skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's so obvious about it? Literally every BIG_CORP except Apple has tried (and failed) at this.
Samsung has their own malware.
Background installation for 3rd party apps was added in Android 12. You only have to complete the manual approval the first time
...what? Japan has recently been cracking down pretty hard on the Yakuza.
Nordpass lets you self-host your password database.

1Password stop doing that and makes you use only their own cloud infrastructure.
I don't hate the idea in general (a lot of cafes near me are laptop-free!), but the framing in this post is so judge-y and negative. There was a few sentences in the beginning were positive, but it quickly devolved into ranting about things that have changed and improved the lives for millions.

Are iPhones overbearing? Sure. But they enable people to stay connected with family, meet new people, work remotely, and more. I'm not against a place that prefers phones stay in your pocket, but why frame it via moral outrage rather than being welcoming? Can you imagine the conversations you'd find yourself in at this place, given this is how the "owner" sees the world?

And maybe what bothers me the most is that it's a blog post. Written on a screen and read via a screen. Blog posts are cheap to write; building a true Third Place is really really hard.
Huh? NFL is a theorem on optimisation, not AI
related: https://scrapbox.io/MECHKEYS/
Sounds like a good idea, but no cards is a dealbreaker for me.
Isn't this the main selling point of PowerShell?
Just ordered it !
I have to get ready to lose $100 on shipping costs back and forth to the US in case I have to return in 2 weeks.

I am returning keychron S1 I recently ordered from Amazon.

I’ve the years every now and then I try out mech kbs to ease my RSI (shoulder) issues and nothing stuck and I kept going back to MacBook just because of the convenience of the trackpad between the fingers.

I will see if the UHK is a keeper :)
I'll second hledger (well I use ledger but essentially same thing).

To add on for others, importing the data can be done with CSV, but the software itself has a lot of tools that let you automate your imports so you can categorize expenditures into accounts. This is all done via plain text file formats so it's very easy to get the end result you want using any combination of text processing tools you like.
I disagree. While I personally probably wouldn't patronize a cafe like this, there's definitely a niche target market that would love it.

Even if the business isn't appealing to 95% of the public, as long as you find a passionate 5% you can make a business model out of it.
well, this is how Linus Tech Tips Youtube account was taken over.
Gallery of DIY Mechanical Keyboards
Ask HN: Did being an entrepreneur break your relationship?
The Machine Stops (E. M. Forster)

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (L. Ron Hubbard)

https://books.google.com/books?id=KF2hckiYTocC&printsec=copy...

L. Ron Hubbard - Space Jazz - 1982 - Full Album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNaqh4PLME
> DBs who have never used Postgres

PostgreSQL is great for single instances but is poor when it comes to high availability and horizontal scalability.

Be curious what use cases where engineers are writing their own database but it is single instance.
I have actually thought about this a lot in my life, I think a good compromise is to develop regional constructed languages that correspond to geography and current culture.

So for example, here in Alaska, Athabaskan languages are mostly dead, Yupik and Inupiaq is still around but English is predominant pretty much everywhere except west Alaska and the occasional community. Sugpiaq and Alutiiq are basically gone, Tlingit has a revival but it’s not around, Eyak is dead, etc.

Why don’t we create a blended conlang that can take pieces of each of these languages in the form of vocabulary and grammar - even though they’re very different grammatically and in terms of lexicon, we can make a language that is relatively easy for people to learn because it’s regular, substantially different than English so it’s not “colonizer-tongue” and largely unique to the geography of the place.

You could do the same thing in Europe to create lingua-francas.
There are lots of possible hardware issues, yes.

