skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Feather AS D2 double edge razor ($200-$400)

Why is this so expensive? My MAG-MR1-V3 was $16.15 and it seems pretty much identical.
I use Chrome on Mac for several reasons:

* I also regularly use Windows and Linux. Chrome is familiar and have synchronized across all of them.

* I need a proxy extension to bypass China’s network restrictions. The extension was not available on Safari (I don’t bother to check now).

* uBlock Origin is more powerful than Safari’s adblockers. For example, uBO can skip the 90 second long advertisement in the front of some Chinese video site.
The keyboard I'm using is about 10 years old. Some keys are a bit loose, but not really an issue, feels very comfortable to use. Keylabels are all still visible, except for the 'i' key. Don't remember the exact price, but it was less than Rs 300 (around $6) at the time. About 2 years back I bought a new keyboard of the same brand, got fed up within a month (frequent mistype of neighboring key) and went back to the old one.

I got the audio speakers too about 10 years back. About double the keyboard price. Warranty was for 6 months.

My average daily computer use is around 10 hours, so it's not like they lasted long due to low usage.
At a certain point encryption becomes useless (Full disk encryption with a short password, or one written on a sticky note near the device, etc).

I'm not familiar with how Mac does things, but some of those solutions
prioritize security over reliability and store the keys in a crypto processor that can't be backed up, leaving no way to recover the drive if they break.
Sometimes a useful heuristic about what items really are durable is, do your parents own anything that you are using / would want to use? (In my own case the answer was: nothing.)
If they were using telephones, then there were people operating call-in centers for this pool of owner operators? If this was pre-90s, probably not even cell phones but, pay phones/physical phones? And if personal/professional connections, then there were meetings where owner operators get together? How would they schedule time for all of this, or coordinate it?

I'm having a hard time picturing either of these methods. It feels hard to have a large spot market of owner operators without some large broker in the middle, at least pre-cellphones.
How to Create 80s Style Retro Futuristic Neon Artwork (2013)
Vinyl records. I still have records that are perfectly good which I bought when I first got a record player for my 15th (I think) birthday, 35 years ago now.
It would be nice. Currently, I have exceptions for the orientation and ICC profile tags in my static site generator for my photography website, but I could be missing something.
Yeah, why did we even had that assembly stuff?

We should have had rust from the start!

Seriously, python was born in 1991, 4 years BEFORE Java existed. And it barely had any funding until 2010.

Insight is 20/20 but this is not how tech works. You are limited by knowledge, resources, politics, legacy, compatibility commitment and so on.

Not to mention you can simply get it wrong.

Would have been funny if the whole world moved out of unicode and we got stuck with it forever. Usually, you know something is a standard only when people complain you adopted it too late because everyone else did.

Like Java that used XML for all serialization and got suck with it for 15 years while we all moved to JSON. Or utf-7 that is still used by IMAP because they did the wrong call.

Yes, utf-7. What, you though utf8 was the only unicode standard? No, no, no. There are utf-7, utf-8, utf-16 (JS uses that) and utf-32 (C# uses that) in use. And more exist that abandoned.

People seems to be under the illusion that this stuff is easy, or obvious. Sure. In 2022.

Everything about text has been a fight for death to this day, for all programming languages. This includes formatting.

We have "%s" because... of printf() in C. Let that sinks in.
Nice to see it now supports HEIF. I just wrote a Python script to file my photos and videos by date with Pillow plugins and the ffmpeg bindings to get at the metadata because I thought exiftool wasn’t that up to date (for some reason, likely a distro packaging issue).
I need mind altering substances to avoid anxiety and depression; I wholly reject the idea that without these substances, I am my "true self." My intrusive thoughts and self doubts aren't mystically good just because my mind produces them in the absence of substances; the feeling of self actualization I have if I use substances and am able to move past that headspace and reclaim my creativity (what I personally call "feeling like myself again") is no less real for having involved substances.
If i understood your point correctly: the places we decide to use them and our confidence in their output can become negative if we decide to trust the output as is, without any human supervision/decision. So, what you’re saying is that we carry risk if we have a high enough confidence in its output to let is unsupervised - this counteracts my point of the necessity of malevolence, as the (even slightly)wrong reinforcement can have negative consequences also. At the same time, we do this exercise every time we have a new policy in the wild, and sometimes we get unintended consequences.
> that general tone will keep women away from our industry rather than attract them.

