skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First off, you're plain wrong about Python

As pointed out by minitech, this syntax was allowed in some versions of Python 3 but that was a bug which has since been fixed. I didn't run into this bug in the version of Python 3 that I used for testing so I had no idea of the bug's existence.

> I doubt the veracity of the other examples

Python 3.10: https://godbolt.org/z/Po7K7cvY8
Ruby 3.0.2: https://godbolt.org/z/Ke5oWzaW3
C++ (clang 13.0.0): https://godbolt.org/z/zd5MfM4Mo
Go (amd64 gc 1.17): https://godbolt.org/z/KrEsKaTjq
Lua (luac 5.3.3): https://ideone.com/irl89j
Perl (perl 2018.12): https://ideone.com/YZcCAC

> Honest question, are you aware of the comma operator and how it works?

I am. The existence of the comma operator is the reason that `console.log((a, b))` parses (and means something different than `console.log(a, b)`). If we consider a hypothetical version of JavaScript which does not have the comma operator then `console.log((a, b))` wouldn't parse at all! The comma there can't be the comma operator because we've removed that. And it can't be part of the function call because then the first argument to the function call would have to be `(a` which is obviously not a valid expression. And it can't be part of an array literal or an object literal because it isn't inside of `[]` or `{}`. That leaves us with no valid ways for this to parse.

You can usually add extra parentheses around any expression without changing the meaning. But "all the arguments to a function" is *not* an expression (except in the case where there happens to be exactly one argument). This is why it doesn't make sense to change `console.log(a, b)` into `console.log((a, b))`, why it doesn't make sense to change `console.log()` into `console.log(())`, and why it doesn't make sense to change `console.log(...a)` into `console.log((...a))`.
Cause that's 70% of a larper's diet and what they requested.
tempted to make this my new desktop background :)
In the United States, in most states, agricultural usage, such as grazing cattle, is the basis for an agricultural exemption on property tax. Here in Florida, it's about 90%.
I think 11ty and Astro are better in this regard.
Gnome 3 is so bad that it drove my family members, who I had managed to switch to Linux painlessly over ten years ago, back to using Windows.

It's just an awful, painfully dim UX. The Tyranny of the Designer is on full display.

With HiDPI finally getting mature in MATE I may be able to convince them to return. But I suspect the nightmare that is Snap will keep them away.
Notably, QubesOS has demonstrated that a secure X environment is possible.

In Qubes, an isolated VM "dom0" operates the physical display, input devices, and desktop widgets. Apps run in VMs, which each maintain a private X server. Storage for windows in each such X is mapped to address space in dom0. dom0 copies updates to this memory to the physical display. Input events that occur with the pointer in a window are sent to that window's corresponding X server.

The limitation is that the app VMs have no access to a GPU. Some people manage to get a GPU assigned to an app VM, but GPUs generally have DMA access to all of physical memory, so this compromises security if code operating the GPU is not trusted.

There has been work on virtualizing access to the GPU, particularly in the SpectrumOS development effort.
It's time for all of these IoT companies to come together and agree on a shared protocol. If my dishwasher must update it's firmware, I assume that it can also connect to the SaaS of my choice which I have chosen to automate my house with. There's no excuse for showing me the update on a tiny $1-on-Aliexpress OLED display. This manufacturer should be killed by another one that follows a shared standard (if one existed).
If you can read environment variables of a process, can’t you also read its memory ?
"Driverless cars" is about creating an infinite labour pool. Environmental benefits are just a by-product.
Utility demand charges for pulling 50-300 kw of current makes up the majority of the cost of providing fast DC charging. Fast DC providers like Tesla and Electrify America attempt to offset this by colocating batteries at the station to shave utility demand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqOM9nzz-A

https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1543251
What an apologia!

