skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a lot of time on this, back in my bored 20's. A super-optimized keyboard layout, which I used for a year. I measured my typing speed on qwerty before the change, and on the optimized keyboard after using it for a year.

Yep, you do type faster. In my case, it was 10%. Honestly, it wasn't worth it. There are way too many disadvantages, not least of which is the fact that that only your computer has your weird keyboard. Also, typing 10% faster is pretty irrelevant: how much of your time are you typing flat-out?

If you need an ergonomic keyboard, that's a different thing. There are lots of those. Get one that uses qwerty.
The article doesn't state it explicitly, but I think there's an implied correlation.

Before the age of 2 you don't get a seat, and it's implied that your guardians are 100% responsible for your mobility.

Whereas a child old enough to require a seat might also need to request a wheelchair, and would be provided with one.
The other thing the article failed to mention is musk's twitter is gladly willing to censor certain people on behalf of some governments like Turkey while picking fights with others like Brazil. Again the whole free speech thing at the very least isn't by some principle.
Yes, but again, the point I intended to make was that if you don't have to spend time controlling your external environment, then you only have to focus on what's going on with yourself. But if you do have to put time into controlling things externally, you still have to focus on those internal things. Being interrupted more externally doesn't make your internal struggles easier, it only gives you less time for them.

Say that I'm working on some fairly big fairly sprawling and cross-cutting effort, and I'm having trouble getting it done efficiently because I keep going down unnecessary refactoring rabbit holes, or getting distracted while waiting for end-to-end tests to run. I can (and do) experience these issues with a wide open schedule, notifications silent, and a home office with zero external interruptions. But now say I am getting frequent high-urgency pings about various other things that I need to research and dig into. When I pop each of those off the stack, I'm just back to my rabbit-hole strewn slow-to-test mess, but now it's just later in the day with less time before I have to pick up the kids or before the next scheduled meeting, or whatever else. I'm still dealing with all the same internal issues, just with less time and more anxiety.

But it's very clear that I did not make this point well at all in my original post.
They're the ones using Apple products generally so there's certainly overlap with both chrome and safari
I’ve been using Caprover for years, and haven’t experienced anything like your reported rate of failure.
The taro plant is still in its original planter, with the same soil that was in there when we purchased it 15 years ago. I think we added a few small stones to the top (which now are covered with moss above the waterline). It's an incredibly hardy plant, and if it could find soil or mud nearby it would expand for sure ... there are always runners creeping out from the pot, and little baby taros sprouting around the moss. I would think where you are in the south it would do really well.

Kind of surprised about the chipmunks. We have them too but the liner has never been damaged. OTOH it's pretty heavy duty rigid PVC.
The primary value in nix is in the packages, not the configuration language and not the prebuilt cache system.

If one were to fork the project, the sensible way to do that would be to build a nixpkg-compatible alternative system that doesn't have some of the design flaws (such as a global non-discoverable configuration namespace and an underdocumented custom functional programming language...).

I don't think anyone's gotten together the hours to do that. But I'd certainly love to build an immutable, repeatable system using a Python or Kotlin config myself.
Our friend is going to jail [video]
It depends? If you're a more advanced user, need extensions, and a more complete browser overall, you have to use Chrome(ium) and Firefox.
For a few precious first seconds when I parsed the title, I was contemplating a style of clothing called 'Imperative Clothing',
and why the latest fashion for those was to add a dash of 'Functional Semantics' to that clothings line.
Then the boring proper way to parse it popped into my head, and the fun was over :-/
ABC vows to continue fearless reporting after 2019 police raid on Sydney offices
That document completely agrees with ‘nootropicat, except for a difference in terminology— What ‘nootropicat calls “money” the BoE calls “base money.”

(And, for the record, this is also what I’ve been meaning by “currency”)
There doesn't seem to be much about the limitations of this approach, e.g. will this work?

list.map (lambda f => readFile! f)
I have seen people online dig a pit, let pigs hang out in the pit and in a process called “gleying” the pigs seal the pit making it watertight.

I have some acreage and would love to try this out to create a pond, but there are never any real good details on this - what areas it works best, etc etc.

Anyone here have experience with making their own pond without using a liner?
Netrw is quite good. Oil.nvim is by far the best if you're willing to monkey with a plugin.
Or if you got good charisma you can do it with most others.
You guys, Stanford is right there.
Tamriel Rebuilt Development Roadmap
When someone says that if Ŋarritj spoke better yolŋu, he'd be a pollie, saying "vote for me vote for me" and "he'd be a number 3", is that a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Australia#... ?

