skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using mechanical keyboards for at least a decade now and the only time I’ve had a switch go bad was when I spilled a drink on it. Technically it was still good but since it was a sugary drink the switch got sticky.

As many before me have said, I am a professional programmer. I don’t care nor have the time to replace switches. I have a backup keyboard that gets swapped in if a switch goes out. I’m never going to tear a board apart to replace a switch.
Curious that no one else has mentioned what I find most addictive -- the unfiltered view of anthropology at street level spanning most of the world.

Local fashion and architectural styles, history preserved or not, public safety infrastructure, private wealth versus public wealth, rule of law or local strong men, trust in law enforcement ... Clues everywhere, if you take the time to look.
This is Josep M. Pujol from Brave Search.

I'd like to correct some factually incorrect information regarding Brave Search.

Brave search crawls the web through the Web Discovery Project and has its own crawler, which fetches a bit more than 100M pages daily.

Brave search uses Bing API and Google fallback for about 8% of the results shown to the users, the remaining 92% are served from our own index, when we launched almost 1 year ago the number of results from 3rd parties was 13%.

There is no need to mention "multiple source" when a number can be given. The underlying theme here is not if DDG provides no value on top of Bing, it does, no one is questioning that. The question is whether DDG would be able to operate if Bing were to shut DDG down tomorrow.

If Bing and Google were to disappear tomorrow, for whatever reason, Brave search would continue to operate, that's the independence Brave search is building.
I'm actually fairly new to WoW and I can't stand modern version. Classic is a way better experience for beginners in my view. The modern WoW is too manic and there's no mystery, sense of achievement for leveling. Leveling in classic MMOs IS the game, it's a shame to see so much of the "endgame > game" trend lately.

I don't buy that modern players don't have time either. WoW was only seen as an addictive timesink by the contemporary media but if they looked at the average hour counts of most modern multiplayer games, it would surprise many. Most modern service games demand fairly eye-popping time dedication to the casual observer.
Could this be attributed to the overlap in what AWS-like (micro)service architecture and that provided by FreeBSD jails and orchestration? Maybe lack of interest on AWS platform isn't necessarily parallel to interest in FreeBSD as a whole
I think your comment goes against the HN guidelines.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals...

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Large amounts of fiat currency are heavy, bulky, and difficult to smuggle. The US got rid of $500 and $1K notes because they proved more useful for doing crimes than for doing business, and the same happened with bearer bonds.

Criminals will do bad things at scale with cryptocurrency. Ransomware existed before bitcoin, but the amounts demanded were pittances compared to what can be demanded today because the difficulty of using cash or the banking system for a transaction increases exponentially as the amounts involved increase.
Come on, don't be down on it! Cheer up! :)
> Decent managers can help to defuse that.

Can you share any insights into how it gets defused? I'm a recovering cynic, and so is my manager. Sometimes we get into a feedback loop, which isn't great.
> it's annoying that I have to start caring about types again

that sentence actually pains me
They're remotely piloting them. That seems horribly unscalable. Not that the basic idea isn't ALREADY unscalable.

Does anybody know how they communicate with them? Is this something that's going to be burning more radio spectrum for minimal benefit?
Hoped for MX Master 4 to be honest
A pure democracy, a direct democracy, is no different than government though Facebook likes, everything becomes a popularity contest. You know, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others".

"The people", as a collective entity, is extremely dumb, so I think that the faster the communication advances, the worse democracy has become.
As I understand it the problem is rather (as the article disccusses and as others here have commented) the long-term damage to deeper layers of the soil, resulting in "hardpan" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardpan
Airbnb Pulling Out of China Thanks to Stiff Competition from Super-Apps
> Also the phones rather quickly fall out of the supported Android version range

This was my first concern. Otherwise seems awesome.
China Tourism Crackdown: Restricting Travel Abroad Will Hurt Everybody
What you need is really just a custom input method to write text. Android is already designed to be controlled with arrow keys. For tier apps, idk.
One thing to keep in mind is filtration.

