skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you try a split keyboard, either Glove80-like or Kinesis Advantage-like, it's pretty clear they're much, much more comfortable than rectangular keyboards. Your wrists sit in a natural position instead of bent unnaturally outward. This is particularly clear the smaller the keyboard is, e.g. on laptop keyboards.

In my opinion rectangular keyboards aren't good enough at all. They're uncomfortable and bad for your wrists, and the only reason people are using them are because: they don't know any better, computers (laptops), by default, come with rectangular keyboards, force of habit, the cost involved with buying another keyboard or having durable wrists/being young and not suffering from deteriorating body.

I started using Microsoft Natural Keyboards mid 90s, and moved onto Arisu layout mechanical keyboards a few years back when I first learned they were an option. They are so much more comfortable than rectangular keyboards. It's not even close, even without all the customization options available for switches, keycaps, tenting, etc.
Vale is awesome. I used it to proof-read my documentation for Halfmoon: https://www.gethalfmoon.com/docs/
Thanks for sharing. Emotions are universal.
The easiest way to understand where the difference comes from is that they didn't all travel to Europe in one big wave, it was in multiple waves hundreds of years apart, and they settled into and were influenced by very different European cultures (as well as cultures they passed through on their way to Europe). We tend to lump them all together into the term Romani, but there's cultural distinctions within, different dialects, etc.

Probably the biggest split is a so-called North-South divide, with Romani people you'll find in the wider Balkan area being fairly distinct from those in the west-ish Europe, which themselves are distinct (but slighly less distinct) than those you'll find in the north-east-ish Europe (Belarus, Baltic states, Russia), with many smaller groups scattered across. They're pretty much all billingual and very used to borrowing words from the local languages, so it'd be rather difficult for two Romani people from opposite sides of Europe to understand each other. And we're trying to discuss them in English, which requires another translation on top of the Romani → local European language translation, which tends to get quite complicated rather quickly.
> Escapist Utopia
> this desert playa

I hate that mocking style of writing, as if the editor in the office was delighted that the rain spoiled the fun for those free spirits, something he can't open within himself.

> A spokeswoman for Kimbal Musk didn’t immediately return a request for comment, and neither did a spokeswoman for Brin. Pierce also wasn’t immediately available for comment.

The editor even used their official channels to confirm the presence of certain well-known individuals. All from the comfort of their desk with a view of the city. Come on... It's pathetic.

EDIT: To add.. it is four souls in the office, who collaborated on this magnificent piece.
I 'member ads from the very first days of the net. Just that they were in people's sigs, or in the little grey button images that cluttered up the bottom of every websites, and tended to be ads for geek things so maybe they didn't feel like ads. But they were.

Then of course almost immediately once bandwidth got fast enough there were image ads and an explosion of GeoCities sites.
It's great for the ultralight hiking crowd!
There's a related idea, which is that there's no reason that the first person to discover something will happen to find the best way to teach it. In fact there are many reasons for that not to be the case: their own understanding is nestled in a complex web of adjacent trivia, some of which is critical but they don't realise it, and some of which is unrelated but seems vital to them.
Let’s not use this language at all.
That's my impression as well. Even signing up to a Discord community is a bit confusing, and I've used chat from late 90s IRC onwards.
I wish they would make a wireless trackpoint keyboard for Mac.
And probably would owe more than they are worth if charged with cleaning up all the pollution they have caused.
and google became what it never wanted to become
True. I got away with it recently, though[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368892
Would any of the people defending Musk in this thread care to explain why? Every single time there's a thread about his abhorrent behaviour a percentage of people turn up to defend him, no matter what he's done. I honestly can't even begin to understand why.
Excuse me? Lowest it's ever been? Your graph is extremely misleading.

Why don't we try this graph on for size instead? https://www.climate.gov/media/14596

Or maybe the one here, which goes back many millions of years? https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/
Now think of ChatGPT with this framework. Because it is paid to do, it will slowly try to convince you to buy something or even worse think of some politician or party differently. Scary stuff!
The established order is a reflection of a nation culture and costumes, and that also includes the established order in western countries. Imagine a scenario where China refuses to export to the west until their governments agree to conditions such as rights for accommodation, or Saudi Arabia impose oil sanctions on countries until they ban gay marriage? From the rest of the world imposing western standards on these countries feel exactly like that.
The fact that they're (probably) males doesn't necessarily count in either direction. Many ancient civilizations - including Greek, Roman and Middle Eastern - had established cultural norms regarding homo-erotic relationships between men of such ages. It even continued in the Islamic period: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-o...
> Even before google was founded and the founders discussed how they could monetize their search, they understood that paid ads create a conflict of interest: the point of search which is to to return the most relevant results, but the incentive in paid ads is to return the best paying ads. One of their papers contains this point _in writing_.

