skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever tried switching to using your left hand for the mouse. It is generally recommended for ergonomic reasons even if you don't have a keyboard issue. It'll seem weird to your brain at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly, as did everyone I know who has tried.

When I was in grad school (before I had any ergonomic pains), I had my mouse on the left side at work, and the right side at home - so I was using both configurations daily.
>In the first couple weeks of working on their own startup they seem to come to life, because finally they're working the way people are meant to.

People aren't designed to be programming either. People aren't designed to be working for startups.

People are designed for a hunter and gather lifestyle.
I just whipped up a Chrome/Firefox extension to replace all instances of "OpenAI" with "ClosedAI" (or anything else you like) on the web, in the spirit of the legendary Cloud to Butt. Help yourself.

https://github.com/clopen/ClosedAI
Polish short story collections sometimes differ in content, but my favorites were:

- Ticket to Tranai

... and another one which included two separate stories with machines in name, one of which was more less "Machine Which Didn't Like To Repeat". I also loved the one with a planet where all animals had green fur :D
Better than no picture at all which is what the quote is going for
Every DSLR does
It says they have a program to donate the items to charity in the US and UK, but it's not available in Canada.
I wonder why someone couldn’t build a business like this. Basically contract with Amazon to handle all of their returns. That company then salvages and resells anything they can.
> or the lawyers employed by these companies don't know the law

Oh, they do know the law. But they’re betting that you don’t.
Windows showing the hills and fields of the default Windows XP background, just with ads picture-in-picture on top. Oh what Brave New World!
> But what do I do for fun once there?

"You" can never be there, so "you" won't do anything there. You are limited to your own body.
My read of that was that so little human attention is devoted to returned items that no one noticed a super-suspicious greenboard kicking around in the box.
Show HN: A (unfinished) Tower Defense game in vanilla JavaScript
If you give us enough time to play the game of telephone (and we had) we would arrive at exactly the same distortion. I mean, we made it from begging god kings to forgive our debt to begging an invisible man to forgive our sins.

Ergo, people build computers before! We can say it, that makes it true.
> The official arch repos are tiny though

Interesting, having used Arch for several years now after previously having used Ubuntu and Fedora, this isn't my impression at all. In particular, there are a lot of nonfree things that are in the core Arch repos that Ubuntu and Fedora don't tend to include. I tended to need things that weren't in the repos at least as often on Ubuntu as I do on Arch, but had to use either third-party PPAs or compile from source to get them.
Unfortunately every time I have seen someone write their own "CSV" parser or serializer all they did was split(',') or ','.join()...
I remember a lot of "Hitchhiker's Guide" being random floating out-of-place objects. It stops feeling creative after a while. Even characters soon stopped commenting on them.
I've had counterfeit issues with chargers a few times, other than that no issues, Amazon Germany in my case.
A canon rebel and the cheapest prime lens they offer can be had for well under 1k and will take better photos than a phone. Can’t argue with the laws of physics, its much easier to get fidelity with larger lenses and sensors.
I second this. I’ve tried to give other online retailers a shot but nothing beats the customer service and reliability of Amazon in the UK, even if something is slightly more expensive I’ll always go with Amazon
A compelling argument for why Bash scripts shouldn't exist at all.
I discovered revently that the Kinesis was featured in the background of the film Men in Black, as a futuristic keyboard. The prop department had painted it black and the wave of consumer demand was the reason for them introducing a black version, like the one I have.
I think this is the attitude is what the author is trying to parody. It is OUR assumption that intelligence must emanate from something biological, whereas these entities are having sentimental chats with a hydrogen core cluster.
You pull the tails usb out and it does a far better job, this is shit software aimed at people with shit practices and there's simply no nice or pleasant way to say it.

Just fucking use tails if you are a terrorist intent on murdering billions of people.
Not to jump in on this question exactly, but Rakesh Khurana wrote a very well-researched book about the market for corporate CEOs, finding that expectations are hugely inflated with meager correlation between CEO compensation and anticipated results.

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=11408
It's insane to me that ONE of their returns traveled 105 miles around the city of Toronto alone.
How are they going to compel Apple, send a Soviet era fishing boat to the shores of California and scream loudly or turn their own internet off?
Hi everyone, I've decided to open source my tower defense game, it is still unfinished, but it already have a lot of mechanics implemented.

May you learn from it (by avoiding the mistakes I did) and even contribute to it, making it a (better) game.

Have fun!
Even more, Apple has assigned itself powers that in most (sane) countries are a strict monopoly of governments (and preferably only after going through a legal system/process and strictly regulated).

Especially Apple's attempt/request/demand to remove things silently goes way beyond what any company (or citizen) should ever be allowed to do to speech of others. Whether this doxxing is justified or not, that's up to courts and certainly not Apple. Censorship (while debatable if it ever should be allowed in some cases or never) should always be a monopoly of a state (which should be legally accountable) and never commercial entities.

