skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat! I’m surprised to see no splay, is it just subtle or have you decided against it? The thumbs look comfy and aren’t tucked under the palm, which is my biggest complaint with most keyboards, but I’m using Miryoku (36 key layout) and I’m not sure that I’d know what to do with a 34-key layout.

(Miryoku has a kludge to let you press two thumb keys at once to emulate the third, for 34-key keyboards, but that works best with low-travel switches very close together.)

How do you like the lateral pinky position? I’m currently building a Dasbob and love the pinky splay/stagger, but I’m curious about moving the top pinky key to the right.
> our billing system has been hot garbage for most of the life of the company

I’ve heard the same thing about their core product.

Oh wait, they even acknowledged it: https://community.fly.io/t/reliability-its-not-great/11253
I don't think the UK will try to join anytime soon, but the EU would be silly to not accept them back. The UK is already Europe's second biggest economy, and depending on how Germany goes, could be the biggest in a couple of decade. It has the biggest tech industry in Europe by quite a bit, a relatively healthy demography, a solid military, bases across the world, soft power _galore_).

Like, grudges and personal issues aside, the numbers say the EU would be greatly bolstered with the UK in it.
She is correct. I really doubt anyone will care in practice, unless they're conditioned to care.
100% agree, the same things happen in Poland and I wish it was closer to US.
Malte Handbook
That is brilliant news for SIM swappers and criminals now that they can gain access to your codes directly with your phone number!

A terrific reason to avoid anything Twilio / Authy
> > Even worse... Sounds like phone number is irrelevant, yet they collect it.

> It's used to store and retrieve your 2fa secrets in case you lose your device

The phone number doesn't store anything?

But if somehow knowing that phone number is a key to getting your 2FA secrets, you'd have a bigger problem.

Except it often is, and that's the problem.
Even if this is a joke, it’s brilliant.
There's a continent in the way... </snark>
> you have to be a really bad parent to trust YouTube

Sadly I don't think its entirely the parent's fault. Google does a good job of making people think that it's safe. There is a strong education component that needs to happen (public health style, similar to wash your hands)

But there probably also needs to be more consequences for Google when they muck up. However that requires regulation from a system that cannot regulate anymore.
I think the statement you just made has become so political that it's almost impossible to criticize the media.
Re-visiting VM/386 (2023)
Whether this is completely out of the box or a multi-year engineering project to get equivalent levels of utility in the long term is completely up to how one specifically uses Fly.io.

E.g. a load balancer in front of some relatively stateless http microservices is really not going to tie you to Fly.io because of complexity. A globally distributed edge compute environment with database, RPC, varying scaling patterns, and environment certifications is probably not going to have the value prop impacted by this kind of minor pricing change though.
The tooling for managing the "lower" layers is progressively worse / slower / harder the closer to the metal you get,
so you usually are paying a heavy premium for convenience / DX.

Only very specific serverless products where the provider can bin-pack you with other tenants allow them to possibly offer lower prices.
Hence the regulation would force Uber (and ultimately the customer) to make it worth their while.
This is not a matter of class balance that much. If you want to predict which of two parties somebody will vote with, the most natural framing is that of binary classification.

For that you need to threshold your predictions. Ideally you'd like your model to generate a bimodal distribution so that you can threshold without many false positives etc.
Pretty sure arrow-recall predates Powershell and in fact Windows itself, it was there since DOS.

Even Tab-path completion had to be done in an incompatible way.
I was going to quip that "idea guys" can predict things in a useless way when having no idea how to make them a reality...but Licklider went on to have such impact on our field.

It's mindblowing he was central to the creation of Arpanet and multics and so many other critical foundational bricks of today's computing.
> Brexit was a disaster not because it was an extremely silly idea, but rather due to saboteurs?

