skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gorgeous. I love the bold choices. Website really pops. Clearly a lot of care went into this whole operation. Kudos on having two different layouts. Aluminum chassis is great. I don't travel with a keyboard often, but if I did, I'd be all over this.

Being in the peanut gallery is fun, so I'm going to echo a few common points.

- I love the dished keys. Would be a neat feel I think to do all keys like that

- staggered is the past, ortho is the present and future

- separate delete/backspace key is great (maybe fn-bksp can do this?)

- I would give my left toe for a trackpoint on a low profile portable keyb.

- I love the novelty/utility of the rotary encoder, but the high profile of the knob kind of defeats the low-profile. A jog wheel or knurled knob would be perfect

- I like all of the font choices - in isolation. Yes even the numbers, which are getting some heat. What irks me is the inconsistency of the fonts. I count 3-5 distinct typefaces. It would be very iconic if you used the number font on all keys. It screams ART and makes it stand out from bog standard keycaps.

- I know split is hard to engineer, but it's worth mentioning, because that would really knock this out of the atmosphere.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the "storm" word.
Phone consumers seem to be a little bit irrational. E.g. friend has a phone with insane screen resolution and refresh rate.
People will argue consumers want better battery life but this is meaningless. Processor efficiency increases, software gets bloated and we are back at square one. Every phone in the last decade has been a "one day" battery life.
Yeah and I guess some things, like door locks, are actual mechanical things that involve having a motor there anyway so it shouldn't be too hard to just expose some part of that mechanism in a way that indicates the state. This is done now with that little nubbin that sticks up, but I think can be made more obvious.

I think the big sticking point is usually climate control and radio since that's what people fiddle with most while driving. Maybe little things like the ride mode selector (but I'm not sure how many people actually fiddle with those sorts of things in practice). But nowadays the "radio" is rarely just radio or disc/cassette player. It's music, audiobooks, or podcasts off a phone. I don't really know how you do that with integrated controls that aren't screen based, like most luxury cars already have the little control wheel and also controls on the steering wheel. So what more would you need? Maybe some haptics on the control wheel to give you more feedback?
I wasn't saying you were denying evolution. I was saying your argument of "it's too complex, so it can't happen" is often used to deny evolution, as an indicator that it's not a valid argument.
It's not like they have 3nm chips ready the day after production. When they "begin production", it takes months until the first actual, working chip from that production leaves the fab.

And then it's not like the day after, Apple could produce iPhones or Macs with those chips. It takes months from having the first chip in hand until production churns out volumes of finished devices.
I saw the headline and thought “well, that’s one way to increase the birth rate…”
Agreed. When you take on Event Sourcing, you are effectively trading one set of technical problems for another.

I personally enjoy working in an event sourced codebase, but it's most interesting when it is greenfield development. Growing and maintaining such a code base can turn into a headache.
For one, no, those expenses aren't deductible even if you do itemize. They're considered "personal expenses" even though they were necessary to earn that W-2 income. If you buy a car and use it at least 50% to get to 1099 client(s) you can deduct that portion of it (including accelerated depreciation). But if your income is coming from W-2 job(s), you simply cannot.

For two, the standard deduction is better seen as a personal exemption (which it subsumed), giving everyone a level of income that they don't have to pay tax on. Especially given that business expenses generally flow through as direct subtractions regardless of the standard deduction.

There is definitely tension between allowing deductions to account for actual income fairly, and the resulting (de facto) requirement that everyone do minutiae accounting for their personal finances.
No it doesn't.

The thing to do now, is increase our battery capacity.
> Some disgust reactions are hard-wired (e.g. reactions to fecal matter or vomit), and others are culturally learned.

Curious if you've got a source for that, because I've lived with 3 infants and every one of them was delighted by the squishiness of poop and needed to be taught that disgust response.
> leaving the country blind to how quickly the SARS-CoV-2 virus was transmitting at a critical juncture when aggressive measures could have slowed Covid’s spread.

If only they had done X, we could have had more agressive measures for longer!

Perhaps they first need to evaluate what would actually be a better result. And not limit themselves to the ‘slow the spread’ mindset.
Secularism is also a western import. Mosdadegh was educated in Switzerland, after all.

This is in the context of India, but does a good job explaining the phenomenon: https://unherd.com/2021/04/the-culture-wars-of-post-colonial...

Turkey and Bangladesh are other good examples of countries where elites tried to impose secularism, and succeeded for a time, but which ultimately failed because the public didn’t want it.
You might be right, statistically speaking, but Japanese culture is extremely hierarchical. Those who are actually making decisions and setting policy I'm certain would be older than in the USA.
Huawei launched a line of cellphone chips using N5 at the same time as Apple, right before they got banned from using TSMC. It seems like others could pay enough if they really wanted to.
IMO, it has a clear salient point:

“My conclusion after using Julia for many years is that there are too many correctness and composability bugs throughout the ecosystem to justify using it in just about any context where correctness matters.”
How can it be dishonesty when he doesn’t promise anything? He shows the product and invites you to get updates on the way forward. In addition both he and the electronics designer answer questions here.
He's given clear recommendations.

