skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless you have tiny monkeypaws for hands, ⌘-V is a painful gesture and doesn't make sense on any human hand.

I don't find this true at all, and as far as I can tell I have normal-sized hands.

How do you rest your fingers on the keyboard? When I have my eight fingers on the home keys, I can hit ⌘-C by bending my index finger in isolation. To hit ⌘-V, I have to rotate my entire left hand very slightly to the right while also bending my index finger. However, I've never once thought consciously about how to perform this action before today, despite having hit ⌘-V millions of times - so it's never struck me as a difficult or uncomfortable maneuver.
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It probably doesn't have any value.

Google probably no longer wants to support it because it's losing money and they see no feasible plan that will make it profitable.

You can still sell companies like that, if they have valuable assets. But the buyer would still shut down the service and make money off the valuable assets (typical by selling them to someone who can use them).

In this case, I think there are valuable assets -- some of the tech, and the people -- but Google has a use for these themselves, so no need to get a buyer involved. That is, they are doing directly what a buyer would do anyway: shut down the money-losing service and making use of the remaining valuable assets.
> Nature is by far the biggest and the oldest lab of them all, with an untold count of experiments ran.

That's a weak argument. With sound reasoning you can often reduce the solution space dramatically, even before running any experiments at all.

In other words, a single argument can be worth an "untold count of experiments", if you've modeled the problem space well.

In the limit (just to illustrate the point, rare in biological systems), you could derive a solution from its constraints analytically. In which case you need exactly zero experiments.

And even in complex biological systems, it's not like "everything goes", you still don't need to try everything. Informed reasoning helps, relative to "a lab of random mutation experiments". That's why humans have been taking their ecosystems by storm… for better or worse.
I'm sure it will not be used in malicious way
Oh, I recognize those ALPS-style keyswitch tops anywhere. It was definitely the IIe I was thinking of as the ones with the open and closed apple.
Excellent concise summary, glad you and ForOldHack beat me to it. I would have confined my reply to the ring issue having forgotten much of the controversy with other OSes—Netware for instance (even though I'd used it many times).

You're right about segmentation being hard work, I can recall cursing Intel at the time and hoping it would bring out a more eloquent processor that was easier to use such as Moto's 68000. However, there wasn't any thought of moving over to Moto because of existing investment in Intel's development systems-Multibus, and in the 8085 and 8051, they were still current and we were still using them.

"It's a huge waste of human effort:"

Absolutely, if I could have that time over I reckon I'd opt for a different profession. Everyone from manufacturers to end users wasted a huge amount of time and energy that resulted from stupid mistakes to outright shenanigans. We saw it all happen from a developer/end user's perspective and we weren't immune either (also it ended up costing everyone unnecessary money).

For me, the most bitter arguments were over the change from IBM to Microsoft which also included the shift from OS/2 to Windows. Technical arguments became irrelevant after senior management read press reports that Microsoft was the new 'in fashion' company when it came to computing. I recall saying to management "why waste all the expense on an engineering outfit when you can simply find solutions in the finance section of the newspaper". That didn't win me any Brownie points.

Why so many in computing and tech became so besotted with Gates and Microsoft and why more level heads never prevailed at the time has always troubled me. For instance, when Gates was quoted as saying "640K ought to be enough for anyone" I recall saying to colleagues who agreed with me "either Gates is daft or he's been forced to read from a PR release". Whilst there's now doubt that he ever said those words there was never any outright denial at the time. Similarly, the technical press never went out of its way to say how stupid the notion was. Being obviously silly or at best ill considered then why didn't the press say so? There's shades of 'the emperor's new clothes' here, methinks—and that's troubling.

I'm of the opinion that long after all protagonists of that era are dead and buried that researchers will tally up the actual cost of that wasted human effort and we'll find that whilst Microsoft wasn't completely responsible it nevertheless played an overly dominant role. The same applies with Windows and MS's deviations from the original CUA (which are still ongoing). Just think of the millions of hours lost worldwide by users having to relearn and futz with the UI whenever MS changes it. If dollar figures were put on this wasted human effort then they'd have to be staggering.
> Leaving aside the fact that array indexes are not continuous in the way ruler measurements are,

I have always seen a ruler as a discrete sequence of centimeters even if the physical object is continuous

> what does it say that you just called it the 1st inch, not the 0th?

but it's literally what I'm saying aha. The index of the first element is zero, even on basic household objects.
The interesting thing for me has been the completely unintentional collapse in gaming time as I've gotten older. I was borderline addicted to games in high school, but the low barrier to in-person socializing in college, followed by relationships and rising interest in other hobbies has made video games something I have to actively choose to spend time on. Now I'm expecting a kid and even if my free time doesn't completely evaporate, I'm guessing my gaming time will.

