skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit after that he switches to a keyboard called "Kika" which appears to enable typing with the keypad and provides predictions. A bigger objection to this device to me would be the fact that UI animations appear to chug like a freshman at his first kegger and overall it doesn't look to be all that responsive.
The problem is that it's not that simple to just park $80b on a bank account. The bank will use the money to buy bonds or give it out in mortgages to get interest on it. It's akin to kicking the can to the bank, and getting the money out might fail or be too slow. It's probably better to manage the reserve yourself, to be able to manage risk and liquidity properly, rather than outsource it to a bank.
Folks who want their fiat.
Very cool. I wonder how difficult it would be present a real watchable video to the viewer. Albeit low quality, but embed the file in a steganographic method. I think a risk of this tech is that if it takes off, YT might easily adjust the algorithms to remove unwatchable videos. Perhaps leaving a watchable video could grant it more persistence than an obvious data stream.
Mechanical keyboards are actually expensive. I looked into making one once and it seemed that way, at least. I was shocked and dropped the project.
Somewhat unrelated, but I've found it really difficult to stop a recurring payment with Stripe. A company which has shut (website down and email unresponsive) keeps trying to charge 299 bucks on my card via stripe. No way to stop it either, if the client website is down.

Ripe for failed founders to exploit
Absolutely not ready for prime time. I couldn’t agree more. Examples like these are a misnomer for extensions with more then a couple dozen lines of code, https://youtube.com/watch?v=-aY4d5JBVnc

This is more what it’s like to develop in manifest 3, https://github.com/kentbrew/learning-manifest-v3/blob/master...
You are totally right, I really appreciated their honesty. As mc32 stated, if I was hired, in case of recession as a recent hire I would one of the first ones to go. The PM asked me if I would like to get contacted in the future to continue with the process in case things get better, to which I replied yes. I'll keep an eye on them.
i guess if it's not claiming to be a 'multimedia device' no 3.5mm jack isn't that big of a downside
I am actually writing a book about this - and my thesis is "software literacy". Software is a form of literacy and people need to a) be literate b) have tools and permissions and culture to allow people to basically code their own solutions.

Most large companies have a sort of process-killing-glass-ceiling where only excel spreadsheets can pass through.
According to this site[0] it's about the name of the movies, not a about the subtitles of all the dialog in the movies.

For example the title is "Star Wars", the subtitle is "The Empire Strikes Back"

[0] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1313:_Regex_Golf
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Happens quite often to subsea cables. I was renting a number of them and every now and again you'd get a break. You can follow the NOC's update emails:

Break detected

Ship has been commissioned

Ship is at harbor

Ship has sailed out to the cut

Fusing the ends

Service restored
I'm assuming this recommendation comes because you were not doing research prior to your PhD and you wanted to? In other words, you think PhD is about building a skillset and not signaling?

That may be where we're talking from two different angles. Much of this discussion seems predicated on the idea that you need a PhD to do research (i.e., it's vocational in nature). My claim is that you do not, but that it's possible people will pursue a PhD for other reasons (because it's more about signaling than many realize).
They did once, but changed their tune.

People then get all hand wavy and point at the fact banks have fractional reserves too.
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It could purchase numerous RI's and then find there's no market for selling them.
I remember a project that was doing this with photo files and unlimited picture storage.
>infrared sensors

Thermal imaging! How cool is that!

https://www.catphones.com/en-gb/features/integrated-thermal-...
It is backed by force. How do you think you collect debts when people don't want to pay?
> because the difference between minutes and hours is hard to argue with.

If the backups are incremental it shouldn’t take hours.
> If creators start encoding their source material into their files Google would probably be fine with that

it'd depends, as I don't think people using YT to store files would watch a lot of adds
> Without good soft-key support, these phones are unusable.

Depends on what you mean by "good". I worked with PTT for a long time (disclosure: Motorola WAVE), Android devices with HW buttons, wired PTT headsets and buttons, wireless PTT headsets and buttons, you name it. It's a world of pain and _lots_ of edge cases and testing but in the end, there was always a way to beat any device into submission and get it working for most common use-cases. Any questions, LMK :)
This is great! What was your data source for the news?
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Anyone know if the Simple File Manager is good at SMB shares? My previous preferred file manager for accessing my NAS was Asus File Manager, and that's gotten bitrotted since then (darn Android for moving APIs so fast).
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY

Has neat upwards picture: https://www.livescience.com/new-sinkhole-discovered-china
Interesting, but the tone of this seems to set out with an a-priori
intent to "debunk" someones beliefs to "obtain buy-in". It's a bit
disingenuous to call that Socratic. An epistemic mission one sets off
on in the spirit of Socrates is dangerous in that, if sincere, one
risks ones own beliefs (and given the trouble that relentless inquiry
provokes, the risk of drinking hemlock for sowing seeds of doubt in
the polis). Such radical openness does not start from the position of
"dealing with difficult people".

