skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst this looks interesting, as someone with RSI (who already uses a split keyboard), just thinking about those thumb modules is giving me anxiety.

Ergonomic setups are specifically meant to immobilise both your thumb and wrist joints.
This is a terrible idea. It's almost impossible to bootstrap a marketplace without participating in it. Amazon as a platform that people can sell their own stuff on is only possible because people were already using it to buy things directly from amazon.
Said the one that never had to deal with background activities or firmware issues across the eco-system.
Similar fear mongering resulted in Austria never completing their Zwentendorf nuclear powerplant. Instead they built a huge gas fired thernal plant & protest the Czech Temelin nuckear powerplant being completed, that resulted in many Czech dirty brown coal power plants being shut down. Really, a productive affair...
Transatlantic flight generates under 1000kg of CO2 per passenger. Cars generate 0.12kg per km. A short commute is 30 km per day, so about a 1000 kg per year - a wash.

A longer commute will generate more, being stuck in traffic will generate more, building new roads will generate more. A flight that is not cross-Atlantic will generate much less.

It’s not clear which way the balance will tilt, but you can’t just make blanket statement that planes will be worse than cars - you have to show your math.
That and the party eating itself from the inside, significantly (but far from only) due to bad handling of the anti-Semitism issue.

Also not really having a policy on brexit, and letting it be one of the issues the party fought inwardly about, made brexit a policy issue so it is hard to make the distinction that you do above: there are people who would have voted if a more direct stance against was taken.

(context: remain and Labour voter in all the key national polls in recent years, but they never managed to make themselves look better than "vaguely better one from a terrible set of options" even to the likes of me so convincing floating voters to swing that way was not going to happen)
This shows how complex TypeSript has become. It may be fun to write complicated Type annotations such as this, but imagine having to read and maintain the code!
This isn't surprising, but it seems like posturing and deception are more effective for cyberwar than conventional capabilities, and this article was probably written for that purpose.
Take off every zig take of every ziiig, totally agree with you. Rust and Zig is totally the best examples of things that are happening now. I am sorry for the introduction but everyone who recognize it will. Zig and Rust is where things' at, Python and Go can go, all us old dudes use Perl anyways-
> Does costco get some extra benefit if the consumer buys Kirkland from costco ?

Yes. Costco positions their store brand as a major part of their appeal. This attracts more consumers to their stores, which

A. Increases membership, for which there's an annual fee, and

B. Increases traffic, increasing sales of high margin items as well as the low margin store brand.
But the same is true for amazon.
A LOT more that is anti-Trump I suspect.
This has info (year, exit / dead, one line description) of 1281 YC companies [0]

Out of the 49 companies in the S11 batch, 10 exited, 17 are "dead", and 22 have no status.

Most of the companies from the W16 batch have no status listed.

[0]: https://yclist.com/
Defer and errdefer help make the memory handling dead easy.
No it is not news in the least.

Even Canada has offensive cyber and has members of the military talking with some regularity about how they use it in completely declassified settings. You can literally buy a ticket to a conference and hear these guys talk about it.
It's not a sham trial; it's a political trial. Assange is technically the one on trial but he doesn't matter. The decision is made.

There's a very good reason why the media isn't covering the trial. They are the ones who are on trial by the governments. This is why 'fake news' and 'misinformation' really came to the forefront after Assange and this whole situation.
Good point. Looking back at my comment, that's basically what I meant. I just used a lot of extra words to say it, I guess...
> They have to subsidize because labor and land are more expensive the Europe than Brazil

Yeah, mechanization is lower in Europe... (This is related to the subsides.)

Anyway, those waves of temporary immigrants that every year go to Europe from poorer neighboring countries aren't much more expensive than Brazilian labor.
UHS hospitals hit by reported country-wide Ryuk ransomware attack
It's been happening since Obama's Pivot to Asia, it's just a lot more noticeable now since Trump has no subtlety.
So, the first question that comes to mind: If you put any weight on it, and how horribly would those legs scratch up your hardwood floor (or how bad would the damage to a rug be)? The front feet appear decorative (yet they still drag on the floor), but the second-from-back feet appear to be load bearing (and in one of the videos, it skips out as the chair moves under its own load).

And personally, I'm not overly fond of the fact that the head rest is tied to the positioning of the monitor. It looks like a neck-crick in progress. Also, the angle of the keyboard tray looks off, but I'd need a human model in place to tell for sure.
it's a famous spot,a rock sticking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolltunga
The Kinesis Gaming keyboard is my current go-to deck. The key layout is sane (nobody tried to nerf the "useless" ESC key), there are well-done macro and remapping features for light customization, and the LED lighting is actually something I appreciate for once (it's pretty).

Microsoft lost me in the 2000s with terrible key feel. I remember bouncing over to the company store for an Ergo 4000 and being incredibly disappointed; I could barely type on the thing. They continue to screw up (e.g., decent keyboards, with good feel and layout . . . but only bluetooth).

