skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ordered a keyboard.io and ended up returning it because it felt so cheap.

A lot of the switches are angled poorly and they key caps are too large for the switches. This results in your finger not pressing the switch straight down or directly in the center. This made every key press need a different amount of force to actuate.

The keycaps were custom made for the layout. They felt like they picked the cheapest possible plastic which resulted in them having a lot of play. But since they were custom there was no hope of replacing them.

The board was also very "hollow" so it the keys just drummed, rattled and echoed about when typing instead of just resounding a punctual click.

Also, the thing is so massive. It takes up sooo much space.

They have their own firmware instead of just leveraging something that already exists like QMK. Which is fine for the most part, but I prefer to have all my keyboards running the same firmware.

TL;DR It's a $400 keyboard that feels worse than a $60 keyboard.
Part of the reason libraries are quiet is you have fewer people and a lot of sound absorbing materials (that also happen to hold really important information for the right people). Removing books and replacing them with more seats will just make it an open office.

A library is supposed to house knowledge and make it accessible, not primarily to give everyone a study spot. You can always check out a library book and take it somewhere with more seats.
That’s actually not an easy patch — I looked into it and the way the QT layer works — not even diving into the codebase underneath — doing anything more than an icon pack/skin is nearly impossible — at least with my level of skill and the amount of time I would be willing to put into it.

As I said, I’m super grateful Calibre exists and I think software is better for it existing. I also fully understand why there haven’t been other attempts to do what Calibre does — because it’s a shitload of work and the userbase is niche.
We already have self driving cars running around Mountain View with little problems. Extending that progress to more extreme conditions doesn’t seem far fetched, especially when we continue to have technology advances in sensors (LIDAR) and AI control. 5 or 10 years might sound aggressive to many people, but 20 years doesn’t sound far off at all.
There was no core breach at all in Fukushima.
Me too. Wouldn't choosing a random number on the entire real line require you to generate an infinite amount of information?
The last line reads needlessly dismissively. Someone, quite rightly, making an observation that the user interface/experience could do a little work is not analogous to someone suggesting the app should become the victim of poorly thought-out modern design trends.
Pretty much.

It's expensive on a like for like basis but not in an absolute sense.

I think my water costs me about £16 per month for 3 of us (me, partner and step-son), if that doubled I wouldn't even notice it set against our other outgoings, We are just very used to very cheap clean water in developed countries (and also very used to wasting vast amounts of it).

Israel doesn't just desalinate a lot of their water but they are masters are conserving it's use (they are so good at drip-agriculture that their experts are showing other countries experts how to scale it up) of course drip-agriculture has it's own issues.
I think a git repo makes a lot of sense, but it might be hard to get less-technical team members on board.
As a rider myself, I don't understand that philosophy, and I've never seen another rider follow it, even when they claim to. Certainly, if you believed that, you would never be within a mile of any other vehicle on the road.

"The Matrix Reloaded" featured a 30 minute action sequence showing what it's like when a tiny fraction of other drivers are actually trying to kill you. Spoiler: without Neo swooping in to "do his Superman thing" and save you, you're dead, even if you've got automatic weapons and kung fu training.
Enterprise Sales, Support, Training, Certifications, Deals for packing services/software/etc, Incentive programs, Extensive partner network, etc, etc, etc.

There's an entire realm of software development and consulting in and around Microsoft enterprise products - and that has extended to Azure as well.

Personally, I've worked with AWS,GCP and Azure in a professional capacity (data science consulting) - and while Azure has its fair share of warts, the level of integration and "it just works" between Azure and MS Enterprise products is fairly impressive.

For example, I'm big on postgres - but working with SQL Server on Azure is such as breeze. There's nothing I can do with it that I couldn't do on other platforms, but the combination of tooling (SSMS, VSCode) and smooth azure integration (Blob Storage, AzureSQL, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, etc) made it easy to make things that 1. worked and 2. could be mostly supported by a BA instead of a dev.
Well, it's definitely harder for cities in the US. The US' whole system from the federal level down through states and cities are designed to make things good for cars and terrible for everyone else. Like, just look at the interstate highway guarantee of paying the vast majority of costs for new freeways. There was certainly no such guarantee for public transport, or sidewalks, or bike lanes.
He got rich. His own reputation pretty much stays intact as genius visionary founder.

It's not much of a learning experience if all you get is rewards. Even if he's bitter that the rewards weren't as much as he wanted.
> From an average undergrad's perspective, the ideal "library" is probably something more like a WeWork.

Oh god. Somewhere you probably just spawned a demon idea: WeWork-style partnerships with universities to build "co-working" spaces on-campus.