Mobile FOSS is important. He has a position where a simple blog post by him can reach the HN front pages. It's a good thing that he's putting his opinion out there in a constructive fashion to help prevent mobile FOSS from decaying.

It would be one thing if he went all Twitter and started telling everyone to leave Pine otherwise they would be morally equivalent to Hitler.

That's not what he did. He has pointed out several alternative steps Pine can take and what he believes the outcome would be, while also pointing out a simple constructive step that he believes would help remedy not just this specific situation, but long term, perhaps irreparable, damage to mobile FOSS.

This comes across as an unambiguously good post to me.
Yes I read the article so I was clarifying whether or not they fixed that problem.
I love how its called the "EMO AI" keyboard!

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Love the design - would really like to try it out, IMO - I hate when sites have no cost info. At least put a ball park price on the page.

The only thing I see missing from the design is spill-proofing?
Apple doesn't need to be altruistic for something to be good for the industry as a whole. Also the M1/M2 hype is well deserved. Sure they aren't gaming computers but pulling off the transition with zero issues for normal people and relatively minor issues for developers (mac, web, any type) is impressive, especially with the battery life and how cool these run.
I have a Chromebook where Page Up/Page Down is Alt-Up Arrow and Alt-Down Arrow. It might be the OS doing that mapping, rather than the keyboard (have never really investigated). Works OK.
Oh what's the worse that could happen! :)
https://www.lazarus-ide.org
Oh my, I also have the same complaint regarding the 360 camera. The 360 camera can be selected in the infotainment but navigating to it takes 2-3 steps which isn't great.

However, I have figured out that I can turn on the turn signal and the 360 cam will turn on and stay on after the turn signal is off.
I feel and certainly hope so, but I also feel there have been no positive consequences for it.

I think the only positive feedback along these lines (not that it had any positive consequences) was way back when I was a course assistant and instructor during graduate school in mathematics, and it came in the form of student reviews.
Why does it require macOS 12? Is it going to require a driver?
Free Speech Can’t Survive as an Abstraction
You might be right that Julia's sky high ambitions make it seem like a failure no matter what it does. I mean, it could have strived for just being a pleasant dynamic language with a fast amortized running time, and then it would have succeeded in 2018.

But is it not better to both achieve you mediocre goals and also have extremely ambitious goals that may still be achieved, than merely having mediocre goals?

I don't really agree that Julia right now doesn't have anything to show for its huge amibitions. In my opinion it's already the best language for science by quite a large margin. I understand it still lacks some tooling, reliability and deployment options to be attractive for many industrial clients (though Julia is already making inroads in industry - I have an old friend from college who uses Julia in production). It's also understandable that some people used it and found the latency unacceptable. The thing is - there is no reason to believe that tooling, reliability and deployment options won't come around. The stuff is being built. It's just happening "too" slowly right now.
Here: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

It is basically open source and cross platform Delphi (there are a bunch of differences but from a high level perspective i think that it describes it fine for people who already know Delphi).

Also check this video i made a few years ago[0] making a simple puzzle game in Lazarus. You can skip to 11:30 if you don't care about downloading, compiling and configuring it and just want to see it in action.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM
I wouldn't go so far as to say that TSMC wouldn't exist without Apple. TSMC was and continues to be the preferred manufacturer for many other fabless design companies, like Nvidia, AMD, and MediaTek.
I think you are misunderstanding their use of the word ergonomic. They're using it in the literal sense, not the colloquial sense of gimmicky layout keyboards. All keyboards should be ergonomic in the literal sense.
Django has the Django Rest Framework that makes the API setup fairly easy to work with.
Dang. I remember the forum wipe, haha.

My finger wasn't very on the pulse of the Manjaro community, but my experience with the OS and with the (new) forum didn't seem diminished after the "companyfication".

I, too, have switched to Arch, 95% because I felt ready to (as someone else wrote, "Manjaro was my bridge to Arch across the chasm from Ubuntu") and wanted to try it, 5% because I'd rather trust a mysterious cabal of devs than a company with a bottom line that can get bought out or whatever.

I don't have trouble believing you though; they say $$$ is the root of all evil for a reason.
That's not true though, is it? You can just give them copies on the new platform for free can't you? How is doing that illegal?

I'd like to see it as compulsory (if I pay for format X eg audio, I should have a right to it on any platform). But there is no law that says an author etc cannot give away otherwise legal copies...
I think the it must be more outside the window than the release dates make it seem -- Apple must, I guess, do some QA and build up a decent stockpile before the release of a new iPhone.
No, because of lack of progress in areas I care about. It's just a tool that currently doesn't fit my most crucial needs, so I picked up other tools.

