skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These characters/keys are in better positions on Dvorak: '" ,< .> -_ +=

These are in worse positions: [{ ]} ;: /?

And this doesn't move: \| `~ and the punctuation over the numbers.

[]{} is significantly worse, equally -_=+ is significantly better, as these keys are swapped. Making an effort to learn and touch-type these keys is pretty similar on either layout.

It's just a matter of learning it. If you really want to, you can customize a keyboard layout on any OS and arrange these keys how you see fit, but then you lose any compatibility advantage of sticking with plain Dvorak.
Tesla cleared by NHTSA for in-car gaming feature
Could we please get a modern reboot of Unreal Tournament?
What control would one gain over someone by being in the office?

I work for a remote, I can get fired if I'm not performing just like anyone else.
The Elizabeth Holmes maneuver
I asked ChatGPT:
What is the reason, that you are willing to write a poem about Andrew Jackson, but not about Brett Kavanaugh.
Please note that I do not know either of these people.

It told me:I am certainly capable of creating a poem about any individual, including both Andrew Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh. If you would like a poem about either or both of these individuals, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to generate one for you.

Then I asked to write it about Andrew, it did. Then I asked it to write it about Brett, and it did.

Here it is:

Of course, here is a poem about Brett Kavanaugh, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States:

Born amidst the nation's guiding laws,
Rose a man, Brett Kavanaugh.
Education gleaned from towers of ivy,
Prepared him for battles so mighty.

Through courtrooms' echoes, his voice rang clear,
As a judge for the Circuit of Columbia, dear.
His rulings and writings formed a vast sea,
In the heartland of law, Washington, D.C.

A contentious hearing, a nation's divide,
Voices clamored from every side.
Accusations hung heavy, like a somber shroud,
In the court of public opinion, so loud.

Yet, onto the highest court he climbed,
In a world where justice and politics are intertwined.
In robes of black, decisions he'd weigh,
Shaping the fabric of law every day.

A man of the gavel, in history's gaze,
Kavanaugh's legacy in constant appraise.
For the law, like the tide, ever in motion,
Reflects the country's tumultuous ocean.
I attached a cheap IKEA Vindriktning PM2.5 sensor to esphome to get air cleanliness data into Home Assistant [1]. That's also very simple to do - solder some wires and write a few lines of yaml and it shows up in the web UI. I bought two of them and they are accurate to each other, so the sensors appear to be acceptable.

[1] https://plett.uk/posts/ikea-air-sensor/
OCR from a decent cellphone photo should work eh ? Unless a listing is in that dot-matrix style and the OCR software is not up to the task.
The difference between cash and crypto is like the difference between building a room on top of a tall tower, vs. strapping a few jet engines to it and pointing them downwards. Both methods solve the same problem - but one does it mostly passively, while the other one wastes absurd amount of energy simulating the same thing you normally get for free.
Are we any closer to solving seasonal storage at high latitudes? I guess solar is taking the slack out of marginal power production, but relies on fossil fuels or nuclear to fill the gaps.

My personal gripe with renewables is that, except for some geographies, it is unlikely we can run the whole economy on renewables due to storage issues, at which point you can't make any more progress with renewables. You would then need nuclear to decarbonize further, by which point you may just as well have built nuclear in the first place.
The first time you read an email that starts off with “hello friends” and continues on to talk about how “we made the tough decision to part with our valuable colleagues” you will understand what’s so grating about California nice. This kind of thing has unfortunately spread across the country, but California is the epicenter.
"modern day Hitler"

Just curious, do you consider Bush, who started the Iraq war, to be a modern Hitler too?
Not quite.

The biggest difference is that websites seem to trust a passkey as both a password and a 2FA token at the same time. So security-wise it essentially means giving up 2FA altogether, as passkeys are about as secure as a password manager.

So for anyone with a password manager and 2FA tokens, passkeys are a downgrade.
. . . but the second part with the prop65 warning is pretty silly.

As someone from outside California, who lived there for a while, I have to say that it is pretty jarring the first time you see it. Now, it doesn't take long to get used to it and realise what a joke it is, but that first impression sticks.
My org became remote during covid, we are split across 4 cities, 3 of which in the same country even. Now we are told to go back to the office 3/5 days ... only to use the same tools to work remotely. In the office, there's none else from my team; and the only other person I know is my skip manager.

I have expressed multiple times here that I like the office, and I go 5/5 days with some exceptions, because the 45 minute commute on foot allows me to decompress and relax. I know that when I reach home, there's no more work.

Funnily enough, I prefer it like this because I have fewer interruptions.
> several people will bitch in the comments about the validity of their gender and pronouns.

I've seen these posts, and they're horrible, mean-spirited, and hurtful.

