skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely. In fact, I'm taking advantage of the current crisis to do a half-performance, as a Zoom show rather than a stage show, which has much lower costs and much less mental overhead. I'm also using it as a class in editing Shakespeare for performance -- it's a rare opportunity to come into a (nominally) Shakespeare play with no preconceptions.

We are so close: in two decades we've done everything except Cymbelline, which we had scheduled to be rehearsing right now. That "everything" includes Pericles and Henry VIII, which aren't really any more attributable to Shakespeare than 2NK, but they happened to appeal to somebody who wanted to put them on. I was going to declare that we'd "spiked the canon" after Cymbelline, but the asterisk kinda bugged me. So, opportunity.

Cymbelline is itself not very good, but it appealed to a director, who has a charming "Princess Bride" take on it. We want to do a full performance, which is the best way for us to really study the play, so we've put it on hold. We had converted a production of Romeo and Juliet, already underway, into a Zoom show, and we're doing some other Zoom shows and online classes to keep our hand in.
Show HN: lit-request - 852 bytes fetch API based Javascript microlibrary
Hello everyone I'm thoby and this is my first open source project which is in it's pre-release stage. I made it to learn more and to see if I could make a smaller version of redaxios/axios which I love and add more features. I couldn't get much devs from my twitter follows to help me test it out, discover issues and send PRs since I have very few followers.

Thank you and hoping to get feedback from the community about it.
Yea, more than a tad bit insulting. Let’s just forget how great of a social activity is, especially during an isolating pandemic as well.

Some of my gaming experiences are my fondest memories, as “real” as any normal event. I’m also quite well adjusted with social activities, plenty of “real” world friends, adrenaline sports, and being a father. But I also have no judgement for someone who makes gaming much more of their life, as I did at one point.
unless you use the function keys, which are a different size, height and click actuation.

horrid.
The Ergodox's thumb cluster is pretty widely considered suboptimal, I personally manage to use all three bottom keys but the other three are pretty unusable with the thumb (I tend to use them for media keys that I rarely use with the index and middle fingers). Hand size definitely matters, the Ergodox is pretty crap for people with smaller hands in particular.

Now I'm lucky enough to have large enough hands to use it comfortably and I really enjoy the experience.

I also don't use the wristrests at all, but that's true for any keyboard, not just the EZ. I just don't like them.
I wasn't asking for a citation on whether three-letter agencies have weaponized social media. My issue was the"most malleable" language that belongs in a boomer comic rather than HN.
I have the opposite problem. I _want_ people to reply-all when I have put someone on cc.
I suspect counting on your fingers predates the abacus. Granted, the abacus is much more powerful, and it is crafted instead of naturally occurring, but the principle of operation seems very similar.
> I played the Spectrum version

Oh that Lenslok[1] was a massive pain in the arse!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenslok
It's $125K for 7%.
Curious why redo wouldn't just use a hash of the file contents if it's going to maintain a database.

That's a much easier way to know something's changed if you're going to the trouble of keeping state.
I have never seen one of those.

I use firefox with NoScript and Privacy Badger, and I disallow cookies. Hopefully this helps.
Readabity is also critical for correctness in human systems. If you get lost and expend too much mental energy fighting the borrow checker, you might miss other errors. You might get overconfident that your code is checked and miss a logic bug by not covering a case in your unit tests. You are writing unit tests, right?
Coal is a subset of fossil fuels.

The investment in fossil fuel plants is mostly because of natural gas - a great deal many of coal plants have been converted or shutdown.
Counter anecdote; I switched to split ortho a couple weeks ago and it didn't take much more than a week of consistently using only the new keyboard to get back up to normal speeds. The ortho seems to have made it much easier for me to touch type, as a result of which I now make fewer errors and generally barely ever consciously think about the actual action of typing.
Yes, the MS Naturals absolutely dissolve when exposed to water. I've destroyed at least a half-dozen over my lifetime by spilling small amounts of water on them. Only takes one drop to destroy some keys. Just after I finished high school, in the mid-2000s, I stocked up and bought four of them. Two of them have been wrecked since then, but the other two are still going strong. Still haven't seen a keyboard that I want to replace them with, but at some point, these will give up the ghost and I'll have to find something new to try.
Winter time is the worst...It should be summer time all year round.
There are pretty massive differences in reach and impact between english.gov.cn and TikTok. I don't think that comparison really holds much water.
This is valuable insight to add to my knowledgebase.

