skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the astonishing flexibility of USB -- I've got a 1994 vintage keyboard / mouse combo (lexmark/IBM M4-1, compact keyboard + trackpoint) -- I use it regularly using a USB to PS/2 adapter connected to a kvm switch built into a 2010 vintage monitor (usb 2) that's connected to a USB-C hub attached to a 2020 macbook's USB-C and a surface pro's port replicator. Once a week when switching inputs or waking up something gets in a state where I have to unplug the keyboard and plug it back in (IBM's typical over-engineering means there's a wacky plug on the keyboard so it's easy to get to). But, "1994 -> 2000 (ps2->usb) -> 2010 (monitor) -> 2020 (macbook)" is a pretty broad stack and it works almost perfectly.

I think these are the wacky keyboards where they had the "D" and "K" keys marked with a nub to indicate home keys. Drove me crazy enough that I'd deface them by shaving off the original nub and put a "proper" ridge into the f and j keys.
And yet somehow his claims always bear some truth. I understand the comments about boys crying wolf, but it's hard to ignore the facts on the ground.
It's still very popular in Europe for my age range (25-34) - FB Messenger is the default option to contact friends, even more so than WhatsApp.
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It seems like that nobody cares about anything of the players of Activision games. A lot people supports this takeover simply becase they hope Microsoft could be a better manager at making decisions about how the games are made and how the service operates. We simply want Bobby Kotick out, and Microsoft's acquire is our best chance.
I assure you my rights would be in no way limited by rules preventing what the Microsoft Board of director's do with other people's money.
Basically a digital dead drop.
In The Netherlands we have A LOT of farmers with parkinsons. Most, if not all cases seem to be related to Roundup/Glyphosate.
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Meanwhile, I'm patiently waiting for an energy revolution. Hype cycles come and go, meanwhile actual work gets done lol. Cool, you saved 5 minutes booking your vacation. Enjoy all the other hassles you will face sooner because actually traveling still blows.
> That's not true.

Well, just for you, I've searched the Slack history. IIRC, this was inside a WSL session in Windows, but it definitely originated on a Windows machine:

$ git checkout rename-some-files
error: invalid path 'foo-crate-1/src/aux.rs'
error: invalid path 'foo-crate-2/src/aux.rs'
error: invalid path 'foo-crate-3/src/aux.rs'
<more filenames with other errors>
Deposit insurance is a moral hazard. It encourages people to be reckless with where they put their money.

The vast majority of the population would not have the time or ability to digest and perform a comparative analysis between countless pages of bank prospectuses. We put that effort into stocks now. Most use some variety of funds, often suggested by general guidance from 401k plans based on a vague risk tolerance and retirement goals.
...and it would be easier to directly monitor the government and control the bank instead of having a level of indirection like we do now.

This level of indirection requires regulators who are always behind because of the extra layer.
I used to love chess as a teenager. Chess club and playing Battle Chess on my early computer.

I started picking it up now and the resources to find games are great with Chess.com and Lichess but have found myself trying to relearn the skills and reading after losing 100 straight games.
Canadian health care is relatively inexpensive though. Canadians spent $8,563 Canadian Dollars per capita on health care in 2022, which is currently equivalent to $6,320 US dollars per capita.

Americans spent $12,914 American dollars per capita in 2021 for health care costs. We pay over double per capita what Canadians pay.

Canada could increase the quality of the health care system by buying more services and paying more for services to increase quality.

https://www.cihi.ca/en/national-health-expenditure-trends-20...
https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
FWIW, sometimes a downvoted duckling just needs a little patience before it becomes an upvoted swan.
> […] I think we ought to consider a system where the Government or Fed provides the core functionality of “let me put $X in an account so I can use $X in the future” for free […]

The Odd Lots podcast recently had an episode "Is It Time For Public Checking Accounts at the Fed?":

> When Silicon Valley Bank failed, the government stepped in and guaranteed that all accounts — even those well above the FDIC threshold for deposit insurance — would be made whole. So now people are wondering whether all accounts at every bank are implicitly guaranteed, regardless of their size. But if they are, then what is the point of private, for-profit retail banking? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Saule Omarova, a professor at Cornell Law School. She had been nominated by President Biden to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, but was forced to withdraw due to fierce opposition from the banking lobby. That opposition was based, in part, on her endorsement of public checking accounts at the Federal Reserve. But what was a seemingly "out there" view a year ago, is now firmly within the Overton Window of political possibilities. On this episode, we discuss the SVB disaster, what it means for banking, and the case for a public option.

