skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CPython has a C API. Any Python object may at any time be passed into a C extension that expects to see all its introspectible attributes, nicely type-erased. This inhibits inlining, elision and monomorphization, all essential optimization techniques available to the JavaScript JIT.
> then no one would accept a job since they'd rather have the time instead

So, if we value air more than food, should we stop eating so we can breathe more?
I grew up in Wisconsin. The local accent to to make a's before g's long. So the a in bag, dagger, dragon, wagon, etc. It took me until college to realize that people from other areas couldn't distinguish between "beg" and "bag" when I said it. And once I did realize it, it took me a while to differentiate between bag as I said it, and bag as most people say. And yet longer to fix my pronounciation.
Oh. Finally, someone in this comment section managed to explain what the hell was this truckload of words about, instead of commenting about "beautifully written prose". Now that I understand the essence, I think I can actually enjoy the shape.

Still, simply telling an a->b story seems to be both an easier and more sure way to convey/evoke emotions than this "stream of consciousness" style or whatever it actually is.
Cups and spoons are volume measures; you can't trivially convert them to grammes.

I can't use recipes that use cups and spoons. I don't own measuring spoons or measuring cups, and drinking cups and spoons from the cutlery drawer don't cut the mustard.

In addition to a thermapen, I have an instant-read infra-red thermometer. I use this to check the temperature of my pizza oven, before launching a pizza - I launch at 450C, which is way too hot for any contact thermometer.
I guess people who make precisely classifying millions of objects their job need to be a little on the pedantic side to do that well. ;)

But, in all seriousness, I didn't think the article was like that at all. The title is meant to grab your attention and then tell you lots of (to me, at least) interesting things about the evolution of trees.

If you were able to write insightfully about strawberries from a cryptography perspective, that title you suggested might be completely fine.

That said, I, too, remember people telling me things about how X wasn't actually Y because ...

IMO, these types of arguments come across as pedantic when they're framed as basically being just about using words the right way, without also telling you something deeper about why something looks like an X but in many non-obvious ways is closer to a Y.

My favorite example of that is the statement "Black is not a color". I heard that a lot as a child, and I would agree that that is unnecessarily pedantic. Learning about how color perception works, and how black is unlike other colors, is still super interesting.
> OP takes the one line in the article that can be perceived as a personal attack and uses it as the post title.

OP literally took the headline from the WSJ article, consistent with the "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." guidance. Your ire is more properly directed at the WSJ headline author.

* - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you have a valid point. However, I'd like to offer a factual correction on this part:

> How about disabled people in middle-income countries who can't afford to upgrade their screen reader?

As far as I know, this was only ever an issue on Windows, and it's not anymore. IMO, the best third-party screen reader for Windows is NVDA [1], and it's free and open-source. Even a user stuck on Windows XP or Vista can get a version of NVDA from 2017 that works well with Chromium (assuming one can get a Chromium-based browser that runs on those old versions of Windows). On all other platforms, the screen reader is built into the platform itself, and updated along with it. Windows itself has had Narrator built in for a long time now, and Narrator in Windows 10 is getting good (disclosure: I was on the Narrator team at Microsoft for 3 years), but there are still valid reasons to use a third-party screen reader on Windows.

[1]: https://www.nvaccess.org/
They establish taxable property values!

Who appraises the appraisers?
Tesla's Q1 also included a massive number of transient expenses (like Musk's stock options) that were significantly larger than transient income like emission credits.
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A free OneDrive account is enough, plus Office 2016+
autosave function, with the added bonus to have a cloud version of word to edit in collaboration your document on the go
I thought this sounded familiar and had to Google things and because I initially thought this was the same person I read about in 2020 who had this happen to them.

Instead it was the same behavior happening to a different homeowner.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/realestate/blacks-minorit...
In California only indirectly (you can sue to change a tax appraisal you don't like...but the replacement could be higher!)

They are required for loans and insurance. Even if you only need a $25K loan for a new kitchen, loan-to-value ratio may be the difference between getting one or not, or a big difference in interest rate you pay.
Allocation isn’t part of the core language in Rust either, yet it prevents use-after-free generically via RAII
That's when you pay someone to watch Coinbase 24/7. It will show the same to everyone, so there's no need for everyone to keep watch.
In terms of creating apps, the difference is that you can use typical programming blocks like if statements, while loops, DBs (persist a value), etc. For example:
if three is prime, print "yes"
We're committing to making compatible parts available. Part of how we're doing this is continuing to use this design and architecture going forward for the foreseeable future. This means that as we continue to refresh the specs each year, modules like the battery, display, and others will remain cross-compatible. This makes it easier for us to keep suppliers bought in for the long-haul.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not qualified to interpret what (4) means -- its legal purpose or ramifications.

