skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For these younger people, the numpad and navigation keys are an impediment to reaching the mouse. For me it’s the opposite: the navigation keys is how I normally navigate (outside of vi controls) and the numpad is for numbers. The mouse is the input device of last resort.

The mouse, the navigation cluster, and the number pad all require you to remove your hands from the home keys position in order to use them. Many of these smaller layout keyboards facilitate accessing these and the function keys under layers. I have several of these layer toggles on alpha keys, including the ones on the home row.

The question then is does the chorded key offer more utility than a discrete physical one but requires you to move your arms away from home position? I think in many cases the answer is yes, it does, and it's not simply about aesthetics. It's more efficient keyboarding in most circumstances.

Its weakness of course is in situations where accessing keys is time sensitive. The most obvious case where chording is strictly worse than discrete keys is gaming, where you need to be able to press various buttons quickly and often in very quick succession. In most other standard computing tasks where you're primarily typing, that isn't a meaningful consideration.
The deep synergy between testability and good design (2013)
Art demand is already saturated. It's in everything you see, from websites, to graphics for news stories to the industrial design of all the products you see. AI art is not going to cause more demand for art given that art is everywhere.

More demand for art is like saying more demand for air, more demand for oxygen. Demand is saturated and so is supply. What's happening here is similar to outsourcing. Jobs are going to another place, just not a real place and it isn't people replacing your job.

Your analogy is biased. You picked a specific example of new technology being "not bad". How about picking an example of technology being bad? Plenty of analogies in the opposite direction. Singular examples and analogies are not proof of anything.
>The problem isn't the bots,

I would see bots as a major concern if you want to monetize the platform.
I am. Only issue is that it isn't the worst place I've worked and it's hard to find better than what I have where I'm at.
>The real (and in this context, irrelevant) question is - should we use it? There is enough.

You are technical correct but my point still stands. If the answer is no because we don't mine enough rivers and beaches, and we don't relocate enough of humanity, how will there be enough living space that people don't seek a distraction?
> Also, had he waited a couple more weeks before making the offer, he could have bought Twitter for half the price.

I'm sure you know much better than the guy and all his advisors who spent a year trying to buy it.
Obviously, that a nanowire-based bumblebee could be fired from a gun and rapidly pollinate.
Thank you for sql.js by the way. It is revolutionary!
I wonder if Nvidia is cranking up the performance not for games, but other applications such as 3D rendering and AI/ML. If you look at the benchmarks for Blender [1], a popular open-source 3D software, you will see the 4090 easily beats out all the other competitors, with 2x the rendering speed of the second on that list, which is another Nvidia RTX card (3090) that used to be the fastest till the 4090 came along.

[1] https://opendata.blender.org/
It depends on your individual consumption preferences. Just because the CPI is 7%/year does not mean you are losing 7%. If you have $1 million in cash and your expenses are $40k/year and CPI goes up 10%, then all you need is to invest the $960,000 in fixed income to negate the increase of $4k due to inflation, which is easily doable. If you are taking that $1 million and buying only energy or only food with it, then you would lose a lot of potential purchasing power but most people do not do that. Food and energy are only a small % of one's wealth beyond a certain amount.
I think it's a matter of cleaning after work, not while they're working. No one can keep workspace clean all the time. Even that, some do, some don't.

I prefer cleaning things up(both digital and physical) at the end of the day, to relieve my mind that I'm "done" with work and move on to other things. I found it's horrible to wake up, sitting at your desk and the first thing you see is all your piles of crap that your postpone the night before.
Maybe hatchlings grabbed onto mother's mane and rode her like possums.
I have to admit you may be right. I can’t find any other paper that contradicts this paper.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

I don’t know how I got the opposite idea from the show I was watching. They were doing the experiment and I swear they said the people could see the numbers better. Perhaps if I had been bungee jumping while watching the show…

Fascinatingly, it seems that it is the perception of time that increases and with it the recording of information.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/129112147

ABUMRAD: In that instant, our memories go wide open.

Mr. EAGLEMAN: Because thats what memory is for. Its for when everything hits the fan. You want to write it down and remember it.

ABUMRAD: So all of it goes right to your hard drive - the clouds, the feeling of the air. Oh look, theres a guy in a blue shirt.

Mr. EAGLEMAN: So when you read that back out, the experience feels like it must have taken a very long time.

KRULWICH: Hmmm.

Mr. EAGLEMAN: It must have.

KRULWICH: Normally, the trivial stuff gets dumped but in this situation, it gets written.

ABUMRAD: And then you realize how much trivial stuff is in there.
XR has been the future since sci fi movies in the 80s. It doesn’t mean it’s the near future (price, USP, funding model, any consumer desire to adopt).
Couldn't they be a bit more specific? No software uses all of openssl, there is software that uses it for other things than server-side TLS.
To contextualize even further. Stable diffusion will fit on any persons computer AND the time it takes to run is minutes.

