skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In almost all cases this feature is a foot gun, reminiscent of eval() and similar cases and so should not be provided. Sure, it's easy and flexible, but in exchange it's horribly unsafe.

Imagine that, expecting a RESTful API for some new remote service you're accessing you discover it instead offers precise instructions for where the Javascript buttons are rendered on a 640x480 Internet Explorer 6 browser, instructing you to automate pressing the buttons through a browser automation gadget.

You'd be aghast right? Sure this would work but it's clearly not an ergonomic way to provide automation, why not just offer a RESTful API like most similar sites?

Dynamically constructing format strings is the same ergonomic awkwardness, for the benefit of lazy workers who couldn't be bothered to actually deliver what was needed.

Instead I want a way to reach into the same formatting infrastructure that is used for my string literal formats, and manipulate it dynamically, not by creating "format strings" dynamically.

As an example, if your formatting library can format("{some}{values}{with:parameters}", v1, v2, v3) I ought to be able to write my own different function myfn("[different][syntax][same#features]", v1, v2, v3) re-using the infrastructure from the existing formatting library, rather than needing to write a function myfn("[different][syntax][same#features]") which has a result "{some}{values}{with:parameters}" in order to deliver the same effect but via this sub-language.
Individual product page. It's not obvious but the product image is clickable.

https://reinkstone.com/products/reinkstone-r1-with-stylus-ca...
Mr Beast is 100% giving away everything he claims too. There are a few videos of him talking about the process, which basically involves convincing sponsors to bank roll the giveaways.
The pills won't get an OTA firmware update to make you think about sponsored products from our partners.
Only to have native apps, that abuse your privacy more?
Space Invaders and arcades in general seemed more popular with adults than with children in 1980. I’m not sure when or why video games came to be regarded as a juvenile pastime. Possibly coincided with the kid-friendly characters and home consoles promoted by Sega and Nintendo around 1990.

Or maybe games have always appealed to nerds of all ages, but what happened in the 90s is they began to appeal to normie children too, and as you point out those normie kids continued to play them when they became normie adults.
It's not just any event and it's not just any presentation.

The proposals here are what entire Nations agree to in order to reduce carbon emissions.

Not having Nuclear represented there is dumb. That's the point.
FWIW there's another Kickstarter with a DES screen tablet here which may be better technically: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/topjoy/topjoy-butterfly...

That has a fair bit more details.

I submitted the Reinkstone one since it had a photo of a big color image on the screen.
Grammarly for grammar and Hemingway for composition.
failure + exploring solution space + minimizing said space <= I need a book about that :)
Soros ruined the British pound ans now tries to ruin Western democracy. The man loves to see things burn.
Honestly I don't find it that overpriced considering that it's a niche product, I expected something closer to $1000. I agree that they're light on the technical data though.

I don't really have a use for this particular product but I'm excited for any development in e-paper technology. I still hope that in the not-so-far future I'll be able to program on a decently-sized, decently-fast, decently-priced eink display.
Joplin v2.5 is available for desktop and mobile
The MKBHD studio tour was very entertaining to watch and definitely taught me that I have no idea about YouTuber economics. They have a permanent fixed multiple thousand dollar camera just for those topdown shots.
Yes, for example, how large is the gamut?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut
I'd love to chat more about it. Email address in my profile. I spent a few years getting inspired by Kernel when I built my fexpr-based Lisp: http://akkartik.name/post/wart So I'd be happy to answer questions as you have them. Perhaps we can pore over Shutt's dissertation together.
The section about “witty” dialogue, meme humor, and twist endings hit home for me. It’s also the same reasons I’m not a fan of most Marvel movies.
Tells a story – demographics of Japanese camera owners
Don't think this should be flagged..
The author has had some piano lessons and later observed his kids' piano lessons. He certainly doesn't appear or claim to be a teacher or accomplished player.
The Bogleheads' Guide To Investing is the best book to understanding investing, too. https://archive.org/details/the-bogleheads-guide-to-investin...
No sound on safari/iphone.
On the history of breakbeats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY

It's unfortunate the guy who made the drum pattern so much modern music is built on apparently died broke and unhomed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_C._Coleman
Newegg too but they aren’t doing it right. They need to occasionally drop hard to get items like ps5 or gfx cards to get people to watch
I find it really weird to judge a story on what it boils down to instead of on how it's delivered. Imagine you have two versions of a game. The first delivers its story by long cutscenes and a omniscient narrator. The second delivers its story with the environement and dialogues with the characters, with the playing having to piece everything together. Even if the "story" is the same, the second game has a better story. Storytelling is a essential part of the quality of a story.
If someone attacks you with a bogus patent, then it would cost 20.000€ to request invalidation of the bogus patent.

