skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stenography is the most ergonomic method of computer input I am aware of.

Stenography is a mapping of some combination of keys to some output.

A particular mapping is called a "theory".

One such mapping is phonetics, or the sounds of words. Let one key represent the "Kuh" sound, another "ah", and a third "tuh". Press them all down and when released, you get "cat". "Al" "Guh" "Or" "If" "Um" "Algorithm". 5 strokes instead 8. And that's not even trying to be efficient.

Another mapping is to use shapes. Three keys in the top row and one in the middle on the bottom looks like a "T". So, map that to something you associate with T.

A theory can be any mapping you want. Stenography is based on shorthand which was invented in the late 1800s. There are plenty of theories that already exist. You don't need to make your own.

When you write, you use some words or phrases frequently. Map those to convenient keys. Such mappings are called "briefs". Go crazy with them and you can reach 370 words per minute of real-time dictation.

You obviously don't have to be that good. I find that 30 wpm is sufficient to be productive at work. You can reach 70 wpm by practicing 15 minutes a day for a few months. You're a programmer. You can do it.

Expecting a lifetime of computer input? Don't optimize for easy key-to-output mappings such as QWERTY or Dvorak. Learn stenography.

See Plover and Javelin.
Glad you are interested. Keep in mind that his talk of supplements should be weighed with the knowledge that he is financially involved with supplement companies. It's not a secret, but worth some awareness.
The courts will continue to have substantial leeway and the bill makes no mention of medical care:

“Democratic California lawmakers have approved a bill that would instruct courts to consider, among many other factors, whether a parent affirms a child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions.”

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/wireStory/fact-focus-cri...
Their main problem seems to be that they had never thought about how injection molding works, but started a CAD path to a product that would need to be injection molded. Anyone who has built plastic models could have told them a lot of this information, and it's a bit surprising that they had to learn by doing at that stage.
And yet, vacuum-welding is a long known actual thing, and even without vacuum right in ordinary human environment, by good, non-trivial, but not magical surface prep. But it's probably more than just proximity. In vacuum there is probably also evaporation and a form of electrolosis.
Pretty simple, it was fairly rare and became a collectors item among plant lovers.

https://costafarms.com/blogs/get-growing/monstera-thai-const...
The last few times I found something on Temu and thought it was cheap, I went to Amazon and found the same thing as cheap or cheaper with Prime shipping and free returns.
At least there's some kind of effort to make devices customer repairable...maybe it will get popular and other companies also will shift to such model or production
The rocket was not. Of course you will have components built by industry. You can't expect government to mine the iron and mill the steel for every bolt.
In case some other folks who are in need, we have a side-project dedicated to the completely open source camera:
hardware: https://github.com/maxlab-io/tokay-lite-pcb
firmware and software layer: https://github.com/maxlab-io/tokay-lite-sdk

And we will eventually ship them form here Crowd Supply at: https://www.crowdsupply.com/maxlab/tokay-lite
Yet recreating it today is going to be much easier than creating it for the first time was n years ago.

And China doesn't have to start from scratch; It has the resources to leverage insiders, spy and steal blueprints. And is not afraid of using them.
Blackmagic Camera for iPhone
Author here. We use ASA plastic.
> “Based on its current financials, Bandcamp requires some adjustments to ensure a sustainable and healthy company that can serve its community of artists and fans long into the future,”

This is interesting. Bandcamp's website says they've been profitable since 2012.[0] If that's still true what other adjustments might be needed?

[0] https://bandcamp.com/fair_trade_music_policy
Is there are any documentation on English?
In isolation, they're not crazy.

But much C code is bringing in library headers which contain their author's own pet choices for these, which inevitably are not the same and the result is extremely confusing when you have that in play as well as the stdint.h ones.

The kernel contains a mixture of "pet" types like u32 and stdint ones, it's already confusing.