It's weird because I still think of myself as a "gamer", but I realized I've spent almost as much time building and tinkering with my current PC as I have actually playing games on it.
The continued existence of humanity and life in general is a good in itself. Besides that, why would you think that space exploration and colonization would reduce living standards?
Google projects are built on Google's proprietary tech stack. Which itself has at least two of everything. So not only is it hard to separate a software project from Google, but it's also hard even to separate a project from the specific team that built it.
How is it anonymous if it asks for your email?
It probably won't happen. But FWIW... I had one of the early Nintendo battery-backed carts break on me once. Sent it in for repair. About a month later got a new copy of the cart and a note that apologized for the delay, because their technology allowed them to scan my save file but not to upload it back into the cart. So they'd had a Game Counselor play the game back to where my character was, which delayed the repair.

Neither Rockstar nor Google likely have the scale to fix this issue for everyone, but that kind of customer service is how you get customers for life.

(To be clear, 6k hours is a lot of time and I don't mean to imply it'll be feasible to solve this user's problem that way. But if they can spend a fraction of that time doing even a one-off import into another data format, wouldn't that be cool.)
Free Pascal (fpc) supports trapping on overflow, it uses the overflow flag and tests it after integer operations, it's pretty basic. Here's the assembly output of in Int64 add

# [16] c := a + b;
movq U_$P$TEST_$$_A(%rip),%rdx
movq U_$P$TEST_$$_B(%rip),%rax
addq %rdx,%rax
jno .Lj9
call FPC_OVERFLOW
.Lj9:
movq %rax,U_$P$TEST_$$_C(%rip)

It should be easy to support in C/C++, as FPC uses the same LLVM backend.
> who argue we're spending too much on military aid to Ukraine. The sooner Russia loses the sooner Europe can go back to buying energy from them.

The EU already said Russia is game over for commerce in the near future, even if they went back home today we wouldn't trade with them before years

Nothing guarantees sending more weapons will make the conflict shorter, it's called escalation, and if Russia plays the same game it came be a very very long game. Everyone knows when a war starts, nobody knows how long it'll last, we might very well be marching towards ww3 and cheering about it
"How dare they do it before us"

USA next decade:

"Posting bad things on twitter reduces your credit score"
It has some merit. When Call of Duty 4 came out on XBox 360, I was completely addicted to it.

Other than sporadically playing video games with my children, I haven't played regularly since I was a kid.

But that's me. I wouldn't presume to know best for anyone else - why do you think your experience is applicable to others? Is someone binge watching Netflix really better for you than playing video games? Death scrolling TikTok or Facebook? Collecting beanie babies?

I think there are a lot of things people do for varying degrees of mindless entertainment but for some reason video games are singled out as particularly bad.
In all due respect nobody needs an explanation for such flip flopping. It’s merely human nature. We all want freedom for ourselves, but not our enemies who will use their freedom against us. You have become an authoritarian, which is the natural reaction. It’s what most humans default to when they are scared.
That came in beginning with the //e, they were mapped to be equivalent to paddle button 1 and 2. Ctrl-open apple-reset triggered a reboot. It’s 36 years since I’ve used an Apple //e but this is still wired deep in my brain. This approach to the new keys meant that applications could use the two Apple keys as modifiers without a whole lot of effort since you could read the key press and state of the paddle button easily enough.

At some point, they also required ctrl to be pressed along side reset to prevent it from being accidentally triggered (it was right next to the return key). Reset on its own terminated the currently running program (as opposed to ctrl-c which stopped a BASIC program but you could resume the program—this was an early means of debugging since you could do things like PRINT A$ to see the value of A$ at the time that you stopped the program or even alter program variables before resuming).

There was one occasion when someone at my high school was experiencing great frustration because every time he did ctrl-reset, the computer rebooted. It turned out that a book was sitting on top of the paddles depressing the button.
i think you could actually do that in C++ as a library with a bit of metaprogramming. the arithmetic operations will get weird though unless everything is the same type, for example what is the result type of int<-10, 10>+int<0, 20>? (the "right" answer is probably a megabyte of compiler errors)
Developing a technology that can do that doesn't infringe on anyone's liberties.

Failing to develop that technology, leaving it to China or some other authoritarian state to do, would be more likely to harm liberties, wouldn't it?

