skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since switches are too bad for such premium mice, does anyone have advice re which mice have great and easily replaceable switchers m

(watched some video that switches are operated under the specced voltage that leads to early retirement, but the video offered no good alternative beyond self-replacement)
WSL is not fundamentally different to me than a PC emulator. I'd still take Windows 2000 over Win 11 if I could run modern apps like browsers and IDEs on it.

It's been on my mind lately that Windows really hasn't done much lately except improving upon the way it's an Azure and Ads vehicle. That's the real "innovation".

The OS is no longer the product, it's just an appendage to the cloud. The mushroom, if you will. The mycelium it's connected to is much larger.
Sure, and the next time a tech ceo goes whining to Congress about a shortage of workers I hope my congressman tells him that no one is stopping him from mutually agreed negotiations with candidates.
I was wondering myself if crypto is just the 'the one thing we all need to learn ourselfs garbage '.

Like when I was 14 I called at a tv gamble Show were the clues were extremely easy but the solutions were extreme hard.

I probably wasted 30€ from my parents.

Did crypto catch so many people for the first time?

Or have they done other stupid things like MLM, homeopathy, Tourist traps, fake calls, fake family members, etc?
I could say the same. Money and a particularly nice location, that might be different.

Once the basics and some future security are there, more money just means a bigger resource footprint. That's still nice to have, people certainly continue preferring wealth over poverty, but it would be crazy if trade-off thresholds between modesty and ambition didn't shift a little due to awareness of environmental impact.
This is an old anecdote, but my Razer Lachesis used exactly the same Omron manufactured microswitches as my Logitech G303 and my Kensington Orbit trackball.

I have really strange physical requirements for my mice due to disability, and it's generally a pain to find stuff that works for me -- so i've gotten pretty adept and swapping those switches out from sheer necessity.

It's a shame that no one (seems) to make any mice with a nice magnetically coupled wear-free switching system. I have such switches on stupid things like my racing sim wheel, but not on stuff that I use daily.
For reference, Inuit's revenue was $12.7 billion last year, so they single-handedly cost the taxpayers more each year than this whole free system will.
The perverse side-effect is that smaller towns are getting expensive as hell too as more and more people don't care about staying in the city. Things raised ~30% in the last 5 years in my area, in a medium-sized agricultural town some ways outside Montreal.
Haven’t been since like 2015
I'm a computer enthusiast. I've got my M1 in a drawer in my kitchen, it's just not very useful for much unless I'm being paid to fix something on it. MacOS is a miserable mockery of itself nowadays and Apple Silicon is more trouble than it's worth, at least in my experience.

As I'm working on AI stuff right now, I have to be a realist. I'm not going to go dig up my Mac Mini so my AI inferencing can run slower and take longer to set up. Nothing I do feels that much faster on my M1 Mini. It feels faster than my 2018 Macbook Pro, but so did my 2014 MBP... and my 2009 x201. Being told to install Colima for Docker with reasonable system temps was the last straw. It's just not worth the hoop-jumping, at least from where I stand.

So... when a day comes where I need UMA for something, please let me know. As is, I'm not missing out on any performance uplift though.

> I'm sure Intel is frantically working on UMA for x86/x64

Everyone has been working on it. AMD was heavily considering it in the original Ryzen spec iirc. x86 does have an impetus to put more of the system on a chip - there's no good reason for UMA to be forced on it yet. Especially at scale, the idea of consolidating address space does not work out. It works for home users, but so does PCI (as it has for the past... 2 decades).

It's just marketing. It's a cool feature (they even gave it a Proper Apple Name) but I'm not hearing anybody clamor for unified memory to hit the datacenter or upend the gaming industry. It's another T2 Security Chip feature, a nicely-worded marketing blurb they can toss in a gradient bubble for their next WWDC keynote.
And what would be the point of that?
They get applicants from all over the world ... Im sure there are more than 27k wanna be tech workers that apply to anything hoping it sticks. Without seeing the resumes of the applicants its hard to paint Canonical as wasting other peoples time. Someone there has to vet the applicants too.
Is slack really that ubiquitous? I wonder what percentage of customers don't use slack or requested something like Teams.
> legacy wins

20 years ago, probably. I don't understand why it is still the case today that legacy is important. Who is still running very old, 25yo software, and just how are they wagging the dog?
Focus on what interests you and build. Keep your radar on for relevant developments and inspiring things but by no means pressure yourself to stay on top of everything. In fact, focus on a smaller and smaller niche that interests you deeply.

