MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by incr_me | 2026-02-19 23:39:40+00:00
I resent the idea of an absolute standard of ergonomics or typing technique. I often use my left thumb to key z/x/c/v/b. I often reach with my left index finger to key y/h/b. During certain chords, my hands often cross over the split.

I tried multiple split keyboards over the period of 2 years and never grew out of these habits. I always wished, at the least, that some of the middle keys were duplicated between the two halves.

Eventually I received some permission to accept my personal "kinetic signature" (so to speak). Then the chronic wrist pain that led me to try split keyboards in the first place vanished. So I went back to using a normal tenkeyless. This led me to believe that split keyboards were ideal for some people, but that other people (like myself) are predisposed to a sort of perfectionism that entails physical guarding and chronic pain.

I still wish I had a wireless split keyboard for times when I'm supine and need to type, though.
by juniperus | 2026-02-19 23:40:12+00:00
it's all about funding. for every 1 person nervous about intellectual safety in the US, there are 50–100 waiting to fill that spot, if not 1,000–10,000. Funding has been cut in academia, and less positions are available as a result. No country is remarkably filling this gap, aside from a hilariously few more availabilities and some more graduate student positions (who operate as the scientific labor in Europe and other countries, before graduating and having to come to the US for job opportunity).

As others have pointed out, presumably the outcome is that higher value scientists are favored, and higher impact research is demanded. When industry demands certain research, the funding appears because private entities will fund those positions and those grants. The widespread funding of all avenues of science is a great feature of American intellectual culture and hopefully it doesn't vanish. But it was a remarkably uneconomical arrangement and a total aberration of history, so I wouldn't hold my breath about it sticking around through the tides of history, it was more of a fluke, and many in academia wishing to regenerate that fluke are a bit delusional and a bit tied to the idea of a golden era like the boomers dreaming of the 1950s suburbs. A great deal of research is important science, but totally worthless for the foreseeable future on an economic basis. We might not yet conceive of why this research does have economic value, but it's so abstracted that as it stands, the value isn't tangible and it's thus impossible to defend reasonably.

Scientific freedom doesn't mean the freedom to expect a subsidized career on the basis of non-lucrative research. It's more of a privilege to have such a lifestyle that is downstream of a wealthy empire. Since America is going bankrupt, the dollar-reaper is coming for the superfluous. So, there goes your funding for conure breeding or the health benefits of community gardens and expect more stability if you're researching crop diseases or livestock vector research.
by tom_ | 2026-02-19 23:40:15+00:00
I like these: https://eu.perixx.com/products/periboard-535

The F-lock nonsense isn't too awful, you get all of the keys, the layout is pretty standard, you can buy ANSI layout ones in the UK, and there's a full set of meta keys that are usefully symmetrical enough. Also: connects to PC with a wire. No batteries required. (The wonders of modern technology!)

Haven't tried the brown switches.

The red switches are quite light touch with a nice positive action. Very nice to type on for text, where my fingers can get into a good rhythm, but it's a bit too easy to hit the wrong key if I'm going for an arbitrary keyboard shortcut.

The blue switches go click, which feels great to type on, and I've found it does help a bit with the problem of hitting the wrong key (something about the more obvious multimodal feedback gets my subconscious on the job I suppose) - but I never quite got on with the slightly heavier key action.

I used to use the MS Ergo 4000, and I've found this a good replacement. The keyboard layout is very similar, as is the reverse tilt angle, and the palm rest is fine, even if it's IMO inferior to the MS 4000. (But: the MS 4000's reverse tilt stand, a single piece of solid plastic, is significantly more solid than the Perixx's little fold out things. Worth bearing in mind if you're in the habit of resting your elbows on the palm rest when in thought.)
by lebuin | 2026-02-19 23:41:07+00:00
For me, the answer to this question is: parts that involve no architectural decisions, and that won't need to be extended or built upon significantly in the future.

When I'm working on a greenfield project that I intend to build out further (which is what I am currently doing), I find that there's not a lot of work that fits those criteria. I expect that can change drastically when you're working on something that is either more mature, or more narrowly scoped (and thus won't need to be extended too much, meaning poor architectural decisions are not a big issue).
by PaulKeeble | 2026-02-19 23:41:36+00:00
Its often completely normal to use healthy controls in a trial like this, healthy people not getting ill is your target audience and the long term stage 3 will be against healthy people. So many drugs are not tested against obvious groups that might produce a poor result to make the findings as strong as possible but it means in a lot of cases chronically ill people are making judgements on no data at all.
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-19 23:41:37+00:00
> That model is completely counter-intuitive and punitive to the consumer.

It's really not, as evidenced by the fact that paying for what you use is how almost every physical good works, and many professional services (a lawyer's time).