I just typed "new car" in Google. Literally the only results I can see are ads. Ads where the presentation and content is identical to the organic search results, save for the tiny word "Ad" in the title. Ads where the link reliably navigates to the page that has the content summarized by Google in their search result ad. Moreover, the UI for me clicking a foo.com link from a Google ad is identical to me clicking an organic foo.com link. Finally, the UX is improved if I click an ad because I don't have to scroll.

So it's not even a "above" vs. "sidebar" situation. The ads are the only results that show up without scrolling. Arguing that this isn't "buying a better position in the search results" is the extreme-skiing of pedantry.
This goes for a lot of companies. The front line customer service reps are trained to deflect as much cost as possible. One quick message from the legal department, however, gets things fixed pretty quickly. Small claims court typically costs somewhere between $75-$200 and if you have a valid claim you can assume that you'll likely get those costs back.
Haha, nice. Though, a work colleague's brother was doing laser research in academia in Europe and got offered a 4x pay increase to continue his research in the US academia. Make of that what you will, but it seems like the US stil has no issues attracting top talent in some fields.
Not true, I'm afraid. People have been eating meat for a long time. They just didn't eat as much as people eat now. Nowhere near what the average American eats. It was also produced in a different way. For example, in Britain it was traditional for families to keep a pig and feed it leftovers from the kitchen (swill). Essentially free food. But that's been illegal for a long time now.
Someone on the twitter thread blamed it on the nerds. It is not the nerds that come up with this crap. It's the MBA types (and marketing folks, MBA or not) that dream up this kind of nonsense.
7-10 is pretty optimistic for most new stuff. Which is why I prioritize brands like Whirlpool that are repair friendly. Service manuals are readily available (often included inside the appliance!) and parts are readily available and cheap too. Brands like Bosch and Meile? Good luck - at least here in the US parts are a nightmare.
Recent and related:

Xorg-Server 21.1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29016318 - Oct 2021 (164 comments)
Except your version is wrong. People were eating milk and meat long before shipping.

Meat-dominant diets, sure
Leaving better paths. Small tips for improving documentation
Very true.

IMHO, there is also a tremendous amount of value dilution going on, and not just due to the action of the US FED or Treasury, or other central banks.

The problems are systemic and global, and conjoined with the problem of value distribution.
It's not good for batteries to fast charge them all the time. You should only use fast chargers when you need to, like on long road trips. It absolutely makes sense for public chargers at, e.g., office buildings to only be Level 2.
I just feel that I often need some feature that is a bit time consuming to build. On the other hand the site generators I've tried had missed some feature or another also and they are usually harder to change.
I would miss a lot my cheese. But I would hope some tasty vegan alternatives are in development, are they?
I use Firefox Focus, which includes an ad blocker that can be enabled for Safari integration.

It works pretty well for me, but then, I don't generally surf on my phone and only use Safari when I have clicked a link from messages or something.

I'm interested in other possible options on iOS as well, though. Hoping to see more replies.
How do you deal with copy/pasting text from the terminal?

Last time I tried textual, my users couldn't put anything in the clipboard from their mouse selection.
> You can pull down 4KW a minute on many fast charge cars

What does that mean?
>It's actually worse.

Well hold on. We can go ahead and talk about how different this Google statement is from their ethos in the present day. But the framing of this being about ad placement was incorrect, and that has nothing to do with anything.

>They're suggesting/hinting that those competitors accept payment for placement when in fact that wasn't happening

It wasn't? This strikes me as yet another completely out of left field reaction. I mean, is there a consensus that that's obviously false? A source? Where is this "in fact that wasn't happening" coming from? Was there a big media cycle where there was a deep dive investigation into this that settled the question, that everyone remembers except me? There's a whole field of actors who at one time were relevant: Jeeves, Lycos, Altavista, Infoseek, Dogpile, Hotbot, Webcrawler, etc. And they went through any number of permutations of design, ownership, were sold and reacquired and it stands to reason that at some point some versions of these did things that Google is suggesting.