But that's just about stable diffusion. You need to measure the speed of how fast stable diffusion came to be. 3 years ago all of this stuff was thought to be impossible. Now it's a SAS. What does the next 3 years bring? Contextualize that.

Nobody knows when that day will come, BUT within our lifetimes is a very realistic bet given the speed in which the ML industry is changing and growing.
* Mondriaan
> the real physical world has freedom of speech and it works pretty well

If someone were to enter a privately owned "public square" in the physical world and start yelling racial slurs, they'd be removed by the cops.
>The cat is out of the box. Adapt or die.

That's not how it works. AI is copying/stealing from people who actually create. "Laundered legal liability" as someone here so eloquently put it. When co-pilot reproduces GPL code verbatim, it's not AI, it's just convoluted copyright infringement. I have no doubts this is happening with anime too. The so called AI is just a thief. It's not creating new works, it's copying parts of works and making a composite.
Ask HN: Do you do things differently when you first join a team/company?
When you are new to a team, is there any special protocol you follow such as not giving any negative feedback, try not to contribute too much beyond clearing the tasks to avoid attention, generally be agreeable as much as possible? Should the first few months at a job be different from the long term behavior and if so, why?
I find it fascinating how in terms of morphology, T. rex's tiny arms somewhat resemble those of a modern dinosaur: the kiwi bird, which has wings so small they're practically invisible (and its genus name, Apteryx, means "no wings"). That may give a clue as to how T. rex might have actually looked; after all, we can't prove they weren't huge fatbirds: https://imgur.com/gallery/rmad4
> "I’m pretty sure trans people are a protected minority in most jurisdictions. So you are wrong. The judicial system has evaluated that—for some valid reason; according to our laws—mocking trans people is worse then mocking cis people."

lol I don't know what "jurisdiction" you're living in, but "mocking trans people" is in no way a legal matter in the U.S. I can mock "trans" people as much as I want and there's not a damn thing you or the government can do about it as long as I am doing it on my own dime and on my own time.
Higher unemployment is generally deflationary according to mainstream economic theory and empirical evidence
And how does it help in case of frontend development? A half of those points don't apply to web dev.
Do you really need joins?
Do you really need atomic transactions?
Do you really need SQL?
Most of API's that used by web apps operate with objects or arrays of objects. Why should we add complexity of SQL if we already can store those objects in a plain array?
Yeah, the traditional move for a company of Facebook's size would be to pivot from a growth play to a value play, and focus on value extraction. Perhaps even - gasp! - pay dividends. This would have been a lot more appealing to the big insto funds and potentially bouyed the share price.

The current plunge we're seeing is a vote of no confidence from the market.
None of that contradicts what I said. Yes, there may be various terms that take effect if he defaults on the debt and some of them may cause him to take on fiduciary obligations (although I find it hard to imagine converting to equity would be desirable in that case - normally in that scenario the equity is getting zeroed). But he has no such obligations unless and until he's getting close to default.
It's so refreshing to be able to tab through search results without hitting a thousand irrelevant images or ads or menu items.
You are talking nonsense.
I think he might evolve Twitter to a more complex, FB like platform with longer text modes, groups, chat, marketplace, job postings and maybe apps. Maybe Instagram and TikTok like functionality.

If his platform will be more free than others and if it does have the functionality people are accustomed to, I can see a massive flock of users to Twitter.
If he has the user base, why not grow it and keep it more on the platform?
The reason we don’t need an everything app is because we have a lot of good apps, that’s not the case in Japan, for example.
There's a difference between tried to manipulate and manipulated. We don't know what effect they had. I suspect a miniscule one.
I agree. The marketplace of ideas and opinions should be protected to the greatest extent possible. Restrictions should be limited to things such as actual threats, doxxing of private information, and illegal content.

Otherwise, allow people to use the block, mute, and unfollow buttons as they see fit as a form of personal moderation.
Inflation isn’t caused by too much money. It is caused by too much money velocity. That’s why the last huge injection of money in 2008 didn’t cause inflation. Folks sat on their money and didn’t spend it.

Raising interest rates isn’t about causing unemployment (directly at least). It is about causing capital investment to be less lucrative than tying the money up in treasuries, reducing money velocity.
Part of writing it "the right way" is to make it easy to change. This is why I've come to dislike OOP. The rules are too rigid and result in exactly what you describe.
Same, I’m happy I have a bunch of different apps which are good at different things.
I'm not sure who's ever claimed that. From the get-go, Unix design philosophy was simplicity, and it was in opposition to Multics and other complex multi-user OSes that had a lot of security and compartmentalization baked-in.