It's fine for you to dislike the model -- I dislike it too. I don't like that it makes me anxious about consuming the next small unit of <whatever>. But there's nothing inherently counterintuitive or punitive about it. It's the simplest and most defensible payment model possible.
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-19 23:41:37+00:00
That’s not basic economics. Basic economics says that salaries are determined by the demand for labor vs the supply of labor. With more efficiency, each worker does more labor, so you need fewer people to accomplish the same thing. So unless the demand for their product increases around the same rate as productivity increases, companies will employ fewer people. Since the market for products is not infinite, you only need as much labor as you require to meet the demand for your product.

Companies that are doing better than ever are laying people off by the shipload, not giving people raises for a job well done.
by raggi | 2026-02-19 23:42:29+00:00
This problem space is not small enough to stay within current LLM attention span. A sufficiently good agent setup might be able to help maintain docs somewhat through changes, but organizing them in an approachable way covering all the heuristics spread across so many places and external systems with a huge amount of time and versioning multivariate factors is hugely troublesome for current LLM capabilities. They're better at simpler problems, like typing the code.
by tjohns | 2026-02-19 23:42:39+00:00
Nit: If you're filing a flight plan, you do it with the country you're departing from. Even if you're piloting an aircraft departing into the US, it wouldn't have any effect on operations if you couldn't reach US websites. There's also several alternative ways for pilots to file flight plans outside of the web.

(The flight plans get passed between countries via AFTN/AMHS, which are dedicated telecommunications networks independent of the Internet.)
by jgalt212 | 2026-02-19 23:43:12+00:00
Why would any content producer want to make it easier for AI bots to scrape their site? Perhaps that's too broad, but there's no way any free / open ad-supported content producer would ever want to support this. Someone needs to figure out microtransactions soon before all the content producers shut up shop, and the growth of open / openish knowledge grinds to a halt.
by pitched | 2026-02-19 23:43:21+00:00
> Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchecked.

As far as I can tell, Americans love money, guns, and freedom. So Trump must be losing money, taking guns, and making everyone live with their parents. I think I’ll keep my ChatGPT subscription, sorry guys.
by KSS42 | 2026-02-19 23:43:25+00:00
I have multiple of the MSFT Sculpt keyboards. It's wireless. Comes with separate wireless number pad. Now produced by Incase. It has Windows key, but it's easy to remap.

Official name now : Incase Designed By Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Wireless TKL Keyboard

https://www.incase.com/products/sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard

(In Canada, only available at Bestbuy)
by jasonvorhe | 2026-02-19 23:44:14+00:00
Then again, Egypt was definitely driven by Western agitators, as was the case Iran recently. Iran probably got Russian tech to trace starlink users during the blackout which put a target on many Western assets in Iran. I'm not saying the Iran government didn't also kill and torture independent actors nor that I support state violence (against its citizens, in this case). Just saying that any government will use violence to stay in power and to ensure regime change doesn't happen outside of whatever system the state upholds.
by albatrosstrophy | 2026-02-19 23:44:23+00:00
If battery life really is high up your list, look up Amazfit. The Bip 6 can last up to a month as a dumb watch health tracker. It's got some decent watchfaces too. Another Amazfit product that's popular is their Helio Strap, essentially a Whoop band rip off that does not require a monthly subscription but works just as well.
by solarisos | 2026-02-19 23:45:12+00:00
That’s the digital paradox, isn't it? We can recover the diet of an elephant from 218 BC because it left a physical, chemical footprint, but a specific MP3 from 2011 vanishes because the centralized server it lived on stopped being profitable.
We've moved from 'hard' records to 'ephemeral' ones. It makes you wonder what historians in 3026 will find—probably more ancient Roman trash than traces of our entire early-century social media culture.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-19 23:45:17+00:00
Then they'll try to convince the authorities that the image is of them, and presumably mostly fail although in some cases they may succeed. (If you're worried about something like the US DMCA, that's almost certainly not going to be the proposal; the UK has a number of existing 48 hour takedown policies, and they all involve orders from the authorities rather than self-certified requests from random third parties.)
by hn_acc1 | 2026-02-19 23:45:43+00:00
If I could EASILY click "yes" to say, pay $0.01 from a pre-filled anonymous wallet that I have to manually refill (say, in $10 increments) and there's no way to hack payment information in any way, OR to figure out what info I've paid for, that would help a LOT.

Of course, they would probably have to accept visa gift cards paid for in cash for this to actually be truly anonymous. I mean sure, I have nothing nefarious to hide - but who is to say what the current administration will decide is nefarious tomorrow? Reading too many NY Times articles, and not enough National Review articles? "You are in violation of the internet news fairness doctrine"...
by jacquesm | 2026-02-19 23:46:05+00:00
Google is scoring one own goal by another by making people working with their own data wonder how much of that data is sent off to be used to train their AI on. Without proof to the contrary I'm going to go with 'everything'.