* https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/odd-lots-40661/episodes/i...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zkzpz9aK3I

* Also on Apple Podcasts, etc.

Transcript:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-23/transcrip...

* https://archive.is/9yROE
They probably put up a new one every morning. The banana itself is not the art work. Nothing to see here.
It could be scaled up, as it is a relatively "dumb" technology and everything needed for it could be manufactured within Russia, rendering sanctions ineffective.

What you observe is just the current state, as it takes time to reroute the supply chains disrupted by sanctions and ramp up the production. And I believe they have all the time in the world, as nothing currently threatens their resource extraction and production capabilities. It is a long game.
I've been using a "usb condom" for a while out of caution, but I don't worry about it if I manage to forget it while I'm on vacation. It's a pretty remote possibility, and only worth minimal worry.

I wouldn't say it's "nonsense", but it's also not worth worrying about, either. There are tons of these PSAs that are in that same category, and not just for tech stuff.
The approaches look pretty similar. My chatgpt() function is pretty much the most basic possible implementation of that pattern - it's just a SQLite custom-SQL function written in Python.

You should absolutely try pointing Datasette at that SQLite database, I imagine it would work really well!
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This was also true of the internet itself, but eventually the speedboats became even larger supertankers by putting up new moats around their internet businesses.
Cops, firefighters bewildered as driverless cars behave badly
Opening a car window or running air not on recirc immediately drops the readings to safe levels. I also noticed when in the Uber returning from the airport, the air was in the high 3000's and I explained to the driver, he opened all the windows and I think I scared him a bit.
I don’t see any either, mainly b/c I curate who I follow and click the link at the top “Following” to only show tweets of people I follow (instead a of the default “For You” which mixes in Twitter’s mostly inane recommendations).
It's not discrimination because it has nothing to do with whether Mormons are hired. It has everything to do with who has a say in hiring them. BYU grads can still be hired, they just have to be hired by someone who isn't going to bias their decision with their personal beliefs.
Microsoft aiming to challenge Apple Silicon with custom ARM chips
Because government agencies have such a good track record of ensuring they only ever contain good faith actors and would never hide things from oversight, and such oversight would never be done by people willing to look away if it "hits the right people" or some nonsense like that.
For today you could do some of this with supplies from here: https://unitednuclear.com

They actually feature a picture of this kit!

The sources required to do these experiments are low grade and not particularly dangerous as long as you exercise the same cautions you would with a chemistry set, model paints, etc., such as not huffing or eating them.

The most dangerous thing sold on that site are the magnets:

https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70...

They need a louder more obnoxious warning banner for those. The big ones can literally crush you or fire metallic objects like bullets. People used to dealing with fridge magnets have no intuition for magnetic fields like that.
I don't have any data but it seems logical to assume that shoving a default 18% tip in people's faces on a POS device means that some people tip when they otherwise wouldn't or would just drop some change in a jar.
I have access to Microsoft's xCloud as part of my Xbox Game Pass sub. I never use it. The lag is too great. I am sure certain kinds of games could work reasonably well on it, but overall it's just such a poor experience.

I'd rather either bring a Switch while traveling or just play a game on my phone or iPad.

I can't believe the deal might fall apart because Microsoft has a "dominant" position in basically a non-existent market that there is no evidence will ever become a market. There are cloud games that work well. If the deal falls apart over this, and not the actual concerns about MS owning huge IP, this regulation is truly broken.

These are not the kinds of games that people buy PlayStations and Xboxes for. Jackbox party games? Sure. Awesome in the cloud. A turn-based strategy or RPG? Why not. Anything that requires reflexes? Not happening.
Yeah definitely. Despite the rocky start with 5 Forza is arguably their strongest exclusive IP right now.
I did allude to the gap there closing. I still see them as distinct in most countries, including my own. But I fear we're allowing the gap to close further.

As an aside, I think a lot of people want this gap to close, but for entirely unrelated reasons more related to political and economic goals, with the loss of privacy and individual autonomy being an unconsidered consequence of this.
That's an interesting question because I'm not sure whether hiding it or keeping it secret would even be wrong, so blow the whistle on what exactly? Since when can a person or company not develop something and keep it secret? So the only dishonest thing in your example would be the person violating law and contractual agreements.