One way I am thinking about what you are saying is the concept that a block of ice melts at a much lower rate than the same mass of ice in small cubes. The principle being that a greater exposed surface area produces a higher rate of heat transfer from warm air to ice, accelerating melting.

I am trying hard to frame this issue in the simplest possible terms so that it is easy to consume the information by those who might not have the scientific background. I don't think the effort to shift the conversation will succeed if it is framed by equations impenetrable by the average person.

What you highlight --that the limit rate of CO2 "consumption" is a function of available reactant surface area-- is a valuable tool with which to communicate the idea that this process is beyond human time scale. In other words, the natural rate of change is what it is due to physical realities of this planet. It cannot be a thousand times faster just by installing solar panels or banning IC vehicles. I can see a YouTube video using the simple example of ice melting as a way to explain this.

I'll do a bit more reading and shamefully steal some of your insight. Like I said, I regret not having paid more attention during Chemistry class in college. The good news is, it's never too late to learn.

Thanks.
What an aamzing work of art, mad props to Bell and Braben.
The average american commute is about 15 miles [0] which is 24 km.

A round trip from JFK to FRA emits about 0.91 t (910 kg) CO2 but if you account for radiative forcing [1] it is equivalent to 1.62 t (1620 kg) [2].

That's not to mention multiplying all these figures by 6 (for every 2 months), so that's 9720 kg.

I don't think it's a wash.

[0] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1006/ML100621425.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing

[2] https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
Earlier this year we established 16 week parental leave (all types of parents). For a small company like ours, this is not an easy decision, but I believe it will eventually pay off in the long run.

I'm originally from Europe and moved to states as an adult. My home country Slovakia, has very generous parental leave (up to 3 years[0]). I always struggled with the "ruthlessness" of US policies around healthcare, parental leave, education, etc.

I was very happy that the company finally matured enough that we could offer a parental leave without suffering the loss of a productive employee for an extended period.

We also adopted other European practices, like guaranteed severance after 3 months of "test" period with guaranteed healthcare (COBRA) for 2 months.

I honestly wish that these were a standard in this country, that this wouldn't be a differentiating factor for us, but I think we have quite long way to go.

[0] https://www.globalization-partners.com/globalpedia/slovak-re...
1. Food gathering and processing (and sometimes cooking)

2. Shelter building

3. Motor vehicle manufacturing

4. Clothing manufacturing

5. Internet...manufacturing??

6. Basically all manufacturing

7. Entertainment

Wow the list keeps going.
Master of Orion 2: The Formula behind the Success (2009)
In the video, Kelley refers to Tracy [1]. I hadn't heard of it before but it looks interesting.

[1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
Does anyone else think it's weird indiehackers let itself be acquired?
Is that hypocritical, or is it just me
Color me dubious on this fella's assertions after his tirade against remote work.
Also you’d need to account for the 3 to the left of the decimal point.
> to really put [a] language to work you need to be aware of limits of the implementations, and how to dance around them

This seems generally an important and underdocumented aspect of language characterization. I wonder how that might be improved?
"effectively illegal to see other people as a consequence of your government's abject failure to manage an epidemic"

Surely though the current situation is as bad as it is because of other people's inability to manage themselves during an epidemic, as opposed to the government being to blame? I'm not having a poke, but I notice here in Ireland for example, when the government comes out with clear guidelines e.g. "Don't go around licking people's eyeballs. If you do you might get sick" then the general populace is all like "oh but it's so confusing! What if I only lick one of their eyeballs? What is the definition of 'might'? We need more guidance!". So then the guidance comes back "Do not lick people's eyeballs, ever" and BOOM - someone takes a constitutional challenge High Court because "Civil Liberties".

