skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I owned a WASD with cherry greens. Great switches, but otherwise a very standard keyboard. It died in an unfortunate encounter with a cup of coffee. As a replacement I got an Ergodox EZ to reduce hand strain. At the urging of my wife, who desperately wanted the clicks to stop, I got mine with brown equivalents to stop clicking. Browns are fine, but I really prefer greens or blues.

Fast forward a year and my wife got a new job with a generous WFH stipend, and she too wants a nice ergonomic keyboard with macros so she can do things faster. And wouldn’t you freaking know it, she got her Kineses Freestyle with Cherry freaking blues.

(I can actually change the switches in my Ergodox, I just haven’t gotten around to spending $50 on extra switches).
Missing from this list are some historical and modern sources.

This EPA page has a better list https://www.epa.gov/radiation/what-kinds-consumer-products-c...

Missing from both is radioactive electronics. In lamps, electron sources, spark gaps, it's common to use radioactive materials to make ionization easier. In a lamp for example this would make it start at lower voltage

https://instructional-resources.physics.uiowa.edu/demos/7d30...

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/elec...
I'm not really sure about this. I think the language they designed has the properties they desired, in that they consciously forewent a lot of potential benefits because some notion of simplicity is more important to them. So in that sense I think they were successful at designing a language.

Like some other comment here says, you run into bugs like this early on and they're not necessarily show-stoppers. Maybe keeping the language simple and ensuring that most code is readable if you only know the language and the stdlib (and not some fancy concurrency library) is worth the occasional bug?

Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that Go is the language I want to use for every use case under the sun, but that probably wasn't a goal of Go to begin with.
I agree, my spare keyboard have red switches, but my daily driver is silver switches.

Despite all the negative reviews online about the MX silver speeds, probably by THUNK enthusiasts. It's wonderful to write on. I can write fast as normally, without feeling tired in my fingers.

https://www.cherrymx.de/en/mx-original/mx-speed-silver.html
vs.
https://www.cherrymx.de/en/mx-original/mx-red.html
I use it for accounting. You can't type numbers without looking at your keyboard if there is no keypad.
Donald Trump is likely to challenge the results of the US election
Nothing is 100% safe, who said Nuclear power is? Nuclear power always has been and still is one of the safest ways to generate electrical power and this is what counts. Solar power for example causes a lot of fatalities due to accidents that happen during installation and has it's own environmental problems, yet nobody talks about it.
You are either not Indian or you are ignoring everything to suit your narrative.

The current government has put on a lot of regulation to "protect home grown e-tailers" when Ambani was planning to launch an Amazon competitor.

Flipkart before they sold to Walmart had begged for years to give protection, but none was given, but when JioMart was to be launched, suddenly regulation was changed to benefit local e tailers, major benefactor was JioMart.

> Imagine Tesla being able to open a battery factory in India, and just sell batteries, without worrying about cars and all.

Hahahahahahahaha Due to stuoid red tape, Tesla took Gigafactory plans to China. 70% thungs were need to be locally sourced for starting Tesla factory in India and obviously we don't have the ecosystem.

> By the logic you are stating, any business or market friendly move by any government will have to be targeted at specific individuals or families.

Were you living under a rock when Telecom rules were being constantly flouted by Jio? All rules were specifically created to help Jio. The AGR case crippled telecos except Jio. Jio also has AGR but SC put the decision onto the govt for collecting or not. But others are forced to pay regardless if they go under.

> The car company decides the interface. If a rival chooses to create an open interface, and reap the benefits, market forces will ensure that all manufacturers do the same.

Hahahaha just like "anyone can start a startup in India. They can take Amazon AWS servers and domain from Godaddy and there won't be an issue.

Just like "anyone can apply for a business license and start a manufacturing plant"

You blisfully and maliciously ignore that the entire govt machinery has been working overtime to favour Ambani Adani.

> Moreover, the number of car manufacturers are limited, but the number of battery companies can expand a lot

Yeah and there can be many businesses which you can set up. Sure, all you ought to do is as for a license. Sure, govt won't twist rules to favour JioBattery and JioElectricCar
COBOL is everywhere. Banks, insurance companies, infrastructure. Something like 90+% of all payment transactions are still processed using COBOL.

The language is fine, but it’s the rest of the mainframe that is a pain in the ass to learn.

Oh, and killing ‘awesome’ modern text editors by just opening a 80k LoC file and doing basic regex searches. VS Code works well but Atom not so much.
Ah interesting. It's probably a pretty clean implementation then. No immediate workarounds come to mind.

There's ways you can obscure things, such as using an object tag, leaving it up to the browser to decide via a mime type header which you specify then as svg, buuut that won't work here.

Things are fairly locked down these days. Maybe there's something I'm not thinking of using a similar pattern (confuse the browser, tell it the answer and then have it generate the restricted type) ... Maybe something dealing with lang or codepages... There's still plenty of shenanigans there.