The discussion was further evidence of the reality that I'd already come to terms with; the lack of inroads in building a larger community and general ecosystem is partly because of a lack of focus on things like tooling, linting, documentation standards, etc and partly because of a weird amount of disdain for the language. I can help with the former, but I don't have the time or energy for the latter because it's actually a set of large, long-term marketing, organizational, and psychological problems to overcome. Maybe someday down the road I'll be back, but I've given it a shot for about 8-9 years now.
How would you compare Endeavor to Manjaro? I've never tried it.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, this is exactly right. I’ve been living in Japan for more than 20 years and this story is absolutely illustrative of everything that is wrong with late-stage, silver democracies. The burden, of course, falls disproportionately on young people. Don’t know how they’re holding it together tbh.
Coding is bending a computer to your will. If the will is there, I will try everything and anything to get results. If that includes learning a whole new programming language then so be it.
It was a response to the upthread comment about all the feedback being discouraging. In fact I love the design and think it's a great product, but all my notes still look negative and I'm probably not going to be a customer.

(Though I just now realized that this is running Zephyr firmware, so I'm thinking maybe it might be worth retraining my emacs pinky...)
>So the secret conspiracy is clean energy, self-driving taxis, protected environment, and more leisure time due to increased automation?

I agree. It's completely idiotic. Clearly, all those billionaire, industrialists and politicians have our best interests in mind. They simply want a better future for all. They would probably be more inclusive in their decision-making, but it's just that an average person out there is too dumb to make any important decisions.
"Approximately 1,191 (95% CI 989–1,409) fewer CHD deaths were attributable to the ITFA reduction...between 1991 and 2007."

That's about 74 deaths each year in a country that sees ~50,000 deaths each year, so about 0.15%.
I love this. A lot of the things people dislike I love. Love the site, love the funky key shape, love the serifs, love the big rotary encoder. Subscribed.
Every single person who drinks water dies.
Awesome idea, but not sure if these are funny though :/
Instead of the Charlie's Angels speakerphone, giving out assignments for the team, you've got the palantir... and it's canon already!
The format doesn't matter so much as how easily the information logged is consumable. Use whatever makes it easy for you to find information from your logs, and that depends wholly on your context, eg if you have a Siem, centralized logging, legal requirements, etc.
I had the same thought re: FUSE. I'm tentatively thinking of getting back into programming by working some on sshfs (because I'm bored and think it's important, while it's maintainer-less and very squarely within my specialty). Not until early September, though, since right now life is consumed by end-of-summer stuff and then getting my daughter off to college. Anyhow, within that context I've also thought about FUSE (which I also have some experience with since I added SELinux tag support) plus io_uring. Certainly nothing's likely to happen right away, but it will be on my personal roadmap.
My point is that nobody cares about abstract oils but if you make everything in the junk food isle suck compared to last year they'll be pissed off, kinda like they didn't care about gas cans until the government made the spouts a pain in the ass.
> The F-keys default to the FN row, not the F1-12. You can change that with a command I completely forgot and just copied once to a startup script.

> cat /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf
options hid_apple fnmode=0

I think this has recently (Linux v5.19) changed to have F1-F12 by default.
I had a rotten time with Brother and drivers, especially (but not limited to) on Linux. I'm currently only one year into a Xerox 6515 but it has been extremely reliable so far, and works reliably across Android cell phones, two Linux machines (with a PPD downloaded from GitHub), and a Windows machine.

My line of thinking is that hopefully their pedigree is worth something.
Stop. Abstraction is not a magic pill that absolves you of the need to know wtf you are doing.

At best, it allows you to defer the deeper reading for a time. You might not even have to do the deeper reading for this piece of functionality, but the time will come when you have to figure out where an impedance mismatch is.

This quest for abstraction is the most infantile attitude I straw to squash in ever developer I meet. If you aren't reading the code that your code depends on to work, you have no idea what you're actually doing.
The Battle for Talent Can Be Won with Employee Recognition
well, my brilliant friend went to Japan while working at Apple, made lots of money, pounded alcohol, and came back to mature as an American loner alcoholic. So its all true - is truth necessary ? more can be said but nothing will be solved here
Because voting is just a small part of Democracy. Democracies need strong and independent, judicial, law making and executive branches.

Voting itself is an averaging process, and you get the average of what ordinary citizen wants. It is hard to make people want good things for themselves without proactive investments in education and developing a population with scientific temper.
Thanks for the heads up.

As for the pornographic comment, that's the best compliment I've got all day!
In what sense is Doctorow himself causing the same sort of suffering against which he's inveighing? The parallel makes no sense.