He also does make a "crazy" choice later to call his string class "s8" which clashes with his nomenclature here.
I guess “unrepeatable” was supposed to be “unrepairable”.
Some additional notes from reading other comments. I feel the way I wrote the post make it sound as if I'm fine with any setup which is not true.

- Lower than normal desk height is more comfortable.

- Lower than normal chair height is more comfortable.

- Using a laptop is tiring unless it's on a desk.

- Using a laptop on my lap in a couch gives me neck pain.

- I should preferably not have to tilt my neck to look at the center of a screen.

- Using a macbook trackpad over extended periods of time can give me some wrist discomfort. I find myself often twisting and cracking my wris if I don't use a mouse because of the discomfort.

- Some chairs work better than others but I'm not sure what it is. Price does not seem to correlate at all.

Somewhat related:

- Sleeping on a pillow that is too tall gives me neck pain and headache. (from staying in hotels, friends, family, etc)

- Sleeping on very hard mattresses is preferable over soft. (seems more common in asia)
My feeling is that customers don't want what Microsoft is pushing. AI is a novelty. It can write essays for kids but real life doesn't need paragraphs of waffle, just pointed communication. People don't want to talk to their computers either. The modern world is insular, private and unspacious. People don't want to talk to their devices, and don't want to be seen talking to their devices. Where is the place for this gadgetry?
In nearly every case, it’s obviously not a gift. Every single time I’ve ever subscribed to someone on Patreon is because I’m purchasing a subscription for extra content.
Glad we are focused on the most critical issues facing society.
>YOShInOn

What is this? A cursory search didn't get me anywhere.
Ok, 25% of 27.5q BTU = ~ 7q BTU

So we need extra 7q BTU of electricity, right? Which is about 18% of 37.8!

So, not 7, not 9, we would need at least 18% extra electricity.

TLDR: Your math was wrong!
100s of endpoints with various evolving payloads across 100s of developers.

The problem space is shared documentation, not 'make http request'
Hello catlover76,

Your comment about the economic value of an English literature degree certainly applies in certain contexts, but I think there's a much deeper story here that's being overlooked. When we apply Western-centric narratives to situations in countries like Laos, we risk simplifying complex issues into easily digestible soundbites. This not only does a disservice to our understanding but also to the people living those realities.

I would encourage us all to try to see the world through a more empathetic and nuanced lens. Learning about the unique challenges faced by people in different countries can offer invaluable perspectives that go beyond our local or national narratives.

Let's not limit our understanding of the world by failing to look beyond the surface. There's so much more to gain by delving deeper.
It wasn't clear to me if he's talking about const as a variable declaration qualifier - I never used it - or const in pointer types, which is very useful.
https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman
Is that like "convenience fee" or that sort of crap such as on Ticketmaster? If so, this is amazing! Make it NA-wide please :) haha
"Fooled by Randomness" by Taleb is a good book on this subject.
Hidden feeds is the pillars of silicon Valley startups. Having no idea how much the service will actually cost.
Xhalr – a simple guided breathing app
I was more pointing progressive degeneration of functionality then some law. You can call it "ibmisation" too - most likely in the end it will be just another dead [sub]brand.
How India's first deaf lawyer made history in Supreme Court
query {

Users (first: x) {

…,

articles (first: y, sortBy: CREATED) {

..

}

}

}

How would one implement the users and articles resolvers - that would be as efficient as a most_recent_views in sql?
Wringing is not fusing. Wringing is just a special form of suction.
Is this going to apply to telecom or utilities?
Just need other states to follow suit. However, I personally haven’t dealt with hidden fees and don’t know how prevalent they are in the US. Is it a widespread issue? I suppose none of the companies I do business with have them.
I definitely agree overall. My last job was standardized on Homebrew and used tfswitch; I personally translated to MacPorts but I do agree that tying a project to a specific package manager (and thus OS, etc.) isn’t advisable.
> I can't do anything about it.

You can. I use noise-cancelling earphones and earplugs to sleep.

