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> There are keyboards for people who want a truly ergonomic input system and there are keyboards for fanboys

> Kinesis advantage 2 is for the first kind and ergodox is for the fanboys

Maybe it's true, but I bought the Moonlander (same brand as ergodox) for ergonomic reasons. It allowed my hands to be more in line with my shoulders and reduced shoulder pain/tightness I would have at the end of the day.

I want to try the Kinesis advantage, but one thing stopping me is the fact that it's not a split keyboard. I think it's likely my natural arm position is wider than the Kinesis.

> The most efficient tools are usually the most ugly and boring ones

I think there's some truth to this, but speaking it as such an absolute truth seems misguided.
How long does it take food to decompose versus a pair of coveralls?

This is one of those situations where saying "this problem isn't important, look at X," isn't the best strategy. We have to solve _waste_ in general. Different types will have different solutions.
I order around the same number of items every as you from Amazon in America and have never had an issue like the ones mentioned in every hn discussion about the company.

Bad experiences stick with people and they are more likely to write about it. Like the one time I ordered Harmon Kardon subwoofer from newegg like 15 years ago and it came entirely missing it's outer case, and neither newegg not Harmon Kardon (I went in person to their service center) would accept the return. It made me skeptical of ordering from newegg for a while, and it was unusual and annoying enough that I still remember it to write about.
Are we becoming a one world nation?
I really do believe we're going through the growing pains of becoming a One World Nation whether we like it or not.

In studying the evolution of Homo Sapiens it's obvious that one of our key factors to understanding our survival is that we figured out strength through group work, thought, and shared resources.

Very early in this evolution, as we were figuring this out, it was not yet obvious that the actual Planet was a shared resource due to knowledge and technological constraint. We fought over land and resources as our brain had not yet understood the magnitude of the Planet being our territory

Evolution continued in a restricted way.

We created borders by dividing up land. We shared different beliefs, skin colours, and languages. It was still not obvious that we were in fact all one "Home Sapien" and all sharing one massive territory "Planet Earth".

But we continued to evolve.

The world then began to rapidly accelerate and trade began to really create extreme interdependence, which continued to apply pressure on creating systems and technologies to make this new way of world commerce seamless.

Once the Internet highway was built, the physical borders of land were no longer a constraint, and the world began to feel the power of a one nation society, which further reinforced our inter dependance on each other.

As language barriers continue to fall due to realtime translation advancements, and our ability to communicate different ideas and learnings with each other globally, it's becoming obvious that humans are applying pressure to the system.

We may not express our want to become a one nation world, but our actions keep proving it.

It started with voyage, which lead to idea sharing, which lead to advancement, which ultimately lead to the internet.

see below for continuation....
all this is good and doable if you don't have kids or have a job (or are just retired) where you set your own schedule
We live in Manhattan and order even more stuff than GP (about 25 orders last month) and we've had like two issues this year: a missing knob on a puzzle for toddlers, and paint on three toy vehicles damaged during shipping.
Majority of people don't need fast cpu. Majority of people need fast phone or those better capabilities even less.

I had 5 years old phone and bought new one only because of battery going out and the phone screen on the verge of breaking. Yes new one is faster and have better camera. No, I would be actually fine with the same model as before.
The internet in my belief has always been the infrastructure and foundational layout for setting the stage for what will become the framework for conducting the rules of engagement of a true one world nation

Step 1 was Effortless communication. (internet)

Step 2 Will be effortless currency and exchange of value with decentralized authority. (Maybe Bitcoin)

Step 3 Will be politics and authority protocol for decision making.

Step 4 will be to Establish a real defence program to protect all of the above.

The road will be ugly, chaotic, confusing, complex, but I really do believe that humans are racing towards establishing the 1st principles of survival, which is to identify 1st as a humans of the planet earth and 2nd as whatever other belief one might have.
I’m in Seattle and that’s been my experience as well in the 7 years that I’ve been their customer.
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I don't think we've lost our way, I think there are a number of very wealthy individuals, and countries working hard to re-route everyone.
I don't agree with this mentality. If you are helping a dictator or authoritarian regime, sure. I think it is in the wrong side of the story.

But helping out the US in developing high-precission weapons does the opposite.

1. It might save lifes, as the alternative is dumb carpet bombing. As we know during WW2, carpet bombing killed mostly civilians and destroyed cities.

2. Most weapons that the US has, are there for deterrence, and not necessary meant to be used, and in the long run hopefully they are never used.

3. The US is the better greater power by a long stretch. I know it gets a lot of flak here, but while it has done many mistakes, the US has done more good that usually gets forgotten.
The alternative is China (in the Pacific) or Russian hegemony in half of Europe. I am talking as someone born in a former communist country. And almost all former communist countries in Europe are staunch US supporters/allies as they have lived first hand communism, and experienced its rotten system.
> The caveat is that, in my experience, it's a fair bit harder to reason about performance, as the execution model is even more abstracted away from the hardware than even something like the C model is (which is no longer a good fit either, in this era of speculative execution and multi-level caches.)