They should have made all of this opt-in instead of force-feeding it to their audience, which they wrongly believe to be captive.
by AngryData | 2026-02-19 23:46:09+00:00
I would dispute your source just by look at my own state, which has incredibly open gun laws, including free open carry and having had these laws since before anyone here was born, and a massive hunting population, and yet is claimed to be in the top half of strong gun laws. It is ranked significantly above Texas, and yet I know for a fact that my state has way more permissible gun laws than Texas, both historically and currently.

So I already know they are fudging the numbers, presumably because my state usually votes democrat and they want us to look good.

Hell its got Vermont as #17, but it has some of the highest gun ownership rates and most permissive gun laws in the nation.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-19 23:46:12+00:00
Grokipedia (an online encyclopedia run by xAI and steered by Grok) lists a few sources for it directly, even in old copies of the entry https://web.archive.org/web/20251225113339/https://grokipedi...

Grok shouldn't be serving this kind of information IMO, and it's yet another serial example of xAI just not caring about real problems, but the even bigger crime is these services she is paying thousands to seem to have done jack other than give a false sense of security while happily taking their money. A time bound Google search and verification of pages from the Wayback Machine confirms this information has been all over social media and other sites constantly for the last decade.

If I were cynical I'd say this was just a publicity stunt, but the truth is probably really just sad all around: lack of ability to keep such things private, leechers making people think you can just pay and information disappears from the internet, Grok amplifying the problem by being run by people who don't really care about what it does...
by kube-system | 2026-02-19 23:46:14+00:00
Legislators are incentivized to push whatever sounds good to their voters and donors, their job is to do something, none of them have anything to gain from sitting on the sideline, even if they are powerless to effectively solve the issue. So they make something up. Both major parties push stupid shit that panders to their base whether or not it actually solves anything.
by robrtsql | 2026-02-19 23:46:22+00:00
My two cents: The Keychron Q11 is a decent choice for a split keyboard which also has a traditional layout and therefore doesn't require any learning. If you don't like the distance, you _can_ push the pieces back together and they'll just resemble a traditional keyboard. And it's definitely the highest build quality of any keyboard I've used this far in my life.

It seems to have this issue (or maybe Macbooks do? I don't know..) where, waking my computer from sleep, the right side of the keyboard doesn't work. It's quickly fixed by unplugging and replugging the right side of the keyboard into the left, or unplugging and replugging the entire keyboard into the computer.. it's a shame that I have to do that sometimes, though.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-02-19 23:46:37+00:00
> the forced savings has a wildly inflationary effect on housing prices

Housing prices are inflationary independent of CPF, because flats in Singapore are powerful investment vehicles. For HDB flats, however, there is means-testing and rebates to the amount of ~50%, sufficient for anyone on the 30th percentile and above to afford.
by juniperus | 2026-02-19 23:47:12+00:00
the amount of people arrested for online activity in England is not the best example to use if you're arguing that such events are rare.

otherwise, your incredulity to such a belief is why the far-right continues to gain a constituency in Europe and elsewhere. so instead of dismissing the concern, which fuels the far-right, you could just acknowledge it is a real thing people are experiencing, and that it doesn't help a liberal free society to criminalize thoughts that are unsavory to the political elite.
by verdverm | 2026-02-19 23:47:13+00:00
I have all this with my custom agent setup too

I think you are overreaching in your dismissal of everything else out there. There are 1000s now, you are not the first to think of or implement any of this.

It's within https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof if you are curious

I prefer a world where more people do what we have, but don't try to make it into a money making endeavor. Let uniqueness and individuality flourish over winner takes all, Big AI decides how we use this tech. More indie please
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-19 23:47:58+00:00
> "reading this might be interesting"

I find it hard to take this objection seriously, since almost everything that isn't a physical commodity has some degree of "I don't know if I'm satisfied with this yet". Books and movies clearly do. But we expect to take a risk and occasionally pay for them, and it feels ordinary to do so -- so why not here?

I don't object at all to people not liking micropayments -- I don't like them either. But the reason I don't like them is because I'm accustomed to getting good quality content for free, and no other reason.
by Havoc | 2026-02-19 23:49:12+00:00
The amount of "It's not X it's Y" type commentary suggests to me that A) nobody knows and B) there is solid chance this ends up being either all true or all false

Or put differently we've managed to hype this to the moon but somehow complete failure (see studies about zero impact on productivity) seem plausible. And similarly kills all jobs seems plausible.

That's an insane amount of conflicting opinions being help in the air at same time
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-19 23:49:38+00:00
> Scientists go where science is funded.

DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic pay quite well for research and have better "labs" than most places on Earth. I don't believe they're struggling to hire either.

This article is using a relatively outdated definition, functionally speaking, of "research institute".

Traditional research institutions, especially academia, have been declining for decades and current funding problems are just another one of many problems thrown into the mix.

