skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEC expert warns against believing chatter around REvil disappearance
Yeah, my argument is simply: you can be a small modern laptop with a ton of ports. Sure there are tradeoffs (e.g. battery-life).

But here's a 14" with as many ports as the VAIO, a 3:2 display, a hot-swappable second battery, and more: https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1f/

Ports: https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1f/spec.html#interfac...

(not generally for sale in the U.S. though; some truly innovative products are only in the East!)
The prosecutors were making a case against Kail. If they make it seem like the startups were complicit or even proposed it, that would hurt their case against Kail.

These arrangements were obviously illegal, and it beggars belief to suggest that so many startups were unaware of that.
There's plenty of capitalism happening in the countries where these things are readily available.

Cronyism is the word should have been looking for.
Yes, the Georgist solution is similar to what Norway has done with its oil resources, which have collectively made Norway immensely wealthy in comparison to the petroleum states elsewhere around the world.

The difference is whether the state will be allowed to profit from its own resources, or is the nation under the thumb of a more militarily powerful nation and there exploited by foreign capital. We let Norway exploit its resources its own way, in other nations we have interfered mightily to better our own interests at the expense of the populations of the nation that owns the oil resource.
Sounds badass!
The intelligence and conscientiousness required to do high-end software engineering work may well be uniformly distributed. But I think we're probably at a point where there's more capital looking to hire people like this, than there are Americans like this.
Awesome. Looks outstanding from their site. Seems to be marketed at music listening, especially in noisy environments, although I can't tell for sure.
If you have both money and time and can't/won't find a solution then your business deserves to fail. That's capitalism. If everyone plays by the same rules then there is no competitive disadvantage. I am an optimist and believe that American corporations will rise to the challenge of reduced H1B abuse.
I always just basically ignore TZs and always use UTC when communicating with my international team. Only using a single timezone for everything simplifies things a lot.
For certain, most of these documents-as-organized-chunks applications can lead to a lot of yak-shaving. I don't know, though, that it's any worse than getting bogged down in trying to make Word format a document to look like it needs to look and dealing with it unexpected reformatting everything because of a small change.

> Sometimes plain markdown and a simple text editor stored in a database is probably good enough for most projects not involving mixed media.

Even when you have mixed media, there are plenty of tools out there now that can take markdown and other files and generate a document in rich format, and those are the ones I gravitate towards now.
I could be wrong, but I remember it being Comiskey. I don't think anybody expects to keep score quietly at Wrigley.
Wow, bold move :)
Why discourage? How? By doing what?
"The measure was imposed by BaFin in early October after the regulator became increasingly dissatisfied with organisational flaws at the fast-growing bank.

As a result, N26 will only be able to accept 50,000 and 70,000 new customers a month until it has fixed a number of specific issues flagged by BaFin, down from the average of 170,000 clients it had been taking in this year.

BaFin declined to comment"
And personally, I won't buy anything directly from Google ever again. Their customer service for me has been terrible. I'll happily buy another Pixel, but from pretty much anybody else.
I saw this article when it was published and downloaded a copy from Gutenberg here:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775

It's really interesting how once you sort of clear out the works we are now familiar with from an era, you find stuff that's also highly interesting but often too weird to survive.

I recently read "The Purple Cloud," one of the early apocalyptic novels, and while it was interesting I certainly see why it isn't widely read. Similarly "The Night Land," earthshaking in its originality but practically unreadable.

The best among them is probably "The Machine Stops," which is well written, succinct, highly prescient, and seems to only recently have re-entered the zeitgeist somewhat.
Ipso Facto

wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipso_facto
That imho should be an extension of right-to-repair (and own/modify)
Asprin for sunburn?
thats a new one on me.
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This is a useful perspective. I have often seen the first case called framework, and the second library.
Brave’s privacy-first search engine is now built in to its browser
where our oceans came from.
Reminds me of the race to the bottom we're also seeing in orthodontics.

Whether like me, you never got the hang of a retainer after braces - or went off braces too soon, in my case - there has been a number of companies trying to get costs down and make the process less expensive and onerous.

Yet, talking to my regular dentist, who has used Invisalign with patients before, it's not the fact that there are more competitors in the field, essentially putting pressure on the DMD's and others to up their game, it's that after the initial consult, the entire process is (largely) unsupervised.

If you don't fit (or tune) something like this properly, it doesn't work.
Could you elaborate on that? It sounds like I may have an overly simplified understanding of the topic here—wouldn't be the first time.
Fixed-width font support in Markdown-enabled fields
To add one more to the list: where does all the water on earth come from?
What do all these things have in common? They are all 'component oriented' architectures and DI is required for systemic treatment of [3rd party] components. (Btw add J2EE to your list.)

