skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Yes, hjkl are no longer a single cluster in Dvorak, but jk are now on one's left hand for vertical movement and hl are on one's right. So it has that advantage. Like you pointed out though, you want to avoid overusing those keys to move around anyway.

I did learn Dvorak after Vim. Yes, it meant there was a second layer of added pain. I stopped using vim for a couple of weeks altogether, learned Dvorak to the point where I could touch type again (although more slowly), then went ahead and retrained the muscle memory for vim.

For anyone not used to using vim, vim users get to the point where they think "change word" and their mind maps that to top row middle finger, bottom row middle finger. There's no middle step of "change word" -> "cw". So just learning the muscle memory for letters isn't sufficient for then using vim as fast as you could before. At least that's how it was for me.

As someone who also started feeling RSI symptoms in his early 30s, I definitely recommend learning Dvorak and picking up a split keyboard. I like the ergodox, personally. The straight columns seem to help too. I think other alternative layouts and ergonomic keyboard combinations have their merits too.

For anyone else hesitating, observe how frequently your wrists end up in awkward angles while typing on a regular qwerty layout. That and the pain I started to feel is what motivated me.
An unexpected origin story for a lopsided black hole merger
That's short sighted and I'm guessing, wrong.

People, in general, don't want to follow speed limits when they are comfortable with a road or running a little late. This doesn't in any way mean there are too many laws or even that the speed limit is too low. It is just an instance of not wanting to follow laws.

In Indiana, people are required to pay sales tax on online orders. Voluntarily. Technically, you can be charged the tax, but there is little enforcement and little voluntary tax paying. This doesn't mean there are too many laws. The problem here is generally that it is too cumbersome to follow: If the sales tax is added at point of purchase, people pay since there is no need for recordkeeping or saving money for tax time.

Sometimes, laws simply aren't aligned with the wants/needs of the people. I think this is a large part of why states are decriminalizing recreational and medical pot: It more reflects the will of the people and enforcement doesn't help the population. Enforcement simply costs money and tends to ruin lives (by putting a drug charge on their record for something less destructive than alcohol).

A contractor might cut corners to save money. It doesn't mean we should have fewer building codes, though, since so many are there to keep folks safe.

Not wanting to follow laws doesn't mean too many laws.
But then, who better to name them than the individuals who made the breakthrough? As the article mentions, the pair of pants, hairy ball theorem, no free lunch, and refers to conway, presumably the game of life.

The creators/inventors/discoverers are in the best position to come up with a name, because they presumably understand the concept enough. Though it does require a degree of creativity.
Erlang/OTP Wiki: Writing Good Commit Messages
By showing that almost no recruiter check the GitHub repos cannot tell if such contributions make a candidate stand out.

If someone has tangible contributions through GitHub, they probably write that down in the resume. The interviewers may check their claims either during interview or on GitHub before/after the interview.

The problem is that if a candidate performs moderately well in the interview (e.g. coding interview), while he/she has made many contributions through GitHub, should the interviewer recommend the candidate? My belief is that most interviewers will not take the risk or take the responsibility for a potentially wrong hire.
Amazon Drivers Say Smartphones-in-Trees Scheme Has Been Thwarted
In terms of memorisation, naming something after a person is very beneficial.

The ease of remembering something is a function of how many associations you can make to it. For instance, for a person you can associate with their name:

1. Where they lived.

2. What they looked like.

3. Interesting information about their life

For example you might remember Galois lived in France, he looked like a kid and he died in a duel.

If someone just makes up a word it's going to be much harder to remember because there's no attachment points for associations.
>Astrophysical Implications of GW190412 as a Remnant of a Previous Black-Hole Merger

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
MasterCard Tech Hub Is Hiring with a Special Focus on Analytics, Automation
Thanks for this, I wasn't aware of these quotes that definitely provide important context for my comment.

I think my broader point stands, though: despite engineering efforts towards decentralization, market forces push Bitcoin towards centralization (due to mining pools and due to consolidation amongst manufacturers of mining hardware).

The most important counterbalance to this is not in the Bitcoin protocol, but also an economic one: large mining operations have an interest in keeping up (at least the perception of) decentralization, because that's why people like Bitcoin.

At that point however, you're back to a system where the safeguards are not of a technical nature at all. Maybe Satoshi foresaw that to some degree, but apparently he wasn't able to engineer around it.
https://privacytoolslist.com
privacy related open source tools
So What's the Difference Between a Myth, a Fairytale, and a Legend?
Why? You can still start from zero and remain there.
Improvements in life expectancy, child mortality, literacy are the result of socialist struggle and regulation, including free education, universal health care, increased workers' rights and welfare safety nets.

