skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And so, Herodotus – the myth-maker – talks up the Spartiates at Thermopylae (you know, the brave 300) and quietly leaves out the other Laconians (who, if you scrutinize his numbers, he knows must be there, to the tune of c. 900 men), downplaying the other Greeks. Spartan leadership is lionized, even when it makes stupid mistakes. Thermopylae, to be clear, was a military disaster and Spartan intransigence nearly loses the battle of Plataea, but Herodotus represents this as boldness in the face of the enemy

https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
Until corporate personhood means Twitter/X can be thrown in jail, I don't think debtors prisons are relevant.
The thing is with Alice you can easily get hot-swappable board with different switches and keycap profiles and it costs less than $200.

While I have been eyeing these "cup" style keyboards for years, I feel very hesitant dropping $400 on a keyboard when my Alice is "fine".

Maybe you are right that Alice is a half measure and going full hog is the way, but I could also be spending $400 on a keyboard and another $100 on shipping on import tax just to end up with a keyboard I don't use.
Materials used in manufacturing can contaminate the product.
I like the idea of 8K on large and up close monitors. I and many others use a smaller 4K TV as a monitor and I would definitely enjoy an increased PPI.
Agreed.

I'm really glad I took the plunge and switched to a keyboard that I could program to move the action away from my pinkies (I moved the character blocks outward and got real creative with the two new columns between g and h).

Had I waited longer I think it would've gradually dampened my enthusiasm for code, just by association.
The regular standard keyboard hasn’t been a limitation to me in any way, I prefer mechanical keyboards as they feel slightly better but I never felt the desire to try a different layout keyboard. However, Im lucky that I don’t have RSI and that I don’t have to type so much so as to justify the effort of a better setup. So keep in mind, while some seek perfection for their own setup others are looking for a solution to a medical sort of problem, and that usually doesn’t have much to do with doing sports and taking breaks, once RSI becomes a problem, it’s no fun..
The Amiga MOD sound is quite distinctive because it uses very low-res instrument samples (typically 8-bit, 8 kHz) played back at different sample rates.

Only four channels were available, so each of those crunchy samples gets to be heard in the mix too.

It was amazing at the time and still sounds unique in its way.

A few PC games used Amiga MOD soundtracks too. Star Control II (1992) comes to mind because it was a very early example of Internet crowdsourcing: the music was created by MOD composers around the world.
The question is reasonable, it’s often not a good time to watch a video and one might want to know if it’s worth coming back to. The problem is that the tone is abrasive.
I loved how huge Netflix's DVD catalog was.

To return closer to that, is any service yet providing a unified interface to all the streaming catalogs? (In which all titles in all services are in a "flat namespace" in the UI, not first selecting a streaming service in the UI and then browsing within that one service.)
I haven’t used those tools, but I guess you would use the data types already defined in them and what is returned from the functions in there?

If you were about to pass on the result from a calculation to somewhere else, a dictionary or list would probably be a good idea. You probably wouldn’t want the entire system be aware of a Pandas specific data type.
It's incredible just how comically bad the saga of Musk's acquisition of Twitter and his general fall from public grace has turned out. You really can't come up with this shit. Next thing you know, he's going to walk into a rake.
Read my comment again. I said “roughly” the same time period. And yes, they overlapped for about a decade and from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with art history and living a century later, that is very close.
This one?

https://www.goldtouch.com/ergonomic-keyboards/
You're responding to something not in the parent comment.

"Protect the vulnerable" there probably means enforcing contractual obligations to pay severance that was promised, not to offer severance in the first place.
The split allows you to open up your shoulders and straight end your wrists. Tenting or tilting does make it even more comfortable because it gets closer to a more vertical (handshake) position. I agree with you that movement, rest, and stretching is key. Staying too long in the same position is not good.
Have you seen how they've treated developers over the past year?
Wow, it has a lot of tracks to load.

Some of these Amiga tracks are so damn upbeat. Love it.
This sounds tricky: since users depend on authors, both depend on implementors, and so on, issues and unhappiness may easily propagate from authors to users, from implementors to both those, etc; similarly to building a project with increasing tech debt, but at multiple layers. And then there is the question of application of this approach: whether one should consider picky and advanced users, or clueless ones, diverse users or an approximated average user, and likewise further along the chain, which is likely to lead to different results.
Is “yoo-id” a common way of pronouncing UUID? I’ve only every spoken each letter in turn.
I’d really love to see someone design a keyboard that fits your hands like a PlayStation controller. I can hold a controller for hours without any pain whatsoever.
LK-99 was never published in a journal, it was on arxiv.
Yes, though it makes sense as majority of Europe and Europe-descended cultures are Indo-Europeans, with Indians and Iranians as the other major cultures.

