skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is why a horrible crime like rape is typically not punished as strictly as murder: if the penalty were the same, why not do away with the witness.

As an aside, something feels off about this example. Choosing to differ the penalties to incentivize not murdering the victim suggests that the murder outcome is less desirable, i.e. the crime is more horrible. The argument implicitly assumes that murder is the more horrible crime while making a case for why the punishments differ. Given that punishments are generally expected to be in proportion to the horribleness of the crime that assumption suggests that the punishments would differ to begin with.
Scotland has 5.44 million people [1] and 20 million casks laid down [2], for a ratio of 3.67:1. If these Kentuckians want to get serious about booze, they need to raise their game.

[1] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2019/scotlands-population...

[2] https://www.scotch-whisky.org.uk/insights/facts-figures/
reminds me a lot of Operator Mono/Book, especially the cursive variant
Downaloded, installed and paid for it. Thank you from Italy. ciao
Apparently it's first inventor to file, though I'm not entirely clear on what that means.
I was working for an Investment Bank in 2010 as a Tech. Business Analyst. My job was not necessarily to write code.However, we had a major problem with one of the projects where we had to process hundreds and thousands of rows in an Excel spreadsheet for testing and the version of Excel was 2003. The limit for one worksheet was 65,000 rows only and it used to take 3-4 hours to do the testing (don't remember details anymore) due to manual copy paste across multiple worksheets. One time, my boss mentioned in a meeting that perhaps someone could do it in MS-Access instead ? I decided to do it without telling him and put together a proof of concept in MS-Access in 2-3 days and then handed it over to a developer to finalize. I did not know much about VBA and googled the heck out of it to put that application together. We reduced the testing time to less than 30 mins and I was so proud of that. Not the best code but the best problem I solved till then.
Many editors and terminals have a flag to disable ligatures.
For me it's so important to be able to play with what I want to learn right away, especially with programming. If you want to learn D3 for example, maybe find a live version of D3 on the web where you can see it modify and change right away. You need to see results almost instantly as a beginner to stay motivated, unless you intuitively KNOW how good success shall feel.
Most distilleries, including the best known, don't malt and dry their own barley to begin with.
All human progress was enabled by people who did things first. If everybody would ever only do what they see others do, there would never be any progress.
Their strategy is to grind you down over time on whatever their users are doing that doesn't suit their grand vision. A feature will start out on the main menu then it will emigrate to a sub menu then it has to be done with an extension then it has to be done with a custom file then that custom file gets disabled by default but can be turned on and finally the feature gets disabled entirely. It happened first with xul extensions and now it's happening with userChrome.css and unsigned extensions.
The concept of private property advocated by America's Founders is mostly based on Lockean ideas of "labor mixed with natural resources creates property". But as Benjamin Tucker pointed out, that doesn't justify absentee ownership (either as landlord or as employer), since you're no longer there actually mixing your labor. And landlords and employers are exactly the roles who Proudhon and other anarchists see as illegitimate, not the small farmer who tills his own land.

Of course, as large absentee owners themselves, the Founders were only too happy to let that consequence of Lockean theory slide, just as they were able to write "all men are created equal" while keeping men in slavery. But that merely shows that Upton Sinclair's quote, cliché as it may have become, still holds an inescapable truth.
Would you care elaborating why it is better than HTML5?
There are some nice things about this. I really like how the normal text looks, but the cursive italics looks horrid!
What economic system produces no waste or pollution?
Right, all this hysteria about tech companies' irresponsibility is simply "how dare you give the average person an easier route to expressing themselves and connecting to each other". Hell, it might not even be wrong that this is a bad thing[1], but the discourse around it is so dishonest.

[1] There's long been a place in political philosophy for acknowledging that it's possible for the masses to have too much direct power
“An average” is not what google is after (at least officially).
The front page ticker also describes the font as ”(im)peachy”
Can somebody explain to me why narrow programming fonts seem to be trending so strongly lately? I really don't understand, personally.

I have a much, MUCH harder time reading a narrow font.

I also find it aesthetically inferior to a "non-narrow" font so much that even if it was as readable or more, I feel like I would have a hard time getting myself to use it.

Is there some other aspect that people like, such as being able to work in a narrower editor window? If this is purely subjective, why aren't non-narrow fonts also circulating on the front page every week?
First to file vs first to invent only matters if if there are two near-simultaneous independent patent applications on same subject by different parties.

Patents are not like registered marks where you can apply for the same thing over and over; only the original inventor or its employer can apply, otherwise lour patent would be invalidated due to prior art.
The plaintiffs certainly had a larger legal team. We brought our patent attorney and a trial lawyer on our own dime, and we managed to get some time from the chief patent counsel for a very large company because he had a relationship with one of our investors.