JK - but probably not!
I suspect the study spaces are quieter embedded in the shelving areas, than they would be if the same square footage was used to clump all the study space together.
In NYC someone played a good-natured prank on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jIsxQNz0M
We are deciding whether a person is guilty or not. We can't judge based on a hypothetical situation where that person might do in the future. That seems unjust.
Is this why people are trying to cure their cancer with dog deworming products?
Your general points are reasonable, but the arguments you're making are absurd.

> the opportunity cost paid by riders waiting for the construction

There is absolutely no reason that a city can't deploy a BRT system in the short-term while building the light rail. This is in fact a common strategy.

> a light rail option that doesn't have right of way is far worse (economically speaking) and will be far less popular than a bus fleet that does.

I agree that right-of-way is important, you are attacking a straw man.

> electric buses, powered by stored-energy batteries, become arguably "good enough". But that's less an energy-efficiency concern

Energy efficiency will always be a concern, regardless of the method of generation.

But! It's significantly easier today to deploy light rail powered by renewable sources than a comparable bus system. Today the gold standard for buses is CNG, which, while much less polluting than gasoline, is still a non-renewable resource.
Whoa. I didn't know we could do that.
I used to love camping out in my college library. The old computer science books were some of the most fun to leaf through. It may seem comical to a methodologist of today, for whom Agile is the end of history and Object-Oriented Design the pinnacle of human achievement, to read about Jackson Structured Programming, but JSP was the cutting edge of enterprise development in the 1980s and really helped a lot of people deal with tricky data flows in a systematic abstract way.

Of course some notions from back then are still silly. One book described a "software engineer of the 1990s" who sat in a lounge chair and described specs out loud to a HAL-like AI, which transmuted them into flawless code. Kinda like George Jetson and RUDI.
The laws of physics??
what metric would you suggest using, for getting an accurate estimate of real volume?
Small cars and vans don't need signalling to be good. The reason is geometric: someone already in the car doesn't want to detour to your front door to pick you up (they will excuse this if you are obviously handicapped and thus need special treatment).

All transit makes the most sense when they run a regular fixed route - just like large buses and trains run. The advantage of self driving is they run every 5 minutes or less 24/7 so you don't have to check a schedule to find out when the next bus comes. The small is an advantage only in that it is cheaper to buy and uses less fuel on routes that that don't have enough demand to fill a larger vehicle on the same route. The advantage of self driving is cost of labor (drivers) is a large reason buses don't run these routes already.

Bottom line: if your neighborhood currently doesn't have the ability to support transit today having a personal self driving car is going to make more sense.

Do not confuse ability to support with currently supports: even in the non-dense suburbs if everybody took transit instead of their car there is enough density to support every 10 minute service with stops every mile down a grid, at less cost than everybody's car currently costs. Most suburbs do not have the type of grid that would support this though. Even if they did the transit system needs to be large and frequent enough for years before people will make the switch - years where transit is more expensive than just buying all the riders a used car (7 years old, free replacement every 5 years)
The conclusion i reached is to build your website into multiple independant SAP. Keep the general flow on the server, have it load a different html page for sections that are independant, within which you’ll use whatever JS framework you want. This way you’ll be able to slowly build new components with new frameworks while migrating the old ones when you have the time.
Well that's a lot of interesting detail, thanks! If they were indeed passed after the fall of the generation of the Klan that liked to use masks, then why did anyone bother to pass them? Had it gotten to the point of just virtue-signaling how against the Klan they were?
> Carell’s team has shown how all nucleobases could form under one set of conditions: two separate ponds that cycle through the seasons, going from wet to dry, from hot to cold, and from acidic to basic, and with chemicals occasionally flowing from one pond to the other.

I've enjoyed Bruce Damer's explanation of related theory, "The Hot Spring Hypothesis for the Origin of Life". Search "goldilocks chemistry" for some helpful background and visualizations on this page - https://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/the-hot-spring-hyp...
> This includes the thing boxers put in their mouth to protect their teeth

FYI, the English word is "Mouthguard"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthguard
Singapore is very far from homogeneous, and still has excellent public transit.

Germany is not a small country by population, and has vastly superior public transport compared to the US.

