skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll interpret this as "what design choices that you made for your blog deprived you of something you could have had?"

Maybe others can find answering it in this light interesting too.

I have no analytics tracking and host my site on GitHub Pages, so I have no idea how many people have seen my work or read my stuff hosted there (I've tried out substack too which does give page views and referrers).

So my personal blog (tech choices) have deprived me of understanding what people tend to like, finish, read, re-visit, how they found it etc or (if I had more intense tracking) what type of people tend to visit, where they live and where they work etc.

I also have no comments sections, so I've deprived myself of the potential for engagement or constructive feedback etc

I very likely could find ways to improve content and increase personal motivation using those types of tools, but it's a personal blog and I just rather let everyone be anonymous.
It's good that you know and understand things at a deeper level.

That should make you even better equipped to design simple interfaces that require as little depth of understanding as possible from the next person.

Similarly I've happily spent my couple of years with functional purity and higher-level types in academic languages - function signatures sometimes orders of magnitude longer than the implementation itself - yet I dip into those depths only as necessary and try to keep my TypeScript interfaces as "stupid" as I can get away with without compromising on semantics. Enums are too fancy for me. I try to keep state at minimum but there's a 'let' every few thousand lines or so.

And all that venturing into lower-level concurrent C++, agent systems, parallel programming, erlang? You ain't gonna know about any of that looking at my concurrent Rust.

> One of the benefits of working at the direction of my own muse.

Oh, well, what I'm writing above is from the point of code meant for collaboration - either open source or professionally. If you're coding for yourself only, or in academia, by all means stop trying to please the crowd and start cranking out some poetry!
> Tesla say their thing "<insert arbitrary cherry-picked stat here>" <insert link to Tesla fanboi website here>

No, I don't believe any of those p-hacked/biased stats that conveniently portray something, that is sold as BETA SOFTWARE by a company with a multi-billion market cap and a world-class marketing division, to be "safer" than an average driver.

FWIW I'm also not thrilled with the idea of the average person being permitted to get behind the wheel of a 5 tonne death machine, either.

> So maybe we should worry more about the average American?

As an outsider (Australian) watching the American empire decline so rapidly in recent years, I assure you I'm also quite worried about America, and the average American.
I'm not sure it's really that different. If a fight over Taiwan started, mainland Chinese businesses would also be unavailable to America. Doesn't matter what side of the straight it's on. Now, maybe chipmaking is of more geostrategic importance than later electronics assembly is. It's certainly harder to do. But given how much Foxconn makes, I think losing them would be significant.
I haven't read this book yet, but the movie is great. One of the best spy movies I've seen.
> Anyone have any recommendations for other classic spy novels like le Carre’s?

Probably not comparable, but Frederick Forsyth's novels are great. He wrote The Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol, etc. If you want a taste for his books, I would suggest The Devil's Alternative.
I've never played bridge, but euchre is super-popular around here. I honestly don't get it. It can be a decent pastime or social activity for a few games but I get bored with it pretty quickly. It's pretty simple once you learn it and it becomes almost mechanical. I just don't find it that appealing.
The bluetooth issues are sort of resolved with the 3.0 firmware, but the previous firmware versions were pretty awful in scenarios where you turn the keyboards off and the pairing between halves becomes an absolute nightmare.

With that being said, while Kinesis' own firmware for their keyboards (SmartSet) has gotten a lot better over the years, it still doesn't really come close to ZMK or QMK. To me the functionality of the firmware trumps the occasional reliability issues of the bluetooth.

I just hate that they pushed all customization to a third party. I got another set of blank PCBs for my Kinesis Advantage 2 by emailing Kinesis support (which is fantastic, by the way) and paying roughly 100 bucks for them. Now they send you to upgradekeyboards who are expensive and have massive lead times when I just want some PCBs so I can replace the gateron browns in my keyboard without having to desolder everything.
Robert Ludlum had many that were great. The original Bourne Identity got my family hooked. Beware the post death authorized books

David Morrel also had some good ones. Brotherhood of the Rose was great.
> KDE is too much Windowsy for my taste.

