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> people aren't coming back at all and others aren't coming back every day of the week

I think there will be chaos, with most of the work happening remotely, which itself creates problem (office colleague is constantly on zoom = constant annoyance for everyone). Remote and in-office are not very compatible , so i think after a while people will invent better collab tools to go fully remotely because it's the most rational thing to do.
Enough people complained + someone cared enough to help out, so we now offer a build without a new tab page [1]. Migration between the builds is much the same as the process documented here [2].

[1]: https://tridactyl.cmcaine.co.uk/betas/nonewtab/tridactyl_no_...

[2]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/wiki/Migration-from-s...
Huh, smaller could be better. I have huge hands but do not utlize a lot of keys on the Ez: I basically use home row and the big buttons in the thumb cluster ...
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In Sweden, we also have very large press grants.

At the same time, the biggest and most profitable newspaper (Dagens Nyheter, DN) doesn't take those grants. A large part of their profitability is that they have actually managed to make people pay for their online subscription and they are more profitable now than they have ever been.
Ok, I disagree. Such a client is even more work. Because you need to add an additional API for connecting this client,
and recreate the whole interface again in a different environment.

No, doing a twitter-clone is quite simple, because the interface is not very complicated. It's even on the usual list of tutorial-examples these days. So in worst case you can just copy&paste the whole interface from somewhere. The backend is also not quite complicated for an average developer.

The hard part in doing twitter is scaling up your poor clone which works well enough in a single instance for some hundred users, to an architecture of multiple instance serving million users.

But this comparison is unfair, because the original telnet-client&server was also only a single instance-solution, not some upscaled monster for millions. Even though a twitter-clone still needs a bit more knowledge than telnet, it's still on a level one person alone can handle.
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It's even more dangerous to have weak family/friend ties and not even have an office as a backstop.
This is doing the same thing also. I see many results on the front page where the keywords requested are not even there (and the result is thereby irrelevant).
The Advantage (I have the Advantage 2) is simply excellent. It took me about an entire year to fully adapt to it (this is with a very long tail, I was very productive within a few weeks, but 100% adaption took that long). I also type far faster and more accurately on it than on any other keyboard. I think it's the best keyboard available and you'd have to claw it out of my cold dead hands to take it from me.
This is important news, but I don't understand the insistence of some people to post political news to this website. Seriously, this has very little to do with tech. Post it to Reddit or Twitter. I do not come here to read about Trump.
I use it daily with Mate DE and sometimes switching to Xfce4. Have them both installed :)
Agree here. I live this lifestyle day-to-day, and I'm doing it as a fregan (largely no currency).

I basically have some goals like my software project and gravitate towards accomplishing them, but otherwise leave my schedule up to "chance".

I sleep as much as I want to, whenever I want to. I eat only food which arrives to me and meets my standards. I travel largely on "tailwinds".

After less than 5 years of this practice, I have become much more deeply spiritual and a believer in things like synchronicity, precognition, quantum reality, alternative-dimension beings, and conscious navigation of such.

I believe our universe "wants" to create as much "good feelings" and the minimum necessary amount of "bad feelings", and everything you do to help this endeavor will guide you into synchronous luck and success.

As a funny side effect, because animals also feel good and bad feelings, even little things like feeding hungry animals or doing small things reducing industrial impact on wildlife can "pump your karma", which will in turn fuel your other pursuits, which are also hopefully towards good means.

This has also given me a "large-scale natural process" view of history and social currents, which has given me a feeling of peace, contentment, and acceptance of macro things like politics an war.

I now think that trying to influence mainstream politics is akin to one blood cell trying to bend a human's decision matrix to suit itself.
Wouldn’t git with signed commits work just as well? You’d have to find a good app that saved stuff as text (not Word, but probably not LaTeX either since that takes time to get the formatting right), but once you figured that out, you’d have a full history of all changes made.
I use a Kinesis Advantage, which is a split ortholinear design with the keys in bowls and thumb clusters, just like the Dactyl. I have no issues switching between that and normal keyboards.
Ironically enough, buying a physical copy of a newspaper is quite literally "a daily pass", and you get to keep the newspaper in case you want to re-read an article tomorrow, want to dig deeper or share it with somebody else in the house/office.

Here in .it most newspapers cost less than 2.50-3€, and you get a physical good.

I just checked on one of the most relevant newspapers in Italy (IlSole24Ore) and if you want to browse the current issue there's no option for one-time payment, only subscriptions.
Kinda.

Dark Station shutdown is still a problem in some senses.