But Amazon has explicitly and publicly stated they don't share Ring videos with law enforcement without user consent (at least not without a court order), and there have been zero news articles about them doing so.

So your insinuation that Amazon is handing police user videos without consent or warrants continues to be utterly unsubstantiated.
If the cheating is as rampant as the article make it out to be then they'll be the ones struggling in just a short while down the road.
SEO has made the Internet so toxic. I can’t stand wading through data these days, it’s written for bots.
I think websites should be designed to work in all modern browsers, but IE is a deprecated/dead browser that takes extra work to support.

Dropping support for IE is the right thing to do at this point.
>What a sensationalist title. Technically correct, yes, but misleading in spirit. Most people will see the title and not read the rest of the article, which results in the sentiment: "the only reason why Tesla is still afloat is because of XYZ." Would you want to invest in a company like that?

I wouldn't invest in Tesla because it's valued at a price/market capitalization worth more than all other car companies combined. This is before we get into the crypto currency hijinks or Elon's market manipulating tweets.

The valuation is insane and not supported by the current or future business.
@bryanlarson Thank you for a thoughtful reply. Can you share your sources so I can educate myself better?

Particularly, what are the adaptation costs?
Yep -- I thank those who fought that battle back in 2017-2019, as by time we got around to it, it was nothing. I bet we spent more time talking about if we should do it, when, and messaging than our support team has dealt with customers trying to use IE11.

It still comes up, we had a question this week from an IE11 user, and they just let them know to use another browser and they always do.

There is no fight left in the IE11 user base.
Since I started working remotely years ago, I've put in fewer hours than being in the office, but I've been the most productive I've ever been.

The ability to walk away when you aren't being productive and soft reset is one of the most valuable aspects of working from home, IMO.
Not sure if there's some pseudo-physical explanation, but I've imagined it has something to do with visualizing the three dimensions that are manipulated.

Interestingly both Event Horizon and Contact (movie) are from 1997...
Many localization services / Translation Management Systems (TMS) (like those listed) or developer tools (Lokalize, Phrase, etc.) tack on l10n as a layer at the very end (after development). Especially with these 3rd party contractor tools, a lot of the time the l10n happens without context of the design / product -- they just translate the strings that exist in production.

At the moment, we've seen teams in Ditto use it as a localization solution if they already localize their mockups. However, we are hoping to support this more fully in the very near feature with the ability to create variants of text in mockups in Ditto (think languages, states, etc.)

Localization is definitely a pretty big pain point for teams, but we've seen teams struggle to coordinate copy from draft to design to development, even in their primary language.
As I indicated in another post, the fatality rate of COVID-19 isn't the big issue with the disease. Extremely deadly diseases don't tell to do well in the long run, so although they may have a huge impact within a short time, they tend not to pose long term threats. COVID-19, however, is a glimpse into what would be a perfect storm of high infectiousness with high levels of required hospitalization/medical treatment for good recovery. COVID-19, with its relatively low death rate and moderate hospitalization levels, has already managed to somewhat overload public health systems in many parts of the world. The death rate doesn't have to increase to make a future pandemic much, much worse.
Yeah I agree, it really sucks that really basic things like equations, code-blocks, and captions in images aren't supported in Google Docs, it's an incredible dealbreaker.
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The next group will want more than $5 million, and so on. If the lottery didnt allow advertising of big wins that were made, a lot less people would buy lottery tickets.
(One of the Multicore OCaml devs here)

We have prototyped offloading CPU intensive computations in Lwt programs using Multicore OCaml [1]. We're currently working with Lwt maintainers to upstream it.

[1] https://sudha247.github.io/2020/10/01/lwt-multicore/
Well, all we really know for sure is that they paid a penetration-testing firm a consultancy fee to identify where the network needs to be hardened. No guarantee they'll actually prioritize doing it.
But doesn't his tweet also implicitly say they're HODLing for the long term? He said they won't sell any BTC until there's less energy consumption... does that mean they wait until the miners are 100% on renewable energy (instead of the ~75% renewable today)?
I think you are referring to the clip on page 64?
Yubikey monopoly is coming, then again lawsuits or open sourced yubikey like emulation comes, which renders it useless. POW currently is the only way to stop bots.
I've been impulsive, suicidal, paranoid, and hypersexual since I was nine. On top of this, I had multiple chronic health conditions and an abusive childhood.

It's been a very long, very hard road and I wasn't expecting to life past 30. Somehow, I managed to hang on long enough to get diagnosed at 32.

Medication and therapy have lifted so any burdens, which was more I ever could have asked for. I was a creative person robbed of the ability to create. Medication has given that back to me. My dream of writing stories has become a reality. I've managed to get a short story accepted, which makes me an author as well as a writer.