Agreed. GNOME has a much more original approach, and doesn't have those weird window action buttons. I got confused when I first seen them.
Given the legacy of white privilege in American society, why do white people have lower life expectancy than their counterparts in Canada and Western Europe, as well as per capita suicide and psychiatric disorder rates far higher than their Black, Asian or Latino peers? Their conclusion: “Whiteness encourages whites to reject policies designed to help the poor and reduce inequality because of animosity toward people of color as well as being unaware that the poor include a great many white people.”

This isn't supported by the data though is it?

That said, African Americans actually fare a bit better, relatively speaking, in Greater Appalachia (where their life expectancy is 74.2) than in many other regions, including the Deep South (where it’s 73.6) and even the Far West (74.1) and Yankeedom (73.6).

Hispanics actually have much higher life expectancy than whites in the U.S. Researchers call this the “Hispanic Paradox” because it confounds the usual associations between socioeconomic status and life expectancy

Which both contradict an earlier quote:

This is logical considering the overall values and variation in health and opportunity of Yankeedom are more favorable than the Deep South or Greater Appalachia,” she said. “There are regions of the country with structural barriers to health, where types of long-standing discrimination and disinvestment have occurred through policies and practices applied and reinforced by people with more power.

The author's claims about regions and about health disparities caused by different views of healthcare policy doesn't seem supported by the data. The racist South, built by feudal slave lords, is equal to Yankeedom in terms of lifespan for Black people and worse for white people. That doesn't fit the narrative that whites in the South choose policies that limit Blacks. The "Hispanic Paradox" also calls into question whether the regions, which seem made up, even matter.
I don't know if it's actually in my best interest to learn to drink. I don't seem to tolerate most alcohols very well but I've certainly read a fair amount that suggests that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with positive health outcomes.

Chalk it up to someone with a defective body wistfully looking at stories of "normal" people and knowing that's got no bearing on my life.

But thanks for trying to be helpful. It's a bad habit of mine to do similar and is often met with open hostility which still mystifies me to this day. I guess some people -- like moi -- never learn.
Namco didn't have abundant capital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco#Financial_decline_and_re...
there is a middle ground now. There are multiple agency-as-a-service companies (like lifeandhalf.com, etc) which basically give you an agency infrastructure without running it yourself.

where infrastructure means - account managers, talented (but junior) design/copy staff, invoicing, etc

Its an interesting model - where really talented people & studio can still achieve scale up without the uninteresting parts of the scale up.
I've seen many current attempts on HackerNews to elevate one or another claimant to the first flight throne. It's not just the Smithsonian a century ago!
> There were no sectors, just data fields

That's not really true – an (E)CKD record is fundamentally the same thing as a sector. The difference is that on standard hard disks (what in IBM nomenclature is called FBA DASD), the norm is every sector on the disk has the same size; CKD permits each track to have a different sector size, and even different sized sectors on the same track. Also, CKD optionally has separate key and data fields, with a physical gap between them; in floppies and standard hard disks, there is only count and data fields (count = sector header), and any key-data separation has to be marked logically (by a byte offset) not physically.

> So I'm wondering if CKD was ever a thing on floppies?

No, CKD was never used for floppies. In the standard IBM floppy format, the sector size is in the header of each sector, so in principle you could have a mix of different sized sectors on the same track, like CKD permits; in practice, I've never heard of anyone doing that, I question whether the floppy disk controller could cope with it; even if the FDC somehow could, almost all software would be confused by it. (I suppose if the FDC can handle it, someone may have adopted it as part of a floppy disk copy protection scheme.)

