skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming (yeah, I know...) new task is 'critical, it's usually enough to go 'We can do that, but it'll push X out. Is that ok?' And if it's not ok, reasonable management will either pick a priority or get you some help to get them both done on time.
If you're often getting feedback that you 'need to get them both done by Friday.' you might want to evaluate if your management has their act together.
The pixel 4 is only losing support this month. Pixel 5 is supported til Oct 2023, and 5a til Aug 2024. Pixel 6 gets feature updates til Oct 2024 and security updates til Oct 2026.
I typed a long refutation of this theory before deciding to back theory up with facts by looking up a study.

https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/typing37k/resources/Mobile_t...

> Finger usage: Participants who reported to use two fingers
were significantly faster than those who used only one finger
(M = 37.7, SD = 13.2 versus M = 29.2, SD = 10.7, p < 0.001,
d = 0.66). A closer look at the reported typing posture shows
that the use of different hands and fingers had a significant
impact on performance. Over 82% of participants typed using
two thumbs. Confirming the findings of prior work [3 , 7],
this was the fastest way to enter text

Turns out I'm weird it seems you should and indeed most people do use two thumbs. Given that fact your theory seems extremely plausible.
Fail :( I sign up, receive the code and put it in, then it doesn't let me log in - "Incorrect username or password" message.
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It is not shame, and we should be seeking to remove professional licensing in more areas not expand it.

Professional licensing is pure economic protectionism and largely fails at the stated goal of promoting safety, quality, or professionalism. It is prone to corruption, as all human ventures with absolute power and authority will be

Voluntary trade organizations, certifications and other methods are far superior to governmental professional licensing
I was replying to "rather than places to live".
If one wants to fly a drone in an unsafe manner they build a FPV drone themselves as opposed to buying an off the shelf regulated product with builtin geofencing.
I'd actually bet nobody at apple cares if they break Firefox users, they don't have the backwards compatibility culture of some companies like microsoft, especially for undocumented apis.
It was from a Google email address with SPF+DMARC, to a Fastmail address, which enforces them. Additionally, I emailed some of the other recipients on the spam, and got autoresponders + real people, and no bounces - so they're not guessing.
I would not want the Iranian system anywhere but Iran
I grant you that I'm using an expansive definition of "pain" here...I'm including the day of diarrhea before the test, the stress and (yes, some) pain of the sedation itself, and the unpleasant recovery (nausea, fatigue, etc.) that follows. Maybe it isn't "pain", per se, but it's something we'd all rather avoid.

I should also say the following: if you've got a family history of colon cancer, active symptoms, or some other reason to believe that you're at risk, studies of statistical averages don't apply to you.
The problem is the delay - if you're going live, the human barely has time to notice the error before it's off the screen.

If everything is delayed a bit, it could work.

What I've seen is ML for the "live show" and then you fix the transcript for the recording.
Isn't allowing third-party keyboards with any layout they want the definition of openness? You could always have Dvorak on iOS. Why does it need to be natively supported?
Show HN: GoOpenDrop Go Implementation of the Open Source AirDrop Openairdrop
I would say it's down to the current balance of appetite for conservative policy, as a function of inertia from a conservative history.

Perhaps let's examine the question. Many countries 'opened up'. Japan did also, and readily adopted foreign processes and technologies in the 20th century. If we're referring to immigration, then, sure, they're not keen on it. On that point, they're not actually alone. Countries like Poland are very insular and don't welcome non-whites. Saudi Arabia does not allow casual tourist visa visits and people are typically required to have letters of invitation to enter (https://lifeinsaudiarabia.net/importance-of-invitation-lette...)

I wouldn't refer to their attitude as unique, then.
Yes but Apple also sells the hardware so that makes it legal (for some reason I still don't understand).
Why would you need a road? The equipment isn't that big, a few men, maybe a donkey, could put a base station up in a few days. The cable can be strung along trees to it.
The "line city" is possibly the worst idea of the 21st century. I will honestly be shocked if it goes over any better than the "world islands" they tried to build in Dubai.
Do you mean uBlock Origin is no longer being maintained?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases shows many recent releases?
The GDPR is mostly good [1], but the EU is trying to ban porn and censor the web, which is wholeheartedly worse than the good that they've done. We should care about our privacy, but we should care an order of magnitude more about our liberty. One does no good without the other.

[1] In its current form, the GDPR massively helps entrench existing incumbents. Compliance is technically difficult and costly and can be difficult for new players just getting started. There should be more assistance given to startups and small companies, and pieces such as the right to access and export data should only apply to companies of 10 employees and larger (or some revenue threshold). These are costly and difficult to implement, and I know my startup is not in compliance. It would take a month just to build that functionality.
Their leader MBS completely got away with murdering Kashoggi in cold blood and having absolutely no repurcussions not even politically. The USA treats them as a first class political ally.

