skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what's just as bad is how Amazon tries to trick users into signing up for Prime. Multiple dark patterns, it's scummy and I'm sick of getting called up by family members to help them unsubscribe.
What's the state of the art AV1 encoder right now? Is it practical to encode hours-long videos on regular personal computers now?
Hi HN!

I built this website after having to recreate the same Google Sheets template over and over for different trips. This is basically Google Docs for calendars along with some other helpful features like voting and categories for trip ideas.

The website itself was built using SvelteKit with Firebase for the database and authentication, all hosted on Vercel.

Feel free to ask anything!
I think, it's a technology that has potential, but I understand why many people hat on it.

The whole space is divided drastically.

When I get told I should talk to a friend of a friend, because "he's also into crypto" I'm quite weary.

I like the diverse and queer part of crypto, filled with artists and technologists from different walks of life.

But I don't get along with the cryptobro faction that wants to shill their next NFT collection.

The crypto space is big and very mixed, so don't let yourself get alienated by a bunch of critics that hate on BAYC etc., because there are many people in crypto that are different.
Why does a microwave oven need firmware updates?
Indeed it does. Here in Brazil, for instance, dividends are not taxed, while selling a stock (to take advantage of growing stock prices) has a capital gains tax of 15%.
> Since the pandemic, more perceived effort is needed to accomplish the same work which directly causes burnout

I don’t disagree, but I don’t think it makes sense to blame the work for this shift. If we’re talking about “the same work” then what makes it more difficult now?

I suspect that the people prone to burnout have shifted heavily toward consuming a lot of news media, podcasts, TV shows, and social media in lieu of a lot of the social interaction they previously got from more in-person activity. If someone is consuming 30 clickbait news headlines every day about how the world is ending, 100 social media posts about people complaining about things or fighting against injustices, a couple hours of sedentary TV watching, hours of listening to people debate overly politicized stuff on podcasts, and all of the other anger-as-entertainment outlets, they’re going to be emotionally exhausted before they even attempt to get any work done. When I work with young people it’s painfully common to hear them recite hyperbole about how the world is ending or how we’ve only got a few years left before everything collapses or nuclear war destroys us all. They’re consuming cynicism in unprecedented quantities from all angles.

Anecdotally, going to remote work seems to trigger burnout a lot faster in people who were doing okay in the office. It’s way too easy to fill the social void left by WFH with a lot of unhealthy and draining content.
I got three YubiKeys last week and have been adding them everywhere. So far I have not encountered a site that didn't allow me to register multiple keys.
Social security is the alternative and it's going to be inadequate for most of the people posting here I'm sure.
This article is a right-wing/russian propaganda that checks all the right boxes:

- government spending is bad

- sanctions are bad

- china is our enemy
Great, there are things you can’t be neutral about. I get that. My own spouse’s day to day quality of life, access to medical care and even literal freedom are debated every year at the state and federal levels and every year things can change on a dime. I’m very familiar with there being personal issues that are extremely important and that one can not be neutral on. I am not neutral on these issues, and were we having a discussion about those issues, there would be no neutrality from me on them precisely because I can not be neutral on them.

But that does not mean that I turn every discussion on HN, even discussions related to political things into a discussion about my specific personal issues. The fact that you and I aren’t hashing those issues out right now is not a tactic endorsement of the status quo. And it would be ridiculous for me to use my power as a software developer and maintainer to start inserting messages about my stances on these issue into the software I maintain and distribute, and it would be especially ridiculous for me to start distributing malware along a trusted supply chain because of those issues.

Asking that software be a neutral ground with respect to certain political topics or activities is not an endorsement of the status quo or a dismissal of your completely valid concerns. It’s a recognition that there is a time and a palace to discuss, debate or even fight about very important issues. But not every time and every place is the appropriate one.

