skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use an Advantage 2 and love it. I really like the Squeezebox, I'd love to try it!

> the performance for him is the same

Does he mean for RSI prevention? Because if you're using an ergonomic keyboard for anything else, it seems unlikely you'll get much benefit from one. Being able to remap keys and record macros is handy, but other than some remaps for comfort, I don't use that feature really. I do also use the foot pedals though (mainly for shift, although I don't always use it). Typing "performance" isn't thaat much better than other keyboards, but typing "comfort" is a lot better and I hate using other keyboards now.

> I think when it comes to keyboards and layouts

Again, for comfort (not speed), I switched to Colemak about 7 years ago and I feel it was a very good decision for me. Typing is super comfortable and OS support is good (OS X and Linux have support out of the box, windows does require the layout to be installed but its easy to do).

> Ctrl + x/c/v are no longer in a row

Colemak was designed for this in mind. It keeps all the very commonly used shortcut keys in the qwerty positions: wqazxcv are all unmoved. Yes, vim hjkl is different but tbh, I got used to it quite quickly and also when using the Kinesis, I have foot pedal + (qwerty) ijkl (ie a wasd layout but on the right hand) mapped to them for even more convenience. Additionally, the cursor keys are in comfortable reach on the Kinesis Advantage2 too. I leave the keycaps in qwerty layout, since I don't look at them anyway and sometimes its convenient to be able to see what a key would be in qwerty (like telling you the ijkl keys just now, in colmak that's unei)

> I think a casual user would face challenges trying to adapt the keyboard to day-to-day tasks

Agreed, I don't think these alternative keyboards or layouts make any sense for a casual user. For a heavy typist though, I think its very worthwhile, if only to protect your hands from injury and strain.

As bsdubernerd mentioned, my favourite features of the advantage (roughly in order) are: thumb button clusters, columnar layout, arched keys, mechanical keys, foot pedal, customisability.
Okay, so really the question is, why are you still at that company and not looking around to switch to a better one?
What happens to tech hubs now that tech stock prices have already been priced with future growth in mind? When people like me got tech jobs 2+ years ago, stock prices were low and stock grants were set accordingly. Now, new grads are likely going to get less shares and won't see the sort of windfall that previous generations received. Will this put downward pressure on real estate prices or reduce the overall draw of the Bay Area?
US telecoms decide focusing on pipes isn’t so dumb after all
Unless your work is 300km away, that’s not true. Two minutes = 50km at a supercharger, and for that use you can slow charge at home.
Oh, I assumed you were talking about sales taxes, which is the most obvious case of a DAO-like organization taking money on every sale, as a percentage of the selling price.

Income taxes and capital gains taxes are on your profit, not on the sale itself, so they're less analogous. If you as a taxable entity don't net make any money, you don't owe any income taxes (more or less); if you as a taxable entity don't make any profit on an asset you bought some time ago, you don't owe any capital gains taxes (more or less). So both of those are much more reasonable than a royalty on every sale - they don't follow the asset around forever, and you only have to pay a percentage of the money you made if you're in fact making money. It seems like, if I buy an NFT at $10000 and then sell it a month later for $9000, some of that $9000 goes to the creator of the NFT and not to me.
Non-competes are absolutely not overstated. Microsoft would frequently sue employees in WA for violating non-compete agreements when they bounced to work for Google, Facebook or other tech companies who were starting to open up offices in Seattle.

Amazon recently sued an exec for moving to Google cloud (also in WA) – https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws-case-against-worker-who-...).

Here's an IBM one from New York – https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=84252db4-ccc3....

A quick search yielded a ton of results for large tech companies suing employees and each other over non-competes, and – surprise – none of them are in California.
Yeah, I'm happy if they change nothing about IE11 till the end of time at this point. Software that currently requires IE11 isn't going to change either.
If you're interested in learning more about the big picture connection between our human society and energy, I recommend "Energy and Civilization: A History," by Vaclav Smil.