At a minimum it seems prima facie plausible that competitors entertained this.
AdGuard is pretty nice, you can also use other browsers like Firefox focus’ add blocker by installing them then turning it on in the extensions section of the safari settings.
Quieter, but far from quiet — anyone who walks or bikes can hear a slow-moving ICE car from considerably further away than an EV.
I wish that article focused solely on whether or not the technology actually works, rather than leaning heavily on the “problematic” aspect that forces people to maybe face facts that run counter to their dishonest or at least misleading narratives.
I think in time chips should be fungible commodities. A lot of components, such as DRAM, NAND are fungible. As we move towards more open source tech, like RISC-V, for microcontrollers, maybe many of them become completely fungible as well. Especially if there isn't an infinite variety of them -- I guess the completely custom RISC-V chips won't be fungible, but if one can use an off-the-shelf standardized module, those could be.
I'm using my own simplistic adblock at home (mostly because youtube ads driving me nuts) and I don't use any adblock at work (mostly because I'm too lazy to configure it). I'm not a fan of using browser extensions, especially those which require full access to every webpage, that's too much of attack surface in my opinion and ads are not that bad on websites I visit.
A magazine called The Economist should understand why we use almost all of our arable land for farming. It's because that's the cheapest way to do it.

We could grow all of our food in greenhouses and return 99.9% of our farmland to nature. We don't do that because that would be more expensive and cheaper alternatives make growing wheat & corn in greenhouses highly unprofitable.

Conversely, if suddenly 75% of the arable land came onto the market, it would drive the price of land down dramatically, making it profitable to farm it less intensively (aka more cheaply). In other words, we'd still farm about the same amount of land, but we'd use less fertilizer and herbicide and the price of food would go down. Those are awesome results, but land usage would not be significantly different.
It was listed last March for $420K, and the price was dropped in December. So, going on at least a year that it's been for sale.
Let’s not forget that animal agriculture is also the leading cause of habitat loss and a driver of health issues in and around pig farms.
> It's fine though, gas stations don't make any money selling fuel. All their money comes from the captive audience.

Interesting thought -- EV charging might be even easier to make money from then, once there's sufficient adoption. I imagine many more people would get a drink or a meal if they have to wait half an hour anyways.

In that sense having EV chargers would be a large customer driver for businesses, one they'd probably pay for (maybe they do already?). Are gas stations normally franchised out, or owned by a single company?
Also all tiling window managers will need to be rewritten from scratch basically as Wayland's architecture is very different, which sucks.
>This particular one ended due to its contribution to the Great Depression.

This is a very distorted view of the great depression. I'd argue the great depression's biggest factors were overextension on debt and poor management of fiat and the banking system. Buying tokens with free and clear cash is really is a bet a tangential comparison to contributions of the depression.

>Your argument didn't hold water in 2010 once we realized how sub-prime mortgages worked and I strongly suspect it won't hold water in a few more years. Your freedom to buy whatever toxic garbage you want ends where it compromises the stability of financial markets. It's a question of scale.

Much of the subprime-mortgage disaster was a result of poor understanding of investors of risk. I agree investors should be made more aware of risk. Markets can tolerate risk, after all startups are funded all the time and somehow they don't tank the economy. Many of these startups are funded completely by unaccredited 'investors' too -- ex: like a husband/wife team pouring their savings into a restaurant.

>"You can't tell me what to buy, regulatory chump!" goes broke "Whelp, off to the publicly funded poor-house."

People can spend all their money on beany babies, the claw arcade game, gambling, whatever. Let's not pretend everybody is off betting the farm on these tokens.

>sub-prime mortgages

Are people offering 100k+ variable interest loans to unemployed persons to buy these tokens?

>"Whelp, off to the publicly funded poor-house."

