skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A question for laptop manufacturers in general and a variation just for you:

The general question: Why do you make laptop keyboards with the up and down buttons smooshed together?

The up and down buttons are the two most used buttons on my keyboards. I cannot use a regular laptop for more than 30 seconds without becoming incredibly frustrated and I'm certain that I'm not alone.

I'm entirely convinced that half of all ThinkPad laptop sales are because they allow space for their arrow keys to not be smooshed together.

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And a question for you: What would it take for Framework laptops to go the ThinkPad approach with their keyboards?
Definitely this. You're still very comfortable if you only end up as a Senior SWE.
you got to read this article from his sister: https://zhishifenzi-com.translate.goog/depth/character/480.h...
Number of variants to a large extent. Risc-V has a relatively few number of implementations that are about the same in terms of how they implement things. Aarch64 has a comparably huge number of implementations that have different pipeline descriptions, different extension APIs supported, etc. Aarch64 includes descriptors for everything from a low-end Cortex A53 designed back in 2012 to a a high-end Apple M2 that was released this year.
There's a lot of complexity to Mandarin grammar and syntax under the surface though.

1. A rather common grammatical gotcha in everyday Mandarin is what is the grammatical function of 把 and when do you use it? Native speakers are able to easily tell when it's correctly and incorrectly used, but for learners it's completely inscrutable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C7%8E_construction

2. Syntax is constrained by prosody, which is also extremely unintuitive to Mandarin learners. For instance, you can say 我在走路 ("I am walking [the road]") but 我在走 ("I am walking") sounds syntactically incomplete, even though it has all the semantics of 我在走路 and you have to insert the meaningless 路 for the prosody to sound correct (you would say "我在走路" even if you weren't walking on a road at all!).

3. 了 is not a past tense marker at all, you can also use it in certain non-past tense constructions, e.g. 他要吃了吗 for "Is he going to eat?" and you must omit it in certain past tense constructions, e.g. 我还没去过北京 for "I haven't been to Beijing yet."

4. 们 is not always a pluralizer: sometimes it is e.g. 同学 (classmate) -> 同学们 (classmates) is fine, but 牛 (cow) -> 牛们 (cows) sounds a little weird. 们 is much more similar in function to the Japanese 達 and means something more like "and company", e.g. you could say 李先生们 to mean "Mr. Li and company" and definitely not "Mr. Lis". In fact, most of the time, plurals in Mandarin are actually completely implicit and you have to figure it out from context!
I have actually lived this myself so can attest.
No and candidly I mishandled the entire shutdown. As a solo founder, my company going insolvent really put me in a dark place.

I’m happy to talk about it now though.

I think the problem was twofold. We were trying to raise during a tumultuous time for consumer hardware — when VCs were really skeptical of hardware without subscription revenue streams. And our unit economics story was really challenging. COGs grew considerably to get to shipping and that compressed our margins in a way that made the growth story seem capitally intensive. I was convinced we could reduce costs and increase AOV / LTV but VCs really wanted subscriptions
Well, Canoncial products aren't on my shortlist of possible OS alternative anymore. That's ridiculous.
Not really, it's more like homemade mac and cheese vs kraft mac and cheese; in the former you get to control the ingredients
Well that's one less thing about voting weaponized.

Now if only gerrymandering could be undone, it's the real nightmare.
I visited NCR for first time recently and found that although the metro is amazing, NCR still remains a large urban sprawl whose land potential has not been utilized properly. With continually developing infrastructure on more metro, RRTS etc. hopefully the land utilization also improves.
The payments make sense, though. The market for Usenet providers and indexers is very capitalist.

You try to find the organizations who can catch and index posts from the people you're interested in, at the lowest cost.

It is uncomfortable, but I think the fediverse may need to be more ephemeral than most centralized social networks today. If you shout into the void and nobody hears you...a centralized network will archive your thoughts, but a decentralized one will let them die out as soon as your server does.

It may not be a bad thing. People will re-upload useful content and personally, I'm glad that my 12-year-old self's online musings are lost to the wind.
Twitter Fires More Than 90% of India Staff, Leaving Just a Dozen
But Brazil is a really rich country when you consider resources, India is not so, especially when you look at the population size. Only hope for India to maintain momentum is replicating at least 25 % of the Chinese manufacturing success.
Thank you for the solid arguments.
You are ignoring the point.

The original post you were replying to was attacking China for it's threats to invade, and was defending sanctions.

That point is valid.

So yes, sanctions against china are justified, which was the original context, and they are justified because of the points about China threatening to invade.

> is the only thing Biden can do

Actually, the US can continue what we have been doing for a while, which is continue to sell more and more weapons to Taiwan.

The more weapons we give to Taiwan, the more invaders will die in any invasion.