My biggest takeaway from his book is that transitioning a society to affluence requires, at minimum, 22.6 megawatt hours of energy per capita per year. High energy societies like the United States use far more. To de-carbonize, we have to plan new energy sources that provide at least this much energy for every person on the planet. Otherwise, people will understandably turn to carbon-based energy sources to meet their energy needs.

Producing this much energy from renewables is possible, but it is hard! Fossil fuels provide an exceptionally compact (in terms of land area) and effective energy source.

[edited to correct typo in the energy figure, what I originally wrote as 2.6 mw/h is 22.6 mw/h]
When things get bad, check about:memory and check out which process is using all the memory, and for what. It may just be some Web application you use that has a leak of its own.
Surely we cannot agree on this.

Explain to me what would happen if I was holding an Oz of gold or copper and suddenly the entire bid side of the market dissapeared (ie there was no inflows to the market). What is the new market clearing price for the commodity. 0. That's literally what buying a thing is(in all cases and for everything). It's a an asset inflow exchanged for an asset outflow.

Now replace gold or copper with any equity. Let's assume one that doesnt pay a dividend not to complicate things. Literally nothing changes. The sale value of your equity is zero when there are zero inflows to the market.
Honestly - isn't it most likely to be random luck?
Why do all MLB ballparks have different dimensions?
Running OpenBSD 6.9 on your laptop is hard (not)
It's been going that way since Gutenberg.

My pet theory is that democracy is a subproduct of soap advertisement.
Raw scores! (Btw what are the un-raw scores called? cooked?!)

13 students getting top scores!!

My God, it has been a while since I wrote the exam, has the situation changed that much since then? At my time, there was a 25 marks difference between the top two ranks.

Is there any chance you are talking about JEE Mains and not the JEE Advanced? JEE Mains is supposed to be the easier test that serves as a "prelims" to the more difficult Advanced exam. For Mains itself, it is not all that important to distinguish between the top students.

>I think you're suggesting that joining a coaching centre is a strong signal of seriousness, rather than a material benefit from the actual classes

I am also suggesting that there are other benefits from joining coaching that are probably more important than the much hyped "tricks" for solving problems. For one, joining a coaching class means that you are part of a community of other students with similar goals and aptitude.

Otherwise, I agree with your overall argument (although not in its entirety). Yes, at the lower end of the ladder, small difference in scores can result in big jumps in ranks and yes, coaching would definitely have a significant impact on the prospects of these students.

The point I do not agree with is lack of access to coaching. Even middle class families of Bihar, the poorest state of India, find the resources to send their kid to Kota for a couple of years. So, it is not that inaccessible. Plus there is apparently free material available on youtube now, created by the IITs itself.

I would also argue that people much below this threshold have bigger worries in life. We as a society definitely need to ask ourselves why it is not possible to have a dignified, livable wage for the majority of people in our country when many other countries seem to have solved this problem. Solving such hard socio-economic problems is a ridiculous expectation from a measly entrance exam.
Is there a lot of cooperation between the NASA rover team and the Chinese?
I think there will be some state standards that will get rid of calculus in high school. I'm not actually against that, I never thought it was such as big deal.