> I do not like reading this type of news at all, it has a negative psychological effect on me, and a lot of news seems to follow this pattern.

I share your feeling.

> We're all going to die, get cancer, ingest microplastics, climate change is going to kill us, but there's nothing we can do about it. Great. I am none the wiser and I'm measurably more miserable. Why should I continue reading the news?

I think we should policy our news consumption and that there's a middle ground between information and sanity though this is a hard problem. News and social media are extremely harmful to mental health and productivity.

I use https://www.newsminimalist.com/ and mostly just read the headlines. Take a minute per day and saves me from opening news sites during the day.
I don't know why we can't just force everyone to show post tax/fees price upfront. It's complete bullshit that every restaurant bill comes with 3 different taxes.
> On an FPGA, additional logic does not slow down the other logic.

It absolutely does. As the amount of logic in a design increases, it becomes increasingly difficult (and, eventually, impossible) for a place-and-route algorithm to generate a layout which meets timing constraints.
Not exactly. Protobuf has compression for string/numbers. Fury use different compression protocol. Another thing is that Protobuf generated code are not efficient enough. Fury generated the code at runtime, which has more information about the jvm, then it can genereate more eifficient code, avoid many memory access, branchs, and do more code optimization.
It sounds like maybe this guy's manager didn't like him and that the job was loaded with near-impossible expectations so that just about any managerial decision could be spun as someone being fired for cause.

But the story style is a mess of disconnected quotes that read as if the journalist clipped half the text in a blog or forum post almost at random, then hit publish. The guy sold his house, lost $100k on a deposit for another property, his wife is upset and confused about the whole thing, and I can't help getting the impression that he blew up or burnt out because the vibes were bad? Guy sounds somewhat unstable to tbqh, it could be that he's very personable in some respects but still impossible to work with. His refusal to take any kind of severance and throwing away a 6 figure home deposit made me think of compulsive gamblers and similar personalities.

I'm generally pretty cynical about corporations and employment but in this case I ended sympathizing with his manager and even more so with his still-confused wife.
It has to do more with e.g. ISPs charging fees that are not revealed to prospective customers (either in their website or other marketing materials) yet appear in a monthly statement and significantly increase the real cost of their service.

cf. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-fcc-doesnt-want-to-list-all-its-...

You can also find other recent articles about this kind of thing
Honest question, is Google the one making it impossible to set Google Maps as the default maps option on Apple? Or making it impossible to one-click delete backed up photos?

I fully believe Google holds back differentiating features and DSPA is certainly mismanaged, but I'd hope these basic functionalities are not the ones since there's always the tradeoff between serving 50%+ of your mobile users and trying to differentiate Android/Pixel...

Apple does shit like make it impossible for Google Fi to set up easily on iPhone, so I just assumed most of the UX idiocy came from Apple's anticompetitive review process.
Its amazing how useful it is to slow down and just write out some problem with pen(cil) and paper. This has help me get unstuck form some bad habits after year of speeding past them.
They should ban tipping too.
One thing that's always important to consider is that the relevance of anything is not fixed. The Nobel Prize is not seen as a grand achievement because it's the Nobel Prize, but because the scientific community, and society to a lesser degree, implicitly deems it such. When awards change, so does their relevance.

So rather than changing the Nobel Prize, it seems more logical to create a new prize. It doesn't seem like it should be that hard. I'm sure somebody like Bill Gates would just love to have his name attached to the 'Gates Prize for Collaborative Science' and he has the pockets to comfortably prefund it for a century.
Fees businesses charge will be a nonissue when businesses are unable to operate in California
I think Nix is better suited for that kind of thing. You can specify multiple versions of packages and expose them on a per-project basis. It eliminates the need to switch packages globally.
That's good, very good. Price transparency is fundamental to a free market society.
For me it has been nasal strips. That and not sleeping on my back (where my jaw relaxes and closes my throat).
Why one tiny British publisher keeps winning Nobel Prizes
https://archive.ph/4XBzJ
fighting with this problem for long time, so far my sleep got much better than previous months and years, lots of thanks to author for short and to the point plain English explanation, I like the writing style a lot. I learned a lot in just a minute, thats productive for me.
> That been strongly speculated about the Russian state of nuclear warheads - because those are not properly maintained, none of them works - Russia, despite their wild claims doesn't have any nuclear deterrent as we speak.

