skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT: What’s a great keyboard for people who don’t like mechanical keyboards?

I took the plunge when I switched to a job where we worked on windows instead of macOS and got a keyChron as my daily driver instead of a Magic Keyboard.

I had good memories of clicking away on an old IBM as a kid in the 90s so I thought I’d enjoy a “real” keyboard.

I don’t dislike my low profile keyChron. But even after a year and a half it still feels tall and I mistype a lot. I don’t think a Mac keyboard works well on windows so I also don’t want to connect my Magic Keyboard to my work PC.
Maybe he shouldn't have named it after the most hated Harry Potter character.
> People are assholes online. Sometimes even trolls. But in real life, they're often just respectful normal people.

I really don’t think this is the case and it really doesn’t match my personal experience. Especially under their true name, people behave as they would talking face to face.
Hm. It was before the 20th century maybe. People knew of artists by name, not by their social life and sex tapes. The pop culture paraphilia is a very recent thing.
The problem with NIMBYism absolutely was not created by the Tories. Even before their de facto ban, it was ludicrously hard and time-consuming to get wind farms through the planning process, to the point that even berfore the Tories got into power the UK's only wind turbine factory closed down due to not getting the UK order flow they needed because all the onshore wind farms were stuck in planning hell: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/29/vestas-w...

The media reporting that claimed otherwise was misleading. It relied on surveys about support for wind turbines that were questionably worded and ignored the actual, on-the-ground reality of the problems that companies were having before that change in the rules.

Also, up until very recently abandoning onshore wind in favour of offshore basically worked. It got a whole bunch of wind turbines built with far less NIMBY problems than before (partly because they're out of sight and partly because fewer, larger farms were easier to get through planning), prices were trending down to lower than onshore, that wind turbine factory reopened and competitors set up their own in the UK thanks to the consistent demand, it even encouraged other countries to also do big offshore wind roll outs.

> Anyone with half a brain knew immediately that those reliant on Russian gas would switch over to the same sources that the UK used, putting upwards pressure on the price that we would pay.

Yeah, which is the whole reason that talking point about how the cancelled onshore wind was enough to replace all the gas that the UK imported from Russia was deceptive and meaningless. Replacing the UK's own gas imports from Russia was trivial and not the problem, the problem was precisely that other countries which used far more Russian gas switched over to the same suppliers the UK relied on for the rest of our gas. It's deceptively worded to make a relatively small amount of energy sound like a big, impactful fix for our problems.
I do think music is slightly more immune to this than some other forms of art because music is usually so tied to a personality and a physical presence that there will be ways for artists to overcome this to some extent.
As the saying goes, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
I got the original HHKB when it came out in 1996. The layout makes sense on Unix where function keys are not used much and you can use hjkl in Vim and in readline vi mode. The compact layout saves desk space and allows you to easily take the keyboard with you everywhere.

The HHKB was inspired by the original Macintosh keyboard which doesn't have arrow keys at all (not even via a Fn key): https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_M0110

But I agree with your point about shortcuts, and I later switched to full-size ergonomic keyboards due to RSI and for Windows use, and now despise keys being relegated to Fn combinations.
no one else in the PC space charges 30%. GOG does but at least offers (or used to) an upfront payment in exchange for taking more share until it's paid back. Yeah, I think if they take that literal financial risk on my its worth giving them a larger share.
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm IA64?"

Sadly ChatGPT does a poor job of generating parody lyrics so I won't subject you to them, and I'd probably do even worse unassisted.
Charlie Brown -> Snoopy, would be my guess.
Not really. Transistors, especially in power electronics, will almost always be run at basically their max switching frequency continuously for almost the entirety of their power-on time. They certainly will not wear out after 1 second of use at their maximum frequency.