Back in the day I used to upload full-blown servers I wrote in postscript as my "profile image" and then they were blindly executed when trying to "convert" the file - imagemagick locked that down about 10 years ago though. Even back then usually some max execution timer would kill it after a minute or so. But it was fun.
People often have the idea that a digital readout implies a more precise measurement. I see this often in scales, thermometers, etc.
The iPhone 12 Pro camera will use Sony’s Lidar technology
Yeah my thought exactly. Also, going through the effort of filtering tickets also sounds worth it
That is really bizarre. From an outsiders view, sterile transit seems extremely intuitive; forcing people to buy a visa if their plane gets fuel in the US just seems annoying.
We use Front with a custom plugin. Fronts a bit buggy but very useful
yeah, I wrote a neural network a while back to run both in front and back end. to the front end I used JavaScript and for the back python. apart from matrix multiplications (python I used numpy, JavaScript I wrote my own class) the code is almost identical.

that got me wondering that I could write a program to translate a language to another. a large company could commission a (bunch of) programmer(s) to do this
Ad industry is sucks but we should take care about sustainability of free journalism, services and app ecosystem. Apple (one of richest group in society) was going to banning thing too quickly.
The data science platform looks great, but I have a fundamental issue with building a data versioning platform using git-like semantics - Pachyderm and DVC follow this approach. Git-like approaches just track immutable files - they do not store the differences between files. That's fine when you're working with small amounts of data, but doesn't scale to handle large volumes of data and prevents you from making some times of time-travel queries - give me the data that changed in this time range. The emerging enterprise approach to handle this is to use a framework like Delta.io, Apache Hudi, or Apache Iceberg. These frameworks add metadata over Parquet, and allow you to do point point-in-time time-travel queries as well as interval-based time-travel queries (give me data that changed in this time interval). Parquet is becoming a dominant file format for data lakes and is cheap to store on s3.

Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Logical Clocks.
Sounds like the people producing and distributing this media are using self hosted and decentralised social network platforms. The people making these platforms release them for free for anyone to use as the like, so they can't stop jihadists. It doesn't say what they're using, but I doubt it is federated with any non-extremist networks.

It's basically an article confused by the fact that most people have been hypnotized into forgetting that anyone can run any software they like on a computer and network it to another computer, without some platform having control over what they do.
Wow- what an odd exchange. So eye opening to see senior academics from repected institutions carrying on like that.
NY and California won’t distribute a rushed Covid Vaccine
I find the motion of rotating the hands outward past the neutral position, such as to strike the enter key on a standard keyboard, to be extremely unnatural and the source of major RSI. I switched over to an ergodox ez out of necessity, and found that moving all frequently used keys to the thumb pads or to layers near the home row was extremely helpful. I think is because it eliminated those frequent outward flexes and ensured that the wrists remain almost always in a neutral position. I think the health benefits of keeping the wrists neutrally positioned while typing is uncontroversial.
The street finds its own use for things eh
I like the part where it uses the conductivity of pee as the power switch.

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301709777383292928/photo/1
I loved Return to Zork. But I only finished by cheating.

Want some rye?
Thanks for the update, would love her opinion on this paper's outcome.
Not having worked at Apple, I have difficulty understanding whether the NoPocket Jumpsuit is a thing or not.
This is first time I hear about pregnancy test being "intimidating".

The only pregnancy test intimidating reference I knew about so far was "omg, shit I am pregnant shit".
"Idiopathic" means that the cause is unknown. So when you say "idiopathic post-viral...from X", you're trying to imply something that cannot be implied. One may have happened after the other, but the "idiopathic" means "it's unlikely to have been caused by it".

Not for nothing: I had idiopathic hypersomnia in graduate school, too -- it tends to happen when you're depressed from being in graduate school. As you were already on an antidepressant, and it was a suggested treatment for your illness, it sounds like this is a more probable cause than the one that you're trying to imply.
I'm still curious what is the underlying server tech that takes care of the video stream, and if it's tcp only or does some udp too.

I guess the server doesn't modify the video stream. Since browsers are able to read the webcam, do they use hardware acceleration to compress the video stream? Is there a collection of formats?

I still wish we could go back to p2p video streaming like Skype was doing.
Also dev here. I miss the numpad maybe once a quarter but better ergonomics and posture make it worth it. Without a numpad I can keep the letter part of the keyboard right in front of me instead of slightly shifted to the left.

My keyboard is also programmable so CapsLock+WASD are my arrow keys and once you have that down, you will never want to go back.
My all time favorite is Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 from Microsoft. I can not tolerate small keyboards with many keys missing.
What’s the point of having many of the same keyboards which are practically identical? The layout is the same.

