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Ask HN: Can't find a non-Apple slim keyboard with standard layout and no num pad
I'm looking for a slim keyboard (not mechanical preferably) that has a standard layout just without numpad. Whatever I find has these small arrow keys beside Ctrl and below Shift.

In other words, the slim (and probably non-mechanical) version of Logitech G Pro (https://www.logitechg.com/en-roeu/products/gaming-keyboards/pro-gaming-keyboard.html)

Can you recommend me one?
I have an iirc ~5M vertices mesh with vertex colors. In case you're interested.
Didn't yahoo pipes also give the ability to type sql for apis like "select * from facebook.posts" or "select * from reddit.posts where subreddit='askreddit'"
You're really looking at this from the wrong direction. Your competitor doesn't need to fail in order for your own business to succeed. It isn't a zero-sum game.

It wouldn't surprise me if Netflix had that meeting at some point. What would it cost them to run their own infrastructure? Would that be less than the cost of staying with AWS? Is Amazon exploiting their position as Netflix's hosting provider to unfairly compete with them? Do they fear that they might in the future?

At the end of the day, the answer was very likely a solid "no". Many industries are full of examples of competitors working together to the benefit of both companies. Just look at the aerospace industry.
You already gave the answer yourself. You need to reflect on the topic beforehand. Something that is truly brand-new, you probably got some notification ahead of time that would have allowed you to do thinking prep. Things that are much more relevant to what you're working on or your business might be much more ad-hoc, so then that means you need to be always trying to think deeply about the work that you do and understand and evaluating all the potentials that are available.
Greetings to a fellow Colemak user. I've used Colemak for about 7~8 years now. It's really interesting to see home row keys polished to a shine, while others aren't.

I do always change one thing, and recommend it for others too, is to change caps-lock into a control.
The field has changed vastly in the last 50 years. I don't find it shocking that interests and resulting demographics have also changed since then.
The article did end with:

> All such sweeping hypotheses are premature, says Hyman. “I think it’s a time for much more empirical research rather than grand theorization

So I think it is best to consider this a theory that we all hope is true, which has a slight chance of being true.
Because retail investor muppets are soon going to realize that stories about the price going up after halving are complete nonsense. Whales are exiting now, muppets will follow.
The absurd income and sales taxes definitely do not promote innovation. Correlation is not causation.
The hardest part of this trick maybe being conscious of our actions while auto-pilot is often the default behavior.
I don’t know, but if AWS prices reflected economic reality they should reflect the GDP hit and the shift from real world to digital services. It’s unclear which one wins.
It seems like you're the one who should be laying off the "well actually" explanations. The example they were responding to, as it was laid out, is not an example of clinical depression. Just because a person in with adhd is depressed due to factors catalyzed by their adhd does not mean they have clinical depression.
Take a look at the website for Debian's parent organization, Software In The Public Interest, and see all the projects they are responsible for: https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/

Contributing is not a bad idea.
Are they still extorting customers by price gouging bandwidth? Maybe one day I’ll wake up to news they’ve decided to charge for capacity instead of transfer.
Everyone here is just making random guesses. The truth is that Bitcoin is an asset backed by nothing but speculation, so wild price swings with no legible cause are completely normal.
>Every human being is entitled to make claims

God this is so tired. No one is questioning anyone's right to free speech. What I'm questioning is the value of that speech and the humility involved in making claims. That's it.
> Tesla will move California to Texas/Nevada due to local coronavirus response

I know Elon Musk thrives on achieving seemingly impossible tasks. But surely moving America's largest state by population is beyond even him. /s
The console makers require that developers sign an NDA before gaining access to their API.
Uncleftish Beholding (1989)
The price reduction for M5 in US East is just 2%. Wish it was something that was actually substantial.
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This is the kind of "no hire" that turns out to be a favor in the long run. Keep it up!
It is very possible to make money betting on the obscure stuff. I am not going to say what exactly but whilst it isn't possible to get the same volume down, it is possible to have a big edge.

The craziest one was an event I backed at 2.5 in to 1.2 at closing. I have never seen anything close to this before. Just crazy stuff (that is an edge of 40% i.e. you make 40c every $1 you bet)...but you do have to be willing to do the work.

The mistake in the article and that every punter makes is to assume that events with "no information" are bad...but the person setting the odds doesn't have a secret book full of "information" either...the Russian ping pong league is rigged though.
I think the most effective dietary advice in the world is this:

Change one thing for two weeks, and see if it gets better or worse.