(This kind of thing is extremely common in MEMS, BTW: a lot of cool things you can fabricate mechanically in silicon will do something really cool but for a similarly short time period, and so they never leave the lab. All the actual uses of MEMS have much bigger constraints on what you can actually make)
This makes no sense. Taipei's metro is much nicer than Tokyo's. That was true, even 20 years ago.

I lived in Beijing a decade ago, too, and its metro was also a far worse experience than Taipei's.
If the AI had a secondary goal of improving customer's mental health, it could work very well. Usually you can't fuck your therapist.
The premise reminds me of this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429385
Jewish : https://johnswinburn.com/you-die-twice/
Not an expert, but PRC claims Taiwan, and interestingly the ROC also claims the mainland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Political_and_legal_sta...

So it sorta seems like they both agree on 'One China', but not who should be running it.

I do think we need taiwan and TSMC is a big part of it. There is too much cutting edge tech in Taiwan, I think the US would go toe to toe to defend Taiwan if necessary. But we're trying to reduce that dependence by building fabs in the US, so that could change in the next 10 years.
Is there any point, even?

In my understanding, Itanium never went anywhere other than rare enterprise use, and never been anything more than a minority, inconvenient, uncompetitive architecture. At this point what servers remain will be slow, power hungry and unsupported.

Even if the kernel did support Itanium, how many projects are even building for it anymore, let alone taking care of making sure it still works?

Anything you can run on Itanium is almost certainly going to work better on AMD64.

Unlike something like the Amiga, it never had an enthusiast fanbase, and unlike say, SPARC or SGI hardware I don't think it ever had any fancy weird enterprise features you couldn't get on AMD64. The only motherboards I can find are from Supermicro, and they support up to 16 GB RAM, and have a PCI-X slot (that's the server-type version of PCI, before PCI Express).
He was inspired by Westworld.
Talent doesn’t exist, it’s only the result of the effort you put into mastering a thing.
Great insight. many programmers fail to think of their errors valid as values to get as an output. Golang got this right
Okay, the anthropology example is convincing, if far-fetched. It seems this couldn't realistically happen in a modern society.

The Trump example is arguably beside the point because the previous poster talked about a truth being harmful for the whole society, not for an individual.
Just because your needs are met doesn’t mean all needs are met. There is a lot of tech still to invent!
Eventually, a virtual girlfriend app that will put together sound and image will be released an empty the pockets of sad, lonely men on a large scale. Depressing stuff but this is the world we live in.
Thank you to the author for this interesting read.
Everything is temporary, a legacy makes it slightly less. Brings an element of continuity to our existence as people learn or are inspired by the impressions other people leave behind.
Probably... not? There's even a food approved version.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_89.html

(Btw I knew someone who drank hard liquor and smoked pipe tobacco who lived to their 80s.)
Investing in actual office space that isn’t directly in my bedroom space, with a large solid desk on a standing frame, and a 50” ultrawide with a KVM in it. Everything just works, I can focus, I have good music and speakers, and when it’s time to finish for the day I can turn it all off with one button and walk out.

In my case this was done by moving to a larger house with a seperate office, but this could easily be a shed, a wework, or a rented commercial suite, but the separation really helped.
The “push ifs up” advice is not about checking preconditions, it’s about selecting the right code path. If you have a function with a precondition, by all means assert it at the beginning of that function. For example, the Java type system allows nulls, so a function that requires an object should throw an exception if a null is passed.

Each call site is absolutely responsible for ensuring that it only calls a function if its precondition is true. This follows from the definition of precondition. Nothing can change that.

Calling a function in violation of its precondition is a bug (in the caller). And, sure, functions often need code that checks that (to prevent undefined behaviour). But we should distinguish these assertions from our program’s actual control flow. The article is about the latter.
More likely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Abernathy
In my favourite way: The window starts when this comment is 26.5 hours old.
> I mean showing the exact path to the configuration file likely isn't a good idea

Why? This is not self-evident to me.
> I even tried it myself, lying in bed and creating sexual fantasies with Dolores through text, culminating in ejaculation.