To my mind a better kind of "street epistemology" (in that it gets
down to the more important human truths rather than theoretical
relativism about unfalsifiable "experiences" or a pissing contest
about "facts"), is George Thompson's "verbal judo" which is predicated
on the leverage of respecting the other person's "ego ground to stand
on". Sure, the aim is to move the opponents position, but also to both
walk away with a win-win outcome.
Eventually, the US will figure this out and make a USD crypto that will be used as THE stablecoin.

It seems obvious to me that a stablecoin needs a solid governmental backing, since there is no profit in it and you need unlimited deep pockets in case of a run.

The advantage is then that the USD remains the world's premier reserve currency, even into the digital age.
There is an infamous anecdote from the turn/mid of the 20th century:

People believed that innovations in vacuum cleaners, washing machines, etc would cause people to have more leisure time because of how much time it saved in cleaning.

But it didn't happen. Why?

Because people's expectations for hygiene and cleanliness went up. And as it became easier to clean houses and clothes, people were more comfortable with having larger houses, and more clothes.

Technology innovation is much the same way. As capabilities increase so do expectations. And the "economy" is all about expectations and aspirations.
It's not the right tool for the job, in this case perfectly laying out text on a A4 sheet of paper. HTML is made for variable-sized screens, and can be repurposed to be printed, but it's still trying to screw a nail in when all you need is a hammer.
> guess everyone misses sometimes.

It's still strange to me how companies like Microsoft and Logitech can still regularly produce lemons after, what, 15 years of optical mouse production. It's not like anything fundamentally changes any more, they should have a winning set of virtually perfect devices that cover the entire market with interlocking segments by now.

I guess they're going for the "make it bit shit on purpose so we can sell them another mouse in 2 years" strategy.

Or maybe they just cannot help themselves from penny pinching good products into bad products so continually that you don't even know which are which any more (and you certainly can't tell if the expensive models are actually better or not).

I guess it's good that they're leaving market gaps open for the little guys?
"A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services."

or

"Dropwizard is a sneaky way of making fast Java web applications."
What a particular experience.

Nowadays I can find a few isolated uses for "classes", but never, and I mean not a single situation where "OOP" (object ORIENTED programming) could ever be preferrable to just using data and functions, whether that's strictly functional programming or plain old procedural.

Could you share more about where you believe OOP hierarchies offer an advantage?
Ahh OK, that makes much more sense, thanks!
Then Epiphany needs to fix it.
Anyone unable to sell for $1.00 because no one is buying at $1.00.
I'm referencing an infamous HN comment on Dropbox.
This is a difficult situation, but in terms of technology I think it is rare to get talented people into the development pool. I would hate to exclude people based on something unrelated to their talent alone. However, safeguards should be put into place to ensure that people are not being excluded based on their fear of those individuals either. I wonder if there is a way to ensure all interaction is public so that there is not any accusations that would not be of public record.
Things to do after installing/upgrading to Windows 11 (+1)
FYI, for anyone else withdrawing funds:

I requested an ACH withdrawal at 5pm pacific on 5.23
It was processed 13 hours later at 645am on 5.24
The conversion rate I received was 0.03850612745
If you view the UST value during that window, it was worth almost twice that rate on average: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terrausd/

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6ae021b3bd9848ade6863820092dcf2844...

Just a warning for anyone expecting to get out with even the value of your UST...
Well, the writing was on the wall as soon as they started blocking "Russian misinformation" that DDG are trying to ape the general practices of other search engines. Now, even the privacy itself is a secondary concern. Thankfully, I've already switched to Brave search last month and will likely eventually set up a SearX instance for a long term solution free of control by a corporation.
Yeah. The company didn't pay especially well, so it was important to keep people, and new hiring was always painful.

Rigorous Honesty is critical in my management. I need to be honest with myself, my superiors, my coworkers, and my employees.

It's quite possible to keep things confidential without lying. I've done it for many years.