DI allows a generic runtime to instantiate and compose component graphs [via declarative initialization contexts]. The idea was we'd have reusable components. Somewhere along the line came Spring ("J2EE is too complex" lol) and before you knew it, any old application was using DI and now (per a scan of comments in this thread) everyone is quite confused what is the purpose of "passing variables to your functions" in this obscure manner.
Its funny to see a Republican talking point of "welfare queens" being turned around to support socialism for local citizens and keep hard working immigrants out :D
Apple Music’s new Voice plan is the weirdest way to push Siri
> Perhaps it is because most of those people expected the hearing aid to work for them, and did not want to do any of the work they needed to do themselves.

Or, alternatively, it's exactly what I said and the device + audiologist combination just isn't up to correcting a lot of common hearing issues. That seems far more likely than the vast majority of people doing everything wrong.
> Was that paragraph meant to be clickable or extendable?

The next four sections expand on it: see what apps are using the mic and camera, option to give apps only approximate location data, app permissions dashboard, and the local computation for some data.
And then I'd love a watch that was a digital sundial. I just want to know where the sun is in the sky even when it's not in immediate view. And Outlook synced to my personal time. I'd also have the "default" time zone available for when I'm communicating with others.
Well that was fast. Only 6 years old
I guess noone is opposed to them offering their services doing just that, as long as they don't actually have to use them.
> inflation necessarily predates big bang

A tangent, but how can anything pre-date the big bang? Time itself is supposed to have been created at that point. Did you mean inflation necessarily follows a big bang?
Steps to Manage Your E-Commerce Business Finances
Of course, it's also both theoretically and practically fraud, and most people would rather spend the $100 on an eye exam every 2 years than expose themselves to rx fraud (2 years jail / $2k fine)
Disclosure: Hindenburg Research does not hold positions, either long or short, in Tether, bitcoin or any cryptocurrency at the time of this press release.
Don't think most users know or care about security or HTML features so while certainly it's a difference it's unlikely to be important for most users.

Think of Safari as a skin that's unbundled from the engine. While Chrome or Firefox are reliant on Apple to update the engine, so is Safari, but neither are reliant on Apple for other functionality that they want to implement that users can take advantage of.

IMO it's modular enough.
> Brothers LaserJet. No malware, no adware, no funky drivers; just colored, WiFi, LP-protocol, multi-tray PCL and PS support.

This is all true, but it seems lasers have had their day for the occasional use printer. We have an Epson EcoTank, and all manufacturers have equivalents. The hardware has been absolutely flawless - 12k pages of ink in the box, not a single jam after 10k pages, ink is something like $20 for 10k pages and child could refill the think without making a mess. They make you pay for the privilege of not nickel and diming you after buying it by charging at least $200 more upfront, but I'd take that any day.

But, for Epson at least, the simplicity of pcl6 / ps isn't there. You have to use their drivers, which often only exist for Windows. That shouldn't happen because they support "driverless printing", which is really just another printing format that supplants pcl6 / ps. They all support "driverless printing" because they need to check the "print from mobile" tick box, and they can only get it by supporting this new format.

In theory, this should be great for open source because this new format started life as the internal format used by CUPS called "CUPS Raster" [0]. It was then taken up by some mob called the "Printer Working Group", made more device independent, and renamed "PWG Raster", which CUPS supports. In practice, so far, I've never had the joy of seeing a driverless printer to work with CUPS - despite the fact that phones do work with the printers. It needs more time in the oven, I guess.

Mindboggling. Here we are, after 30 years of trying to come up with standard way of doing the apparently simple job of telling a printer how to put ink on paper, and we still need more time in the oven. Unbelievable.

[0] https://www.cups.org/doc/api-raster.html
Yea, having "one cable to rule them all" is great. I can see why having an HDMI port would be nice when you're traveling, or using shared projectors, but at this point, if you don't have a USB-C to HDML adaptor...
An excellent writeup, in terms of technical detail, writing quality, and "showing one's work" by including the code and other tools used to produce the final report. Well done, Mr. Langa.
with {:step_1, {:ok, value}} <- {:step_1, fn_call(...)}

I also use this pattern a lot :)

To be fair, I'm not using this library everywhere. Only when case/with become hard to read.

Or when I have a pipeline like:

fetch_list_of_resources()
|> Result.or_else(fn _ -> [] end) # ignore the error
|> Stream.filter(&check_condition/1)
|> Stream.map(&delete_resource/1)
|> Result.collect() # fails at the first error
|> Result.unwrap!() # raise if error ASAP
|> Enum.map(&log_deleted_resource/1)

It is IMHO easier to read, refactor and debug (with some well-placed IO.inspect).