The plaintiffs managed to get jurisdiction in their own city (across the country from ours), and the general belief was that the judge granted this because he wanted a change from the drug trials he normally dealt with. This made it very expensive for us, and they definitely had the home court advantage.

I could whine about a lot of other things. For instance the plaintiffs removed every juror candidate who had any college, leaving only locals who I don't think even understood trigonometry. The fact that you're not supposed to be able to patent math, but somehow math on a computer gets through the patent process, etc...

> ex post facto analysis

I'm not sure what definition of "obvious" survives then. I was out of college for less than 2 months, and I wrote the code in a single evening. The "infringing" algorithm was less than 10 lines.
> but there are no other limits on the computational resources it may use during that time

I am guessing that defining a CO₂ or $ limit causes problems.

They could specify that the solution must be CO₂ neutral e.g. suggest an official CO₂ offset provider?
You need to be arrested for birdshit or sugar doughnuts (that happened, too), and then we can talk again.
> these ads are also shown inline with the usual flow of information they accept as true

Accepting this flow of information as true does indeed seem like idiocy
Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult: a business is more complicated
I'm not loving the italics. I find them a bit hard to read in his code sample.
You've missed the point. This is more similar to identify theft.
The cursive parts are less legible. I think it could work with some leading/trailing strokes removed. Preferably switch out the cursive r too.
Define fractal?
The one where they don't dress up in green and drink irresponsibly one day of the year.

Nobody likes plastic Paddies.
>Why type=file and a size? What else has size in 500k range on a filesystem, except files?

Directories. They have a size depending on the metadata list of included files they contain. And can retain their size even if their inner files are deleted (until some cleanup style process is run).

>It’s no more immediately sensible than find

Oh yes, it is.

The same nitpicking for find would take 10 days, and wont be as contrived...
France introduces new regulations on electric scooters
I'm pretty sure that's just a name they use internally. The real format is usually webm or sometimes just a regular old mp4 video.
>The probe follows a study, published in the journal Science on Thursday, that found that an algorithm sold by UnitedHealth’s Optum unit ranked white patients with fewer chronic diseases and healthier vital signs the same as sicker black patients.

>[...]

>“This compounds the already unacceptable racial biases that black patients experience

The article makes it sound like blacks are being discriminated against, but it looks like they're given preferential treatment? Healthy whites are ranked the same as sick blacks. That seems like a good thing, because less sick = lower premiums. Am I reading this correctly?
YouTube Stutter on Gen 1 Chromecast
I'm in IT, and don't feel hurt by it. I have a hard time imagining who would feel hurt by a throwaway line that's so very non-specific, especially when it's referring to a phenomenon that's so real and important. I have an easy time imagining who would feel angered by this line, however.
Same as regular Firefox, right? Help -> About, and it'll tell you if it's outdated.
The obsession to make everything mobile first. But mostly that mobile means google or apple approved.

I have lost count of the number of times I was unable to access my revolut or N26 bank accounts due to some android app updates that for some reason do not work without google play services. I can't understand how investors still put money on this, how banking regulators don't put a stop on that, or how can people use these "banks" as their main accounts. Plus the fact that there is no easy way to contact them (phone, email) if you are unable to login through their _mobile_ app!

(I mention banking apps because they seem more serious, but this happens with all sorts of services with a "mobile" app)
Ukrainian and Russian programmers are all very good. You usually have to go through Germany though to get to them though.
I believe there are some newer theoretical reactor designs based around this concept! In essence, they are designed such that the fuel is not in itself capable of sustaining a chain reaction. It is only with the active addition of neutrons that you can get the fission reaction underway. So if you halt that supply of neutrons from the neutron generator, the reaction dies off, greatly enhancing passive safety.
I know about such suggestion for about, I guess, 20 years. It was suggested as a way to clear radioactive waste in Chrenobyl contamination area.

And if you can read Russian, here a paper for your amusement for semisuccessful attempt to implement that: http://www1.jinr.ru/Pepan_letters/panl_2017_6/13_Andreeva.pd...

It contains a short English abstract which I copy here: The influence of laser irradiation on the gamma-activity of aqueous solutions of both 137Cs and 134Cs is experimentally studied in presence of Au nanoparticles at laser intensity of order of 10^(12)W/cm2. It is found that laser irradiation reduces the gamma-activity of both nuclides. This decrease is not accompanied by excessful gamma radiation in the spectral range of gamma-activity of their spontaneous decay. Possible mechanisms are discussed of the influence of laser radiation on the activity of isotopes on the basis of laser field enhancement on the plasmon resonance of nanoparticles.
The site seems to create a huge amount of load on my computer. As soon as I open the page, usage across all 4 of my cpu cores seems to shoot up from 1-10% all the way to 70-100%. I'm running Firefox 69 on arch linux.
> all the stuff in your dwelling, etc., all from capitalism

The value of those things depends on whether they were produced in ways that takes externalities into consideration ie. I fear we're destroying the ecosystem to create those.