But secondly, in this case it's abundantly clear to me that google didn't create a sentient AI and that this fellow is equal parts delusional and fame-seeking.
Can you give an example of a complex technical goal GPT-4 has achieved?
typically the FDIC only insures the first $250,000 deposited in an account, but in the case of SVB they said they would cover all deposits
> It’s very questionable why any country with large trade surpluses would want to hold US treasuries at this point.

Fair point – then maybe they shouldn't!

But I'm not a large country; I need to pay for rent and food in USD, and my highest priority for the USD accordingly is short and medium term price stability for those two things. For long-term savings, there's other assets.

If the USD continues falling short on short term price stability as well, I agree that that would be a major problem.
Noticeably better in terms of content I am seeing and that the accounts I used to follow earlier, which were banned in the erstwhile Twitter regime, have been reinstated. Plus Twitter is more fun and engaging now than it was before where I used to only see people cancelling/boycotting/fighting over trivial things. Community notes is working great too. I know instantly if something is fake or not and prevents me from sharing that Tweet with friends/family (if not for community notes I would have believed the Tweet to be true, unless I actually did my own research/investigation).

Downsides I listed are more frustration with some decisions taken by Elon. Like increasing the price of the API. But I can see why he did that (especially considering news that OpenAI trained on Twitter data too). I just vented it out so if any Twitter employee is reading this, they come up with some way to also help indie developers (many of them shut shop after this debacle).

Also, I really despise it when people want you to choose either black or white. Either you are in the club of hating Elon or glorifying him. I don't want to fall in either of the buckets. I want to express my own opinion on things that are not influenced by the mob. So yeah I can say both good and bad things about Twitter takeover. And that's exactly what I am doing.
There's no way in heckfire that the FAA green-lighted the launch of an 11 million pound rocket to get 10 seconds of flight data.

This article summarizes some of the flight objectives:

https://spacenews.com/faa-issues-license-for-first-starship-...

There was a planned stage separation, 9+ minute total engine burn, and peak altitude of 235km.
If I'm understanding your comment correctly, GoPro made a drone that lacked all the features you'd expect in a modern drone and tried to sell it on brand recognition alone?
"It was just a joke" is a common distraction technique used by neonazis and other social conservatives. When seen it is safe to presume bad faith until proven otherwise.
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I can't really tell if this is sarcasm, but whatever rights corporations have in the UK certainly isn't established by a United States Supreme Court decision.
Mines have always made the decision, dumb "AI" based on weight mainly. People do decide where to put them though.
I'm using the official Minecraft launcher, likely from the snap store? In any case, knowing that this is fixable, I will take a closer look when I have a chance.

Ironically, for all this trouble, at least we were able to get Minecraft running at all on Ubuntu— on a separate Windows 10 machine I couldn't get it going at all. Might try again at some point with a VM so that we can play together.
I have an iMate (admittedly I haven't hooked up my Apple Extended II in a few years), but I think the writing is on the wall. I ended up buying a modern adapter from some site called tinkerBOY but I just realized I never even tried it yet.

Personally, for me, the primary attraction is the feel of the old Alps switches. I don't want to dedicate my desk to some battleship (ok nerds, I know that "battleship" keyboards are even bigger). And I can get that from modern switches in a more manageable chassis. I currently have the "Zilent" switches from Zelio which give me good tactility without too much clickiness.
Fear of this threat may be the thing keeping it from being a big deal. If nobody cared to protect against it was commonplace to use public USB ports to charge your phone, it would be much more attractive for attackers. On the other hand, just not using public USB outlets or keeping a charge-only cable in your bag are pretty cheap countermeasures. Most people charge their phone while they're sleeping so the AC adapter or special cable can stay in their bedroom/luggage/hotel room. It's really not a big deal.
A legislation that requires 50% markup that is refunded at recycling center?

Not sure how well it'd work in rural America though.
For a better and more up-to-date list of alternatives, see https://www.privacyguides.org/en/
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"Trump is <thing I look down upon>" but you inadvertently put a guy who was born into wealth in the same economic category as people who were born poor. Under what semantic regime is this possible? Lol
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>I believe you but since you're passing this on then you/they must also have more than some words in support.

I am not supporting this, I only said it's how it works here.

>Right? Who could be more qualified to operate a critical emergency vehicle or bring someone back to life than a person who until yesterday wasn't allowed even to vote.

