skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone seen keyboards with non-traditional touch surfaces? Such as trackpad keycaps?

Backstory: My fingers slide smoothly across my ThinkPad laptop keyboard, so I was playing with optical hand tracking (with a surface mirror to better track touch) to make the entire keyboard (and surrounding laptop) into a multitouch surface. There were occlusion and jitter issues, even with fingernail markers, and I set it aside while still not quite working. But I was left thinking "I should get back to this" rather than "never again". Stroking a keycap as a trackpad seemed nice, even already having a touchpoint. Merely touching modifier keys (emacs) rather than having to press them. With a 3D display, I overlaid video of the keyboard, slightly above the screen plane so it was easily seen but only moderately annoying. And thus could overlay a multitouch control panel that doesn't require shifting attention from the screen, or hands from the keyboard. With screen-comparable VR/AR seemingly only a year or three away now, with attendant changes in UI constraints, there seems an opportunity to escape decades-old HID fetters, at least with professional UIs.
No, it is a nude image. They just cropped out her face. Google it. I have no idea why the article didn’t actually point that out?

Once you understand that the piece makes sense.
You should look up usury. “Sorry, you sold yourself into slavery. Integrity isn’t outdated.” Some forms of lending are predatory, and most developed nations have rightly outlawed them. Somehow, though, loaning tens of thousands at 14% (yes, I took on a loan like that at the ripe old age of 18) isn’t seen as an issue.

People should absolutely refuse to pay unsustainable debts they can’t afford (but I have news for you: there are already people not paying... because they can’t).

I’m glad you’re secure enough to dispense such wisdom like this, but I fail to see how it’s going to help anyone pay their rent or buy a house, because at the end of the day, people simply cannot afford these loans. And if you’re going to suggest that people just shouldn’t borrow, them prepare to have a steadily diminishing college-educated population as only the increasingly wealthy can afford to actually get an education.
Title is false - they paid over a billion in taxes, they didn't pay federal taxes though.
Yes, and I believe that to resolve that morally and efficiently, the government should lower taxes on all. Its not amazon thats getting the advantage, its the government that can't excercise its power over it.
Ask HN: What is a notetaking app? What is its utility?
I hear all this buzz about note-taking apps, but my question is: what do they do? Whenever I want to take notes, I make a textfile and edit it in my texteditor. Do notetaking apps have something to offer me?
But does the end product contain ammonia? If it does, then it's an ingredient.
FFS, this gives the people what they want without imprisoning and killing cows for food. Maybe have some evidence that it’s unhealthy before you bullshit a negativity next time
The keyword is "automatically". Your previous comment is cynical. Not even a modicum of curiosity is in there.
Because it's not about you. It's about the women who see the image, understand its history, and see it as another reminder of how tech is not just male-dominated but thoughtlessly so (having Playboy issues lying around in the research lab) and where women are literally reduced to objects. From the article:

> “As silly as it sounds, they were surprised she was a real person,” he told me.

Women notice stuff like that, I guess.
Replace “individuals” by “shareholders,” or even “capitalists,” if you want to be more accurate. Most “individuals” in the US are wage slaves with little or no savings, much less investments. Those people benefit not a whit by Amazon passing on tax savings to shareholders.
Then call centrifugal separated beef. It isn’t ground beef.
Only one? My official impression of k8s from many sources, bug reports, first-, second- and third-hand experiences is that there's quite a pile of mud with steam rising from it. There may or may not be viable alternatives, but on its own, quality is a qualitative quality that appears to yours truly to be seriously lacking on multiple fronts.
Of course it was a hoax because the story was so ridiculous on its face and now Smollett needs a defense attorney[1]. Not quite as outrageous as 2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats [2] which were also blamed on "the rise of white nationalism in Trump's America." yet serving the same political purpose: demonizing republicans, conservatives, whites and unifying groups on the left as they feel they are under attack.