Most of 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Between murdering reporters, hosting terrorist groups, and horrible human rights abuses....There's literally nothing Saudi Arabia can do to get any repercussions for anything.
> "And some type systems are, and some type systems are getting there, but boy, trying to retrofit that on top of a type system that has null in the first place is quite an undertaking." -Anders Hejlsberg

That's one thing I will heartily credit C# for, despite not being a great fan of the language. Actually retrofitting null-safety in a language never designed for that was an impressive undertaking.
For 20 years page reloads were expensive.

In 1999 I had a cable modem connection that could pull down 2 megabytes per second and ping up and down the west cost well under 50ms.

But forum servers were slow. Like, really really slow. When Sites like Reddit finally came to, 15 or so years later, with inline replies, they were a breath of fresh air.

Back in 99 Slashdot had massive resources put into making it responsive, lots of servers thrown at it, and it was still laggy and slow compared to Reddit now days.

Everyone arguing about "time to first draw being under 100ms" forgets that just a short time ago, web servers took more than 100ms to respond to a connection.
These are the places where the person sitting next to you and doing pretty much the same job as you could be making half of what you are making simply because you have a CERN contract and they work for a contractor.
Here's the earworm that will keep this knowledge around for generations - a song called "Don't change color, kitty":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amn3kn0XPLQ

(Sorry, but ... not sorry;)
it's funny because the author copied pasted the entire article twice. the kind of mistake an AI would never make. Clearly humans are destined for the dustbin. even simple tasks like creating articles and checking your work are impossible for humans. what goal was the author following when this action was taken? are humans even intelligent? /s
Most of the points seem to be 'Do I have situational awareness of how what I'm doing fits into the bigger picture.' Generally a good thing to have.
Incorrect.

They are not forced to make those popups because they are not forced to collect that data in the first place.

I will take those annoying popups all day every day and happily in return for everything else that's getting better only because of them and the rest of the effects of gdpr.

And it's still weaksauce. It's merely a solid start. They should keep going and do even more.

MORE GDPR PLEASE.

I cheer them on. It's a shame I have to rely on some other countries governments to do their damned jobs that my own isn't.

It's also a shame some of those same governments are also trying to censor porn. But this comment is about the cookie consent popups.
Apart from being financial advice, that has nothing to do.
there's no way I trust Elon with any of my data
Everybody already knows about the impending breakup. All that's left is for the two parties to make it official.

The US is tired of the relationship, the Saudis are sort of getting along with Israel, and they are quipping about how they can get thier weapons from Russia.
> I used OS/2 and to say that I was annoyed at Microsoft's antics at the time would be a gross understatement.

I'm a lot more sympathetic to Microsoft than most. They used some highly anti-competitive tactics, but their products fit the market well, and the competition suffered from a combination of terrible luck and serious strategic miscues.

OS/2's a great example of this. If you bought it in 1987/8, it cost three or four times the price of DOS, had higher system requirements, and gave you no benefits at all without totally new software. Windows 3.0 did well because it was cheaper and worked with the hardware and software that you already had.

> It's perplexing that a viable alternative product hasn't emerged in recent decades and I'm not totally convinced that Microsoft's saber-rattling over copyright etc. is the full reason it hasn't.

It's an expensive effort, and the ability to fund an effort like that can be inversely proportional to the willingness to take on the risks you mention.

> Re OS/2, it would be interesting to know details of the agreement between IBM and Microsoft and what percentage of the code each contributed to the project. If IBM did most of the development then perhaps the MS code could have been stripped out but I'd suspect the reverse was the case.

There was enough Microsoft development that IBM was working actively to remove Microsoft code from OS/2 in 1995. The Lan Server Enterprise was a part of that, but there was also Workplace OS, which was a fully IBM effort to rebuild OS/2 into a portable OS on top of Mach. Workplace OS feels a lot in retrospect like a way for IBM to turn OS/2 into something more competitive with Windows NT.
We're definitely aiming towards a brick & mortar - but we are still figuring out distribution and more (and will continue to do so until we're open for business)
Stop trying to convince me to eat bugs
They're actually importing Russian oil for domestic use to free up more of their own for export.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-saudi-arab...
Ohh I miss the good old days of forums in general. I find all this new software, where conversions are "threaded" stupidly hard to read.

A 'classical' web forum is threaded, contrasting with an unthreaded (bulletin) board - at least that's how the terminology was used in the German webdev scene of the late 90s/early 2000s, possibly due to the prominence of SELFHTML and its forum.
"bringing prices under control" with the government usually means price controls of some sort, which is denying S&D.
> I‘m pretty agnostic but I see the benefits of religious societies.

And I should add that it's a mistake to think there's no intersection between atheism and religious societies. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Buddhism

https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/beliefs/atheist-...

