skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardware: Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge. It's an excellent split keyboard by Kinesis. They also have a non-gaming variant, but the Gaming edition has much better wristpads in some kind of fake leather, while the other one is an icky kind of scratchy fabric.

Layout: modified azerty. Some things are where you'd expect them, but about 10 keys are remapped and moved around.

I like splits. Sadly, many of them don't have a dedicated row of function keys (F1-F12), which I use rather a lot. I've built my own a couple of times over the years, but the Kinesis is good enough.
Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?
I'm getting AI to spit out stuff in YAML, because it has trouble doing it in JSON (long story). So we'd get something like follows:

----
- action: web
- url: https://news.ycombinator.com
- text: this is the link to hacker news

But AI being what it is, it can be inconsistent. Sometimes it spits out several actions, sometimes it break text apart or do bullet points which is interpreted as a line. Sometimes it hallucinates, like `- web: https://...`

Also most clients are designed to handle JSON perfectly and they have trouble with parsing JSON. And what if there's colons in other lines.

So a YAML to JSON tool would be nice. And better if there's some error correction. Currently, I'm manually writing the error correction, and sometimes it corrects things that aren't errors.

However, knowing AI, it could be possible that AIs would output JSON perfectly fine next week. I know OpenAI Assistants can do this to an extent and Gemini seems to be doing it okay.
"A ship in a harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for"
Often a higher libido will be presented until the ink is dry on the marriage certificate and the first child is born and then suddenly drop off. Many such cases.
Not sure why he thinks he is in the right here? I would be pissed too if an intern left and then made a website that was just copying the internal work. I love how he says with a straight face that he didnt use any of the code from replit when obviously as an intern he saw all the ideas and constructs. Its not like he had a mind wipe.

I’m in a small minority on this site I’m sure but professionalism is important and this screams immaturity.
It makes sense if you think about it. I live in a relatively dense neighbourhood, and if you consider the infrastructure my building and the building across from me share, two sidewalks and a street, it's already almost as much area as the footprint of our buildings. Add to that large buildings that often have huge paved areas around them, and highways which are extremely wide and stretch for hundreds of kilometers, it's easy to see that there will be more infrastructure than buildings.

With regards to the grass, even though I live in the city I already have as much garden ("urban grass") as I have building footprint. I wonder if they include other garden vegetation as "urban grass" as well, but maybe it's not significant in comparison?
I mean, he certainly would have known exactly what he was doing at some point in his life, but skills and judgement do degrade with age.
OSS donations are in a weird place.

I think a lot of maintainers just aren't asking for them with any sort of clarity because it's uncomfortable and you're kinda putting yourself out there. It seems pretty common that you kinda have to go look for ways of funding a project, and it's like buried in the back of the website somewhere.

Willingness to donate also seems to really depend on the type of project. It appears easier to get institutional support, or individual "whale" donations, if your ambitions are a bit loftier than if you're building small individual widgets or libraries that do one thing well.

I think people are perhaps more willing to pay for what a thing might become than what it is today, when it's more like an investment than a payment for goods delivered.
It's a plot device in Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, thus before the date line was established in 1885.
That depends entirely on which niche of society you look at. The Amish are the epitome of ethics-driven technical choices. Even though their specific ethics mean a rejection of much of today's tech, it shows that communities can and do exist that put their ethics into their tech choices.

The problem is that we live in a society where the bulk of people focus on money as the #1 priority. Fixing technical ethics involves making changes that allow people to have different top priorities.
I use it as well (with a Yubikey) and I love it! On Android I use Android-Password-Store [1], which is nice too. There is just this issue with OpenKeychain that concerns me a bit, I am not sure if Android-Password-Store will still support hardware keys when moving to v2... but other than that it's great!

[1]: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...
By this point, with all the news of Boeing disasters, I almost assume that if you wanted to commit suicide by skydiving without a parachute, a flight to the right height in a Boeing would be more likely to kill you than the jump.
There is a lot of basic airmanship which has failed here. For example from your first day of PPL training you are taught to backup the throttles during takeoff and at low altitude to avoid them creeping backwards. You are also taught to cross check that you've achieved half the rotation speed at 1/3 of the runway available.

Obviously these practices are less applicable to an airliner but the basics are still there. The pilots should be monitoring engine performance and acceleration to avoid these type of issues.

