying that Western "bullets, tanks, missiles, etc" kept him/her under soviet rule?

Soviet "bullets, tanks, missiles, etc" did. Our bullets, tanks, missiles, etc kept japan, germany, korea, etc under US rule.

> As in, if the west had been militarily weak, the CPSU would have stopped occupying?

Do you think poland was occupied without bullets, tanks, missiles? Do you think korea, germany, japan were occupied by accident?

> Not because of the dictatorship then.

You need a dictatorship to protect a small nation free from a much larger power with a history of all kinds of evil.
I agree with this. I have a trash bachelor’s degree from a for-profit school and it has never been more than a checkbox when applying for jobs. I’ve managed a couple dozen people, and with the exception of the couple of PHDs in that group, I couldn’t tell you if any of them even went to college.

With that said, I work in InfoSec (as a dev/manager) so I suspect my experience might not be the typical one.
And if I were a Twitter employee who survived the cuts, I'd still be worried that now I'm working for Elon Musk. Suggest all Twitter employees reach out to the engineering teams at Tesla and ask them how their work-life balance, energy level, and burnout level is. How do decisions get made there, how frequently are they over-ruled? How chaotic are things? How frequent are the angry outbursts? How's overall satisfaction? Do they feel they work in a nice place?

I admire Elon's companies and the achievements they've made, but he has an extreme reputation of riding his employees like horses.
Jobs programs are not net boosters to the economy. There is a short anecdote of this, when a famed economist visited China in the 1970s. He was shown a work site where hundreds of men were digging with shovels. He asked why there were so many shovels, but no machines. The party member looked at him and said, "Oh, this is not a construction project, it's a jobs program". The economist promptly replied, "In that case, you should take away the shovels and give them spoons!". The economic situation in that instance would be improved if the workforce was cut in half and they used steam shovels, not if they paid wages for nothing of value in return.

And yes, it's true the military research provides benefits and applications outside the military, (GPS for instance), but if your goal is R&D, it's far more efficient to invest in R&D for R&D's sake, not retroactively justify massive military excess because of knock-on effects.
> One of the most disappointing aspects of American College life is how incurious everybody seemed to be.

This reflects the world as a whole. Most people aren't curious about things that don't directly affect them, so I'm not surprised to see it reflected in the college population.

Many people in the US treat college as a vocational school, probably in large part because the US pushed hard to increase college attendance. So 75 years ago, someone would graduate high school and apprentice at a job and work their way up, today, they likely start at colloege then jump into the labor force, but they pick their major based on the job they want (just like apperenticing in a field.)

Personnaly, I treated college as an instructor led encyclopedia, and just took classes I wanted to learn about. I have never earned a penny with the degrees I received, but I never intended to. Most of my college carreer was spend in tandem with working a full time job. I've only stopped college for a while because my job is sucking up too much of my time. Once I retire, I'll go back to college to get a PhD in math (probabilities, specifically) as background for what I want to study in philosophy (bayesian epistomology)
I have vivid memory of a forum thread named something about "shitposting" in 2009, and I know it didn't feel like a novel concept at the time.
If college was indeed a mistake, I would encourage the author to renounce his degree and then A/B test leaving it off his CV, dating profiles, immigration forms, credit and insurance applications, story pitches, corporate bio, club and association membership applications, medical records, and arts or other grant applications, and share the results. Articles like these seem like middle class people knocking the ladder away behind them.