Maximizing their ability to increase invader death numbers, by continuing to do this, is also a good plan.
The second set of graphs must be in error, correct?

67% have attended conferences but only 0.7% have networked...? Only 0.7% have discussed their career with peers/colleagues? That's impossible.

Did they forget to convert these decimals to percentages, or did no one sanity-check this data at all?
It's really that the capitalistic patent driven research system is pretty terrible imo. So you have some need to invent some technology for the betterment of humanity and the world. The patent model requires that in order for that technology to exist, someone needs to have the idea out of the blue, and for it to go on to be produced at all it needs to be a convincing enough idea for people to part with their disposable income out of their own will to fund all the overhead of this business plus profit. That seems like a great way to invent a cash cow that the government protects on your behalf, but I'm not sure we would have invented and proliferated the wheel or the bow and arrow if we had this model all through out our human history. You'd have people dealing with really crappy octagonal wheels because someone is squatting on the round wheel patent and might not even have much of an interest to bring it to mass market.

There is another model for innovation, however, and that is the government research grant model. The government taxes wealth, the taxes accumulate into massive funds, government experts hired from the field identify compelling research topics that would benefit the collective, funds are made available and other researchers submit proposals of what they would do with that money, government experts choose the most promising proposals, money goes to things based on research merit versus the product or technologies potential to take money from people's pockets.
And it generally needs dedicated people to work JUST on Sharepoint to get it in a nice state, and that's generally in addition to any knowledge management type staff you have.
Why did you pick that?

It's not obvious how to choose a fediverse instance to join.
A lot of these articles seem to be written by people who had such bad grades they weren’t even eligible for grad school. As in, we’ll it’s probably not good anyway lol
That would be great. I certainly hope you'll achieve it.

But it seems unlikely to succeed given that parts of the Republican party actively undermines the process and the faith in the system, with the intent of limiting access to voting for poor people and minorities.

Cure the cause and not the symptom! How transparent, accurate and fast do a ballot counting system have to be for Trump and his gang not to question it?
Being open source is a very good idea, but it doesn't mean the software that's actually loaded into the machines isn't compromised.

The way to minimize the risk of that is to have two voting machines, with independently developed software in each. Then see if the two produce the same result.

What's important for voting confidence is having the count be auditable, which is much more important than having the machines be secure. After all, banks learned how to do that with money long ago. Banking software has been compromised in the past, but the audit ability catches it.
I guess this is the definition of mad genius. It's a good thing he's building autonomous weapons and is backed by the US government, otherwise he might be applying his skills towards some less worthy endeavor like curing cancer.
You missed the Green revolution somewhere around 1967 I think. Millions would've died without it.
I assume all unarchived content is unarchived because of their established policy for not archiving things, which is the copyright holder refusing archiving. Why would I assume otherwise?

We aren't being kept in the dark, we know the reason some content is unarchived and they say which content is unarchived.

Your complaint is like going to a store with posted hours after closing and demanding an explanation for why they aren't letting you in. It's possible there's some vast conspiracy to block you from shopping, bit it's more likely they're following the posted rules.
Interesting! I hadn’t heard about this. This would make it so that Signal could say that they don’t know the message pair.
Fair pricing would be to charge what it costs (as is the case with any commodity), not whatever users can afford to pay.
You typically use a 15" laptop screen at a closer distance than a 32" 5K display.
Is the headset still usable after killing a person?
The “lack of progress” in philosophy comes down to this. By the time of Socrates or Confucius, there had already been a lifetime’s worth of philosophical thought done that you needed to grapple with. Everyone since then has necessarily had to let something slip through in order to move forward at all.
Primordial Nuclide
already posted yesterday
Even juicier is this: You'll often see higher prices if you shop on an iPad or a Mac vs a Windows computer or Android tablet
Divorce Corp. Documentary. Exposé of the family law industry
I've heard this often enough that I'd repeat it as general advice, but personally I find that reading on my phone until it's falling out of my hand expedites falling asleep better than anything else, as long as it's not something that compels me to reply / take notes / data flow into the phone (a "two steps back" event). A long-ish article, not doomscrolling.

And definitely use f.lux or equivalent, which is built in these days (at least the phones I've had recently).
thats enough for a 1 time meal of chhole bhature
> people are using them for their dev environments [?]

Yes, we use a container for dev environment so that we can share the same env across all the team. If it's decided that we need 1 more tool in our toolbox, the script that generates the container is updated (the script is version controlled in the repo too), the CI/CD generates a new container version, all the devs can now use the same NEW environment.

We actually use the container as image for (remote) virtual machines, so we don't really compose multiple containers.

The container has all the tools (for several languages) that we use as a team.

IDEs and debuggers can connect through ssh.