Or put another way, and taking out of the software realm, if neutrality is inherently political and some political things are too important to leave any place neutral, then what issues do you believe we should start militarizing the moon for? Is the human cost of this war sufficient for the US to start deploying military assets to the moon? Or even just militarizing (more so than it is for spy satellites) earth orbit and deploying kinetic weapons into space? Perhaps the US and EU should unilaterally take full control of the ISS and imprison the Russian cosmonauts onboard?

Or is that plainly ridiculous and is there value in attempting to preserve as much neutrality within space as possible given the current situation? Perhaps it is worthy to not escalate political boundaries in certain areas even when the political item in question is of extreme importance.
In theory couldn't it tunnel ethernet over the TB4 cable?
Beard stepped down roughly a year before the "Exec salaries ballooned while user rate dropped" Cal Peterson post became a talking point. And in the grand scheme of things, executive salary was never more than a few percent of annual spending.
A comprehensive guide to currying in Python
Using the Netflix 1080P AV1 2Mbps Test clip, my old Macbook 2015 with a Intel Core i5-5287U ( Broadwell Dual Core 3.3Ghz ) just manage to play that at about 70% of the total CPU.
The forthcoming Linux kernel 5.18 will include initial support for intel's Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI) [1]. This may bring linux performance on intel 12th gen (Alder Lake) processors to par with their performance on Windows 11.

It will be fun to see how quickly HFI support finds it's way into Hypervisors like Xen.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-HF...
I think the point of putting retirement money in an index fund is that you are basically in the same boat as everyone else. If the economy stagnates for 30 years and your money hasn't grown during that time, the same is true for everyone else so your buying power has stayed the same. If there was some kind of market catastrophe and you lose 90% of your money, again everyone is in the same boat as you so at that point you are probably looking at some form of government intervention to keep you whole. On the other hand if you put your money in some alternative assets that didn't do so great and only returned 20% while the S&P returned 1000% over that time then you are really in a bad situation that no one is going to help you out of.
This seems cool, thanks. I've never played with Ansible but this does feel like a great opportunity to explore it :)
I'm not a fan of how the article refers to containers as "a form of operating system virtualization", I don't find that a very useful way to think about them.

Generally I think of them as constrained processes which contain an application (or applications) and the supporting libs necessary to run them.

Obviously you can use VM tech in conjunction with containers (e.g. Firecracker) but it's not necessary for their use.
McFly uses either a neural net or fzf along with sqlite and clever script hooks to do basically everything you may need: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
Ever wondered what Polkadot parachains are? Read and find out
Is the line of death actually a thing? I thought that users just trust everything that's on the screen tbh

A "line of death" sounds like something only technical users would notice
I actually just cancelled two days ago and was shocked at how painless and easy it was. But now I have my answer why- they got caught and the pendulum swung far to the other side.

Presumably. The article doesn't mention anything about Amazon changing their policies as a result of being called out. But my experience was certainly not what was described in the article- basically a single button click.

Big fat edit: OK, I was wrong. This article and the other comments here made me go double check and sure enough, the cancellation didn't go through. Perhaps I fell prey to a dark pattern, but I seem to remember seeing different pages. Maybe an A/B test. Either way, good timing on posting this article!
Fortune as Cognitive Bias
Western Europe is very reliant on food imports. It comes from India and China. The Dutch grow glasshouse produce. Pig meat and oil are the main agricultural items.

Spain is the one of the main regions growing and exporting. But that’s mostly tomatoes. A lot of production has moved to Morocco and Tunisia. Especially olives(disease in Italy) also: Italian canned San Marzano tomato sauce? Grown and canned in China. Labeled in Italy.

Europe will starve. When America and Europe threaten sanctions upon countries like India, it’s laughable. And illiterate. And also hypocritical considering Germany has bought over billions of dollars of oil from Russia since the conflict began.

