skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great attitude to ensure you never own a company.
That's a large reach you have there, did the Guinness book of world records come and award you a trophy?
My wife and I used a web based inflation calculator to see how 10% inflation over ten years would effect the long term purchasing power of our retirement savings. A little scary, but it is good to plan long term how money can be saved by reducing expenses (for us, travel is a large expense) while still maintaining a good quality of life.
A proposal showed up here on HN, maybe a month ago. I will try to find it. It seems like a good place to invest.
Hey this is my first ever post. please be gentle :D
As with everything, it’s possible to get just far too down the rabbit hole and chase increasingly marginal, and possibly imaginary, improvements.

(You should see my dad’s 8 tackle boxes full of fishing lures.)

But…if you’re a developer or writer or anybody else who is using a computer 8 hours a day, the keyboard does matter. It is your instrument, and not the foot stool—it’s the primary way you’re entering real information into the computer. So it’s not crazy to be a little picky.
If you're an elite you want to tie the fortunes of the wider population to your own. It's a good way to secure your position.

The stock market doesnt keep going up because of the economy. It does so because of politics.
The article suggests that “value investing” is not just about price ratios (which is mostly all such indexes can offer).
The update process finished successfully, very likely no one thought a downgrade would be needed in such a case. I wonder why they can't just roll out another, maybe that would also hit the legit steamovens
Lots of Engineer Spelling in this article...
I also used the external reference while learning (taped a printed-out layout to the top of my screen).

One regret: like the parent commenter, I stopped drilling early when "fast enough". Then I asymptoted to comparable speed to my qwerty days (and greater comfort), but worse accuracy. Years later some further drilling was worthwhile to end up actually better at typing than in qwerty.

Overall I'd say the Dvorak/qwerty diff was enough to justify choosing Dvorak when you start to learn touch typing, but probably not for switching later.

The increment of improvement from Dvorak to a newer layout seems considerably smaller still, and I'd weigh that against universality of support.
Most likely this is the case for many of the sick people, but it's the reasonable and human thing to still try and give people the best possible chance.
See, I thought that til I resurrected my ipod. That cable snags on EVERYTHING. Apparently I had a bunch of muscle memory things to keep that from happening. (I remember feeding it down my shirt and into the ipod in my pocket.

I do NOT miss headphone cables.
I wanted a programmable keyboard, and more keys, and a custom one does those things very well. Also, it was fun to build, and hopefully one of these days I'll finish the writeup on how I built it.
Many retirement funds are in a tax shelter either way, though.
I notice you are generalizing the guitar analogy but then being specific about mechanical keyboard.

I am more efficient and effective with my (generalized) keyboard at creating input for the computer than a cheap because of factors like: I can customize the layout in ways that match my specific work and habits, I can individually adjust each hand of the keyboard, I can reduce the likelihood of RSI...

Yes, there may be non-mechanical options that address some of these issues, feel free to show me a non-mechanical that is easily programmable, supports "z if tapped, control if held", thumb clusters, and split hand ergonomic tilting/tenting. I haven't seen one.

So forget enjoyment of the user, I'm confident I'm more effective than I'd be with a $10 membrane keyboard, especially when measured over the lifetime of my career.
Imagine how much they could have saved by not requiring any firmware at all in the design.
Turkey’s Russian Missiles Could Defend Ukraine
Property rights are the foundation of our society. If your stuff can be summarily taken off you without consequence (branded 'haircut', 'nationalise','theft' etc) then you are strongly disincentivised to accumulate stuff. Capitalism folds and those who want better quality of life go elsewhere.
When connecting to it, does it return http status 418?
Ask HN: Does anyone else think this 2FA everywhere is getting out of hand?
I probably have to enter 20-30 different 6 digit codes every day logging into various accounts. It's ridiculous. I can't believe it's come to this. It's about as annoying as the cookie bar.