1) https://news.grabien.com/story-cnn-chicago-police-sources-sa...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Jewish_Community_Center_b...
If an industry lobby pushes enough, a state "food standards" organization will call anything food.

After all, they don't start with a "let's not divert from regular wholesome food" as a mission statement. So why not allow all kinds of crap as food, as long as they are barely edible and with no obvious side effects?

Worked fine since the 50s in the US, and the quality of the food the average american eats (and their health) keeps improving... /s
In theory, that could even be ported to some versions of Plan 9. I remember that the Jehanne OS dev had said something along the lines of "Netsurf (another Duktape browser) could be ported soon".
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlf6i8_7UAU

I don't care if they won't let me in for not being german enough; still a cool thing.
You’re being downvoted for some reason, but you’re saying what I and other Millennials are feeling. Don’t feel bad. I too have an insane amount of debt. I can’t buy a house until my late 30s, if ever (why would I want another money sink, though?) We were just doing what everyone told us to do to be successful, and we got fucked.

At least we’ll all go down together.
That reads like "Without Hitler, the plight of Jews would've been worse"!
> Also it's removing newlines: http://txti.es/yw35f

That's probably because it uses Markdown for formatting so you need an extra carriage return to actually push it to a new line.
I'm sorry, the languaging in this re-linking sounds like so much like industry shilling. "That product is then sterilized with a strong puff of ammonia gas to kill pathogens, as beef trimmings are especially susceptible to contamination."

With an elaborate explanation for each "terrible sounding" detail (what is this "puff" exactly, etc).

... except the sum total of the "terrible sounding" stuff is actually distinctly unappealing imo and only by stringing things across elaborate, carefully couched discussions is it plausible-seeming that this is "ground beef".

Basically, pink slime is highly processed leavings of beef that cannot be used except by putting it through more or less a blender and a chemistry lab. That fact leaves many consumers nervous when this is revealed. And this ruling isn't about whether you can produce this stuff but rather whether you have to tell people about it. Most people would like to know. You can judge the ruling based on that.
And if you have a second kid your availability will go from NONE to negative balance. I remember when I had just one, suddenly now it feels like I had so much time then!
This is so helpful- thanks for sharing! Also your own website is such a great example of taking selling yourself as a consultant seriously. Congrats on all the success here!
It seems to be fixed: http://txti.es/pa6yn
Not a fan of the acm. Expensive membership for little more than a magazine and access to papers that should be open access.

But then again, I just had the student membership.
>The "pink slime" story is mostly fake news. ABC News coined the term, and later paid $177 million to settle a lawsuit over it. It was the largest defamation settlement in the history of the United States.

I'd say this "beef" is fake meat -- whether some court agrees or not (that depends on who has the best lawyers and deeper pockets, not on who has the best food).

I'd be OK with companies being allowed to sell all kinds of crap as foodstuff, if they didn't highjack on existing food labels as it's the regular beef people know to fool consumers and paint a picture.
> I myself swore I'd never buy clothes and shoes online

Curious, what made you swear you would never do that?
My analysis is a top-down one, In summary: rents in SF/Bay area are 3-4k for new construction 1 bedroom, which is say double Chicago or Houston, and much more even than the Bay Area 10 or 15 years ago. So it reasons that at the prices being paid, people should be able to build profitably. That they aren't implies they can't or have onerous restrictions.

For fun, take a (google maps) walk around SF or downtown Oakland and count the single-family homes, parking lots, and vacant lots that, at least mechanically, could easily be turned into very profitable apartments - yet aren't.

> I am curious, though, about the artificial constraint you mentioned. Don't know what you're specifically referring to, would like to know more.

Restrictive zoning, planning commissions, NIMBYs, activist groups (historical societies, environmental groups,), onerous and vague regulations1 (that can be easily challenged in court.) for a few examples. All serve to both make development costs increase and project success uncertain.