We know much about Proto-Semitic AND Proto-Afro-Asiatic, thankfully, due to the antiquity of recorded Semitic languages in the Near East. Proto-Austronesian seems to be clear too with the 600+ languages we have access to. Unfortunately the languages between the three (Caucasians, language isolates, Tibeto-Burman, Andamanese, Turko-Mongol-Yeniseian Altaic* sprachbund etc) are much more obscure.

Yeniseian (the originator of such words as Tengri, Kha(g)an, etc) being connected to Native American Apache language was pretty amazing and evidence of the importance of paleo-linguistics in finding out informations about our ancestors
The important thing about the machines is the social culture around them.

As far as the tech itself, I'm pretty much 95% happy with today's hardware and software, and least in terms of function.

For all intents and purposes, video games, social media, and to an extent even most personal projects are basically a recreational drug, having almost no value without the proper set and setting.

In the 90s, the world on the screen was a novelty. When you spend all day on it, it is not.

It was also a reflection of the real world and a way to discover things. Without the physical model airplanes, a model airplane forum would just be another scrolling hole.
The article states that "the system’s maximum efficiency of 13.2 kWp (kilowatt peak) and ability to deliver 8,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually when operated in Sweden."

Sweden's wholesale electricity prices is ~€32/MWh in July 2023, so this is equivalent to a savings of €256/truck/year. My initial impression is that the juice is not worth the squeeze, but wondering if someone with more context would provide arguments for solar roofs on vehicles.

I know Hyundai (Ioniq 5) and Toyota (Prius) are also offering solar roof options on their cars, so there must be a good reason. The Prius, under ideal sunny conditions, can reasonably get to 1.1KWh/day (or 3.2mi of range), which is nothing to sneeze at, but still relatively small in the large scheme of things.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/the-2023-toyota-prius-pr...
> I think Singapore is the number one indication that the corruption indices are bogus.

You haven't even come close to supplying any real evidence to back this claim.
Them: "Stop expecting us to give you special treatment or shielding beyond what we do for all customers."

You: "They're threatening to discriminate against people who like the ex-President!"
Most NA beers are actually harder to produce than regular beers. The process is essentially “make regular beer, then remove the alcohol”
While ergonomic keyboards are big part of some peoples fight against RSI, for many more using them is about comfort. After you get used to having tilted keyboard going back to normal one just feels tight and uncomfortable.

Also for me big part about customizing your tools is exactly that - you get to customize your tools. I type professionally so it is insane to me when I see my colleagues working on some random laptop keyboard and screen day after day when they could spend couple hundred bucks on a nice quality keyboard and large screen or two and make their work more enjoyable.
Pretendo is super cool! It's awesome to see what people can do with homebrew. I'm hopping that at some point someone creates a equivalent of GBStudio for the 3DS/Wii U (even the Wii and DS would be cool too) so more people can start making homebrew for these devices because there's a lot more to explore with what you can do with the Wii U's controller and the 3DS's dual screens and they're just fun devices.

As an aside I'm still bummed that the Wii U and 3DS didn't do very well compared to the Wii and DS. I totally get where Nintendo was going with the Switch and way they made it but for whatever reason it just doesn't scratch the itch the same way the 3DS and Wii U do. I hope some day that someone creates a another dual screen device (like Panic has done with the Playdate). If there's anyone interested in making a device I'd love making games for it.
When I (or to be more precise, when a colleague I was trying to pair program with) used them, these programs infuriated me to no end. Just when I was on to something, I got smacked in the face with a modal dialog.

Perhaps things have improved over the years, but I could not imagine a user interface that would cater to both my physical and mental well-being.
No, not Google either.
That’s a good question. As I get older, I’ve found that I should do all of them: regular exercises, good chair, height-adjustable desk, and a good ergo keyboard.

Even though my wrist issues have disappeared, I wish I could tell the younger me, who could type all day on a grey slab without breaks on a crappy chair, to care about ergonomics and improve along all these dimensions.
> The game with renting is not pay current market rates.

If you can somehow do that, sure! If you can get a service below market rates, take advantage.

But surely it's obvious that by definition, very few people are going to be able to luck into such a position. So it's not broadly applicable advise.

> renting $1800/mo in Palo Alto [...] and they aren't raising rent on me

That's the deal of the century in terms of housing. Yes you're way better off renting on those terms. Since nobody else can find a rent so low in Palo Alto, let alone one that won't go up, for most people reality is different.
Apparently I just don't work very hard and take lots of breaks all the time without an app needing to remind me.

Also, my colleagues find it very annoying when I stand up and start pacing around when I am thinking something through.
That's funny, the latest armored core is giving me RSI. I'm not saying your experience is wrong, just self-deprecatingly reminding you of the old saying about "Make something idiot-proof, and they will build a better idiot."
That latest release of that “BIND 10” is nine years old. The way I heard it, “BIND 10” was created at a time when BIND 9 development had stagnated, and BIND 10 was one of those “let’s rewrite it all” projects that you should never do¹. Consequently, it was a boondoggle, and was relatively quickly abandoned in favor of restarting BIND 9 development, which has continued very nicely ever since.

