skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here to look for someone talking about it and totally agree, Google Maps routes are getting really worse over time and now I switched to Apple Maps almost exclusively.

I can understand the jam thing but the weird route thing is crazy, especially because that route often makes you spend more time not less. It prefers weird backroads with lots of turns instead of straight larger roads (and that's stupid) but a thing I noticed traveling a lot for work in a hilly area is that it doesn't seem to take road pendency into account. Sometimes it makes you go up and down a hill instead of staying in the valley road that goes around it: it take twice the time IRL but is like it thinks "whoa, 5km instead of 7, that's a great optimization" and that's incredibly stupid.

Apple maps is more conservative and tries to stick to larger roads if possible only sending you into more obscure ones if it is very convenient.

Another thing is that Google Maps is really aggressive on labeling something as a road: sometimes they are off roads, tractor paths or large trails that a car cannot travel on but it doesn't care.

Those are my impressions traveling mostly in Italy and bordering countries.
I always feel like a computer illerate when googling something like 'u umlaut' to copy it from wikipedia.
Neat idea!

The PR industrial complex has been trying so hard to convince us that the all-knowing all-seeing almighty AI is going to take our jobs and turn us into Soylent or whatever. Now let’s feed it some garbage and see if in all its glory it can tell sense from nonsense.
I didn't know any such software either but a week ago i heard of Apache SeaTunnel in a podcast. Apparently it also synchronizes Databases, underlying it uses flink or spark to move data.
I got 500K views and 10K downloads on Unsplash and zero traffic
Compare it to the sheer readability of open street maps though, and you realise the vast white spaces next to the yellow lines are full of interesting buildings.

If anyone wants to try it, OrganicMaps on F-droid do a fantastic job delivering raster maps with navigation
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016876
This looks like a case of design by committee, e.g. due to the compromises none of the target audiences are actually happy.
Honestly I think you really need to check out of the news cycle, find a hobby or something to do with your wife, and not worry so much. Outside of a few unique historical time periods, the ruling party in a democracy and the zeitgeist of an era does not really impact the day to day life of upper middle class people like yourself.

You are making an ungodly amount of money in your home country, where taxes and living expenses are low and there is a lot of growth prospects. You could make more money even while switching to engineering if you were to relocate to Silicon Valley. That's pretty much the only option though--you are not going to make more after tax, take-home pay in Europe or Canada.
I've noticed it post covid. The refresh rate or weightage of current situation seems to have been reduced by a lot.
Depends. Basically, the API is free if all you do is display a map, keep the Google branding at the bottom, and add a few of those pins.

Make one of those pins move because it's actually a car, and suddenly your cheeks are getting clapped with 6+-figure bills.
If I’m mostly writing Finnish text, then the native Finnish layout (with separate keys for Å, Ä, and Ö) seems better. And if I’m coding, I personally prefer the US English layout where [, {, ;, etc. are more easily accessible. But I could see this layout being a better fit if I’d need to frequently swap between multiple different languages and still have convenient access to the most common symbols used in coding.
European language - there is no such thing so there is no need for such keyboard layout.
Because the blog post itself is also snarky and adds absolutely nothing to the topic either. The biggest tracking company in the world is talking about privacy controls, how else we are supposed to take that other than sarcasm?
Not sure if the "transducer" approach suggested as a workaround makes your life easier or further adds to the mental overhead. See https://www.astrecipes.net/blog/2016/11/24/transducers-how-t... for some example transducers.
Do you also think it is odd that news consumers would then want to possibly discuss or share the news with people they know?

Because that's the reason. Folks interested in news tend to talk about it with other folks interested - and that has happened long before the internet. In some cases, it is pretty similar to leaving a newspaper in a fast food place: Let folks you don't see much (or at all) read that stuff as well.

It doesn't always matter if other options are better - folks work with what they have. Similar to wanting to talk to someone more intelligent about the news, but still talking about it with the folks you have around.
UK ISO is indeed the best for me as well, as a software developer. Having @ and " swapped makes so much sense for me, I don't know why.