It's not just their papers. Their philosophy - which was a big part of everyone moving from other search providers in the late 90s - was never having ads in the search results.
You will not get into such a position if you are advocating for things that harm Google's bottom line (or at least you would not stay there for long).
It's not the only company doing that. In Italy you get a amazing liquor named 'Coca Buton' that imports and processes cocoa leafs to Italy.

As far as I know the only European company that is allowed to do that. And I swear that drink does still contain some alkaloid magic, even thought there obviously is no cocaine in it.
Of course industry would welcome profits and investment and exploitation of resource curses, but at what cost? Inviting any one of BRICS or any country right now would be inviting more neocolonialism that these particular countries are trying to get away from. Nationalism is also on the rise. It will take forming a legitimate, functional government before foreign economic policy conversations and negotiations will able to be addressed seriously.

Government leaders have an implied social contract to maintain an ethical tact on putting the needs of the people above what is best for themselves, their rich friends, or remain beholden to any other nation. Gabonese president Bongo found this out the hard way: you can't cheat your people, sell-out to French interests, and keep your family in power with impunity, forever.
And I didn't limit my argument in any way, explicitely I include travellers in developed nations too.
I grew up in Eastern Europe among many minorities. I had friends who were Lipovans (Russian old believers who escaped persecution in Russia in the 17th century), Armenians that escaped the genocide by the turks, descendants of Phanariots (ottoman Greeks), and of course Gypsies both "white" and otherwise. We would refer to white gypsies as "blonde gypsies".
I am pretty sure the guy who we would call "blonde gypsie" was a person of yenish background because he did speak a language of his own, and I did notice words of hebrew origin that in yiddish my community would have used the germanic version of rather than the hebrew (my family is Jewish). He had a proclivity to getting into trouble a lot and liked pulling pranks on everyone, but underneath it all he was a very warm person that had a lot of goodness and love within him.

We had also a macedonian person in highschool that spoke some dialect that i could understand 10% of.

Not sure where I'm going with this story, but I do feel like I grew up in some pre-nationalism bubble where it was completely normal for everyone to come from very diverse backgrounds that were very well preserved despite all of us living together in the same society and getting along just fine.

People often liked discussing the similarities and differences between each other's cultures. I remember a gypsie person being fascinated by the fact that gypsies and jews share some customs, such as covering the mirrors when people die and putting away their shoes.
The government should have no responsibility in facilitating land deals. If you want to buy land, buy it from the markets, and if the owner has not listed it, then likely they don’t want to sell it. And if you really want to buy it and think maybe if I just show them how much I’m willing to pay for it they’d sell, but they still haven’t listed it and you don’t know anyone that knows the owner, either tough luck or hire a private investigator.

The government should only be involved in the ownership transfer process after a sale has been made.

If you go to the government and ask about a piece of land, they should only be able to tell you if it’s owner by someone or by the state itself. If the latter, then you can buy it from them.

Everything else seems like it exists due to lobbying.
same with boeing ... it was succeful company full of engineering masterpeace until it merged with mcdonnell douglas for money
> I've never worked at Google, but I would bet that part of their induction is to train their employees how to combat these ideas.

You'd lose the bet. Rather I think the entire topic of monetization is glossed over.
This sounds like just what I need for a project, any idea where I could find more info on this or how its called?
Look that up on yandex and the first thing is literally a working fast stream with decent quality. wtf
Almost as good as GPT-4? I hear that claim quite often. And then when I test the claim, it falls far far short. I want real competition in this space. But currently, there is none. Except for maybe some very very corner case.
> “appreciating asset” dream going away

_Surely_ no-one ever believed this?
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain
It's around that time that it became impossible to ask for forgiveness rather than permission, at least where I worked (2007-2014).
I could see infighting happening between the unions

Some fictional programmer union wants AI, actors union does not want AI

Both strike, who wins?
Long shot, but I remember a friend playing a beautiful digital tune made with a tracker from an Amiga demo. I remember the chorus had a sampled voice saying something like "Amphora" (which was probably the name of the demo authors' group). I've searched the internet far and wide but I never found it again. Does anyone remember it?
On the other hand, some of Darwin's original treatise - Origin of species of species in particular, is well worth a read.
For those in the UK still interested, CinemaParadiso is a really good DVD/Blu-Ray rental service

https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/

I feel like a luddite sometimes but I really love movies and hate the limited selection on streaming. Also, logging into different accounts, dealing with different apps etc is a pain in the arse.
> I also have no comments sections

A crude and dirt cheap way of ""implementing"" comments is to leave your email address, sufficiently captcha'd, and append the comments manually to the pages. As a bonus, you're sure all comments are moderated, relevant, there's no need to share data with anyone (well, but your email provider probably), no need for JS, no need for a local service, etc.
SensusQ – a military intelligence management software
You’re right, and I’m surprised the companies don’t have longer pay periods in the US actually. I also wonder if there’s an economic benefit to shorter pay periods? Because the faster that money is in the worker’s hands, then the faster it’s distributed again into the economy.