I have a couple of UHKs. They do not have an ESC key, something I hadn't internalized when I ordered them. I do not recommend them.
Interesting information. For summary's sake, looks like this post is talking about Baraitser's boss, Emma Arbuthnot, whose husband happens to be "a well-known "hawk" of the Conservative Party and former Minister of Defense, notoriously linked to the military-industrial complex" also connected to a US think tank. The article makes it clear that many of the conditions of Assange's trial (being kept in a box, unable to communicate etc) were initiated by Arbuthnot, and that Baraitser has simply followed the lead of her boss.

Interesting read - no idea whether any of it is true... but certainly doesn't sound beyond the realm of possibility.
Apparently a type of fuel that can be used in power plants with zero carbon emissions.

>The world’s first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi Arabia to Japan, where it will be used in power stations to produce electricity without carbon emissions.

>Ammonia can be burned in thermal power stations without releasing carbon emissions. That means it has “the potential to make a significant contribution to an affordable and reliable low-carbon energy future,” according to state-controlled Aramco.

>Blue ammonia is a feedstock for blue hydrogen, a version of the fuel made from fossil fuels with a process that captures and stores C02 emissions. Hydrogen from renewable energy that creates no emissions is known as green hydrogen.

How do you quote? I thought it was with >
Restrained Growth
Can somebody compare the UHK to the Ergodox-Ez/Moonlander?

I've just started a new job and hope to use the initial downtime to adapt to an ergonomic keyboard. Since I understand it'll be a major adjustment, I've been considering alternative layouts as well. I've never learnt touch typing, so why not start from scratch on a better system?

I'm leaning Colmak mod DH for the Moonlander, but I'd appreciate any insights on this. I plan to learn Vim keybindings as well, so a layout that works well with vim would be the cherry on the top.
> More trivia: if you mount your filesystem readonly, it is technically not POSIX compliant any more because the atimes won't be updated

Isn't POSIX fun?
Never heard of this publication. Somewhat concerning that viewing articles asks me to disclose my location to the website.
Ehm... https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310434318490034176
Thanks for the interest!

We're keeping access limited at first so we can get experience operating the system. We'll be expanding continually over the next few weeks.
It won't work.
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> Theoretically, CCP could abuse location services to track movements of military personnel and civilians in a war. Since FB isn't Chinese, that is less of an issue for large scale surveilance.

Or the could just buy that information from the phone companies or data brokers.
I think LWN is more like PBS/NPR/wikipedia/etc in that the content is generally free (although a little less so that the examples). It has "supporters" who pay too keep them running because they value the unique perspective in a niche.
> I'm going to be honest: naming this product was hard, because it's not quite like any other cloud technology that is widely-used today.

Perhaps I'm missing something important, but isn't this quite similar to Orleans grains and other distributed actors?
Not exactly (there is no duplication), a string constant in typescript is it's own type:

const sql = 'SELECT ...';
type SQL = typeof sql;
// type SQL = "SELECT ..."
Well, my Linux system allows two users to use the computer at the same time.
I too switched the left space bar on the Kinesis to `cmd` on my Mac, shortcuts were literally a pain to execute without it.
I've found the same: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on-the-k...

I tried the Ergodox some others have mentioned in this thread but didn't like the modifier key placements. I've also found that I can type normally (which is reasonably quickly but not at the demonic speeds a few seem capable of) on normal or laptop keyboards, too.

Usually I find myself restricted by the speed of thought rather than speed of keyboard.
Trackballs are the best. I splurged on a Kensington Expert and I really love it. the ball is the size of a billiards ball.
>You violate US law by spying on citizens, you get banned. As a foreign company you don't get a right to a trial.

If there's no trial, who is to say that any law was violated?
Yep, charity has an enormous gap between "people who pay" and "people who use the product" so market forces provide little to no accountability compared to typical businesses. Strategies like "spend first on advertising, second on administration, third on the actual task" are viable and successful to an even greater degree than one is accustomed to in business.
The parent comment argued that the tax evasion post was flagged because it's not directly relevant to the tech industry.

In response, I found examples that are also not directly relevant to the tech industry, but are recent, popular and unflagged on HN.

Since each of your examples is directly relevant to the tech industry, they are not evidence of political neutrality in flagging posts.

To counter my argument that flagging is biased to support right-wing politics, a better response would list HN posts that are (a) not directly relevant to the tech industry, (b) critical of right-wing or right-libertarian politics, (c) 100+ points, (d) posted recently, and (e) not flagged.

I would be happy to be proven wrong!
The question is: who's putting effort into the far less-sexy defensive capability?

compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24575935
If you're selling your ass-ets you better provide. That's the point of Why combinator.
It's almost impossible to bootstrap a marketplace without participating in it.