1 e.g. Regulations should exist that require buildings to be earthquake safe (environmentally friendly, etc.), but said regulations should also provide concrete metrics to define 'earthquake safe' otherwise nothing stops lawsuits alleging a failure to properly design a building to be earthquake safe -- which costs a lot of money and time.
It was indeed in jest. And there’s a good chance I was the Netflix engineer who told you that.

To be fair though when we launched it at Netflix we knew it would break things. But we also knew we had the corporate will to deal with it.
Sounds like you likely have your mind made up, but you also get access to Safari Books Online.
One suggestion I have is to not mount the USB connector on the board itself, but instead on the "case" with a short pigtail leading to the board. There's a reason the majority of PC keyboards have a captive lead which runs into a strain relief on the case --- to keep the load off the solder joins when the cable moves around.

Interesting thought: The microcontroller in that keyboard is more powerful than the first IBM PC.
Can't agree with that. Taking a minimal amount of time and effort to host your own site on a TLD shows, at least, a moderate understanding of DNS and all that, much more than clicking things on Github Pages IMO.
>If you're picky about what's in your ground beef, find a butcher you trust, or grind your own.

Yeah, god forbid food standards agencies get picky themselves about what's in our food, or at least reserve the traditional names of meats for non traditionally produced / sourced foodstuff.
It takes years for retail space to be renovated or converted. Meanwhile, people who are now out of a job will need to eat until then.
Do as we say, not as we do.

PSI has been a pain in the ass from the day it was released. I can happily ignore it, but my customers don’t.
> possibly with a less explicit API such OpenGL or Metal

How is Metal less explicit than Vulkan? As far as I understood they are both quite low level.
From a division of labor perspective, it seems like it'd be better to tax the corporation, and not the individual employees.

I spent most of today working on my taxes, and will need to do the same tomorrow to get it all done. Not sure how many hours the average person spends, but I imagine I'm typical. Multiply that time by every single employee, and that's a huge amount of time! A specialist in the company's tax department can probably accomplish the same amount of work as many people like me.

(Yes, I know they already hire tax specialists, and I know I have to do my taxes after hours, so it's "free" from the company's perspective, but at the level of society as a whole, it seems like it'd be more efficient to tax the money just once).
If you let your steak dry before cooking, do you list the airborne dust and bacteria as ingredients?
> Essentially, "just pass me the bare minimum of response to make Firefox Reader View work."

I wish it was possible to use a html meta tag to declare to the user-agent that it should show the content in reader view.

Then sites that only want to provide text and images and no ads etc could be implemented without any CSS at all and minimal amounts of markup and still be nice and readable on all devices thanks to user-agent reader view taking care of the presentation.
This is why I haaaaaaaaate the Jamie Oliver chicken nuggets video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwL5G5HbGA

Except for the part where the kids totally no sell his smug act and he just stands there dumbstruck. Those chicken trimmings are... chicken. Human history is the history of us figuring out how to extract more edible bits from the animal than our jaws can along (that's how we got soup, among a lot of other things). The idea that we should only eat the most presentable primal cuts of the animal is bizarre and weird to me.
Sadly, that's not planned yet. (I asked the dev.)
Fad not as in "something that will go out of fashion quickly", but as "of questionable value, that people pick out of peer suggestions/fashion". Whether the latter is recurring and long term doesn't mean much.

All kinds of non-diet fads come and go too, even bellbottoms made a couple of comebacks in the decades since the late 60s.
One of the well-known note taking apps is Evernote. You can look at their site to see what it does:

https://evernote.com
Same as usual, read every book about it![0] and don't try to learn from the man page. I think the original book by A, W and K (the 2nd edition anyway) was best. Also Arnold Robbins' books Sed and Awk and Effective AWK Programming are great.

The GNU Awk User's Guide[1] is amazingly detailed, but the new AWK has bloated a lot, has 1000 features where the older one had a few dozen, and those core ones should be learnt first. (But people still like programming with it, and kept asking for features..) Hmm I don't think I use any of the new features, maybe I should...