I've seen speculation to that effect, but I do think you're talking the conclusion too far: it's reasonable to speculate some of their warheads don't work, but not all of them. While googling your claim, I came across this source (https://thebulletin.org/2009/12/nuclear-weapons-the-moderniz...), which does say the Russians maintain their warheads more poorly, but they compensate for that by re-manufacturing and replacing them regularly.

> So it is likely that they are moving toward doing an actual nuclear test, likely in the atmosphere. Legal framework to move in that direction is currently in progress.

Cite?
Which single issue is the consensus most important one that they should be working on first before they do anything else?
But then how would Arizona Ice Tea be able to print "$1" on their can??? /s
I don't even think that's a controversial opinion. Breaking convention isn't inherently bad; it has costs, some of which you described. In this case specifically, the novelty is not justified by any significant benefit.
Ask HN: Am I Getting Paranoid?
In general, I've been maintaining a few WordPress-native sites since about 2018 without any issues, but these past few months have created several semi-connected experiences that seem highly suspicious to have happened all at once:

1. My big-box email hosting provider downgraded my website limit to 3 sites total. As a hobby, I've made about 6-7 sites, so I had to move, though it seems like this site limit is becoming industry-standard.

2. Another change at the same time has been that CardDAV server support has effectively been deprecated, making it difficult to synchronize contacts. My new hosting provider doesn't seem to host CardDAV, so I may have to self-host my contacts soon.

3. I had had an email list, but apparently sending via SMTP is no longer natively run through the CRM anymore without a paid service or self-hosting?

4. I've had organic traffic of 1-5 people on any given day to my sites (it's boring, evergreen content), but as of a few weeks ago my blog-posting site was dropped down to nothing.

5. When I was poking around the zone editor, it seems I can only ever update MX records anymore on the hosting site. I'm guessing that's a standard hosting provider situation?

6. Migrating emails out of the service is now a cumbersome one-at-a-time experience.

I'm not presently getting paid to do what I love (i.e., not paid to do tech work), so I'd like some perspective. Are these issues part of a well-connected effort to standardize the walled-garden approach of the internet, dark patterns to steer an upsell, or simply bad luck on my end for everything to be happening all at once?
Temu is also spending a lot of money advertising in New Zealand. The catalog is minimal and when they do have what I want it's terrible quality. Aliexpress has all the same low quality products but often mid-range and Chinese brand name products as well.

The search is terrible, it seems the app is built around getting you to impulse buy dollar store gadgets.
Their demo crashes when I try to use it
I never got how we all just accepted non-user replaceable battery devices with phones, laptops, and tablets. The main reason why people replace those devices is the battery. Its so eco of them.
The same keys still exist on the keyboard. There is also such a thing as a compose key sequence where you press a few things serially rather than all at once. There are countless answers to this question really.
Unless they can also promise that their devices will be built without Uyghur slave labor, I don't see this change my position on never buying Lenovo.
> Hidden fees are fees in which a seller uses an artificially low headline price to attract a customer and usually either discloses additional required fees in smaller print, or reveals additional unavoidable charges later in the buying process.

Like tips?
We could learn from for example Japan where there is no cents and all fees included so 5000 Yen is 5000 yen no tip no tax no fees no cents it's really cortisol reducing.
How can one use Firebase Remote Config in Python?
No, I just mean it's not easy to use. When using fury, you just need one line code for serialization: `fury.serialize(javaObject)`. When using SBE, it need to much coding, it needs define schema xml, compile code, and so on.
Going slightly off tangent to ask about something.