This is obviously untrue. Walk into almost any store in the world, and you're in a marketplace where the owner is not also selling his own competing products.

There are vanishingly few exceptions, like garden centers, big box stores, and supermarkets.
A lots of greenhouses nearby ? Well, thats perfect - nuclear power plants produce a lot of heat that could be used fow greenhouse heating instead of being dumped via cooling towers/sea water thermal exchangers. Win-Win!
Can't left mouse with that one. Since the intellimouse is dead, gaming mice seem to be the only ambidextrous, full sized, wired mice out there. You just have to put on dark glasses until you can find the rgb toggle.
Because people spend money on that kind of gear.

A lot of money.

It’s really that simple. It’s like useless spoilers on sports cars.

Me, I’m not a serious gamer. I use a Mac. For all the hate poured onto Macs as “toys,” they are awful gaming rigs.

Also, I use a standing desk. I am not the target demographic for this product.

I have friends that are serious gamers, and they have spent many thousands on (multiple) flashy rigs and man-caves.
> and possibly the first radical breakthrough in low-level programming design in decades

Can you expand what you mean here?

I really like Zig, and there is definitely a big design space to explore in creating a modern low-level language that doesn't come with the complexity of something like Ada/Spark or Rust.

This binary patching + daemonized compiler approach is particularly exciting.

But as a language, I'm not aware of any features that would amount to a "radical breakthrough". As far as I am aware, it is a modernized, low level language, with nice compile time evaluation, async, and some runtime-provided safety guarantees. But nothing that is so novel from a type system / language design point of view.

Happy to be corrected though!
This feels a bit like C#'s "Linq to Objects". Could actually be useful!
That makes me wonder why Logitech is not mass producing one already!
Again, it's not about what you are able to do in Rust vs. Zig, it's essentially about the API of the language. Zig's semantics around memory management are imperative: i.e. you are telling the compiler when to allocate and deallocate memory. Rust's are declarative: you tell the compiler how the memory for a given value should be managed, and the compiler interprets these requirements to decide when memory should be allocated or deallocated.

Again, I do not think this a weakness of Rust, and I do not think it should change. In very many cases, the Rust approach is very helpful.

The point is there are also cases where imperative, explicit memory management is desirable.
Ask HN: What do you outsource in your life?
Cambridge Analytica's ex-CEO banned from running companies for 7 years
I think this change is paralelled by gradual changes to search itself. Google seems to be aiming to deliver short answers to such queries without users leaving google at all. It's like a library card catalog that doesn't want you to actually pick up and read a book. I think this is also part of why tech companies push voice search so hard, because it better confines the user to the search provider's ecosystem where they can be spoon fed curated information. Companies then pay to influence how users are steered by the "search" results. End user freedom is less profitable.
Why Bill de Blasio does not allow homeless people to camp in Gracie Hall?

Why Sadiq Khan does not take TFL to the office?

Why Barack Obama bought a mansion in posh Martha's Vineyard?

Why Bill Gates only flies private jets?

I'm sure we all can keep the list going.

Oh, how easy it is to love all the people in the world when you can afford to never mingle with them.
Ok, perhaps allow for a bootstrap period.
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Don't forget Dragonfly BSD.

"I am on x86-64 and I want performance".
Open to correction, but isn't 128 bits a little less than 40 decimal digits?
> They actually don’t buy all the products they sell.

This is not true at all. Costco buys everything they sell.

> They often only pay the manufacturers after its sold.

This is true, and may be where your confusion lies. They buy on net 30/60/90 terms from their vendors. This means they have 30/60/90 days to pay them. Because they move inventory so quickly, they have often sold an item before they have to pay for it.

But they are still buying it and still taking the risk that it won't sell.

> And sometimes don’t return the units which don’t sell

This is only true because as I said before, they own the items.
That's only about half their waste, the other half gets put into man made ash ponds that eventually become superfund sites, or leak into rivers and cause massive damage.
Ring’s Flying In-Home Camera Drone Escalates Privacy Worries
Congratulations Vladimir! It is a great introduction to compilation. I like the fact that it teaches parsing combinators instead of the traditional lex/yacc tools. It is a great book to be used during a college course.
The ""you need to upload all your data to our servers or you'll likely have to get another to TV to view it"" argument was involving the typical 8-camera wired DVR systems you commonly see in restaurants and in some homes.

It needs to be connected to a TV to view the video locally, or you need to have some technical knowledge to setup RTSP on your LAN.