You're just making an excuse for your own preferences.
What makes .NET core particularly notable in this pairing? I don't think any Ruby/Python/etc folks will be snickering, but if all we're talking about is a REST API (or similar) connecting to a Vue frontend then the idea is pretty backend agnostic.
I hear you, we use this at work and this rings true to our experience as well. One thing though is recently we've started experimenting with typescript? Have you used that? I find that you have to jump through hoops to get typescript and Vue to work together. Looking forward to a form of Vue with better support there.
If the baseline is success probability 10^-8, raising it to 10^-5 is extremely promising at a relative level, but not at an absolute level.
Originally libraries were cold because fire and books don't mix well, and they needed massive windows because fire was the only other way to light them.
It seems like you'd lose a ton of utility like that. How cold you maneuver in tight spaces without the ability to move each leg/foot in a particular way and put the in a particular place? Much less run, jump, dance, play sports, etc.
I might if I walked in the street. I don't encounter a lot of cars driving on the sidewalk, and in theory I shouldn't encounter cyclists there either.
Physical libraries are also great maintainers of specialty digital resources that would be unlikely to be accessible without their presence.

A recent example: an artist friend of mine was looking for images of historic aircraft using various common image search tools (Google image search, Flickr, etc). The result skewed toward specific models of planes and from a small set of angles. These results were unsatisfying as they were searching out references for an animation project where they needed a broader set of planes from a greater number of angles.

When they told me about this problem, I, having more experience with academic and special libraries, pointed out that institutions like the National Air and Space Museum and military colleges were likely to have their own digital collections of airplane photography that are not well indexed (or at least represented) in tools like Google. We spent a few minutes searching together, and sure enough, we found a much better reference set in the digital collections of these institutions, as well as indexes of similar resources put together by their librarians.
I have been recruited as a page-turner more than I've needed a page-turner (usually played from memory). I think being the page-turner is more stressful because you can screw up the performance just as badly, but resulting from a much smaller level of negligence. That makes it seem so much worse if it happens.
The ideas in that article suffer from the same lack of creativity that a lot of these philosopher written pieces also suffer from (including the main article here). Someone will program the ai, the robot, to want to survive, to want to destroy competitors. It's frankly incredibly irritating to read things like like that sci am article you give, because there's some bizarre belief that only how "things evolve" will govern them. Well I got news for all people that support this naive view - people will program, adapt and alter the ai's to act like they would desire, at least as a starting point. Whether it's some drone that kills people autonomously, or a future potential ai, someone will have influence over it's beliefs and point it in a direction that they desire.
Beautiful. +1 for canvas approach.
I doubt chicken wire would work:

> Elephants learn by trial and error what sorts of materials do and do not shock them in their efforts to break through electric fences — and in at least one recorded instance (described in Lawrence Anthony’s The Elephant Whisperer [2009]), followed the buzzing of the fence all the way around to its origin, the generator, which, having been stomped to smithereens, allowed them to untwine the fence and go their merry way.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/do-elephants-hav...
Why do you say that? On the whole Discord has been a super useful tool for gamers and the industry. Curious what your experience has been.
> because even if Valve was poorly managed

based on their culture deck it doesn't seem great.

Purely from the standpoint of maximizing value I mean.
Does anyone know of a similar resource for Europe? Even better, Austria?
We originally changed the article's title to "The RDP algorithm represents a complex line with fewer points", but if RDP is misleading, we can drop that and fit in the rest of the article's own summary. (The reason not for using the original title in the first place is that it's a bit too baity. This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.")
> "Always cast the return value of printf to void."

Why?
If you don’t know something, say „I don’t know, but I’ll check”. Find the answer/solution and share it publicly. People will notice your knowledge and remember thing you know. It will open doors later.
I think you are overestimating the percentage of the general population that understand that traditional martial arts are BS (with obvious exceptions such as Muay Thai).

A regular person with no previous martial arts training is easy prey for the "masters".

That's why these traditional martial arts gyms still exist.
From the end of the article:

The Turkish authorities began filling the reservoir last year but stopped after drought-plagued Iraq requested it keep the Tigris flowing. In this arid part of the world, locals fear the dam will spark “water wars” with Turkey’s neighbors who depend on the Tigris.

Hasankeyf tourist guide Mazlum Yildirimer said he feared the dam will become a source of “endless problems.”

“For the last 100 years, there have been problems with our neighbors because of a lack of water,” he said. “Changing the course of rivers changes the world.”
My university library had most of the "required" books to use for free. Took me a while and some money to find that out, though.
> From an average undergrad's perspective, the ideal "library" is probably something more like a WeWork.

Ha! Funnily enough I left WeWork because of their incessant need to blast music ALL... THE... TIME. During the times when I needed to really hunker down and grok hard material that required hours of intense focus, I would end up going to the nearby library.

That said, I agree with the sentiment of your comment. The local library is packed with students throughout the day because of the availability of desks/seated areas.
I'm also using it, but the reality is that the Wireguard team states it's not production ready for good reason. If your threat model includes state level actors or you are a high value target to sophisticated cracking groups, I wouldn't use wireguard yet.

A lot of cryptographic protocols have come and gone, once thought secure. And 10-100x as many implementations of a specific protocol have fallen to mistakes, even built on secure protocols.