I often find myself in a situation when testing API to request for "API request and API response", including header, body, etc, the full complete information. This helps to identify any issue with it, and keep the full record for the future reference (it happens a lot that I need some information on the old API behavior weeks later).

There seems to be lack of a single word in English to describe this except the long phrase above. Anyone has good suggestion?

It goes without saying that this is a hard requirement I have for any API client but sadly most ones I tried always lack some information somewhere.
it is a very widespread issue, from buying a car to internet, to restaurants.
Apache Kafka is NOT real real-time data streaming
Have you been to a sit-down restaurant recently?

Where I live (major southeast US city) there's a 50/50 chance there will be some random bullshit fee (sometimes even more than one!) tacked onto the bill (and I'm not talking about tax or a tip).
Does one of their lessons-learned include to hire proper engineers and supply chain peoole with experience in China / with Chinese manufacturers? Ideally all the way up to, say, COO, and give those people tze necessary authority to run things? Because if not, it is just a collection of anecdotes of the clueless, a collection that is used for content marketing...
"escape if released immediately, and control if held down"

Elegant.

And I mean for those two particular modifiers with that relationship, not just the idea in general.
Related from earlier today:

San Francisco could ban right-hand turns on red. Could L.A. soon follow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37815392
If you don't like drugs, look up Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). It is kind of a collection of tricks, but it goes further than your basic sleep hygiene checklist. One thing it includes that helps many people if they can do it is the Spielman sleep-restriction protocol: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-treatments/c/cognitiv...
You’d be a fool to burn a fire in your home if your fireplace has no chimney. But that doesn’t mean all the smoke goes upwards.

Surprisingly I couldn’t find a single study which measured PM 2.5 from fireplaces with chimneys. However, a study on wood stoves (substantially better sealed) found a 30% rise.

Which is actually less than I would have predicted. I’d still expect a fire to be higher, but I’m open to being wrong. If I’m ever going someplace with a chimney and fire I’ll bring a pm 2.5 meter for fun.
The Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific
There's also the metal equivalent of plastic: cast pot metal. Tends to have flaws, very poor resistance to fatigue if it's used in moving parts, pretty much impossible to repair when it inevitably cracks or crumbles.
Tax breaks are equivalent to subsidies at the scale that fossil companies operate at.
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium - and soon with local llm support

disclaimer: I'm the maintainer and my day job is fine-tuning llm

p.s. I will always keep insomnium 100% local & FOSS
Yeah but not for basic types. Also, most code mingles sooner or later with other code. Than this is just ugly.
> not open-source yet

Can you be more clear? Is the Desktop app going to be open-source in the future? If so, what license?

Do you intend to monetize this product? If so, how?

As a side note: I find it strange that you feel the product is not stable enough to share the code, but apparently stable enough to share the product itself.
Yeah, and C/C++ has these since three times the age of Rust. I also find them beautiful but not consistent.
I think OpenAPI is a better choice for this kinda stuff. The API docs are the source code and less lock-in that way. Devs can still use the tools they want.
Gave up on that with the first generation of iMacs. Not a right angle to be found, all curves and plastic.
> However when exporting a public/published module it can become onerous to ask the user to import 7 files instead of 7 items from one module.

Plenty of large single units in almost any language are _developed_ this way, but is there any particular reason they are _deployed_ that way? It really seems like a distribution packaging issue.
Whilst encouraging, I also feel like US policies are part of the problem, besides allowing it for so long. The fact that sales tax in the US doesn't just depend on state, but can be down to the house number on a street, means it's difficult to present automated listing of all fees online. There are reasons why sales taxes are not included in price tags in shops. Among them, that the tax could be different if you went across the street, and you don't want to advertise that. (There are numerous other policies contributing to hidden fees, like minimum wage laws leading to tipping.)
I guess tips are technically not 'unavoidable'.