If you don't think you need to go to university, you are precisely the person who should go to university, as unlike the long tail of people who actually go, your consideration and self-reflection alone means it's almost uniquely the right bet.
This might be the first Hackernews thread in history where you can get away with shitposting. (As examples only, of course.)
Orbz - that was incredibly insightful, thanks - I have googled preferred stock and have now understood what you mean - I will ask the relevant questions regarding investment already raised.
Even without a blank you can sometimes do it. I used a printed photocopy of a office key and then modified my existing (already cut) key of the same type by adding layers of metallic epoxy and filing them back down to the correct hills and valleys. Was a pain but it got me a “master” key to all the doors in a building I worked at. Be careful if letting someone borrow the master key even for just a few minutes.
Lots of things can cause inflation, but the main reason we have inflation is because we deliberately cause it by (effectively) printing money. Some economists have decided that a target of 1-2% per year is ideal to keep people spending and investing rather than stuffing their money in the proverbial mattress and hoarding it. Deflation is meant to be avoided at all costs. This has been decided to be the ideal balance to keep the economy as strong as possible. Personally, I am sceptical that there is much difference between 1% inflation and 1% deflation, but I am not an economist.
related "Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135972 with 400 comments
I don’t think 4 year college will ever go away, especially for great academic students. That said, the argument is that the cultural pendulum has swung far too much towards pressuring everyone, regardless of their life goals, into attending a 4 year college. There are so many great alternatives, especially if you don’t want to be a doctor/lawyer/ etc. as a society, we should elevate blue collar jobs and career paths, and not elevate the cultural value placed on 4 year degrees (esp from random non prestigious private schools). Most blue collar jobs (plumbers/electricians) are interesting, enjoyable, and fruitful work (150k+), but in the US many people look down on these careers and steer their children away from them.
I learned a different lesson from school bullies.

Which was that, as a nerdy/shy but big/tough kid, I could protect other kids by telling bullies that they'd have to deal with me if they messed with anyone else in our class or anyone else I knew. I probably had to back up the threat maybe twice in minor ways. The end result was a very peaceful class for the last couple years of middle school. I was voted "Most Amiable" by my 8th grade class.

And that's how I view NATO's role: the anti-bully that is completely ready to fight if forced.
Prager is calling it Green religion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTgNtvTuYRU

Sam Harris is calling it 'anti-racist': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHUu9sAGKo

Tim Pool is calling it the "woke religion": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIMhMrkYkyw

Douglas Murray is calling it "woke religion" as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymJGuhK177o

Over the last 2 years it has become rather clear that a new religion has formed. We should welcome them, let them enjoy freedom of religion and public association. Obviously this new religion is Marxism, intersectionality is the corner stone of their religious tenancy. When marxism died in 1989, country after country adopted capitalism. It's a matter of time for socialism to be snuffed out. The "social justice warriors" are the religious fanatics. Virtue signaling is no different what christians do in church.

Their secrecy is in large party due to China and Tiananmen Square(massacre of the capitalists) but also why they are becoming a religion. China is antireligion so they can't be open with their beliefs, but China adopting capitalism and free trade zones and the eventual elimination of communism has put them on notice.

I think it's great though. Perhaps we can do an Israel thing for the new religion. Not occupy someone else's land like Israel but perhaps they can build a new giant city under the tenants of marxism? We could make it a free trade zone. Perhaps in the north of Canada? Perhaps middle of the desert in nevada? Whatever.

All the adherents of the new religion could then move to this new city and everyone gets equal outcome. Everyone is treated equally. You dont get to own anything though. The municipality owns everything in the city.
One rather un-obvious property of most mechanical keyboard switches made today is that the tactile feedback actually does not match the actuation point - meaning, the point at which the switch "clicks" is not the same point where the PC starts registering the keypress. In fact, in e.g. Cherry MX switches, these two are handled by separate mechanisms! The only switch type where actuation == tactile feedback that I know of is buckling-spring, as in the IBM model M.

This realization was a big moment of disillusionment in (most) mechanical keyboards for me :)
FWIW people are mentioning tons of alternative shells in this thread, and most of them are already listed here:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells

(if not, feel free to add them)
Tangential: I don't believe college teaches critical thinking, because many students would be quitting college once they realized they were receiving a horrible deal (no evidence completing the degree would increase chances of getting the job).

People say college (esp. liberal arts) teaches critical thinking, but in my experience, succeeding in liberal arts classes is about going to office hours and figuring out what the professor wants to hear in your essay.

Related: My friend - smartest I've ever known - wasn't a great writer, but got a perfect score on the SAT writing section by memorizing the SAT word list and making an absolutely incomprehensible essay where almost every word was a bastardized thesaurus word for what word should have been used (and many just didn't make sense at all). Undoubtedly, it was a bad essay. But simply because they couldn't read it and it sounded smart, they awarded him the perfect score.
When did you implement WebAuthn? Curious if it was recent?
It doesn't just stop at college tho. After college, you can obtain a ruinous loan for just about anything. At least with a ruinous college loan you should be able to "come out ahead" at some point. Ruinous home loan? Generally leads to foreclosure. Ruinous car loan? Repo man. Payday loan? Good luck!
Intro to Web3 Development for Beginners
It's not at all clear that it solves the problems being discussed here. All we can see on the site are claims. Makes me 10x more productive in writing music? That's a bold claim to make while absolutely nothing backing it up. Can I import my plugins? What are you doing to aid with recording? Can you even record?

