skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used both the Ergodox and Moonlander. In general, I think both keyboards have poor thumb clusters. The Moonlander has the big red buttons that you can't press while keeping your hands in normal typing position. The Ergodox has the 4 1U keys that are also hard to press.

The Ergodox has 1.5U keys between the hands (like to the right of T,G,B, and to the left of Y,H,N), while the moonlander just has 1U keys next to T,G and Y,H. I found the 1.5U keys much easier to press than the 1U keys. (Try typing "RGB" on a QWERTY keyboard; it's really not that easy to make your pointer finger responsible for 12 equally-sized keys.) As a result, I moved backspace from the 1.5U key next to H,N to a thumb key. The thumb isn't as fast for rapid motions as the pointer finger is, so I notice backspace being a little more cumbersome than necessary. But, I don't really think about it anymore, so it's not a big deal. (I do see my usage of the 1U keys falling off, though. I used have _- and =+ on them, and I find myself going for shift-= instead of the dedicated + key. I think that's because my Ergodox didn't have a + key, that was backspace, and I never learned it.)

Both the Ergodox EZ and Moonlander have godawful tenting. But the Moonlander lets you fix it because it has an array of threaded inserts on the back that you can screw a proper tent to. I use this thing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4769961 and love it.

Generally the Moonlander is quite appealing. I use it every day and it's great. (I did replace the switches with Zilents. I always use weird switches on my keyboards.) But I'm looking at the Advantage 360 and think they've done a really job, so it's definitely a third option to consider.

Finally, I've experimented with other designs. I made a 107 key keyboard (I call it the Ergorocks 107) that is Ergodox-like, but has 3 1U switches for the thumb clusters, a number pad in the middle, and F keys above the number keys. I fucked up the angle of the thumb keys, and found the numpad in the middle hard to use. I made it take a standard keyset, though, so you don't have to hunt for "Ergo" keysets. You can use any normal keyset! If this is interesting to anyone, I might make a second iteration with the bugs fixed. (It's entirely 3D printed. Don't let people tell you 3D printed keyboards are bad, they're great. PLA is honestly a great keyboard material; very rigid and pretty quiet.)
There's like a 140 hydro generating stations in BC. Majority of them produce a negligible amount of power. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generating_stations_in...
The current trend in the react ecosystem is to move more towards a "traditional" website where more of the code will be run on the server.

In the case of react server components, the idea is that some pieces of the view can be exclusively rendered on the server and then the client hydrates the rest with interactive components.
In the US, there was a brief period when real fact-checking existed. Then the political activists saw that the regular press had lost all credibility, but the fact-checking brand still retained some, so they made a hard push to take them over. Which by the time of covid has been already mostly complete, and with the push to fight "medical misinformation" (which was quickly defined as any information that contradicts the currently approved doctrine, no matter how scientifically based, factually correct or practically useful) "fact-checking" has been completely subverted to serve the preferred narrative and suppress any heretical thought.

> The reality, at least in Spain, is that fact checkers are just a side-effect of the kulturwars and don't bring any truth to the table.

I am sad to note that the situation in the US is exactly the same. Though the majority of "fact-checkers" and all major social networks are on single side of the said wars.
It's causing pain, not mere discomfort or annoyance. And this is true of any noise at those sound pressures. Those people are developing PTSD (if not already suffering from it) and losing their hearing, along with experiencing whatever other adverse health effects loud noise exposure will cause. Noise pollution from jets and helicopters are harmful, as well as from single engine planes, but also two stroke engines (the dreaded chainsaws and leaf blowers), diesel trucks and buses, backup alarms, Harleys, any sound over 70dB is going to eventually cause permanent hearing damage, and given enough exposure, permanent brain damage. 150dB bursts eardrums, and 185dB literally kills as in dead. If you ever hear natural silence, enjoy it and cherish it.
He sets up the parameters so that the bulb would turn on by that little electricity

That's the bit where he's factually wrong. He's made this illogical world where the tiny amounts of electricity in field lines well outside the wire trigger the lamp but the leakage current and other sources of current don't. If you're going to be pedantic about something you have to be pedantic about the whole thing, damn it. Veritasium's video is like saying "water flowing through pipes is a LIE" because some molecules of water make it through the various seals and diffuse across the outer surface of the pipe.
I think it's a big stretch to say leaving the ability for a website to vibrate your phone out of the web standard is "morally reprehensible". Nor am I suggesting users are too stupid or senile: They just care less about the plumbing than the plumbers do.

The problem is when all your user experience studies grab folks from tech communities, you start to think people can or want to cope with your constantly evolving stack of features, when they probably just want to find out how to get to a restaurant that day.
Could mRNA make us superhuman?
> If you try to make specific predictions, you’re going to turn people off.