I don't "tones" have anything to do with it; in the 80s, Law, Accounting and Medicine[1] was absolutely dominated by men. If you think that introverted nerds are sexist, they have nothing on how doctors, lawyers and accountants were, nor how sexist the purchasers of those services were (often assuming that the men would be more competent).

And yet, today those professions have as many (if not more) females than males.

It's a stretch to think that general tone of an industry was responsible for females leaving the profession filled with introverted IT nerds and moving to high-powered and high-status executive professions.

[1] Other than nurses, in which men are still only a rounding error.
If Woz likes it, must be doing something right...

Found it: https://youtu.be/CRi8r0XQFHU?t=5402

As always, a great sense of humor. I saw him speak shortly after the Intel Mac release, and got him to sign my computer "Woz Inside." Inaccurate, but he was a good sport about the joke!
Are you on constant immunosuppressants or why do you wear this all the time?
I also still have my mum's 7" collection from the sixties.
They’re very visibly worn, but still retain some of the grippy shape. I think that might mostly depend on the soil and rocks you’re hiking on. I visited volcanic regions a couple of times and got the sense that it’s much harsher on the soles. My area is mostly full of limestone, which is rather soft.
I thought you wanted the highest cardinality at the start so as to reduce the result set as quickly as possible.

For example, if you have a database of people with their first and last names, and let's say there are 1000 distinct first names and 100,000 distinct last names, you'd want the index to by (last, first) no? You're saying the opposite?
I had one, then switched to an Ultramasx, riding the bus for hours a day in peak covid without issues.

That company went out of business as far as I can tell though, so it will be back to the Airpro when I run out of filters, if I can find it.
Try reversing this argument and talk about employee resisting much better offer, to remain loyal and you'll get eaten alive by commenters :-)
Furniture. The expensive stuff is pretty durable. A good wooden table might even be used by the next generation.

Books.

A good tea set.
Start with writing down what the problem actually is, without redactoring as the obvious solution. Write your requirements down, then see what you actually want to do.
According to DBEngines MS Access is also more popular than SQLite. I wouldn't trust their methodology.
My Fender Stratocaster Ed O'Brien edition. Probably the last electric guitar I'll buy in this lifetime.
That's something most people don't realize.

The walrus got heat. F-string got heat. match/case got heat.

Unicode in python 3 got 15 years of trolling.

Every single time you make a proposal, you have to make a compromise between:

- what the infrastructure and style of the language allows
- the resources you have
- the desire for staying compat
- the desire for staying modern
- the pressure of people wanting a new toy
- the pressure of people hating any kinda change

You cannot flip a switch and "make the language better".
Classic ones with rotating wheels. These continue to work after ages.

https://www.amazon.com/Sharpener-Jonurphy-Sharpeners-Rotatin...
I find the fascination with TempleOS honestly weird, and I think people are honestly only fascinated by it because of the author. We have had smalltalk for the longest time. We have had so many attempts at "embed rich content into shell", we have had all of this!

Hell, all of what you describe is basically available in the form of Mathmatica.

And "share a program with a friend" is called a webpage with Javascript. We have the universal VM, just not in the shape that you would like.

I don't want to be too dismissive of this stuff but I think at one point we gotta try using all these new fancy ideas that would be good for everyone, instead of constantly just imagining "what if they existed". Let's actualize a bit!
Others and I without digging that much have expressed something similar, i.e.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/so7os8/notdeft_notes...

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/speq69/uomf_pathinde...

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zl8nfa/is_there_some...

https://takeonrules.com/2022/02/26/note-taking-with-org-roam...

The long story short is that we need something to process text automatically in easy to compose and easy to query ways. Emacs peoples mostly hate databases, and SOME DB models are strict, hard to keep bending, graph DB have not succeed so much so far, so it might be ad unsolved problem, a VERY OLD one, let's say:

- ~612 BC Ashurbanipal of Nineveh cataloguing system

- ~245 BC Callimacus Pinakes cataloguing system

- ~1545 libraries of Babel by Conrad Gessner

- 1673-94 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Scrinium Literatum

- ... to the Mundaneum (Paul Otlet/Henry La Fontaine)

- ... to the web first concept, the search engine concept

...

Natural language is not much computable directly, some modern ML tools try to work on it, some classic algorithms try to do the same, most results are not much good at small scale, they are just good at very large scale for very limited results.