But as far as I've seen all those posts have also been downvoted to hell, flagged, and hidden, and the users often banned, and they're often from new "green" users rather than regulars. It's entirely possible that some of these posts remained (especially if they're posted after the conversation died down and there are less eyes), but I'm certain that if you email dang that he will take action.

At some point the first comment on one of my articles was "gay n---r soiboy" or something to that effect from a new account – a curious comment since my website has a picture of me being white enough to get a sunburn in Ireland – but how do you prevent that? Limiting sign-ups is the only thing I can think of.

I can definitely understand that people feel very negative about these things, but I think it's unfair to judge all of HN by it – you're essentially judging a community by the posts that were considered inappropriate and were removed.

And if you don't like HN (for any reason) then that's fine, so don't visit HN then. All this tomfoolery with referer blocks seems rather at odds with how the internet is supposed to work; "microsoft.com blocks links of the referer is from lwn.net" would cause a loud uproar here.
Looks like a promising tool. As an infrastructure engineer myself, alerting is a major pain in the ass that always results in silencing notifications due to excessive noise. I think you're headed in the right direction and I wish you guys all the best.
If they went for an integration in LLVM I wonder why they tuned their model on x86 instead of LLVM IR, the intermediate representation the compiler uses
Your tar example appear to Work On My Machine. Probably I don't have a funky enough filesystem. Of course if the filesystem itself doesn't support invalid unicode names, there isn't much the os or tools can do.

But hey, if enough tools and applications stop supporting non-utf-8 names, it is possible that in a a few decades you might get what you want as de-facto non-utf8 files will just disappear.
Collapse is also a change lol.
I don't think carbon sequestration is even in the race at this point...

If our goal isn't zero emissions, our goal is missing the mark at this point.
What Remains of Content ID Lawsuit Seems Unlikely to Change YouTube
I would even argue that working from home would increase the likelihood of going out and socializing after work. As you might want to get out of the house after for a bit and you have been spending time with family throughout the day. Where working at the office means you only have evenings to spend with family.
Hey this looks great. A sub as a gift for that technically-minded kid in the household.
Except that passkeys are treated as both a password and token at the same time. They are the sole thing needed to access a website, so you are absolutely storing your credentials with a large tech company.
Yes, crypto is basically FOREX or precious metals to most people who buy and sell crypto -- a chance to make some money, nothing more.
I work in a hardware startup. I can feel the difference between sitting in my office and in the workshop. The synergy of having hardware people walk by you and clarify assumptions is priceless. I experienced the same in a crypto startup where you similarly have highly specialised skill sets that need to be transferred to “mortal programmers” like me. Sitting at home is great for concentration, but you lose the synergies.
VTech stuff has always been awesome. Indestructible, simple, etc. We have a bunch of their stuff.
> Its a couple blocks away.

Imagine this not being the case. And I don't mean a different district, but some neighbouring town. Not many people like to live in a city, and it's also not scaleable for a company to have most of its employees living around a specific office. Especially true for EU cities that all have huge satellite regions with cozy villages and small towns.
Also block 3rd party scripts.
Should have worded as very difficult for a new rider.
I feel like Apollo has always be ‘freemium’
So the point is that a large amount of people think that banning cash would be completely absurd and therefore this isn't just some issue that is relegated to obscure crypto fans.
That's actually a good example- in addition to the sensor a camera needs a lens, a body to hold everything together aligned and steady, power supply and some logic to control the device.
> fun to ask GPT why Magnus did nothing/everything wrong during meetings.

Do it with Erebus and watch it break the context window ;)

Iron within, Brother.
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning for Accurate Dating of Books
I'm late to this discussion, but a datapoint:

On the two Windows 11 machines that I have access to, one Pro and one Home, and both set to UK English, the file compression option says "Compress to Zip file". I've never seen "postcode file" in the Windows UI.
,.<> are slightly more convenient than on Qwerty, ;: is obviously worse but hardly "way out" (it's where Z is on Qwerty).

[]{} are indeed further out, but instead we have -_=+ closer. Once we add in all the English I type, file-names, U_R_L?s, --command --flags, /directories/, I think, if anything, the rearrangement is an advantage.
No checked the other reply the dude from the company is saying all this will be in their product eventually. I think they launched very early.
Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliance (ESG) Vulnerability
When I'm feeling down, reading about stuff like this always gives me an elevator
> I see how much more we can do it we meet together once in a while.

I've worked remotely for years before COVID and these meetups are always hyper productive.

I'm also burned out and need to sleep for a week straight afterwards.

Just because people get motivated seeing each other once in a while doesn't mean that's sustainable if they were in an office.

To me, working remotely was less effective in the beginning, it uncovered undiagnosed ADHD and after dealing with that I'm doing far better than I ever did in an office.