Something which did actually happen, albeit rarely, was formatting the first track on the disk as 128 byte sectors, and the remaining tracks with bigger sectors (such as 256 or 512 byte), to retain some limited backward compatibility with older systems that only supported 128 byte sectors; at least being able to read the first track might make clear it was a valid disk that just couldn't be read on this system, as opposed to thinking it was an invalid disk, and then formatting it in response, causing the loss of that valid data. Systems that did this sometimes also physically recorded that first track as FM, while using MFM for the remaining tracks. This was largely a 1970s concern; by the time the 1980s came around, systems which only supported 128 byte sectors had become practically irrelevant.

The classic IBM 3740 floppy filesystem supports record-oriented files. Some vendors other than IBM adopted it (e.g. Olivetti), but most non-IBM vendors ignored it, and developed their own filesystems instead (e.g. the CP/M filesystem, Microsoft's FAT). ECMA standardised an ASCII version of it as ECMA-91 in 1984 [0]. That standard didn't support keyed/indexed files, but could easily have been extended to support it–if anybody had cared to do so, as I said, relatively few vendors ever paid attention to it. The 3740 did support a key field in each database record (sector), but the key-data separation was only marked logically (by a byte offset into the data), not physically by a recording gap.

[0] https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-9...
Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die.

Likely there's some SSA going on that recons the value from the pointer is undefined. So any value will do. And whatever value happens to be in eax is a perfectly cromulent value; might as well just return that.
I bought moonlander some time ago and found the learning process far too frustrating. What's more, I noticed that the more I switched to the new layout, the more I was struggling with more classic ones (primarily laptops and my trusty MS NEK 4000). That was enough for me to shelve the moonlander for now.

How long it takes to fully and comfortably switch, including all the punctuation characters? Did you also struggle with other keyboards?
Parsifal Mosaic was one of my favorite Ludlum books outside the obvious Bourne books (which actually got a little tired after the 3rd or 4th when he was “returning” as the mentor)
Be a hacker and write a userscript to reformat the UI as you choose.
Well it's good to know that you don't stereotype.
How linux works:https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks3
> Anchovy, Herring

are they farmable on industrial scale to feed humanity?
You must mean the book? I didn’t recall this scene from the miniseries.
The Pragmatic Programmer[1] is a classic that reasonably fits your description.

> For twenty years, the lessons from The Pragmatic Programmer have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology.

I’m not sure whether it’s “beginner” enough for you, but it is certainly general and foundational.

[1]: https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-2...
Thanks for this information. I am a NRI and I do have a NRO account. Can I use that account for getting a UPI wallet?
That's why La longue durée put forward by the Annales School and by Braudel is the way to go, because with all its minuses it focuses not on the individuals or on specific events, but on the great "waves" of history. So, and back to the article, in that respect for the Annales School it doesn't really matter if it was Cort or a Jamaican man that "invented" the "Cort process".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue_dur%C3%A9e
If you like this, check out this channel's other videos, this creator has a sort of orthogonal way of thinking about mechanisms that I deeply appreciate. It's always a treat when they upload.
Are people bailing? So far it seems like the self-reliance is working as planned. We kind of need to see if something bad happens to those people waiting it out.

It’s not ironic that people don’t like being rained on and stuck in mud. It’s not a sight discomfort. And people aren’t bailing as the roads are closed and they are stuck there.
if it came in a green or brown bottle

That's pretty easy. Green or clear bottles taste more skunky because of the mercaptans (iirc) that form from a reaction with the light. That's why it's typically in brown bottles and why corona tastes so bad.
if you live in a country where ISP or government puts you on a list for visiting a russian search engine, consider switching countries.
There are a lot of touted ergo features: tenting, concave keywell, l/r split, ortho columns, thumb cluster. Of these, the most important IME is the thumb cluster -- giving more work to your thumbs and taking load off your pinkies.

This led me to HHKB JP layout for 80/20 ergo benefit without having to carry two unwieldy halves of a keyboard when I want portability. Still use Kinesis Advantage 2 at home, but nothing beats the HHKB JP when traveling.
> Not in terms of filtering illegal content. That's a separate issue that has nothing to do with quality.