But really, it's very simple, I can't thinking of anything that's been anything like as easy to learn, except maybe BASIC. With which AWK shares some similarities - the friendliness of it, the BEGIN and END..

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

[0] Or if there are too many, get names from lists of best books on a subject.
Most coordinated equilibria results depend on facing the same competitors repeatedly - partly to learn an equilibrium that is influenced by each player's private preferences, and partly because repeated play introduces consequences for defecting from that equilibrium. The more you expect to see the same opponents again, the more you have to gain for colluding, and the more you have to lose from defecting.

So, the most interesting aspect of AI pricing might not be the AI - humans could probably learn to collude with the same setup. It's the fact that AI enables orders of magnitude more pricing decisions, so bots spend less time discovering or defecting from equilibrium, and more time sharing maximum collective profit from customers.
Interesting. Do you know what percentage of the animal is edible meat?
From the few details they included, I think it's likely more complex than a typical GABA analog, so the effects may not be as simple as raising or lowering GABA.
"Programmer" used to be the job of turning prose or flowcharts from a "systems analyst" into a deck of machine instructions. The uncreative grunt work making up half of the profession got completely automated away.
Metal is Apple only, so not a good API to start with. If you want explicit from the start - use Vulkan. And if you want to start with OpenGL, at least do it on Linux, not on macOS where OpenGL is crippled.
Cool project. An improvement could be integrating with IPFS.
I guess even the machines want a union.
Significant number of carbs and has added sugar, sounds less nutritious than hamburger to me.
From what I understood, Metal provides more high level functionality than Vulkan, i.e. it's like Vulkan + higher level convenience.
Ground beef is such an ambiguous, broad-brush term that it couldn’t not include this.
When Windows 7 support ends, I'm very seriously considering switching to Linux as a main OS and keeping the W7 machine for air-gapped single player games.

Probably not Arch though, something a bit more user friendly, like Elementary OS or Solus Linux
I must clarify that I am asking if pointers are just as much confusing in Pascal.

Thanks for the comment!
A lot of people decided that LFTB was horrible stuff, based on no real evidence other than the fact that it's cheap. We still have no real evidence that LFTB is materially less nutritious or less safe than conventionally recovered scraps used in minced beef. I'm not convinced that LFTB is sufficiently different to conventional minced beef to warrant specific labelling; we don't expect every ingredient to come with a precise description of how it was processed, despite the very substantial transformations that occur during e.g. flour processing.

Classism in food is absolutely endemic. A slightly facile but still important example is this paper from the BMJ in 2012. It analysed the nutritional content of 100 supermarket packaged meals and 100 recipes by popular British TV chefs. It found that the ready-made meals contained significantly fewer calories, less fat and more fibre than the recipes. We judge people for living on a diet of microwaveable meals, but switching to home-cooked meals might actually be a retrograde step in terms of nutrition if they follow the recipes of Jamie Oliver or Nigella Lawson.

Something feels intuitively wrong about that conclusion; that feeling is implicit classism.

https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e7607
It's projection. The real class conflict in play here is that the meat that is well-established as safe and healthy for consumption - as far as meat goes - is only affordable for the affluent. Everyone else has to eat meat that is processed so as to obscure its origins and make it more primarily amenable to storage, transportation, and, ultimately, sale. And not primarily, you know, health.
Wow.

About 30 years ago, my now departed grandmother was at her favorite Italian grocery store comparing sirloin to ground sirloin and noticed a price difference. She asked the butcher about the truth of what was in the ground sirloin. "We couldn't sell it at that price without adding things to it." From then on, she bought only sirloin steaks and ground her own at home.

In the absence of sensible government regulations and enforcement, cut-throat capitalism drives individuals and corporations to cut corners and keep cutting more corners until Bhopal or Mad Cow Disease happen.