Monthly seems too long for me from a worker’s point of view though, you’re effectively giving the company a short-term, interest-free loan at that point. And when you factor in the fact that your purchasing power is reduced by the time you get paid, and any opportunity costs, the real cost to the worker can be quite high.
Or they just don't own the IP and the company gets other people to make them?
There is still a tradition of very small family-owned travelling circuses in parts of Germany, where tents seat about 40-50 people, and all acts are performed by circus family members. I wondered who the performers were and what there origin was. They definitely spoke good German, but the circus names don't seem 100% Germanic. At one I attended 3 or 4 years ago, the ringmaster threw daggers at volunteer spectators, missing them and pegging a wooden board behind them. Are the owner/operators Yenish?

If anyone knows more about this tradition, I would be keen to know.
> KDE is too much Windowsy for my taste.

If you not like that, you can change it. I have setup KDE to look like a hybrid of OSX and Unity (menu bar, lateral taskbar, maximised windows have the window buttons integrated on the panel and the maximised window become borderless, etc).
If Blockbuster had bought Netflix, would we even have streaming or original Netflix programming?
This sort of approach seems common in the Rust community, it's so much more professional/humane/sustainable/performant than any other corner of the industry that I've come across.
A friend in high-school used to do the old trick of copying a DLL onto a floppy disk, renaming it "essay.doc", and handing it in to the teacher. Next week he'd feign concern that the disk must have got corrupted somehow, but by then he'd bought himself an extra week to write the paper.

It was a different time...
I wonder if yandex.com has more restrictions for US compliance?
Well, an individual project doing well doesn't mean the company made a profit.
Thanks for the feedback! We will consider switching to a more standard tld.

Aside from that, what do you think of the product?
The 3.5" Micro Floppy Disk was my favorite. I remember converting over 2000 files from 5.25" to 3.5" to save space at home; it took me months. Additionally, after a year and a half, I bought a 1x CD burner, which rendered my software collection obsolete within a matter of months too. Ah, those days of installing Windows 3.1 or 95 using disks, switching dozens of diskettes in the process!
Go to https://kbd.news/search/ and search for “trackball” to get some inspiration. Personally I would like to try something like the Orbyl but haven’t had the time to build one yet.
> Colonialism and slavery was made so cruel and brutal compared to historical counterparts because it was more profitable and the culture of capitalism was king.

IIRC slavery was abolished by European colonialists after 1800. And my impression is that most, or maybe all, cultures had just as brutal and oppressive customs on people that were conquered. The mongol horde, say, did not need Darwin to justify its actions.
I don't get the hate on caffeine. Or rather why people have issues to control their and their kids caffeine intake.

We also don't randomly poison ourself with alcohol and blame the drink Industrie.
So how do you have “free” without ads?
> Then we had a conversation.

> And worked things out together.

You make it sound so simple. What if your kid simply doesn't listen? They are smart, so they know that if they keep nagging, they will eventually get what they want.
> KDE4 was a mess

Early KDE 4 versions was a mess. Latter KDE 4 versions was more stable that Gnome. I saw it when Gnome 3 was unusable on a Radeon GPU (back, when ATI/AMD gpu drivers was proprietary and a piece of shit), when KDE 4 was just working without issues.
Bell Labs Colombia?
Yeah it’s bizarre; if someone’s going to get an LLM to ghostwrite their reply (not saying this is the case here but my internal ChatGPT alarm also went off reading this), will they use it for replying in the thread? Will they fact check their work?
And it still has limited image search results. But much much longer, comparing to google. What's happened with infinite image search results recently?
To name a few (US centric ones) from guesses.... Ford, the British East India Company, Bethlehem Steel, Standard Oil, Bell, Apple, Boeing, and probably Amazon.
When there's abundant capital available then there's still a price for that capital.

But that's just "there's money; I should have some", which is understandable, but doesn't have a good enough grounding in reality. More fundamentally: there is a market for talent. If no other artists are willing to work without this benefit then one of two things will happen. Either this benefit will be added to artists' contracts, or the projects won't happen in the first place because they will never make enough money to be worth the investment.
They’ve discovered Administratium!

https://www.mit.edu/people/dmredish/wwwMLRF/links/Humor/Admi...
Google may not be the worst but it's the biggest offender that reaches consumers.

Their BS motto "Don't be evil", it makes me sick thinking of it now. They really made the world a much worse place.
So I played club bridge and the odd ACBL tournament for several years so can speak to this.