I currently own a Dyson cordless for vacuuming the mattress when I change the sheets, a Bosch class M industrial vacuum and a Miele from before the dawn of time.

I’ve previously owned a Roomba.

I have the Bosch as a workshop vacuum and if I need to clean up something I don’t want blowing back into the air it’s the one I use. Eg brick dust or MDF dust.

Both my Dyson and my old Roomba were bagless and when you empty them it goes all over place.

I also don’t trust the filtering on them. They say hepa filters but that doesn’t mean it’s not leakng out case somewhere.

You only get one set of lungs so if it maters to you get something better than a Dyson.

My Miele still works well but I don’t trust the filtering on thar either.
Yes to reverse, but how would a builtin sort generically address comparability?
I saw a couple of people retire from big old blue chip tech companies (think Intel and IBM). I saw a lot more people burn out, die before retirement or change careers. I burnt out a few times and now make VR games for a fun semi-retirement.
Finally! DO were seriously lagging behind some competitors in the "small, easier, cheaper than the big3" space. Scaleway have had serverless functions and containers ( which is even better because even easier to migrate across providers), message queue for a couple of years now?

Congrats on the work anyways, and let's hope they put out a Container as a Service soon too.
This seems like bad advice. Local non profits are largely incapable of having the impact international ones do. The local YMCA will not even come close to the impact per dollar that global health non profits have. Yes, it can be hard to get to know the international non-profits, but there are plenty of services that provide meta analysis on non profit impact. Just looking at the top of givewell you can see that lives can be saved for the order of $1000, the YMCA can't compete with that.
Per The Verge's review[0], they're using Kalih Choc V2 switches.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/24/23137797/logitech-mx-mast...
OpenMetadata: Open Standard for Metadata
And this weird obsession with form methods and the way they make it like if you dont use form method you are an idiot.

Like get on with it, are there are other things in remix? I'd like to hear about them too!
> 4. Rather than letting an unbalanced pack naturally result in lower usable capacity, when the cells go moderately (300mV) out of balance (by design, see step 3) Dyson programmed the battery to stop working...permanently. It will give you the 32 red blinks of death and will not charge or discharge again. It could not be fixed. Until now.

> By using this firmware, your battery pack will not become unusable if the cells become imbalanced, you will just have reduced battery capacity as usual.
Has anyone tried standing up a cable car-like system where overhead lines pull (and power) the tractor? You could use wind turbines as the poles that keep the wires up in the air (though I suppose you could also use subsurface cables but that would reduce the growing surface a bit; then again, there's always space between rows of crops).
The video didn’t mention this, but the 2m videos only had 19m views. He is hardly having an impact on YouTube at all.
Matrix offers bridges to a large number of messaging services (WhatsApp & iMessage included). I don’t know why it hasn’t become more popular. https://matrix.org/bridges/
There's no downgrade option on Google Play Store?
Any hope of custom roms on this thing?
https://archive.is/33zxj
> Cooling it down from 18C takes 5.6 kWh

This seems like a lot. It's 20 megajoules, so even at a COP of 1, it's enough energy to cool down 20 megajoules / (4182 J/kg/K) / 18 K = 265 kilos of water by 18 kelvin.

And a refrigerator is supposed to attain a COP better than 1, and I suspect you have less thermal mass around than 265 kilos of water.

Something is wrong-- either in measurement, or heat exchangers very badly occluded by dust, etc, or some other fault.
I'm curious why you think tech would be any different from any other industry? People definitely retire from tech.

Yes, there is lots of burn out as well. I suspect much of the burn out is due to lack of having a reason to do what they do.

For the last 40 years, tech has been a tool of creation. It's becoming a utility. Part of the fabric of everything we do.

Almost every company has tech, just like every company has accounting.