Another drawback of my style, is the employees become loyal to me, not the company. If I had left, they probably would have lost the whole team, fairly quickly. The company didn't seem to mind that.
Searx is doing more for privacy than DDG. Why not open source the search as much as possible and let users choose for themselves.
On mars
Except the USSR was instrumental to Nazi Germany's early success with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and material trade. If you arm and abet the enemy with oil refineries and raw materials well your outsized role in defeating the enemy you enabled is now much smaller.
I don't expect to have any other career between tech and retirement. My hope is simply to be able to retire eventually so I can sit around and do the stuff I really enjoy, on my own schedule. What will I do after retirement? Hard to say, as there's a lot of "it depends" in there. But riding bicycles, tinkering with old cars, reading, and traveling will hopefully be major parts of that portion of my life.
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Not just programmers. Anyone using ZFS with SSD, whether as the pool itself or in various caches like slog(zil) is going to find this information of use when tuning for better SSD citizenship. Programmers treating SSD like faster spinning rust is like programmers treating S3 like another POSIX filesystem; you can do it, but you're trading away compounding future advantages for that one moment of expedience.
It's interesting for me to imagine explaining this comment to a person in 1995

At the very least I think it relegates people to buckets of either "People who believe tin foil hats give them privacy", and normal people.

Either way I don't think it's a productive dichotomy.
That's something I like, a lot: https://preview.redd.it/occvkly0cd471.png?auto=webp&s=1427cf...
It is, it also gives us more downtime during the workday that isn't reflected in the numbers.
Ah got it. So you can send the invoice for free but if they pay you then the fee will be deducted from that payment. Thank you very much!
Incremental backups are slightly higher risk.
that study doesn't show that "organic farming and permaculture nearly always yields higher per acre output"

It's about cultivating vegetables in a specific, labour intestine, urban environment, and is partly speculative.

It's not about organic farming yields in general which are generally significantly lower that those of conventional farming.
For a given backup an SSD will be much faster, less susceptible to drop and vibration damage, and pocketable where a portable hard drive is pouchable at best.
Don't your distributed systems use databases of some sort?
> If the syntax requires special tooling to make it usable,

In Linux I'm using Geany https://www.geany.org/ with almost the default highlighting. The only change I made was to make the good and bad matches of parenthesis more visible. (In the default, the color of the parenthesis changes from black to blue or red, but it's too difficult to see. I changed it so the color is black but the background is blue or red. It's just a two lines change in the style, not special tool.)

In Windows I'm using WinEdt https://www.winedt.com/ and using again almost the default highlighting.

My recommendation is to mix () with [] and {} as recommended unofficially, instead of using only (). [For my personal code I use a few more [] and {} than the standard. I use [] for long [begin ...] blocks and {} for {define ...}. That helps a lot to find the problems.]
What does "pegged" even mean unless Tether is always willing to pay 1 USD for one? Then who would sell their tether for $0.99, at a loss?
I'm talking about repurposing an existing house, often with very minor or no modifications. But as you can read about if you look for "single-family zoning"[1] this is often illegal.

Of course you can also destroy existing houses and re-build, or build new houses, but then you're back to the GP's point that that will often take time. Repurposing existing buildings can often be done very quickly.

You'll also get "new housing" that you'd never get without it, even if you had sufficient money. E.g. my example of an older couple that might keep their house for life, and would never consider moving, but they might consider accepting a tenant in their (mostly unused) basement or large garage.

Interestingly e.g. California seems to have made this legal in 2021[2], but I'm not sure about the specifics there. In jurisdictions I know about it's often de-facto illegal, because other building code often mandates such extensive modifications as to make it impossible. E.g. insisting that each address has its own dedicated entrance into the building.

E.g. where I'm from (Iceland) some older houses are set up as duplexes where there's a single entrance, and a small area shared by both houses, usually to hang your coats, store your shoes and other outwear, and very usefully a shared laundry room (a single family's laundry facilities are rarely used all the time). Such setups have since been made illegal for new housing by zoning regulations.

There's been similar moves towards "one size fits all" zoning in most or all other western countries. E.g. in New York it used to be common for younger people or new immigrant families to live in housing where several families might share kitchen facilities or other common areas. I.e. essentially being set up as collage dorms. That's since been made illegal for any "real" housing, which has resulted in driving up the price of housing, and pricing some people out of the market entirely.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning
2. https://www.californiacitynews.org/2021/09/california-says-g...
> , which is still 100x slower and a considerable difference, but not orders of magnitude difference :)

Two orders of magnitude.
Looks like you already answered my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31487825
How is this unique? I remember doing duck 'n cover drills at school as a preteen in the 1980s and having the adults in my life tell me I needed to know the locations of all of the fallout shelters in town so I could get to the nearest one if the Cold War went nuclear. My parents couldn't (or perhaps it's better to say they wouldn't) tell me that everything was going to turn out OK. I don't think that teens today are unique in knowing the hammer could fall any time.