TMI bro!
In 2017 Intel released a new Itanium CPU so someone must have been using them.
Target disk mode + firewire was wonderful.

If your machine was screwed up, you could plug another machine into it in target disk mode and boot off that (external) "drive" and fix your machine.
Or you could easily copy files on/off your machine at firewire speeds.

In comparison, PCs in that era were always troublesome to administer, requiring disk cloning software or sometimes linux. (although they universally boot from USB now, which helps)
> This is not Twitter

So you're suggesting that you get to decide what goes where? But you don't! Hahahaha :)

And your comment is more like Twitter than mine. Although if you're saying that "This is not Twitter" as in "This is not a place where you can speak your mind freely" then I disagree, you most certainly can!

It may not be liked by the community, as mine wasn't above, but that's OK. My comment was a genuine expression of the beauty, the majesty and fantastic accomplishment that those chips represent.

On another day, on another thread -- on another part of this thread -- it would have been a completely different story. Lots of upvotes instead of down. That's just the internet. So you don't get to decide quality based on votes.

But, I guess, if that had happened, you wouldn't have had anywhere to stick your little nasty, fake-deciding-for-others, would you? Heh :)

I hope you'll reflect and make better comments in future! hahahaha! :)
Archaic hardware should be running period-correct software anyway. It’s not that they can’t stay on a previous kernel.

Itanium isn’t truly archaic, though. It was only discontinued 3 years ago.
Very real and pertinent example. Being big in EDM now is 100% about being a constant networker. You have to go to every party, know every person and have a massively professional social media presence and a conisistent flashy image to have any success. This will be accelerated in AI, actually turning being a musician into a ridiculously demanding amalgamation of many many different jobs... or just a game of having enough money to know people already and have employ a PR army.
It means "building blocks" to build different kinds of websites: blogs, brochure sites, personal website, business site, magazine style, portal style, and so on.

You can then add plugins for the missing functionality.

Also, what essentials" are missing? I've deployed it with 0 third party plugins (at most I've add Jetpack) several times, with no issues. So?

Or do you mean "your essentials" which could be different than mine? I could not give a rat arse about BS "SEO" plugins for example, basically selling snakeoil to suckers, as if anybody ever got even a nudge above in Google rankings because of those...
> The Taiwanese are some of the most wonderful people you’ll ever meet.

this applies to everywhere. no new information.

> As a free and open democratic society, they would deserve our support for that alone.

ah, so it's really about ideology?

> If that’s not enough, then we should support them out of pure self-interest, as we’re all better off for having them.

??
Totally agree. Fuck off google.
there will be a couple of youtubers who will have their own life feed, and there is usually a multi-feed link on the spacex subreddit
He wrote systemd, so it might be simpler for him.
> Also it seems like he had full access to the replies via the voice generator, which sure isn't great from a privacy standpoint.

Whose privacy is being violated? Dolores's?
Ten years ago they were valued around $1 a share and teetering on bankruptcy. If they didn't ship Ryzen there would be no AMD today at least not what it was or is.

There are a lot of moving parts around all of this. AMD was still dealing with their fab breakup and fallout.

They basically cut all the fat and some muscle to keep pushing forward so I agree with the other poster that now is the time to focus on software and growth.
I think in theory, you are right. However, because AI is so easily accessible and it is being developed in our current, highly commoditized society, there is really no change that it will ever only be used for good in this way.
Interesting read. Others have also created virtual friends using ChatGPT.

What I find unsavory, is OpenAI imposing content restrictions like NSFW. That can easily extend to censorship of non-PC content, unpopular political ideas, and more.

The solution will (I hope) ultimately be open-source LLMs that you can run locally, on your own hardware.
Yeah, the creaky old Wordpress setup from 2004 is still better than all the other options out there. The nerdier and more unpopular the system, the fewer the number of blog posts.
> Who were they doing this for?