Disclaimer: I don't eat animals.
highly processed... added sugar... definitely not paleo.
Supersonic air travel is finally coming back [video]
Um, you know 'meat' = muscle, right?
As others are saying, HTML isn't the problem and Gopher isn't the solution: any bidirectional request-response protocol can be used to track clients, because there's a record of interactions the server can save. Client-side scripting as now commonly used on the Web increases the likelihood that some of these events occur despite the user's intent, but hosts can track and profile you by IP just fine, and if this hypothetical Gopher revival came to pass, it would also revive an interest in server-side ad serving and log mining that dynamic ads have long made obsolete.

The two solutions are to: (a) not interact with hosts who track you -- which is hard to know ahead of time -- or (b) use a one-way broadcast protocol that leaves no ability for hosts to collect an interaction stream. And this exists too, from over-the-air television and radio, to teletext [1] and datacasting [2]. Compare the business models: unencrypted broadcast streams are full of ads too, but you don't get tracked. Or, the services are encrypted and the key exchange is moved out of band; you trade a bit of your privacy to establish an ongoing customer relationship to access gated content.

Of course, broadcast on public airwaves is heavily regulated, and broadcast on unlicensed spectrum is sufficiently intertwined with and streamlined into wireless internet to be hidden in plain sight. Despite its technical merits, a broadcast 'renaissance' of sorts isn't likely to attract a discretionary audience without a real integrated commercial offering raising awareness -- amateur radio and tech demos don't have universal appeal, but a sleek device that accesses compelling first-party content in a privacy-preserving way might. But it's also a technical gamble when more proven solutions are less risky, and the kinds of players who deliver integrated offerings can deliver their service over IP with less fuss.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacasting
I can chime in here. I've been on a quest for the last 18 months for an apple layout mech keyboard. I thought I found one in the z70 pro board, but it's just subtly off. I want 4 keys to the left of space, and 5 to the right. I don't need both up and down arrows, just one there.

The first person to build a "row" based multi layout platform will really start to hit the right spot because some people would want a function row, others not, some would want an ISO enter, others ANSI, and as long as it was plug and play, it would eat the market whole.

People on Geekhack seem to love collecting keyboards. I just want one, that I can use, that will match my mac layout.
FAANG in 2004 paid much less in nominal terms than it does today. I was a level 5 swe at Google in 2006 and total comp was around $170k.
Upton Sinclair effect right here. Let's keep supporting a major source of climate change, obesity, antibiotic resistance, animal cruelty and heart disease because you want a hamburger... nothing else is good enough for you, focus on the negatives, discard all of the positives.
That's a different topic than the thread you replied to, but the answer is that you could never have gotten the loan if you could have gotten it discharged for free on graduation day.
That SS-520 looks like they just took a model rocket and scaled it up 30x, very cool.
Nobody wants to interact with me, can't speak for the grandparent, but not everybody has the same options as everybody else. With me, people have a visceral reaction of extreme dislike upon first meeting me, so I have to work twice as hard, and when "friendship" is so ephemeral it's a lot of work for little long term reward, tbh.
There is a layer there. The POSIX API's in Cygwin drive a framework of C++ objects, underneath which are ultimately Win32 functions. So that's not going to be faster than just those Win32 functions.

The Win32 functions are available to Cygwin programs.
Almost certainly pressure from the PC crowd...

elaine.512 doesn't seem particularly pornographic, but perhaps she's from Playboy too (anyone know?)
This reminds me of what happened in a game I used to play called 'RoboWar'... it was a game where you programmed robots to fight each other in simulated battles. They held these big tournaments every year.

However, at some points players realized that the scoring gave 1 point for a victory, but also 1 point for a tie (you got a point for surviving a round, whether it ended in a draw or a victory). This lead to a 'pacifist alliance' where robots wouldn't fight unless the other robot also fought. Since both robots would get a point every round, the non-pacifist robots had no chance to compete.

Really interesting outcome to a scoring rule. (Which they fixed by giving an additional point for a kill)

http://robowar.sourceforge.net/RoboWar5/Theory/theory.html#A...