The mostly likely things that has made Brexit not work, if it could ever have worked, and other than the people in charge being terrible at their jobs, are the enormous headwinds of Covid and the war in Ukraine.
The UK had an arguably better deal than everyone else; the UK Rebate. This kind of made sense at the time it was introduced (the UK would have been disadvantaged relative to other large economies without it, due to differences in its economy) but had long since ceased making sense. Due to the UK's veto it was impossible to get rid of it. There's no real prospect that they'd be given it again if they applied to rejoin; that would make no sense.
I don't know if I agree with that. I write Bash; I've written some stuff I really shouldn't have written in Bash. Writing elegant Bash is possible, though I agree it is very easy to footgun yourself with it. The problem is that Bash is right at the middle of "I need something quick" vs "I don't want to break out Golang or whatever" and Bash is installed damn nearly everywhere.

A 50-line awk script though? Get outta here with that lol
eval is crucial, as that's the only way to agree with the computer what it is doing matches what you want it to do.

I wouldn't worry about speeds. We should expect compute and inference to be faster in the future, where we can sample easily 10k programs in a second, check all of them against test cases.

I'd worry about communicating precisely to computers when test cases are awkward to write.
Sorry, didn’t intend for throwaway to come across as not standing behind the product.

I wrote the community forum announcement and was one of the people that worked on implementing our PAYG plan. I just wanted to clarify that we didn’t deprecate silently, so I quickly created an account to do so.

Apologies for any confusion this caused!
Expensive bills and open source alternatives are not enough to make anyone "the new Oracle", particularly not your competitors.
dll go brrrr
Oh he only went to MIT, pfff. And wrote a textbook.
What a brave new world it would be.
It’s mentioned at the end and left as an exercise to the reader.
Play (Together): Mobile Apps for Real-World Connection
I mean, of course it's a joke, and yet...
Hopefully these geezers won't have actual mobility issues, or you'll be outcompeted by a company with speedier seniors.
The 24h monohull world distance record was broken in the north Atlantic last year, Boris Herrmann and crew managed a 50km/h (26.71 knots) average.

Mindblowing:

https://www.imoca.org/en/news/news/team-malizia-s-boris-herr...
where can I invest?
> Sorry Boris, your Euroskeptic vision has failed in so many ways.

> Boris Johnson is out of parliament, making millions from speeches and newspaper columns.

I'm pretty sure Boris thinks he succeeded just fine. The rest of the country, not so much.

> All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage.

I get why you'd want to try to forget about Nigel Farage but the article even has a graph showing how spectacularly Reform is surging in the polls. They'll probably not quite get to the level they need to take a chunk of seats, as their voters are probably quite spread out, but if they get anything close to these numbers in the vote today, that would be pretty impressive. Politically at least.
I disagree, at my company (elest.io) we have several thousands VMs with Hetzner and reliability is very comparable to AWS from our internal stats.
In case of DDOS attack we get notified and can discuss with their team.

Also support is competent and quick. We usually get an answer in few hours most of the time.
With server components/actions you get rid of most useEffect()s and a lot of useState()s, and with the upcoming React compiler you get rid of useMemo(), useCallback(); Redux and other state management tools become pretty irrelevant for many server-component-driven apps as well.

But I agree that React attracts a lot of mediocre and inexperienced programmers, and does not provide very much guard rails against doing bad things, so predictably the average code quality is terrible.
Yes, true, they call APIs. But for whatever reason, MS decided that instead of documenting those APIs they went on the route of abstracting them in PS modules or the az-cli submodules that its mind boggling.
> (VSS, sccs, Bk, perforce, whatever) while that market basically doesn't exist anymore these days and git is ubiquitous.

Perforce still has a solid following in the gamedev space - even with LFS, git's handling of binaries is only mildly less than atrocious.
10 years ago there was reservation hop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985137

Coincidentally, if Mayer is your last name (from your handle) then you even share the same last name

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/reservation-hop-most...
I think we should establish a term for “FOSS and contributing to the project or getting support does not require using proprietary software”. Strongly FOSS?
Does the ISE still take forever to spin up?
>> just sails and ropes as engines

Tides/currents make a huge difference too. There is a right way and a "wrong way round" when sailing the globe. Rather than head south from europe and left towards asia, you turn right towards the south pacific.
HR was much more useful when they did onboarding, payroll, benefits, etc.

