skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Orb weavers rarely enter human dwellings, although they do quite like porches for the combination of good web substrate and the prey-attracting effect of porch lights and lit windows.

I've only had an orb weaver in the house a couple of times, and once ushered back out they typically remain so. One of them, a young red orb weaver, abseiled down from the ceiling onto my bare shoulder - I'm not sure which of us was more surprised, but even if I didn't like spiders quite well in general, I think her evident terror upon realizing her mistake would have aroused some degree of sympathy.

Most spiders you'll encounter indoors in the eastern US will be cobweb spiders, of which family black widows are by far the most famous - but also very rare, with more typically encountered cobweb spiders being quite harmless to humans. (Of course, so are widows, when given proper respect, as with the one who overwintered behind the toilet tank one year when I was ten or so. She kept to herself and so did we, and we all got along fine - and they are such beautiful creatures!) Beyond that you can expect the occasional wolf spider, salticid, or the like, these being cursorial hunters and thus not so much homebodies as spiders generally tend to be.
Amazon has been extraordinarily successful delivering shareholder value by plowing profits back into growing their business rather than via dividends or share repurchases.

The buyback might seem to be a strategy change, but it is "only" a $10B authorization, and the last authorization never resulted in more than half of the purchasing happening:

This stock repurchase authorization replaces the previous $5 billion stock repurchase authorization, approved by the Board of Directors in 2016, under which the Company had repurchased $2.12 billion of its shares.

Source: Amazon Form 8-K: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/0...
A friend of mine had an incident with these pens in high school. Used one on his physics midterm exam, teacher put a laptop blowing hot air onto the pile of papers before grading, so 3/4 of every page were just gone. He had to retake it.
why we are not unix without kubernetes?
Now that's consistency!
So why does your personal choice have to bring the end of Apple?

Did Apple get to be 3 trillion by forcing people to buy stuff or buying selling things that people were willing to give it money for?

But by you choosing to not buy Apple Bluetooth headphones you have a worse experience.
Enums aren’t interchangeable, which is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending.

Let’s say I have an Icon component with props like:

type IconProps = { size: “s” | “m” | “l” }

And then let’s say I have a Button component but there’s no small size:

type ButtonProps = { size: “m” | “l” }

If I use string unions I can happy assign one size to another:

const Button = ({ size }: ButtonProps) => (
<button><Icon size={size} />
)

If I used enums (ButtonSize and IconSize) then that would not be possible and TypeScript would complain.

So the question is: Is that a bad thing?

And the answer depends on your domain. If you have reason to believe that in your domain people are likely to map between two incompatible namespaces, then enums could help. And string unions could let through some bugs.

In my experience that’s never been a real risk so I prefer string unions.

The other thing enums can get you is you can rename the variable without changing the values. So if your strings are persisted to the database and you don’t want to change them, but you do want them to have a slightly new meaning, you could rename the enum key, and get the new name in code, while keeping the old string value.
What a novel repudiation of the very concept of tyranny. Are any governments really oppressive, when they're all actually operating according to the consent of the governed? Why do tyrants even bother with the apparatus of repression? The population is technically repressing itself, according to this view.
I must admit I simply didn't realize the pulseaudio commands would still work. I figured they wouldn't because they were no longer installed after disabling pulseaudio and switching to pipewire. That's why I was trying to make things work with the pw-* commands and failing.
There are a broad range of motivations. In my case:

- I wanted to work on nuclear fusion energy, for the future of humanity.

- I was told that if I had a PhD in physics, I could do just about anything - it's a way of keeping options open.

- I liked tinkering in the lab & learning new mind-expanding concepts in textbooks.

- I viewed it as a test of my intelligence. (Turns out, it's more about perseverance.)

I know at least one string theorist, and they seem to be motivated primarily by liking to mess around with abstruse mathematics. Some others seem to enjoy the 'nerd cred.' I think the ones whose sole motivation is 'getting to the bottom of the universe' probably burn out early, b/c there's so little of that to be had right now. (I've heard from several people who got their PhDs in particle physics who went on to do data science/programming, saying that the field is depressing and that's why they didn't pursue it further.) As for me, I found the 'shut-up-and-calculate' attitude a major turn-off to studying quantum physics. (Plasma physics uses little or no QM, so that worked out for me.)
Is HTML a Programming Language?
Brazil has only itself to blame. Not only Apple products, but several other technology items are pretty expensive due to the VAT (Value Added Taxes), namely, ICMS - state vat tax, IPI - federal vat tax for manufactured products, IOF - federal government tax that incurs on financial trasactions, and high import tariffs. All tariffs and taxes almost doubles the price of everything imported and whenever a product is sold to a distributor and the final seller, state and federal VAT taxes adds up increasing the price even further. Unlike the global north, most of taxes revenues in Brazil come from VAT taxes since brazilian middle class is not willing to pay higher income tax and at the same time they want US-style taxes and European-like lifestyle, such as ree healthcare and free college that are paid in Europe mostly through income tax revenues and dividend tax revenues. So despite higher taxes, it it is not that bad for the upper class and those who can afford Apple gadgets as they would have to pay higher income taxes if they moved to Europe, US or other countries. In Brazil even dividends are not taxed, while in US and Erope they are taxed and companies have to use stock buybacks in order to avoid double taxation.
Shameful. Mine started doing it after 2 years. How convenient that's when your warranty ends
No delay on Fedora 35 with all defaults
Prove it :)
What was the point? Making sure people didn't die until we had viable vaccines, basically.