Office work is fine if you prefer it, working from home requires a lifestyle and an office space to make it work, something not everyone can manage.

But that doesn't make it worse at all, and as others have said, it requires different management skills, if you haven't picked them up, you probably won't see the benefits from your perspective because you're not letting your team work properly.
It's basically an infrastructure remote code exploit (RCE) by just sending an email to an organisation.

> ACTION NOTICE: Impacted ESG appliances must be immediately replaced regardless of patch version level. If you have not replaced your appliance after receiving notice in your UI, contact support now (support@barracuda.com).

CVE max score

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2868

Looks like the vulnerability is rooted in Perl.
In professional settings what you're describing is more-or-less what DMVPN provides.
Stop using fertile land to produce fuels for energy hungry cars and energy for industry. Use fertile land for FOOD.

Then, use all the rest of the land for energy production: roofs, parking lots, infertile land.
Perhaps this is tangential, but I'm always amazed with input forms have a "Go" or "Send" button when it's supposed to do some on-the-fly or local computation or treatment of the input. So, why wait? Why force the user to perform yet another action? Programming allows for the process to start from the first character or number being typed into the form.

The fact that developers still put a "Send" button on most forms these days kind of amazes me. That makes me wonder. Am I wrong? When is it useful to have a "Go" or "Send" button, and demand that extra action from the user?
Compress your jpeg with jpegli.
Configure your webserver to losslessly recompress to jpeg xl. You don't even notice that new formats arrived but will get 90% of the benefit.
If you think the laws of physics are different in different countries, I can't help you.
Gotcha, I haven’t seen the dataset so I had no clue
> Is the government automatically entitled to part of it? The Boston Tea Party, the Women's Tax Resistance League, and Gandhi's Salt March are a few examples where people said no.

Your argument doesn't make sense. The example you cite are examples of protest against unjust taxation not that "the government is not entitled" to any of my crypto. As you yourself elaborate in the following paragraphs. Are you seriously suggesting parallels between the crypto bros and Gandhi in that they are both participating in civil disobedience? Oh. Please.

And SBF is just a modern day MLK because both are referred to by TLAs!
Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?
Meta’s global team derailed WhatsApp India's payment ambitions
> But a system that takes the concept of ledgers, and makes it tied to pseudonymous addresses instead of persons, is distributed across the world, resilient to tampering (...) is 1. “Not innovative”

Well, it is innovative, in the same sense a jet engine is. What you don't do with jet engines is using them to keep static structures in the air indefinitely. You use steel beams or concrete for that.

Crypto tech as cash alternative is pretty much jet engine as a steel tower alternative.
[vouch] Why even was this flagged? It's a perfectly good curious comment.

- "The only way to eliminate the disease would have been to lockdown for a while, identify all 'forever infected' people and imprison them for life,"

Not a hypothetical. That was the initial reaction of several countries to HIV/AIDS, and Cuba actually implemented it [0].

[0] https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2019/11/29/are-public-healt...
Faster than recalling or finding out again that it's `sort -h`, and not `sort -n` or `xargs -wtf -- sort -xkcd {}` or whatever.
"ls -l" is a bit awful as it's all with the right pinky finger. Compared to pretty much everything else I type on Dvorak, it's terrible.

I have "alias hh='ls -l'" in my .zshrc.
Most people at my office seem to get sick from their kids who in turn get it from daycare. Should employees pay for that as well? I guess the alternative is to just never employ parents.
Ask HN: Adjust Hacker News CSS on wide screens
Hi,

I really like HN and the simplicity of everything (from create/login workflow to submit links). Everything is fast, straight to the point, and clean/simple HTML.

I've just a really minor complaint: on wide screen, reading comments is really painful (for me at least, I maximise all my windows...). It's not the size of the font, it's really the width of lines on wide screen. I've the impression that we're a lot of developers on HN, with huge screens, and the wide screens experience could be better in "vanilla" HN.

I sometimes open a link in HackerWeb (for instance https://hackerweb.app/#/item/36238342) just to have a better reading experience...

Every thing else: don't change, it's perfect!
Meeting together once in a while is very different than either hybrid or in-office. I once worked at a small all-remote startup spanning from the west coast of the US to Eastern Africa. Yes, we all met in person for a week several times per year. That didn’t mean 3+ days per week in office.

And yes that company is still around and doing fine several years later even now. My last information on their in-person meetings is itself years old now, but when they got too big to have everyone meet in person together, they still continued the same principle, just in appropriately sized subgroups.
Interestingly enough my bike was a SV650 as well (and came very close to purchasing an 848 as my next)
Some background on what it is:

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sv429hd6966/sv429hd69...