One solution is to have a tool developed and distributed along with the compiler (so it can never fall out of sync with the compiler, that's why) annotate the code with notes about performance.
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I don't like the phrase too much but short answer is intellectual honesty. For example, understanding what went wrong that was probably because of your decisions versus the market, customers, external forces, etc.

There are far too many examples of founders succeeding with an idea after many people before them failed with same idea. I think any good investor is cognizant of this.
This reminds me of a comment by a YC partner:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20225078
Actual project here: https://rook.io/

Block, file, object storage for K8S, powered by Ceph underneath. The project is diluted by also deploying databases for some reason, and I don't recommend using it for that.

Overall good to see more storage options for K8S with others like Longhorn, OpenEBS, StorageOS, Portworx, etc.
In Brunswick (part of Melbourne, Australia), there is a Community "Tool Library" where people can borrow tools. In much the same way as book libraries:

https://www.brunswicktoollibrary.org

It's pretty cheap (AUS$85/yr), and AFAIK they have about 400 members. Though Melbourne is currently in a coronavirus lockdown so everything is closed. :(

Regarding broken/incomplete tools, (prior to the lockdown) they had a day every week or two set aside to go through and fix broken/worn tools (etc).

Seems like a good solution to the tool sharing problem, and it seems to work well for everyone.
Sure, but just try telling hipsters that you need to put preservatives on their food to keep it good long enough to get it into the hands of the less fortunate.
It's a surprisingly complex problem. As you point out, more personalised UI, buttons, etc. can be more ergonomic and presumably productive. But then the problem with learning, teaching, and sharing arises.

I also see another problem: lock-in and loss of productivity in other environments. For this reason I prefer to stick to everything as vanilla as possible: so that I can use another computer or keyboard and it "just works" because that's what I'm used to anyway.
> Also does seem that 32bit support is on the way out, slowly but surely.

I would be very, very surprised if 32bit support was on it's way out any time soon.

E500 cores are basically 603e, and they don't really seem to be going anywhere.

Killing off the early non standard core that no one has used in decades anymore is one thing, but 32bit PowerPC support in general sounds like crazy town to me.
I'm not so sure that's something which is really feasible from a design point of view. Everything involving instructions in the CPU is extremely performance critical and cross-cutting, so designing an interface which allows custom instructions without utterly destroying performance seems like quite a feat. I've a feeling the memory interface is a much more natural place for any integration (this is how it works on any existing FPGA + CPU chips)
> fifth-generation programming language

Does anyone, anywhere have an actual definition for this?

I thought the whole notion of "generations" was over and done with in the 1980s.
Offtopic: How are finding the Pixel 4? I've mulling over upgrading from my curent Pixel 1 to a Pixel 4a (not exactly the same as Pixel 4, I know). My current phone is still working mostly fine, but the camera is a bit wonky because I've dropped it too many times.
Which would explain why the clothing "went" to an electronic recycler (tracker removed and tossed into e-waste).

I also wonder how much is handled by weight. Weight of returned product != expected weight of product -> something is off and it's probably not worth figuring out.
>because it increases overall blood supply

But that's what I want explained why is more blood beneficial for a person's forearm?

I don't feel like I am lacking blood flow during my daily tasks in life. Can "extra arm artery mutant guy" out-compete me in a specific task so critical it means his genes are more likely survive than mine are?
Not a big one at all, but https://puri.sm is trying to stand up.
An argument could be made that this mission is politicising freedom of speech, in that a tech company is now determining what is misinformation and what is not. This very topic was a point of contention in the congressional antitrust hearings.

A company operates in a political environment, whether or not people want to acknowledge that. Workers have real power and can advance their goals whether or not management wants to accept it. Politics in the workplace isn’t something to shy from, but to embrace. Any company that tries to refute politics will find themselves behind the curve on something they should very much so try to stay ahead of.
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So this means evolution actually reacted on progress on medicine and we are evolving our own spare parts for surgical procedures. While this makes sense im still amazed!
What Do Colleges Owe Their Most Vulnerable Students?
But that does not increase, in any way significantly, a person's reproductive success.
Is latency an issue?
That second part seems unlikely to me. I would guess the percentage of people that’s beneficial to is extremely low.
As far as binaries go you can still target the COM instruction set with the compiler and the same binary will run on any 32/64 PPC up to the latest POWER chips.
There are other channels for expressing that opinion. We don’t need a newsfeed from the CCP in the hands of every other teenager in the country.
Maybe we need to make a museum site museum.
> It’s now understood that prestige and hierarchy played a fundamental role in shaping the mechanics of human culture, starting at the beginning of the distinguishing of Homo sapiens.