And I do think it's kind of the same in most countries, the government is not to blame, the general population is.

Just a thought :)
That leg design looks pretty fragile in comparison with the more reasonable designs from companies like MWE Lab (who, I believe, was the first company to make these kinds of computer chairs) [1]. At least it doesn't look as gamery as Acer's version [2].

[1] https://www.mwelab.com/en/

[2] https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-thronos-air
Elon Musk is giving away cryptocurrencies Bitcoins and Ethereum and a Cybertruck
That's not going to get you very far if you're looking for precision.
That chair is wonderfully ridiculous, and I would enjoy the feeling you’d get every time you hop in it.

Those who judge tend to have their own hang ups around this kind of stuff. What’s yours?
The losers are the black cab drivers, and arguably the Uber drivers who might have been black cab drivers. They have been com-modified - bye bye a half shot at a middle class life style for those folk.
What if a time travelling robot based on Tik Tok from the future came back to cause WW3 and the end of the world?

If I spend enough time, I can think of a whole lot more examples.
Was a software developer. Thanks will do that.
The Ergodox EZ can come with Red switches (both silent or not). It's also got hotswappable switches which is pretty cool IMO, you can change your switches whenever you want without having to desolder or even unscrew anything.

I can really recommend this keyboard if you find the Ergodox layout comfortable, they're very well built.
Does anyone know if they also pay analysts and product owner types better than market rates?
To me, this question is easier to model as a function of some scalar impact metric. Suppose we could quantify influence somehow. What people are arguing over is whether TikTok crosses some line of “too much influence” not “existence of influence” for which there are plenty of sources.
Lots of marketing coming from the Netflix CEO lately. Anyone notice a similar trend?
Yes. The more important point of the article is that behavioral changes in *nix commands/utilities have enormous downstream consequences that often get ignored or lose out to some Platonic ideal of "better" or perfection
Any reason why you went with "guage" over "gauge" for the domain name?
Outsourcing house matters has been a slow, bumpy journey for our family. It all started with cleaners - hiring someone to clean the house every two weeks was well worth the seemingly significant cost. I’d say outsourcing house cleaning took a significant burden off my wife and me, especially after we had kids.
I may be missing something here, but... all that for a hit counter? Even using React for the front-end seems overkill for a little widget.
An ipad would never survive a lab environment from falls alone, and thats not even mentioning liquids. they only last a few years under the best conditions before the non-removable batteries crap out anyway. Plus total lack of repair options, no keyboard, and being overpriced makes them a hard sell. We wouldn't buy an inferior power supply or particle detector for double what its competitors cost, so i can't imagine blowing that money on a lab ipad.
Many people i know use the used thinkpad x220 around the lab for computing, but there is always a proper lab notebook. If experiments from 20 years ago had stored their only lab notebook copy in a file, it's a practical gaurentee that it would be lost by now. Things are even more complicated and brittle in 2020. God help you if you rely on cloud storage for essential information unless you're prepared to watch like a hawk for the company's innevitable demise and 30 day deletion notice.
There is still no realistic substitute for a shelf or cabinet with old lab books on it. Keeping physical lab books can also be a requirement of the grant.
Even LinkedIn has Stories now
Trello Is Slow or Unavailable
Hi,

You'd probably like my site. I discuss both book scanning (using a Fujitsu fi-4120c with SANE)[1] and reMarkable hacking.[2][3] I've also written a popular GUI client for transmitting reMarkable documents without the manufacturer's cloud (sold under GPLv3+) that many people find useful in their workflows.[4] I used to take notes on paper and scan them, but after getting a reMarkable, it became just so much more convenient. I now use it for 100% of my reading and writing.