VISA probably. Card processing is weirdly puritanical.
Your answer appears like you want to bring psychological ad-hominems about tone and personal motives to this because you don't have a counter-argument, so I gladly accept you refraining from further engagement...

I also didn't conflate "what you said with what [you] cited the author as saying". As your quoting was meant as an endorsement of that argument, I responded to it. When you quote an argument you want to highlight from an article, expect people to comment on that.
My Remarkable 2 E-Ink notebook for sure. I'm a pen and paper notes taker - R2 has been extremely useful in freeing me up from the pen and paper books. And my notes are searchable and tagged!
> GPT-based products, if not priced per usage, would fall into a dilemma: 1% of users consume 99% of tokens. A user from Sweden (seen from Cloudflare’s call volume) chatted with Dolores for 12 hours straight

This, my friend, is a captive customer, that will pay anything to get his girlfriend back. I cringe at the potential of unethical behavior and abuse, where people fall in love with virtual entities fully owned by unscrupulous corporations, which can the legally "kidnap" or "torture" the characters, and generally tune their AI learning loop for profit maximization.

"It was not extortion, the user willingly purchased a $50,000 Kidnapping Roleplay package."
Do you mean via web app or API? I had no idea you could set the temperature in ChatGPT, I thought you could only do that via the API.

When I google that, I see some articles stating it's possible. But when I add "Set temperature to .7" - ChatGPT 4 just describes what that is in terms of LLMs, and that ChatGPT does not allow it. I tried ChatGPT classic as well.
Logitech makes excellent, "mac style" keyboards for Windows. Checkout Logitech MX Keys. It should fit your needs if you liked Apple Magic Keyboard
If I understood timezones correctly, it will be Friday 6pm for me (utc+5) for once I am in good timezone-wise, for falcon heavy I had to stay late at night.
> Eventually, a virtual girlfriend app that will put together sound and image will be released an empty the pockets of sad, lonely men on a large scale.

Sounds indistinguishable from an actual girlfriend ;)
You can't really fuck your imaginary shoggoth girlfriend either.
No, “you” don’t “need” Taiwan. Those who run the American Empire have an interest in denying China the strategic advantage, everything else is window dressing. Doesn’t look good for them, though.

https://taiwaninsight.org/2018/02/26/cross-strait-relations-...
You joke, but I can forsee issues. If he has the replies to a particular user, and he has a means of IDing that user, he could cause them a lot of hurt. They are getting intensely sexual replies back, they aren't getting that without supplying sexual prompting. Could also be used to out gay users.
It is better for (US) national security that Google keeps its (global) monopoly. (Non-US) competitors to Google would hamper the US's ability to surveil and gather data globally.
> it's clear that the ultimate goal is to create a system whereby people pay for AI generated music

The goal is to create background music for youtube videos without paying artists anymore at all. Youtube videos feel sterile because they lack music with emotion and are all recycling the same audio library tracks. It's a way to allow some pop culture to youtubers who are scared to death of copyright claims.
> the fact that it was abandoned shows that their society wasn't able to maintain it in the long term

A flood, drought, climate change, war or better jobs elsewhere were common reasons for abandoning locations. We have many abandoned projects today, that doesn't have to say anything about social structures.
The author is from NZ so he's possibly more eastern than any of us.
Ok, maybe not the best analogy... Painkillers then? Other forms of entertainment in general? It's the relationship version of playing videogames instead of getting a job.
We learned ours following:
* more
* all done
* milk (as in breast feeding)
* drink

I think it makes a big difference, both for us (parents, to have a clue what they want) and the kid (being understood, when they can’t speak).
None of that is even slightly reasonable. A messaging platform that(for no technical reason) only works on one hardware platform is a complete non-starter.
> there's no indication of a shortcut or keyboard equivalent