I guess I'm just thankful. I don't dwell too much on what I don't have, because there is so much I do have.
Anytime you need some parallelism like processing chunks of data independently? Using processes to do it is not very ergonomic.
I think it is two reasons

1) Sometimes companies go out of business or stop supporting\updating things. If you build critical processes around these outdated tools, it can be very difficult to change.

2) Users aren't savvy enough to know when to use Chrome, Firefox or IE. Some aren't even savvy enough to call things the correct names (looking at you Mozzarella Foxfire). So they just settle on on a lowest common denominator.
The website is back up!

We're at almost exactly the same thickness and weight as a MacBook Pro 13-inch, and lighter and thinner than most T-series ThinkPads.

The storage, both memory sockets, and WiFi are socketed for upgradeability, and the entire mainboard is upgradeable too!

We're testing for compatibility with major linux distributions, and expect near complete support (with potentially only the fingerprint reader driver coming in later).
The GIF war continues
Will Retro Game Collecting Kill Retro Gaming?
Probably. His "Learn Python the Hard Way" was early and influential.
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Eco-energy without limits? Research may find ways to make it happen
A guide to load (almost) anything into a DataFrame
Notable entries on this list include Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.
Looks neat. Will support it (buy them as gifts). However, I started with the original HP41 RPN calculator and just can't make myself use an algebraic calculator unless I have absolutely no other option. I probably own a dozen HP calculators of different vintages. I bought my kids HP calculators as well, which they love.
> no major blunders

No multithreading seems to be a pretty big problem. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon, but still
There is even IE Mode in Edge for enterprises that truly need something in IE. Automotive industry has a lot of these still. 10-20 apps that are interacted with only work with IE.
Perhaps a bit rude but one of the best guides I've seen as an introduction to Python:

https://python.swaroopch.com/

Since I lost my link to this I actually stumbled upon this as well -- evidently UMN has a library of open text books:

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
The party may or may not be over. We'll see. WSJ's sentiment on the company has been so negative for such a long time, that at some point between now and 100 years from now, they might finally be proven right. Once they finally get it, they will be looking back at 100s of billions worth of wrong financial advice that they've signaled with their negative titles.

The point I would drive home here is why trust a paper to give future guidance if their past guidance has been so spectacularly wrong? Again, the brand of the company alone was a strong signal that you never saw people write about.
I wonder how this works with webviews. Do they expect you to resubmit the same binary if a page displayed in a webview changes?
Hi, I was following the project for a while but lost track. What's changed since 4 years ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857137
Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found 'glaring' problems
Capitalistic corporations don't like diversity
You know gmail has a spam button, really easy to use btw.
Replace "capital" with "investment"

Or imagine the extreme, where capital gains was taxed 100%. No one would invest, we would all be essentially hunter gatherers. There would be no capital appreciation allowed so you would not be able to invest in anything in hopes of making a profit.

Capital is how you build a better future
Pretty sure it mostly stems from initial illustrations for The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
You're welcome.

The "landing page" is ultimately wherever you, the site owner, want the user to land on. The reason a distinction is drawn between a landing page and a home page is because there can only be one home page. But there is no limit to the number of landing pages you can create.

- LP 1 for "Self-serve video course" users

- LP 2 for "Live, Group based instruction" users

And even there, LP1 could have Variant 1 and Variant 2, which are randomly served to users as part of a split test, to see which page converted better. You can use tools like Unbounce or Optimizely to serve the pages to a randomized audience.
Curious if anyone has seen something like this to publish Mailchimp newsletters on the web. Mailchimp's "archive" page is weak.

I have a weekly newsletter on carbon removal, published on Mailchimp. My site [1] starts with a script that pulls from the Mailchimp API, compiles pages and an archive, and deploys on vercel. Plus some static files for homepage/header/footer are pulled in.

[1] https://tito.co
>Professors do everything in their power not to teach.

Not all of them, but many.
Sure, but those lenses don't offer particularly exciting performance, and there are lots and lots of options in those ranges. I don't think there are a lot of professional or serious amateur photographers who are going to miss them, and newcomers likely won't even know they existed.
are you suggesting psychological testing to get a license? because bizarre attention-seeking behavior seems to be this fellow's only problem.
In 2018 I bought a Sony A99II to use with my old Minolta A-mount lenses. I have a hunch it is going to be the last A-mount camera they ever make. If/when I buy another camera body, it will be an E-mount and I'll use an adapter to fit my A-mount glass.
Nvidia GeForce Experience Command Execution – CVE‑2021‑1079
I'm thrilled at the decision. There are things I like and dislike about the Muskiverse, and the decision to promote Bitcoin was always a sketchy one for me.

What this new decision reinforces, to me, is that Musk is able to admit a mistake and do a 180. That is very good.
My local wal-mart recently moved their cards to behind the customer service desk.

