skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy typing on a mechanical keyboard. It's a pleasant tactile experience. That's all. No big performance or cognititive benefit, but why does there need be?

It's the same reason I have a plant on my desk. I like to look at it. It doesn't make me smarter, but that doesn't mean watering it is a waste of time.
The thing you touch and interact with every day, better be beautiful and bring you joy, whether through aesthetics, tactile feel, personalized function, or whatever else, hencewhy "custom" is the keyword here.
Nothing to do with quality of your typing or the work.
You don't opt out for the cheapest possible decor because it "does the job", your environment affects the way you feel and this is just one ways to express one's own.
Well, for a long time internet explorer was the same in Windows. And probably still is, as in they use it internally for a lot of things even if Edge is now the actual user facing browser.

As for Safari, I switched to Firefox when they disabled uBlock Origin, so I don't know how it works these days.
Wow. This is a really cool team-building and morale boosting practice, I think.

How would you take turns and decide what games to play?
Thanks for the list, I still would like to understand why a Grand Jury needs to exist when our countries, presumably, also have the same set of problems but not a Grand Jury.

I wonder how other common law systems handle this (not a lawyer, am genuinely asking).
Yet another person trying to teach what can’t be taught through verbal lessons.

Or maybe it can and I have just never been able to find anyone that is able to.

Basically you understand other people with reference to your understanding of yourself, to become better at understanding other people you need to change the way you understand yourself.

Someone else will not be able to change your understanding of yourself. You must do that yourself.
I've been using Mozilla, or Phoenix, for as long as I can remember but there was a period during 2004-2005 that Firefox used too much RAM on my 256MB laptop and I had to use Opera.

At that time they had ads inside of the UI of the browser so I had to make a firewall rule to block those, but other than that it was a great browser in the pre-noscript days.

But I've also heard some insider info from a Norwegian pal and apparently it's a disaster in that company. Only reason they're still alive today is all the embedded work.
Although the core library is not updated anymore, I find TADS 3 to be the superior language for offline interactive fiction. It's the most technical language by far, but that's why it's also the most feature rich (and for someone with a programming background, probably also the most intuitive). I'm still regularly amazed at what's baked into the standard library, that would be an absolute pain, or even outright impossible to do with other authoring systems.

http://www.tads.org/
Forged certificates is indeed a problem in the latter countries, but whether Danish, Chinese, Indian or Filipino, they're all told by a computer where to put each container.

Some blame may lie with those who tell the computer how tall it should stack the containers, but another big problem in shipping is that stevedores in many ports simply can't be bothered to secure the cargo according to the instructions. Deck officers (even western ones) don't take the problem seriously, leave port in an unseaworthy state, and leave the able-bodied seamen with the dangerous task of re-lashing everything under way. That is if they can even reach the cargo, which is less likely on a container ship.
NAS-oriented drives from manufacturers that don't lie about which disks are SMR and which are CMR. Right now, that means I buy Seagate Ironwolf drives and avoid WD like the plague.

You never want an SMR drive. Just say no.
for the lazy: no, not that Thiel
Game Boy Classic was my first (and only) console and I actually use it quite often nowadays, usually to play Tetris in bed before sleep. I love it because it does one thing only, batteries last a looong time, games are simple but fun and challenging, it's super comfortable to use and I like looking for and buying games in physical form. The only thing I've modded in my Game Boy is the screen, I've replaced it with a modern IPS one and I absolutely recommend it to anyone who would like to use Game Boy - it takes nothing away from the "retro" feel but is sooo much easier on the eyes and games look as good as possible.
And a VPN!

Our all inclusive stay in Mexico last year was significantly cheaper booking within MX vs USA.
I haven't, but I'm kinda very used to Vim, so I think the change would be painful :)
>the best DAW is the one you know ... and the one used by people you're collaborating with.

I completely agree. While it is true some DAW mentioned have unique features, the gaps are closing all the time.
Notebooker: From Jupyter Notebook to a reproducible report in a jiffy
Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016)
Billions dont solve hard problems at scale. People and investment over time do.

This is why we don't have fully automated self driving cars or cancer cured even with billions invested.
If you really want OOP, take a look at TADS 3 if you haven't already. Made the switch from Inform 6, and couldn't be happier.

http://www.tads.org/
Mechkebs are fun, been an user for years, right now sitting on a 1.5k build from 2018

I enjoyed the hobby, not amymore

Since around 2016, the money grab situation became a joke, it all started with Drop (former massdrop) and it all went downhill.. i get that the community was really small and we were forced to use forums to organize drops and so on.. but now the community is by the milliions and stuff are even more expensive than before.. Fake "limited supply", copies of copies of switches that at the end offer no difference, same old keycaps vendors that have months if not years of intentionally delayed orders to justify their insane pricing, US/EU resellers of china pieces for 1000% margins, hidding inventory, snob creators, corruption in raffles, people being hyped by snob 'keyboard celebrities', censure in discords servers when you bring this up and i could go for hours with this list

It just sad...
That sounds plausible to me. I don't have a definition of "cleverness"/"intelligence", but I could believe that in many species most of the neurons are working on processing sensory data or controlling muscles, which isn't the essence of (human) intelligence: you do call a juggler "clever", but a human who is blind and mostly paralysed isn't less "intelligent".