But I don't think I'm being a fanboy when I say that if I trust any company to fix physical comfort/usability issues, it's Apple (with a $3,000/device budget).
You can't sign almost any contract in Japan without certifying that you're not a yakuza member, which makes it impossible to do things such as sign up for mobile phone service or even attend a concert.
With customization through Oryx, I've been able to make Ergodox / Moonlander quite amenable to many games that use MKB, especially those that make use of number keys, such as MMOs, by overlaying 1-5+macro with various combinations of double taps, holds, and tap-holds to represent 1-0-= and C-_ variants. So while it takes some customization, you can make such keyboards quite tractable for single-handed modes for individual pieces of software or for general use, with practice.
Android file transfer is implemented via the terrible ancient standard MTP[0] which has spotty support anywhere but Windows.

I wish Android devices instead worked like iPods, which had a partition that mounted as a plain old USB/Firewire disk when plugged into a computer.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
All the rewards I've ever had were points or cashback at or below 2% of spend. These are/were all zero annual fee cards - there might be more rewards at higher tiers.
Wasn’t TJ Holowaychuk confirmed to be an AI, or a group of people like Bourbaki? He never showed up at any events :)

https://qr.ae/pyvfKK
I've been using ledger for over decade with a few tiny startup businesses. Once you get the hang of it and setup your own system and workflow, it's a joy to use. The first dollar I spend when kicking off a new business – or even the possibility of one – goes into a new ledger file. Much better than reaching for spreadsheet software or Quickbooks. Zero overhead, instant accounting. Love it.
I began my 3D graphics development on a Symbolics workstation at the MIT Media Lab in the mid-80's. This was before the S-Graphics suite was released. [0]

The outstanding feature of the S-Graphics suite was the polygonal modeler which used a winged-edge structure that was far ahead of its time. It survives conceptually in the Wings3D system, which is a quite faithful copy of that modeler.

And of course you got the extensibility that came with the graphics system being built on Lisp.

But Symbolics was never, as far as I saw, a serious or popular contender in 3D production. Not only was the system expensive, but the hardware could not keep up with SGI's graphics abilities. Furthermore, the mass of CG developers at the time came from a C/Unix background, and rendering especially was so speed critical that C (and Fortran) resulted in faster systems.

Almost 40 years later, I have returned to the idea of developing a 3D system in Common Lisp [1]. We shall see where it leads.

[0] https://medium.com/@kaveh808/late-night-lisp-machine-hacking...

[1] https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9
Doesn't Exist Wish Fulfillment Rant That You Posted Online Cafe
Malicious bots have gotten sophisticated enough that SMS verification and velocity controls are one of the few ways to manage Sybil attacks. Device and IP based systems can’t cope with the onslaught.
> - The No Screens Cafe accepts cash only.

Welcome to Germany ...
Pretty much all card readers use a screen, even if it is just a cheap green one.

You could design one without, which would be interesting, but good luck integrating with the major cc companies.
I'd like to hear more about what you know of EU identity theft. Specifically as I am from Belgium, my bank is protected with 2FA and my eID identity card should protect me from criminals creating contracts on my name. While probably not bulletproof, I can't really name recent common identity theft troubles. Most damage seems to happen by providing the android/apple/steam/... stores direct access to your bank account or identity, so AFAIK the main advice here is: don't.

Also: What is your alternative? I hate my own post above, but can't really think of anything better.
Bill Gates Says His Life Has Been Filled with Deep Regret
It was after that renovation (after which it also started to charge an entrance fee. Before that it was free to visit) when I realized what a fantastic and innovative building it actually is.

Alas, a lot of commenters seem to strongly disagree.

It seems very much: Love it or hate it. But there's not much middle ground.
Georgia’s air polluted with fewer emissions as coal-fired production winds down
I've seen this first hand on Upwork as well.
We would accept cards, but all the payment terminals have a screen. We looked into getting an imprinter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter) but they're especially vulnerable to fraud, and most cards don't work with them anymore because they aren't embossed.

If you can't pay with cash, you're welcome to wash a load of dishes.
Do tech people execute such exe files? Doesn't seem like a novelty method, does it?
This actually exists in many cities already, nothing new. I know at least a few places in NYC like this that I've been to, as well as in other cities. Sadly, I didn't mark them down on the map but you can find them easily on Google I'm sure.