There was indeed something called “BIND 10”. There is no BIND 10.

1. <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...>
That’s the thing, you don’t have issues until you have them. And then you wish that you cared earlier.

In hindsight I with I’d gotten that adjustable desk and (then) Kinesis Advantage ten years ago. But then I thought it’s a waste of money and I’m doing fine with my Apple keyboard.
"The story of The Spy was really a story of loneliness…"

My wife and I just finished watching all of The Americans on Hulu, and this really resonates with me. Somehow, I managed to completely miss the show when it ran from 2013-2018, and was only reminded of its existence after watching and enjoying The Diplomat on Netflix, which also features Keri Russell in a starring role.

The Americans is about pair of deep cover KGB agents living in the United States in the 1980s. It's very loosely based on real events, and it was created by a former CIA agent.
I think all the focus on PIE derivatives is boring and we should get Europeans some better languages without pointless features like noun genders.
If anyone is interested in making homebrew for the Wii: https://github.com/devkitPro/libogc is pretty good. Certainly not as easy as say GBStudio or any game engine but the Wii's graphics being fixed function makes things a lot easier.
Except you made that accusation up. In all likelihood, you do not know how censorship in USSR functioned (because the hints you provide suggest so). And in all likelihood, you know zero about what is in historical articles or how peer review functions.
For movies letterboxd does this quite nicely but it's a small part of the service rather than central. But any movie has a 'where to watch' section with links to the movies on berries platforms, if you're subscribed of course. This is powered by a third party service, JustWatch, which might work for you - they do seem to have their own thing, not just an API
Operating effectively in high surprise mode
I have this vague recollection that back in the 90's, some culture jamming collective tried to do adbusting defacement of billboards as an LLC, to avoid jail time.

Might have been a CrimethInc. cell, I don't recall.
C Library for Wii and GameCube Homebrew
That is funny of course (in hindsight), at least if you tried to save on 1.44MB 3.5" floppies. When I was restoring all of my old tapes and floppies I could recover nearly all my 9-track CCT tapes, nearly 100% of my 5.25" floppies (various densities, including 1.2MB), many 720KB 3.5" floppies (8" ones are also good) and zero 1.44MB 3.5" floppies. Discussed this with many other people who had basically the same experience with HD 3.5". All of these were stored in the same physical environment. Some other tape media weren't particularly good (exabyte, 4mm tape etc, but then again those used to fail at the very beginning).
I use other engines exclusively. The only time I have to switch back to Google is when I want to look for places where I can "purchase" a thing. It's very telling to me that that's the thing still keeping me on Google because it's so good.

One thing I'll recommend to everyone: Just set your default search to anything but Google. It takes a few months but your brain, internal search result filter and your overall search behaviour adjust. Google is like an addictive drug in some sense.
> “Our experiment wasn’t a digital approximation of the process – this was a direct analogue observation of the quantum dynamics unfolding at a speed we could observe,” he said.

No, they didn’t simulate it in the way we typically simulate. They created a physical process that was an analogue of the actual process but 100b times slower so they could directly observe it.
But hasn't AI boomed already? If you said this 5 years ago, then it would be called emerging tech but now it's already here with many practitioners already.
The original statement is also low-effort and cliché, so why should a comment require more effort?
Where can I read about this claim?
I find this method less mentioned but it works way better than the others and the chemicals are much easily sourcable , A fresh mixture of HCL (toilet cleaning acid) and hydrogen peroxide( available from pharmacy) works much faster than ferric chloride at etching .
I haven't even seen a DVD player in years. Surprised to hear that the service still existed.
It’s the same classic problem when selling business products; the buyers are usually not the users, so no user-friendly features are created; only features which would look good in a demo to the buyers.

Therefore, no products which only contain features which help users (and save them money) can be a success, since the buyers won’t be impressed by it, and will not pay for it.
Reading this article brought back all the things I disliked about being manager. My anxiety shot up as I was reading it. I’m glad I prematurely ran out of text at the subscribe to keep reading button at the bottom.
I'm no expert but my understanding is that the word 'simulation' is a misnomer in this context. A better way to describe what they're trying to do is a proxy system. Effects observed in this proxy system would be used to predict interactions in reality. Whereas simulations are better at describing how real world interactions diverge from our models.
I build popular split ergo keyboards with integrated pointing devices: https://holykeebs.com/
Most of the world only got online and owned personal computers for the first time in the past decade through the meteoric spread of smartphones. Twitter was just there when they arrived and I suppose it was good enough. Twitter was also a famously mediocre implementation of a "great" idea but again, it was just at the right place at the right time.
Of course they are. (Coca cola tastes different in every country, and it is basically, sweetened water with no trace of coca)
How Discord and AI will shape Web 4.0
You'd really think that Sony would have figured out that every single storage medium they've ever made has been an utter failure, but Sony is gonna Sony.