I also much prefer having \ and | located next to the left shift key. It's a single hand input, and the large enter key is so much nicer.
There was a day when I had to switch between Japanese-Swedish-US physical keyboard due to differences between my laptop, office's machine, and some other machines I had to take care of.

The problem with switching keyboard like this is not the placement of alphabet, but the different location of symbols. Like, "/" and "-" have the same location between US and swedish keyboard, respectively. And this cost me a lot of context switching.

Decided to screw it, by bringing my US keyboard everywhere, and (virtually) switch to another keyboard just if I need to, i.e., to write particular characters like "ö,ä,å".
No sign of Greek on it either.
> precision has a 53-bit mantissa (~16 decimal digits), that means if you need only 8 or fewer decimal digits, you're completely fine with double precision

phave you ever played Kerbal Soace Program? have you met the Kraken?

the game simulates a spacecraft you build piece by piece. So you are flying around in space and a thruster fires and maybe some part of the ship is poorly attached and it wobbling. Everything is fine, but then you clip upper atmosphere of mars, and everything goes to shit - tleven though it shoupd pose no threat, the spacecraft spontaneously shakes itself to pieces

That game is plagued by massove problems with floating point errors , they kill you vrew, they ruin your missions, your speed of rotation becomea a NAN
That's basically a US layout with some tweaks. Nice try muricans...
Jokes aside, honestly I feel confident with US (or ISO/UK) keyboard and I think that I share this sensation with the vast majority of european developers and sysadmins. Also in general the ANSI format is more aestetically pleasing than ISO one, and, above of all, if you like mechanical keyboards ANSI plates are more widespread and consequentially cheaper, so I don't oppose this proposal
On Windows, I'm fairly happy with the "Pseudo VT320" layout from https://keyboards.jargon-file.org/ . All added characters and accents are via AltGr dead keys, so it's not in the way of normal programming. It would be nice to have a few more dead key combinations for northern and eastern European accents though.
This is the reason why just using local layout (or modification of it) makes the most sense. The keys are where they are for good reason. That said do you ever really need å or Å in finnish layout?
It's missing at least "ß" for German, has annoying dead key, but above all it's extremely awkward for coding because most symbols have been shuffled around for no good reason.

Try out altgr-intl[1] (but no dead keys, where you just press e.g. AltrGr+E for "é", might not be installed on windows/mac). It's much better than Spanish for Spanish, can be used for the mentioned languages and probably some Scandinavian, and doesn't make writing code awkward.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QWERTY_keyboard_langua...
The obvious solution would be to have all variants of a "base" character like a or e be accessible via the same key + shift/TAB/option, etc. So s would include ś, ș, etc. Obviously this doesn't line up exactly with how the letters are used in their respective languages, but it's a visually-optimized solution.
Scrolljacking 101
Also ã/Ã seems missing?

While it's a nice idea and usually I am a sucker for all things starting with European*, it seems to fall short and the practical use seems limited - who is writing more than 3-4 languages at a time?

I'll stick to my AutoHotkey macros to put portuguese ã/ç/õ via AltGr on my german keyboard:

<^>!a::Send {ASC 0227}
+<^>!A::Send {ASC 0195}
<^>!c::Send {ASC 0231}
+<^>!C::Send {ASC =199}
<^>!o::Send {ASC 0245}
+<^>!O::Send {ASC 0213}

(+1 for my fellow ISO Return key users in the thread)
"European" keyboard layout that's ANSI and not ISO? Is this a joke?
I often find Apple Maps navigation frustrating. For instance, they don't show which platform a train is leaving from (in London). Knowing that there is a train leaving in 3 minutes somewhere on 15 platform train station isn't helpful.
Because Google always wants to have its cake and eat it too. Every one of their product tries to be "smart", and it inevitably miserably fails. Google Maps tries to both be a normal map, and then a list of events and places around you, then a shopping guide, then... then it fails at all of these.