I remember during my first job discovering that SunOS had C2 security available and trying to enable that, then realizing it messed up a lot of stuff and trying to disable it by hand... what a nightmare. I was fascinated by compartmentalized security type stuff but I really had no idea. That sort of security will really hamper user productivity and collaboration. You need to spec it out, because otherwise an OS is going to default to the latter.
If you have access to the registrar, you can point the domain at a different dns provider that you do have access to, and update the details there.
> Check if the first arg is `-h` or `--help` or `help` or just `h` or even `-help`, and in all these cases, print help text and exit.

`-h` and `--help` are fine. But `help` and `h` should only display the help if the script has subcommands (like `git`, which has `git commit` as a subcommand). Scripts that don't have subcommands should treat `h` and `help` as regular arguments -- imagine if `cp h h.bak` displayed a help message instead of copying the file named "h"!

I wouldn't encourage `-help` for displaying the help because it conflicts with the syntax for a group of single-letter options (though if `-h` displays the help, there is no legitimate reason for grouping `-h` with other options).

And ideally scripts that support both option and non-option arguments should allow `--` to separate them (e.g. `rm -- --help` removes the file called "--help"). But parsing options is complicated and probably out of scope for this article.

> If appropriate, change to the script’s directory close to the start of the script. And it’s usually always appropriate.

This is very problematic if the script accepts paths as arguments, because the user would (rightly) expect paths to be interpreted relative to the original working directory rather than the script's location. A more robust approach is to compute the script's location and store it in a variable, then explicitly prepend this variable when you want paths to be relative to the script's location.
They wouldn't have succeeded without much needed cash from Microsoft.
It’s a very misleading headline! This is not 650B in liquid cash, but a drop in Meta’s validation (stock price x qty of shares). These are two very different things.
It is a shame the web browser was builds documents with javascript enabled elements and not on a smalltalk stack.
> where both agreed to and loved each other

I don't know how this is controversial, but I don't think 13 year olds are emotionally and intellectually mature enough to know if they love someone enough to marry them, especially considered that their statements can very easily be pressured by family members who quite literally would still have legal authority over them at the time because they're minors.
i am not personally a part of the whole AI-thing because i dont have the GPU horsepower to make it work. What i am happy about is the fact that the stable diffusion people made it open and the world did not just collapse or they went into financial ruin for doing so..
open ai and all the proprietary FUD people claim that open sourcing leads to loss of incentive, loss of jobs and other BS but the fact that stable diffusion works and is being appreciated by the community walks in the face of that argument.
Doom was written to make it easy to port to other platforms from the start. You basically only need to write a handful of platform specific functions and then compile the code on the new platform and you're done. It's fundamentally the same whether you port it to OpenBSD, WebAssembly, or a washing machine.
The strange business history of the Ouija board
I was looking at Heidelberg since you suggested it. But, their product catalog is barely visible outside of spare parts and inks. The few things I could see, I cannot use them in a print shop, their equipment is much larger than the current print equipment which is nearing end of life.
Isn't that the point they're making? Not that the specific utterances matter but that the freedom to utter them matters, any or all of them, your blasphemies and mine. Then we can try to have a grown up conversation about it because we've taken oppression/suppression and hence violence off the table.

Real progress can then be made.
Exactly. These are unrealised losses. The net loss would depend on what price each investor entered their position on.
This is a strange way to reason about electronics. A processor is a “physically moving part.”

Hardware !== clunky obvious tactile contraptions

Anyway, I actually have an answer for you, at least for apple portable computers — most new macs come with a sophisticated lid angle sensor used to detect the display angle with high precision. (Previous models used more conventional Hall effect sensors which didn’t live to apples standards for a hardware cut off

Why is it importable to know the precise angle of the display in relation to the top case of the computer? Because you can detect when it’s closed with a high degree of confidence!

> How is the T2 connected to the laptop lid, where does the contact breaks?

So, your comment clearly indicates that you have very little experience with apple products and industrial design and engineer. You also made no effort to look into the matter see if you could find an answer yourself (it took me 4 mins of googling to connect the new LAS to the mic cutoff when computer is closed.

So you made a spurious allegation that apple was lying, when pushed on it, you followed up with an even more nonsensical comment that made your lack of hardware experience more obvious.

And after all of that, rather than having the self-awareness to drop the matter, or at very least, do some of your own research, you instead decide to sign off by accusing apple of misleading their users.

Super weird.
I don't see why you think that everyone should be blamed for what a handful of others do. Their crimes are not my crimes. That's not the way a free society works.

Also, mocking "trans" people is not a gateway to murder. I mock "trans" people all the time and I've never murdered one or even thought about doing so.
> And will this SQLite file be portable (import and export to somewhere else) ?

sqlite's storage format is independent of the underlying device. OPFS is "just another backend" and the only tricky part of implementing it was that OPFS's API is largely asynchronous and sqlite3 requires synchronous I/O. The db that's stored in OPFS is exactly what would be stored on your hard drive if you were operating outside of the browser.
I wouldn't say it's equivalent but it's certainly comparable.
OCR is a solved problem. It's like one call to tesseract and you're done.