I believe burn out is often a result of a lack of purpose. If you are on a mission, you are less likely to burn out. This also assumes you are taking good care of yourself, taking breaks, being well rounded, etc.
Formlets
Literally any keyboard running over USB has software. They’re not as simple devices as people think.
Unlike the Ukrainians, the Chinese antiship missiles have very long legs. As in, 5000km+. They are 30 years apart technologically, if not more.

In theory, the DF-ZF could hit a target 10,000km away, but I don't think that's operational yet.

The best bet for the USN to blockade would be with submarines. A blockade with surface vessels is going to be exceedingly difficult.

Also, China has enough oil stockpiles (around a year) to be able to switch their oil to overland transportation, not via roads but via pipes. Meanwhile, coal wouldn't be transported by ship but by rail, which is expensive but not that bad.
Wonder how I got nag screens? Must have been my mistake.
If these are the requirements to make you Anti-Communist I must ask - Would you be Anti-Capitalist and/or Anti-Democracy as well?

If not, why not? I think we can both find more than enough examples for evil things which were done in or because of capitalist democracies.

I would ask the same question if someone would label themselves as Anti-Capitalist. To understand why one would only be against a single of these systems/ideologies, while potentially being fine with or ignoring others.
One wonders what other juicy nuggets are in this non general NDA.
videogamedunkey had a great video making fun of the issue of content spam vs quality content [0]. It takes a ton of time and effort to create new content. Meanwhile some people just make low-effort reaction videos every day, getting way more views.

[0] https://youtu.be/VZzZKuQUguk
Generally for loans if the value of the collateral falls below the margin threshold (say 110%) then the collateral will be sold to make sure the lender has no losses. So it’s very low risk unless Bitcoin goes to zero instantly.

Additionally, because the loan is overcollateralized, the borrower can begin to unwind their leverage before they reach the margin threshold and will pay back their loan.
This is another lesson that you should always parse+serialize rather that just validate. It is much harder to smuggle data this way to exploit different parsers.

Basically the set of all messages that will satisfy your validator is far larger than the set of all messages that will be produced by your serializer.
Same here. I got two of the Das Keyboard 4 (one for work, one for home) over 7 years ago and they're still going strong. I like the brown switches personally.

I hadn't realized how much using membrane switch was causing RSI until I switched to mechanical keyboards.
Reading articles like this always amaze me, not so much for the problem itself but for the existence of the problem and millions like it that I never even consider in my day to day. The more you know the more you realize there is so much you don't.
I have done tests the past few years where I analyzed what went wrong where some form of disagreement has occurred, either personally or professional. Either I was defensive or the other person was.

During the defensive act (usually an expression of anger or less often hurt) the single event turned out almost always to be because one of the people in the discussion held a belief that was found on something unsupportable/ unsubstantiated in the context of the discussion, and the opposing view brought this to light.

The defensive person (often times myself) backed their position (action) based on their beliefs, but was confronted with contradictory information. (ie, they could simply not "defend" their position in light of the other information.)

Keep in mind, the truth of a situation was often irrelevant as I found my self defensive even I only _thought_ I was being shown to be wrong (ie, my actions didn't support by beliefs at the time, but later proved otherwise), and I found this with other people as well.

Again, this is only my immediate surroundings and tests I have run. The reason I know the other side is that in nearly every instance I followed up with the other person to find out what happened, what went wrong for the very purpose of understanding what caused the defensive behavior.

Consider running a test...

Next time you run into a situation where something goes wrong, someone gets defensive (easiest to analyze yourself, because you have all the evidence available) compare what you/they said/did with what they actually believe about the event.

I've frequently worked out great personal issues with people doing this, but sometimes people get more upset and simply do not want to bring something up that is a contradiction for themselves.

A simple example of this idea is politics, when someone expresses a belief like "all life is sacred", and then they are asked about person's life they detest, when pressed on the matter, they will get defensive. Their actions (words they express) are incongruous with their beliefs are what caused their reaction.