You haven't made clear where you stand on that, and it's crucial to understanding each others positions. I'd be grateful if you'd address that.

re. enron, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron#2001_Accounting_scandals:

"Enron used a variety of deceptive, bewildering, and fraudulent accounting practices and tactics to cover its fraud in reporting Enron's financial information"

That doesn't fit in with what you said.
Proportionality on outcome or proportionality on intent? If the assassin's gun misfires nobody is harmed. A punishment proportional to the outcome would be no punishment at all. But a punishment proportional to intent should not distinguish between the scenarios where the gun does and does not misfire.
The Bad Big Wolf Meets Riding Hood Little Red [video]
I love the logo for Sudo

https://www.sudo.ws/sudo/images/sudo-logo-65.png
Fitting more on the screen horizontally. Wrapped lines are a different cognitive load.

I personally don't care for the narrower fonts, but I can see the utility.
"negative seo doesn't work"

That position is utterly silly to me.

How can Google defend the idea that "blackhat SEO" you do yourself will tank your site, while saying others doing the same exact thing to you won't work?

Are they claiming some magical ability to discern ownership and intent?
This is real talk! But, How does this appeal to a unified architecture interfere with the marketspace? I'd love for more programmers to listen to this video and give their thoughts!
Which is a really common name for booze, cf Vodka.

Edit: Actually the link to vodka might be bad etymology on my part, my Russian teacher taught me that. Eau de Vie, and tonnes of others fit.
They pretty quickly send you emails once your email comes up in the whois of a domain that’s pointing to an IP in the allocation space of German companies.

Example: hetzner.
What’s the average age of whiskeys in Scotland vs Kentucky? If my hunch is correct the Scotch whisky’s are aged for a longer period of time. It could explain why they have more.
Overview of witchcraft cases in Scotland from the Scottish Witchcraft Project, more detail than the linked article: http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/introduction.html
The N one or the G one?

They're both surprisingly similar to the Nix configuration language: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language
Constraints that Enable Innovation (2015) [video]
Whisky is not a region of Scotland. The use of Champagne is protected because it's a region of France.
I appreciate the effort, the font looks solid, but I really don't understand the new trend of using italic in the code syntax. It seems like every trendy frontend engineer has their sublime text or vscode set up with a font that uses italic for imports, comments, etc and I really don't see the appeal.
Texas existed as a self-proclaimed sovereign nation for the better part of a decade.

It began with the Texas Revolution and independence from Mexico. (Remember the Alamo!)

Texas immediately wanted to be annexed by the U.S., but the U.S. was reluctant about a potential war with Mexico. (Which when Texas was finally annexed, is exactly what happened.)
A lot of Japanese Whisky isn't even from Japan.

https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/19680/not-all-jap...
Coming next on HN: A model for ladders strength (stanleytools.com)
Perhaps the person from whom it was stolen can't prove they owned it legitimately? I expect stealing stolen goods has higher odds of not being reported so lower risk for the thieves. That said, stealing from people who might own stolen expensive art might not be the smartest thing to do... :)
You don't believe that getting something is getting paid? "Payment in kind" is a pretty ancient (and still relevant) concept, and it seems very weird to tie the concept of payment solely to currency. (obviously excluding narrow cases like income reporting, where the gov't needs you to convert any sort of payment into USD so they can calculate your taxes)
The thing is, sudo also tries to allow you to give much more limited access also. Such as run specific commands as another user without needing full root access. That does present a larger surface on the part of sudo, but it's a considerably tiny surface compared to giving the user full access with su and wheel.
This makes me wonder about the optimal time to proceed (rather than wait for improved technology). Right now progress seems slow, but if advances sped up, it would be a real concern that you could get on a craft with a 20 year journey time, only to arrive and find that during your trip, technology had improved enough that others beat you there.
I can second this. Everybody wants to be “data driven”, but hardly anybody wants to adhere to the rigorous standards necessary for sound data analysis.

I think it’s a bit unfair to point the finger at “C-level management” in particular though. The same kind of thinking can be observed in government agencies, in the legal system, even in academia. Statistics is just hard, and a lot of people are simply not interested and cognitively capable enough to get it right, sadly.
The curriculum has 3 main parts: data structures/algorithms which include a review of the frequently asked topics such as binary trees, linked lists, heaps, etc. This covers the theory behind them, but also how to use them in the context of interviews. As our students work through these topics, they work with a coach who acts as a private coach. Then it's mock interviews where experienced engineers give feedback and tips on how to improve. Lastly, we help with the recruiting process which can involve connecting students with engineers at other companies for referrals.