This is a little funny in a thread about floppy disks, considering that the extremely popular and ubiquitous 3.5” Micro Floppy Disk was a Sony design ;)

There are also some other Sony formats that actually stuck, like DAT, Minidisc (yes, not so much in the US from what I gather, but it was A Thing in Europe, Australia and Japan) and Betacam.
Getting 10x views on my YouTube Channel
Same video, same content, just in the language of your viewer's choice at no extra effort!

We developed AutoDubber, a free tool to help translate videos to reach multilingual audience at scale.

Getting 10x views on my Youtube Channel did not feel easier.

Please comment on what we can do better here!

Eagerly waiting for you to 10x your video views by localising your content!
You can get a mounting plate for the Glove80 and mount it vertically. Some people do.

I went through some ergonomics research and they suggest that lower angles are better than completely vertical. It differs per paper, but most comfortable angle in group studies seems to be somewhere between 20 and 45 degrees if I remember correctly (I’d have to dig up the papers again).
or a lathe
I first used basic google analytics but found it too invasive/heavy so I switched over to https://www.goatcounter.com/.

For comments, most solutions were also too heavy, paid or had ads, but I finally found https://giscus.app/.

So while I did add these 2 features, I'm happy with those variants that I managed to find.
I miss the Seattle Public Library!

I COVID-moved out here to Dogpatch with the DPL's tiny permanent collection and 3 InterLibrary Loan requests at a time.

It makes me want to be a hoarder.
Feature creep is a real problem with language design nowadays.
In your given example, I know it's more complicated than that but it is basically an optimization algorithm, right?
I agree the processes are almost random. There’s really very little correlation between a rating and value produced.

I’m increasingly convinced the best systems are those that spend the least amount of everyone’s time. If they’re going to be dysfunctional, they might as well not waste precious time or prolong the agony.
I was reading a book hoping to work out how to derive E=mc2. My idea was to go from being about 400 years behind science to merely being 100 years behind. This sort of reporting makes me realise those 100 years are not linear.

I had to go check that this was real - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01300-3, because it could have as easily been a marketing site for the next Marvel movie for all I could ground it in my understanding of experimentation.
Ikr, I don't know why that is being mentioned. If someone suggested AI five years ago. it would have been emerging then.
Would also reccommend GRRLIB for games.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages
I think Plex would be the closest to this.
Agencies do not exist to build great software. I mean sure, it helps if their output is good enough to guarantee more work, but that's not why they exist. Their purpose as a business is to generate billable hours.

Customers do not hire agencies with the expectation they will build great software. They turn to agencies because they don't have the time or skills to do it themselves, and agencies are cheaper than hiring people and they are more dependable than freelancers. By that I don't mean that freelancers are collectively unreliable, but with an agency you have a dozen or more developers and if one falls sick, they can just replace them with another developer. If your product depends on that one freelancer, you are screwed.

So "10x developers" aren't really suited for agencies, where every hour is billable and accounted for, and the output does not have to be great, it just needs to be more or less reliable and more or less on time and under budget (or at least cost overruns are accounted for).
Which signaling protocols are legal and not legal in Bridge? If you've spent some effort designing a protocol, do you really have to say "Alert" and then explain yourself every time you do anything?
A classic use case for coroutines is easily turning a push (callback) interface into a pull (return) interface. I'm sure many people have thought of using coroutines to handle GUI events this way. Certainly I have, and have even written some code along these lines in a macOS app primarily written in Lua (Yue as the GUI toolkit, along with my Lua I/O event library, cqueues, which I used to help tie into some event sources for which Yue lacked support; cqueues was designed to integrate with, rather than displace, other event loops).

However, GUI frameworks are a nightmare of criss-crossing events and state, and in practice callbacks are the least of your worries. In other domains callback interfaces often force you to scatter what would otherwise be highly localized logic, but it's the nature of GUI frameworks that your event logic will tend to be short, chunked, and scattered regardless, which is demonstrated by the toy examples. Yes, the async pattern turned event pushes into event pulls syntactically, but that's it--there was no real payoff.

I'm sure somebody will eventually go the distance with this approach. I won't dispute that the exercise would be a fun ride.
Today Android Auto pops up a notification saying "Spotify is not supported" and proceeds to fill half my car screen with a Youtube Music promo while disabling BT media controls for spotify.

This company is off the rails, they need to hard fire all the MBA-type idiots making their products shittier in misguided attempts at services revenue generation. When was the last time anyone had a good experience using this garbage?
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