Much if not all of that is now outsourced or automated, so having a department feels a bit of a relic.

At my current small company, the CTO is HR, in that he takes care of setting people up in those aforementioned systems. It's really not much work.
I feel like if you had all the map apps in one, you'd end up with a Salesforce of maps.

I kind of like having separate apps for different activities. For sure, it's nice that they integrate eg. gas station search into Waze -- it's a car-related thing, and a likely option in the workflow of navigating a trip. I'll use a totally different app for route finding along mountain trails - here I'll be concerned about offline availability, topography data, terrain types, shelters, precise location and orientation, etc.

To OP's point, it would be nice to have a bike-centric app that responds to concerns cyclists have and others pay little attention to - eg, road surface quality, lane widths, grading, wind exposure, general safety rating etc. Google Maps does the token thing of indicating the total climb and descent for a planned route, but it doesn't give an option to optimize for that (eg, longer route with fewer climbs).
India now consumes more coal than Europe and North America combined
I'm an experienced web dev, who mostly works with Vue. Sometimes I have to work on React apps.

Skimming through the list of sins, pretty much all of them look like things I do on a regular basis. I do not understand React. I find it pretty much incomprehensible, incredibly complicated, and overly complicated for what it does.

I can't really described what `useEffect()` does, only that it's a solution I use when other things don't work. I can't tell you when I should use `useRef()` rather than state or props.

I never have any of these issues in Vue. Its conceptual model has always been pretty easy to grasp, although it got messier in Vue 3 since they tried to copy React more.
There are possible frauds from both employer and employee side, but I will list some common "landmines" of miss-classification, though beware that they are picked across different jurisdictions and I do not remember which apply where. All examples are possible items that can be decided to be part of misclassification, usually from contractor to effective employee:

- requiring specific dress code is non-enforceable on contractors in many places

- contractor is not required to provide specific person to fulfill the job, only a person of appropriate qualifications (it's valid for there to be a check on those qualifications)

- in UK case, contractor might be asked to prove that they have a substitute to work in their place!

- [Poland, possibly other] having only one client is not illegal, but can be grounds for investigations and if it's your only client where you work for equivalent of full-time job, it will be evidence for tax fraud

- You can not enforce working hours on contractors in most jurisdiction, only specific deliverables (taking part of work meetings is deliverable, requiring availability in general of specific person at specific times can be grounds for reclassification)

- above is often linked with "gig economy" - rules regarding "contractors" needing to pick up available jobs etc. are often considered illegal skirting of employment law.

As sibling comment mentioned, more is available from your local (too) friendly search engine. And employment lawyers and HR specialists.
I agree, but would suggest that the solution is splayed columns rather than staggered rows. Lots of keyboards do this, even more “normal” keyboards that are far from being Dactyl-like: https://github.com/GEIGEIGEIST/TOTEM

Also relevant, but for improving the ergonomics of “normal” keyboards with staggered rows: angle mod. https://colemakmods.github.io/ergonomic-mods/angle.html
Interesting take.

At one side, the big cloud providers have their very fair profit margins. But I've always assumed that comes mostly from that they can, and do, charge extra for the beautiful software (not seldomly through ridiculous egress bandwidth pricing).

I'm skeptical of how much flexibility and optimisation the big cloud providers really get compared to a very large VPS provider?

All the compute products (different form of container hosting, serverless) are essentially still priced at CPU+RAM + a premium. Some additional abstraction for nouveau databases ("capacity" or "billing" units). Many of the highly abstracted offerings also have the scale-to-zero concept, while the provider still have to have physical capacity ready (to some extent).

Sure, you can probably crank out some percentage more utilisation, but that doesn't really matter for the 100+% price-add on the market bears.