Lots of questions.

No answers.
Yes ideally all of humanity worldwide should adopt US standards on free speech. But in the meantime, Twitter and other online services can apply country specific blocks to individual pieces of user generated content.
It's an appealing saying but it's not really backed by any real evidence. Most of the time "good times" just leads to dominance. The Romans didn't stop being the most powerful army in the Eurasian continent after they became the biggest empire of the time and their decline and eventual demise had very little to do with their economic prosperity.
Etherium might be a better match for that one, since you could use "gas" to do computations at times when "gas" is cheap.

(Except even when "gas" is cheap it's expensive compared to, say, renting machines at AWS or Azure to get computations done.)
> Also, the fact that I can't independently control the scroll direction of mice and trackpads is insane to me.

Oh yeah I just plugged a mouse into a work Mac recently and was super confused at this. Yes I’ve gotten used to natural scrolling on touchpads by now, but no that doesn’t mean I want it on a scroll wheel!
Getting a STEM degree at a state school and getting out as quickly as possible is arguably the smartest way to use college. Unfortunately, many 18 year olds and frankly many adults do not have the decision making skills to do this. Just because it’s technically possible to use the system beneficially doesn’t mean it’s working well.
Eisenhower's point was also about arms races. If Ukraine and Russia had spent less on defence over the last five years, both would be better off and there still wouldn't be an occupation. As it was, his administration still spent an astronomical amount of money on defence (albeit less than Truman's Korean War expenditure) because he recognised that the Soviet Union wouldn't disarm if the US did.

Would the world have been better off if the South American dreadnought race had carried on? Doesn't seem very likely. Even the UK/German naval race at the same time cost a preposterous amount of money on both sides for an inconclusive result, even while we were fighting a hot war.
In major cities.

So, live outside the city. Or in a smaller city.
So did I. No, we don't, but it will still benefit you. When your peers are less beholden to their jobs because of their debt shackles, they can ask more of their employers, which will also raise your working conditions. Sometimes life isn't 100% fair, and that sucks and I'm sorry. But looking at it objectively, it's still an improvement for you. (And, "I suffered, so others must suffer, too" isn't a great way to set policy regardless.)
Thank you for this. I'll have something to share with my Texan relatives.
Bollocks, I've upgraded Fedora many a time. In fact I've done so since F25.
> Obviously I also wonder how much value the world might be missing out on from the intellectual capacity of South Korea if USA hadn’t spent money on a military intervention there.

I don't get that part of your (otherwise excellent) comment. If the US (and the UN) hadn't taken part in the war in Korea, South Korea wouldn't exist and the reunified country would have looked like something like either current-day North Korea or China and might not have gone through a similar economic boom, which allowed the intellectual capacity to get to work (and export the results of their work, which wouldn't have happened in a North Korea-style outcome)
In Next Generation Shell (author here), it is not as ergonomic (yet?) but on the other hand it's a fully fledged no-nonsense programming language... and I claim quite a readable.

good_data = fetch("openlibrary.json").docs.filter({"author_name": Arr, "publish_year":Arr})

good_data.map({{"title": A.title, "author_name": A.author_name[0], "publish_year": A.publish_year[0]}}).group("author_name").mapv(len).sortv((>=)).limit(3)
Your No annual fee credit card is costing you $700 a year
I would think putting up 43 billion of your own dollars to protect free speech is a pretty strong action. Not that I think all his motives are pure; TBH I'd rather some other mechanism of enforcing free speech that doesn't involve the media being the plaything of billionaires. However, given the awful situation right now, I think I'd prefer Musk to the current board.
https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/WebAuthn_Developer_Gu... has a nice breakdown of presence vs verification. In fact the whole guide is worth reading, much more accessible than the spec.
Oh nice, it will not require any significant changes for when it does become available!
> I mean I'm sure Google has somewhere a UML chart of the entire process of ordering results.

No, there isn't.
Another way to put it would be that Ruby is so productive for the average developer at Shopify that they can afford to pay PLT experts to work on the tooling.