Other parts of the standards (focus on group work, and on racial justice work in math) which may be designed in part to help reduce achievement gap do raise some questions around preparedness of some students that would result. This will only work if they get rid of standardized testing I think in later years (college admissions etc).
I'm not sure how often it comes up, but SV started with Fairchild Semiconductor being founded by everyone leaving Shockley's company - so it would've been important right at the start.
By "I wish that emails could just work like everything else on the web" I meant modern web HTML/CSS - I was replying to the GP - not the full set of browser capabilities such as Javascript. I suppose it's possible you'd also want to exclude certain CSS abilities, but at that point you're now diverging from the web CSS spec which isn't ideal either.
The site you linked to (hxxps://cydia-app.com/) is unofficial, links to piracy and spyware sites, and should not be trusted. The official Cydia site is https://cydia.saurik.com/ but it doesn't include much information about Cydia and jailbreaks. To find out what jailbreaks are available for your device, check the r/Jailbreak wiki. (https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/wiki/ios/canijailbreak)
> for certain versions of Windows 10
Not all?
My impression was the opposite: RSS had so many warts and inconsistencies that you needed complex heuristics & a big test suite to handle things like encodings, relative links, and extensions whereas a single XML parse was all I needed for Atom. The authors had clearly learned the lessons from the early feed producer/consumer projects and tried to avoid making similar problems.
It's not "browser creators"; it's one huge company which is literally the gateway to the Internet for the majority of the population, effectively controls the web standards now, knows far more than the population thinks it knows about them, and profits off an industry whose primary goal is to convince users to buy and consume increasingly more through misinformation and misdirection.
Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today
The post office's covert internet operations program
If people stop buying apples tomorrow the market for apples will collapse. That does not make apples a ponzi scheme.
That can happen occasionally. But the idea is that you limit the amount so as to only lose as much as if you owned shares of it in the first place, and therefore any losses are sustainable, temporary, and not frequent. Given the conviction it has to go up in the medium term.

Can you really imagine selling insurance against gold cratering in the near term being disastrous, barring leverage which can always ruin you?

I think it's probably important, for managing risk, to have the self control to only hold as many short contracts as you have cash for assignment, and also not to get greedy when the price moves in your favor, but wait until the end of the week to swap them for a different strike.

The downside scenario is gold dropping 50%, or 100%, which just seems implausible, maybe more implausible than in living memory.
> but they will generally cost you more money than driving a new Corolla or Civic

OK. Sorry. Your comment annoyed me enough to look up my actual expenses which I've been logging since late 2007, as opposed to hypotheticals.

Between then and now, I've spent $6247 on maintenance and repairs of my cars. Note this includes standard stuff like oil changes and tire replacements. That's about $480 a year. If I extrapolate and go back to when I bought the first car, the estimate would be $8649 since 2003.

How much did I pay for those two cars? $11200 total.

They were reliable. I did two cross country trips in them, without worrying a bit. I didn't rent cars for road trips.

So a total cost in the last 18 years of $19849. Had I bought new, and included standard maintenance[1], I surely would have paid a lot more. A new Camry in those days would already be over $20K. A Civic around $14K.

And of course, insurance on old cars is cheaper. You'd think it's the other way round, but it isn't.

Obligatory disclaimer: Research your used car models before you buy. If you don't, it will cost a lot more.

[1] As a reference, my wife's almost new car has cost $3500 in repairs/maintenance in only 4 years. Yes - even new cars can end up being costly to maintain in just a few years.
Atlas V launch seen from airplane passenger
I'm speculating somewhat about how it would play out but I'm sure that the Luftwaffe would have worked out the problem pretty quickly and developed tactics accordingly.

I'm not a pilot but I have flown several aircraft. Being an RAF cadet at school, back in the day, you were allowed to do quite a lot of things that might make a civvy flight instructor's hair prematurely go white when doing your "flight experience." Obviously we'd start quite a long way up with ATC keeping the area clear. I was memorably told "you have control" when the bloody thing was upside down and I thought my eyeballs were trying to dive through my feet and I was hanging off the straps. "I have control" (barely a waver) and I finished the loop off to straight and level. I think the pedals did some corrections for me. The rudder ie left/right yaw is done by the pedals and aircraft with more than one seat are automatically dual control.

Anyway.

Imagine you are a WWII fighter pilot - this is as close to dualling as you can get. If you get back home after a sortie, then you are debriefed (did you do what you were supposed to) and you might make some comments. A Luftwaffe pilot on return might note that the enemy pilot seemed inclined to invert. That might have looked a bit showy and odd. Eventually, someone would have decided that Spitfires can't dive properly - who cares exactly why. Tactics follow.