I think it has been suggested that the "intelligence" of octopuses might be a side-effect of the huge amount of data processing that is required to control a body without a skeleton.
Of course, but that's only the deployment process for the deliverable. An art on itself but the value is on the problem solving.

What I admire from the McK/BCG/BAIN etc. cadre is their confidence on being able to solve any problem you can throw at them. Of course this does not always work, but the attitude is a mixture between hard-work, power, arrogance and being extremely smart people.
> This view seems to completely ignore the difference structure of unions in the EU.

The difference in structure is not that great. The main distinction is that closed shops are extremely rare in Europe, but closed shops are fairly rare in the US too. Other than that, union organizing in the US is still lagging decades behind because such a small portion of the workforce is unionised.

> And unions didn’t win in the US? Have you looked into the auto industry unions at all? The certainly did win for a few decades and it basically broke the back of GM.

No, unions did not win in the US in any shape or form. Union membership in the US is extremely low. Union influence on political parties is extremely low. Union ownership or influence on media is extremely low. US unions struggle to fight for rights that have been taken for granted across most of Europe for half a century or more after unions won them.

US unions were groundbreaking, but their progress stalled outside a few areas and few sectors.
> What about recreational drugs (incl tobacco and alcohol)

Alcohol and tobacco advertising is banned or massively regulated in most countries. Facebook circumvents rules in various places due to their media platform being newer than the rules or because Facebook just sort of ignores the rule.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_nicotine_marke...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_advertising
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/1/67
yes it has so many unique features compared to other DAWs i have a hard times remembering all of them!

being portable was a big selling point to me. on windows at least, you can just make a copy of the reaper folder and then run both at the same time, with completely different settings and UI for each. like have one set up for recording and another for mastering.

its handy being about to run it from a usb stick in a pinch as well.

another underrated feature is how the licence file is stored in the reaper folder. once you add it you don't need worry about it ever again. no annoying login screen like most other programs
I was in a market for a mech. keyboard last month, and after trying out few, I settled on the Logitech G915 TLK (ten keyless), white

It is expensive but the best out there by far.
The black one comes in tactile, clicky blue, and linear, and the white version is tactile only.

Both the clicky (blue) switches and the tactile feel great (you can test them out at a best buy). The clicky/linear/tactile keys are offered only on the black version, while the white one has tactile only.

If you like tactile keys, Get the WHITE version (it is slightly different, and better than the tactile black). It is very low profile, and you don't need a wrist, rest. Also the keycap shape is great for programmers (it is more flat than others, but it has a slight curve, and a bevel).

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-keyboards/g9...

White version:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-gaming-g915-tkl-blueto...

It is truly a beautiful keyboard and joy to type on.
I'm saying that the Opera browser is beyond rescue because it's now day-to-day controlled from Beijing.
I've improved the encrypt/decrypt form. Now the textareas expand, and there's a copy to clipboard button in order to copy the output. It makes it much easier to use on the phone.
> It really surprises me that zfs apparently cannot do this.

Likewise. I really want to like ZFS, but with the 'buy twice the drives or risk your data' approach as above really deters me as a home user.

ZFS has been working on developing raidz expansion for a while now at https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/8853 but I feel that it's a one-man task with no support from the overall project due to that prevailing attitude.

BTRFS is becoming more appealing, even though it has rough edges around RAID write holes that really isn't a big deal, and reporting of free space. I can see my home storage array going to BTRFS in the near future.
There several reasons, some of them make logical sense, others don't ;-) Some people for example try to optimize ergonomics/efficiency. There is in my experience a lot of overlap with people liking mechanical keyboards (and if it is only for the feel of them ) and people trying to optimize keyboard layouts by using some advanced firmware such as https://docs.qmk.fm.
The End of Economic Aid?
I'm not here to convince you of anything, more so to understand, maybe just a little, how people are being convinced of things that arent true. And how is it happening on such a wide scale. How did knowledge that was common 100 years ago, and then reaching back thousands of years, completely disappear or become so shunned.
Mmmmm I guess this is standard but not a honourable discharge. It's not that uncommon to help the leaving employee find a good position in another company so that he/she can become a future customer, being part of the alumni network.
As far as I know, the Model F is the real built-like-a-tank keyboard that almost makes a Model M seem flimsy by comparison.
The linked page doesn't say anything about what is and isn't a human subject.