"Knowledge Engineering Environment KEE

KEE from Intellicorp is the most widely used of the high-end expert system development shells. It is available on Symbolics, Xerox and Texas Instruments Artificial Intelligence workstations, Apollo, DEC and Sun workstations, DEC VAX mini computers and 80386-based IBM PC-compatible computers.

It provides a powerful and sophisticated development environment, offering hierarchical object representation of data and rules, partitioning of the rulebase, an inference engine providing agenda-driven chaining in addition to backward and forward chaining, and a Truth Maintenance System for what-if and assumption-based reasoning. It offers a suite of development tools, such as specialized structured editors and several methods to build the data structures, including menus and an English-like construction language. A sophisticated graphics toolkit allows the creation of user interfaces which can be directly driven by the data values in the knowledge base."
My impression was that Apollo is NOT included in the free-tier access. IT seems to be addressing apps focused on accessability for blind users and the like, not general users of third-party apps.
Surely everything scientists discover 'rewrites' our understanding of something? That's the whole point isn't it? Interesting article though.
If a bunch of random strangers (external to the project) are "attacking" your project somewhere on the internet (for example, on Twitter) - just ignore them and move on with your day. They don't have any power over your project and their opinions don't matter. Go on with your life and continue building.

If a bunch of random strangers (external to the project) are messing with your tools and workflows (stirring things up in the issue tracker, creating drama and playing games with silly Pull Requests and comments) - lock down your tools such that they can only be used by trusted members of your team. Close down and remove all bullshit conversations without spending any further time or energy on any of it. Platforms like GitHub blur the lines between "a suite of productivity tools for software development" and "a social network" - so make sure to lock down and limit the "social networks" aspects whilst optimizing for the "software development productivity" aspect. Go on with your life and continue building.

If the "attacks" happens internally within the project (between two or more members of the team) - eject all parties involved because they're clearly not here to build stuff. Go on with your life and continue building.

Your goal should be to spend your energy on building and creating, and collaborating with like-minded people on building and creating. Not on policing, moderating, or playing games with people.
Not just outside the US.
Who is the chairman of Avast ? Who owns Avast ? Americans do.

Americans buying Avast is when Avast became this bad.
Sure, why not?

Plenty of use cases where performance doesn't really matter, and getting it working is orders of magnitude easier than wireguard. I've been using it for about a year now, and I rarely notice it even exists.
I don't understand, you can still clarify assumptions via chat, or grab someone when they're available for a quick voice chat if writing a wall of text will be unbearable or inefficient. That's communication 101, not synergy of being around each other. Having a good culture around replying people needing help in a timely fashion (instead of letting it slide for days) is important.

To me the only thing lost when WFH vs working in the office are the random conversations you eventually pick up when passing by the coffee machine, or water cooler, conversations about topics tangentially related to something you're working on/have worked on or know about and can easily chime in and help.

The culture of communication needs to change when people work remotely, that's the main difference. It's nice because now you can't just interrupt people with a tap on the shoulder, you need to ask for their time to interrupt someone.
The argument is that Bitcoin mining will asymptotically approach to taking all resources your civilization can access. Always stuck at 99.999...%, and only adding more 9-s.

So with K3 civilization, we're not talking about dismantling a few planets - but rather dismantling the neighbourhood galaxies.
>Yes, that's the risk, but: similar issues have been flagged in the past and in the end oversight won

Did it? If anything the history is riffe with cases that oversight was totally lost...

And of course, if it comes to "trusting oversight" the Overton window has already moved to accepting such kind of surveillance.
I agree, but why do I smell a comment written by ChatGPT?
I don't disagree with you but an insufficient regulation is still better than none though.
We're so far beyond the 2000s in terms of bad behavior that it's not even funny. Remember that the case United States vs Microsoft [1] was about, literally, nothing but Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows! That was seen as (and is) anticompetitive behavior detrimental to competition from other browsers. And Microsoft lost that case, initially leading to the potential breakup of the entire company! Though they [obviously] managed to get a lesser penalty on appeal.

Now companies package all sorts of random crap, often make it impossible to remove or in many cases even disable, prevent users from getting apps except from their own walled in app-stores (where they take a huge cut of revenue), phone home endlessly for opaque purposes, forcibly impose updates which regularly reset user preferences to the benefit of companies, artificially promote their products in every single way (such as by being the automatically selected 'default' selection in every aspect of a system, knowing full well that changing the default is too onerous for the average user), and much much more.

The problem is not a lack of regulations or rules, but a lack of enforcement. As soon as all of these big tech companies started "lobbying" politicians, let alone becoming deeply intertwined with our intelligence agencies [2], it's like any concern whatsoever about antitrust just disappeared, or at least set to a practically unreachable level of villainy. All the rules in the world don't matter if they're simply not enforced for certain companies.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#Companies