That’s what I do anyway
It's time to unionize the tech sector. Can you imagine how industrial action (shutting down APIs) could cripple a fortune 500 company. Sadly people don't act in their best interest. Execs and capitalists only hold power as long as we give them power.
Moving to a heavily blue state may be a better and far cheaper option, they are holding the pro-queer line for the time being. Judging historically on blue states' treatment of some other issues like immigration, I don't expect them to cooperate with any anti-queer laws on the federal level.
The tax code can't ever be simplified... simplification is effectively equivalent to eliminating all the various tax breaks that people are eligible for. A simple (perhaps the simplest) one sentence tax code is "everyone pays 10% of gross income"... this is considered regressive. As you add to the tax code to make it less painful, it grows more complicated.

Some large fraction of the population effectively pays no federal income tax at all. The rules for exempting them and discounting them to the point of $0 owed alone accounts for some significant portion of the tax code.
It absolutely does reason. not on a human level, but it does.

To predict the next token you still have to have some level of simulation of the world. To predict my next word you'd have to simulate my life. It's not there yet, but there is no clear boundary to "intelligence" it would not have passed.
‘Big Tech’ will always be there in some form down the road. If you have the risk tolerance and early career flexibility, take the path less traveled.
Come on, Ars - stop dumbing things down so much that we think you're dumb, too. "Crypto" refers to cryptography. Cryptocurrency is another thing entirely.
Few people saw it coming in just two years, sure. But most people following this space were already expecting a big evolution like the one we saw in 5-ish years.

For example, take this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022

It's a text RPG game built on top of GPT-2 that could follow arbitrary instructions. It was a full project with custom training for something that you can get with a single prompt on ChatGPT nowadays, but it clearly showcased what LLMs were capable of and things we take for granted now. It was clear, back then, that at some point ChatGPT would happen.
I'd prefer cars just add standardized mount points with power and maybe data lines. Then I could install different cheap products I selected, or none at all.
Of course, the biggest problem is that the snooping would have been best done back when the connection to 3M was working and you were able to upload to the PC.

Yeah, I agree. That's the hardest part. Unless it was doing something super trivial (like check a license or something) then it would be hard to reverse engineer.
Of course it will depend who you ask; but most Ethereum developers at least would probably agree that the word “trustless” shouldn’t be interpreted literally as “without trust” to the extent your comments suggest, just as “serverless” systems might still involve servers. Call it a misnomer; there’s plenty in the English language.
> at the time, I thought it meant forever, silly me

Nothing is forever. Any time any company is promising something that is "unlimited" or "forever", they're lying. They have to be, because the economics of holding true to infinities preclude them.
Governments seem to think they have the right to tell their citizens what they can and can't see for some vague, washy terms like "safety" or "for your own good". Sure it has good intentions like removing explicit images/revenge porn, or things like CSAM - I'm all for blocking and criminally charging the posters of that content - but quickly reviewing AU's Online Safety Act, it seems to give governments the power to severely limit speech based on arbitrary definitions like "cyber bullying" and "Cyber Abuse"

Twitter should give governments full access to the "firehose" of tweets, then give them a portal/API that allows them to censor tweets based on content that the government finds offensive/against their laws with immediate results - with the caveat that Twitter shows a notice along the lines of "The government of <country> has determined this tweet to be a violation of <law name> and has been censored in your country by <country> government officials". Maybe even have a custom list of reasons that are pulled from said governments' online harm laws that governments can apply to them as part of the notice.

That way, Twitter doesn't have to have the overhead of needing "Trust and Safety" departments that have to follow every government's decrees and laws - and the governments get full access to all the tweets made on Twitter's platform with the freedom to limit what their citizens have access to (barring VPN workarounds).

If the government wants to censor/control speech, give them the tools to do it, and make sure to let everybody know that they're doing it.
Everything in moderation I suppose. I've experimented with marking large blocks (2-4hrs) as tentative for IC work a couple days/week recurring and it does help avoid the Swiss cheese of 30m meetings spread across the entire day.

Lately for a 1-3 day horizon I've been adding everything I'm working on as blocked. That definitely helps me visualize my priorities for the next couple days and whether I have room to fit more meetings or tasks. The main downside is I'm used to a more free-flowing schedule where I pick a task based on how I'm feeling.
I would recommend against trying to self-prescribe addictive substances.
Anyone would move for a limited time period for a life changing amount of money like $20m/year.

But for realistic wages in my field, I doubt there is anywhere that would pay me enough to move. Short of moving into management (which I have little experience with) the most I could expect for making a move would be about an extra $40-60k/year moving to the Bay area which would basically cover the difference in cost of living and maybe a little extra pocket change.

That's not really worth it for me.
Most people actually like their families. Many people have come to that realization with the pandemic.
Hot take: one cause of depression is people telling you that you should feel anxious about something for validation on the internet.
"There were 1,000,000 different doom-prophets in this civilization. 1 of them knew what she was talking about. The people mocked the doom-prophets. Doom-mocking was a safe career, 99.9999% of the time they were correct. Ruin came for them all the same."
There are some interesting patterns/behaviours with Langton's ants.