That said, if your threat model consists of relatively low level threats, like blocking your ISP from spying on you to sell your info to advertisers, I'd highly recommend wireguard. It works really fast and well.
Towards a Simple Theorem Prover
Free stuff always tastes better
This is the Enterprise Service Bus concept, right? I remember a pretty good conference talk about how we realized in the mid 2000s that these things are problematic and you probably want services communicating directly over dumb pipes.

In showed an evolution from a monolithic spaghetti codebase, to an SOA, to realizing there are now spaghetti connections between services in an SOA, to a very clean looking ESB architecture, to showing how all the chaos is still there, just inside the ESB where it’s even harder to reason about or change.
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His framelab podcasts are informal and easily digestable.

https://framelab.us/podcast/

I highly recommend

* truth sandwich time (if you only listen to one make it this one)

* how republicans really think (if you only listen to one make it this one, too)

* how trump uses twitter to control the media (very eye opening)

* guns over people (on how to frame the gun debate)

Also, this lecture on political language exposes the leverage hooks politicians and propagandists use to hook and manipulate us. You will never listen/read political speech the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM&t=28
Here is another example that is less of an isolated event:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/opinion/surveillance-stat...
Now consider this, if this happens at this scale for the small cost of $150.000 how many pr-firms are engaging in propaganda against some commercial target right now without your ever noticing?

You mean like the way certain east (and probably west) coast billionaires spending millions to influence elections in the flyover states?
Yeah, if you want to know about BMWs, ask a cyclist. We all have an opinion.
That Music You're Dancing To? It's Code
Maybe I don't want to have a nasty conversation with my intestinal flora.

shitake are notorious sht talkers....

I'll be leaving now.
I'll also add that BULLRUN clearly stated they were backdooring cryptographic standards. At that point, any NSA connection is suspect. Personally, I thought it was brilliant attempt at a NOBUS attack. NOBUS is rarely achievable in practice while simultaneously being deniable.
Lilium unveiled its five-seater electric air taxi prototype on Thursday
> where did you find that drinking Tejeva is making them more productive?

In the blog post, the person said they wanted to drink 3-4 bottles a day. So, I assume drinking it makes them happy and, thus, more productive.

> It sounds like an mild addiction wish I suspect is doing the opposite.

I don't understand the need to drink Tejeva. But different people have different needs/wants.

In a similar situation, I'm not a parent or a handicapped or a minority. So, I don't truly understand their needs/situations.

But I don't assume that "oh honey your need isn't significant; you can absolutely
live without X", especially when it costs so little.

> The infinity was to make a point about resources, you put much focus into it and is just a silly hypothetical scenario to state a point.

But we are judging a person's action, and we should avoid judging them based on something they haven't done.

Of course, if they start hogging 100 bottles a day where it's not physically possible for a single person to drink it all, then, yeah, I agree that it seems too many.

> their previous behavior is _also_ on the wrong and the one that raises red flags in a personal level.

This is where I disagree. The person's not in the wrong.

They are upfront about taking 6 bottles. They are clear that they enjoy drinking that many bottles.

Needing to drink 6 bottles is like any other need (e.g. need to leave early, need to exercise, need to rest, need to go on a walk, need to poop longer than normal, need to eat more than a normal person). Some people need something more than the others.

What raises a red flag is a person who points finger at another person instead of a system that creates scarcity. This person would be destructive in a post mortem, for example.
Have a look at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/06/phone-.... https://www.cultofmac.com/260213/nsa-spyware-allegedly-gives..., linked in there, talks even specifically about iPhones.
Passenger trains suck at long distance transit. Trains work well for trips up to around 500 miles where they are faster than planes after factoring arriving at the airport early, after that trains are more expensive and slower than airplanes, without allowing the flexibility of a car. Note that if you live in Europe you can cover several countries in this distance and thus feel well traveled without ever going far from home on a continental (much less global) scale.

A full car is cost competitive with planes and trains, and gives you flexibility to stop and see things along the way.
What is CAF? My relationship with Google is basically like my relationship with Mount Everest. It exists and I spent about $10,000 with it but never got a response from it on anything.
A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
It's not worthwhile for nearsighted people beyond middle age. It also structurally weakens the eye so not a good thing depending on your occupation and hobbies.
Since at least the 1600's.

Except they weren't billionaires then. More like thousandaires. And instead of buying, they just started a new one.
I measured my kids using just a ruler and they're all happy with the results. I also measured myself using a mirror, ruler, and a phone camera (so the measurement couldn't be skewed by eye movement) and my results also turned out great. However, I can understand why it would be easy to measure incorrectly, since the ruler is never very close to the eyes.