I think it's fuzzier than that. Like, I think it's extremely useful to say out loud that climate change will cause large tidal events in the relative short term (sea level rise in the long term). And that an immediate action is for cities like Venice, New Orleans, and Miami to ready themselves for that. It's specific and should be motivating for a large group of people to do something (or risk losing their homes and possibly lives). You have to hope they connect it to the larger picture of things happening too.

> We don’t need to understand what’s inside the box when it arrives on our doorstep. We just have to avoid opening it.

The problem with this is that a lot of folks will do nothing if you don't unpack the box for them and explain how it will affect them.
I understand what you’re saying, but this seemed a far more credible threat than someone wanting me to send them Bitcoin to delete my webcam video. For instance, here’s a story about a lawyer who filed so many ADA lawsuits that a judge barred them from filing any more. People abuse the legal system all the time, and while people on the receiving end of a lawsuit can fight it, it’s guaranteed to be expensive in many ways. I could absolutely see someone filing thousands of CCPA lawsuits that wouldn’t actually stand up in trial, but which would be an utter fiasco for even the un-liable defendants.

Edit: Oops, here’s a story: https://www.azag.gov/press-release/serial-litigant-permanent...
They didn't decriminalize everything nor did they expect crime to increase. It's not "breaking news" either it's just something that happened.
Television was also supposed to solve corruption and injustice. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. It all went downhill when that box started broadcasting fart jokes.
> I'm hopeful that technology and media will start to move in this direction, because I think it'd be a really significant improvement.

I see technology moving in the opposite direction. Companies consistently choose profit over user quality-of-life. Some people are talking about the problem. When I read their posts talking about the problem, I have hope that things may improve someday.
I think how many stars a github repo that you created or are a major contributor of is an interesting tech flair these days. Being a early/top adopter/contributor on places like stack exchange and reddit is good too. It's probably easier to tell in hindsight.
Pure speculation, but I have to wonder if our fundamental conception of sensation as a blank canvas slowly filled with positive contents is wrong, and rather that perception involves the apprehension of difference against some "basic" recursive pattern.

I tend to notice this more aurally, in the sonic experience within a highly focused state, including spending time on social media (not silent! quite noisy, but I am not actively aware of it in most cases), and also the intense experience of hitting the stop button mid-song; the silence hits very hard.

Seems Fristonian, in that if the brain is a prediction machine across time, then the underlying predictive pattern would be fractal, or at least highly self-similar to immediate past experience. The intensity of the hard stop (and similarly the annoyance of transient sounds like car horns) is in the predictive failure, which draws your attention. If this is desirable, we call it "interesting".
July 4, 1776 - December 17, 2021 => 89,650 days

Off, but really not by much.
Okay I do like HN—I'm here for a reason after all—but it is flawed like any other curation. For one, I find that it veers extremely literal and nerdy. For some topics such as programming and math, this is wonderful, as programming and math are both topics where literalism and nerdiness are required.

But in some cases this blend is not great. I wouldn't put HN as a great place to get your knowledge of more social, cultural content. There are good articles on occasion and of course great users/comments, but there are times when I am confronted with the fact that there is a remarkable homogeneity which is reflected in the discourse on race, gender, politics, etc. This is a site populated by primarily tech workers and we have to face facts that tech workers are predominantly white and Asian and male, indeed predominantly cis-hetereosexual male. I don't mean any of this in an accusatory fashion; this is simply the reality of tech. But it does mean that the discourse is not capturing the entire spectrum of experiences and the few voices who do not fit these paradigms can, on occasion, be overwhelmed by the majority.

Not to mention, as a tech worker forum, I'd hazard that the average commenter is far more well versed in tech than in say, US politics or third wave feminism. Much as we'd find the discourse on technology in a politics forum rather naive and uninformed, I'd have to imagine that a politics expert would find the political discussions on HN similarly so.

TL;DR: Use HN as part of a balanced information diet. Read books and try to get out of the tech worker bubble.
You can explore hyperbolic geometry with crochet!

http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html
It depends on what the definition of the word "is" is.
> Anyone can practice and improve their score. They're biased towards students whos parents or school pushes them to practice.

You just stated a very objective and valuable thing: they benefit people who practice. And it turns out that the will to practice doing things you don't know how to do is the most important skill you can have in life.
You're advocating against the actual scientific process, for something akin to the Ministry of Truth.
How many connected users does this scale to roughly?
Sure but the Chinese 20km drag nets in the North Pacific will gobble up those salmon in short order.
She won’t stick with it. She just saw a poll and is switching her tune. She was downplaying the same stories previously. She’s self-motivated to save her own position. Every time there was a violent crime in BART that made the news, they’d have cops for 2-3 days in the stations then go back to ignoring things once the spotlight was off. I suspect the same will happen here. They cleaned the city up for the Super Bowl so clearly it can be done.
My favorite are the sites that somehow fill your browser history such that you can’t push the “back” button fast enough. No idea why browsers allow this.
I'm not super familiar with the concepts here, but can one NFT represent multiple tweets? I thought I read something about Coinbase introducing transaction bundling to reduce "network fees" on the blockchain. Could that be applied here, regular user tweets could be bundled into NFTs, while premium/verified users could pay to have each tweet minted as it's own NFT?
>I find Deep Mind AI output to be pretty damn close.