From a quote near the bottom of the article:

> Typically, in response the sued company could be advised to demand cancellation of the Unitary Patent by means of a counterclaim but in that case, it will be required to pay a court fee of EUR 20,000.
A pretty good summary.

If it were me, I would insist some more on the hardware and the delay of hardware.

Have a "bug" in your circuit board? The most mundane thing, you planned room for a 5mm component but it's slightly larger and it can't fit.

It takes 5 minutes to adjust the schematics. It will take minimum 2 weeks to manufacture a new board and until it's delivered to your lab.

The project is now 2 weeks late.
Right, because they're good people and they want to save the world.

Time to wake up?
11k is nothing to a patent troll like a FAANG (MAANG now?) but quite a lot to the kind of SME that - afaik - doesn’t engage in this behavior to the same extent.
Just divide the whole thing into read-only units and reuse the unchanged ones, a la nixos.
And you try to frame someone without even give a single proof, you are probably the best case for fighting against disinformation.
Neither does Sweden: fwiw.
Trolls have a reasonably large amount of money to burn if necessary, and they normally try to get their victims to settle before things reach any court.

So no, this won't stop trolls, it will only deter a lot of legitimate cases from SMEs.
That’s the game showing you they’re bad with gameplay instead of telling you with a cutscene or text.
What is an SME?

Subject matter expert? Small and medium enterprise? Article could do better.
Unfortunately yes, I think the objections to Google and Amazon are based on harms to the world, not to me as the consumer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056196
The concepts of liberty and security are in tension.

One wishes harm on none, but externally forcing preferred choices on people veers authoritarian really, really quickly.

Horses led to water can opt to die of dehydration, alas.
Joining an online community like Learn Jazz Standards really helps. You can work through exercises and lessons at your own pace, plus you have others who can give you constructive feedback. I’m a guitar player and joining a similar site, Fret Dojo, has pushed me way beyond where I would have gotten on my own.
Unfortunately there are ways around any scheme to limit scalpers, so no matter what you try they will still come and you'll just inconvenience the genuine people who was the product/show/other even more.
> I understand there is not a One True Canonical Fingering for a given sequence of notes.

True. For any given passage, there are at least two different One True Canonical Fingerings, and no matter what you do you will be Wrong and criticized without mercy for your ridiculous incompetence.
The results are a bit hit and miss, I think it has to do with the fact that either there isn't content that match my criteria in some topics, or the spider is stuck in some local minimum and simply hasn't discovered it yet.

> Warning: it seems to be a one person thing and my experience is that results might differ somewhat from week to week.

Yeah, it's still very much in development and I only have one server so unfortunately I have to do some of the develoment and testing in a way that is very visible. I can usually do preliminary tests off another computer, but it doesn't have nearly the same resources so it can only deal with a sample of about 2 million documents, makes the test results pretty hard to interpret sometimes.

> Someone usually point out that SEO spammers will arrive shortly. I say that if SEO spammers start optimizing their pages by making them useful, lightweight, readable and without most tracking and ads I see that as a win.

I'd also like to add to this that since some of the things I use as quality measures are opposite to the quaility measures used by Google, that means that any site that attempts to optimize for both metrics underperforms in both search engines.
The EU patent office is horribly unfair to individual inventors. There are not even fee differences for a kid in their bedroom vs Apple when filing a patent.

Take data also, EPO will charge you hundreds of thousands of dollars for patent data. USPTO gives it to everybody for free.
“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”

― Charles Baudelaire

The smartest thing that the Google co-founders did is to step out of the "picture" and have a "nerdish" dignitary Sundar Pichai be the face of the company.

The type of headlines we won't see anymore since they have "stepped down".

Email exchanges between National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the U.S. government than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year’s revelations about NSA spying.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-goo...

https://pando.com/2014/05/13/emails-showing-googles-closenes...
>> really really is something I hate

With such attitude you either should switch away from dev completely or suck it up and start setting specific goals and learning to enjoy the process.

One example of a good goal - find a fulltime remote job in a good tech company.

Another — run away from corrupted country and start a new professional life somewhere else.
> MAANG now?

I keep hearing MANGA
The 20k and 11k fees here are for invalidating and proving infringement respectively. The second one should dissuade trolls who want to target small users. The 20k fee is not to defend yourself from an infringement claim, it is to invalidate a patent. That is very different than defending yourself.

The equivalent filing in the US is about the same price, and the process of invalidating a patent is long and complicated, so in any jurisdiction you should expect to pay hundreds of thousands in legal fees for that process. On top of those fees, 20k isn't that much.
The article documents a well-known fact: Since the 1980's, returns on US financial assets have become disconnected from underlying economic performance and cor­porate profits. The question is, why?