But I of course have no data to back up my claims, just speculation.
https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-is-active-...

They already do have active noise cancelling, but I believe it is to benefit the passengers.
Do people en masse really want this trad unbiased intellectual version of journalism though? It seems like all of the new successful outlets are explicitly biased/activist. I can’t imagine in our emotional polarized world what people are really clamoring for is the days of Walter Murrow.
No, you ideally want all the jobs to be good. With the old model it was clear what the floor for getting something delivered was. Target could have instead adjusted order minimums or shrunk delivery zones instead.

Gamifying peoples livelihood is the problem.
It's easy not to lose features when you don't have many to begin with... I mean, what are the features that disappeared? What's the bash equivalent of these features?
The benefits for seniors made me sad. Poor old people, this might actually be a good idea if it weren't for everything that's obviously wrong with it.
Very cool..I worked in VR healthcare training briefly. I'm curious how many employees you had at peak. Sounds like you had some revenue coming in. Congratulations on getting as far as you did. Sounds like it was probably a long and winding road.
I agree with this take. I learned web dev before React was a thing, mostly using jQuery at the time. Then as jQuery was falling out of favor I spent a lot of time learning the native browser API's and honing my fundamental JS skills as I focused more time on JS development.

I see a HUGE difference in fundamental understanding of sometimes even the most basic web dev fundamentals between people who learnt just starting with React from the get-go and people who did not. Its sad that people jump to using React from the start just to get a job at the cost of never learning these basic skills that used to be basically required knowledge for web development, and many never go on to get a deeper understanding.
SourceHut has built-in support for mailing lists.

https://lists.sr.ht/
The kicker for me was: only few people are allowed back the recovered Earth. Any guesses about who gets to go back and enjoy a pristine Earth?
I'm not sure which was caused by which.

Did customers lose trust because of activism?

Or did customers just switch to untrustable (but free) online papers, leaving activism as the only way to earn a living for former upright journalists?
Congrats it's an awesome thing to see your stuff out in the wild like that!
Author here. If you used any of these tips in your UIs, do share!

Will update the article along the way.
>but I would like to remind everyone about the absolute trainwreck we had before.

That isn't good enough. People make the same argument about Git. "But it was so much worse before Git".

React was a useful step forward for its time, but it's not a great solution now.
Bold statement. Based on what? Being better at tactics everyone would have used in the past if they had the might?

Fast forward to today and you can still come up with an easy list of 20 countries that exhibit human rights abuses on their own people on a day to day basis.
I see a bit of a reversal in the U.S. press. Peak craziness was 2020.

It was always a mystery if the activism was top-down mandated, i.e., journalists were forced to be activists by their management or not.

So it would be interesting to see who was fired. Mainstream has gotten saner in the U.S., with many heretical articles in the NYT and WaPo at least on the war topics.

This is not the case in the U.K. or Germany, where only one public opinion is allowed.
'delves' is now part of my regular vocabulary because of GPT lol
I sometimes I think Waze is sending me on an exploratory missions, giving me a sub-optimal route just to learn the current conditions along it.
If you have a large enough touchscreen, I’d also recommend https://pashutk.com/ergopad/

(Note: this breaks down a bit once you move to concave key wells)
Packse – Python Packaging Scenarios
The Azure CLI [0] is a viable method of managing Azure infrastructure if you don't/cannot use PowerShell.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/what-is-azure-cl...
Bad enough that we had to migrate our key customer-facing platform off of it because of the impact.

I love the idea and will still use it for many less-business-critical apps but after multiple late-night weird un-debuggable database outages we had to switch.
And if the company makes it a policy to never accept any counteroffer (which is legal and fair), you're back to the same system, without that feature existing.
Yes but the prompt here states that all we know is the probability is either 0.55 or 0.45. By definition this is the best model you can produce.
By that time, I doubt we will be around to see it.
The EU VAT directive is long misunderstood. Countries have extreme room for interpretation of the VAT rules. For example, Ireland beat the UK on making period products tax exempt by about 20 years, something supposedly disallowed by EU directives. I know Greece charges VAT on fee-paying schools, and the EU doesn't do anything about it.
You can even simplify your `Where-Object` as

... | Where-Object Count -gt 1 | ...