Hmm, I don't know that I'd agree. I think a deepdream AI output approximates a breakthrough DMT experience probably less than the prisoners of the Allegory of the Cave watching shadows dance on the wall experienced the true outside world.
I think there is some truth in that there is some amount of "social construct" aspect, rather than being intentionally conditioned, that is a form of the "mimetic desire" Thiel always talks about, where you subconsciously want what others want. But where I disagree is that "skinny women big breasts" is an outdated archetype, from about the 80s to mid aughts (2000-2010). There's still the same mimetic desire on beauty that wades into unhealthy territory. "Curvy" is actually quite en vogue and on the extremes, there are many women getting elective plastic surgeries and injections on their lips, butts, and elsewhere, much moreso than the previous archetype. That used to be quite taboo, nowadays it's much less so. And as sure as the sun sets, there will still be ever changing shifts in mimetic desire of beauty among the next generations, just as older men still might favor the "skinny big breasts" archetype today.
There isn’t, so don’t waste your time looking. I spent far too long trying to find the disconnect and came up empty. Don’t waste your time like I did.
Oh, they did want to get into arbitering very much, and they got into it. What they didn't want is responsibility for their actions. They wanted to ban whoever they wanted to ban, but never be questioned on either the fact or the lack of ban in any particular case, and on the random and inconsistent enforcement of any "policies" they might have. They wanted - and still want - all the power and none of the responsibility.
Someone needs to produce a timeline. My own impression was that Apple released the Android app after the first public cases of these shenanigans. But that’s based on my own possibly mixed memories of the various news cycles.
>teaching your kids to show up to class and pay attention, do homework etc. is not something that costs money (of course it can help).

of course it does. it costs money in the form of time - you have to be not working at home to have the opportunity to teach these things. it costs money in the form of energy - if you've never argued with a young child about the relative merits of homework and television then you have no idea how much it costs.

>because there's definitely nothing in my statement that would remotely hint about 'What I'm trying to do' about anything. I mean seriously, "I'm trying to keep the labour pool small?" What?

really? then what is the purpose of this part of your response?

>then you're not only probably not suited to Engineering

what do the words "not suited" mean to you?
The IRB boards I've interacted with or seen peers go through included more than just drugs etc. A survey or interviewing people has always been included as human subject research by the boards. Depending on the specifics, surveys & interviews may be exempt from a full review of the human subjects process, but only after the IRB itself has made that designation. Basically a PI shouldn't be talking to a human as as part of their research without the IRB making a determination on it.

Anything related to food & drug testing is usually its own special category of review within the IRB, but it's not just meant-- and has never been meant-- to only deal with biomed research. The Belmont Report in 1979 that gave rise to the modern IRB explicitly addressed research with human subjects, not just biomedical research. Anyone in that field is aware of the extreme examples like Milgram's work and the Stanford Prison experiment that make this review necessary.

It may be the case that some IRB's don't take that side of thing as seriously as they should, but that doesn't mean the ethical burden is primarily on the researchers. The legal liability is on the institution, and the IRB is the regulation-mandated body required to ensure compliance.
Isn’t this entirely the fault of the extremist politicians and the voters who put them in place? Mayor Breed has been in her position for a few years. Why speak up now, when all of this has been building up for years, and was so obvious and predictable? I know it is tough to risk reputation when the other side is framing everything in terms of race, justice, and other “risky” terms, but I feel the incumbent politicians (and extremist DA Chesa Boudin) should not get credit for reversing course now.

Unfortunately the damage has been done. Restorative justice born in SF is now a widespread practice, particularly along the west coast. In many of these cities we see the same policies of treating crimes as non crimes, removing consequences, releasing criminals early, and other such practices that ultimately risk public safety. I bet other cities will see the same effects as well.
>some clever lock semantics

Most senior+ engineers that I know would hear that and recoil. Getting "clever" with concurrency handling in your home-rolled queuing system is not something that coworkers, especially more senior coworkers, will appreciate inheriting, adapting, and maintaining. Believe me.

I get that you're trying to flex some cool thing that you built, but it doesn't really have any bearing on the concept of "most cases" because it's an anecdote. Queuing systems are a thing for a reason, and in most cases, using them makes more sense than writing your own.
I want to second this. Because of how badly the right wants the vaccine to be dangerous/fake/whatever I'm so sensitive to anything negative that I basically brush off articles like this. In my mind I just lump it in with people saying the vaccine will make you impotent.