Au contraire, it's extremely common for measures designed to suppress illegal or disfavored content to have a high false positive rate and disappear from the results the very thing you're looking for even though it isn't illegal.

> isn't the whole criticism of YouTube is that is sends people down rabbit holes of right-wing and conspiracy recommendations? How do you explain that?

Google search and YouTube recommendations are different things entirely.

> You can search for literally anything on Fox News and Google will find it for you. There's no evidence whatsoever of Google results trying to show political bias.

It has a heavy mainstream bias. Fox News is right-leaning but it's the mainstream media. See if you can get it to organically surface anything from a libertarian or communist perspective, for example.
This is bizarre. I've never heard the incorrect version said before. Do people actually say that because it makes no sense?
And young people are better? I seen university student openly wearing t-shirt that promote geno*ide, constant sexist jokes, supporting violence and terrorism!
If a client doesn’t care, that means it also internally operates on principles different from just getting the job done. Sometimes it doesn’t even know what the job is. There’s a budget and a general direction, burn the money and hope the wheels are at the right angle. The fact that they spent millions on a simple result only helps upselling it further.
I love my Glove80 with Pro Reds at 35 grams. 14 years on Kinesis Advantage and not looking back.

I gave up on ordering KA360 when I heard from several people that even the wired version was as plagued with issues as the Bluetooth one without in house expertise to resolve it, reliant on contractors.
As I read this thread in the early morning before the family rouses, my tired eyes keep misreading “ahistorical” as “shitstorical”, which, amusingly enough, isn’t far off the intended meaning.
> The so called 'jungle music' is defined by the amen - it is not jungle unless it has it. Period.

This is definitely NOT TRUE! Plenty of jungle has no amens in it:
DJ Hype - Roll Da Beats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNo9NR3F7KA)

DJ Dextrous (Da Kings Of The Jungle) - Time To Move (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhXUEetPY6E)

Tom & Jerry - Maximum Style (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVukhJ1acSc)

Dillinja - Tear Down Da Whole Place (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVGJGR5maI)

THE MOST WELL KNOWN JUNGLE TUNE OF ALL TIME HAS Z E R O AMENS IN IT:

M-Beat - Incredible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2Bgj-za5k)

It's the Blowfly - Sesame's Treat break.
Harvard Library ends use of subject heading ‘illegal alien’ (2021)
Currency notes and credit/debit cards work well.
What do you mean “if”?
https://imgur.com/KsLQxNC
Took me a few days. 14 years ago on Kinesis Advantage, it took me maybe 2 weeks.
... I don't understand. What's your complaint here? Is it somehow a bad thing for them to write a topical article that adds context to a current piece of media? I had no idea about these details of Bram Stoker's Dracula and it's interesting finding out more about it. I didn't realize The Last Voyage of the Demeter would be about dracula until seeing it and it's fun to read more about it.

So yeah, be less cynical. Some of us want to learn more about the world around us. Sometimes it's really tiring reading the comments here. Nothing but bitter old men yelling at clouds.
The MCAS system could be overridden with the electric thumb switches, and both crews did just that.

What they didn't do is then turn it off. The stab trim cutoff switch turns it off. When the MCAS reactivated, then it was time to cut it off.

The LA crew restored trim to normal with the thumb switches 25 times.
and this is my recent struggle with google search: https://bigmemes99.funnyjunk.com/pictures/I+hate+google+so+m...
Reading Windschuttle's "Fabrication of Aboriginal History" along with the heavily critical responses in "Whitewash" was a fascinating intellectual exercise. I went in quite neutral on the issue and came out convinced that, while there are some factual issues in Winschuttle's account, the thrust of his argument was correct and that Australian history was in deep trouble as a discipline. The essays in Whitewash show all the weaknesses described in the article above - they are filled with motivated reasoning by people who are very strongly constrained in the conclusions they are able to reach, both by ideology and by social pressures from their peers.