Overall, the experience is pretty nice, you can chat with friends and sip some good coffee. These places usually have much higher quality coffee than other shops, since they're often specialty cafes.
yeah I want a drug induced version of that where I can't feel satisfied until I figure out that I need to exercise

but its pretty clear what I'm asking I don't have to keep re-explaining that, for thanks for chiming in.
Where is this cafe? It doesn't say, so it's not a very good advert for their service. Anyway, I'd like to check out the Co-work cafe next door.
Philosophy’s Obsession with Language Unravelled
While we’re sending warnings, watch out for jobs which have “on-call” responsibilities as they’re essentially SRE jobs and can make you work on nights and weekends.
seems reasonable. Maybe this explanation could be present in the game when the user searches one of these blacklisted emojis?
> Yet it is the most stable, the most open, the most proven, and the most supported PKI technology, supporting both encryption and signatures.

You're completely ignoring the CA system used for TLS. In the niche segment of encrypted/signed email, S/MIME sees an order of magnitude or two more use than PGP. Even DNSSEC, for all its issues, is probably more used than PGP.
"Rent-seeking" is generally a perjorative term.

I let out a family house. The rent is the greater part of my pension. I used to live there, until I was divorced (it was too big for one person). It's been clear to me for decades that freehold land was a better investment (here) than investing in a conventional pension; and I lived through the outright theft by Robert Maxwell of the whole of his staff's occupational pension fund. So I paid off my mortgage as quickly as I could.

Regarding the chores, that someone mentioned upthread: I have a long-term tenant, a family. Their kids go to school around the corner. They mow the lawn. They always pay the rent by bank transfer. I hire tradesmen to deal with the gas, plumbing and electricals. I visit twice a year to check that everything's OK. These aren't really problems.

And rental housing is scarce where I live. It's a university town with several important hospitals, and surrounded by a no-development green belt. I'm providing a social benefit.

I'm not sure when this kind of "rent-seeking" turns into the kind of rent-seeking of which people disapprove.
Not in the low-margin coffee and scone business you can't.
I've now released this as `sqlite-utils` 3.32: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v...

To install:

pipx install sqlite-utils

Then add the trogon dependency - this command ensures it gets added to the correct virtual environment:

sqlite-utils install trogon

Then run this:

sqlite-utils tui

Screenshot in the docs: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#cli-tui
There are plenty of cafes and bars all over the world where people hang out, chat, socialize. They all operate just fine without any of these written rules or the judgmental and pretentious attitude of the author.

I find more and more that people who write these daily "technology is killing the world", "people don't talk to each other these days" posts are the ones who are most addicted to their screens and looking for a way out. I can sympathize, but online rants aren't going to fix your problems. Shut your computer and phone, step out of your house and go start a conversation with someone. You can do it at your neighborhood coffee shop right now, and I can guarantee you will make new friends in minutes.
Seeing this gave me the idea that we should add flowchart-style visualization of executable specifications written in our system-level specification & query language, SpeQTr (https://docs.auxon.io/speqtr/).

We already do some things to extract flowchart/state-diagram like topology information from collected system traces, but given how much of our customer workflows center around requirements & specifications, I think going the direction of communicating the underlying detailed specification more abstractly would be a big win.
Just my 2c. I don't trust any cloud keypasses myself, and you shouldn't either. The way I been doing this is having a regular text file with all my passwords that is then encrypted by veracrypt and encrypted file container is then hosted in a pCloud. I used to do it with DropBox until one time their new version stopped doing bit-by-bit comparison, something pCloud does.
53 bit integers should be enough for anyone

(in practice for config it usually is but enforcing it is horribly patchy)
The Nights Dawn trilogy[1] is my all time personal favorite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night%27s_Dawn_Trilogy
Seems like it is in the USA, if it exists, and mentions it's in a city. It's a pretentious enough idea that it might actually work in a US city.
Uber chief DEI officer put on leave
Wow, this is really embarassing. I'm a bit shocked that they thought it is ok to autogenerate a FAQ with an AI. It's dishonest and irresponsible.
The UHK is moderately annoying if you frequently need to do chorded combinations that involve the escape key, function keys, or cursor control keys. Since you have to access those keys through an modifier key, the chord you need to hit requires adding that key. You can work around it to some extent with macros and key remapping but it still makes me wish I had a third hand.