I'm honestly a bit surprised, that so far I hear few governments protest, about how a commercial company basically usurped powers that are supposed to be limited to governments only. Such powers belong only there not just by habit or by convention, but also because this an important aspect of the legal order in any state of law. That is, at least for any country that has signed and ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

As appalling as Apple's behavior might be (and I certainly hope they will pay dearly for it), it's not particularly surprising (anymore). But the silence of governments on this behavior, that should worry more people a lot more.
Except revenue, which they still very much need.
For fuel!
> One day, a Gnome update breaks all plugins

lol, that's just Gnome for you. For a long time, deliberately breaking plugins and themes was an officially stated policy of the Gnome developers, with the goal of forcing users into the extension-free Adwaita monoculture by attrition.
The fact that it is sitting idle means it is doing a good job at handling your processing needs. Imagine if it wasn't fast enough (e.g. in deep learning). Waiting for your computer isn't fun.
You could surely hide it easily enough in the cardboard? Just wrap it over in parcel tape. The people at the other end will just assume you went a bit overboard in packing.
The tone similarity is quite impressive.
> allow for consumers to know a lot about a project's governance and status

Although, as you say, the specifics vary by foundation and range quite a bit in how heavyweight they are, foundations also provide something of a neutral home for projects. A company may still be somewhat dominant in a given project but it can't just take its ball and go home to the degree possible if it kept control of domains, trademarks, and so forth on its own.
Your audio narration widget that plays in sync with the paragraph is really cool. I am going to borrow the idea and add it to Narration Box :)
For the guitarist interested in applying this plugin live, it would be worth looking into open-hardware Arduino-based guitar pedals [0].

[0]: https://shop.electrosmash.com/product/pedalshield-mega-kit/
> If this method is superior, why hasn't it caught on with Bash I wonder (it's considered standard with Python and Node at least)?

Because if you need a portable bash then you target sh. But if you want a portable Python then you still target Python.
It'd be nice if they would improve the search engine on F-Droid... often I have to use Google to find the app that I'm looking for
Consider a more realistic version of Chinese room. Bob gets a slip of paper, with written Chinese on it, and slips it into a black-box "Chinese room", which produces another paper with a perfectly written Chinese answer. Bob hands it back - it is pretty obvious that Bob doesn't need to have an inkling of Chinese.

Except, in this version, there's an actual Chinese speaker, Xin, sitting inside the room. It's clear that it's Xin, not Bob, who understands Chinese.

Now let's move back to the original Chinese room argument. It's clear that it's the room that understands Chinese - or, rather, the whole system composed of the rules (the room) and its executor (the person), but not the executor by itself. It only seems absurd because our real-life experiences make us presume that, when there's a room and a person, the person must be the more sentient part. IMHO the whole argument is a philosophical sleight of hand.
I guess the only people who need to whiten their teeth right now are anti-maskers.
All of the major phone carriers have decent plans on their prepaid side now. You don't get a discount on a phone, but you usually get to pay the sticker price, tax included.

MVNO deals can be better, but there's uncertainty from having a 3rd party, and often the MVNOs don't or can't offer x GB of high speed data with low speed data for the rest of the month. But going from like $80 to $30 is good enough for me, I don't need to go all the way down to $10
Zoolz terminates lifetime cloud storage of its private customers
How did you email Jeff Bezos?
Amazon has prob. lower market share in e-commerce in EU than in USA. Competition (and more pro-consumer regulation) helps.
This is really cool, I’d love to try this out!

Neural DSP, developers of what are arguably the best amp sim plugins available right now, claim that their upcoming floor modeler uses what they describe as “unique biomimetic AI technology” to create its sounds. I wonder how different their work is from this. https://neuraldsp.com/products/quad-cortex

I’m personally kind of over lugging an amp around and if live music ever comes back, I’m likely to sell mine and go with a modeler + power amp. The technology has just come so far and the convenience can’t be beat, especially if you do a lot of studio work or need to travel with your gear. A lot of demanding metal bands have switched away from tube amps and I’m already using plugins for recording as much as possible, so this seems like the next step.
Yep, I recently made a mistake of buying a new Lenovo laptop directly from Lenovo instead of Amazon, and it was a huge mistake - the machine arrived with a broken screen and I waited over 2 weeks for the replacement, their support was generally useless and every time I rang them got a different answer to what was actually happening(they said the replacement is ready, only to say it's not and I'll get a refund 2 days later, to then turn around and say a replacement has actually been shipped, absolute nonsense). Had it been purchased through Amazon I can guarantee I would have just returned the laptop the same day with a prepaid label, had the money back in my account the next day, re-ordered and had a replacement the following day. Well, lesson learnt I guess.
The auto parts stores pretty much don’t, at least in my experience, and push it off to the customers/borrowers. I’ve gotten broken or incomplete tools from the (free) lending programs enough that I’ve mostly stopped using them and just buy tools instead. I don’t have time to get stuck halfway through a job and any $50-100 tool still leaves me with cash savings overall on the job.