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/1876492058/ref=dbs_a_de...

https://www.amazon.com/Whitewash-Windschuttles-Fabrication-A...
Fixed price then?
> $10/lb for salmon vs $8/lb for the ham

you can find $2/lb ham, but you can't find salmon for that price.

lb/$10 will be transformed into something like 300g after cooking process, and for person with minimum wage, it means he needs to work for 1h after taxes to get 300g of product, this is like pre-industrial level of productivity and income.. And there are people outside US with even lower wages.
Dactyl thumb cluster is not good. Glove80 nailed it and the community is very supportive.
A universe where you are not standing on the shoulders of giants.

For a little context the deep note was released the same year as TCP/IP and the Commodore 64. Source code was mostly shared by printing it in magazines (multi-page printed publications that would be mailed to your house monthly in exchange for a yearly subscription fee).
I mean the drug users that punched my car, break windows, yell at all hours, stole my best friends bike tire, and shit around every corner even though there are plenty of public toilets. Don’t care whether it’s “legal”.
i should clarify i’m not smoking the meats, i’m just grilling. But I can definitely taste the difference between charcoal and briquettes.

I guess for real smoking i’ll have to find wood.
I know I need one.
I have an Alice layout keyboard (think Microsoft ergonomic keyboard) and it helps but I know a fully ergonomic keyboard that I can tent is in my future eventually.

Anyone have tips on getting up to speed with a new keyboard? My productivity drops dramatically every time I’ve tried it. Last time with a Kinesis FreeStyle and I just wasn’t adjusting fast enough.

I’ll take tips on how to adopt an ergonomic mouse too
Can anyone elaborate on Free Office? I checked, it was first submitted to AUR in 2013, but it’s the very first time I hear the brand. I use Libre Office and I tried OnlyOffice as well. Of course I know Open Office, which Libree Office was, once upon a time.

But I never seen in any shape of form Free Office. I couldn’t find even Wikipedia article about them. Their website looks dull to me. What is it all about?

Me, I’m looking for a way to fool people that claim they need Windows when they need browser and Office by installing Linux (possibly with some similar looking shell) and some Office suite that looks very similar. Is Free Office that thing?
A million dollars is a lot but it won't buy you the carefree life it once did. Most of those millionaires are house rich. Most will still need to go to work every day.
> claiming the research would benefit some minority or another, are inserted at a late stage after someone mentions that the application would stand no chance without them.

Funny, it's similar to "forced" mentions of Marxism inserted apparently at will in social science books/papers written in Romanian back when the Wall was still up. Towards the later years of the communist government being in power those Marx insertions had been replaced by quotes to what Ceausescu had said.
How about joysound Wii support?
I like all of his George Smiley novels. But perhaps the most haunting for me is The Looking Glass War (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Looking_Glass_War). I had just urned 50 when I read it and was actually surrounded by a lot of people ranging 60-80.

While a spy novel, it’s almost more of dark comic tragedy on the power of nostalgia. I easily find the storyline transferrable to some of the “established” organizations I’ve done work for.

Aging is hard. I wish there were Ben more books and stories like this one.
Charcoal is resistant to the natural decomposition that normally turns wood back into CO2. Therefore if you char wood then bury that charcoal, you don't need to go deep underground to sequester the carbon. Burying charcoal in the topsoil can sequester that carbon for thousands of years or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrogenic_carbon_capture_and_s...
if you want to easily get started with tracker on your PC (windows) there is the free Modplug Tracker !
Twitter always should have been an Internet protocol.

But we don’t make those anymore. Haven’t for a while. If we didn’t already have email, I doubt we could create it (and have it take off) today.
I went through the similar journey with Moonlander. Took me about 3/4 months to be comfortable, with tweaking the layout quite a few times.

I did have some struggling with normal layout after. It sounds silly but after typing almost everyday on monkeytype.com, things (wpm, accuracy, etc) are stable for me.
That's a toy example! In reality in a complex app you'd usually be aborting far from where the fetch is created, and you'd have large promise chains where the semantics of cancellation are non-obvious and even unintuitive.