You can fix a surprisingly wide range of problems by changing your diet in a slow, methodical way.
Like I explained in my previous comment, I work for myself now.
You're always interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you. (Well, assuming you're good enough at interviewing to get to be choosy.)
Tarkovskis Solaris is really good.
Show HN: A boilerplate repo for building online board games
It might be a nice alternative to a Pokemon Go, but just as a case in point to all those who claim that "OSM is data, not an application" (so, last that I checked, pretty much everyone in the OSM community): I would really feel the pressure to use StreetComplete a lot, if there was a way for me to actually use OSM in the daily life. The best in-browser app that I know is osm.org, and the best Android app is OsmAnd (which is quite a bit better than osm.org, by the way): and you need to be extremely pro-FOSS (as opposed to pro-usability) to abandon much hated GoogleMaps in favor of them.
I don't think screen frame rate is a good measure when it comes to measuring editor responsiveness.

For me the only time screen response comes in to consideration is for flicker.

Editors that flicker badly can be very annoying and very distracting.

My measure of editor responsiveness would be a count based measure of the numbers times you can find yourself waiting on the editor.

Now this waiting can happen for very many different editor actions, but it is most annoying for anything that is keyboard input related.

Snappy editors have very few of these wait points, whereas slow editors drive you mad as you find yourself constantly waiting for some action to complete.
You can publish to consoles with Godot. The issue is that the console makers don't give anyone access to their API without being officially licensed developers (and signing an NDA) so there's no public export templates. However there are several companies that help with this and I believe the Godot devs do as well if you can prove you're a licensed developer.
Almost everyone lost out, and so they are down from the peak, so the bargains are neutral, or rather, they don't have the excess cash for them. Very few had the wherewithal to time it right.

But culturally, the business world has an innate paternalistic industriousness. They want to 'get things moving' on a much deeper level.

Musk is saying what most business leaders are thinking, right or wrong.
It's such a Michael Scott move, really. You simply love to see it.
pfSense could always use some help!

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense
Arteck HB030B Universal Slim Portable Wireless Bluetooth 3.0 7-Colors Backlit Keyboard with Built in Rechargeable Battery, Black
The power that new tooling unlocks
Schmidt's comments about China made a tremendous u-turn a couple of years back. At that time he was already talking about a future of two economic blocks with China in the East and everything else West, giving China slowly but surely more people & countries under the Chinese banner. I remember I first thought Eric starred a bit too long in the Chrome browser but he was right.

I wonder what he has seen in Beijing that made him taking notice and now gathering force to direct a military ensemble.

Schmidt could also just retire but he chooses to double down on his patriotic feelings. To be continued...
That's great to know about, thank you!
> that software companies are secretly... doing the things that they're openly and obviously doing.

Sure, but that's not a conspiracy theory; that's a obvious malice theory.
People don't normally take many steps to avoid the flu, whereas if you're required to go into work and that's the only time you see people it seems you could make a strong case that being required to go in to work was unsafe and caused you to catch the coronavirus.
Ask HN: Which product/design blogs do you follow?
I'm familiar with tech blogs, and semi-follow a handful. Which product/design blogs does HN follow? Any recommendations? Thanks!
Keep in mind that Wsl2 barely came out of public beta so obviously it will have online comments about performance issues when compared with products that don't have a public beta. And yet if you search for it you can find a lot of hits on macos bad performance. Not saying either is better just that the metric you set is inaccurate.
PR speak aside, it looks like they are trying to get people to switch to certain regions, perhaps which are not popular with lot of idle machines? The popular locations like Oregon and Virginia don't have much discounts to offer.
Oh. That’s been known for weeks now. Best strategy by far
I imagine now they do.
Yes, this is occurring. But it is probably a bit less than you think.

CS:GO is definitely up, FIFA is up very big (even the rigged Russian tournaments) but everything else is probably only up small because they are so hard to watch. You can watch CS and understand what is going on...Overwatch is still baffling.
Any chance I can test without the onboarding call?
Well the virus situation has changed things a bit. For instance I have some travel centric ideas which wouldn't be worth trying at the moment. I didn't plan on making the game but figured the situation would make my game a more viable option.

Anyway I've got a bunch, some include:
- a UI mocking tool using your website rather than an app. It something I've partially built that's great for dev specs, rapid prototyping, even marketing.
- A graphic design tool which takes a bunch of icons and generates certain types of collage beautifully and easily. They're a pain to make manually but I see the style used often.
- An idea generation and collaboration tool.
- A tinder-like job searching app with a fun twist.
- Even a funny bong design.

I'll come up with more and re-evaluate as I go. And they'll be under one legal structure for the time being.
Your thoughts are clear and brilliant. Thanks for your post.
How long does this equity vest over? What kind of cliff/vesting schedules?
An analysis of the Lego City deep space rocket
I remember seeing this on GitHub [1] when it was a JavaScript implementation. It'll be interesting to see how it's been ported over to C!