So yep, we're hitting widespread Omicron now, but a) it appears to have far less severe health impacts compared to strains like Delta and b) 95.2% of Kiwis have had two doses of Pfizer, 72.5% the booster.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-...
Does the global Internet, or does it not, provide immense value to an economy? If it does, then of course we should consider cutting them off. If not, then IDK why we're all so well-paid.

I think the "we could use it to counter propaganda" angle is weak. If Russia thought that might work, they would have already cut it off.
Everything else in this comment aside, what are you planning to feed them if you don't want to grow bugs like crickets?
And if you are not studying at the university anymore you might be drafted by the army in Russia.
There are some other yellow spiders, but nothing really compares to this one. They don't make traditional webs. They make massive ugly janky looking webs from all different directions that span across a lot of different branches. I don't think they came to be until about 3 years ago. The UGA professor says that they believe they came from a freight truck traveling up I85 as they hatched off.
I'm going to bet you're using a mac running an older version of OSX, I ran into this exact issue, only Safari on macos 11+ supports webp.
You're right, but that's been true since the beginning of the tech boom (but isn't exclusive to tech) when no one works for a place for several decades. Companies weather this in different ways but attrition has always been around.

What's causing people to believe that the latest round of attrition is any different?
Current stats are 95.2% (of eligible population) have had two doses, 72.5% have had three.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-...

:)
Apple is also releasing new hardware with multiple USB-C ports and an SD card reader. Does that mean it should also release an iPhone with all of those features?
I'm not sure about all Amazon Basics, but a few of the ones that I checked out were just third-party products that Amazon made deals with to slap their name on. Similar to how Costco's Kirkland brand is often the same as a popular brand but with a different label.

For example, the Amazon Basics guitar pedals are created by Nux pedals (the PCBs even have Nux on them).

So from what I can tell a lot of these are not ripoffs, just rebranded products. Amazon doesn't need to waste resources on manufacturing products that are already being sold on their site, but they can make deals with people that are already manufacturing those products.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/research-debunks-myth-that-econom...

TLDR The opportunity cost of having children in affluent society is too damn high.
Ask HN: Where are the experienced Computer Science graduates working?
We're trying to hire an experienced (5+ years xp) front end developer (web-based) and a tiny number of the candidates I've seen have Computer Science degrees. As someone who did Undergraduate CS and recently followed it up with a Masters this is confusing. I always thought of CS as the degree for software developers. Is front end development not something CS graduates are interested in anymore? Or is there too much competition from all the boot camp graduates?
What Is Browser Fingerprinting and How Does It Track You?
‘I was always scared’: inmate who exposed systemic Russian prisoner abuse (2021)
The art of teaching (or management, or any other kind of leadership) is not communicating information and directing activities, but instilling a curiosity, want, or desire to learn and do. Once you do that, there's no stopping an intelligent person from learning. (As Jordan Peterson (among others) correctly points out, though, there is a minimum human intelligence level required for that baseline curiosity, and alas, much of humanity doesn't reach that bar, especially in certain regions of the world...)
What would take the place for something like this today? Meetups?
I am mostly a one man shop myself but I would encourage everybody to self host their authentication. With so many open source libraries, there’s no good reason why you should use an external provider. In most cases, if the app is relatively successful you will very likely add functionality to your app, and this means you need control of your data and everything else that comes with it.

In the bigger scheme of things, I envision a world where adding auth to your app (or any functionality) is as simple as adding a docker service.
One Day of WFH
The more awesome Blender gets, the more jealous I am that it's not designed for CAD.

You may be interested in this:
https://blenderartists.org/t/geometry-sketcher-constraint-so...

Someone implemented sketching in blender using the geometric constraint solver borrowed from Solvespace. It is also notable that the same solver has been used in FreeCADs assembly 3 workbench.