Seems like you're just "damned if you do, damned if you don't"-ing, no offense.
Yes, but that’s the OPs point. No one cares about the price of TVs. The metric (core inflation and CPI) isn’t measuring peoples experience accurately.
Except if someone said they were going to do something, and then it happened. https://lbry.tv/@RT:fd/JoeExplainThis_YT:0
Spending 2 months learning piano would have left you as a novice piano player nobody would want to listen to in performance except for your mom. I'd argue that your CoD skills would have made you worth watching after that much time.
Yeah but Notepad++ as far as I know doesn't even have the level of functionality that those plugins provide?
Why can't the government step in and outright order suppliers to produce, and if they cannot or won't, nationalise? Yes, doing this is an emergency would be extreme, but a Zimbabwe or Weimar is far too catastrophic to worry about the long term effects of nationalising energy production.
A Starlink dish isn't much easier to hide than a Ka-band dish. It would be much easier to set up if taken down though since it's a phased array rather than parabolic. You're right that laser backhaul solves the ground station problem, so long as the track covering Iran has laser backhaul capability.
This is the main thing I hate about google maps. I refuse to do free work for google in return for 'fun'.
I'm about to blow your mind, then. https://www.sincocustoms.com/shop/product/209312/steampipe--...
Well guess what people live on ? Food and energy items
Or maybe THIS is exactly how propaganda works, swapping between the connotations and denotations of words when it's politically convenient to. It's also clear to me if the president had an R next to his name, both sides of the "Are we in a recession?" debate would swap entirely.
You’re assuming they don’t have copies of every email you ever sent…
Hah, nah. Electron gets no compliment at all, backhanded or otherwise. When almost no one can create an app on it that doesn't suck, there are deep issues.
Steampipe installs Postgres as an embedded database under the hood. We found that the initdb step kept failing on WSL1 and couldn't find a way to make it work (yet). Similar reports on StackOverflow below [1] [2]. Suggestions or PRs would be very welcome!

1 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72358475/postgresql-wsl-...
2 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69808468/postgres-is-stu...
Show HN: AirQL: An Airtable API with OAuth2 access control and permissions
Hey there! At our company, Bit Complete [1], we use Airtable a bunch for managing operations. We really like how easy it is to throw up a form to collect information, or to build automations for offline processing like aggregations.

One challenge we kept running into was how to build more complicated interactive apps using the API, while maintaining fine-grained access control to Airtable data. Airtable ties identity to API access control via API keys, which makes it very hard to build apps with realistic access control needs.
So we built AirQL! [2]

It’s a utility layer between Airtable’s API and custom/internal web applications that supports Google authentication and flexible access control.

We’ve found that it makes it practical to build simple, useful internal apps, that still benefit from everything else Airtable has to offer.

If this sounds interesting, check out the docs [3], try out the product, and let us know what you think! We’re looking for feedback and to learn if this would be useful to others. If you have questions or suggestions, please get in touch at airql-support@bitcomplete.io.

[1]: https://www.bitcomplete.io/
[2]: https://www.airql.dev/
[3]: https://docs.plz.dev/airql
Excessive money printing doesn't always cause inflation, but pretty much every instance of high inflation coincided with excessive money printing.

The story just makes sense. Low interest rates means banks have more money to lend, everyone else gets more money (unfinanced stimulus payments) which means they have more money to spend on this driving prices up.

Its hard to tease out. It's like lung cancer. Before it was directly associated with smoking, the evidence was overwhelming when you consider that nearly every case of lung cancer happened in people who were heavy smokers. Add a mechanism to how inhaling smoke into your lungs can increase the probability of cancer and you have pretty compelling evidence that smoking is the culprit. Others with a stake will try to confuse you (cigarette companies, central banks, etc), but its pretty obvious.
I've been around since 1973 and didn't know.
> The US is a good candidate, but I don't see how it hurts Russia more than it hurts the rest of Europe.

How do you calculate the hurt? Absolute hurt, or relative hurt? If I take $20 from you and $10 from a homeless man, I've taken more from you in absolute terms but more from the homeless man in relative terms.
I really enjoyed LycoReco too! One of my favourites of the season, and I'm surprised to see it on HN.

One thing sakuga blog hammers in every article is how chaotic production is. It's a miracle that shows of this quality get produced at all. I get the general sense it's largely a result of passion and connections - the star director here pulled in friends and prior coworkers, and even his wife, to help make the show what it is. And I doubt they got paid much or anything at all.

You can see that in the writing - it is all over the place and nonsensical at times. But somehow the overall show still works, which is pretty amazing for an original.
Nordstream 1 was about 35% of supply. Russia continues to supply gas via other pipelines, including the ones through Ukraine no one's dumb enough to attack thus far (for now: https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-gas-across-ukraine-j...).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Major_ru...

The Russians can burn gas if their storage fills up.
It would also be great since the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is also based on the same chassis, so servicing that would probably become possible too.
I’ve owned a BEV for over a year and can’t charge at home. I rely on workplace + public charging. It’s been pretty great honestly.