They were indeed, doing an experiment, not just to pass a certification, but they were testing a theory, that in fact makes perfect sense, just the execution of the test was extremely crap.

The problem:
when the power grid fails, there is no power to keep the coolant system pumps working, thus might cause a meltdown.

Chernobyl solution: attempt to improve the turbine designs so they can keep generating power using their own inertia until the diesel generators are online.

Chernobyl first failed attempts: improvements were not enough, the idea DID worked, but the turbines stopped spinning too early.

Chernobyl last attempt: power usage in the day of the test was unusually high, not only the test was delayed but the reactor had to produce more power than usual, when the test finally came, the procedures of the test weren't followed properly, the crew that did the test didn't knew how to do it, and after they pushed the reactor parameters to values outside the design limits, the computer attempted to fight back, so they disabled the safety features of the computer and tried to control the situation manually, doing things the computer was requesting them to NOT do.
>One of the reasons is overlap. Your hands do occasionally hit keys on the other side.

When I switched to a split keyboard I did have this problem at first (with the B and 6 keys in particular on a QWERTY layout) but it took me a week to relearn that. In particular if you use an ortholinear layout on each side there's really no reason to go fishing for keys with the wrong hand.

This in turn means that you can add new keys in the middle that are easy to reach, addressing your 2nd point since it lets you have more "special keys" in the middle.

>Another is key action. You want proper mechanical keys.

That's orthogonal. I like mechanical switches because there's a lot of variety to chose from and they're easy to replace if one goes wrong (a strong advantage on an expensive ergo keyboard that you don't want to replace because of a broken switch) but there are very decent membrane keyboard out there. It's really a matter of taste in the end. After all some people even like those low profile keyboards like the Apple ones that I personally find horrible to type on...

>For me, I also like having a trackpoint. I'm not saying that's common, but a lot of people want /some/ oddball feature like that. For one person, it might be lighted keys. For another, swapped capslock. Etc.

But you're moving the goalpost completely here. It's fine if you like trackpoints but you can't call keyboards "horrible" if they don't support your niche dream build. I don't care for trackpoints personally and it'd probably annoy me to have one on the middle of my keyboard.

>For one person, it might be lighted keys. For another, swapped capslock. Etc.

RGB lighting is fairly standard these days, and swapped capslock is normally easy to achieve either by reconfiguring the keyboard or, if not possible, the OS.

>And then there's the mass of people who don't care about keyboard and buy the cheapest possible model. Split keyboards are $$$.

That is true, ergo keyboards can be very expensive. That being said for the average HNer it's probably still worth it, after all we spend most of our days typing on keyboards, having to shell ~$300 to get a keyboard that will last us for years and improve our comfort is a no-brainer, at least for me.

I've been using an ergodox for years and while it does cost a lot it checks all of your points besides the overlap (which I think is a bad idea) and the trackpoint. It uses QMK under the hood so you can reconfigure it any way you want.

And that's not the only one either, you have the dactyl, the manuform, the moonlander and many others. It's not 2009 anymore, custom keyboards are more accessible than ever (if you have the money for them...)
I disagree with you that medical data cannot be protected by stricter privacy laws. Tax returns could indeed be relevant to find conflicts of interest.

One could argue that holders of a public offices should be exempt of having their privacy protected, but I think it would lead to candidates that are better at hiding. The honest ones probably already lost interest in pursuing any office at that point.

I didn't downvote you and I think the smear campaign about Russian influence was a giant political scandal, no matter what you think about Trump. Somehow it is not because nobody seems to be interested in it.
Were the builders of Fukushima unaware of the geology of Japan?

I would argue that they were aware and still got hit by the risk. I don’t see “well, that specific failure won’t be what gets us in Germany” as especially compelling.
Avoiding going to Cambridge for that reason. The Poly's offered far better Computer Science courses at that time and we got an upgrade to a university degree anyway.
This is good to know for London specifically.

It's not as satisfying as yours but my general technique that works everywhere in the world where cabs are competing is: ask them if they take credit cards and their reader is working before you get into the cab. If they say no you find another cab. (In my experience they never say no anyway. But I learned to do this every single time I use a cab anywhere because this scam is so unbelievably common everywhere in the world.)
TypeScript is becoming such a compelling language due to its insanely advanced type system (that allows for projects like this) that I now want to use it everywhere. I want it to become the next Python.

I know Deno is supposed to be first class TypeScript but under the hood it's still a JavaScript runtime with all the baggage that comes with that.

AssemblyScript is extremely interesting but last time I played with it I concluded it wasn't yet ready for anything serious, or is that no longer the case?