Another example is unprofessional behavior, when someone shouts at another person in a meeting, and you point out their actions, they will often state "I wasn't shouting" immediately, or raise some other similar defense.

Challenge anyone with evidence that contradicts them on any belief they hold, and if they can't defend against your proofs, almost everyone gets defensive, as if you are attacking _them_. (some people need to value the belief highly, otherwise they won't even discuss it with you) I have yet to meet a person that I have not seen this behavior in under these circumstances. (I bring up contradictory info a lot as part of my work and personal life) Maybe psychopaths or sociopaths?
This might be a "meta" comment but it seems like the type of person who would run FreeBSD is also the type of person who would NOT host with AWS.

I might be wrong though (and a counter point is I assume Colin hosts Tarsnap/FreeBSD at AWS).
Reds + orings, or brown + orings. A lot of the sound comes from someone bottoming out the keys.
How do they implement iMessage? Through a puppet VM of some sort?
Doesn't say that they controlled for organic fruit (ie low pesticide) being more likely to be chosen by people who are already heath conscious.
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane
We do, but they usually stem from an article, or a more detailed OP with some stats maybe.
OP: typo @ "Create a clear rinish line"
"My 12 year old said tiktok sucks...is tiktok is dead"
That's not the stance though. The stance is that administrative costs isn't what matters. Impact is what matters. Sometimes impact requires more administration, sometimes it doesn't. But impact is something that we can measure, so why use a bad heuristic instead?
You would always expect to be better off letting the refrigerator warm up, because:

* Every bit of warming that finds its way into a powered-off refrigerator is heat the refrigerator would need to take out anyways. And the heat flowing in declines as the inside warms up.

* There's standby power, etc.

* A refrigerator is expected to be more efficient removing heat when the temperature difference between inside and outside is less.
Functional programming is the key to AGI. Think of the brain as a collection of monads.
People write dissertations in Word all the time. How painful it is depends a bit on how complicated the dissertation is as a document.

This is of course only an anecdote, but I know many people who started in word, gave up on it and moved to Tex/Latex, but nobody who went the other way (that is to say, I know people who tried to give up on Tex, but eventually went back - not anyone who actually published with it). This might have quite a bit to do with subject matter - Word has always been an awkward fit for mathematics.
The promise 13 day standby battery life. Looks like it costs $240 from t-mobile. I'd love to get phone like that for my kids. Not sure it would withstand abuse though.
Would be nice if there would be iPhone like that .
I find it apalling even Apple offers more keyboard layouts than a company focused entirely on peripherials.
It's insulting honestly.
The article says VS Code is getting a native ARM version. I think the author might have gotten something wrong? Sounds like VS is getting a native ARM version and other toolchains like dotnet are getting native ARM versions which will be supported by the already-existing native ARM VS Code.
Do you have any sources you can cite that Microsoft has breached contracts with companies in the past in an effort to get at your ID for advertisers? Otherwise, I would consider this a nothing burger.
Ask HN: Robotics for the Detection of Landmines
I just happened to be consulting the website for APOPO, www.apopo.org , "global leader in scent detection animals" (founded by Bart Weetjens in 1995), entity which trains rats to detect landmines by smelling TNT ¹ - «The rats can smell TNT in low concentrations and even when it's buried under the ground (up to 15-20 cm)... from a distance of about 1 meter».

As I read that «APOPO’s HeroRATs take around nine months to fully train», the preliminary thought struck, about whether cybernetic deminers, for which training is an "upload", can be worth considering. Maybe the time to build a robot and its costs are competitive. It seems that the more complex part could really be the motility - the landmine sensor may not be something you train, if the revealing substance remains TNT, or the problem seems to remain deterministic, if progressively building a database of all the diverse threats is a goal. On the other hand, other techniques that involve e.g. visual clues and other open factors for decision may enhance the results, and call again for dynamic "training".