You don’t have to spend 40 minutes at a charger either. That only happens if you want to go from empty to full. That’s bringing a gas tank mindset to a completely different paradigm. You charge when you can for how much you need at the time and you’re fine.
World Longest duration iPhone (iPhone 14) Review
I'm more surprised that they don't just ship logs to central log gathering directly instead of saving plain files then move them around
I get what you describe, grey dust bunnies, quickly accumulating within a week after cleaning the floor under my bed. Because it is only around my bed that I see those, I assumed it was coming from my bed clothes, the blankets in particular. idk what the material is called, but generally when new it's described as "scratchy" by children, probably wool or polyester. Shaking these outside produces a lot of junk flying off. But the dust that I see accumulate elsewhere and floating through the air turns the off-white base-boards a sickly dark yellow, and the dust is black on a paper towel when wiped. Maybe wash your bed clothes and rinse thoroughly, and skip the dryer sheet. I've found too much detergent drys or sticks on clothes and produces a puff of particles when I take off my socks too quickly, in particular.
Credit scores are not determined by the government. If a credit ratings agency took that step, it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful variable when predicting someone's creditworthiness.

Don't confuse that with "social credit" systems, whereby China prevents you from riding trains if you say something naughty.
I mean I think in Red Dead Redemption 2 multiplayer there’s money to be spent? If it’s anything like GTA 5. Has he spent money on expensive cowboy hats and the like?
Possibly a very modest one. I know of a couple of small streamers with few but very loyal fans. The views on their VODs or YouTube videos is a very poor indication of their economic success.
Also, sometimes things just need to be said. As a matter of principle. Enough bad things to worry about without nuclear catastrophe to sustain one man's ego to add to them. So, Putin, fuck off.
How do you spend that many hours on a game? It boggles my mind. I spent a couple hundred hours on DOTA2 in one year and look back at that year as being a year fruitlessly spent playing DOTA2.
About 60% of GDP is coming from the Services sector, which were more or less non-existent before 1989; Industry overall is about 27%.

While there has definitely been growth, I doubt industry is more than twice in overall dollars compared to 1989, especially if we exclude IT.

Also note that the largest part of industry today is car making, one of the very few industries whose factories were not entirely sold for parts in the 1990s.

Pre-revolution industry was definitely unproductive and primitive in most sectors compared to EU or US counterparts, but many industries that were actually working, even badly, in the 1970s and 1980s basically don't exist at all today (pottery, clothing, many kinds of chemical industry).

Note that the country is still much much better off today than under the communist regime, in all ways measurable or not - I am in no way seeking to say that "it was better before".
Modern SQL engines can index JSONs tho. And they can be structured
Which, again, the 10% number includes. It's 5% with them excluded.
> the hackers instruct the individuals to install the apps, which infect the employees' work environments

But why not use a hype headline implying that OSS tools were weaponized.
For me, one option is to be able to learn processors in depth. You want to understand how one works? You can always emulate it in SW, but on an FPGA you can make them interact with the real world in real time and probe them at the same time, with ready made signal analyzers that the vendors provide, and/or by making your own tools.

Another option, do you want to see by yourself how caching improves code performance? You can make that on an FPGA also.

I have done some time ago a very nice course which is called From Nand to Tetris, that teaches how to go all the way from gates to a processor. My plan for the near future is to implement the NAND2Tetris processor on a Basys 3 board, and make some of the examples I mentioned (like, probing internal registers using HW tools, or seeing by yourself how a cache improves performance). I hope to make some of these things available on my site. I am the OP, but just in case, my website is https://fpgaer.tech
The Atari 2600 had a digital joystick. The Atari 5200 was completely analog. If you tear the controller down, there's a complex mechanism that links the stick to two rotational potentiometers. It's similar in outcome to modern analog thumbsticks, but the mechanism is completely different (and is MUCH bigger).

The 5200 joystick didn't self-center, though. The only centering force was from the rubber boot. This ended up being advantageous in a game like missile command, but is widely seen as the Achilles heel of the controller.
I wanted to share my article on the future of customer service and other interpersonal communication made possible by new AI algorithms. Enjoy!
VP, not C level. He didn’t give his name let alone his employer. He actually did the opposite.

He didn’t state any beliefs or use profanity, he made a crass joke and apologized.
Yes, the things that hurt the 50% below the median the worst. I can stomach my utilities bill going from 200 to 800 eur, I won't like it but we'll manage.

The other half of the country will revolt, probably.
How many of these ventures fit the quadruple requirement of:

1) Being practical, not purely aspirational

2) Not burning more money than they make

3) Not constantly requiring capital raises

4) Not needing government subsides and corporate welfare

Musk is 50 and hasn't managed to light up all the 4 requirements at the same time. Enough with the BS. Especially here people should be skeptical because game recognizes game. In SV all the aspirational stuff is vaporware and BS. Mars, tunnels and brain comms. All BS.
I left Google earlier this year. I think it was the right move for me at the right time. That said, I think your view of Google is a bit darker than the reality.
This is a low cost to pay if someday we can live in a world where there are American/EU chain stores on every corner of Kyiv.
That's a misuse of the word product