Before this library, I was copy/pasting `then(fn ... end)`. I don't like to repeat myself :)
> Oh, you visited the stackoverflow career page during your 9-5? That's fraud. I'm exaggerating

So you're saying that what this guy did isn't clearly fraud? I don't see how you could say that, unless you misunderstood the situation. It is, very clearly, 100% fraud.

In addition to the money Netflix was paying him as part of his salary, he was also secretly taking a cut of the money flowing to contractors.

It's like when a government sends aid money to another government after a natural disaster, but all the corrupt officials steal it so that eventually there's very little left for the original purpose.
Do any hearing aids frequency shift, or compress the frequency scale (e.g. just higher frequencies compressed down to lower frequencies so that voice tone stays constant and sibilants get shifted down into hearing range).
Refcat, the Internet Archive Scholar Index of Over 1.3B Scholarly Citations
Given that it's not just on the Mac, but on the Mac & iOS—and the fact that this article claims that Apple's piece of the gaming market is bigger than the console makers combined—that seems like a really large, (relatively) wealthy market to be abandoning?
A Taste for Pangolin Meat and the Fall of an African Wildlife Cartel
It doesn't help with that but neither do timezones. When I communicate to people internationally I'll need to know their daytime hours in terms of my timezone anyways, so why not know them in terms of UTC? Then everyone can start on the same page.
I'm slightly surprised by landfilling plastic. I hear it's pretty high calorie, up to the point of being energy-positive to burn it with filtering out the fumes. Is it just not enough to make this money-positive when accounting for handling?
Last time I used android it was version 4.1 boasting how it improved responsiveness of the system. Here we are with Android 12 still trying to improve responsiveness and smoothness of the system...
You can see replies to you by going to this page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=codingclaws

I subscribe to my own via RSS. Replies pop up like magic.
SFC files lawsuit against Vizio Inc. for GPL violations
Agreed on the glass backs. Aluminium was way better. My Pixel 4 slides off just about anything, even surfaces that are just a few degrees tilted. Also, what is the point?
> the government staff member on the phone “burst out laughing”

Isn't it great there was someone to call? Someday there probably won't be.
Unless you are a beginner, the "decide on easiest way to get there" shouldn't exist. It should be muscle memory.
Long live the consolidation. May it work out better than the consolidation between tuna cans and more expensive hearing aids.

(I have a friend who's an audiologist...watch Starkey, they are very proactive about industry changes and headwinds.)
Interesting, I didn't realize the backpacks are so expensive.

Perhaps one of the effects of a ban on sale will be the development of more practical and accessible, from a price perspective, power sources?
Worth reading for some background..

The $94b crypto mystery

https://www.afr.com/wealth/investing/the-94b-crypto-mystery-...

12ft.io gets around the paywall.

My favourite quote..

"seemed to be practically quilted out of red flags.."
Ok, we've changed 'deletes' to 'de-indexes' in the title above. Thanks!
Sounds like Georgism.
They're still using pulseaudio and not pipewire?
Please research systemic racism in the tech industry. PoC have harder times getting interviews, getting a second interview, finding mentors, getting raises, getting promotions, etc. These all discourage non white people from entering the industry.
I don't know what you're talking about. This guy[0] looks white to me. As does this guy[1]. I'm white, and those guys look like they could be my brothers.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DPnlGlqAvyUh51bNizF0EIC6Pk...
[1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6bCli03aqnY_KvZoPaTgiFqCj...
Never had thought about that. Thanks!
Bizarre Mystery of Mummified Coon Dog Solved After 40 Years?
Someone needs to invent a standing desk like driving rig (wearing harnesses or what not). It wouldn’t be a bad job if you could stay fit and listen to audio books.
Naming is clearly a form of branding.
Thanks for that link at the bottom. There is a gem there on why Michael Crichton called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect:

By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann? Crichton explained

I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.

-

It reminds me of why von Neumann told Shannon to call it entropy:

When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage!

http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-s...
> One of the earliest example of such interesting or useful results is rules for manipulating symbols so that the results correspond to the behavior of physical objects (like sheep, or baskets of grain, or plots of land)...

Or was it the other way round? First came the objects and then people saw patterns in the transactions and then abstracted it away with symbols?

One of the reasons children find maths difficult is because we tend to describe maths in this reverse order i.e. from symbols to physical objects(the way you described above). But explaining it in the actual order i.e. from physical objects to symbols will make maths accessible to many more kids.
I don't know much about this topic, so interpret these as questions, not as arguments that I have particular confidence in:

* If the earbuds you use to perform the hearing test are the same ones you use with the resulting EQ profile, why does it matter whether the earbuds are flat or not? If you're taking measurements in a transformed coordinate space, and applying those measurements in the same transformed coordinate space, shouldn't that be equivalent to taking measurements in the original coordinate space and applying them in the original coordinate space?