What do you mean? Besides the Ctrl+X-like shortcut in the tooltip of a ribbon button, once you start some Alt-H prefix to activate Home ribbon menu every button shows a AL AC AR AJ... tooltip that allows you to further drill down to Align paragraph Left which you can eventually remember as a sequence Alt-HAL

So it has both great key nav concpets - shortcus and key chords

(the main issue here is that it's hard to change those)
Imagine if all the great minds of the past stopped asking questions just because someone thought they were hilariously wrong.
I love jazz the jackrabbit, thanks for this. Any way to save the game
Nah, it's powering 40%+ of the whole web already, and for a good reason.
I once read about prodigy pianists who had mastered the technical part of their skill at age 13. But their career does not take off because few people actually want to listen to their performances (perhaps because they lack maturity). After going through a few years of this, quite a few of them just give up.
There is a mention of dolphins in the article: "This makes them [elephants] the first non-human animals to address each other in a manner that does not imitate the receiver's own call, as dolphins and parrots do."
There's more files yes, but I don't agree that it's more complicated because those files come together in the form of some well understood components that almost anyone who's done a bit of Linux admin understands to a reasonable degree, whereas your hypothetical Go application is going to end up being a completely custom implementation of NVMe-TCP, and if there's any problems with it you're on your own.
Precisely what we need
What Elections Are For
Um, well I guess yer boots are "empty" then because you know that page you linked to is, quite literally, empty. It even says, "There is currently no text in this page."

Hahahah! :) I think you're making my point for me.
This is something even Stallman probably didn't think about.
> basement

I was looking for an itanium server for a while and literally couldn't find one that wasn't silly money
I've read that payment processors don't like dealing with porn companies because of the very high rate of chargebacks they attract, not because the processors are Puritans...
Yeah, it's like the author read the blurb for Her and didn't even read a synopsis.
I agree with blog and website generator. But CMS like Keystone or Payload would probably not run on cheap shared hosting. There are for example small non-profit organizations that are not going to use VPS.
Everyone's eyes are going to be different, so matter what kind of eye was transplanted, the patient's brain would no doubt have to spend some time getting accustomed to it (assuming that vision was restored, which hasn't been done yet in humans). However, growing the nerves necessary to restore vision would also take time, so they probably would not notice color in particular being confusing. Everything would be confusing while the nerves regrow.

After vision was fully restored, they presumably would just have reduced color vision in that eye, but their other eye (if they had one) would pick up the slack. It wouldn't be that different from people who are partially blind in one eye; the brain puts together the information from both eyes and constructs a single coherent image from it, such that it's not really noticeable to them that their two eyes see differently.
Honestly I wish they just offered an officially supported framework-agnostic headless solution on par with Block Themes. I was kinda hopeful when Automattic bought Frontify[1] some time ago, but for some reason apparently that went nowhere.

[1]https://frontity.org
Rewriting an interface from scratch is better than what Httrack does.
I think they do. It's just, it's so blatantly obvious that "single-payer healthcare is too expensive" and "there's no problem with police violence toward black people in particular" are "luxury beliefs" (in the sense that you can only afford to hold them if you're not directly affected by them) that there's no need to spell it out. (This point is sometimes spelled out when it comes to discussions on race and gender -- that's what "privilege" means. That "privilege" isn't brought up as much when it comes to economic/class issues speaks to the state of class warfare in the US.)
I used the Tex keycaps for a keyboard I built about three years ago. After three years of daily usage I have noticed a lot of wear on the keycaps. Some letters are barely visible, and some of the caps have gotten really shiny, i.e. they have lost their surface structure.

Have you noticed something similar? Other than that they feel really nice and I like them a lot.
A same way to handle strings, or return a complex structure without having to preallocate a buffer to write into, etc.

Clear semantics for dealing with threads and multiple cores.

Static type checking
> But quality has always been a very important aspect

But what is quality? I used to think it was just degree of goodness, then I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and now I have no idea what it is (or what it isn’t).
I always think of that Seinfeld episode.