[1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
Have you thought about doing this for Slack/Teams? The native search their is awful in my experience.
It looks eerily similar to what happened to the stock ticker MVIS. 2 days before a major event/earnings call (though, the earnings call was pure speculation), an extremely large single transaction took place that elicited stop losses for those with limits placed, exacerbating the fall.

Redditors like to think this is a manipulation tactic to incite a plummet in price to buy in at a much cheaper price and ride a slow, gradual wave up before the actual event happens.

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1259258437831188482?s...
They'll be under one legal structure for the time being but will be different products/services with varying business models.
If too many smart people went to software engineering, there wouldd be a glut of them, and wages would be depressed. The opposite is observed. Reasonably good engineers are in short supply and can choose which company to join.

Maybe the only area where the (inexperienced and thus enthusiastic) supply exceeds demand is game development.
Seeing people's faces, smiles (instead of a mask)
And to you this constitutes reporting that was "purposefully out of context and twisted in order to create rage click bait to satisfy someone's ideological crusade"?
This guy is the Walter White of chocolate.
Not only that, you'll probably get even better performance after two years by replacing the cheaper acer.
I ended up doing a web search.
Found this comment.
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Godot's editor is built with Godot's own Control nodes which you can use for your games. In short, there's no external toolkit, Godot's editor is a Godot game.
“””

And from looking at a tutorial it appears to be a retained mode UI.
I can't understand how doing great work isn't a great thing.

As the moderation bears witness, we live in an age where positive is somehow negative.
Noticed that too. We just upgraded all our servers from M3 to M5 instances, but all in the us-east-1 region, so looks like we won't save a lot by purchasing more reserved instances.

Noticed a huge 20% reduction in some other areas though...
You can spend about five minutes Googling around and learn that the events in this story happened in the early to mid 2000's, mostly at smaller regional casinos, and no, the participants did not make much money - about enough to be useful to a struggling grad student (as described in the article!).

You can find the author and one of her teammates discussing their careers on a podcast from a couple of years ago here:

http://bobdancer.com/podcast

But I appreciate your commitment to upholding the proud HackerNews tradition of supremely confident snap judgments uncontaminated by actual knowledge.
The article has some official-sounding theories about WFH, which may be a little more high-minded than necessary?

Success working from home boils down to two things:
1. Desire to work from home and
2. Space free from distraction.

I am the only long-term WFH guy working with an office of 40 “In office” folks who have found themselves at home. Some of them complain, others don’t. Some of them have toddlers (!!), others don’t.
Successful it might have been, but I heard it was a sea of pain to support and develop.

One-way bindings and isolation of effects help a lot.
The Soderbergh movie is pretty good. Not quite the same story as the book but I attribute that to the difficulty of making a planet a character in a movie.

Every realization of the Solaris story demands patience and thought from its audience, and I expect that's the root of the problem with its lack of popularity.
> You think there will be tourism and business trip into Sweden when their strategy is explicitly "you will get the virus anyway"?

You don't seem to understand that the more a population builds up immunity, and the less the virus can circulate in this population. So Sweden might end up being the place where you're the less likely to get the virus, if any.

Plus, for people under 65 and no pre-existing conditions, the risk from Covid-19 is negligible. Peaople under 65 represents a lot of tourists and business people already. I personally would go to Sweden without the slightest worry, but that's just me. In the end everybody will assess the risk by themselves, like grown-ups.

> In the end, the Vietnamese will have more freedom than the Swedish

Freedom within the country? Freedom to travel in other countries? Freedom to open their border and welcome foreigners? What do you mean exactly?

As long as the virus circulates in the world, and the population of a country was never exposed to it, then the epidemic is just waiting to happen. I don't see how a country like VN which has presumably not build up immunity at all can be in a good position.

If the virus disappears completely from the surface of the planet, then that's great news for VN. They will have managed to keep the virus out, and to safely re-open the borders. A great success.

But if the virus doesn't disappear, and lingers around for years, Vietnam will have to maintain draconian measures at the borders for a very long time. This will have a cost, and yes it hurts the economy, you can't deny that.

> When countries that have put the virus under control agree to reopen borders against each other

I don't know how you will define "put the virus under control". Good luck with that. And good luck handling all the travelers with two nationalities and two passports.
"What did you do yesterday", from the article, is a great open-ended question that tells you a lot about someone.

I've always enjoyed a diff-question, like, what do you wish people knew about xyz, or what surprised you about xyz. Those answers are usually very information dense
The course teaches Python for Autodesk Maya with a focus on teaching artists with no programming experience, how to make tools that will can be used in production.

Udemy is alright. The profit sharing rules cut you out of a lot unless you actively market, and they’re constantly on sale so you don’t make much per purchase. But it makes up for it in sheer volume. You also need to stand out amongst a lot of content because there’s a very low barrier for entry to meet the requirements to create a course.