Our chaps would have been doing the same. We knew that the Spitfire was generally better in tight horizontal turns than the ME109 and perhaps the Focke Wulf 190 (I can't remember.) So our tactics would have favoured getting into a turning scrap.
LHC spend probably qualifies for R&D tax incentives, which might end up getting them more than 2 per quarter.
For a protocol like Synthetix, I believe it uses price feeds provided by Chainlink. In principle, you can always redeem a token like sGOOG for the current price of GOOG on the regular stock market. In practice, there is some risk that an asset could lose its peg.

https://docs.synthetix.io/litepaper/#synth-pegging-mechanism
checked the release notes and it seems like they still don't allow you to run ansible with "python -m". that would have fixed a few issues with virtual environments.
According to https://gs.statcounter.com/ FF is more popular than Edge. Many years ago I used to complain to webdesigners how they simply ignored FF.

It is a victory and not an empty one. Firefox is the most independent among last remaining browsers. It is a good browser and an important alternative now that most other major browsers all use the same engine.
Regarding the things you don't like, my solution was to get the foot pedals. I have the three pedal one and use one pedal as FnShift and another for shift. I've then also mapped some common things like ESC to the Fn layer, so I can press it with ease by hitting the FnShift with my foot.

Also, for when I don't feel like using the foot pedal, I've moved some keys slightly: CapsLock to Tab, Tab to left shift and Left Shift to FnShift.

When I started using the keyboard, I also mapped lots of common things that I found awkward to the Fn layer, especially the left side that's completely unused. But as I got used to the keyboard, I've sound I don't really use them anymore and don't actually remember what I mapped to the layer, only really using my ESC mapping and the default numpad mapping.
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Hello hoerzu,

I think this might help to avoid such cases in the future:

Setting a monthly cost budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs associated with your account. You can choose to be alerted for both actual (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing) spends.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
The last time I checked (roughly 2 months ago) Starlink is not available yet anywhere in the state of West Virginia. Has this changed?
I always cringe when I read the word 'final'. :)

Too many years in the industry with projects called final... Basically a tag saying 'this shit ain't never gonna be over! Run for the hills!'.

And nothing is more set in stone than a bunch of yml ;) /s
Chip Ignite: Rapid IC Creation
Hahahahaha you're a gem
This looks great and all but the new drawer icon covers up a key button on our app.. ironically the person who noticed took a regular screenshot and shared it in slack
Actually, it ran out of steam well before Musk made the comments - he was pressured anyway as in the last months the MSM was bleeding articles on how bad Bitcoin is for the environment.
You could look at either getting a grippy mat of some kind to put under the keyboard. You could also try adding a little rubber to the contact points on the Moonlander with some Sugru [^1] or something.

Alternatively, you could try training yourself to let your hands float above the keyboard. I think that might be easier on your hands anyway; ymmv.

I have to keep my keyboard tilted at 15°; personally I don't have any problems with slippage. Sugru would be my first solution though if I did.

[^1]: https://sugru.com/
Got off BART at Civic Center station at about 11:00 AM last Saturday. Walked past two guy sprawled in a hallway in the station smoking heroin or something from a piece of tin foil, and past another one doing the same as I climbed the stairs to the street. At the top of the stairs were a handful of guys gathered around a stereo smoking weed and, based on what I was seeing, selling it too. A few minutes later, just as I passed the tent city near City Hall, I ran into another guy torching something on a sheet of tin foil.