But even so, defining human subjects so as to exclude humans who are subject to your experimentation is absurd on the face of it. Who cares what is codified by whom? Experimenting on unwitting subjects is unethical. I had hoped that by now that would be something that didn't need stating and restating.
A website simulating Linux system's GUI, with theme of Deepin distro
Interesting. But what is "beke" ?
same here. I completely forgot how to use the internet without uBO or another decent adblocker. same reason i can't switch to iphone, they don't have a firefox with addon support.
From your very first reply, up until now, all you have done is personally attack me. That is not a decent or constructive way to contend with points raised.

Like I said, if you disagreed with the claims I'm making, about the psychological profile of a typical woman, or even what proportion of that profile is biologically determined, and expressed that skepticism in a polite and open-minded manner, I would have been happy to provide sources.

But you are not open to counter arguments enough to even evaluate what evidence supports them. Your position on this issue is based on a weak/entirely-ideological heuristic.
Check out https://github.com/fredrikekre/jlpkg. It does pretty much exactly what you are describing.
I am quite surprised that these containers are considered "lost". Aren't they any obligation for the shipping companies to recover those containers ?
If anyone is interested in making a Gameboy game from scratch. Tonc is basically the resource that everyone is using to do that. https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/
I have to say that while I enjoyed baking breads before covid, it definitely went into high gear during lockdown.

Multi-day breads were easy to time. I could schedule meetings around complex timing or steps if I had to.

Eating more meals at home meant more lunch and breakfast with delicious fresh bread.

The whole world (or at least a lot of mine) having a shared baking experience meant I could converse with many friends about a hobby I enjoyed but no one else I knew was into. Suddenly I could give helpful tips when people posted their frustrations or questions online. Like an earlier comment, I already had ingredients in bulk, so it also meant I could share with people who needed some.
New tool can help predict the next financial bubble
Exactly! And this is perfectly achievable with high-level expressive languages too.

The important part is that the interface has to have the same semantics as a config file: atomic/transactional. For example the builder pattern does this. You can enjoy all the expressiveness and power of the high-level language, but at some point you create the final config/pipeline/job-graph, call whatever needs to be called, and the provider of the interface needs to validate that.

That's why the semantics of Terraform is better than Ansible's.
I would buy a Ducky One 2 in the Skyline colors (reminds me of old Thinkpad keyboards with the blue return key), but they've been out of stock with a Nordic layout for 6 months now.
I'm a big DNB fan but I don't recognise any of the terms at the top tbh. Ghetto Tech and "Moombahton" aren't words that ever crossed my radar. I definitely don't see the words "drum and bass" anywhere there, which is a pity.
Facebook's ad policies prohibit all tobacco advertising, and alcohol advertising targeting users under 18
This seems absurd. Why should the group admins get paid when the value is generated by the community?
I long ago realized that just buying an Intel wifi card and replacing whatever crap my laptop ships with is totally worth it. (At least many 15" laptops ship with replaceable cards, don't know about smaller ones).
> If you want the "canary in the coal mine", watch what the game developers use for the game engines

On this front two relevant data points are:

* Embark Studios: https://medium.com/embarkstudios/inside-rust-at-embark-b82c0...

* Ready at Dawn Founder/CTO: https://twitter.com/AndreaPessino/status/1021532074153394176

Also, there is a specific Rust GameDev Working Group: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/wgs/gamedev
Romania, Luxembourg - no flu vaccinations from what I see.
If you can compile Sqlite with debug symbols and capture I/O counts you can use it

https://github.com/asutherland/grok-sqlite-explain
QEMU 6.0
I've had one in my career. I think it probably is standard among companies that try to maintain an image that is a little too divergent from the truth for comfort. BCG certainly fits this mold.

I've never been asked to sign one by an ordinary company whose presented public image was in line with reality.

Those companies probably still had disgruntled employees, they just didn't feel the need to clamp their jaws shut with money.
In my opinion any modern guide that frames switches in terms of Cherry MX flavors is doing people a disservice. Double so for calling them "the gold standard"...

Gone are the days of Cherry having the only quality switches, now they're just mediocre slightly over-expensive switches.