Again, total addressable market.
Yes. That doesn't change the truth of it.
In the last decade I've hired about a dozen graphic design, media, and photography freelancers, and it's extremely difficult to build trust with a new hire without having prior experience with that person. What "trust" is to me is not the ability to make great things, but the inability to make bad things. The only way I can know that a photographer has a >98% success rate on projects is if I do 50 projects with them and only one is a catastrophic failure. If I hired one remote photographer for each job, I'd have to brief them for 1-3 days on the brand, my standards, my target audience, familiarity prior media created for the brand, etc. and they still will have a high chance of their work being unusable to me. Or I could just use my favorite photographer/designer for the job and not worry about training or the risk of their work being a miss. I suppose the same exact logic makes sense for aid agencies.
In Switzerland we just voted Sunday for 2 weeks of paternity leave!

Of course that's lower than the 28 days for French fathers, but it's going in the good direction (at our slow swiss pace) :)
No, it is actually historically accurate

Of course, there have always been fires. But this year already 3,627,010 acres have burned, and "While wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape, the fire season in California and across the West is starting earlier and ending later each year. Climate change is considered a key driver of this trend. Warmer spring and summer temperatures, reduced snowpack, and earlier spring snowmelt create longer and more intense dry seasons that increase moisture stress on vegetation and make forests more susceptible to severe wildfire. The length of fire season is estimated to have increased by 75 days across the Sierras and seems to correspond with an increase in the extent of forest fires across the state."[0]

Five of the six largest fires in history of California have been this year, and the season isn't even over [1]

[0] https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires
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I appreciate y'all trying again. Here's some constructive feedback:

(1) Look at other responses from people directly responding to issues from customers here at HN. Look at how specific, authentic, and action-oriented those responses are. Then look at yours again.

(2) Notice how they don't use the royal "We." It's 2020, we're all working from home with small spots of clean behind us for zoom, the royal We has to die. Unless the speaker is actually a committee or Borg, please use I.

(3) "not always perfect" is garbage. It failed the user at its basic job. Say so. Any apology without admission isn't an apology. Actually, kill the entire sentence. Nobody cares about the capabilities of a system that doesn't work right.

(4) They've already said that they tried you and you failed. Explicitly ask for a chance to make it right. Why would they bother working with you again, if you don't even ask them? They'd be doing you a favor. Ask for the favor.

(5) Nit: The last two sentences redundantly ask for the customer to contact you. Combine into a single request for an email with (btw, you don't have to explicitly "send us an email" when you're giving them an email address to contact -- it's a side-ways way of talking down to the customer's intelligence) account "details" (Which details? The account name? Credentials? What?) and headers.
My typing speed has increased from 65 wpm to 80 wpm after switching to a split ortho keyboard. Took just a couple of weeks to get back to my old speed.
i'm definitely not as fast as i used to be (somewhere around 120 wpm as a non-touch-typist) after 2 years of typing on an ortholinear keyboard, but I don't really mind. I'm much more comfortable and my fingers don't hurt as much.
What type of perks give big corporations like Google?
Yes my argument was business and ease for the customer, not what this is.
Feds Hit with Successful Cyberattack, Data Stolen
Another comment in favor of regex support. If it worked similar to regex101.com I'd instabuy
> When this is brought up, people [...] don't seem to acknowledge that this is not a problem with any other language.

This was a deliberate design decision by andrew for all zig pre-1.0 to supress discussions about coding style (use CR, LF, CRLF, LFCR as a line ending? tabs vs. spaces? ...) as it's considered bike shedding

Zig 1.0 won't have this restrictions anymore. More information can be found here:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/544
> I'm really curious how European firms compete with American ones when workers can take so much time off

On one hand I guess you could compare it to American manufacturing vs. manufacturing in e.g. Vietnam, India, China where companies often fly under local labor laws and workers are worked to unreasonable hours.

On another hand I also do think there is something to be said for better mental health => better work output at least in skilled jobs. A fact that many American companies don't seem to get.
> you might come across as considering it like the factor

I used the word suggest and chose it specifically. I did consider those things and chose not to write a dissertation to convey the exact same concept as the word "suggest". Do with it what you will.

It is possible to be reductive because the same thing happens in so many places. I think there are very few exceptions to "educated, choices, access to contraception" where "cultural peer pressure to have children young" actually works.
I'm not going to accuse reviewers of dishonesty but I very much agree about the discomfort. I've tried all sorts of placements and tilts and layouts but it's always awkward.

I'm guessing that the discrepancy may be people with different sized hands. I find it such an awkward reach from the home position to hit anything on the middle columns or outside the two large bars in the thumb cluster. Also the 'wing' wrist rests are worthless to me, they're too low for a keyboard so thick.

I keep trying it every week or two because I have such immense buyer's remorse but really I hate it.
How effective is blocking their operation anyway, without it being done on a national level?

People in York can not be licensed to operate for Uber due to a similar ban, but that doesn't stop people from nearby Leeds and Doncaster driving in to operate in the area. Given that Leeds is currently under "extra measures" from a C19 PoV, letting people from York drive for Uber would probably be the safer option.
If i'm not mistaken, they reduced the 7% to 4%