(only a 3? is that because, on the campaign trail, he would have been more likely to shred a stubby holder than scull a schooner?)
Thanks! I also wrote Tiny Solar System which is kind of KSP for 5 year olds. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2116950/Tiny_Solar_System...
There is a ton of manipulation on all social media now. If you look at the profits company execs and investors make from it, it's easy to see how they're funneling revenue out of these platforms into their pockets without really investing in the communities at all with features that create opportunity and utility. The model for large social platforms has been corrupted to the point that there's a blueprint for them, similar to casinos, where only the house wins.

I think the main reason why Elon turned Twitter into hell was to get most of the people on older accounts to quit because they had EULAs that weren't compatible with his profit plans. Now, older accounts don't grow, and they languish in a sea of whatever content Elon wants to trend. There is incessant spam about crypto, celebrities, boring music, police chase and fight clips, KPop, a ton of things that no one is interested in, while the site just also loses money.

It's symbolic of social media altogether, as Instagram, TikTok, etc. have all turned on users to just push ads, and they announce features that nobody wants. It's the height of tone deafness that will cause everyone to migrate completely off of social media... They did it to themselves. It was their ego, not any sort of utopian vision, when you think only from your own limited social perspective, there's no way you can lead a platform of millions of people with differing perspectives and backgrounds.
Thanks for mentioning Zenfetch :)

Happy to answer any questions
Is it?

My experience with Arc (which I would assume would be heavier than Chrome) has been that it adds a lot of scary entries in the Resource Monitor App, but doesn't impact my day-to-day use on my 16 Gb M1 MBP.

With Safari, on the other hand, I've experienced audio stutter and delays when using resource intensive wep-apps like YouTube, Figma, Netflix and others.
This even extends to "hate" that people unrelated to you, who have a vaguely similar skin tone committed. Or surely must have.
> “Eventually you have to do some effects. Otherwise you're just heating up the CPU.”

Heating up a CPU is side-effectful enough to crack encryption [1]!

I for one stick to executing my purely functional code in my mind only.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263314485_The_Tempe...
Why would they exclude elderly from their study? It seems odd to exclude a population with higher rates of health problems. Is there assumption that bankruptcy only matters to those who would otherwise be working?
My guess: going after them civil courts has lower burden of proof and/or FTC can't go after people criminally and has to refer cases to the DOJ.
Setup a github action that compiles the static site and uploads it to a server with nginx/caddy/etc?

If you want it super self-hosted, then self-host gitlab and use their CI/CD instead of Github Actions.
Is there such a thing in Canada?
I can't speak to anyone else, but the main reason I want Apple to be forced to actually compete with Safari is because it erases the murky charade of the modern browser market having any real competition whatsoever since in reality, it's been all Google for a long time now.

Apple is only relevant because they're anti-consumer by enforcing a platform monopoly. That shouldn't be the case for many other reasons and that's why they're identified as a Gatekeeper. Erasing the pretend of the browser market is a necessary sacrifice, although it's also a welcome one since it makes Google's behaviour impossible to defend and makes it obvious for all to see.

Mozilla gets big cuts from Google to exist as fake competition - without Google money they're probably unsustainable (especially since Mozilla is putting money anywhere but improving Firefox even though Firefox is also missing quite a few things).

Everyone else is using Chrome reskins and Google deliberately makes it difficult to make any Chrome fork stand out from others by making sure the codebase is put together in such a way where it's impossible to really differentiate a fork beyond some token UI reskins. (Just see how the response to WebManifest v3 getting forced is from all the Chrome reskins, where they admit they may not be able to keep v2 around. That's entirely because the Chrome source code is borderline impossible to keep a "nice fork" with.)

To put it as straightforward as possivle; I don't want an IE 2.0, I want Google dragged to trial for their behaviour on the browser market. If that means revealing that Chrome is an "IE 2.0" it's something I wouldn't mind. It's about the greater goal here, even if the first step is a painful acknowledgement of reality. Google's perverse incentive with Chrome needs to be more obvious and Apples fake competition by being anti-consumer makes that more difficult.
Isn’t this all by design? Google’s not going to take Apple-like steps to stop tracking and fingerprinting.
>> But let’s not kid ourselves that the stuff we’re writing is even intended to last a long time.

Not my experience at all.
I am literally at this moment releasing new version of private app framework that was created by few people (including me) about 18 year ago for few clients on long forgotten platform because some client (who is still paying support fees!) found some obscure bug building new application using this framework.
The previous version was released about 8 years ago.
> not least of which is the fact that that only your computer has your weird keyboard.

Fair, but how often are most people typing on someone else's computer? (Outside of developers who do pairing.)
A key datapoint not mentioned in the article is "Can this be used on AWS RDS?" - to which I believe the only option that meets that criteria right now is `pg_repack`
Clearly that's not true as the bank note analogy shows. If you print trillions of £50 pound notes and stuff them into an empty coal mine guarded by many competent people with guns, that's not going to have any impact on prices whatsoever.
haha good point
Also the twitter is just a link to the real article: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/even-orwells-thought-pol...
> Can you imagine the horror of being housed in a racially unhomogenous camp? People in 1929 sure could.