For the next Solvespace (3.1) release we have replaced the homegrown matrix operations in the solver with Eigen. In some sketches this seems be running 8-10x faster.
If I’m listening to something and my phone is about to die, I put it on one of my Qi chargers all around the house.
Or simply use nitter.net instead :)
I'm not against harming their economy, but am against harming their access to information. I don't think doing the former necessitates doing the latter. In the cases where they overlap, I think the harm to the economy is negligible.
>why not do var and val

"final var" is more consistent in Java.

Java in general is still a very versatile language with a lot of great tooling.
I would really appreciate if they ate the Japanese beetle as well. Those things really take a toll on my orchard in May/June
There is a downside to this too: Russian propaganda is aimed abroad as well, and it is surprisingly effective in spite of us having access to alternative news sources. Their talking points and quotes show up all over the internet, including on HN, with alarming regularity.
Ukraine Conflict Updates
Summaries and links for Python installation and packaging
> more important to the average user than many developers think.

On that, the larger your app is the bigger the target. When I run out of space on my phone I sort by largest app and start booting off the worst offenders. Small apps, even if I use them less often, are likely to fly under the radar.
most twitter accounts do not have a phone attached to it. you must be doing something to trip up the phone verification thing
In what way do you consider STEP to be a mess?
Sparrow hornets and orb weavers aren't too likely to interact.

In theory the spider might prey on the hornet, but sparrow hornets are large and strong enough that I suspect it would take a very busy spider to envenom one, and avoid being stung in the process, before the hornet broke free of the web. Too, wasps and hornets see much more acutely than many realize, and likely have a decent chance of seeing and dodging webs - I did once see a bumblebee caught in a red orb weaver's web, but never yet a wasp or hornet, for whatever that's worth. (I have seen a drunk bald-faced yellowjacket sleeping it off on my porch, with an orb weaver web in direct line between her and the fig tree, but I don't know that she didn't get there before the spider had spun her web for the night.)

Sparrow hornets also aren't known yet to have made it east of the Rockies, and the intervening terrain would be very difficult for them at least, more likely impossible. That said, they and Jorō spiders hail from much the same origin and may regularly share territory, in which case their relationships are probably fairly well known - I'd likely be able to say more here, except that I don't read Japanese and thus can't review the relevant literature.
I went to grad school because the company paid for all but a couple thousand dollars of it. I thought it would help me move up and maybe even into management.

It was a waste of time and money. It would have been more productive and lucrative for me to spend a couple extra hours every night doing work projects rather than going to night school.
Scala codebases typically depend on reams of Java jar files.
Wasn't it Amazon Music that first that launched without DRM?
No. Russia isn't actually threatened in any meaningful sense because they have a gigantic military and over 6,000 nuclear weapons. 0 Countries represent a threat to them militarily.

If the U.S. left NATO, Russia would actually invade more countries as far as we currently understand Putin's motivations via public media channels. He wants to recreate most or some elements of the Soviet Union which include Ukraine, but also other countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, and others. Had the United States not been part of NATO, it's incredibly likely that what remained of NATO would have taken no action while Russia forcefully seized Ukraine.

The best solution here is that Russia is a peaceful democracy like other countries in Europe and instead of wielding hard power, it could wield soft power and become a substantial global economic partner in many ways, improving the lives of its citizens and enriching itself in the process. The problem is that those in power are literally mafia-style criminals who through one form or another obtained wealth and power after pillaging the remnants of the Soviet Union.

Nobody in NATO has any desire for a war with Russia for any reason. Everyone wants Russia to respect human rights and trade in a prosperous arrangement. Again, the people in power in Russia don't want that. That's their active choice.
Yes, these pens dry up quickly. However, you can "undry" them using alcohol based hand sanitizer :)
I keep growing more impressed by FreeCAD. At the moment some of the most critical usability improvements are still in development branches though.
Tor IPs are very low trust and will trigger phone even if you logged in
Sorry bud: Spiders make up a significant portion of the animal population in the Arctic.
- https://animals.mom.com/spiders-arctic-6713.html

Looks like we're both signing up for the first one-way trip to Mars.
I'm at the free download and it's demanding I register. Which might still be "free" but isn't part of the terms of things considered "open source".
I wonder if this is a rhetorical question?
If the Russian government thought that the parts of the Internet they still allow were any threat, in excess of the economic or strategic benefit it provides, they'd have already cut it off. I think the viability of any kind of Internet-based propaganda war are badly over-estimated by its proponents, especially when the other side gets to filter out entire sites that are inconvenient. It works much better against a foe that's far more open (so, us).
Non-AMP link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-presses-offensive-as-ukr...
That's a weird takeaway. My takeaway is that content is king. Content has tilted our whole legal system to its advantage, and the transition to digital has made it worse. It is anti-consumer, anti-competition, anti-innovation, anti-capitalist.
But there's always been attrition. What are some of the ways that is now different that is affecting attrition rates and their effects?
I can think of something that would work. If Amazon is found guilty of abusing it's the data it's trusted witb, for anything, the entire company should be banned from doing business with the government. No government purchases of goods, no services hosted on AWS, no logistics provided by Amazon's last mile services, etc. If Amazon are shown to be abusing data then they shouldn't be allowed to have any public data.