[1]: http://www.davisr.me/projects/books/

[2]: http://www.davisr.me/projects/remarkable-microsd/

[3]: http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/

[4]: http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
Just about everything Fabien writes is fantastic reading!
To add to this: Trump International Hotel (the one in DC) was put on the market in Oct. 2019 for $500M. There were no buyers before the sale offering was canceled due to coivd-19.

You don't put a marquee property on the market if it is making money. Especially the one in DC. Especially while you are the current US president.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-organization-exploring-sa...
The highest number in base 2 you can cram in 40bits is roughly 0.34 * 10^39.

I shifted it so the exponent is equal to the number of digits we can fit.

128 bits could indeed only fit the first 39 digits of PI.

And even then you haven't really stored PI, because you haven't stored where the comma is supposed to go.
Facebook Former Employee Admits to Making Site Addictive
No one's made a working alternative, except maybe Nix which took 20 years to show up.
Uh. I blame Apple for making flat profile keyboards trendy on the desktop. I really dislike them as well and they're all over the place now.
The reverse of that coin is that abuse of freedom is turned into an excuse for restricting freedom. It's the modus operandi of authoritarianism.
Flexible Performant GEMM Kernels on GPUs in Native Julia
I've written about the tools I use here: http://www.davisr.me/projects/books/
Here's the thing: with this model, it's (somewhat) easy to keep loyal readers, but it's maybe hard to get new ones.

I think this is the part that you're not disclosing here - how do you get new readers? A lot of times, a business like yours relies on the referrals from the loyal customers in order to expand. If you make it impossible for the "occasional reader" to read you, then by extension you make it extremely difficult for your loyal customers to refer you. Based on your "little annoying" comment, I'm guessing you don't do that. So this means occasional visitors are free to read your content, it's just annoying to do so - and you're relying on that annoyance to convert them to paid customers (should they find themselves coming back again & again).

I mean, it's a valid tactic. BUT - I don't think it's the only one. I do think "subscription fatigue" is a real thing - people will not be subscribed to countless services. As the competition for the subscription money sharpens, at least some publishers may find themselves pushed out of this model. I think that's all that Tim Bray was saying - and, I think he's right. There's unexplored potential out there, that you ignore at your own risk.
Problem with that is you only get a fraction of that output, more precisely, it diminishes with the power of 2 for every unit of distance between here and there.

Wouldn't it be great if humanity put its mind and effort into reliably recreating it right here in our own backyard? It's not easy, it's a process, sacrifices (most of which needless and avoidable) have been made... but in the long run, it will net us immeasurably much more than spraying the planet with large fans and solar panels.
> The major argument is somewhat philosophical. I don’t like what people expect out of CD games. Does anyone think that the cheeseball dialog in crash and burn is a GOOD addition? It turns my stomach. People expect CD games to have tons of digitized speech and video, and the 3DO is going to be strongly associated with it. The joke here is that if we ever do a CD version of DOOM, you are going to get the game and “The Making of DOOM” a one hour feature film. Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars putting all this media into their games, and it often actually detracts from it. We don’t want to be part of this crowd.

> I would rather cut down to the essentials and fit on a cartridge than uselessly bulk up on a CD. I have a minimalist sense of aesthetics in game design.

It's kind of surprising to see John Carmack have what amounts to a "640k ought to be enough for everyone" moment here. As a guy that I see as somewhat of a futurist, developing on the edge of technology, it seems strange to see him be so dismissive to the potential of the massive storage space of CDs at the time.
Interesting other take I've seen: The continued fraction of Pi is [3; 7, 15, 1, 292, ...]

The 292 is a pretty big number, so at that point the fractional approximation is very good. 355/113 is good enough for anything you're doing on planet earth.
xdiskusage has been my go-to when using a gui.

Package info from Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/x11/xdiskusage
If you're looking for keyboards, you may also be interested in keyboard layouts.
I've been using Colemak for 5 years now, and I recommend everyone to try it out.
https://colemak.com/
think he released a book
I believe that the most ergonomic mouses are the vertical ones. There are some models without leds.
I modded my Kinesis Edge with Holtite sockets to get hotswap capability.