I like the UHK in terms of build quality and functionality but it would be much, much better if it were a 75% layout instead of a 60% layout.
People forget that Apple's first laptop had a trackball, not a touchpad:

https://www.macworld.com/article/229228/the-evolution-of-app...

There was also a laptop with this mouse "thing" that pulled out of the right side. Not Apple, I can't remember who made it.

Keyboards with integrated mice, trackballs and touchpads have been done a million times. You can buy them today in many forms (switch to image search to see the options):

https://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+with+integrated+mou...

That said, trackpads are horrible things. They exist because they are massively cheaper to integrate into laptops than trackballs or having to ship something like a docking mouse, etc. They also reduce mechanical complexity and likely less issues on many other fronts.

In other words, trackpads are a huge win for manufacturers and a massive UI/UX loss for users.

Sure, for occasional browsing or low intensity tasks, no problem. Anything works. The little pointing gizmo on my Lenovo is there for when I have no other option. However, for anything that requires some level of complexity or performance on quickly learns trackpads just don't work. For me this means CAD, coding, applications like Excel, graphics work, etc. I use a thumb-operated trackball, have been doing so for decades. If I was forced to use a trackpad every day and had no other choice I would take a sledge hammer to the computer...that's no way to live.

I would imagine gamers have a similar opinion. I used to play games like Doom and Duke Nukem bak in the day. My performance using a trackball, when compared to others using mice of the era was just impossible to beat.
> All apps have network access by default and there’s nothing you can do about it without jailbreaking.

There is another option - buy an iPhone in China:

iOS: Disable WiFi (not just cellular) for specific apps without jailbreaking https://tinyapps.org/blog/202209100700_ios-disable-wifi-per-...
Awesome-photogrammetry – (A curated list of) awesome photogrammetry projects
Show HN: Lightweight, open source FlatFile clone
Hi HN!

I built this for my own company, but I figured there might be a chance it will be useful for others too.

We explored Flatfile and they quoted us pretty insane prices: ~12k + 4k for every "shape" of import. Since we were looking for a solution to import 4 different types of data (users, locations, etc), it would've come out to about 28k / year.

But their product is fantastic, and so I figured I'd try to shamelessly copy their UX. It's not quite there yet in terms of aesthetics, but we will continue to invest in it since it's currently being used already in production with great user feedback.

Here is the link to the project: https://czhu12.github.io/react-importer/
A thought experiment. If the problems (housing for teachers, for example) could be solved in a way which demoted "the 1%" from their position, would they be evil for not accepting that solution?
This happens in the content creator world as well, an agency contacts you and says to sign a contract by executing an exe file they send you. Very clearly a scam.
> Sorry, the No Screens Cafe doesn’t have wi-fi. Maybe try the Cowork Cafe next door.

It's interesting that sometime in the 2000s, there became an expectation that coffee shops became a workplace. I can't think of another food service business where the expectation is that anyone can come in, buy a single item, demand the wifi password, and work from that space for multiple hours.
A variation of this - a fake job offer, allowed scammers to steal $540 million dollars in crypto tokens. [0]

I guess the scammer assumed as a contractor, you may have access to other customer systems they could exploit.

The internet be crazy, ya'll.

[0] https://www.theblock.co/post/156038/how-a-fake-job-offer-too...
there are a variety of clubhouses with rules like this. they can be quite byzantine like "laptops only usable in this section, until 4pm" or something like that

but I appreciate it a lot!
BOM is not the only cost in a product.
This really escalated quickly. From a cozy, stress free environment to "we killed God" and "cars kill people and cities". Quite the roller coaster.