Europe does not have food self sufficiency.
This. When my Cuisinart food processor bowl broke for the 2nd time, I went and got a RobotCoupe professional model. The cheese grater attachment I got for it says that you shouldn't run it for longer than 4 hours! at a time. Once you start going commercial, you will not look back. Pay more (if you buy new), work forever and if they do break, there are people/places you can get them serviced.
"effect on performance" isn't just about typing speed. If my arms start to hurt and I need to pause more often and for more type, it's also a negative.

Oh, and ortholinear is really quick to get used to, and have improve hand comfort a lot for me.
Thank you for sharing that. It is a very scary time and it must be crushing to worry about friends in a war zone. I appreciate the context. I hope you are able to find a solution to help those folks out.
I canceled in January. It takes several clicks through buttons and sometimes small links. It alternates the styles with negative or positive wording sentences, alternate offers. They try to convince you to get an email reminder 3 days before the renewal date instead of canceling. After you canceled, the only call to action on the confirmation page is to cancel the cancelation. You immediately get an email to easily cancel the cancelation as confirmation that you canceled.

I was prepared for a dark pattern fight, I was not disappointed!
If you want quality your choice is still limited to the reference encoder libaom.
> What if Russians also will play this game with OpenCV, Redux, Kotlin, Nginx…

The Russians are already attacking us. Just off the top of my head: NotPetya, Korea Olympics attack, US elections, US pipeline attack.

You can't say we have to surrender in the open source front out of fear that they will respond back when they're the ones attacking the civilized world on all fronts.
Same here. If it comes out in April I usually wait 2-3 months and then upgrade, unless there are severe reasons not to (e.g. it's a work machine and we're running some weird stuff where I'd be the one doing all the work to make it run on the next one), or if I have actual problems with the old one, only then I'll go first in April. Does not apply for my random "browse some stuff at home" laptop, there would be no reservations going ahead on release day.
> Bitcoin - the most popular blockchain - uses about half a percent of the world’s energy: the same as the country of Finland.

> If you’re in the camp of “this thing is fairly useless”, then the horrific externalities of Bitcoin mining clearly outweigh the minuscule benefits.

This group of people is obligated to latch on to incomplete information like this. Because it doesn't matter what the truth is, the goal post has to move to "this is fairly useless so the energy must be useable for some other purpose and bitcoin mining must therefore be wasting it" when that's not true either.

Where Bitcoin mining is used to reduce flare gas emissions, it is reducing the environmental impact while increasing the amount of energy used. Emissions that were happening for decades, straight up into the atmosphere, with no other economical way of stopping it until bitcoin miners came along. A headline talking just about the amount of energy, and not the source of the energy, should therefore always be a big red flag as it is intended to manipulate you.

Large mining companies tried delaying this information coming out for years, because it was beneficial to them to keep their energy sources secret.
Meh, go back to this day, 2013 [0] and you’ll see the same constructive/non-constructive criticism. It’s an exacting crowd, which is what I love personally.
I'm right there with you on the RSI front. But I do see GP's point on some of the audiophile feel, given the number of people who focus on the acoustics and appearance of their KB.

What KB are you using? I've got a Moonlander that I'm (pardon the pun) over the moon about. The Advantage 360 is very tempting with the curved key wells. So is the glove80. But I would really prefer something that was hot-swapable with curved key wells.
I'm praying that Apple starts supporting AV1 soon...
Yes, simply

FirstNameType = str

(But don't use ints for postal codes, even if the postal codes are numeric)
The first time I tried typing some Python code was a little experimental HTML generator, pure functional style, that used the keyword args dict as a kind of miscellaneous grab-bag to pass functions and data to sub-functions. You set up a dict and called a top-level function with it and then it worked like a kind of template system, but again all through functions & applications of functions rather than "mail merge" of templates, etc.

It was simple, elegant, perfectly cromulent Python code. However, there was no way to specify the type of the dicts because they were so heterogeneous.