I use Zilents on my daily driver. They're pretty quiet as far as mech switches go, but still a lot noisier than a standard laptop keyboard. No complaints so far.
Safety is a much more complicated topic than "does my language guard against memory safety", so I wouldn't slyly dismiss zig as "only good for games".
At least in my corner of the PNW, the clouds are always moving. Most days, there's at least some sun peaking out here and there. December and January can get pretty bad though, not looking forward to missing my annual trips.
Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server
I just realized that people who are not into scientific computing may not know what GEMM means. It is a matrix multiplication kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogra...
I have the same feeling. After he said he sees no any benefit of remote work, I stopped being interested in anything he has to say.
lol they’re comparing it to disney and amazon. plenty of other companies pay the same or more than netflix
I don't see any locking either, so I imagine it misses some counts.
No, the statistics are pretty clear: The share of all parents who were on p/maternal leave during the 2018 microcensus. They don't claim anything else and are a pretty good approximation: How big a share of p/maternal leave offered do fathers and mothers take.

"which I commonly see" is not something that is statistically sound. And neither is just multiplying it. If fathers would on average take 1 month out of 24 offered this wouldn't exactly count as a success for the programme or gender equality.
try out fvwm2, it is pretty awesome!
Scientists are releasing 750M genetically modified mosquitoes this year
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain"
> and OTOY most likely will rather use they resources elsewhere like the new Metal render.

Maybe you're right, and this guy is wrong. But you gotta admit that contradicting the speaker of the video you're using as a source is unusual to say the least.
#1 isn't necessary if amazon started as a logistics company, with smaller shops as their clients.
It's a corrupt industry that deserves to die
He has had recent trouble selling his properties for the asking price. He put up Trump International (the DC hotel) on the market in Oct. 2019 for $500M. There were no buyers at that price before he took it off the market due to covid-19.

There is no indication that he has the resources to finance the debt. Nor is there indication that he does not have those resources. We simply do not know either way until a better picture of his finances comes out.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-organization-exploring-sa...
How did birds become birds? An interview with Jingmai O’Connor
these days the hard part isn't the view counter logic, it's managing the 395,000 dependencies in your project
eBay and many others prove that it's definitely a possibility.
Kinesis Freestyle Pro has Cherry mx brown or silent red and shaves a little money compared to the RGB version
> now people are talking about avoiding Thailand all together

Or, they're talking about refusing uppity Americans.
> or map-filter chains instead of for loops.

Not a rust programmer - but this seems odd. Map/filter/reduce are high level abstractions that describe most common operations you want to perform on sequence. It's non-trivial to infer from loop code (you need to scan at least multiple lines to confirm it's actually "just a map" or "just a filter", especially when you have more complex operation chains etc. and the mutable imperative nature of the code makes it even harder to reason about - more potential edge cases).

This is exactly the kind of stuff I don't want to do manually and expect the compiler to do at (near) zero cost - how can you "overuse" this ?
i totally agree. plus the fact that he's using a DAS for storing the data. if there is one thing i refuse to do is not be in charge of my database or using something proprietary.
I mean, back 8+ years ago they had minicab firms. It was basically uber. We had an app on our phone or would make a phone call and get a cab to pick us up pretty quick which we know the fixed price ahead of time.

So before uber there was already a service which complemented black cabs.
It depends on your current financial situation. If you aren't in desperate need for a job then I would suggest taking a month or two off and unwinding. Pandemic has made the job market tough as it is, and I'm sure you would be stressed out from losing your job.
Xbox Series X hands-on: The big back-compat dive begins
Terry Pratchett would be proud. He even formalised the universal battle cry: "remember the atrocities done to us to justify the atrocity we are about to commit!"

As would another, earlier British author. Can you remember when you were not at war with Oceania?