In the 1980s it was nuclear winter. Today it's climate change. 40 years from now it'll be something else. It's always something, and keeping young people ignorant doesn't protect their innocence; it only hampers their journey toward adulthood.
Something else nice about the modules is that in a long lived device, the physical port can be damaged by heavy use. Instead of a motherboard replacement, you just get a new module.
It charges using a standard usb cable. With the RGB turned off, it lasts months at a time. It is usable as a standard usb keyboard while plugged in to charge.
Another fun headline from a while back: jogging near roads negates the benefits of the exercise.
My first phone with a camera was a Sanyo SCP-8100 and it also had one of those. The "gee whiz" feature was that you could open the camera app, close the phone, and then it would show a live display from the camera on the tiny screen, allowing you to take "selfies" despite only having the single camera.
> 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.

QMK's bluetooth stack is pretty fucking broken and has limited chipsets it supports. You'll have more luck with https://github.com/jpconstantineau/BlueMicro_BLE or https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk
Yeah just another BTC is dead bear market article.

It’s funny because the article never talks about the actual valuable part of Bitcoin, the network.

He links articles about how BTC is insecure, but none of those articles are the Bitcoin network itself failing, it was other networks with BTC on them.

Seems like someone just wrote a half assed uninformed article for clicks
Available keyboards are a weird choice indeed (for Germans actually a Swiss keyboard is a decent choice for hybrid office and programming) and says a lot about their market ( they are Swiss btw) . You can prices via resellers [1].

[1] https://wu-tc-shop.com/epages/a31626df-5333-4e17-81ac-5e39cf...
The first Symbian based Nokia device was the 9210.
I helped integrate the fax functionality - was amazing to see the first faxes sent and received :)
A problem with very long range ASMs is targeting: how do you make sure the target is still within the field of view of your seeker when the missile gets to the target area, and how do you make sure it's actually the target? This is a major reason why TASM was retired.
> also agree with you on points 1-4. One possible solution to the problem you raise on point 2 is for the open archives to implement an open peer-review system -- although it's really hard to do that well at scale. (HN moderators nod in agreement.) Hopefully the folks at the various open archives are already thinking about peer review too.

The attempts that come to mind are:

(1) I think there's some service that links papers to pubmed or something, to "attach" comments to the papers?

(2) Some arxiv services have allowed for "endorsements" by other authors or users.

My experience with both of them is that, deserved or not, there's a sense that it's hard to interpret them because of issues related to the informality of it all and lack of accountability. I personally sort of like the second option but it's fairly low-effort and hard to interpret that way.

As I'm typing this my sense is that at some level what people are really looking for with peer review is some editorial process that people have gone through to reach some threshold. In both of those cases, the peer review comes after the paper is written, and there's not a lot of incentive to improve it or change it except through the authors' own conscience.

Of course, we've seen how the traditional peer review system fails or can be abused, so how to achieve that threshold of "this paper has gone through some kind of editorial revision process" without it turning political or random is the tricky part. I guess it's a way of figuring out how to have one's cake and eat it too. Maybe some system where authors can choose whoever they want to have edit it? That's susceptible to extreme abuse but maybe not more overall abuse than the current system.

I personally am fine with commentaries and endorsements -- I'm not sure why people can't think for themselves -- but I do think as you get into technical areas it helps for someone outside the field to know a paper has been looked over by someone else knowledgable. It just seems like we've gotten way far away from that original goal.
I signed up, it told me I had to upgrade to Pro, and there was a 14 day trial. I signed up for the trial, provided my CC, and it still charged me $30. Not a huge deal, but can you please fix whatever bug is causing that?

It can leave a bad taste.
Geographic footprint of installed devices.
> imagine an infinitely good insulation

Then it would never warm up, and at this limit the two cases are equivalent (powered and unpowered).

> when approaching the mentioned fantasy conditions, beyond which letting it run may be better.

Anywhere short of the limit, what I said holds. Anything better than infinite insulation, I don't know how to reason about.
Now imagine that Tether, instead of waiting for someone to give them a dollar to print one USDT, printed billions of them and said "yeah don't worry they were paid for they're backed. Trust us" and then never opened any of their books to anyone but a single unknown audit company that is basically owned by one of their friends.

Also imagine that they took the actual money that was given to them and, instead of keeping them in a bank account, said they were going to invest them. (Or did not say it, and did it anyways). Imagine they invested it in amazingly profitable sectors like the housing market in China which is definitely not crashing right now.

Tether isn't backed.
Wasn't that basically megaupload its ilk
I mean, technology making us more productive seems obviously true on it's face, so what gives?

--> Productivity, which is defined as the value of goods and services produced per hour of work.

Seems like an interesting measure. So as companies become more efficient and the cost of goods goes down, so does productivity. So you might be able to argue we were more probably productive per unit of work building mainframes than we are building iphones.
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Nope, no dedicated media keys or scroll wheel on the mx mechanical.
I hear they have an interesting take on the implicit function theorem.
Probably breaks TOS under video spam
Because $0.99 is better than $0.

Pegged is a meaningless term if nobody is supporting the peg.