> post-development workflow do you ever use separate containers for build and test?

We build different flavors of the final packaged application, for example:

- production flavor: uses a minimal, nonroot container base image (see: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless)

- debug flavor: includes few extra debug tools inside the container
Agree, this is something that would take centuries probably.
The most plausible way to do it would be including extra copies of TP53 under appropriate regulation. This has been done in mice and they seem fine. Unfortunately, it would need to be done in larger animals progressively to show safety, which would take 20 - 30 years for a full lifecourse study in primates (unfortunate because we are experimenting on primates). Even longer if their lifespan is increased.

After that, we would be left with a conundrum, which is the ethics of modifying the germline of an embryo. I don't know what the solution is there. Maybe it could be justified in families with an elevated risk of cancer, or Mars colonists for whom any sort of cancer will be a death sentence. Another option would be an as yet uninvented way to edit the genome, but provide an 'Undo' function to reverse the edit, say by giving some small molecule.
“One does mathematics because one has to, and if it is appreciated, all the better!”

–Karen K. Uhlenbeck
> If a significant portion of the electorate do not have an id this is a non-starter

Having a government program to get these people id seems like a no-brainer.
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I guess some people worry about being unreachable by family in an emergency
Thanks for the info. Using different containers for build and test vs the packaged app makes a lot of sense.

> easier if you don't have to worry about compatibility with the target environment.

I develop on Windows and deploy onto Windows right now, and as we get everything onto .Net Core (and maybe eventually) Linux I'm thinking the same thing. If I can build/test/run my app and service on the same target OS it can only make life better.

Any good guides for this or am I overthinking it and anything on containers will work?
It is fake after your first year usually. You arent taking any classes but you are signed up for a few credit hours of some fake grad student class with 300 people you don't know and a professor you never heard of teaching it in a classroom that says TBD for the entire semester, because the class doesn't exist and only serves to check a box for the administration that you are in fact a student and eligible for the student health insurance plan.
Nix is cool tech, but really suffers from a lack of good docs. I tried to use it for dev environments, but it's a struggle and asdf just has the user experience nailed, so I abandoned nix and went with asdf instead.
First time I've heard this, great point. (The baby eating thing, not ranked choice voting)

I think extremism is a sign things are bad, but haven't gotten worse. Like, normal communication has broken down, but nothing has escalated to the really scary place where everyone shuts up.
Btw I never understood the reason for imessage being so popular in the US

I remember in France when it was introduced, most phone plans had free SMS, but data was paid (and expensive), so people around me would disable it on their iphones

How come that effect didn't happen in the US?
> The way to minimize the risk of that is to have two voting machines, with independently developed software in each. Then see if the two produce the same result.

How could this possibly work, without having the precise same votes entered into each machine (an impossible to guarantee prerequisite)?
Another happy HomeKit + Hue user. I have all my lights set to adaptive lighting and it's great!
Probably a reference to Yongfei Ci actually (https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/2014/06/20/yongfei-ci-s...)

UIUC is not having a great track record wrt grad student murderers o_O
worse than NK?
lmao any index claiming that is absolutely wrong
you get 1 kilo of rice or more for 2 rupees from the government and other stuff too. Sure not everyone is well fed but we aint as bad as NK
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How can I protect against this while still using Twitter?

Use a VPN? Don’t give Twitter access to location?
> You have been duped by hysterics.

> If a significant portion of the electorate do not have an id this is a non-starter.

Duped by hysterics?

Are you arguing that a significant number of eligible voters in the United States have no id? That position seems hysterical.
That's why almost all voting machines leave an auditable paper trail.
Why isn't it fair for the author to be the one who receives the marginal value that they created? They were the ones who created the course, and that course would not have existed for anyone if they put the effort in to build it. Anyone else can do it, but they are the ones who did.

To my eyes it seems very fair to offer a product at (appromimately) the same real price for everyone in the world, and let people choose whether or not to buy it.

And for what it's worth, commodities are also priced at what the market can bear, not at their marginal cost of production. It's just that competition pushes those prices down very close to the marginal cost. This course has competition too, in the form of all the other articles and tutorials that are available free on the internet. It's not like this course is the only gate to otherwise-inaccessible knowledge.
I’ve just been using the same password for my FDE forever, and only for that purpose. I figure it keeps my data safe from theft, but probably not from the feds or my wife if she wanted in there, because they could either compel me to unlock it or have access to put some keyboard sniffer in my boot loader.

The password is quite a few random characters that I memorized when I first used FDE decades ago and I’ve never had reason to change it.

I rotate my other passwords often and never use this one anywhere other than a boot loader; I don’t even type it into a running operating system to save it.