Let me start by saying Bridge is a great game. I always liked the biding side of the game more than the card play. The former informs the latter.

The poster said something strange where players and directors objected to systems they wanted to play and mentioned specifically "2/1 GF". I don't know where they were playing but that's a pretty standard system. In North America, people generally play what are called "5 card majors", meaning you don't open 1 heart or 1 spade unless you have 5+ in that suit (with opening hand strength). 2/1 GF simply means if your partner responds with a 2 bid of a lower suit (eg 1S-2C) you now can't stop bidding until you reach a game level contract (3N, 4H/S, 5C/D). That has some consequences but it isn't that different to the NA 5 card majors and everywhere I played that was standard.

There are systems you can't play in certain events. In any ACBL sanctioned event you can play what are called "general card" systems so no one can object to a system that is permitted in an event.

A club game will typically be 21-27 boards, last about 3 hours and involve anywhere from 3 to 30+ tables.

The ACBL is in the business of selling masterpoints. This is as close as you get to a ratings system but it doesn't reflect skill, just how much you've been to ACBL events. Some events bracket you on masterpoints. There are different colours (eg silver for local tournaments, gold/red for regional and I think platinum for certain national events). The ACBL makes money by you going to those events where, at least prepandemic, you typically paid $20-30 per half-day session.

Clubs in NA are very much set up to cater to a very old crowd. Like the poster says, most events are during the workday. Only the largest clubs had evening or weekend games and they tended to have smaller attendance.

I agree finding a reliable Bridge partner is the biggest hurdle. Playing with pick up partners is way less common and less satisfying. All competitive Bridge is with fixed partnerships or teams.

What's interesting about Bridge is that it's been fairly resistant to AI. Of course any computer can remember all the cards they've seen but even I as a fairly mediocre player saw the flaws in both biding and play of pretty much every computer Bridge game I tried.

The ACBL has, at every opportunity, chosen to cater to their existing base rather than expanding it and it's been a running joke for years that every year the average age of an ACBL member goes up by 1 year. It's not too far from the truth.

I can't speak to discrimination. This probably depends on area to some degree. But club Bridge players are (IME), at best, a cantankerous and disagreeable lot.
> Digging in, it looks like people are working around this by returning exceptions, which is very clever and I hadn't thought of it before.

Never came across that! Where did you find that? Pretty interesting. I'd call it deeply unpythonic and very surprising. It's unfortunate to not have a Result type/idiom, but IMHO faking it isn't the way to go either.
The rental fees, except some premium new rentals, are about the same as Blockbuster rentals. Cheaper if you account for inflation. No late fees, either, and no “We wanted to rent the latest Kevin Smith movie, but they were out of copies…”

I do miss the experience of browsing the aisles like a library. None of the streaming services have a good browsing interface. None.
Most computer cases sold today don't have any 5.25" bays.
> A few moments later, I gave FSD Beta another shot, and I was actually able to repeat the problem

“This just tried to kill me. Great, better try it again.”

I mean, this seems horribly irresponsible?
Yes, there I agree. Within legal.limits, meaning kids have to go to school for nine years starting age 6. No obligation to graduate in any form.

Me supporting that form of publoc education flies in the face of the "public schools bad fpr reasons home schooling better" crowd. Funny so, that a lot that crowd seem to have a harder time allowing minority groups to home school their children. Either way, whatever parents and their children can do and decide is usually very well defined in various laws. As long as those laws are not discriminatory in nature, whatever is allowed is not anybodies business when it comes to other families. How society sees those things, well, the only way to codify that is througj laws. And those have to got through the normal, democratic, legislative process. Everything else is just an opinion. And those become dangerous sometimes if acted upon, especially if backed by well meaning, knowing better than you, convictions. Because those convivtions give moral high ground, and that allows tp cope with all kinds of attrocities in the name of the higher good.

Examples: Every single church run orphanage, home for single mothers in Ireland, boarding schools (including those for minorities) in Canada, the US, Australia, the various adoption programs (including the one Switzerland)...

I hope you see the problem.
It’s interesting to me when a religious group (especially one believing in the “Unity of God”) excludes others based on their ethnicity.

The question that sits in the back of my mind is: why?

These thoughts often lead me to wonder if they might be protecting something precious that they have from others, or whether they could be protecting others from the thing that they have.

Of course it may be neither of these, but it’s just an interesting thought.
Also mothers day and fathers day.
Like a scale model aircraft in a wind tunnel?
No. An analogue system is not a simulation. A simulation is some approximation - a model - of a physical system that you compute with some finite precision.

An analogue is a physical entity with the same physics as some other thing.

A straightforward engineering example would be scale model of an airplane in a wind-tunnel.