That's still the case today. Here in Germany, after 2015 there were often issues in temporary housing (e.g. sports halls converted to improptu shelters) when refugees from different backgrounds collided. Say you had two ethnic groups fighting a civil war, and members of both would flee to Germany, and continue their conflict here. Or religion - shiite and sunni muslims each view the other groups as infidels.

Or go back two decades prior, to the aftermaths of the Yugoslavian wars and their refugees that mostly came to Germany (due to a strong diaspora tradition), with the only thing anybody would have agreed upon is that beating a Serb takes precedence over any other internal fight. Balkan ethnic conflicts can even be confusing for people living there, it's madness - but thankfully it has (mostly - excluding BiH/Kosovo...) died down by now.

That Geneva Convention rule makes sense in the end, it aims to prevent conflict from stirring up in camps.
Thanks for the dissection! Will definitely consider getting partners from US/EU
You said this so much better than me! These were the ones I was thinking more of when writing my comment, rather than all the distractions of a noisy brain. I agree entirely with folks here that those are not in any way easy to overcome. (Though still easier to overcome in the absence of lots of external interruptions.)
moonlander is best lander. if you type for a living, buy one and never look back.
I guess it is where it is close, and I don't really care too much about it. I like Bezos idea of space rather than Musk's: use Moon as a production base or something, let's move the bad stuffs pollution, garbage, nuclear waste) to the moon.
There goes my chances of getting any for my diabetes this decade :(
I do that all the time in interactive shells. First because it’s easy to bring back the last command and append to it, second because it gives me more confidence about what I’m actually deleting (I could mess up my rm command if I’m writing it from scratch).

With a couple of zsh aliases that becomes quick to write in a stupid-but-simple way: “ls G roc_nightly G tar.gz X rm”
An absolute legal abomination. Even before considering its insane punishments, it's at odds with the liberal-democratic foundational principle that you cannot legislate retroactively.
> Even tech illiterate people always seem to end up with Chrome somehow.

Ha ha, because they are unable to quit the app.
totally get it - teenage has a design language and that is what is getting this clout since otherwise the system has long way to go to getting to the current speed expectations.

google or amazon would definitely enter the market especially since they've more or less set themselves up with home devices.
Anecdotally, GSuite works a lot better on Chrome than any other browsers I've tried. Unsurprisingly companies opting for GSuite will see a larger share of chrome use, it might as well be preinstalled when handing down the computer or mandated at IT level when the intranet and other corporate SaaS is explicitely tested for chrome first.
Psychoanalyzing the Presidents: AI Dives into the Minds of Biden and Trump
This analysis was performed using Jung, a psychoanalysis endpoint I build as part of a larger mental health project I'm working on. Jung is obviously still in beta, but I'm happy to work with people who are interested in integrating this functionality into their tools to ensure it's maximally robust for their use case.
No, we should fix both. Even without that, large corporations might still exist with other means and we should dismantle them.
> I remember mid-90s it was typical for a home computer to come with a prominent tutorial on mouse usage. There was definitely one for MacOS 7, while I don't recall if there was an official Microsoft tutorial for 90s Windows or just ones provided by OEMs.

There was definitely one in Windows 3.1 as well, though I don't believe it made it to 95. I've often heard that Solitaire and Minesweeper were also intended to effectively be mouse tutorials where people learned by doing while playing the game.
You're right that including the Gradle wrapper is a common good practice for years. But if you have to or want to move to a newer Gradle version than you can enjoy the full randomness of the domain specific language from Gradle itself and from a thousand plug-ins.
One is behind on feature support, like IE. The other is so dominant that gives a company a lot of power, like IE.

Both Safari and Chrome are today's IE in different ways.
What more do you need than a web server?
yes. passing on the gift of life is one of the fundamental duties of society. luckily this is a self correcting problem
I respectfully disagree. Those are a pain in the ass to get to. These things tend to get aerially inspected for a reason. I would definitely not want to be sending out contractor crews to off-road locations for something as low value as a short stretch of solar panels.
Very interesting, thank you for making this available!

At OpenAdapt (https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt) we are looking into using pm4py (https://github.com/pm4py) to extract a process graph from a recording of user actions.

I will look into this more closely. In the meantime, could the authors share their perspective on whether Memary could be useful here?
Which part of the bill says that?
We can do even better: https://archive.is/HjkWD
Are there provinces with electronic prescriptions? I always get a piece of paper (in Alberta).

I've had cases where the pharmacy (indeed London Drugs) phoned the doctor to ask them to fax a renewal.
There is protection, just not at the cable itself.