A first class TypeScript runtime with no JS overhead would be a dream come true. I just hope it happens someday, or that other type systems get these amazing features.
> SolveSpace integration is in work already, but this will need a long time.

Thanks for such info! Are there any nearest milestones for this & next year?
contractors can do the same job just as well and much cheape?

How long for? Where will contractors learn their trade in the future?
I think my brother who had his first child two months ago is going to be a little disappointed that it wasn't passed a few months ago. (though he used a bunch of PTO to stay with his wife and their child)
Folks love to talk about these marginal 'perks' in Social Democracies, and the benefits experienced by the least fortunate, but you never hear about the costs of these programs or their impact on the finances of the average household. All these great benefits are, of course, funded via massive taxation of the middle and upper classes. You can see the (relative) impact in the data, which reveal household incomes to be ~40% lower than in the US , household debts which are ~double than US household debts, and household savings which are half those in the US:

Household Income in US dollars (2018) [3]:
Denmark - $34,712
Norway - $39,555
Finland - $34,497
Sweden - $34,301
Iceland - Not reported
USA - $50,292

Household Debt as % of disposable income (2015-2018) [1]:
Denmark - 281%
Norway - 239%
Finland - 145%
Sweden - 189%
Iceland - Not reported
USA - 105%

Household Net worth as % of net income (2014) [2]:
Denmark - 553% ($191,900) <-- The dollar amounts are my math, based on household income above.
Norway - 318% ($125,700)
Finland - 359% ($123,800)
Sweden - 526% ($180,400)
Iceland - Not reported
USA - 601% ($301,700)

[1]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm
[2]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-net-worth.htm#indicator-...
[3]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm#in...
Your last sentence chefs kiss. And also keeps the foreigners out of the so-called 'no-go' zones that the cities have become, despite none of the people calling for this living in the cities or even coming into contact with foreigners regularly.
A comment above mentions that the benefits of an ortho board are not worth the learning curve of typing on one. Would you mind addressing the benefits you've found as somebody who is endorsing them?
I wish it had a longer interconnecting wire.

One issue with normal keyboards is that it forces your shoulders to round forwards.

I currently use two normal keyboards side by side, which allows me to type with my chest open.
Can you give an example of overlap? I use a Kinesis Advantage 2 and never overlap at all.
For split travel keyboards I've heard good things about this flat ball hinge model, which folds up into a square: https://shop.goldtouch.com/products/goldtouch-go2-wireless-b...
I'm sure I could. My employer doesn't mind anything within reason, there's no max vacation or anything. I sympathize w/ GP as their employer is more strict, I just wanted to add my anecdote so others reading don't assume 100% of employers are like that (granted, most likely are).
I thought this was the reason for the ban.
I assembled a Quefrency (https://keeb.io/products/quefrency-rev-2-60-65-split-stagger...) by myself and loving it. Also it costed me a lot less.
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The Japanese company that makes this also has other non-Potter scenes. Some of the Japan scenes, like Kiyomizu-dera, seem even more amazing.

I tried to find a reference that was more info-oriented than sales-oriented. This is the best I could find in a few minutes.
I've been doing most of my typing on an Ergodox for years and while switching to a "normal" keyboard feels clunky and a bit awkward I can still type reasonably well on those. I guess it just becomes a lot more obvious how un-ergonomic those are (especially for the left hand in my experience). Having to bend your hand in weird ways to hit the modifiers feels odd when you're used to have them fall naturally below your fingers.
I've been using an Ergodox EZ for a lot of professional work for a few years now, but since I'm bouncing between that and laptop keyboards regularly, I haven't found any issues switching between layouts. I do occasionally try to use some custom-mapped ergodox keys the wrong way on a laptop keyboard, but it's a momentary embarrassment and not a thing that impedes my work.
I don’t see why you are counting future earnings rather than present earnings.

Thought experiment: imagine next year from Jan 1st to Dec 31st, literally every 25-year old stops working and simultaneously everyone who was due to retire in that year has their retirement delayed by one year.

The total size of the workforce remains constant.

If this became a permanent feature of society [0], GDP, average corporate income, and tax revenue, would all be constant.

Private pensions as well as states pensions would also pay out less in total, as there would be less years between retirement and death. How much would your pension pay, relative to parental leave, if someone equivalent to you were to reach pension age today? Because that’s the amount available for paternity in this thought experiment, not the number that your actual pension will be worth when you reach pension age.