So far over 90% of our students succeed at getting a job offer. We rarely give up on students seeking jobs and we work with them until the are hired.

~70% end up getting a job paying >125k. Sometimes it's not FAANG, but still a really good tech company.

Our candidates come from very diverse backgrounds. Most have some CS or a STEM background, but the best predictor we've found is consistency; will you sit down and work through our curriculum consistently.

The difference is that you get a community/network of coaches and other students preparing for interviews as well as the structure.

I didn't buy techleads' but I've noticed it's been on a "limited time" sale since August. Looks like they just charge 1k for an online course with fairly little guarantee of results.

Thankfully it hasn't come up yet, but we're not in this to take $8k from someone and not help them. If there's a good reason why CodeBreakers wasn't a good fit and you paid upfront, we're open to discuss refunds.
fzy is cool and probably underrated. It's the preferred fuzzy utility for file manager nnn too.
Re: Domain

I know, I already got the domain so I didn't think of changing it -_- maybe down the road I will haha.
Let's say it has failed you personally. You are probably not the only person that feels that way. What in a capitalist society is stopping you from forming a community that is far more socialist? All the companies in your community can be employee-owned. You are free to tax yourselves to provide social services above and beyond the baseline. Why not show the capitalists how your system is superior?
Yeah, try enacting an infrastructure project at the implementation level via direct vote democracy. No evil quantifiable data needed.

I'm sure it will be "dope".

>I just want people to treat human life with dignity.

I want an airplane made of gold. Who cares what you want? You dislike the only practical method of achieving what you want and present no alternative so you'll get nothing.
Liked this:

"Staying lean is in fact a critical piece to avoiding a startup tarpit. It is something I wished we focused more on. In fact, I would never raise money to propel more development again. I would raise money with a functioning product already developed. The alternative is just too risky. If you raise money and make no progress except in expanding your head count and list of features, there is no way to raise additional funding—you’re dead. Why would an investor invest in a company that hasn’t shown any ability to hit some meaningful metrics?"
> Plus even on some unknown system, one can quickly copy or download a set of static binaries as our toolset.

Aha, even on a machine with networking problems running a non-glibc set of libraries? (muslc has some problems running glibc (even static,) binaries OOTB, and most docker systems use alpine as a base which means... dealing with musl).

> So unless someone is a sysadmin for heterogenous networks, or is called to go to random clients and fix unseen before systems, or some corporate mandate prevents them from having their tools installed, there's no reason not to expand beyond standard POSIX userland.

I don't believe that the person in question was arguing against expanding beyond the POSIX userland -- rather that they were arguing for maintaining familiarity with POSIX tools in case you need to use them.
So I was going to complain about calling their palmer-inspired face "italic" until I looked it up and the term "italic" has a completely different meaning for typefaces than it does for handwriting. TIL.
In other words, the parts of a company that do work create value. A vapid conclusion even by management consultant standards.

A smart CEO or board understands where value can be destroyed. That’s always the existential threat facing an organization who gives a shit about McKinsey.
Yeah, I tried ligatures and never liked them. If I type them as two, I'd like them to appear as two; I never liked it when I back-spaced on what _looked_ like one character and found two. Mostly because my head is usually a bit ahead of where my fingers and the screen are, so this throws me off and I have to go back (this is why I ended up back on vim after trying out vscode for a while, even w/vim mode, it's not perfect). Also, I could never tell the difference between single equals and long equals (that was really two). I'm glad they're there as some like them, but I don't get the appeal.
I've been using Consolas for over a decade. I just have one question, and that is, does the bold version of the font have the same width as the non-bold version.

This is a killer feature for me.
From the OP's section titled "Why?" :

> When it comes to programming fonts, I prefer something strict, readable and relatively condensed for the code proper, complemented with a more informal, flowing and human style for things like comments and reserved keywords.
> They are not, or they would be priced the same.

If this was market based, you'd be right. But if it is legislative based, then this is the definition of circular logic. Given that the structure of preferential stock is legislative based, it is circular reasoning.

I count risk based on what percentage of a person's net worth and potential earnings are tied up in the securities.

That renders a different perspective of risk than just raw numbers which is what you seem to be going off of.

Your argument can be boiled down to 'caveat emptor'. Which is an argument that lacks intellectual cohesiveness when you are simultaneously supporting the legal structure that removed such a situation from the average investor.
You lost me at point 1. Punishment that varies randomly is unjust.
It's a walled garden of strong control. The rules are whatever they say they are. Delete that post and go stand in the corner.

Quazi-dictatorships are excellent at supressing minority thought. Majority rule countries will have no problem with Twitter.
KeePassXC 2.5
Also that adds up to 90%...