Letting you specify on Google Maps a kind of context that would swap between these at will would be an infinitely better experience, but unfortunately it doesn't grant promotions, unlike a blog post about the _brand new smart experience_
Õ is also missing from Estonian.
Shameless plug: I maintain a keyboard layout that allows you to effortlessly type 15+ European languages with it. It's entirely compatible with QWERTY, so anyone can switch to it without relearning anything.

Contrary to EurKey and QWERTY international, it's a breeze to learn and use. The placement of every key is logical, you just need to learn a few simple rules and then everything makes sense!

See the project on GitHub: https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr

Previous thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229583
Upvote if you're in the Azerty gang
Are you allowed to have a tinder profile that says '$350/hr'?

That would be an open market.
If you're a Swedish-speaking Finn (like Linus Torvalds), yes.
I use the Swiss layout for the exact same reasons. Plus, it’s easy to find here in Switzerland. The only extra keys are the ones one uses a lot when typing German and French.
¿Qué?
Not seeing any mention of K8s other than the description of the picture.
As of recently, doctors refuse to see you in person even when you tell them you're chronically having abdominal pains. They're doing this telephone medicine now. They kept prescribing PPIs and insisting its indigestion (it wasn't).

Not sure if this practice is just shit or if all of them are. They then have the audacity to strike too. I've had absolutely zero sympathy for them since the months long ordeal of being in pain and taking pills that made me feel worse rather than better. Fucking disgraceful is what it has become.
Orb is a free and open source web desktop
Another gem I never knew about: "clicking on a street gives me a popup with the name". You have to really click precisely, but that worked..!
So, as with the danger of oil spills, will we now have the danger of electric spills.
Thanks, I'm annoyed that Netflix never recommended this to me, even though I've watched many tech documentaries.
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Agreed. You can't have normal usage letters behind AltGr when writing your own language, that'll get annoying fast.
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"As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions or preferences. However, I can provide some information based on my training data up to September 2021."

I'm confused.. if it's being trained on data up to a certain date, than why would the web crawler matter?
Reallz well said ;)
Greek letters are supported using Alt Gr + M :
https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/download/windows/1.2/eur...
Because, if you read the report, suc an option is not needed:
- if you disable IO port allocation and plug in a card that requires it, that card cannot possibly work
- if you don't disable it but use only cards that don't require IO ports, you might get an error in your dmesg but the card will still work just fine

So, why would you need to specify this option in the first place?
Well it's not so much about the physical act of doing it, it's the trying to convince the world it's for your own private use and not for commercial gain.

Otherwise, intellectual property laws can perhaps apply.

It'd be a hard push to claim it's fair use, a wholesale copying of other's works.
Plain Polish layout is much better and much more „European” than this thing. You can input all the accented letters from all over the Europe (not only letters from Polish alphabet) using combining strokes. For example, ä is "Alt+[ a". In addition to that there's assortment of math/greek characters, many punctuation characters (incl. full set of all the various quotes and arrows, which is handy) and even some Latin ligatures.

The single exception is T-comma (used in Romanian), LATIN {CAPITAL,SMALL} LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW, which AFAIK is impossible to input.
I use something similar to this. Although as a Spanish, the acute accent is prioritized on the main vowels: aeiou -> áéíóú, with alt-gr, and the dieresis (¨) is only used with the u (ü) so I leave it at a chord (alt-gr ', u)

https://github.com/kikito/us-4-es.keylayout
There is strong demand for keyboards with smaller keys. I am loving my Arturia MiniFreak, for example.
Great idea! Most programmers use the US layout anyway because then stuff like [ and { are easy to reach. This project extends the US layout by adding all the usual German+French+Italian+Spanish special characters onto the regular character keys, similar to how Alt+E is the Euro sign on standard German keyboards. Alt+A is Ä, Alt+O is Ö, Alt+U is Ü and Alt+S is ß so for German, that choice seems quite intuitive.
> How do I type ä

<COMPOSE> " a

where COMPOSE is typically ALTGR, but you can map it anywhere you want, like CAPSLOCK

I write daily in three european languages with many accented characters, and this is enough for all of them. I have even mapped composing a to α, b to β and so on, which is useful for the (occasional) greek word.