Probably the wrong way to think about things but that's how my mind works.
So should we gas the elderly as soon as they’re past child rearing age?
I had the advantage of becoming an adult before the Internet even though I was on it earlier than most people. So I can clearly remember both before and after. While its overwhelmingly beneficial not all of it was good.

I've observed that some of my richer friends are limiting their kids screen time. In fact it's becoming almost universal among those who work in tech. Clearly some of them want their kids to become more balanced. It's hilarious to see these kids to be told to leave the house and play with your friends. They don't know what to do! Boomers never had that problem or had to be asked twice.

I've got an extremely talented friend who is paying each of his kids to read the classics and write book reports which he reviews. The kids in the beginning did it for the money but there is a sense of pride on what they're learning that their peers are not. Certain books became classics for a reason!

My late Mother took us to the library every single week and often checked out and read more books than we did. I naively thought that everyone's parents did the same but I learned that wasn't the case. I think fostering a love of books is one of the greatest gift she gave us.
Speculation is of high value to human discourse and entertainment though.
One of the all-time great Ebert quotes on this:

Gallo fought back, insulting Ebert for being overweight and even, strangely, put a curse on his colon. Ebert adeptly responded, "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of 'The Brown Bunny.'
What if it’s 10 characters?
What's plenty? The number matters because it may be insignificant.
Absolutely inevitable.

The US Has two doctrines forcing it to War: First the Thucydides Trap itself. Second is the Wolfowitz Doctrine.

Neither of those doctrines will allow any other entity, be they Allies like Europe, or adversaries like China to overtake the US to become the new 'Top Dog'.

Unfortunately for the US, the US is in relative decline and China is in relative growth. Arithmetically, China must overtake the US sooner or later. I estimate this as occurring around 2025.

The US has only military conflict to prevent that happening. (Economically, the US is in big trouble.) But to ensure victory, the US would have to initiate that war about 5 years prior to the crossover. Again, unfortunately for the US, that war-initiation point was at least a year and a half ago. The likelihood of victory in the war is now a lot less that it would have been back in 2020.

China does not want or need a war. A war would only slow it down and delay the crossover point from 2025 to maybe 2028 or later. Consequently, they will 'turn the other cheek' whenever they can until after the crossover point unless they really, really have to go to war.

NOTE: Taiwan is a red herring. China vs Taiwan would be like the US vs the Confederacy. The US only went to war against the Confederacy when the Confederacy declared independence.

Same thing goes for China. After the US Civil War, rebuilding was very expensive. China wants to avoid having to rebuild Taiwan unless it has no alternative. There are lots of expensive assets on Taiwan that China wants to keep, not destroy.
"The revolution has just begun"- Some monkey, probably
Excellent! The wireless chip is the last blob of insecure firmware in iPhone. Apple will write secure firmware for their new chips.
They didn't "clean up the city" for the Super Bowl. They just took all of the bad stuff going on near where the SB festivities were, and (temporarily, as it turned out) moved it elsewhere.
EEs tend to be pretty practical in the same sense that mechanical engineers are pretty practical: they build stuff in ways that they (think they) understand to give them as good a chance as producing something that works the first time around. But the devil is in the details and mechanical engineers have one huge advantage: they deal with stuff at a scale where getting it wrong will have visible consequences. An electrical engineer getting their assumptions about electric fields emanation wrong is going to have a difficult problem to solve, electric fields don't readily visualize and without a very solid understanding of the theory it is extremely easy to mess this up. This is one reason why people tend to be conservative, if you do it 'like it is usually done' then the chances of discovering new and potentially expensive ways to mess it up go down a bit.

I once - long ago - rebuilt a transmitter that I had designed using 'regular' components in the air on a circuit board. It took 6 tries to get it perfect, and every time I learned about a new assumption that wasn't exactly spelled out anywhere but that really made a huge difference in how the circuit operated.

The electrical schematic was identical every time, the only thing that changed was the topology in space. And the difference between iteration #1 and iteration #6 from a performance point of view was huge, much larger than you would have ever thought could be the consequence of the very subtle changes to the various trace geometries.

No matter how much you know - or don't know - about the way electrical fields interact with each other be prepared to be surprised, this stuff is simply hard when your circuitry goes beyond a minimum level of complexity.

Interesting tidbit: many years later when designing the windmill stator/rotor/coil assembly some of this knowledge came in quite handy.
I mean I’m glad it didn’t happen to me, but a billion people are carrying around billions of Lithium-ion batteries. Those batteries sometimes catch fire because Lithium is highly flammable. It’s gonna happen.