In this case it was a software bug but it would be just as easy for it to have been a wrongly input takeoff weight or temperature to affect the calculated TOGA power.
Studies show time and again that cars in Paris are only used by the richest people. I live in the suburbs and I frankly don't care if big SUVs are banned from Paris, in fact I encourage it. I go to work by RER and metro, like everyone else.
He was 90. You're reading too much into it. It's like when people get angry about a "Bless you."
Awesome thanks, grids work really well for a lot of optimization tricks.
This is exactly what I did. It sends a text when it’s done. I forget some times even with the text, so I added repetitive alerts. That got annoying, so I added a door sensor to the washing machine to silence repetitive alerts if you open the door after a cycle is done. Total cost was negligible. A cheap $20 smart plug that I never use except for monitoring and $10 for the door sensor.
Almost 1% flowers!
Is there a word like "weeaboo" but for France?
> It's a one-way, time-traveling message in a bottle

So too is DNA in children. You don’t get to choose the entirety of the message but you do get to choose the half of the lottery that they must receive.

And that message is likely to far outlive any message in any dead tree or electronic book.
The findings of the faculty committee was almost certainly available and known before they stopped requiring standardized tests. I would say the decision to stop was due to pandemic and politics, and the decision to start was due to politics, while the stated reason for starting was the findings about academic performance and test scores.
Not just possible; I think it's common. Also looking at what women endure for IVF it's clear to me that the need to have a child to nurture is often extremely powerful.
It’s unlikely that they would completely block offline installations.
I agree. I think that most of the time highly specialized topics have a lot of subtle context required. You either communicate all of that, or use jargon to get around it.

In some cases I think it's possible to do this and satisfy both groups but it's harder and takes more words (which is important in a media context at least).
That said I imagine there's a spectrum here and you can usually find suitable middle ground.
In the old times, raising kids was cheaper and required much less care. From the moment a kid could walk, he would be helping around the farm. The clothes he would have would be one shirt which he'd inherit from his older sibling. The toys would be whatever is around the farm. Most kids would not go to school let alone attain some higher education. Nowadays, its completely different. As parents, you need to invest thousands upon thousands before your kid turns 18 and then hope that he will get somewhere in life and take care of you.
Quoting the repo:

> The goal is to create clean, race-free userland utilities that are POSIX compliant, maximizing compatibility with existing shell scripts while minimizing bloat.

> It is not a goal to be compatible with GNU utilities, which are sometimes viewed as bloated and overloaded with rarely-used options.

> A similar project with the aim of GNU compatibility is https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
The thing about dark matter is that it seems to be highly non-interactive.

If it could interact it would be able to shed its momentum through collisions like normal matter, and thus fall towards the center of the galaxy and clump like normal matter.

Instead the gravitational evidence, like galaxy rotation curves, indicates that the dark matter is spread out in a huge diffuse halo around the galaxies, several times the radius of the visible galaxy.

Thus in the same way, dark matter would be unable to form a "dark accretion disk" around a black hole, where it could shed it's momentum in order to lose enough orbital velocity to fall into the black hole.

Thus the only dark matter that would enter would be that captured during formation and that which hits it directly like a meteor, so the ratio would be significantly lower.

This of course assumes dark matter is a particle (or several), which is the current leading hypothesis but it's by no means settled yet.

At least that's my understanding.
> Total tangent there's this thing in Japanese where a word ends up meaning one thing and also its opposite, due to being used ironically

This is quite common outside Japanese: e.g. in English, ‘wicked’ can be positive or negative.
If NDAs were breached, that DEFINITELY would have been brought up in all of this.
Aviation contains a number of scenarios where pilots can (and do, not all that infrequently) slip from being in a safe situation to being in immediate danger without noticing the transition. Things like spatial disorientation and losing situational awareness (particularly in IMC), not taking into account a changing weather situation, not tracking fuel consumption, navigational errors...

Technology is increasingly mitigating these risks, but as of now, they contribute to general aviation being significantly more risky, statistically, to its participants than driving, even when taking into account the prevalence of bad driving. On the other hand, it is considerably less dangerous to non-participants than driving is.
June 7, 2023 Wildfire Smoke Event
Once you create a product/project that is in some ways similar to that of a former employer, you have entered potential conflict-of-interest territory. If you can afford the time and legal expenses to argue that it is not a conflict of interest, that's fine. If you cannot, then you should think twice about what you are doing.

Should it be that way? The answer is a definitive maybe. Part of the reason why the legal system exists is to resolve disputes like this. The real problem is the cost and time involved make it mean that both parties rarely have equal access to it, and that it is often used as a heavy handed threat by those who know they have better access to it (with the end result being to silence people rather than seek a just resolution).

As for the personalities of the parties involved, that has nothing to do with it. You can be the biggest jerk in the world and be right, or the kindest person in the world and be wrong.
Well Palmer Luckey sold oculus and now makes military gear so I guess he chose violence after his VR era
IDK if that is true or not. It could be.