As for wealth distribution, what do you think the "one-percent" is all about?
The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity
I thought low hanging fruits have all been collected by now.
The magic mouse is exactly the right height for my (big) hands. I rest my forearm and part of my wrist on the desk, rest my index and middle fingers on the mouse surface, grip very lightly with the other fingers, and it's almost a perfect fit.

If I turn up the movement sensitivity I can move the pointer anywhere with almost no hand movement at all. Most of the weight is levered behind the wrist rather than on it so I'm using forearm muscles more than wrist tendons. The fingertip touch scrolling is super-intuitive and equally effortless.

I've used all sorts of mice from industrial Logitech blobs to gaming mice to tiny laptop mice to "ergonomic" designs, and the current magic mouse is far and away my favourite.
The thing is: what you described can be fitted into a genre for itself.

Not everyone, in fact I dare do say the majority, don't want to read hyper-personalized content to the point that only we can read it, most of us don't even know what we want, and sometimes that doesn't even matter.

Hyper personalization isn't the end game - at least in my opinion. In fact history has shown that we valued precisely the opposite, collective experience with low enough resolution so we have room to fill the gaps ourselves. How can you relate to others what only you understand?

Or we will eventually cease to be humans?

I didn't understand the "optimism is cowardice" part. The true optimism is believing we will survive long enough to reach that point :P
Building Box Plots Using JavaScript: Visualizing World Happiness by Continent
You can get identical effects as Singapore’s state owned land without actually making it state owned/managed/priced by simply instituting a very high Land Value Tax.

Rent collected for buildings/management/amenities goes to landlord, rent collected for the physical land upon which the building exists (which is valuable not because of the landlord) is recouped by the community as tax.
Perforce shelves make total sense. "Shelving" something means literally what the command does - setting them aside and saving them.
Graduates of Elite Universities Get Paid More. Do They Perform Better?
Perhaps the opposite is true-- to wit, a concept given a special name makes it easier to remember, marks it distinctively, and the assignment of the name itself indicates that it is an important concept. In the case of prolific discoverers such as Thurston, or say, Euler, the second quality breaks down, but this can be obviated by choosing different descriptive names (which themselves need not even exclude giving credit to their discoverers, provided they are chosen appropriately).
Sounds like recency bias. Every historically dominant fiat currency has eventually lost its dominance.
And every skyscraper is capitalism flashing its big dick in your face.
> Recently Singapore has been making a push for the arts, yet it's clearly evident how inorganic the output is

Last time I went to Singapore I was struck by how it was impossible to buy any local music. I associate by music, so I always buy local music when I travel. But in Singapore's tiny music stores, I couldn't even find a Dick Lee CD for sale, and his music wasn't available through Australian iTunes.

(In the end I emailed his website asking which stores to try, and instead they sent one of his personal assistants to my Singapore hotel in person to hand deliver one of their remaining CD copies. For which my family were deeply grateful, we had discovered him 25 years earlier on a cassette we bought of The Mad Chinaman, and as a little Aussie kid I'd learned all the words of Rasa Sayang: "Everything we have has to be the best of the fabulous east and the wonderful west".)

Lately I've started to find Singaporean bands on Bandcamp, so things are improving. But it wasn't like I could walk into Starbucks and find CDs from a bunch of emerging local artists at the counter. I'm heartbroken that the 100th Starbucks store near The Fullerton Waterboat House has apparently closed too.
The closing lesson:

> forget grand ideologies and others’ models. There is no replacement for experimentation, independent thought, and ruthless pragmatism.

The trick is distinguishing between what is truly pragmatic and not merely ruthless. One wonders if some of the illiberal policies like caning are regional necessities or minor pathologies that did not overwhelm the overall trend towards liberalization.
> LKY built an incorruptible government

Google Temasik Holdings
I don't think it's impossible to make flying cars work, but the practicality of them seems very questionable. I think Elon Musk makes some good points against them (noise, wind, anxiety, danger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTh36uCf0Mk

Additionally, are they worth the energy & technology cost, or would really fast autonomous cars (even if they need a dedicated track or tunnel) be much more feasible? Making a vehicle roll along the ground requires a lot less energy than making one that moves along the same path but also fights gravity the entire way.
95% of inbound email traffic to Gmail is encrypted with TLS.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...

Password reset emails are already extremely common and a way of implementing the "second factor only" method in the OP.
The command line on Windows is not horrible anymore
The Ocean Is Struggling to Breathe, Too
This looks really well done. I don't think the messaging is strong enough to get me to switch from PocketCasts so you might want to work on that. I suspect podcast listening is a habit for most people and will just use what they always have. Every few months, a friend will get tired of apple podcasts and ask for an app recommendation, but people don't take switching lightly.

Can I import my subs? Who will see my comments? do my friends have to use repod? etc
Derivatives are simple but look complex. Money is complex but looks simple
So between the Native File System API[1] and WebUSB[2], the browser is clearly the new OS. Google sure learned from the best[3], it would seem.