Or, of course,

... | ? count -gt 1 | ...
The very first time I tried to spin up a test deploy the instance never came online, which I thought was pretty funny. This was like 6 months ago.
The JPEG standard ITU T.81 (1992) has a description of the algorithm in flowcharts, so the knowledge of array-based Huffman was probably already somewhat common in the 80s.
This is a great story of finding a way to be productive inside a giant, impersonal machine like Microsoft.

That said, it did nothing to convince me to invest more mental energy in PowerShell. Every time I use it, I have the same “meh” reaction: The learning curve is too steep and the syntax is too ugly. It doesn’t ever “stick” with me, so I end up starting from zero every time I encounter it again.

I think the fundamental problem is that PWSH inhabits a dark valley between quick-and-dirty scripting and I’m-serious-about-this programming. It really needed to pick one side or the other to win people over, but never did.
This just in:

rentelderlypeople.com emerges out of stealth and raises $100M from prominent VCs and angel investors to change the world and disrupt the senior citizens market. /s
Thanks! sounds hard asf. I believe we can handle the inconsistence problem because we want <all> the products (so it'll be really general), however i don't think Amazon can list all their products on the webpage because of the huge amount. It'll be harder to reach the product url's than to scrap them :/
So the old org chart comic is correct:

https://flowingdata.com/2011/06/30/organizational-charts-in-...
I paid all this money to get to a beautiful surf spot, and you’re telling me I have to paddle and stand up on my own?!
Thumb tuck is awful, and is one of my biggest complaints with Corne-style keyboards. I’m building a Dasbob in the hopes that the thumb arc is more comfortable, but we’ll see.
This just goes to the core problem of the binary referendum. You might say that Brexit was about a specific set of policy goals that you wanted to pursue once we were out of the EU, but that's not how the vote worked. You got Brexit.

You weren't promised any specific policies in the aftermath, or rather to be accurate you were - you were promised a plethora of inconsistent, contradictory and mutually exclusive policies. You got Liam Fox's easiest trade deal ever, you got Dan Hannan's "absolutely nobody is suggesting we would give up our position in the free market in Europe". You got your Canada plus and your Norway minus. You took back control on immigration!

May I suggest, given that what you were told in the lead up to the referendum was clearly self-contradictory nonsense, we might have predicted exactly this implementation.
Specifically when is not knowing UTC will skip a second six months later a problem for you? As I said, you don't know the interval between any two seconds on your clock, a sync or frequency change can happen at any time. And if you really needed to know the interval at those points, Atomic Time can serve your purpose.
I see this all the time, even with coworkers who have worked with react for years and when I question it they have such a hard time understanding what the issue is with this.

Not using derived state or in other words not using the minimal state required is one of the most common issues I end up seeing, people just add state everywhere not realizing a lot of the time additional state is not needed and every little variable doesn't need to be separate state.
I mean, if anything, the invasion of Ukraine likely _masked_ problems for longer; continental Europe was far harder hit than the UK by energy deficits (most UK gas comes from the North Sea fields and Norway, and it also had LPG importation facilities on a greater scale than did, say, Germany on the eve of the war). Without it, the economic divergence would look worse, not better.

Covid was largely in the rear-view mirror by the time the UK _really_ left; the really disruptive changes didn't start til mid 2021.
“the slow blade penetrates the shield“
Dead & Co. at the Sphere was an unforgettable life experience. So much creativity in what they did with the visuals to honor the history of the band, its San Francisco roots, and the canvas the Sphere gave them. I'm going back in August!
More manipulation of OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats
AI Chatbots Seem as Ethical as a New York Times Advice Columnist