* Why isn't active noise cancellation a good enough form of noise isolation?

* If using an EQ profile that only matches your hearing loss imperfectly can damage your hearing, wouldn't the same thing apply to EQ profiles that aren't intended to correct hearing, like the media player presets "classical music", "rock music", etc.? For that matter, wouldn't it apply to a flat EQ profile? Is there something special about an imperfect hearing correction EQ profile, compared to other EQ profiles?
There's very old advice to always test on the slowest supported hardware but it's in tension with the fact that faster compiling often allows faster development. You could have two systems but most people don't.
This is a super creative argument :D

Arguing for protectionism for yourself while complaining about the cost of protectionism for the unemployed!!

Who would be the "welfare queen" in this case. Is it those people who would have been unemployed with/without immigrants? OR Is it those who would have been employed only because of the presence of immigrants?

As brexiteers have shown, be careful what you wish for.
One past thread:

The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577061 - Dec 2018 (98 comments)
That’s an astute point.
The reason why you're seeing this more and more is because White liberals are the only self-hating subgroup [0].

"Remarkably, white liberals were the only subgroup exhibiting a pro-outgroup bias—meaning white liberals were more favorable toward nonwhites and are the only group to show this preference for group other than their own. Indeed, on average, white liberals rated ethnic and racial minority groups 13 points (or half a standard deviation) warmer than whites."

[0] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-wh...
"Justification" at the RIRs is a little subjective, but it is supposed to be based entirely on technical need not use case.

If you want to talk more about getting additional IPs, Mark at your provider is a super smart dude, or you can ping me offline.
Hardware people: We worked our asses off for this breakthrough in performance.

Software people: Thanks buddy, so we can move everything to Electron now?

On a serious note, it does saddens me how a portion of hardware advancement is lost to inevitably sloppier software in the name of iteration speed.
Did you notice MKBHD said this kind of embargo is a "red flag". Well, he already knows any issues that may exist, so it's very interesting that he chose to say this.
America is a nation of citizens, not an international charity.

Nor is it a corporatocracy in the legal sense.
This looks to be a major change in the legal strategy behind GPL. In the past the focus has been on copyright claims by copyright holders, but as recent cases has shown in Germany and France, those has faced some rather strange setbacks. Germany don't seem to want to recognize copyright holders that only contributed a part of a larger work, which is basically all copyright holders for larger FOSS projects. In France they seems to define GPL as being under contract law and not under copyright law.

In this new case, the SFC is arguing a case in the context of third-party beneficiary which is under contract law and not copyright law. It seems like a bit of an long-shot, but if won it could mean a major change in interpreting GPL as a contract rather than a copyright license. I would guess that it also would change their strategy in other countries if won.
This video is good background for khtml/webkit on which chrome was based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tldf1rT0Rn0
Wow, thanks for sharing! It looks like a strong candidate to be the successor of my Pixel 4a. Small size and the presence of a headphone jack is a must for me, the 120Hz OLED screen is a very nice cherry on top.
I agree, however I'm not sure of how far you can get in probability theory without set theory. For instance, I recall my stats prof defining a lot of sets in class, e.g. sigma algebras.
Learn Clojure. Then you can spend the rest of your life building with hand tools, lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw

(Seriously, though, Clojure is awesome—but occasionally I miss the guardrails of a framework.)
Well, FWIW, there was this weird guy who claimed our ancestors weren't dumb, they weren't even conscious. And by "our ancestors" he didn't mean Homo erectus, he meant ancient Greeks. (The so-called "bicameral mind" theory.)

I think that's completely bonkers but apparently some people like the theory. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917316
There may be a difference between data science or ML work and software engineering. It's commonly stated, accurately IMO, that you don't really need an advanced math background to be a software engineer or developer. I tend to agree, as long as I'm also allowed to say that I believe it's a very difficult, complicated, and intricate job. It just doesn't require calculus, linear algebra, or higher.

For ML? Well, I do know people who have never taken a formal course in anything above calculus who absolutely do apply these techniques properly and are well versed in how they work. But to understand how k-means clustering works, or how to construct a gradient vector... yeah, this requires multivariable calculus and non-linear optimization across systems of equations. And while you don't need to know how the underlying math works to use kmeans or neural nets, the mathematics is a lot closer to your work.

Under these circumstances, I can see why a lot of companies might just start looking for STEM degrees from known programs in a way they don't really with SEs.
Bertelsmann? Left leaning?! Prrr-hrrr-hrrr-hpft!