But it kinda makes sense. Most users don't care about operating systems, they want to get stuff done. Likewise, most developers don't really want to care about the operating system, they just want to be able to deliver their software to their users.

I've mainly been a Windows programmer, but I worked a few years on a cross-platform open source GUI application. Fairly trivial as these things go but still complex enough that it was a pain even with Qt. Windows and Linux mostly went fine as long as one kept a few things in mind. But OSX was always quirky and required lots of special handling all over.

Overall though, as far as getting stuff done it always felt like was rather more tedious than it had to be, so I can see the appeal of one web app to run them all...

[1]: https://web.dev/native-file-system/

[2]: https://wicg.github.io/webusb/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
There has never been a great mouse from Apple, except maybe the old Apple II mouse. The hockey puck mouse was terrible. This mouse was terrible. How they were selected to go to production says a lot about Apple's blind sides wrt usability.
How India became the world’s leader in internet shutdowns
Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (2006) [pdf]
Twitch stream layouts look like this. I've also seen some crazy obs skins (it's made in qt)
I've been typing without any signs of RSI until I started using vim. Vim forced me to switch from my 'custom/natural' hand position* , which uses just 3-4 fingers of the right hand, to the home row position, which uses all five. This put too much strain on my ring finger which is much weaker than the other fingers, and that I believe led to RSI. Maybe I'm an outlier with atypical anatomy, or maybe we should challenge the notion that there is only one correct hand position.

* Interestingly my peak typing speed is 500 CPM in the 'incorrect' position and 470 CPM in the 'correct' position.
Looking skin deep at the growth of neutron stars
Everything in society is a social construct, implicit or explicit. Right now the social construct that we have is that you get to keep the money you worked for after paying some taxes.

I do wonder if you could make something like the wealth tax work in the United States.

I'm willing to be educated.
archive.is link: https://archive.is/fEBMx
Pretty nice. I'd love to make a spinning variant.
Thanks, and I appreciate your comment. Things do get a little messy, but overall I've been happy with Reddit as a platform - once I figured out to pin a big FAQ ("How This Works") posting. Noone seems to read the sidebar :-(
I think it's important to include the technical term "hash" at least once. Then users can research the topic.

"Scrambled" is imprecise enough that it could mean either hashed or encrypted. In radio usage, it specifically refers to encryption, so someone researching "scrambling" would get confused very quickly by that explanation.
> I was going to ask if anyone could suggest a better article, ...

This is more tangential than it is better, but it is a nice read:

https://newrepublic.com/article/159227/david-graeber-changed...
I seem to remember a fairly well-known psychologist, who had a thesis, stating that pretty much everything we do, at any time, for any reason, can be boiled down to the desire to bump uglies; sometimes, with our parents.

Not sure I completely agree with him, but it's an entertaining way to look at the world.
Of course but you don't float on a pcb.
It's strange that a comment like this is downvoted.

I agree wholeheartedly. A law without enforcement is pressuring people not to follow it. I think generally everyone understands that (hence tax laws are enforced), but it's a more practical approach: you can never get 100% of the population to comply, and you don't need to. If you can achieve the minimum desired compliance without spending money on enforcement, you have what you need and saved money.

It's naive, because it discounts the damage it does to lawfulness. When people see that law-breakers are not punished (and are defacto rewarded in most cases), they lose respect for the law, the state the is supposed to uphold the law, and the states' institutions. I believe we can witness that in many Western societies.

Murder investigations don't make a lot of sense economically, in most cases. Unless it's a serial killer or a career criminal, the chances are slim to none that they will commit the same crime again, so why -in that line of thinking- should we spend money on finding out who did it and then imprison them for even more money, especially when, ostensibly, our prison system isn't for punishment? It wouldn't be a problem to let the few murderers in modern European societies go free, but it would create a giant problem by what it does to the population.
With a few hundred thousand to invest I'd probably do a 3-way split between:

https://www.thesyndicate.com/ - back Jason's next 50 deals at 2K each

Put 25K each into the next 4 YCombinator deals at https://fundersclub.com/

Put 50K in the next 2 quarters at AngelList Access Funds https://angel.co/v/access-fund

If you do any of this give me a follow at @baccredited and let me know how it goes. I just followed you as well.
My favourite maths-related term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine
Maybe you are not tired enough. One advice a professional gave was to not stay in bedroom unless you go to sleep and also no other sofas in the house for too long.
Same for me. It's especially stark if you compare it to something like Logitech's MX Master 2S, which just naturally slips into your hand, has enough of weight for each move to feel deliberate, has great button response and can be charged while in use.
> The vast majority of software being produced is closed source software

I found this claim surprising. I would have guessed that the narrow majority of software produced these days is open source, but I don't have a citation for that. Do others agree with the article's "vast majority" claim?
People who think their social interactions have suffered since WFH during the pandemic, it's not because of WFH, it's because of the pandemic.