But the point of Emacs is another, is the LispM concept, witch was also the Xerox PARC Smalltalk workstations concept: as we need ways to act on text with automation so we need OSes as a single application, where the source is live, changeable, where anything is a function the user can use anywhere so that if I have a CAS on my desktop I can solve and ODE with it inside an email and link the email in a paper.

Old systems was limited by the tech of their time, Emacs by the size of its community and the burden of legacy it have, but they show a starting point that's effective. The rest is still to be invented, implemented and done. NO OTHER TOOLS so far have proven to be better in general so...
ThinkPad Phone – An ecosystem I'd love to be a part of
Pet peeve: no matter what you do in a truck someone gets mad.

You’re either driving too fast or too slow. You try to stay in the slow lane but catch up to the person going 45 on the interstate who speeds up as soon as you get next to them trapping you in the fast lane until you give them ‘incentive’ to let you back over.

I could go on and on but my government mandated 30 break was over six minutes ago and there’s people to annoy on the two lane highway I get to drive on until Texas.
The first line in the wikiepedia mentions a token. So, token-based security ?
The guy who made ours said to keep in touch and he'd happily retouch every decade or so. However, we seem to do enough with our hands that the patterning has been doing just fine on its own.
Sure. From version 1 even.

The one that shared an era with pokemon version 1, on the original black and white gameboy.

Because it was so clear from the beginning, even if emoji didn't exist, cpu had no core, ruby hasn't been invented yet, and people were sharing the source code on floppy disk.
Looks a bit dated, quite 2014
Not that hard, IKEA sells terrific stuff. Pleasant to look at, solid weight, no unnecessary ornaments.
You also don't need a beer to celebrate with friends.

You also don't need a nice winter walk to find a deepened sense of feeling alive.

You don't need a nice house and car to feel like you are worth something.

The truth is, external things impact our lives. The substances consume, food we eat, landscapes we move through, people we talk to, objects we use, architecture we work and live in influences us more than we would like.

Nobody would say "It is sad that you need that glas of Prosecco to celebrate New Year's with your friends." Because strictly speaking you don't really need it — it is just nicer that way. (Edit: unless of course you are an alcoholic, which is a real thing)

This is the way that kind of party drug can work as well. You don't need it to be happy, but it is nicer that way.
If it’s high end hiking boots it can be worth changing soles if they are too worn. Probably not worth the price for lower priced shoes unless you really want to keep them. I have a pair of Swedish made Lundhags, and I think they charge 75$ for changing the soles.
I'm thinking of getting a hi-res projector instead of a smart TV.

I had a Samsung smart TV but got rid of it last year because of the ads, slow start up, bad sound, and just all-round bad anti-user crapware that was on it. Reverted back to my old (10 year old) dumb Samsung and it's much better hooked up to a streaming stick.

I long for the days when all you had to consider when getting a new TV was color, resolution, picture quality, frame rate, etc. Instead of what OS it's running, how long you'll get update, how bad the advertisings going to be, as well as the above.

Any recommendations for a decent projector?
I have this feeling Google et al. were pushing https from the get go to prevent us from snooping on their spying.

Encrypted DNS is more of the same.
I remember trying to display graphics on a VT100 type terminal over a modem. It took forever to render on screen (you could see individual lines being drawn one by one).
Interestingly TJ Devries just did something like that for neovim. He made a transpiler from vim9script to Lua to allow compatibility. I found that around neovim there is a similar crafting vibe you find around Emacs.
To be fair the JS community is not as picky about his because it lived in a stage of spaghetti code since the beginning.

It's fair to want to mind easing readability in the design of the language. That's one of the things that has made it so popular since its inception.
The cast iron skillet I own should outlast me.
Thank you for your response.

> The 1-1s should have been happening from day 1 of employment, especially for a remote employee.

I agree with you on this here. On the other hand I can’t find any source to tell if they had 1-1s from the begining or not. If they hadn’t that is a serious mistake. (If you see this somewhere mentioned I’ happy to see a reference. But do not worry either way, no pressure.)

> The manager should have initiated them, not the employee.

I agree with that too! Again I don’t know if that happened or not. The court case suggest that it was the employee who initiated the chat. I can also imagine that if I am an employer and I am being sued I would stick to the hard facts. The things I can prove. And if there are enough of these hard facts to show that I did not commit what I am accused of (unfair dismissal) the I wouldn’t bring up all the informal and thus undocumented instances where we talked about performance.