No one knows for sure -- by which I mean, a lot of really shrewd, smart, knowledgeable people disagree about the reasons. At one extreme, there are those who feel nothing is wrong, because they believe we're on the cusp of a shift to much faster economic growth, driven by new technologies like AI, quantum computing, cheap sustainable energy, and space exploration. At the other extreme, there are others who think the current arrangement is a result of regulatory capture by the wealthy, at the expense of everyone else. There is no consensus as to why.

The author posits one possible explanation: Judging by trends in corporate behavior, financial market incentives, government regulations, and federal reserve policies, the US economy has become increasingly organized around maximizing asset values and returns on capital independently of growth. Decisions everywhere are now being made, or not made, based mainly on whether they impact asset prices and returns on capital.

In my view, it's not a bad explanation.
How can you trust that people who have been activists till now will suddenly stop being activists ?
> Same price / more + $6.50 in postage arriving in 4 days time

It’s unfortunate, because free postage is a complete myth that everyone now expects. A company the size of Amazon can afford to burn money for years and years until they’re at the point where they have their own logistics network and make the numbers work.

There are very few companies that can do that—or that should, really.
This is the most annoying thing. I am confident Netflix and others have data that this increases “stickiness” or some other made up engagement metric, but as a user, it just leaves me frustrated.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics—whenever a company relies too much on data to influences UX or content I feel like we end up with a bad UX and bad content that only superficially increases short-term engagement.
Apple uses many of the same hardware and component manufacturers as do Dell, HP, Microsoft, etc., so I don't see any benefit to this–and they seem to be doing a decent job of satisfying their customers in terms of hardware.

You're right - it only makes sense to you, though I'm open to being convinced otherwise.
Good point, that could work as well! Especially as there is IMHO a good chance of Facebooks attempt to fail spectacularly (especially given a lot of people already involved in this area will not touch Facebooks stuff with ten foot pole), possibly soiling the name for quite a while if they manage to keep it.
There are videos of Magnus Carlsen being shown various positions, and he can instantly tell which games they are from. Like their brain has an index on postions or something. Not only that, but also can tell how the game continues.

One example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1BAcOzHyY
That was a direct quote. "The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM."

This is a partisan organisation until it firmly proves itself otherwise. Maybe this is a radical change where billionaires start promoting objective truth instead of their own interests, but extreme scepticism (moving well into cynicism) is the sensible default.
Xerces is great and deserves your support if this is an issue you care about!
Tech giants try distancing themselves from Facebook
Umm, so it will come back up the next day?
Have a look at
http://2050-calculator-tool.decc.gov.uk/

(I was David's Editor for "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air". There's been quite a bit of interest in updating the book, but there are obvious difficulties. If have suggestions, let me know.
Niall Mansfield
sewtha-2.0@uit.co.uk
)
Annoying that politicians feel entitled to set enormous fees for government services as a form of social engineering or profiteering, rather than simply providing the services at cost.
Hoffman and Soros backed. Two ultra progressive people. There is no chance in hell this will be anything other than extremely one sided.
For DNS there is rfc6106. And for NTP and other services there is service discovery. Why would you set your own NTP server with DHCP ? Many clients like Android, iOS, Linux and Macos will connect to NITZ or predefined NTP server anyway and ignore the DHCP NTP settings.
For me the presentation/presenter puts me off the video/channel.
“Backed and launched by progressives” seems like a show of partisanship by itself - if they’re conscious of the concern, why couldn’t they find a token conservative to join in?
If I was, I'd be writing books nobody buys because nobody buys books anymore

Sales of printed books have been increasing every year since 2012. Last year alone saw a jump of over eight percent.
curious, I'm not a fan of organizing my own docs collection or being unable to collaborate on docs/share them via urls - I also dislike bespoke native apps for most tasks that are comfortable in the browser.

Have you found equivalent services to gmail and docs without the privacy risks? it wouldn't be too bad to spend a dollar or two a month for something with less privacy tradeoffs.
Re your cooking example. A virtue ethicist (Aristotle, Augustine, Confucius, ...) might say that you still have work to do.

The idea is that knowing how to cook, and even being good at cooking, are not enough. You're not "perfected" in a particular virtue until you actually experience the value of the practices that the virtue involved.

One way to go about "perfecting" a virtue, from a subjective perspective, is to look at those people you know who do enjoy cooking. These people are exemplars, and you have to be charitable, trusting that there is something to cooking that they see that you do not. You then try again, trying to emulate their approach to cooking - not just the recipes or even the procedures they follow, but also their attitudes toward it. That is how you come to experience the full excellence of cooking. In other words, in the virtue ethicist's view, cooking well doesn't by necessity make you a good cook.
45system architecture design pattern sessions
Show HN: Isometric game engine demo written in Vanilla JavaScript
More George Soros open border, one world, critical race theory, etc. evil machinery. By disinformation the far left means any viewpoints that are not their viewpoints.
I always find these sort of articles about the creative process remarkably useful because the principles are quite generally applicable.