This is too vague and general too have any value. Specially considering that anything older than the iron age is subjected to pure speculation.
Yeah, but Power3 and onward actually implement the PowerPC ISA so the differences are smaller than they appear.
There is no "you". All this subthread is welcome to the observer problem¹ anxiety.

¹ Don't google, it has many names but this one is actively used in quantum physics. If someone knows a proper name for it, please comment.
“Ah I see, your college degree is in Arts.”

“Wait, what do you mean you can’t sing, or act, or draw? What do they teach you in school??!?!?”
> Why are you looking internationally before you look nationally?

You look at a larger pool of people who already want to move to anyware in the States, before a much smaller pool of people who want to move to your specific rural area.
That’s not exactly a selection pressure. It would seem likely that there is no selection pressure here but in fact greater genetic diversity due to overall better survival of more and more people.

Perhaps those that developed differently to have this artery retained were selected against in less civilised times.
Nowadays it's better to directly start using an ESP32, if you want to experiment. It has bidirectional I2S, (for example mic in, apply dsp, then out to speaker), is dual core, which would allow you to do the audio-related stuff on one core, and everything else (like communications) on another core.

If you then see that you don't require all the good things an ESP32 has to offer, maybe because you only want to drive a LED strip via WiFi and read some sensor values, then you can step down and use an ESP8266
Note the intro: "turn directly to the scenario, which is an account of a trip my friend Wayne and I took last spring to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in order to fulfill a wild and uncool dream: to play D&D with E. Gary Gygax".

If you're a HNer, you probably know all of the introduction material (which is highly outdated when it comes to the D&D renaissance, since it's from 2006), but the Gygax material is still worth reading.
As a former writer of telemarketing software it's nice to have missile guidance software developers that I can feel somewhat morally superior to. But in their defense at least missiles can be used in a non-evil way, but I'm not so sure about telemarketing software.
Fortunately, the shipping costs of returns will always be on the seller. (Because you can't compete brick-and-mortar stores out of existence in part by having no return costs, and then later introduce these costs).
yeah, this has always been the dumbest of takes. When I have an issue at Amazon, is Bezos picking up the phone? Hell no. Even at places where the "customer is always right", all that means is the customer is the boss of the hourly wage slave. The CEO doesn't give a damn. And this results in so much ugly behavior here in America, where customers think they can throw drinks at fast food workers and have an adult tantrum.

Anyone comparing a customer to a boss has had the luxury of never having a terrible boss.
Who can put Nazi on trial? The people in Germany? History said it was the ally. And ally has killed many Nazi before they can put Nazi on trial.

If you don't see the power imbalance between the government and the people, then you are very lucky that you had not experienced it.

Not trying to justify murdering, but some kind of deterrence for oppressing peaceful, freedom-loving people is not a bad thing. Of course if it become French Revolution style execution after taking power, that is wrong and it must be stopped. For the moment, that is before that state, so anything can be bearable.
In the blog post by OpenAI it doesn't mention it's an exclusive deal: https://openai.com/blog/openai-licenses-gpt-3-technology-to-...
This was an very solid breakdown. If I may lend some color: (disclaimer: I'm part of a team doing architectural design of new SDKs at MS, and am somewhat proud that we're actually Trying To Get Outside Involvement, so willing to hold that up here, all thoughts and opinions are only my own.)

To your points about "api-level" and "open source", in my end of the world I have the rare opportunity to share "Real world examples" of how we do architectural design, as we're extremely open with that process/do an increasing amount on github. @Op, feel free to take a peek if it'd be useful, we try to do enough of our discussions in issues/PRs (tagged per product) that you may be able to get a sense. [0]

The parent's comment certainly covered the bulk of my bigCo experiences, but I'd be remiss to not give examples of the niches where more of this does happen; as we also tend to cover many of the questions OP asked (guidelines on tech and arch choices, documentation, alignment and freedoms, etc) The downsides may also be apparent from this example, especially to anyone who has been an open source participant: Many cooks in the kitchen, many competing interests, and many often conflicting idioms. While these are in some part specific to shared API architecture over e.g. system architecture, I do find they take the same broad shape (largely incentive/stakeholder based) as the compromises we make broadly, but indexing far higher on backcompat, consistency, and alignment.

[0] https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/tree/master/sdk
32-bit hardware is still widely produced and deployed. Some desktop-focused distros have dropped 32-bit x86 support but I'm sure the kernel and toolchain will support 32-bit platforms for the foreseeable future. Certainly 32-bit ARM hasn't gone anywhere, and you can't swing a patch cable without hitting a SuperH.
I haven't opened up my C compiler to verify this, but even for ancient compilers that would be a non-issue, as they see only what the preprocessor hands them. Re-reading (i.e. parsing by the preprocessor) an include file isn't so bad either, as it is already cached.