Doctorow does not sell only on Amazon[0]. He also has a history of giving his books away for free[1], and insists on every release of his books in any format being DRM-free. Since those are the issues he is passionate about, that doesn't seem hypocritical to me.

It's more like PETA protesting in front of shops that sell furs, rather than only in places where people are already 100% anti-fur. Which... they probably do. Obviously.

0. https://craphound.com/shop/

1. https://craphound.com/makers/download/
The Air Force tests 4 Minuteman 3 missiles every year just to ensure that the 52 year old missiles still work. In about a decade we'll run out of spares and will need to either decommission missiles or reduce the test rate.
At least in the ex-soviet countries, a lot of the legally-questionable software we used to write was in Pascal because that's what we learnt in school. It was an easy transition to go to Delphi - nice RAD IDE for GUI RATs or keygens/cracks, familiar OO language.
>Without Apple TSMC wouldn't exist.

Really, the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world with tons of customers cannot exist without Apple ?
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You may have a particular measure of success in mind, but it seems to me that Julia has already succeeded: it is a new language for scientific computing that met its goals of providing high level abstractions and an expressive syntax while not compromising on performance. Its public release was in 2012 and it’s already one of only four languages used in high-performance scientific computing. Of course, in many areas its ecosystem is immature; but in others, such as differential equation solving, it’s a leader.
Ah thanks so the explanation, the second part is still a bit confusing for me. When the author writes "A normalization constant squishes the input distribution, for example, I5, into the target distribution, for example, I3." It makes me think normalisation in the range (0-2) which I3 is in. Do I have that right?
It’s so much easier to destroy than to build. That applies to buildings, but it also applies to cultures and civilisations. The work of centuries — even of millennia — can be broken in decades or even years.

And what’s worse is that there’s not much one can do about it. One can preserve what one has inherited, and try to increase it, but others can knock it down much more easily.
That would be true if other competing offers weren't getting turned away. Nvidia dumped 9 billion dollars into TSMC last year just to get a fools ransom of 5nm wafers. They don't even get the option to buy 3nm, so it's not about 'continued investment' or anything. TSMC is simply optimizing for their most lucrative customer, the failure is not with them but rather capitalism failing to incentivize fair treatment of all their customers. I don't think TSMC or Apple is to blame here, but the displacement of the semiconductor industry has been pretty disastrous over the past 3 years. It needs to stop, and it starts by breaking up nonsense exclusivity deals like this one.
My thoughts after the discussion yesterday are that I'm going to open up the case of a PineBook Pro or PinePhone Pro anyway so it isn't a big deal to have to swap the eMMC module to another machine to write it. I can live with not being able to boot them from SD.
- The keyboard looks beautiful.

- Your website looks beautiful.

- I immediately wanted to own one.

I signed up for updates, but it would be good to get a feel for how far along you are in the design and production process.
krisoft, you are spot on with trying to change one's perspective on viewing your current work differently.
I find interesting initiatives to work on the side at Mozilla- Foundation (&Mozilla Corporation for paid work) : https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-you-can-do/
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Where did you get this information? I can't find anything about ads on the internet without 300 copy paste articles popping up about 10 great ways to write ad copy so couldn't just google it.

Temporarily intrigued, don't go too far out of your way for my curiosity.
Check out http://pinboard.in/resources/ ... and that's not purely a recommendation to look at pinboard; scroll to the bottom of Resources & there's a list of alternatives. Many of which are mentioned here. Pretty bold, in my opinion, to list those and offer pinboard at $22/year (which actually seems like a good price). For the record, I'm using Instapaper and Safari's built-in (synced) bookmarks. So apparently, I'm not spiritually aligned.

To me, Search is the number 1 need. And would be cool if an extension that added a button to bookmark pages visited could also introspect every page I visit to look through old bookmarks & show a count in a separate button to view similar related pages I've already visited.
If someone else is willing to pay enough I would hope a manufacturer would provide the capacity for that competitor.

Up to now it doesn’t seem like anyone is willing to pay.

I suspect the competition really is “ok” with waiting / don’t want to pay.
But FPGAs, despite being way faster than software, are only ~1/5th to ~1/10th as fast as dedicated silicon, at best, on a small scale. An Apple M1 in FPGA would run like it was manufactured 2 decades ago, if not worse.

Plus, FPGAs get absolutely huge with terrible yields for complex work. RED Cameras have a massive, multi-thousand-dollar FPGA (crossing over $10K as a part), and it is only powerful enough to process their custom video codec and nothing else. Still cheaper than designing a custom chip for that considering how niche RED Cameras are, but absolutely stupid for anything broader. An FPGA that could run an M1 equivalent would be larger than the laptop, cost over $100K, and be slow as a turtle racing across Oregon.
Because right now most don't and instead become cancerous growths on a city rather than their own financially independent communities. Where I live the suburbs aren't their own towns and that's where the problem is.
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