I remember well a world where most serious research happened in universities and was publicly funded. I personally think that was a better world, but that is not the world we live in today and I don't see us going back. Even China's most impressive research is not coming from publicly controlled research institutes or universities but from VCs and large corporations.

To be fair, the time of open public science was a relatively brief in it's long history.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-19 23:50:33+00:00
SPF doesn't prove that... I can send through SendGrid with an SPF record, doesn't mean I've got a server configured to receive mail... for that matter, it actually makes it so you HAVE to be responsible for the mail system and cannot outsource sending separately from receiving. Again, shifting the burden enough to where other measures of dealing with bad actors are more effective.
by imiric | 2026-02-19 23:50:34+00:00
Jobs are replaced when new technology is able to produce an equivalent or better product that meets the demand, cheaper, faster, more reliably, etc. There is no evidence that the current generation of "AI" tools can do that for software.

There is a whole lot of marketing propping up the valuations of "AI" companies, a large influx of new users pumping out supremely shoddy software, and a split in a minority of users who either report a boost in productivity or little to no practical benefits from using these tools. The result of all this momentum is arguably net negative for the industry and the world.

This is in no way comparable to changes in the footwear, travel, and telecom industries.
by sodapopcan | 2026-02-19 23:50:50+00:00
> Coincidentally, these same people think the most “artistic” process is the most intentional one.

While people do think like this, it misses the point.

Yes, all forms of art is FULL of randomness and people copying each other. The thing that makes it special is that it took people going out and living and having experiences to create it. They have to actively absorb prior art, learn about it, analyze it, generally be influenced by it. You have to seek out paints, clay, musical instruments, etc etc and at least somewhat learn how to use them. It's not about being difficult to do (although it's certainly impressive but not part of the emotional takeaway), but everyone's process is different and their experiences go into what they create. When I see a photograph of a tree, I think: "Someone went to where that tree is!" and that's part of the feeling and excitement of a really artful photo.

Now, someone who has only ever heard the term "free jazz" can sit in their parents' basement and type out "make me a free jazz song" and shit out the result onto the internet. It's really not the same thing at all.
by contravariant | 2026-02-19 23:51:01+00:00
Should people expect high quality journalism if revenue is based on the number of views?

Good journalism costs money, people should expect to pay.

Though I'd point out that publishing news is now cheaper than ever, and people were more than willing to pay for access before, so why shouldn't they be willing to pay less now?

Or perhaps more to the point, why are they _not_ willing to pay now? And is the reason something ad-based perhaps?
by Paracompact | 2026-02-19 23:51:15+00:00
> Like who here can say that all of the links they’ve clicked on throughout their lifetime have been valuable, and haven’t just been time wasters?

Certainly many of them are time wasters! But before you've clicked on these links, I should think they are best modeled as a random variable payout (P) as measured against the monetary (M) and temporal (T) cost of clicking and reading through them. If the expected value calculation doesn't work out (E(P) < E(M) + E(T)), this is when I say nope and don't click. If it does work out, then it works out in such a way that there is at least some very small micropayment value ε > 0 that I would (in a ideal and frictionless environment) also be willing to endure on top of the temporal cost.

What most "free" content providers decided to converge on in order to extract epsilons from consumers so that they can continue to do business is ads, rather than honest micropayments.

I would be fine with most businesses that rely on ad revenue burning to the ground. And there are a few businesses that I will go far out of my way to patronize with more-than-a-box-of-bandaids. But for the majority of the free content providers that are not steaming garbage, but are also not in the privileged group of content providers that I deeply approve of and consciously think about, then in a frictionless environment I think I would prefer that they survive off rationally priced micropayments rather than be forced into the ad circus.
by rolph | 2026-02-19 23:51:23+00:00
this isnt exactly a vaccine its more like prophylactic immunoinduction.

"toll like receptors"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7173040/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964462...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40364-022-00436-7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-like_receptor
by tim333 | 2026-02-19 23:52:07+00:00
According to the no doubt very reliable Animal Armageddon: Episode 3: Doomsday it would have gotten very hot on the surface (100C+?) a few hours after Chicxulub then a while after that apparently 26C colder than normal for years due to dust in the atmosphere.

Link to a hot bit https://youtu.be/rbznPZHCqVw?t=2269
by recallingmemory | 2026-02-19 23:52:10+00:00
It doesn't look like meat consumption was mentioned anywhere.

Frequent consumption of red and processed meat is strongly linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, with studies showing a 30% to 40% increased risk for high consumption levels [1]. Processed meat, in particular, raises CRC risk by about 18% for every 50-gram daily portion [2].

Your ultra-endurance athletes might be convinced they need more protein in their diets and are most likely consuming large quantities of meat.

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10194058/

2: https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2015/10/umms-col...