And yet at their age they seem qualified enough for the US to send them to war in the Middle East or give them access to TOP-SECRET military intelligence[1] before they're even allowed to drink beer. You're needlessly discrediting youths for a cheap shot at an argument. Those people who barely got to vote, as you call them, are functioning members of society, who were vetted beforehand and given 3+ months of full time training and supervision by licensed and more experienced personnel before they get to perform CPR. Also, CPR isn't that difficult or risky, especially when you don't live in a society of ambulance chasing lawyers where everyone sues everyone for the slightest inconvenience.

> What a thing to say...

I'm not saying this, the facts are. Austrian healthcare and social system, with all its flaws, does a far better job serving the majority of the population, especially the poor and the vulnerable, than the American one does. But let's not get into that right now.

>Sure, except literally not because they'd get the very same by going to school or university.

They go to school and university anyway except with social work there's no grades or exams you need to study for making the time served there less stressful and more focused on the social and practical experience. Plus it's a more diverse setting than university where you mostly meet people with shared domains and interests as you.

>Mandatory military conscription is an act of desperation in the face of potential national annihilation.

You're false again. I don't support mandatory conscription but it's how neutral non-NATO EU nations get to defend their neutrality and provide a detergent against aggressors. The military also has plenty of uses even in peace times, such as natural disasters and what not.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/27/politics/jack-teixeira-de...
There was a common zeitgeist though. Not multiple fragmented views of the world. There was a common vocabulary to go with this understanding, and now we have many.

The ratio of signal to noise was much higher. It helped us form a common culture. Today, the signal is buried in so much noise that we're reverting back to tribes.

No, I don't think it's realistic to put the genie back in the bottle. The real problem is we don't teach children how to think. We teach them what to think, which leads to far worse outcomes. Having an indoctrination instead of an education and then facing a sea of pretty-sounding pablum to sift through for truth will be terrible.
My guess would be that it is because it is not open source, but I am surprised that there is no mention of BitWarden.
Seems like it's more than that considering they have mobile apps coming that are definitely social networks.
The socialist calculation debate
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This is a restaurant. We are talking about homes. You know who else doesn't cook at home? Large chunks of urban Asia.
> the reason people dump batteries is because doing so the proper way is often onerous.

Another likely reason, and likely the biggest one as well, is: how many folks, outside of the HN/techie crowd, are even aware of what "kind" of battery is in their various devices and is even aware that there are special rules for many battery types?

Yes, the user guides (if one is even provided) do often have a page about "do not throw in the trash" -- but how many actually read the guides, much less the "warnings" page? And, more importantly, how many even know where the guide is at the end-of-life for the device when they are throwing it away in order to look up what special handling is needed?

Yes, there's the trashcan with the slash icon on the back of the device. How many of the non-HN/techie crowd even know what that icon means to register enough that there is something 'different' about this item vs. everything else they throw away? And, how many even think to look on the back vs. just tossing the device in a trash bin?
I would say Nakamura, the Botez sisters, and Ben Finegold are bigger factors than chess boxing.

But in general, yes, YouTube streamers are making the sport more popular.
Have you heard about https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/20/part-of-t... ?

And also, how do you feel about already-existing heatseekers? A little different, but the killchain still leans on an automated system for targeting and engagement.
The API was paid for yesterday and supposedly eliminated malicious bots, but in reality, we find a lot of bots that respond to trends, for example.
Mason jars (pasta sauce) are regularly reused.

And glass is actually recyclable. Plastic is all shipped overseas and most of it is not recycled at all.
A, the optimism of youth!
Yes, on-canvas editing of text is a project for this year, and probably most of next year. All in all we're spending tens of thousands of euros on the text shape and text tool, in the hope that now we're doing this for the fourth time, we can finally nail it.

The main purpose of Krita's text tool is comic book speech bubbles, though, not annotating screen shots.
At least for me the twitter comments have always been a cess pool of toxicity and really have only gotten worse over the years. Far worse than any other platform I've used. I haven't noticed a significant change in the rate the toxicity grows since he elon took over but to be fair I do feel as though the toxicity has been near saturation for years already.

A lot of it did, and still does get removed/hidden that at least gives the impression that the platform is less toxic than it really is but I don't really buy the argument that forceful removal/banning is helpful anymore because it really hasn't worked anywhere online that ive seen, it just escalates things and makes them madder/more vengeful. Then they just make new posts/accounts/do damage elsewhere.

I'd much rather just read a few more empty death and terrorism theats and move on with my day than have twitter esculate them until they actually are mad enough to try and follow through with them.
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