- - - -

I have to say, I was a Python fan for ages, used it professionally for over a decade, so this isn't an outsider's opinion: Python is kind of over. It won't die any time soon, but it has been "improved" out of its sweet spot of applicability, and no longer has a compelling story for adoption going forward. Every niche Python is known for serving well now has even better options:

- Rapid Application Development: Nim, Red

- Readability: Go, Nim, D, Zig

- Science: Julia

- Large multi-dev projects: Java, Go

- Systems programming (python glue): D, Rust, Zig

- Web app backends: Erlang/Elixir

And so on...

Really, as much as I still love Python (and I do) the only things I feel it's appropriate for these days are small scripts that need to remain flexible (in other words, that are likely to be modified often), things that are too complex to be a CLI command, but less complex or more dynamic than, say, an email client or RSS reader. If the type domain of the program doesn't change rapidly or unpredictably then you don't need Python's dynamic typing. If you need static typing I think you should use a language that supports that out-of-the-box, not tacked on later.
I am surprised that Amazon had the gall to call this project "Iliad". I am even more surprised that anyone could consider a design decision anything else than intentional. Dark patterns are by definition intentional. Is this a question that courts or legislators are struggling with? Surely this is beyond any reasonable doubt.
> basically people worked longer hours and had more meetings, but the output per unit of time went down .

I’ve managed remote teams for many years. This is basically the hallmark of a poor transition to remote work: Everyone is working more but getting less done.

Remote work is hard. Many people aren’t fit for remote work (employee or manager), even if they think they want it. Remote requires a lot more work overall to communicate and coordinate, but companies are tempted to treat it like it’s the same as in-office work. It’s not.
my app displays "can't connect to the internet" after i try to pull up some meaningful information
ICE and SNOW are two new parachains on DOTSAMA that will bring interoperability to the ecosystem connecting public and private blockchains in a decentralized, trustless network similar to the TCP/IP protocol for the internet.
The problem they face is that they need to chain function calls, and spend ages discovering that a given function returns speed in m/s, whereas the next one expects miles/hour as an input. That is just a small example of the issue they face (that could solved by other means than statically typing the Python code), they really want to make things more robust.
Something I was developing on my spare time :) : https://github.com/aj0y/fitjoy

The main difference with other layouts is that I take finger length into account. (Eg. the pinky is usually much shorter than your ring finger, so putting them all on the same row means your ring finger need to curl up more and less relaxed).
Also tried to reduce changes to the most common shortcuts we (programmers) use.

Feedback welcome!
I was just pointing out the inconsistencies in the argument - especially when people were clearly ready and willing to take it without guidance or supervision because they had come to believe it as some sort of COVID panacea.

To be clear, IVM was just another politicization. It was a rush decision to reject the obvious mainstream option and an attempt to find alternative treatments so that people could take a medicine with known side effects and unknown efficacy over one with known efficacy and unknown side effects, all seemingly because it felt better to be counterculture and was an act of defiance against "big {your adjective of hate here}".

After billions or doses and ever more research it's pretty obvious which side made the right call.
Countries Most Dependent on Others for Food
If it has a companion app for a phone (which this appears to be), you could easily have the phone do this for you. Not unlike setting up a wifi hotspot.

Just have support walk them through a menu on their phone for an "advanced" feature they just tap on, then hold the button on the microwave. Voila!

(Granted, I did tech support long enough to know this isn't easy; if someone can follow instructions, however, it should be doable.)
You can contribute directly to Thunderbird, I often wonder if it's poor performance is one of the reasons similar things aren't tried with Firefox.

https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/
Been using LibreWolf for a week or so since someone mentioned it in a comment elsewhere - UX-wise, it's pretty much identical to Firefox. I'm happy it doesn't have Pocket and the rest of Mozilla's recent product launches arguing for space in my life. My Firefox setup was already pretty solidly "paranoid/misanthropic", so I haven't really noticed any new issues from Libre, but you may.