Or one might consider something like Insight Meditation. I went for a number of meetings here in San Francisco. I never heard anything theistic mentioned; it was just meditation practice in the Buddhist tradition, followed by a talk on meditation. Lovely people, nice community, perfectly rational in the small-R sense of the term. One could call it religion or not, but it served some of the same social functions.

Another good example is Death Cafe, local groups that meet regularly to have tea and talk about death. The ones I went to were profound and meaningful without being theistic: https://deathcafe.com/what/
I think it's ridiculous you want massive subsidies for luxury speeds while living in the middle of nowhere.
I have lived in this country for over 10 years, they do the most craziest things ever.
Typescript or Rust are also not markup languages, and language servers for them allow for many interesting, non-trivial operations, so the model is capable.

Ergonomic keybindings would be a challenge though.
> What if they're experiencing mental health issues?

The people I know that do this use the time and money for a full time vacation as they travel the world. I am not sure public or private healthcare should fund people's (mental health) vacations.
From what I've found maintaining https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d is that you should be explicitly checking for nil, separately from checking for false-evaluating values.

We found that this had the added benefit of semantically checking for something that did not exist, versus some contextual "false" value.

I suspect this is a good practice in other languages as well.
> Professional licensing is pure economic protectionism and largely fails at the stated goal of promoting safety, quality, or professionalism.

Citations?

> Voluntary trade organizations, certifications and other methods

The software industry barely even has those.
Hand written. In ink.
I saw them at RemixConf and was completely blown away by how well they nailed it. Technical terms, acronyms, and even non-technical quirks of the speaker (like one who said “regular-degular HTML”) and the captioner didn’t miss a beat.

(Similarly no relation to them, but I passed their contact info along to our events team after seeing them in action and hope my company followed up with them.)
> realism (i.e. admitting that there is no objective way to measure goodness or other moral qualities)

Moral realism is the position that mind-independent moral facts exist; it doesn't entail any particular belief about how or whether we can come to know them.
Emulating keyboards pretty old technique. I feel like the rubber ducky stuff and the likes were around earlier. And they are still popular, the flipper zero has a mode of usb payloads but that's more useful if you have physical access.
it's a money hack
Or, that a lot of things are contextual more than you’d think. This week’s best selling book in Beijing is probably written in Chinese.
I've been practicing this form of protest for nearly every country, my entire life.
>> "Sole discretion" basically means if they don't like you or your activity or speech for any reason, they get to fine you and punish you.

>> That sure sounds like intolerance to me. Otherwise what are they tolerating?

> Just gonna put this here for no reason…

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Since you aren't being very clear, I'm going to assume your point is that the "Paradox of tolerance" justifies PayPal's actions. That's obviously missing the point. IIRC, the "Paradox of tolerance" only argues for intolerance in very specific circumstances, not a intolerance at your "sole discretion" of categories of things you find odious.
I will not eat the bugs
$33 to access the article, and there's not even an abstract available.
They're cooked. Quite literally. Let's see how long that regime stays
together when the daytime temperature hits 55 degrees Celsius.
It's a private flag. Doubtful Apple's review process would be able to catch that.
I think that your comment is spot on, and it actually helped me confirm the first impression that I had (but wasn't too sure about).
Non-Technical:

We thought that "The Algorithm" was a NERFed version of AI, and thus completely safe to use. We've allowed it to mediate all human thought on society wide scales. It may be the extra push that kicks off WWIII.
What makes you assume the keyboard is built with auto layout? It’s optional and adds overhead.
I had not read this concept before now, but it really sounds as if someone played too much halo and didn't understand the real-world math that makes that a "good idea" in space.
Sweet! This is like a distilled version of Alibaba with out the bullshit.
You should read up on Zcash, because it seems like you have a very limited understanding of what is actually possible with this kind of technology :(. Hell: TornadoCash--which is based on similar mechanisms--apparently worked so well, despite being fully decentralized software running on an existing blockchain (Ethereum), that it is now sanctioned (which is honestly a bit strange as it isn't even a group of people: it is software) by the legacy system that refuses to allow people to have financial privacy (which is a travesty) :(. Also, as much as I despise MobileCoin for various reasons (and thereby haven't used either it or Signal), as far as I understand, not only do you "own your keys", but the UI is almost as easy to use as Apple Cash (or whatever the name is for the specific payment feature Apple provides where you have an account filled with money that you can send to people using iMessage).
What you're describing is not being caused by free speech, it is being caused by online media filter bubbles that feed people confirmation bias, elevate controversy over quality, and isolate users from opposing opinions.

Forcing people into silence definitely will not solve the problem. It will only further convince people that they were right all along.

To fix this, SV needs to get their shit together and figure out how to solve the filter bubble problem. Traditional media used editorial discretion to solve this problem, but SV seems to think they can make more money by skipping that step entirely.