In a wrap around world (e.g. moving off the left/right will enter the other side), the ant will collide with its "hive" (starting blob) or "highway" (diagonal pattern) and repeat a hive-highway construction cycle.

With two ants, depending on their starting position, they will end up in one of 3 patterns:

1. A hive-highway pattern like one ant;

2. As 1, but will collide with each other, then undo their construction until they go back to the beginning and then repeat this pattern;

3. Race around each other in an expanding diamond pattern. If the world is a wrap around world, when they reach one edge, they will start to undo/shrink the diamond, generating an expanding-collapsing diamond pattern.

It's also interesting playing around with more colours/states, and different rules (180deg turn, no turn).

With these generalized turmites, I've seen them create/use "super highway" constructs. -- A "super highway" is a straight line of a single colour where a turmite's behviour for that colour is to not turn. -- It will then race forward along that highway.
> until 2016, when they started sliding back.

I really doubt there are statistics to back this up. More likely, the number of people consuming rage-bait (drawing attention to the worst) on social media such as reddit has done up.

Without such social media, an asshole yells abuse in a store and it ruins the day of 20 people in earshot. With social media, it gets uploaded and viewed by 20,000 people.
Report reveals Android users switching to iPhone at 5-year high
Could be an old persistent job opening.

These kinds of openings are open running enrollments. They are always looking for good people. And whenever they find someone, they hire. And also quickly fire if they are no longer relevant.
Big tech companies have entire departments dedicated to this sort of engineering, usually developer platform/experience/productivity, or other similar infra/platform orgs. I'm an author of an open source framework who got scouted to work at one (and I'm currently a staff eng).

IME, yes there's comparatively far more CRUD roles than platform roles. But bluntly speaking as someone who's been on both sides of the fence, platform roles are not for everyone. For these roles, there is a expectation of quality by very technical stakeholders and this creates some pressures and incentives that don't necessarily exist in orgs that cater to non-technical faceless stakeholders.

In practice, a big challenge is to avoid being someone who is "not hardcore enough" (i.e. incapable of implementing large scale reusability due to lack of ability, tendency to cave to timeline or other pressures, or distaste for "office politics") but also avoid being "too hardcore" and being constantly in the weeds chasing some cool clever idea that might not align w/ overall picture.

One thing that is often overlooked in open source projects with sizable communities is the amount of cat herding you need to do. People have all sorts of ideas for "features and improvements" and sometimes your job as a BDFL may be to say "no" to your most ardent supporters. This also happens a lot for staff level platform work.
Your answer implies that the GDPR repels tech companies, which I would like to see a convincing proof of.

AFAIK, so far the UK is quite happy with the GDPR and has no plans to abandon it.
I made a friendly email address that tells you if an email is a phishing scam
I made a friendly email address to which you can forward sketchy emails (for free) and it tells you whether the email is a phishing scam.

Super proud to launch it on Product Hunt (see link in title).

I also wrote a launch post about how it only cost me $27/month to build and maintain: https://www.lydiaoncybersecurity.com/launching-isthisphishy
I suspect that this is just one prong of a 2-pronged economic renovation. The other being an end to hard currency.

Just got back from Austin. Cashiers telling me "card only". Because it's more hygienic. For my health.

Yeah.
I don't think any of those are addictive actually
I used to buy MX Master or whatever every year. We have several people and a bunch of computers in our house, so I bought around 20 or 25 of these "high end" mice.

But about half of them died within 15-16 months. And by "died" I mean, 1 click became either 0 (bad) or 2 (much much worse!).

None died within the 1-year warranty period, though. So that matches your experience. And the mice are so good I was almost OK with that, but not with more than 1-2 mice.

So then I bought a shitload of non-logitech mice, but.. it's hard. Ignoring the awful software and premature mechanical degradation, there really aren't better mice. I ended up with mostly ASUS ROG Chakram (good, but laughable charging flaws) and Razer Basilisk 3 Pro (good, but not good enough for the insane price; costs more than my first car).
This will be the case. They're just moving the goal post to a safe distance for now.
I don't believe you bloomberg. I think you are lying.
I'd rather say it's a PITA. And an even bigger PITA is to comply with the different rules, which vary from tracker to tracker of course. I had multiple accounts deactivated because I haven't logged in for a specific time for example.

There are different ways to get into trackers, if you want to embark on the journey. You can get an invite directly, you can buy one (against TOS, if they find out they ban you & the inviter usually), there are sometimes free registration periods, and they sometimes do cross-promotion, like if you're a member at X for a time, then you can register to Y.

For games, maybe a lesser PITA is to look for repackers. But of course, as these are on the open internet, there are clones too.
Which makes sense why CBT style therapy has shown effectiveness because its main focus is challenging those interpretations. No doubt even with those tools it is still a major challenge.
Big Basin is by far one of my favorite state parks in the entire country.