I had seen wal-mart TCG sections completely trashed (littered with open packaging, or boxes torn open and partially scavenged), and I know that even without this destructive method, there are other ways to "cheat" by weighing packs with a scale.

Seems like locking them in a case like video games is probably in the future for most physical stores that continue carrying them? Even before fistfights over cards from this year.
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What Is Zanzibar? Google's Internal Permission Service
It is possible, but I think, unlikely to be nearly as important as change in diets. The poor are much fatter than the wealthy. Do we really think its because they're exposed to more hormone disruptors? Or is it a terrible diet because they don't have the time and resources and knowledge and stress to eat healthier? Contaminants are probably a problem, and could accumulate non linearly into an even bigger problem. But obesity is almost certainly a diet problem. The poor are much more likely to eat high calorie, low nutrient food. Homeless people are increasingly both hungry and fat. I don't think its especially controversial to say that's the likely outcome if you were to just remove these chemicals back to 1800s levels.
Why? People want the physical card.
Not the question...
Makes you wonder if it was all a pump and dump scheme to start accepting Bitcoin in the first place. Nothing changed between then and now in regards to energy use of Bitcoin. Completely legal tho, so maybe it's Elon's way of rubbing it in the SEC's face.
They should have just called it a bug bounty and then everyone would be happy.
Giving a tax break needs to by financed by raising some other tax or printing more money, which causes inflation. There is no free lunch.
It's as direct any other revenue => business activity connection. More direct than how buying coffee causes fields to be planted with coffee trees.

Of this $5M, expect $4M to be spent on salaries in the next year or 2, funding 20 person-years of malicious hacking. 20 skilled people paid to hurt the internet instead of building it up. A terrible crime.
And was once pronounced "Ang" :)
Inheritance is hardly used anymore - honestly I think that we've thrown the baby out with the bath water a little here - at the cost of avoiding abuse by bad / inexperienced developers.

Go is pretty simple, nice enough language. Is it just a "better C" but without the benefits (and compile times) of Rust?
You've confused weight with mass.
> Unpopular opinion but the central banks are the main source of inflation.

I mean, that seems obvious, there can't really be inflation if the money supply doesn't increase, can there?

If the money supply stays fixed, then some people will save/hoard money. Some people will also be more able than others to acquiring money (possibly because they already owned assets/rental property), maybe they were born rich. The amount of money that is circulating will automatically decrease. That tends to produce deflation.

The problem is that if you have deflation in your economy, it also increases the incentive for people to save/hoard money even more. Why would you spend your money today when it will be worth more later? You have a feedback loop where the amount of money circulating just keeps decreasing, and so prices automatically have to go down.
It doesn't have to be Antartica, although that's a bit of an extreme example. Plenty of people I know have "lost it", albeit to a less extreme degree, after just a few years of culture shock, after moving to a different country.

Life is hard, and few people have what it takes to survive without the social safety net of everything that is familiar to them.
I wonder if the lack of such mergers is evidence that the New York City accent is the closest to the original English.
You wrote: <<Which special treatment is this ?>>

Good question. For the United States, I reference: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10151...

If you hold one year or more:

Filing Status: Single

0% rate: Up to $40,000

15% rate: $40,000 to to $441,450

20% rate: Over $441,450

In the above, personally, I would like to remove the brackets for 15% and 20%. My point: For anyone beyond middle class, tax capital gains as regular income.
Seconded. If I could keep my career security (I will still be employed here 10 years from now unless black swan) and healthcare (no spouse) while cutting pay and hours in half I would take it in a HEARTBEAT. No one is offering that.
Can confirm. We got the Coinbase iOS app banned for doing this back in the day, when Apple did not allow bitcoin apps (IIRC showing the price was ok, transacting was not). Even after they relaxed their bitcoin restrictions (and calls to the head of app store), they still made us wait out the 12 month ban before reinstating the app.

https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-bitcoin-app-apple-app-stor...

https://venturebeat.com/2014/12/14/bitcoin-wallet-coinbase-n...
Similarly, in my professional life I'm seeing more people working on silly apps that run a filter over a selfie than people working on e.g. medical image processing or you know, stuff that is actually useful. I see businesses who write a CRUD website/app to connect contractors (read: employers) to businesses. And they are hugely successful.

I don't know but something seems wrong in the way work is incentivized. Is the market broken?
A browser - Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11.
It must suck to be a competitor now. The good cards tended to be pricey to buy in eaches before this mania.
Easy reason: why spend money (and reduce quarterly profit) if the software is still supported by the vendor for another two years? Let it be the problem of the CTO of two years from now.

In two years the C-level/VP responsible has long since taken the golden parachute and his successor is stuck with the bill.

Also, any sort of internal IT stuff is exclusively seen as a cost center by the MBA bean counters. Stuff like employees leaving due to outdated IT isn't something quantifiable in impact unless you have entire departments walking away at once.