Also note that the inspiring entity seems to use automation already in their processes: rats can use automated training rooms (they are rewarded for TNT detection) - «The rat's response is measured by optical sensors and the cage produces an automated click sound with food delivery».

I find the matter interesting and "important" as an understatement, and maybe some good result could come from opening the topic.

--

¹And, in a subsequent effort built on the experience on landmines, tubercolosis.
I also had a Nokia N8. The UI was absurdly bad compared to iPhone at the same price.

It's not obvious in Nokia's carefully crafted screenshots, but the N8 UI was very static, slow, and unfriendly to touch actions. It was fundamentally designed around menu navigation on phone keypads. That's not something you can simply fix by making the menu items touchable instead of using arrow keys, yet that's basically what Nokia tried to do.
C doesn't require you to use qsort, the only thing that makes qsort common is that it is available in the standard library, but there are other libraries that provide a faster approach, e.g. SGLIB[0] uses a macro-based approach where the code and comparison can either be inlined with the code or define functions for sorting specific types[1].

There are other libraries that do the same, another one was posted here recently. And of course, if needed, it can be implemented by the programmer. IMO the issue with the given Postgres example isn't that it is written in C therefore it is slow, it is why it doesn't use all of C's features to make it faster (assuming there is a real performance issue here - it is very possible that the Postgres authors didn't consider it a real issue until now).

[0] http://sglib.sourceforge.net

[1] http://sglib.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html#array_exam
Can anyone provide a hopeful development update as to what efforts if any are underway in the farming industry to genuinely move past herbicides and pesticides of this kind?
> My mage portals aren't appreciated nearly as much! :)

non combat abilities is something I feel like modern MMO needlessly eschew. Some people just want to fish and read lore and don't care about combat segments at all.
"Go for Snake Doctor"
I did typesetting in Lyx/LaTeX of two PhD theses: my own (eng) and my GF's (esp) a decade+ later. In both cases the adventure started with admitted a vanilla Word doc without all the bells and whistles (= no templates, no version control).

Once you enter the area of strange formatting, chars typed by who knows either a cat walking on the keyboard or sleep deprived student typing madly, fixing these in a binary format is a real PITA. Lyx/LaTex text formats are trivial to grep, diff, etc.

Today I would probably start and try to stay as long as possible in Markdown, then reformat it at the very end.
It makes me sad that we need ultrasonic washers for fruit and vegetables.
Whilst I get your point - you might want to tone down the rhetoric slightly...

I'm a mechanical keyboard aficionado - I've gone through everything from Das, to Annes, to WhiteFoxes, to Keychrons. (Yes, I did solder some of those...lol).

My current daily driver is a Keychron K6 - but even I am seriously considering this Logitech.

The spec sheet promises a battery life of 10 months (no backlight) - the Keychron K6 is fine - except that the battery life sucks, and it takes 3-4 seconds to wake up from sleep every time.

I'm looking for a QMK wireless keyboard, but they're thin on the ground - and I suspect the battery life would still be terrible.

At the end of the day, companies like Logitech (or Apple) have the time and engineering nous to test things, and have them Just Work. Things like decent battery life, or having fast wake-from-sleep would probably be handled by their engineering teams.
You overestimate how long it would take to build a pipeline from China to Russia in wartime with no regard to cost.

The transsiberian railway isn't operating anywhere near the capacity of the rail itself, it just doesn't have enough rolling stock. The recent upgrades weren't to increase maximum capacity, they were to increase capacity at cost by increasing maximum train length and maximum speed. Nothing prevented there to simply be more trains, it's just less economical. In wartime this matters little.
Sure thing! You won't be able to redeem unless you deposited fiat directly with the Stasis affiliated platform. And even then, users have been saying it's currently disabled.
im curious as to why they dont have US West, Central, Asia data centers. Even with a US West, Central offering they could really do a number with their pricing discounts.

even better if they offer Singapore & Tokyo.