Overall, it's a pretty good implementation of "Firefox By Mozilla-the-Foundation not Mozilla-the-Corporation." I've been using Firefox at least in part because I think a mono- or even duo-polistic internet is a Bad thing, but Mozilla's been indifferent-bordering-on-hostile to me as a user class, so I appreciate LibreWolf as a kind of "Chromium for Firefox."
Yes, but that isn't insider trading. Maybe it violates some other rule; IANAL.
I remember finding this site in like 2002, it’s been around since the ‘90s and little changed since then.
Fitness is not a niche product, a smart exercise bike priced extremely highly is.

Unlimited Gym access is £20 a month. Pelaton is £40 a month for the most basic bike they do alone for the first 39 months and then £39 a month for the access to classes, how is this in anyway comparable or affordable for most people? Not taking into account the space needed, it's an extremely niche product and those that believe otherwise are clueless.

£79 versus £20 for the first three years and then after it's still almost double.

Some people even get Gym access at a discount or free with there work benefits, making even less of a worthwhile purchase.
Definitely agree - it probably says more about me than crypto, but the primary thing that turned me off of crypto for so long was the people telling me how world-changing it was going to be that had clear incentives to pump up their own project.

Weirdly enough, though, I do think that's a superpower of crypto: it encourages people to recruit others to a team that's trying to achieve something. Figuring out how to co-opt that superpower for good is the hard part.
The market for carbon credit lemons
the AI becomes a 'neutral third party'.

an arbitrator.
They most emphatically do not need them, but they have them nonetheless.
> If Europe will not stop a war in Ukraine in coming 2-3 weeks… then doubling energy prices will look like a funny joke.

That's why I've been wondering if behind all this 'fog of war', Russia is planning to get what they want by creating a food shortage in Europe. Just toss a bunch of disposable soldiers and old equipment into the country, create chaos, and wait. Russia might survive the sanctions against it longer and better than Europe survives without Ukrainian wheat.

It sure sounds like Europe has a lot less leverage than Putin and might have to capitulate just to keep their people fed.
Having a numpad would force me to have the mouse further right by about 10cm. It's already a bit unconformable due to being on a weird angle for my arm, those 10cm make a difference if you sit on the computer all day.

Also, it simply takes up desk space. If I don't need it, why have it?
CO2 is one of the few gases our body can detect. Because C02 build up in our lungs means we aren't performing respiration.

I believe we can't detect C0 and things like N0 so they just straight up kill you once you pass out from oxygen deprivation
svtav1 is the best I've found, personally. Unlike libaom, it's parallelized, which obviously helps massively. I use it at quality profile 20 (as given to ffmpeg params), but I'm not an expert here.
SVT-AV1 has massively improved encoding speed. I was getting ~4x encode speed with some heavy compression (barely any noticeable quality drop) on 1080p/24fps footage on my Ryzen 7 3700X just yesterday.
If you're polling a device you can put wrieguard on, not a problem. If you're not, wireguard to a device on the same LAN and ACL off SNMP traffic at the router.
Why Are We Building Glasp?
The argument in favour of subsidies is not to generally reduce the cost to the consumer, it is to deliberately encourage overproduction most of the time so that even in bad years you’re still OK.

I don’t have the domain knowledge to know if this is or isn’t the reality of any actual subsidy that really exists, all I can say is that the argument seems plausible.
With-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt appearing on your Desktop: technology
I think that for most of these libraries software-only performance is a moot point: the library is there for other software to use to be able to parse the files, and the library/decoder will simply offload the heavy compute to the (hopefully eventually-available) decoding hardware instructions.

To a certain extent it's just a place holder so folks can start writing software against it so that when the CPU vendors ship everyone can hit the ground running.
Wifi/network access shouldn't ever enable turning an oven on, but it'd be cool as hell if:

- I could turn it off from my phone when I hear the timer, but don't feel like going to the kitchen to silence the oven alarm.

- I could view what's cooking inside without having to be at or open the oven.