Even in cases where I told them I broke a piece in a kit, they didn’t seem to care and it looked like the kit was going right back into stock to me.

Parts store do it because it gets you in the door to buy parts. If the lending was done through the mail, I’m sure Amazon would sell more parts, but it’s not clear it would be enough more profit to cover 2-way (or 4-way if a tool was broken) shipping on the tools.
I don't know, I'm not hearing the warmth of a tube amp. Sounds like other solid state emulator amps.
At that level, you don't get the salary your work "is worth", because we all know that's a fictional concept. Dollar value is only well defined for finished products. For labor, it comes down to relative leverage, and as a CEO, you get whatever you can get, and your buddies are on your board and you're probably on their boards, so usually that number is quite high.

CEOs may not be smart in the IQ sense we nerds tend to worship, but they understand leverage and positioning, and they understand how to hack complex human systems for personal benefit, because it's what they did to get their careers in the first place.
In fact, there's been considerable pissiness between the CNCF and Google this year over governance of Istio and Knative although that's been somewhat worked out.
Depends where you are in Canada. In Québec, plans seems cheaper in general. Koodo has good promos regularly. There was one a couple of weeks ago where you could've got an iPhone 11 for $648 total by staying with them for 2 years.

Promo was you pay $288 up front and the rest is paid with the $15 monthly tab on top of a plan, which starts at $40.

So for $288 and then $60/month you could get an iPhone 11 with unlimited calling/SMS and 5Gigs of data.

Obviously I know plans are much cheaper still in some other countries, but in Canada that was a good deal.
Nothing in DoT tries to make you use some centralized resolver. That’s more DoH’s style.
The IWC's responsibilities are in conflict with each other. There's reasonable cause to dispute an attempt to paint a rosy picture.

And are the near-certain extinctions noted in the BBC article incorrect? I don't see any reason given in your post to doubt the veracity of the BBC article's claims.

So I view your comment as containing a non-trivial amount of white-washing.
What don't you like about the replacement (nit the sculpt, the actual new design)? I consider it strictly better (namely because of the space bar being better).
USA's foreign interference is certainly important to talk about. But I would really like to hear your opinion on the meat of the article.

Its main point is that Islam's rules apply to public and personal life so universities and government budgets get controlled by religion. Fundamentalism retards scientific discovery. (I was taught fundamentalism as a child and I confirm this is true.) So when fundamentalism spread through the Islamic world, they stopped discovering new science.

A second point is that Arab culture doesn't value science. The Abbasid empire was controlled by Arabs. The empire translated scientific literature into Arabic for political reasons, not for the pursuit of knowledge. The existence of the large body of accessible scientific literature enabled highly intelligent folks to make scientific progress. The translation was not done in enduring institutions like universities. So the Golden Age of Arabic Science happened by accident, not because Arab culture or the empire valued scientific progress.
>This encourages them to take pro-bono cases

It was my understanding that pro-bono is under rate or free services, correct me if I'm wrong. I think the terminology you're looking for is 'contingent', where the client only pays a % fee to attorney if they manage to generate a judgement. In this case, does the UK insurance kick in to pay a fee to lawyer if they lose the case?

I'm talking about civil cases here, not criminal.
That sounds like a pretty neat system. I assume lawyers can't take on a bunch of obvious shitty cases just to get the insurance money right? I assume the insurance companies would raise premiums or stop insuring them if the lawyer is losing a lot?
30% seems really high. And I say that as someone who returns items more than most of my friends. My estimate is about 3-4% of items that I have returned over last 15 years of online shopping. And my friends think that is too high and guilt me for abusing the system. But maybe I should not feel as guilty.

The reasons I return items is usually false advertising. I used to spend hours reading reviews and product specs before buying. But now I don't have time to sift through reviews. And of course, fake reviews make it harder.

So all I got is maker's ads and if ads are lying then I don't feel guilty returning an item.

It seems most people have an attitude that if a buyer got duped with false advertisements then it is buyer's fault.
> The ONLY package it will automatically install to your system (and in user-space, only) is virtualenv itself

I don't understand why it even uses virtualenv, when venv is a) part of the standard library, and b) the recommended way to create virtual environments in Python.