Write for yourself = Solve your own problem in startups :D

Pick a writing schedule = Seinfeld does this. Writes jokes 4 hours a day every day for decades. Also known as time blocking.
This could be an interesting product but I couldn't tell because a pop-up covered up all the content on my mobile device.
America, where insured couple with income of $40k can get $100k of medical bills
I also struggle with CSS, but I enjoyed Java for Android. I need to learn Kotlin next. I'd say give it a try and see how you like it.
> the people working for you are experts

This is tangential, but your facts about tptacek might be a bit out of date. He's no longer at Latacora; he's now working at fly.io. So I think it's safe to say he has recent experience working with people who, while they're skilled developers, aren't security experts.
This was a small weekend project.
Maybe you can get a better understanding how isometric works.

Github repo: https://github.com/iamandras/isometric
> Second point, I firmly believe, especially for Hacker-News audience, is that learning staff notation too early is counter-productive.

I'd like to add that in 2021 learning writing and reading is counter-productive. Text-to speech and vice versa software is widely available, and spelling rules for English require a ridiculous effort for little benefit except backwards compatibility with legacy books. As an adult learner you are SCREEEEWED even trying to figure out how to pronounce the things written above.
But they say right there!:
"Reinkstone is a professional and responsible company based around people." ;-)
Underrated YouTube Music Alternative
China has proven that claim false. They hired western nuclear companies to build 20 nuclear plants in China.

The high cost in the west is lawsuits and storage facility closures, and outdated regulations.
Pike (https://pike.lysator.liu.se)
Children and the very old can’t work at all. So the youth in the middle have to do the work if they ever expect to make it out of childhood and into old age. how could it be any other way ?
Yeah, I have a lot of respect for Carmack as a developer/engineer but I doubt you’d want him in charge of actually designing your game. I’m sure he’d admit as much.
> The ad business is what matters to Facebook

Their ad business is ran on other people's platforms, and they're beholden to their rules, like Apples.

"Metaverse" - whatever that's supposed to mean - is an attempt at creating a new platform that they control, where they don't have to follow Apple's rules.
That the US still criminalizes drug use. Portugal decriminalized in 2001 and "has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
The "someone in France" popup isn't even randomly generated. It's hardcoded in the JS source:

{"sn_city":"Groningen","sn_country":"Netherlands","sn_discount":null,"sn_first_name":"K","sn_handle":"reinkstone-r1-with-stylus-case","sn_img":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5295\/6871\/products\/21new.png?v=1634804042","sn_purchased_on":"2021-10-23T02:38:52+08:00","sn_state":"","sn_title":"FREE SHIPPING - Reinkstone R1 with Stylus & Case","sn_unique":"419288127917541096083865799","sn_variant":"Navy Blue","sn_product_id":"6878334156999","sn_variant_id":"41096083865799"},
{"sn_city":"Landshut","sn_country":"Germany","sn_discount":null,"sn_first_name":"Nils","sn_handle":"reinkstone-r1-with-stylus-case","sn_img":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5295\/6871\/products\/21new.png?v=1634804042","sn_purchased_on":"2021-10-22T23:48:23+08:00","sn_state":"","sn_title":"FREE SHIPPING - Reinkstone R1 with Stylus & Case","sn_unique":"419243012935141096083865799","sn_variant":"Navy Blue","sn_product_id":"6878334156999","sn_variant_id":"41096083865799"},

That's a pretty lazy scam.

https://sales-notification-cdn.makeprosimp.com/v1/published/...
Thank you. This is the kind of information that should have been upfront and immediately findable when accessing the link or as a submission statement. Very appreciated.
In handheld gun form?
NSA lifelog spy program ended the day FB began.
We decided to go for Office365 for our 3 person startup, and against G docs or whatever they call it nowadays.

I gotta say it sucks! OneDrive isn’t syncing properly. Working with people outside your org is hell.

We’re going to switch to Google soon enough.
This is a problematic proposal, but, unfortunately perhaps, I do not think one can plausibly say that it raises the specter of "EU economic suicide". I would characterize it more along the lines of being a step in the refeudalization of the developed world.
Fucking idiot, hang yourself.
Shouldn't invalidation of a patent simply be a matter of presenting evidence of prior art? I can imagine that you'd want to mandate that the evidence is presented in a certain format and possibly charge a very nominal fee (both to avoid time-wasters) but nothing more. The bias should always be towards invalidating patents, given the damage they do to competition.
> So, Amazon gets the sale and the manufacturer misses out on what's presumably a considerable gap between their wholesale price and the retail price I'd have paid on their own store.

So you are knowingly paying more than MSRP because you can’t be bothered with using keywords to search the manufacturer’s website instead? Weird. How often and how many boots are you buying that this would be worth the trade off?