Once we are past the pandemic you can still work from home and 1) schedule periodic lunches or in-person meetings with coworkers that live in the area, and 2) go out and make friends with other people outside of work, possibly people you would get along with better and want to spend more time with anyway

I know you can, because I was already working from home for two years before the pandemic, and that's what I did. You can't do those two things right now, but that's a pandemic-specific thing, not an inherent fault of WFH.
0ne of the pieces many articles discussing Singapore miss is actually the quality of the people in the Government officer corps. This i think makes a massive amount of difference in that a lot of what's planned in infrastructure and processes is much better thought out and executed than in other countries. It's the equivalent of the 10X programmer philosophy.

This is achieved largely by the government sponsoring the most promising/brilliant students to study in top Western universities and offering them quite competitive pay packages to join the government.

The Indian government's elite corps (IAS) as a contrasting example are also composed of similarly brilliant people (including some of my own classmates), but this is restricted to only the people at the very top of the hierarchy and capability doesn't penetrate deep into bulk of the government, nor is compensation as competitive which promotes corruption.
Podcasts on Floppy Disk
Watch David Blaine Float over the Desert on Balloons
The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing
Do you actually scroll through and asses the code quality though? The only thing I can tell at a glance is "they bothered to clean this up and document it" which is one useful sign.

The more useful signal for me is GitHub as a portfolio piece, if they got some concrete relevant work done that I can ask them about in the interview but I don't need to see the source code for that.
Great work! Was hoping though that you could view the course from the landing page - have you considered moving the course to a simple static website where it could be browsed like www.domain.com/day1/ or something similar?
Amazon deletes 20k reviews after evidence of profits for posts
To clarify on the FundersClub recommendation: don't do individual YC company deals, do the rollup funds like this:

Accelerate FC XIX: Y Combinator W18
Fund targeting investments in ~10-15 top startups in the Y Combinator Winter 2018 Batch.
So make it necessary by refusing to work without being paid for utilizing your space and equipment. It's a thing of culture. You are paid based on supply and demand mostly. Devs should be on the front of this movement. Anyone who is able to generate any kind of financial pillow.

If you are a pizza boy where I live you get paid extra if you use your own car. It's not a law. It's expected. That's the work culture. No one will drive for you otherwise.
I’m left handed and I use a https://blog.splitkb.com/blog/introducing-the-kyria keyboard with https://workmanlayout.org/ , it’s helped me tremendously.
Thanks for the feedback. I have updated the article with a link to the Github repository which lists the libraries I have used.
The problem is.. most popular languages use leftward assignment. Teaching a noob this would make other languages harder to read.
I can switch from Java, to c++ to ruby..
My 9 year old figured out the leftward assignment.
It feels like a change for change sake.
Visuals are amazing, as always!
I've recently learned that 3b1b has his own animation library.
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
I wonder if there are any manim art out there :)
Depends how you use it (&a[3], sizeof(a[3])). But its type is still char.
It's usually an offhand story used to introduce the concept of money that economics textbooks don't spend a lot of time on. It is mentioned in Mankiw (mentioned under "double coincidence of wants"), but again, not as a core of its analytical framework, but rather as a "just so" introduction to the topic. I don't think it was even cited.

Modern economists really don't tend to spend a lot of time on historical analysis. That includes the default theory on the origin of money. This is a point that this example was supposed to illustrate. It is far from the only one but it has the benefit of being fairly clear cut.

They do tend to spend their time on polemics (driven by the way politics has driven the profession and the monetary incentives therein) or building elaborate mathematical models instead (driven by what i'd call 'hard science envy').

It wouldn't be the only academic profession to have intellectual blind spots, of course, and Graeber wouldn't be the first person to point out this one. Niall Ferguson, a more right-leaning historian/economist, has also made this point.
I thought it was well established that he was being abused, not the other way around?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53393254
It does make logins on other machines difficult. You may open up your password manager's web interface on your friends laptop, but then you opened up all your passwords to potential malware,including banks etc. When you just wanted to log in to Reddit, where you have an account you somewhat care about: you spent years under that username, but its not a huge catastrophe if it's taken away, unlike, say, your domain registrations, your email password, your e-government logins, banks etc. The "all eggs in one basket" still bothers me.
We experience one reality, not many realities.

MWI handwaves that problem away without really explaining it. "It's random but subject to the Born Rule" is a description of what's already observed, not an explanation with predictive power for new and distinct observations.

There are much more complex criticisms that use words like "ontic" and "epistemic", but that's the fundamental problem that MWI claims to solve but doesn't.
A minority of software is open source. It’s the bubble of Github and HN that makes open source to be more prevalent than it actually is.