I totally understand ergonomic keyboards (I have Quefrency and Sinc for home and office), but clones of the same 60% Etc. layout with just different case maybe? Key caps are replaceable and if you get a kit with the switches you like, you have more or less seen it all.
Look up Creative Commons licences. Some allow for commercial use. Jamendo is (was?) a fairly popular website for that.
There's actually a paper that attempts to quantify the scaling characteristics of NLP models from early this year. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361)

Even if scaling alone ends up solving everything (I doubt it), I'd still feel that very significant improvements ought to be possible from an algorithmic perspective. (I realize that's largely baseless, but for some reason I just can't escape the feeling that current algorithms leave a huge amount of potential on the table.)
I also like the part that it has as much CPU power as the original IBM PC but it's literally something you pee on and then throw away!
I think that 'just' scaling todays algorithms is quite a naive approach as it would imply the need of huge amounts of training samples for simple tasks (simple to humans). Given humans tend to need an order of magnitude less samples before being able to generalize I think we need more than just scaled up versions of todays NNs, SVMs, Trees, what-have-you.
It‘s not. Instead it‘s the only reasonable way to deal with degrading batteries - a limitation all manufacturers have to deal with. Apple opted to prevent unexpected shutdowns by slightly throttling performance - the correct decision for most users, but they didn‘t tell the user about it, which of course serves as a great excuse for colorful, exaggerated headlines like the one in your linked article.
Since when is equivalent mean exactly same?

Your statement is lazy comparison, disingenuous at worst.

Economic policies? Oh, do you mean the disasterous butchering of Indian Economy which took it to a 8yr low? Or do you mean the 45yr high unemployment level? Or the pathetic rollout of GST when they kept changing rules everyday or the disasterous demonization which screwed up entire informal sector?

Environmental policy?

Is this the same policy wherein the BJP is about to remove all protections provided to Environment by law? It would made it very easy for companies to take out a forest?

Or are you referring to the million trees cut down under the pretense of "development"

Or do you refer to the butchering of part of Arey forest for a metro car shade in Mumbai?

Social issues you say?

So you mean the blatant attempt of destroying Secular fabric of this nation by bringing CAA NRC?

Or do you refer to the police state wherein they arrest everyone who dares oppose them on sedition? Or the arrest-but-no chargesheet-file? Or the malicious rearrests after courts have let the dissenters go?
Is this a good resource for someone using it to improve their C skills, and not necessarily writing a lot of C?
Thoma Sowell makes some interesting points. If labor the main generator of capital, then poor countries where there is an abundance of labour should be a lot richer, yet it is countries with more entrepreneurs that are richer in reality.
Sure.

They could easily charge thousands of their shady vendors peddling fakes to customers an extra fees to compensate for that.
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The article doesn't go into detail about what technically it means if a sitting president doesn't accept the result (apart from the "Secret Service escorting Mr Trump from the White House on inauguration day").

Apart from the court cases, and presumably a fair bit of protest and civil unrest, can anyone say (without getting into a for/against Trump debate) what will happen legally if come inauguration day he doesn't accept the ballot?

The huge gap between voting and inauguration day has always seems a bit odd to me as a non American. In the UK the losing Prime Minister/Government is replaced the morning after the election.
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As a dev I also have very little use for a numpad. Unless it’s a the weekend and I’m messing around in Blender, it along with the traditional home/end cluster and arrows are just a bunch of dead space pushing my mouse way too far the right. I much prefer the numpad being it’s own separate thing that can be moved around, but a southpaw setup would be ok too.

The worst thing is when laptops come with numpads, pushing the trackpad off to the left and making it impossible to center my arms while typing. Drives me crazy.
I am a big fan of Thinkpads and I am eyeing for X1 Nano which is rumored to be released late this year. It will have Tiger Lake CPU which was announced a couple days ago and it is 13 in laptop with 16:10 resolution.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Titanium-X1....
No. I'm talking about designing a paper pregnancy test that has words instead of lines.
> But what health issues do we avoid?

Infant and child mortality is much much lower.
> My iPhone 5 became slower after 1-2 years. If the battery was bad, I never noticed it (no shutdowns or anything like that).

So...it worked as expected? Slightly slowing the phone down is exactly what prevented your phone from potentially and unexpectedly shutting down.
Parents Sue Schools for Discriminating Against High-Achieving Asian Kids
I've had a normal keyboard for ages and I've never used the numpad. And I can assure you I use my keyboard very heavily.

However I've lately started to transition to ergonomical keyboards where I have the numpad under the fingertips but on a separate layer.
Most people don't understand the issue. What actions people generally find acceptable are very different from the actions permitted under copyright law, but most people don't understand that.
That's deeply disingenuous. It's not like this guy was telling the truth everywhere else. The lies were numerous.

That's what Gell-Mann amnesia is, really: we believe what we want to believe, and forget the quality of the source.
reminds me of this Onion:

"CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website."

https://entertainment.theonion.com/pitchfork-gives-music-6-8...