I’ll never forget it, but if I had to change it then I think I would go with the “battery horse stapler” method of pass phrase.
Do you know about the cut-the-cake algorithm? A piece of cake is to be divided among two kids. Kid A cuts the cake, Kid B gets the choice of slice. It's fair.

I recall reading about a mathematician who devised a cut-the-cake algorithm that would work for gerrymandering. Naturally, nobody adopted it, because nobody in power wants fair gerrymandering.
Definitely a potentially meaningful reason as to why we should invest more heavily into life extension.

I don’t foresee AI overtaking human cognition for at least a decade or two.
Frankly, no. People are dying right now. Like, everyone, of one thing or another. The situation is an emergency, even if all we've ever managed is ten millennia of triage. That is the default, that is the background. Weigh the risks, sure, but don't act like choosing to do nothing is without cost. We should study genetic engineering just as much as we need to, as best as we can tell, and no more.

Less morbid, there are many more substances we "rushed to market" and worked out fine. Should antibiotics still be unavailable, banned even, to complete longitudinal trials? Chemotherapy and radiation "sound like the most obvious of things that should be studied for much longer". Thank God that didn't prevent us from using them to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Hell, asbestos was used for way longer than any of that stuff, didn't make it any safer.
I wonder if our brains do the same timestamping when we listen to someone sing a song. Our brain database will not have enough examples of those exact words being sung in that musical way. I guess that's why we need a little more focus to understand the lyrics of a song vs someone talking to us.
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Climate Change could include onset of an ice age?
The average fertility rate in India is 2.2 now I think. It is below 2 in Southern states and still relatively high in BIMARU states which are the biggest problems.
Since I don't have a dishwasher, using more pots actually has time cost, so that approach doesn't work

Interestingly, I feel compelled to wash a pot even if I only used it to boil water, while that's not the case for the kettle.
Force of habit I guess
Which you don't know until they start typing in the card number. I think most users would expect you to tell them the price up front.
The less travelled road generally carries a lot more risk.

With software, it's less tested so you're more likely to encounter a bug. With a physical road, more likely to encounter potholes or other dangers.
Same goes for us though, no? Seems like you just need to push the expected time until onset past death by other issues, or at least reproduction
I skimmed back the article after reading this comment, and I'm still not really sure how this follows. Of course you should always make redundant backups with parameters suitable for however much assurances you want to have that you will not lose data. However, I dunno if there's any particular evidence to suggest that data loss is the main concern here. I mean, I have a backup strategy for most of my data, but I'd choose to spend at least some time trying to avoid the need to restore a backup first. Plus, I don't think there's good evidence to suggest that data theft is not a huge concern for people. Inside this article is a link back to a previous article about a NAS vulnerability that allows anyone to change the password of the NAS and enable SSH without authentication. I dunno if it's the same vulnerability I remember from some years ago, but there was a pretty real situation where many WD MyCloud users had their data stolen and NASes wiped. (I actually had a thankfully-mostly-decommissioned MyCloud at the time and it did in fact get pwned.)

Backup strategies and good security posture is a "why not both" type of situation. It's harder than it should be, but sometimes that's the cost of doing business.
Which is exactly the reason why communism could never rise the way it did in China and Soviet union. I mean most of the population accepted their 'fate' in the feudal systems.
Except the party that would support such a program doesn't like voter id requirements and the party that wants voter id is hostile to putting government resources into making id easier to get.
Start with a stack of ballots. Run the stack through one machine. Run the same stack through another machine. Check the tallies. If they differ, then the counts are discarded and the stack goes to perhaps a hand count.

Each stack is handled by two people, one from each party. One feeds the machine, the other watches him.
It's the tagline in the Apple App store.

When they show advertising it's below the text "You might also like". Or at least they used to.
I believe the generally accepted way of solving this problem is to do Risk Limiting Audits of the system; randomly sample districts, and then manually recount until you're confident to X sigma that the results are correct (or, if the audit diverges, you trigger a full manual recount). Citation: https://verifiedvoting.org/audits/whatisrla/

There's a recent report that goes into a lot of details on the various improvements that should be prioritized in the current system: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the....
"Cultural Revolution" is actually a very apt name for what happened. One of the core concepts of it was the destruction of the "four olds": old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. They were horrifyingly efficient at it, resulting in what was one of the single-largest destructions of cultural heritage in history, and almost certainly the largest one perpetuated by one's own people (albeit the original iconoclasts probably give them a run for their money).
People have lifted themselves up...not some company or country. So kudos to you guys, gals.
Ask HN: What algo does Zoom use to show people?
If there are 20 people in a meeting and 9 visible slots, how does Zoom pick who is shown?

Looks like it prioritizes camera > no camera, but beyond that? Time talking, tone of voice, amount of responses?