If that is true, that author should have just ignored it.
We should call this “Suicide by maximizing shareholder value”
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
This must be a joke. LaTeX cannot even produce accessible PDF today. Believe me, I tried. I write my lecture notes in LaTeX and some of my students have disabilities. I tried to follow these guides https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/261537/a-guide-on-ho... (note the Feb 2024 update). No matter how technically "correct" the LaTeX people want it to be, even a PDF produced by MS Word was more accessible for my students.
Nice!

Kinda confused, using a map to represent land area, then the colored hex locations are not corresponding to the land use they indicate.

I get it, some of the hexes are 'all over', like solar. Can't put that one hex any one place. Just remarking that it gave me pause - mixing land-use-geography with ... geography. Without being correlated in any way.
Ask HN: How to turn off x86 Pipelining
Product Owner wants to reduce work-in-progress (WIP). After a long conversation with a micro architecture guy, to make a long story short, I have a user story to turn off instruction pipelining on our production servers.

The story I have is only 1 story point so I need something that will not take more than a day to implement. So I need something that I can change to our software and nothing weird like changing BIOS settings or anything like that where I need to get IT involved.
>but professionalism is important and this screams immaturity.

Using knowledge that you have to create a competing product is professionalism, using Legal threats to eliminate competitors - is not.
One thing not mentioned: McMurdo desalination (the first one in OP) historically used to be nuclear-powered, but they abandoned that and currently use diesel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station#Nuclear_power_...
From reading the description, perhaps "urban greenery" would be a better term than "urban grass".
New York calling... Disambiguation is sometimes necessary and, a bit more often, just a good idea.
Notably very few plumbers do years of work for free in hopes of being branded the "Rockstar plumber".
I'll still keep shilling Parse Server + Parse Dashboard for back end. It's open source, it plugs into MongoDB, which is very scalable for when the day comes to replace it with something else. It has things like auth, password reset, cloud functions, etc built in, and there's tutorials for email adapters. It does much of the things you can do on Firebase, but easier and cheaper.

Dealing with the DB is extremely easy too - it handles relations within databases, queries, and the UI of Parse Dashboard is simple like your regular online spreadsheets. It's very easy to normalize DBs and all that.

Old article I wrote on how to set it up in half an hour: https://smuzani.medium.com/setting-up-a-mobile-backend-serve...

For front end, JS + jQuery + Bootstrap works fine for basic interactive experiences.

You probably don't need React level stuff unless you're building a social media site or similar. One of the advantages of React is that it's easy to communicate what's happening to team members without documentation, but this is unneeded if you're solo.

There's disadvantages though - you have to optimize things like all your JS files, and handle reloading from cache when you've updated a JS file. There's no "clean" or "modular" code; if you made a bar like the " new | threads | past ..." the top of this page, you use find and replace. But I have sites that run perfectly fine for years on this, without much issue in maintenance.

Another bonus with simple HTML+CSS+jQuery+Bootstrap is that you can also host it on some really cheap servers. Netlify is free at first, but it does not scale well to say, 10k visits/day.
A bit out of context, but I would really appreciate some explanation/answers here.

Has anyone shared some sort of analysis of external/community contributions to Hashicorp's OSS products, following their licensing change, to then come to a conclusion about some "internal to external" contributions ratio that would justify all the frustration with which that decision has been received?

I mean, people tend to always assume that OpenSource software is the ownership of a world-wide community of contributors, and not the person (or group of people) that had initiated it and decided to share the code; but, I've hardly seen cases outside of these two, when serious problems surface:

1. Indie OSS maintainer that suffering from some burnout, or even struggle to make a living, while their work is being freely used by thousands of people, and even help dozen of companies make money in some way.

2. OSS project that is mainly supported and maintained by some company/corporate, to the point that if they would ever decide to stop doing it, the software would not as actively receive significant fixes/updates (if any). Which basically means: the sofware is freely available (along with its source code), mainly because there are people paid to work on it.
At the time they bought it, I joked that IBM bought the Weather Channel as part of its Cloud strategy. I stand by that claim.
Did I sound angry? I was just adressing the point that some people seem to value the circumstances of their death more, then the years before that. Wiliam Anders did what he wanted, fine by me, unless he actually was not fit to fly anymore (as this endangers other people), but no one had the guts to tell him that, being a national hero.
Assembly for Hackers
I haven't used it in a while, but it was great for playing around with python ideas as someone who maybe doesn't want to set everything up on their own machine
Many Rust projects have done cool new stuff. Alacritty is possibly the greatest terminal emulator on the market today. I'm not into cryptocurrencies, but Parity and ZCash are doing cool stuff in that space thanks to Rust.

I'm also the author of Pijul, a much simpler and more scalable (yes, both! why choose?) version control system, and of Sanakirja, an on-disk transactional allocator to write persistent datastructures (like B trees, ropes, radix trees, HNSW…).
I've used it occasionally. They provide some online compilers for languages that are hard to find elsewhere, e.g. TCL.
That’s like saying I can’t write my own hobby OS because I used to work for Microsoft.
The pilots turned off the autopilot for takeoff due to a known bug.