The fact they haven't done this just shows how inept their employees are.
> I have multiple devices, and I can't drop new spacebar replacements onto the mobile ones. ... Why optimize for just the desk? I like to move around to change things up sometimes.

:o) This is less of a disadvantage for small keyboards. It's easier to move a small keyboard around than a big keyboard.

I don't like laying a keyboard directly over the keys, but I was able to get away with lasercutting a plate with some bumpons; and a cable to accommodate seating the keyboard closer to the screen:
https://rgoulter.com/blog/posts/programming/2022-08-24-trave...
Many big companies have retention policies, where all messages are automatically deleted after X months unless specifically persisted / pinned. It's highly unlikely that Twitter has much internal emails from 2019-2020, let alone 2015-2016.
>Whether Musk is the right person for that...

If he's unsure about that, he can hire Zuck which might be free from contract soon if we look at how Meta stock is trading.
It always loads much faster than Twitter for me. Maybe it depends on which instance you're using, if nitter.net is slow for you, the other popular instances I know of are nitter.42l.fr and nitter.kavin.rocks; these two have been around for some time and been stable, you can settle on whichever one is fastest for you.
I'm not the biggest fan of Musk but the fact that the biggest names they could highlight for this were not actors or comedians - but just producers - suggests that there will be close to zero movement to abandon Twitter solely because of ownership.
As a counterpoint, if you lay off 75% of your workers, you can now pay the remaining 25% three times more salary.
Elon Musk's ideological takeover won't save Twitter. It's too late for that. Twitter has lost too many active users to make a comeback.

I deleted my Twitter account this year. I had it for 16 years. My Twitter account was boring. I'm not a right-wing or left-wing anything. My political commentary is less about ideology and more about practicality and appearances. It was also rare.
Mostly, I used my account to post schematics for projects I had built and to interact with colleagues.

I replied in a thread with a friend about some silly information security "debate" on Capitol Hill. I said that these politicians would be "tarred and feathered" over some stupid grandstanding they were making over information security, and my comment was flagged for inciting violence. Inciting violence? Seriously? It was a figurative statement about how they were going to be lambasted by the press -- no one is going to literally "tar and feather" anyone in this day and age -- leading to my comment being flagged and my account being suspended with a cool-down period.

The real problem is that this automated action changed my score on the platform. It put me in the cross-hairs of their moderation algorithm, which means that any future post I made would be further scrutinized by their poorly written AI. I was at the start of a vicious cycle that I had no intention of propagating. I've had my account since a few months after it was possible to have a Twitter account. I hit the delete button without hesitation, as many others have. I know the horror stories, and I'm not interested in getting stuck on their moderation treadmill. I'll catch my friends on IRC, Discord, or Slack. Twitter's purpose is meaningless the moment one can no longer effectively communicate on the platform.
I like the idea of interest rate.

I think it often has to actually be paid back in a worse way than money or labor, it often can't be paid back without business disruption, that means slowed future expansion, growth, possible user loss due to bugs, or lack of addressing their future needs and issues promptly, it can come with downtime, feature freezes, etc.
First image in this blog post shows the cursor as it was first(?) seen on an Alto. So, so much of our computing paradigms came from Xerox PARC.

http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-r...
The main argument against Ada is you can achieve a higher level of safety/convenience using C++ frameworks and code analysis tools.
Clearly, this needs a logging a framework. Bonus points if the logger can be configured to POST to an endpoint...
Freetone – Pantone-ish colour palette for Adobe products by Stuart Sem
>Musk didn't want to buy Twitter.

He did but not for this price...
Through Bing Webmaster Tools, I can see pages being crawled, but not indexed. Bing has the sitemap and all the URLs. The robots.txt allows all crawlers. Even if there was an issue there, it would be on their end, and they should be the one fixing it. The result is the same: a mysterious disappearance from their SERPs. And no way or clue on how to fix it.
This is wrong. It moved to the immersive web CG but that doesn't mean it changed form to a JS API. It's just a venue change. The WebXR repo you linked is a different project entirely. The new location for <model> is here: https://immersive-web.github.io/model-element/
idk why but these are really satisfying to read from a stylistic pov
Don't forget he's super anti-remote-work which is going to scare a way a good 30% of the employees anyway
I stopped using it years ago. Echo chambers corrupt minds and are bad for the soul.
The problem with that person though was their obvious bias, as Pool pointed out. She needed someone to challenge her at work, not just on a podcast. Clearly, other Twitter employees were not going to do that as they agreed with those biases.
I disagree but I think what you’re saying applies for most billionaires.

I don’t think Yvon Chouinard is a liar though, for example.
Some of the best pilots in the world. Pretty amazing stuff.