I find this focus on compilation speed curious. At my last workplace a full built took a good share of the day (!) and was typically done overnight. Building during the daytime was discouraged, as it happened on our workstations, slowing down everything else. We found ways to cope, chiefly learning which subsets are autarkic, i.e. finding the least general Makefile which when invoked would catch your recent changes and wouldn't traverse too much of the tree. Not ideal, but workable.
Replacement makes sense, your friend with extra artery will survive in case of a critical surgery and might have another kid while you'd die with no extra kid. Does not need to happen to you but on average.
Your friend with better bloodflow might also have a stronger erection and therefore on average more kids (pulling this out of my ass obviously). You dont need to have any obvious disadvantages, on average it might still work better..
You can install DAVx5 from F-Droid not touch the Play Store.

Not outside the box, but FLOSS.
I can't believe you were down-voted for that. It is absolutely true. Insurance, especially for things likely to happen, is basically a payment plan.
C++ supports this via the mutable keyword https://stackoverflow.com/questions/105014/does-the-mutable-... though not particularly for performance purposes.
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Excellent point, and it looks like my title was corrected, thank you for fixing it and not deleting it, whoever that was.

What I'm really aiming to do in the long run is to get other musicians and machine learning enthusiasts to train and share models that will work with these plugins for a variety of hardware. It's very much a new technology to me and I'd like to figure out what all it can do.
> This is one of those situations where saying "this problem isn't important, look at X,"

It's all about directing (our extremely limited) focus on issues with a higher priority. Food insecurity (even in North America) is a significantly bigger problem than Amazon returns.
The claim about Bernoulli effect would be flat out wrong. Moving fluid that has been pumped into motion doesn’t normally have lower pressure than the ambient pressure (i.e. exit pressure). Wikipedia better explains it - they’re using a venturi pump - i.e. there is a construction in the tube that causes the fluid to have faster speed and lower pressure than the exit.
You’re correct regarding the terminology.

A friend of mine had a law firm take their (civil) case on a contingency basis and there was an insurance policy to cover the lawyer’s time in case they lost.
Nope. In UK and I had a tablet I ordered, that was supposed to come yesterday. Says that is delivered, but I never received. None of my neighbours received, so who knows where it is.

As for their own brands like thier tablets, they are probably worse quality than some counterfeits/awful brands. They have nasty cheap parts, for example the usb power port breaks in no time. I made the mistake of shopping for that non-amazon brand tablet for yesterday, but what a seriously shoddy company, for many reasons.
The GPT-3 Economy
> if I get tricked into installing

Do you think that people are incapable of using personal computers then? Just the regular old PC.

This argument falls flat on its face, because it is blatantly obvious, that, for some reason, people are capable of using PCs, and don't explode from the confusion of doing so.

Every single argument that you are making, could apply to the PC. But people still do alright using PCs. Phones should not be any different.

> good luck with crafting a permission system

How are they doing that on the PC? PCs work fine.

> how is someone who's busy being a lawyer

Thats an interesting question. Which has an answer. How does a lawyer use a PC, right now? So thats how they'll do it.

> pretty much like the internet back then

Why do we have to talk about the internet from a long time ago? Just talk about the current internet. Which people use. On the PC. Right now.

> t there's absolutely no way to open up iOS without wreaking havoc

Just do it the same way that PCs currently work. Right now. Because PCs work, right now, and society is not falling apart.

> because we've been there in the early internet and security-wise it was an absolute nightmare.

We don't need to talk about the early internet. Just make the iPhone the same as modern day PCs. Which people are already capable of using just fine.
I would bet that Epic could lose this suit, be forced to pay damages, and they would still have no real need of revenues from the Apple Store.

Most people with an iOS device probably have access to another device they can use to play Fortnite, and the only way the iOS 30% cut works out in their favor is if:

a. there exist some customers that will only license Fortnite on iOS and/or will buy an additional license for iOS.

b. at least 70% of these customers won't instead seek out another platform; e.g. buy a second tablet because Fortnite won't work on iPad, or use a device they already own which they may not like as much as the iPad but will work.
Motorcyclists know that it may not always be bulletproof and your fuel tank will be dripping with fuel just after the valve shuts off.
Latency can be an issue if you are playing through a desktop computer or laptop, but its very manageable (for the most part) if you set up your buffers right.

I have never ever noticed any latency issues with any physical hardware, even for equipment from years ago.
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If GPT-6 is human-level AGI but costs $200 per page of output,what would happen?
Selection bias. Of course you don't hear anything about the myriad times people ordered something and it arrived more or less as expected.
I've ordered at least hundreds, maybe thousands of items from amazon over the years. I won't say everything has been completely perfect, but I also don't recall the last time I needed to return anything.