EDIT: (thanks to gpvos comment below), on linux with xorg you can achieve this by the following configuration:

# setup base keyboard layoud and model
setxkbmap us
setxkbmap -model evdev

# set compose to right alt
setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

# disable capslock sticky effect, set it as modifier
setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier
xkbset nullify lock

# enable dead greek letters
xmodmap -e "keycode 148 = dead_greek dead_greek dead_greek dead_greek"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = dead_greek dead_greek dead_greek dead_greek"

# swap brackets with parens (useful for programming)
xmodmap -e "keycode 18 = 9 bracketleft"
xmodmap -e "keycode 19 = 0 bracketright"
xmodmap -e "keycode 34 = parenleft braceleft"
xmodmap -e "keycode 35 = parenright braceright"

# enable ridiculously fast repeat
xset r rate 250 120

This nearly works on openbsd (you have to install the xkbset package, maybe there is another way). I guess that on macos and windows you can do similar things.
What needs a radical redesign is the keyboard: https://jpreston.xyz/1d-isomorphic-chromatic-piano-keyboard-...
For Romanians and Moldavian I don't see: ă â ș ț î

This is an impossible task, just use the standard "Programmers" layout for your language which maps to US and allows access to accented characters via modifiers. The entire notion of a "local" keyboard layout sounds like a nationalistic throwback to the days where the world was much smaller. Some languages really need it, but most using the Latin alphabet simply don't, just stick to US.
> Academics are always working...

Just like comedians. They are always playing scenarios in their head and playtesting jokes.
True. Lacks Polish ĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŻŹ/ąćęłńóśżź.
I think you're supposed to use the composition key for those. Don't know how frequent they are in croatian though, so it might be impairing the speed at which you can type if they are very common
When I did a talk about docker I also wanted to show a bit of what it does under the hood without going through all the layers and without too much details. This ~120 lines of shell script is really good in providing just an intro into what's needed for containers: https://github.com/p8952/bocker/blob/master/bocker
(not mine)
I mean, technically you can just disallow all robots in your robots.txt and only allow those of which you are aware and you like?
... this article is published on a website that shows me a "Would you eat mustard Skittles?" autoplay video 5 seconds after I started reading the article.

I can pause the video, but can not close it. It remains at the bottom of the page. Wow.
Is there an overview somewhere how much RAM is needed for which model? Is it possible at all to run 4bit 70B on CPU and RAM?
Proposing a layout based on US-ANSI is the definition of madness. We can discuss what's on the keys, but my ISO layout stays.
Reservoir failure linked to software (turn it off and on again)
In most European languages you will want to type an occasional é, ä or ø. Preferably without having to remember character codes, and with logical keyboard combinations.
You don't even need to use Option — by long-pressing a letter, you have a menu opened with all the different options conveniently numbered. As an example for the letter "a": a1 is à, a2 is á ... a8 is ā.
How about get their news from independent journalists and fellow citizens?

Because we do that now. "News" sites with independent journalist filled with misinformation. Aunt Marge telling you what happened, only putting a religious slant on it.

And I can pretty well promise that neither Aunt Marge nor the "news" sites are going to have any news on the war in another country that your neighbor's son just died in, nor a drought that has affected wheat prices globally or things like that.