I cannot wait to find out what common human behaviours are regulated online next, after all, if you don't like it, you can just

actually sorry there is only online now
I've grown fond of Caprover for this kind of small project. I would probably shove the metabase instance and both of the production instances into a single smaller instance (but I have been known to increase swap and put off upsizing resources in the past because cheapskate)
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The api it uses is 404'ing for me now... Sad
ClassPass Uses Price Discrimination to Maximize Revenue for Fitness Studios
It’s the statism as a way to out of capitalism they’re critical of.

Anarchists tend to agree with Marx’ analysis of capitalism.
I wonder how much it would cost for the same app, if developed in Java or dotnet core.

They could save a good chunk of the 69 USD they spend on Digital Ocean servers.

edit : To clarify, What I meant was that to serve 55k users, perhaps using more efficient languages like C# or Java, would allow them to run on lesser spec machines. And as those users scale up, to say a million users a month, perhaps savings would also increase, if using more performant languages.
'Course ya do!

That line is chiseled in stone on the surface of my brain.
TDD in Practice
Quick note for @jdoliner: there's a typo on the homepage in the Useful Links section - "Technicial Slack Channel"
This is basically the definition of plastic waste.
man, I just love that old guy.

"who is there like us? a damn few. an they are all dead"

I started watching a playthrough on youtube the other day, but I stopped the video where I left when I last played the game. I'll give it one more try before I gave up completely and watching the whole story on video
Yeah the philosophy is a bit cray. Trust and curation are the key words. Those were smart to point out. Curation is great. Folks only let those they respect most do curation for them. It's about the most esteemed role there is. It makes collective information processing scalable. Omitting details when filtering information through layers of humans is the point. Transparency enables good curators to address any concerns relating to that. For example, programming and mathematics have pretty much already invented the blockchain of facts the author is describing, with things like GNU Make or Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms. The latter is a great way to have more depth if you think normal arithmetic alone isn't factual enough. Some people even use math for theology with theorem provers like coq, but the conclusions they come to only really apply afaik if you believe in certain assumptions like the ability to divide good from non-good.
The language has nothing to do with it, this site could be ran on a $5/mo droplet (or a pair of them for their deployment strategy).
Likewise, ortholinear programmable keyboard. Holding down one of the left hand home-row keys turns a numpad-sized chunk of keys under the right hand into a numpad.
To be honest, we still have no idea how it will work out.
What're they going to host it on, when they're finished the full rewrite to save 69usd?
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Nice writeup! Always appreciate transparency with these sorts of things, as someone who writes a lot of tiny personal projects and sometimes wonders how much I'd have to invest if they ever actually gained any traction. Congrats on having so many users, and good luck on monetization.

For the server instances, I can't imagine 4 CPUs/8 gigs RAM is really needed 24/7, but can imagine it being needed in bursts, and I assume GCP has various "elastic" auto-scaling products for that. Would love to know if your metrics indicate that this is the smallest box you could comfortably run on, or if it's just a best-guess. Could potentially spin down blue-green environments after some set amount of time (once you know a deploy "succeeded"), as well.

For Metabase, I can't find any "system requirements," but I'm not _super_ shocked by the price tag. I've always liked the idea of hosting my own tools instead of relying on some SaaS's free/trial tiers (particularly for things like analytics, logging, or metrics), but a lot of the open source options out there assume you have a pretty hefty box to throw it at. At the same time, I haven't found any better alternative other than just doing ad-hoc analyzing in SQL (using a GUI like Postico).
> The other reason we don't do it is that it is just cheaper to buy more Uranium than setup reprocessing plants

Is it cheaper to buy more Uranium and deal with the so-far-and-growing half-trillion dollar cleanup liability than to set up and operate reprocessing plants? Of course I wouldn't be surprised if that liability is considered "tomorrow's problem", so no one in power cares about it.
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No, steel doesn't work, the salt is too corrosive. It's a very challenging problem, imagine you have half the periodic table floating around in a very radioactive salt at high temperature.

Early molten salt reactor experiments used Hastelloy N (nickel: 71 wt%, molybdenum:16 wt%, chromium: 7 wt%, iron: 5 wt%, others:1 wt%), which apparently works. But as others have noted, there is ongoing research to further improve it.
I LOLed at the attempt to prove that facts do not persuade by linking to a bunch of psychology studies. And not one reference to Aristotle? However, the author's general thrust is correct, as anybody could tell you.
There's a huge amount of risk hedging in the markets around election day. Maybe even historic levels.

I think most people, Republican and Democrat, are worried about what happens if Trump doesn't leave.

What might actually convince him to leave peacefully is the prospect of a market crash. The uncertainty of US leadership would surely tank the market and Trump is a billionaire