More shit than I've ever seen on any city streets. Every doorway, tree, and wall reeks of piss. It's no way to live.
Auto-update was never important or even desired on GNU/Linux distros world. A simple apt-get update/upgrade always felt much better than having each app implementing their own failure prone update mechanism. It is a good thing that the competition chose to mimic this feature. It is way more convenient.
Possibly a political question but why is the word "equitably" more popular now than "equally"? I'm not sure when I first noticed this but it seems pretty recent that "equity" became more used than "equality" when referring to diversity and inclusivity
In the 18th century do you think most women went to school or ever had a job outside the home? Easy assumption to make that anyone reading a textbook was a "he" lol
A lot of universities have their own power plants, especially of a certain age. The U of M in Ann Arbor has a plant and uses the waste heat to keep the relevant sidewalks free of ice and snow in the winter.
TBH that is the future. tracking won't die will just evolve to become harder to block.
I would assume Google would prefer to not piss off the millions of adblock using techies (including journalists) if that can be avoided.
Pokemon will enter the NFT digital collectibles space, and it would be absolute crazy if they don't already have a team working on it.

All of these collectors are making assumptions based on information other collectors have shared about "how many are known to exist" etc., whereas NFTs are provably scarce and they never get scuffed up.
So let those who need it use existing HTTP <-> IRC gateways or write their own. IRC is flexible enough to accommodate this which is testament to how resilient and extensible the protocol has proven to be over the decades.

I see no reason whatsoever to make HTTP a core requirement.
Ask HN: Database/Infrastructure Companies Hiring for Remote Engineers?
Hello HN,

I'd like to change jobs and I want to get into a company that mainly develops databases or infrastructure software in general (operating systems, orchestration systems, audio-video streaming systems ... etc) that also offer remote work, I am sick and tired of web development. If you know such companies, please help.
> why get so moralistic and high-horse about just one?

Not doing so; just observing the facts.

If a proposed 'unsupervised' algorithm of this simplicity highlighted women's faces perfectly, but zoomed in on men's receding hairlines, it wouldn't have made it past the drawing board. Indeed, it's reasonable to believe that nobody would have noticed that it consistently worked for women. We certainly wouldn't know that this algorithm existed or be talking about it here.

We observe a bias in what is considered important to check before shipping.
Why was the compromise made for LLVM 10 with the Apache license and not for GCC with the v3 GPL license?
Yes, by innovating and giving people the user experiences they want.

IRC is a joke once you’re used to Slack, especially in an organization that uses it well.
I admire the spirit of this comment but can't quite get onboard, because "the trenches" can be kind of a demoralizing place, especially when you're not winning the war. I've spent 30 years bike-commuting for example and have been car-free for much of that time. The lifestyle has many liberating aspects but it strongly encourages without quite requiring, that you forgo or reduce certain things, like day-trips, sightseeing, shopping for furniture or other large items, other kinds of shopping, social outings, playing drums in a band, fishing? I dunno, any location- or gear-intensive hobby. Consumption overall (not just on transportation) tends to go down, so it's great for saving money.

But do I feel like a hero for all the fuel I saved, the carbon I didn't emit, the road space I freed up? Do I feel like I made a difference? No, all I did was make it easier for others to do those things, and boy did they ever continue doing them, in increasing numbers, the entire time. Even my so-called people, transportation reform "activists," bend over backward not to "shame" each other for buying cars, and buying cars to replace the cars they bought before. So I feel more like a sucker than a hero when I consider all that. In the end it has to be about just getting outside and enjoying the fresh air.
While this is an obvious route you could take, this is a significant jump from the current behaviour where the content has to be signed by the owner of the domain that packaged it and is treated as if it was served by that domain (on a given scheme/port), and the same-origin policy applies like normal, and thus the ads would continue to be treated as third-party.

It _does_ potentially allow performance gains, insofar as you're then able to send a single bundle containing both first and third party content, but it isn't a gain from the point-of-view of avoiding adblockers (aside from the most primitive DNS/IP level ones).
Final as in it's the actual release and not a candidate, not that it's the final version of Ansible jfyi
> > I've heard stories that at Google, the non-engineering workers at campus may not socialize with engineers at all.

> Googler for many years here. I've never heard of this kind of thing.

Not a Googler myself, but from what I heard the divide isn't between engineering and non-engineering roles, but between Google employees and contractors (and that you can tell who is which by their badges).
They’ll have different resistance. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn’t.