Flying manually the pilots made an error when setting the required
thrust that nearly caused the plane to run off the runway without
getting off the ground?

Is that correct?
In which case it seems like pilot error.
I always wonder what are the mechanisms that let recent immigrants from the global south settle in the capitals thah the local white collar youth has hard time affording.
I just want to tell that absolute scarcity is true in a thermodynamic sense, but that isn't necessarily relevant to human experience since we are just a tiny fraction of the universe. So what matters instead is the concept of relative abundance and scarcity. If there are very few humans and lots of resources to the point where they can't be consumed at all, you get relative abundance from the viewpoint of humans.

I say this because I have seen a lot of people that argue absolute abundance cannot exist and they equate abundance with absolute abundance.
China's Middle Class Is Disappearing
Currently I use a tool called ScreenToGif on Windows, which allows making both GIFs as well as render a video out of the captured sequence of frames: https://www.screentogif.com/ (source: https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif)

That said, a lot of open source software faces issues with funding and also developer burnout, or something other reasons for a project just... ceasing. Like there's this lovely piece of backup software called BackupPC, that covered all of my needs, but there hasn't been a new release in forever: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc

What's worse, sometimes the community is just left with no status updates, and don't even know whether a project is abandoned: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/518

In cases where nobody cares enough to make forks and keep it alive it just... fizzles out.

This might sound a bit off, but I sometimes wish there was a feature where you could say: "Hey, I'm willing to pay X$ for the maintainer of the software to address this issue on GitHub or do a release, I've placed the amount of money in escrow and it will be released to the dev upon completion." With enough people pooling resources together, how much the community actually cares would be quite obvious and the devs could actually benefit from OSS. Donations are too unreliable and detached from the units of work done (I've done some donations in the past, but would do more monetary contributions for specific issues). If streamlined enough, it wouldn't be different from buying the developer a beer, or the equivalent of Patreon or Kofi.
Thanks! Yeah, I wanted to keep it specific for GitHub but can see how the base functionality can be used for something more generic. On each page match hit for a signed in user, the API is checked to see if the user has notes - if the matching were expanded beyond GitHub, then that would need to be taken into account to reduce ‘ping’ requests that check if notes exist.
Noa’s mom is terminally ill with cancer and has pleaded to be able to hug her daughter again in the few months she has left. Such happy news!!
D-Day Tanks: Operation Overlord's Strangest Tanks [video]
I don't think this is a new issue but with in sci-fi it seems like you cannot write a book anymore unless it's attached to some bullshit IP. star wars, Warhammer, star trek, battletech, the list goes on. But it seems that people are unwilling to read a book, for example JG Ballard's Highrise, that has no connection to anything, introduces new characters whose stories will not continue ever onward. I think this dedication to IPs is like a warm blanket. You don't have to read the book to know what to expect from a star wars book.
Absolutely not, and there are two reasons:

1) Someone paying for my product means that they now expect support and maintenance for me. When I release my software under a Free license, I release it "AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED", which I think is the best part of Free Software. You are responsible for using my software.

2) As soon as you start accepting compensation for your project, you now have to deal with a whole bunch of legal overhead, taxes etc.

I think the main issue is people releasing their software under a license which they don't necessarily agree with beyond a certain point.
In 50 years, the AI will tell us that looking at screens all day is actually good for you.
> And cutting ties with countries in NATO that repeatedly refuse to make the financial contributions towards defense that they pledged to make is also not "isolationism".

I agree, it's more than isolationism: it's sheer stupidity and the Hallmark of a compromised government official.
It could be a periodic spin change caused by a large, unseen, object orbiting it. Alternatively, the angle of the cone of radiation coming from the poles might be tightening and enlarging on a cyclical basis and we may see the glancing blows as a large sector sweeps by our viewpoint.

Periodic spin changes:
https://sciencex.com/news/2021-09-pulse-neutron-star-decades...
I'm very impressed at his productivity. Really one of software influencers worth following
A well-balanced comparison is well overdue, considering the amounts of one-sided coverage recently. Is it indicative of an issue with Boeing? Or with media reporting? Probably the former, but it's something we should really be more sure of.
Show HN: Oxpecker, a new Mastodon client app for Apple Watch
Hi everyone!

Oxpecker is a new Mastodon client that I've made!

The app can be used on your Apple Watch, even without the iPhone around (after login), if you have a cellular plan.

I've made the app as I see that there isn't much Mastodon clients for the watch, and so far I wasn't pleased what's available.

Hopefully it would be helpful to the readers here :)