It isn't that professional journalists always get things right, but its better than Aunt Marge and the "news" sites out there.
CH layout for the win
That must be painful unless you write foreign sentence just a few times a day. I'd install IME at that point, which basically gives you switchable keyboard layouts. たとえば、日本語をCOMPOSEキーで書いてみたら？
Belgian Azerty represent!
Fake food is a huge thing in japan. A lot of restaurants display their entire menu as an arrangement of fake dishes behind a window near the entrance, so you can see exactly what you can expect when you order something. Some of the food displays can get quite elaborate:

https://foto.sharix.eu.org/uploads/big/58def760470b51dc13515...
https://foto.sharix.eu.org/uploads/big/4375dc970871dcba3aebc...
Paraphrase: However, I can provide some information up to September 2021 based on my training data

I believe the chatbot is prompted to not answer for things after Sept 2021, rather than the data itself being limited.

I could be wrong though.
Developer from Norway here and I've used 'US Intl, with dead keys' for about 10+ years.

Our ÆØÅæøå are slightly inconvenient (using AltGR on Linux, and Option on Mac), but you quickly adapt and I find it to be worth it to have all the programming relevant characters like '"{(\| in the super convenient location of the US keyboard.

My extremely made up assumption is that the Norwegian keyboard design was designed for typewriters, and the US is an older design made by and for developers.
What is going on with emojis on GitHub?
Adsense pays you money for showing ads to human visitors, you don't get paid for allowing their crawler.
See qwerty-fr[1] for a keyboard layout that is based on QWERTY but with a sane placement of keys contrary to US international.

[1] https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr#readme
I just had to check on my iPhone with Firefox and ProtonVPN (doing what it can at) filtering ads. and yes, I saw it, too. that's so fucked up. time to go back to some custom Android ROM with Firefox + uBlock.
When I'm working on a new algorithm, nobody is going to be surprised if they don't hear from me for 2 weeks :) It all boils down to trust and managing expectations.
Is it? I've had a few mechanical keyboards, and follow some of those webpages devoted to different switches etc (not obsessively though, once in a blue moon), and I don't recall seeing "bottoming out" and "shocks" as any major benefit mentioned.

I also remember typewriters and old IBM style mechanical keyboards beeing quite heavy to activate, subjectively needing more pressure than some chiclet style "shock" (which I can barely feel).
Here is a shorter scrolljacking 101:

> don't
Your comment is useless if you do not specify which OS and keyboard layout you are using, or which mapping utility. This is absolutely not standard everywhere.
Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts
> Do you know what sort of state the project is in right now?

Sorry, but I don't.

I linked it as an example of handling your own tables by name vs by ref in a Nif.
There's no such thing as a standard Fn key, that's handled by the keyboard itself. Standard layouts don't have a Fn at all.
I wrote up a few ideas on reducing cognitive load for devs just last week:

https://twitter.com/willrftaylor/status/1686769507048546304?...

Certainly a non-exhaustive list, and I'm always keen to hear others' takes.
This seems to suffer from the "Swiss Army Knife Syndrome": It does many things, but not one thing well.

Any individual "European" (that is, a speaker of a language which uses those Latin-extended characters) is going to want a layout where the symbols they use daily are accessible either as separate keys, or with Shift. Requiring AltGr to type é and è isn't going to fly with users who need them. And I'm certainly not going to press Shift+AltGr+A/O/U to get Ä/Ö/Ü, which I have to type many times per day.

Some parts of the layout also seem to ignore which letters are actually in use. The capital Eszett (ẞ, Shift+AltGr+S in this layout) simply isn't a thing in the real world. It has zero usage in practice. Surely that spot could be utilized for something better?
Organic Maps is the closest thing to what you want that I have found. The only thing it doesn't tick off your list is the streamed maps parts, as it's fully offline. It works really well in my experience, I use it frequently while travelling. The only downsides I've found are that it doesn't do real time traffic, and it doesn't seem to do multi lingual search very well. For example, if you are in Barcelona where the local official language is Catalan, and you are trying to search for "Calle Somestreet" in Spanish, it will be expecting you to search for "Carrer de Somestreet" and will show you "Calle Somestreet" in Madrid, for example.
What do we recommend for qualitative research, where replicability is not a quality criterion?