It is possible in my mind either way, and I can’t say for sure. Maybe it is an instance of bad management, paird with over reliance on a time traking software. Maybe it is good management paired with a regetably underpeforming employee. Maybe something in between!

But here is the thing: This is not the reason why this case was thrust into the public spotlight.

It is in the public spotlight because the outcome has the appearance as if she got sued by the company to extract money from her. I certainly started reading with that assumption! But then reading the article I have noticed that this is not the case. I have also noticed that many commenters, not necessarily you, seems to have fallen into the same idea and did not read the article carefull enough to see that this doesn’t seem to be the case. Which perhaps is the fault of the article. (But of course we all understand that “woman sues company, company vindicated” is not such a catchy title, so I even understand why they went for the angle they did.)

Truth to be told on the general managerial advice and recommendations I agree very much with you. Cheers
In fact, Liu was found praising his own books in a forum using burner accounts after the publication, and also reminding people that the Hugo award the novel received was "huge in the Western sci-fi world". He was probably truly happy when Obama said he was a fan.
If Foundation is to retain binary compatibility with Obj-C, then it will by necessity still be using the Obj-C runtime, with Foundation types still extending NSObject, and thus swizzling should still work as before.

The alternative would be for Apple to break compatibility with old Obj-C apps, instead shipping a compatibility version of Foundation.framework which old apps would continue to link against. But it sounds like they're not going that route.
More people should do that. This will help create reasonable drug laws better than the laws we currently have in most countries, too many of which are based on ideology, fiction and religious moral attitudes.
Electric tooth brush - the speed and mainly the quality of cleaning is way much better
If you're just slinging static HTML, there's really not that big of a difference, and if it's a frequently accessed resource where a difference might be expected to matter, it will be cached regardless.
Is it really worth it, when there are so many good native apps instead?

Personally I don’t really see the point.
I would love to learn more about custom leather boots. Do you have a link with more information on where you get this done, etc?
Estwing claw hammer. Forged out of a single piece of steel. I think it's theoretically possible to destroy one but it'll last a lifetime or two.

Cast iron frying pans. The old kind with the machined (not just raw sand cast) inside bottom. You can destroy them by heating them red hot and then quenching, or dropping onto concrete (I know of both being done). Barring that, will last lifetimes.

Any decent kitchen knives - don't have to be showy brands - my favourite one is a Cuisinart. But if the handles hold up they're worth sharpening indefinitely.

Any kitchen stuff made out of tempered glass - casserole dishes and the now collectible coloured glass Pyrex bowls. Again you can destroy those by shattering them, but if you don't, they'll outlast you.
If you want higher precision then long double exists for that purpose
Along the same line: a good stapler. Just like Milton from Office Space, a proper metal Swingline stapler has been the best in my experience. Unlike that movie, I never found a red one that was as good as a black one.

I still have it over 30 years later, although my need to staple these days is exceedingly rare.
Not a copy, a hash or fingerprint. Just enough data to measure if it's substantially similar.

But yes, it may be infeasible to index and compare against every image ever uploaded.
Strange, I have a couple of C9 LG OLED a few years old connected to WiFi and up to date and I never saw any ads nor popups.

I am using them sparingly though, and I live in EU, if that makes any difference.
I always reject ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/rejectads/
I’m no m&a expert but I’ve been involved with due diligence for a few acquisitions nearly identical to this. It’s a somewhat adversarial process wrapped in pleasantries and some extension of good faith. It’s nearly impossible to vet everything, particularly when the investment isn’t of material risk to the organization and the business wants to move quickly.

The challenge here is with the fact that privacy rules still very much apply and data management during due diligence can be haphazard. The acquiring company doesn’t just automatically get access to everything, it’s a negotiation. JPMC could have literally asked ‘send us your customer database’ and Frank could (and should) say no way and talks still continue.

The one thing i don’t get is how this didn’t also show in their financials.
They also sound the same. Those cutesy headlines inspired by old iPhone ads I am guessing.

The ones that are trying to use language to sound they are changing the world and you will infinitely satisfied if you buy, when you are getting I dunno an API key or some such tiny feature.

That is more for the MVP consumer side.

Otherwise for B2B it is large bullshit bingo wording where it is really really hard to figure out even what they do.
There's something heartwarming about an Excel implementation detail being the key to unlocking a $175 million conspiracy.