Course link for the interested.
https://www.udemy.com/course/python-for-maya/
Please and thank you. After putting me through 3 phone screens and a technical interview or some "5 hour" (really 10 hour) take-home task, I sure as shit do not want to give you any more of my unpaid labor, even in the form of writing up my questions in an email, after a 5-hour onsite interview.
There is another tool call disqus. It's free and is really easy to integrate into your own page. You can check that out on my blog page.

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...
I've only used each of those a little.

Turing is a bit like Stan, JAGS, or BUGS, it's [closer to] a general probabilistic programming system with a Bayesian emphasis, although maybe less Bayesian in emphasis than those other DSLs. PyMC would be another comparison.

Edward is (or when I used it) coming more from a very general latent variable modeling framework, encompassing hidden variable models, and is less focused on Bayesian modeling per se, maybe more variational inferential approaches. It seems to be broadening in scope over time.

Pyro I think is further down the deep learning/NN path than Edward.

It's hard for me to ennumerate strengths/weaknesses, as they have different foci and are parts of different language ecosystems. It depends a bit on the use case. My own experience with each is such that I might use Turing, or move to something like TensorFlow; things like Edward or Pyro seem to occupy this intermediate ground that was difficult for me to utilize in the way I thought I might.

I've been excited by Turing, just to see a probabilistic programming framework like that in Julia. I think the expressiveness of Julia and it being native to that framework will be helpful.
Hence why I said most countries.
That is a good thought! I too have considered that, and I came across simple self-hosted blogs that allows you to add posts using simple markdown files. The whole process of uploading your blogpost's md file to publish takes just a shell command away (and this can be pre-saved to be copied). Here's my blog to illustrate this point, and all these posts are markdown files that can be edited and updated within matters of seconds. I hope this gives you a new perspective for your own blog if you are considering that! (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/
" I write for myself, first."

I love this sentence as well! When I first start out, I write as a mean to add coherence into my thought process when I am learning something new. Over time, it is also important to learn how to organize this information that may provide meaningful insights for my readers. This allows me to 'digest' my newly acquired knowledge and apply them in my thought process! Here's my blog that I hope to share with all you readers (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/

I started writing about design patterns as well, and wish to hear from you all on what are your thoughts on this topic as well. Do leave a comment in my blog page! (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...
This, plus recently I've had a lot of experiences where the interviewer asks me just 1 or 2 simple questions, then invites me to ask them questions.
My problem with Debian (and Ubuntu) has been that often when I want to install a seemingly little piece of software, be it a library or a program, I end up getting the whole slew of stuff - frameworks, daemons, even language processors I haven't suspected existed. (This may not be the distro's problem, but I believe at least some of those things may be optional, and I would have liked to treat them as such.)
I vaguely remember seeing this exact, or almost exact, deal before -- perhaps roughly 10-15 years ago.

Perhaps I'm human or crazy. I'm willing to be corrected.
Toilets vary more than you would expect around the world. Some countries have mostly high pressure, fast moving water designs, which I presume leave a lot of droplets in the air, while others have far slower more "swirly" designs that I suspect transfer less into the air.

It would be good to see research on this...
Seems like you work in a different environment. Here, our interviews begin with a coffee walk or inviting them for lunch; and no one has the attitude of “why the hell do you need to know what I ate”).
Just to offer another perspective, I work for a small consultancy and routinely do our "exec" interview. This is a free-form interview with a member of our leadership team as a final check on the candidate.

I ask candidates some questions about their work history, interesting projects, and follow up on other interview sessions. I always offer them time to ask me questions, and those questions most often make the difference between my recommending them for hire and not. I see those questions as a window into what the candidate values most and find them to be very insightful.
I've been excited by Turing, just to see a probabilistic programming framework like that in Julia. I think the expressiveness of Julia and it being native to that framework will be helpful.

I hope so too. But hasn't Julia's TF/Torch equivalent, Flux, had performance problems? That was the rumor I heard anyway, I haven't had the chance to use it myself.
These numbers don’t account for the age distribution. It’s not reasonable to say “25% of those going to ICUs are under 50” (chances are this is probably 23% 40-45; btw), and “50% of those in ICU have clotting problems”, so “25% x 50% = 12.5%”.
Blender's decimate modifier can reduce the polys. Infact the model I got from Meshroom had more vertices than the one I uploaded to sketchfab. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers...
> Are they still extorting customers...

That is a contradiction in terms.

According to the OED:

Extort means to "obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means."

Customer means "a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business"

Thus, extortion is a coercive relationship--we call the target of extortion a victim, not a customer.

The relationship of a vendor and customer is voluntary.