I spent what seemed like a "brief" gap year from college working for a startup in the Bay Area and spent all of my weekends hiking / camping. In 2016/2017 there was a huge rain season that caused washouts but I was dumb enough to drive all the way over the foothills to Big Basin. It was probably unwise but I'd never seen a forest explode with life like that before. Everything from the moss, to grasses and ferns all almost glowed with color. Mushrooms erupted from the ground almost anywhere you looked. And new waterways had recently cut through the forest. It was an incredible sight to witness first-hand.

I was into hiking before, but my time in Big Basin was a low-key religious experience. It was the first time I truly looked at a beautiful forest and thought to myself "why on earth would you cut all of this down to build ugly tract homes?"

I'm sad to hear about the CZU fires in 2020, however I'm of the opinion that fires happen and no ecosystem is intended to exist as we experience it forever. As I've gotten older, I've found memories I can no longer physically revisit in the same condition are some of my strongest and most cherished. That said, I hope conservationist can help support the forest as it heals.
I used Firefox and various ad blockers for years and never had any problems with CloudFlare.

VPN usage seems to be a common one as it's often shared with people who abuse it to attack others.
Returning to Spinoza does not mean defaulting to the dogmatism of metaphy (cont)
I think adding telemetry to a compiler goes in the opposite direction of the current "minimal privileges, sandbox all the things" trend.

For instance, it would make sense to create a set of selinux rules (or something like it) to make sure that a compiler cannot do anything other than reading its input files (and system headers/libraries/etc) and writing to its output directory, even if for instance a buffer overflow triggered by a malicious source code file led to running shell code within the compiler. Having to allow access to the network for the telemetry would require weakening these rules.

It reminds me of the classic "confused deputy" article (https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2015/readings/confused-deput...), which coincidentally also involved a compiler tracking statistics about its usage.
How would the service pay for itself? Are you willing to pay?

re: B, D) Could data mining be okay for public feeds where people choose to be anonymous?

Could private groups be peer-to-peer encrypted so the network can't identify the participants, can't decrypt and can't mine the conversation?

If I build it will you come?
With fastest any% speedrun for Dead Space (2023) currently sitting at 1h44m22s, I'd say this is a great challenge.
Much better options than TurboTax already exist. I don’t know that a new one, even written by the government, will make a huge dent.
If you are a homeowner it is almost insane to move. Most people I know could not afford their house if they were buying it today. Often by a huge margin. Moving would mean becoming a renter again and losing a much larger chunk of their paycheck every month to housing. It’s too late to start a whole new 30 year mortgage, even when you account for the proceeds from selling their existing house. Prices are insane. This is a natural consequence of home prices doubling or tripling over the past 10 years.
Yep.

https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/057401f5f2b4bb1...
I think a psychologist treating avoidance is a very different thing than forcing someone to go. As I said, I don't think kids shouldn't go to school, but I think you get more flies with psychiatric honey than vinegar.
You don't need to understand anything when you can google the answer. I can get an A in the most advanced physics class in Stanford if you had the answer sheet to every test right next to me. That doesn't mean I understand it, it just means I have an A on the paper.

Except this isn't about advanced physics, it's about basic education that children should know to exist as functioning human beings. You are putting way too much trust in a child to not do what they are being incentivized to do - cheat and get an A while putting in no effort.
I think the evidence that school is extremely important is weak at best. For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers by 6th grade: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-learn/2010...

There have been other studies where students who had to miss large amounts of school due to a natural disaster caught up within a few years and there was no measurable difference in adulthood.
Keep in mind, the divorce rate as also increased. That has:

Increased housing demand

Limited the collective buying power of both households
Honestly if you're moving just for a job, you're a sucker.

You need to be moving so that you can be in a city you want to be in, you get offered at least 50% more money in nominal terms probably 20% in real terms, or you're making a crazy career jump.

The employer <-> employee relationship is just way too skewed in favor of the employer.

They will cut you loose immediately if situations change. There's no reason for workers to be loyal to employers as a result. So why move for one?
I'd hope that we could all agree on something so empirically verifiable and obvious.
What's wrong with sway?
I've been thru 2(3?) offshoring crazes already in tech...
and yet, the tech market now is bigger/better paying then ever.
what's the problem with bare minimum? i get paid the bare minimum my company is willing to give me. it cuts both ways.
This. The HMRC system is excellent and should be in the realm of possibility for America. The UK economy is very similar to ours.

And as an American who lived in the UK for a few years I did have to file a self assessment, which had me pretty scared.

My UK tax return was ~5 pages long and took me ~2 hours to complete. My US tax return for the same year was ~200 pages long and took an accountant weeks to complete. I don't do anything interesting (I have a wage-earning job and some stock investments, I own no property in any country).
By accepting telemetry as a standard practice, it won't be a choice soon.