UK only needed to introduce that because of their ring main architecture, which was fused at levels above a plug.

Also c.f. extension coils and pre-battery vacuums: both needed their cable full unspooled to reach their full load rating.
Yet they typically lack technical enforcement mechanism to not rely on users being literate and willing enough to RTFM.
Glyphs-generator: glyph generation tool with geometric constraints
The 'hallucination' term is an unfortunate bit of anthropomorphisation. It's a machine for generating plausible text; sometimes the text is true, accidentally. This bears no particular resemblance to any conventional meaning of 'hallucination'.
Most people just want to browse websites, they don't want an OS in a web browser running on their OS.

Web developers love chrome because it's turning the web browser into the lowest common denominator operating system. It's a terrible idea. I want native apps, I hate web-apps, I hate Electron apps. They all have UI tweaks that don't fit in with native apps, are typically slower and more bloated.

But because most web developers are useless, its all that is ever built these days.
Unfortunately people never learned the power of freedom, so they regularly jump from a cage to another... The is no law to help, only culture.
You still have oil changes, preventative maintenance, gasoline, and insurance to pay
https://wpt.fyi/interop-2024?stable

Just because something works in chrom(ium) does not mean it should work on “the web.”
Kinda the definition of pirate.

There's a reason they are pirates. Sometimes is philosophical. Sometimes, it's the barrier erected by the FCC so only the rich can have a radio station.

Here's an idea! Give him a license. Problem solved.
Probably depends on the niche. I use it a lot exclusively as part of my work and it's quite active there (I work in infosec). I imagine there are many different niches and circles of interest that are still active on Twitter, even if overall the activity slowed down a bit.
An alternative is to tie the federal student loan program to a regulation in school cost. If the school exceeds some threshold, their students are no longer qualify for federally-backed loans. Granted, it creates administrative burden but it’s the only proposal I’ve heard that seems to address the root problem of tuition costs and almost unfettered access to collateral-free loans.
The thing to take from it is not that the figure the linked study arrives at is "right", but that the cited 2/3 figure is seriously flawed to the point that it shouldn't be cited.

As it is, the 2/3 statistic is mainly used to score political points and indeed one of the authors of the original study that came up with the 60% number is Elizabeth Warren. Now, you could say she participated in her capacity as an academic, but I personally have a hard time believing she would have put her name on the paper if it had found, say, 4% of bankruptcies came from medical debt.
Oh sure, I actually meant that as a continuation of my earlier comment. We should remove legal and tax protections for companies, making large companies much less likely, and we should separately fix the fundamental problems of our legal system that corporations, among others, take advantage of today.
PhoneArena unveils the ultimate collector's book for phone enthusiasts
Yes; the US will lead the world in plausible-looking bullshit generation.
Building Quantum Software
For me, it somehow happens all the time. Helping out co-workers, friends or family. Using a different workstation than usual (we no longer have assigned desks). Sure, you can mentally "switch" layouts, but it's a pain.

Then there's the reverse: My PC at home - wife wants to check something quickly without turning on her PC.

Finally: I regularly use both a PC and a laptop. Depending on how weird you want the layout to get, there may not be a way to use it on the laptop. Schlepping an external keyboard around - nope, not practical.
Investors like Y Combinator can pool risk, so even if most of their startups fail they're still net ahead.
Navigating the Path to Management: Tips for Software Engineers
Making the leap from being one of the folks in the cubicles to the one steering the ship can be as thrilling as it is daunting.

Here’s how you can strap in and navigate this transition smoothly, armed with your technical prowess and a newfound managerial toolkit.
No I'm saying that the conditions that lead to one declaring bankruptcy can also cause one to rack up medical debt.
YouTube and Netflix are resource intensive webapps? What is so resource intensive about them? A <video> element?
Mixtral 8x7B going 378 tokens per second on CPU
The Impact of Micro-Optimizations at Google Scale
tesseract is fine for basic use cases, but it fails when the image is tilted (and thus the text isn't laid out horizontally), which can happen several times with scanned books. Compared to how well the Google OCR engine works, tesseract should be much better than it is.

I wonder how difficult it is to develop a better OCR engine than tesseract.
So is it your opinion that the NRA has been so successful through words alone? That politicians have never received any financial or political gain from the NRA at all?
Installing Older Ruby Versions on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04
I like to say "just" for things like this :) In the sense that, this really is the answer, but the devil is in the details. (Usually in this same way of implying that it approaches pointlessness to even mention the thing you "just" need to do.)
> The article doesn't state it explicitly

"Patricia’s seat was booked as an adult ticket."
Gift of life quite often turns out to be the curse of life. If I was given the opportunity to respawn again I would politely decline than risk being born in North Korea or Sudan.