However, the current state of politics in the US is by far not as bad as many moments in our past.
If you ever become so powerful that you can dictate what the gov of a 350 mln nation should do, you'll find it difficult to constrain yourself with a made up metric that you "can't fernangle with".
It's actually very difficult for researchers to obtain visas to travel from certain countries to the USA. The UK and EU27 used to have free movement so there was literally no red tape beyond "is your passport up to date?" Now you need to get a visa from the Home Office (or vice versa) and that adds considerably to the time and complexity. If you have family it may not be possible to bring them along at all. This isn't "childish", it's exactly what Brexit was intended to do.
I also read it with the uncharitable reading. I think if OP's intention was this, they shouldn't talk about China in such general terms.

Even with the "charitable reading", I don't agree with OP. China is ranked better on the gender inequality index than America. This would fit in with the notion of government approval and subject to government control, or lack therefore. Similar picture with self-made billionaire women. Does that mean the United States should strive for the contrary?
We’re in agreement here that Celsius was never, nor had any business pretending to be, decentralized, correct?
> Elon didn’t create Tesla, he bought it!

The company didn’t even have a car when he “bought it”. Nobody drives the lotus. Elon is responsible for pushing Tesla to scale—why are people so enamored with this clearly fallacious narrative? You even go on to say that he did a lot of work etc etc. so what does it have to do with anything?

> Market creators vs market discoverers

Is math created or discovered? The “market” for EVs was nonexistent in the early days of Tesla. So no, it doesn’t make sense.

> All this shit about governance (and your clear affinity for socialism or communism)

With all due respect, the only thing that has been proven not to work is everything. Communism ends in tears, capitalism ends in fire. It’s becomes humans are bound to the second law of entropy. Communism might work better if we all had a little brain chip (not Elon’s) in our skulls that gave us a kick of dopamine when our we gave our money to the communal pot. Until then our biology runs contrary to communism being functional.

> Avg person is better suited to make small decisions, and all that bs

The irony is that you’re here proposing that nobody should be allowed to make big decisions, which is a bigger decision than anybody has ever made. Bigger than Nagasaki.

> modern political structures don’t allow ppl to change their minds a lot

What is centrism? Despite me lambasting your opinion, I have a core faith in capitalism over the alternatives but absolutely detest the Republican Party for what it’s become and won’t vote Republican for at least a decade or more. ????

> Musk hasn’t considered direct democracy

I mean I’m not Musk’s keeper but, he has, and he has historically disregarded direct democracy as chaos. That’s his opinion.

If you think someone is the devil you might study them before you parrot the Reddit cliff notes on the person. I guess you haven’t really “considered” Musk.
I don't think Ukraine acts like it's winning the war. Do winners desperately beg for support from NATO in a war they're winning? Do winners lose 20% of their territory to annexation?
I will suggest that in a critical way, none of us, you included, "know" that this is a starting point.

So much of the reaction and subsequent reasoning about such tools is bounded (predictably, inevitably, naturally) by human cognitive error—in particular, our total collective inability to reason with non-linear extrapolations.

We "know" this is a starting point, but even the linear line from "nothing like this existed at the start of 2022" to now, projects into a "what exists in 18 months" which is itself an effectively instant timescale (residential A&D projects here in SF are often 3-year endeavors...)...

...what this looks like for a loose interpretation of "this," is literally unimaginable to us.

One technical thing: I was just telling someone 30 minutes ago, in the lats week, my #aiart timeline and feed on Twitter started saturating this week with extrapolations into AR/VR applications.

The toolchains which will exists in this domain prior even to the launch of Apple's long rumored AR goggles are already eyebrow-raising. Assuming there is a path to deploy experiences onto Apple glass, there's going to yet another infusion of energy (cough money) into the precambrian explosion going on around ML/imagegen etc.

Don't make the mistake of thinking flaws in proof-of-concept first-passes like this (which is already IMO quite compelling for ideation), are going to be a permanent fixture or blocker.

If you review the evolution of imagegen over the last two years, you can get a taste of how ephemeral most such limitations are...

...and the egregious ones tend to attract a frenzy of work.

To put a point on it, I think you're OK saying "near" term, but "mid"... absolutely not. This is just one more place where disruption is clearly visible on the horizon.
Not sure calling your congressperson will have a lot of effect. Do everything you can to minimize your use of oil. If enough of us do that then oil prices will go down and that will effect SA.
Nyth
Reading the original FAQ: Am I wrong or is this (yet another) abstraction leak even more confusing than C? How much longer does everyone cling to the "What I like about Go is that it's so simple!" mythology? Bah, here comes the downvotes...
A turbine prototype just broke a 24-hour wind power world record
You can buy fractional ownership in horses as an investment. Buying across a bunch of different horses would effectively be creating your own index.