Maybe even extend that to all government suppliers...
I decided to send an email to invest@angel.co instead, requesting deletion of my personal information based on Art. 17 GDPR - Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten'). Rick Segers promptly confirmed that my profile had just been deleted following my request. That is good and all, but I would have liked more the same level of responsiveness 1.5 years ago when I reported the insults from the alleged CEO.
I agree. I was assigned KP duty when I misbehaved. It was brutal. I'm still in therapy for it.
Are you saying 1.) Russia doesn’t deserve punishment or

2.) although Russia does deserve punishment they shouldn’t be punished because sometime later someone who doesn’t deserve punished will be punished

By that logic how could any action have a penalty or punishment?
Hey Adam!

That is a great question. We are new and want to find those folks that are willing to pay 2-10 times more than the competitors. Most all of our competitors are free for 2-12 months hoping to lock you in. It is very counter-intuitive, but our first 20 paying customers have such a real pain point that are not being met, then even knowing that there are cheaper alternatives, they turn to us.

We do offer 50% off of that rate for hacker news ($49 a month). We will decrease our price over time as we really understand more about our customers, their problems, and make onboarding super simple.

Having said all of that, reach out at robert (a-t..) rownd.io and if you are willing to give us feedback I'll find a price to make it work.
Let us know if you get enough for a usable system once you're done.
IME, this actually becomes more challenging as a company gets larger, not less (but that doesn't mean it can't be done).
> I think the "we could use it to counter propaganda" angle is weak. If Russia thought that might work, they would have already cut it off.

More to the point, Russia does think that might work, and has been selectively cutting off the parts that it sees as enabling that. What's left is what the Russian government sees as useful for themselves.
It's not a matter of whether propaganda is "believed". The goal of propaganda is not to redefine the truth, but rather to destroy the notion of truth. It's about shifting the Overton window, giving backing to cognitive dissonance, and obscuring the true extent of how bad things are. As such, even those who do not believe it are still affected by its relative quantity versus truthful messages.
Putin is not on the frontlines. His citizens are.
I'd focus mostly on enriching the documentation and slow down on work towards other projects. Having though a document first approach for everything that touches production should leave one with very few work to do during notice period and would mostly mean clarifying to the others what is already documented.
> On the other hand, there are now decentralized insurance protocols available on stablecoin yields which cover risks of a stablecoin or an unintended behavior in a smart contract for ~2% APY.

I hadn't heard of this, how would someone get set up with something like this?
I’ve not worked with fancy modern(ized). fighter jets, but if they’re anything like normal planes this stuff is probably not very hard to pull out.

But the closest I’ve gotten to messing around with this stuff is my L39 (terrible idea, should’ve bought a boat instead. wife hates me now), which did indeed come with some soviet era kit screwed on. Came off easily enough after removing a couple of screws.

I’d be surprised if the interesting parts of the radio equipment they’ve screwed onto the old MiGs would take much more than that to remove.

Aviation authority approvals might take months, but I can’t imagine that being an issue for military planes like this.
Have you seen screeps? (https://screeps.com/)
Depending on what you're interested in, try this out!

https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/this-little-nas-that-could/80
This comment section is the definition of Stockholm Syndrome, unyielding brand loyalty and sunk cost fallacy. Some people are ready to defend whatever outrageous decision Apple makes, yet if it were any other company they'd complain loudly. This is why Apple can offer such a service at ridiculous prices.
Every question, and every answer carries with it a plethora of presuppositions. Cornelius van Til wrote some excellent works on presuppositions with respect to worldviews, but his work is much more easily understood by reading the works of Greg Bahnsen, a student of van Til's, who died at an early age about 25 years ago.
For anyone else just getting the title "To come" dated to "Jan 1st 2021" (and wondering if that was a joke), this seems to be the actual article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220309195651/https://www.econo...
They don't necessarily depend on the EDGES result holding up, but may be to confirm/refute it. Even if your experiment refutes EDGES, you don't want to imply EDGES was utter bunk from the start, because if that was so why did you spend so much money bothering to test it? Your funding and project still depends on it having some credibility.
I've got something similar for appointments at citizens' bureaus in some European cities. The waiting time is usually around a month, which is insane imo.

My script constantly looks for open/canceled spots and reserves them (some need email/phone confirmation, which makes it a bit harder). Pretty standard stuff.

That's how I got my appointment in 3 days instead of a month.

So, I'm thinking of making money from this, but I'm not sure about the legality of it all.