[0] For a one-off year it would appear higher, but that’s an illusion caused by old people having more experience and therefore higher productivity and income; it obviously wouldn’t remain true once those 25-year-olds with one fewer years of experience each became 65.
I wonder if this works on the raspberry pi with the new Vulkan drivers.
This is a great point. At the same time I observe a night and day difference in how some people close to me behaved before and after they had access to Facebook and Youtube. Pre-social media I could have a long and rather nuanced discussion on controversial topics, and we both left the conversation with slightly altered opinions and some new perspectives. Today, all nuance is gone and the conversation is scattered all over the place, spiced up with whatever conspiracy theory they "discovered" on Youtube lately.

Maybe one of the effects of algorithms has been to push people to extremes to such a degree that social filtering is discarded? People I know seem to be almost apologetic in their approach, as if their life depend on convincing people about their views and to not care about the social consequences of constantly "preaching". This form of polarization is not healthy – basic respect for other people is lessened and listening to counter arguments is considered a weakness.

This is just an anecdote from my life. From what I read and hear from others, this experience is not unique.
Setting aside that you can still buy the newspaper, you can also buy daily editions of the new York times for kindle for 99 cents each.
I’ve had one of these for over a year now and couldn’t recommend it more dearly. Excellent build quality, powerful and intuitive customization software and just generally a nice atmosphere around the company.
I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect it's one of these programming "joke" where you take a concept and bring it far enough that it becomes ridiculous.

So I'm guessing there's no real practical use case for this, and is a nice flex from the author.

It would be nice if that were made dead clear in the Readme, something like "Why? Because it's fun"
Especially on the topic of privacy, meticulously courteous didn't work, people just lied to your face. So this is at least another tactic. Doesn't seem like much though.
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This looks amazing, as do many of Zig's features (e.g. comptime). It's hard to go back to memory errors after Rust, but I hope Zig becomes popular enough with some people (those that don't care about security? maybe game developers?) that it influences future languages.
I've loved learning how to use ortho keyboards. They open your brain to new text editing possibilities. Just like how learning Spanish teaches you about English and learning new programming languages teaches you about what's possible with code. They improved my typing accuracy and got rid of my right pinky pain too. I agree that they're not for everyone.
It would always annoy me how I had such a beautiful, slim, and minimalist graphical UNIX system set up, but then some program would come in and load several megabytes of images it wasn't actually displaying into the X server. Megabytes matter a little less on my current 32go machine than when I had 32mo.
No one had to limit themselves to one news source before either, but that's what publishers are trying to do now.
I own a Kinesis Freestyle2. It's collecting dust because I've found the keyboard layout suboptimal. My thumbs would awkwardly reach inwards for the modifier keys.
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What do you mean by "no JS overhead"?
I figured out a similar sort of thing using xprop actually, but that's way funnier.
And interestingly, no apparent difference in fertility rate compared with the USA.
What I noticed is that people who are really good at (properly) touch typing on a staggered keyboard have more difficulties adapting to a linear one.

In my example, I type around 80 wpm on a regular keyboard, but I've never learned and used the proper key->finger assignment - I just type how I adapted over the years. So for me there was no trouble switching to proper technique on an ortholinear. I'm not yet nearly as fast, but it feels like it's 3-4 times easier to type (ie. less finger movement).
I have started my UNIX knowledge with Xenix in 1992, followed by DG/UX and followed up from there across HP-UX, Tru64, Solaris, Aix, Linux distributions, FreeBSD,...

Looking at modern distributions I hardly see a difference given distribution specific directories, packages or tooling.
HN is not a tech news site.

HN is pretty much the only place on the web where intelligent discussion takes place. That is why I hope for every news I am interested in to be discussed here.

Reddit discussions are complete garbage. The top comment on r/news for this article is this one line: "That's $750 more than I thought he paid.". It has over 19k likes.
On what hardware?
I have an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, which is split like the ErgoDox. I don't find any issue with the positioning. I personally think about keeping them in any position relative to each other, but rather how each hand/wrist feels comfortable with its own half. Currently they are both nearly parallel to the edge of the table and positioned so that my hands are straight, not angled. They have rubber feet so they don't tend to move.
Android is not fragmented, it is easy to write applications that run well on all android versions. The problem RISC-V faces is that one or more companies start to grow a significant market with non-compliant chips, basically the browser war scenario.
Making hydrogen via electrolysis is very lossy though.. it's only worth it if you have nothing else to burn the power on.
TikTok is not ran or based in the US. I don't get why you think they would be protected under US laws like a US based corporation.

Congress and Executive branch can easily ban foreign companies from operating in the US and there is a long history of them doing so.
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