Too bad. If it were a laid back place to meet people and have interesting discussions, it might have been worth checking out.
I've heard there are power glitching exploits (Picofly, Hwfly) for newer Switches including OLED.
Google PMs on Stripe
HW sites always tested immediately following paste applications, which of course was imminently reproducible, but to me it's more important what it's going to perform like in a year, two years, even three. Understandably that's orders of magnitude more expensive to test.
I found their comment actually insightful and I don't think they deserve that sarcasm.
You are talking about data transfer encoding. Configuration languages are a completely different beast.
> The No Screens Cafe accepts cash only. You can get this from your bank! It’s not illegal yet.

In Singapore shops can legally do not accept cash as payment as long as they provide written notice: https://www.mas.gov.sg/currency/circulation-currency/accepti....

I've seen a few of them personally.
Interesting that you mention the value 10 GB, as it is the size of a DynamoDB partition or an AWS Aurora cell...
Thanks for the rec, put it on my tbr. I have only read True Names by VV.
It's light-hearted/snarky/humorous/satirical. You're reading it completely straight-laced which is not the authorial intent. Surely the joke about buses and "we killed God" was a hint?
We really need some smart card cryptographic mechanisms for those without a smart phone, similar to Estonia’s smart card digital ID system. Asking everyone to have a smart phone to be identity proofed is simply not reasonable.
It's not required for McKinsey consultants. It's also not required for therapists.

What makes a good consultant or therapist is adaptation to the person they're consulting for / therapizing, as well as a knowledge-base on what has worked for others in similar situations in the real world.

I agree with you, "visionary" doesn't seem like a good credential for either of these, unless said "visionary" is working with someone who has a lot of drive but not a lot of vision.
I have zero issues if parsers choose to do this but I wouldn’t argue that it shouldn’t be a required part of the specification. If comments need to be preserved then they’re part of the schema and should be a (for example) string field rather than comment.
The Price of Crypto
This is easily done, in Bermuda Rock Island Cafe is cash only but you can also have an account with them that is run on file cards that you can top up. Since their coffee is the best coffee on the island no one minds the extra hassle.
Cash only isn't unheard of. I carry a little bit with me. But it's pretty rare for something like a cafe, restaurant, etc. and I expect a lot of people don't carry cash especially if they just stick a few cards on the back of their phones.

That said, I'm pretty sure this is just an exercise in imagining a very retro sort of establishment. I have a lot of trouble imagining a place like this working.
Cash only, no phones? This is what we in the UK call a "Sam Smith's pub". It's not typically that fun a time, though the beer is cheap.
So racketeering, extortion, arson, kidnapping, human trafficking, drugs, rape, torture, vandalism, child porn and murder are all fine but lying on a form is a bridge too far for the yakuza?
fortunately we are realizing that this is not an economic problem, it is a "poison survival" problem
Archived: https://archive.ph/xiprh
China tells tech manufacturers to stop using Micron chips
It doesn't. But it does help LE and our elected officials to stand behind these practices and legislation to prove that people are prosecuted for the heinous crime of being part of collateral damage.

I've emailed my senators on the EARN IT Act here in the US. None of them have engaged in the conversation even after multiple times reaching out. What's really annoying to me is that they are elected and paid with my tax dollars, yet the best they can do is send me some precanned non-response and all of them hide behind form contact these days. There's no way to email them directly anymore because they don't want to have to deal with that open line of communication. While I understand that I'm sure there are a lot of horrible things that get sent to them - that's the job. And there's plenty of ways to filter abusers in 2023.
Chromebooks managed it, made by OEMs. The issue with Linux is pervasively user-hostile design in the name of GNU ideology, not Microsoft
Ageed, it is a though experiment with a sardonic bent, nothing else.
If "cache" means .newsrc.eld, 10s of MB seems rather large. I wonder what the corruption was, since it doesn't sound like anything I can remember in ages using Gnus. .newsrc.eld does have backups in the same way as other files.

If you're missing XOAUTH2 authentication, there is an Emacs auth-source backend for it.