Stuff like T1s, anything Gazzew puts out, etc. are not much more (or even cheaper) but give a much more enjoyable experience. Actuation point, tactile bump, and spring weight are three very easy to explain concepts that let someone go out and find a switch that's perfect for them
I've just been upgraded to v89 and have this new theme. There are no borders around my tabs now, which make it stupidly hard to differentiate between them (as someone who keeps a lot of tabs open).
Former management consultant here (with one of the Big 3). It is true that some of this type of work (twisting analysis to fit conclusions) happens, but my experience has been the opposite, as in the medium-long term clients appreciate more the consultants that don't hide the truth, and in the end consulting partners want to keep long term relationships with the executives they work with. Consulting has offered me a lot. Money, but more importantly exciting projects that one usually doesn't work on at a relatively young age, the opportunity to learn how to structure communication effectively, how to manage stakeholders with opposing views (and how to become a bridge between them), how to break down a problem in pieces that are solvable with the experience and tools that you have. This in turn has accelerated my career (also outside of consulting). I also went back to consulting after working in industry.

Companies hire consultants for many reasons. In general they have the skills internally too, but unless they have overcapacity, their people have a day-job too and it is preferable to throw a group of smart and motivated mercenaries to solve a tough problem working full-time on it. Sometimes consultant are the only ones that are capable of liaising across functions and departments, without seeming skewed towards any particular one: as roles in industry tend to specialise ever more, this is becoming more and more important. And some problems (organization, process, etc) benefit a lot from an external view.

Sure, sometimes Mck, BCG, Bain (and many others) are used to provide validation for something that the CEO wants to do. But it happens a lot less often than people think.
Is that because the user has a certain amount of karma? I tried to dig into it but I am not sure how it got that flag.

Telling users to re-install the system seems a little drastic and seems like the last thing Apple would recommend were you take your machine to the genius bar...
I started out by doing a raytracer, graphics programming is really rewarding. https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
It’s 2021 and authentication is still hard
Dude made me switch to a V60 filter after 15 years of drinking turkish coffee. I have to say, its amazing, I'm not going back. My coffee expenses are up 300%. Looking at burr grinders.
Such cute naivety from Xkcd, kind of unexpected :-D
Coffee $120/year

Filters $5/year
I was seriously disappointed by the HHKB. My Type S is still kicking around in a closet, it's just a very rattly/plasticy feeling keyboard for the price point.

Boba U4 is a mechanical switch that gives an extremely similar feel to a Topre, but is dramatically less key wobble which makes a huge difference
There are decent adblockers for safari on both macOS and iOS.
Mozilla makes one for iOS, Firefox Focus, which you can setup as a content blocker. KaBlock exists for safari on both macos and ios. And there are many more.

Fwiw: Im using safari on both iOS and MacOS, macos with kablock and iOS with firefox focus and the experience has been good.
Without any evidence that they actually turn away non-target customers it seems like a stretch to call age-targeted advertising 'ageism'. Could you perhaps elaborate on this?
How to Find Your Niche: The Definitive Guide
> how often do you want your entire notebook to recompute just because you change something somewhere?

This is exactly what I want, always. In Jupyter I'm continuously doing the restart kernel and re-run all cells dance. It is annoying and I love another system optimized for that like Pluto, without those stupid non-deterministic cells.
That is completely clueless and outright wrong, but nicely illustrates how supposed economic wizards helped turned the EU into an economically hopeless region.

> If you want cheap steel for construction you need a single market to back it.

No, you let anyone sell to it. Maybe a company from India. Who cares.

> If you fragment back to 20 competing steel producers the economy of scale is lost.

Why would I care about the economy of scale? I'm not a steel company, I am a consumer. I want lower prices or better quality for the same price.

> The legalism are pretty awful. You're hung by nation state courts, and pan European law, and jurisdiction in the contract outside Europe, and WTO. It's hardly light touch.

In other words, more bureaucracy, higher taxes, less choice, higher prices.

Conclusion: the EU is unnecessary.
I absolutely agree that the Inform languages are great for creating interactive fiction, hence why I originally linked it.

But I have created text based adventures (usually with some RPG-style combat) in C++ a few times for fun and it can be done in a fairly clean and simple way.
I don't think that's enough, because Child() still results in an object that is sizeof(Child). In order to store that object in a variable that is sizeof(Parent) it has to be rejigged somehow.

I think what TeeMassive is saying is that this rejigging is a simple truncation because the memory layout of (non virtual) inheritance in C++ is a concatenation of Parent and Child objects. I'm not sure whether this is implementation specific though.
> Programming in Python is order of magnitude "harder" and error prone than writing a simple YAML file.

For a simple config, sure.

But as soon as you have something more complicated, you end up with:

- a frankenstein monster DSL, with pseudo flow control + funcs backed in through a patched up templating system

- weird error messages, no stack trace, and type errors that accumulates

- no DRY

- no tooling: type checks, linting, de bugger, logger. Forget about it.

Case in point: ansible playbooks.

So unless your config is going to stay under 20 lines, just use a real programming language. If you don't want to use Python, fine. Use dhall, nix, jsonet or something else.