Whether you believe in welfare is a separate issue. People don't become slave of government just because if they mis-act they may end up on welfare.
If you're using your tech stack as a hiring filter, it doesn't count as "Boring Technology".
It is relatively easy to add a new stereo that has a screen which can display a backup camera to an old truck. It doesn't need to have been original factory equipment to be adequate. I did this for a 2003 vehicle. I have backup camera/Android Auto/CarPlay/etc. If you don't feel up to it, you can have it done for less than a grand at a really good car audio installer, and then you have the more reliable vehicle. Of course, this depends where you live and what is required.
These feature changes are not mouse gestures, this is about touchpad gestures. Mouse gestures are nice, but they're not great to perform using a touchpad.
Never connect it to the Internet. Just use a Roku instead of the horrible built in apps.

Honestly I'm amazed that so many people actually connect their "smart" TVs to the Internet. No way in hell!
Consumers obviously see enough value in remote control for it to be added as a feature, I'm not sure putting the cat in the bag is a great solution at this point

That said while I do disagree with the above consumers, I don't care about remote control but I would quite like remote status updates from various appliances (is the door locked, is the washing cycle finished, has the fridge been left open, etc.)
AI and neuroscience drive each other forwards
i worked at a place 15 years ago that offered me a nice raise if I became a citrix certified engineer...

I studied for 2 months and passed, ive literally never used citrix in my life
Here's the board's statement on the controversy: https://www.mcminn.k12.tn.us/o/mcsd/article/639918

I can't find any reference that implies that this decision was reached because Maus was too informal. Certainly the people who actually voted don't think that was the reason. I also can't find any reference confirming that it's already been replaced or saying what it's been replaced by.

Where are you getting this information? I'd love to check what the administrators were thinking, but I can't find the actual text of the resolution online, and from their own statements it's very clear that the board members -- the people actually responsible for confirming whether the resolution should pass or not -- voted because they thought the book was inappropriate for middleschool children.

> It's also misleading to say a comic book is being "banned"

I think sometimes people use the word "ban" in different ways/contexts that apply different degrees of censorship. It's totally valid to for you to argue that the usage here is inappropriate or that it implies something stronger than what actually happened. However, given that the school board itself uses language saying that they "voted to remove the graphic novel Maus from McMinn County Schools", I don't think "ban" is an completely unreasonable word for someone to use or that using the word "ban" implies that someone is ignorant of the facts of what happened.
I've had YouTube Premium since its inception. Whenever I'm around someone else who puts on a free-tier version of YouTube its rather shocking how frequent and intrusive the commercial ads are.
Knew a fellow whose car flipped into a shallow lake on a dark rainy night. The warning signs for a turn beside the lake had been removed. He was trapped in the car and drowned. Perhaps with hand-crank windows he'd have survived.

I buy only vehicles with hand-cranked windows.
Just reach out to people directly. Introduce yourself. Look at who's active on github, follow the trail of edits and comments until you get to developers that have similar interests. Use direct message services on linkedin, facebook, instagram. Just say "Hey that project your working on is cool".
Show HN: Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
Well, GMs agree on a draw well before it actually gets down to insufficient material. Many draws-by-agreement would degenerate into that if they kept playing.
Never is a strong word. If corporations can take advantage of you, so you can you of them. I’m yet to pay a single dollar for ink. The free 10 pages a month plan with HP allows me to use it to print the occasional recipes and labels in full color for free. I knew I’m not going to print too much stuff and I can swap it out for my own ink if my need changes. I keep the printer plugged out except when I need to print and it works out well for me so far.
(This was why HP was trying to phase out the plan).
Found an interesting article about what Pfizer did and how they upscaled. Which is without a doubt impressive work:

https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/shot_of_a_lifetime_how_...
I don’t know any vegan that still eats coconut ice cream…because it tastes like coconut. There are a huge variety of non-dairy ice cream made with oats, cashews, soy, peas, etc…
GAO-Significant Improvements Needed for HHS to Oversee Public Health Emergencies [pdf]
I don’t see Oakland PD’s budget brought up here after a couple of (admittedly quick) reads. They do link through to a CityLab article however that does show the increase: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-city-budget-police-f...
It is theoretically possible, sure.