While the import from __future__ indicates that it's supposed to support Python 2, the shebang line is explicitly Python 3...
I wonder how much such natural nuclear reactor played a role in biological evolution.
If I remember correctly the oldest ediacarian fossils were found at the same place, such nuclear reaction and thus accelerated mutations could have been a starter for multicellar life
The problem with learning an alternative keyboard layout is that it makes you suck at QWERTY. I didn't realise how much I type on other people's keyboard until I tried to learn Dvorak.
err, no? The sufficiently advanced dog would be able to fool a human into thinking it was a real dog, but at least according to Searle: """The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot be shown to have a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness",[a] regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave"""

He undermines his whole argument by implying he can tell his dog is conscious simply by visualizing its eyes.
But the room as a whole WOULD understand chinese. The person in the story is the mouth, not the brain, the look up book/device is the brain.
Just tried it out, I don't know if I would say it sounds like a $600 tube amp especially in high gain scenarios (it really didn't like my active pickups), for a free plugin it is definitely great. In comparison to the Archetype Nolly plugin from Neural DSP it doesn't really compare, but but for something thats free and can be trained at home on custom audio samples its pretty cool.
I see RISC OS has having one particular advantage: cooperative multitasking. You can basically turn it into a gigantic MCU with proper interrupts and timing.

It doesn't seem like it's a niche others are interested in, though.

Get a git client and GCC working with it and you have a pretty nifty real-time development platform.
Some of these issues were with Amazon UK, where I've been buying most of my items (around 400 orders).

The underwear issue was with Amazon US, and RAM with Amazon DE. But I've found Amazon UK quite problematic too.
I’d they didn’t require step 2, their “return” rates would skyrocket though.
Thanks. Glad that you are enjoying it.
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

The most efficient tools are usually the most ugly and boring ones
I'm ready for an esp8266 revolution. Arduino is outdated and expensive.

Not that my wish will be reality, both academia and the last company I worked for used ardiunos for various tasks(non production).

Not sure why, is it entirely the shape of Arduino is standard and can use Arduino based shields?
So how about actually giving suggestions of courses or resources that fix this, instead of just saying what's broken and then printing your name.
The sheer chutzpah of claiming "Apple eats 30% of all charitable donations made on the app" is an irrelevant piece of information to the end-user.

This is the kind of behavior that only comes from a company that knows they can get away with murder, and when that happens, it's time to tighten the screw a bit before things get waaay out of hand.
[Arduino Dev] Powered By: Modern C++ / Compiler Explorer / Tinker Cad
A small experiment with https://www.arduino.cc and Modern C++ (C++14 for dev, C++20 for testing).

> Goal

* Verify whether development/simulation can be done fully online and with Modern C++.

> Tools

* Design: Plant UML - https://bit.ly/2GRos5N

* Development: Compiler Explorer - https://godbolt.org/z/MfMdj9

* Implementation/State Machine: SML - https://github.com/boost-ext/sml

* Unit Testing: UT - https://github.com/boost-ext/ut

* Simulation: Tinker Cad - https://www.tinkercad.com/things/8rDYx57Ns7Q

> Key takeaways

* Compiler Explorer made it really easy to develop/test with different compilers

* State Machines are great abstractions for hardware/bare metal

* SML produced a fully optimized code for the AVR compiler

* Tinker Cad made it really easy to simulate the results
I can't pick your brain remotely, alas, but there might be something to reconcile our differences.

It is of course not just the boss, it's also the entire business structure. Do you believe in the cause you are serving? Do you feel like you contribute well to that cause?
I was very surprised about my own Amazon usage today...

For the year 2020 (so far):

Amazon Orders: 231

Returns: 38

Return Percent: 16.45

Based on Gmail search:

amazon "your refund" after:2020/01/01 before:2021/01/01

For the year 2019:

Amazon Orders: 32

Returns: 11

Return Percent: 34.3

Based on Gmail search:

amazon "your refund" after:2019/01/01 before:2020/01/01

A couple of things to note, 2019 I was mostly buying and returning bras, shorts and shirts that my wife was trying on, because Target and other stores stopped carrying some of her favorites. Some of these clothing purchases actually spilled into early 2020.

2020 I am returning things a lot less because it's a lot of Pantry orders.
Star Raiders
The UK has working consumer protection and a small claims court. America mostly doesn't.
St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
What a clickbait title.

Sounds (to whom?) like a $600 (which one?) amp using deep learning (why does it matter?).

To expand on this:

-$600 tube amp is not description of a sound. And a plug-in is not something you plug your guitar into to make enough noise for 300 people. "A plug-in sounds like a $600 speaker" makes almost as much sense as the title; by the sound of an amp people often mean the sound of the combo box which houses an amp and a speaker.

-If this emulates a particular amp, the title should say which one

-If it does a good job at emulating a particular amp, where's the side by side comparison? The video demo only shows the plug-in.

-There are plethora of guitar amp plugins. What makes this one any different or better?

-What's the significance of deep learning here? Plenty of ways to make this plug-in without deep learning. Why use deep learning?

Etc, etc, etc.

"An open-source guitar amp VST plug-in made with deep learning" would be a better title, even though the article leaves much to be desired.