I'm trying to imagine a nontrivial number of people who currently own a private vehicle selling that vehicle to rely on prebooking both of their daily commuting trips with a flexibly-priced mode of transportation to save money.

As a datapoint, I know many people who regularly take car services like Uber, but I don't know of anyone who actually sold their car to rely exclusively on a car service to commute. Perhaps if driverless cars halve the price of car service it might start to happen?

I'm not saying it is not theoretically possible that driverless cars will reduce car ownership, I am saying that I am skeptical of the weak arguments and minimal evidence provided thus far for such a claim.
Not all vegan diets are alike. What yours like, out of curiousity?
> I was impressed with the Beancount documentation.

Me too, one of main reasons for choosing it.

> Is there a tool to convert brokerage data into Beancount data from scratch?

Problem is they are all different. But other people share what they have come up with. Maybe check the mailing list, also search for Red's Importers. If those do not work for you 'out of the box', you might need to hack something together. But you can get help on the mailing list.
(Max-depth, reply to Vrodni in sister comment)

> if something is abandoned by a company, then it should be made open

Totally agree! Once you start selling a product, you should be required to make provisions for your company not existing anymore. Source-code trusts that have the authority to make code public domain or provide it to stakeholders in certain situations, when it can be shown the current IP-holder is not meeting their obligations, would be a great idea. This does not interfere with the interests of active, good-faith copyright holders, except perhaps by charging them a small fee to the trust.

>User repair-ability/unlocking/jail-breaking of devices should be legally protected.

Totally agree! That is what "right to repair" is referring to.

There are ways to solve these problems, and banning copyright on software isn't really even one of them.
Hyperweb is very nice. They even redirect Reddit links to Teddit so you can avoid their dark patterns.
I don't see how you can make this claim. An example is meant to be understandable after a cursory introduction and communicate an idea to the reader. If it takes me a day to understand the "example", it's not useful as an example, but real problems often take that long to completely understand in any language.
In most cases, "celebratory gunfire" is harmless. In some cases though, people end up injured or dead - there's a decent sized list on Wikipedia [1]. The key issue is, you only have "terminal velocity" at play when shooting up straight at 90 degrees in the air. The more "sideways" you get from that, the more energy will be kept during the fall.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire
Hiring more developers is overrated.
What would you consider a morally unacceptable debate? Or is that question itself morally unacceptable to engage with?
That's pretty hyperbolic and also seemingly irrelevant. There are enough companies that don't have this expectation and give new engineers the time and space to become familiar with the company before setting any concrete performance goals.
I've found being vegan too difficult with IBS. Fruits and vegetable and grains are what cause symptoms, so I quite literally need to eat meat (and the other things in small quantities)
I'd really like to know how this technology differentiates a gunshot from a car backfiring.
> suggesting/hinting that those competitors accept payment for placement when in fact that wasn't happening

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/yahoo-adopting-paid-incl...
IRC is still a thing, and a very popular one at that. I've found that it's a great tool for finding like-minded tech people with relatively less 'noise' than in similar Slack or Discord groups.
Citrix to Be Acquired for $16.5B
Anarchists Are Building DIY Heaters to Keep Unhoused People Warm
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." https://youtu.be/ARJ8cAGm6JE?t=64

The current version of this is "Computer says no", with humans reduced to being meat-based I/O devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQgthIs7pM
About 20 years ago I worked for a CLEC, and the physical plant manager had some stories. Mostly about squirrels, but he had a nice selection of pictures of equipment that had been shot at, as well.

The squirrels I can understand. But why allegedly intelligent humans feel the need to shoot holes in things that don't belong to them, especially obvious things like infrastructure, I just don't get. I love to go plinking, but I put in a lot of effort to be responsible about it. I end up picking up a lot of trash and other people's discarded brass, too.