Why does it have to be 6 digits? Especially if it expires in like 5 minutes? And why can't we have some sort of centralised solution to all this? The authenticator apps are probably worse than SMS in terms of the interface.

I am starting to think the amount of manpower wasted on this globally is way more than the fraud preventing in terms of economic cost.

Thanks for listing. Rant over.
You are correct. A lot of it started around 2000.

The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University was one of the most highly-regarded journalism schools in the nation.

Then, its focus changed, and it is now the Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications with the motto "The future belongs to those who understand the art and science of marketing communications."

https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/imc/

I used to work at a place where we would get Medill students as interns. I was told that they were always high-quality. But then we started getting "journalism" majors who couldn't spell, and didn't know the first thing about grammar, fact-checking, interviewing, storytelling, or the difference between fact and opinion; but were experts at putting together videos for YouTube.
This is 1000000% true.

The entire system is completely broken. It is literally designed to make the markets keep going up, which as usual benefits the wealthy far more than the average person. And people who are even middle class barely really benefit from it. While the lower class and poor don't benefit at all.

I choose not to participate in "investing" because it's not investing. It's literally gambling. You can't control what a company does. You can't control if a pandemic hits just when you want to retire and your assets as cut in half.

Instead of real retirement plans, higher guaranteed social security.. they have shifted nearly all the risk to the individuals and essentially forced them to just put money in the markets which artificially inflate the value of everything. And they just hope the ponzi scheme continues.
Chip shortage could be alleviated with new production technique
It should :-D
It's easy to respond with general opinions to a general article like this. It's a lot harder to comment on a specific design without an understanding of the business/product goals the design is trying to achieve.

However.

My totally irrelevant opinion on Sourcegraph is that it does a really good job of balancing high information density (which I love) with comprehensibility.

Of course I don't love the hamburger menu, but if it works for your users, great. The top-level menu items are few and seem well-differentiated, although I haven't dug in too deeply. I think you could probably do an iOS-style tab bar, but I know they don't always work too well on the web, and it might eat into your vertical real estate. No hamburger on desktop, which is nice.

Where it shines is in the filters, which are tremendous. Really, really easy to understand, and the response time when you click one is very fast.

Love the contrast, colors are pleasing. Spinny logo is cute and fun.

OK, now ignore all of that and listen to your users instead. :)
Sounds like we pretty much agree. Thanks for the discussion.
Any kind of Internet connectivity on an appliance is a strong anti-feature for me. I can't think of a single reason I would want it, and it seems like it would either be a privacy invasion or a source of headaches.

Unfortunately I think for the average customer this is a "blue crystals" feature, something they don't really need and probably don't use much but that makes the device feel new and cool. Mass market product development is governed by what the bulk of the market does, so we will probably see more "put a chip in it" trash.

The solution is unfortunately to go up market and pay more for luxury or commercial grade stuff. On the plus side it tends to last a lot longer, so if you factor in life span it may cost about the same.
The UK was already in recession by time. Soros most definitely did not cause it. The British economy rebounded sharply afterwards, helped at least in part by the fact that British labour was suddenly more price competitive.
Because the way to get ahead as an active fund manager isn't to deliver returns that match S&P 500, it's to deliver returns that are uncorrelated with the primary market.

Once you're in top half of that 11% who consistently beat the market that way even if by luck, survivorship bias will have customers beating a path to your door. Nobody remembers the 89%.
I remember listening to the news on the radio that day, the government changed the interest rate twice, from 10% to 12% at about 11am and then a couple of hours later up to 15%
Nope

If anything, the codes should be longer - 8 digits would be far better (8-10 digits bumps up against what a person can easily keep in their mind at one time for long enough to type it)
> When I read code, it's not a passive activity.

Reading is passive, whether you like it or not.

> I'm navigating and searching. Sometimes I bring up external documentation.

If you spend as much time navigating as reading or analysing you have an organization problem.

> In short, I'm interacting with my computer. For me, reading code requires typing.

I can concede that when debugging one must press keys to make the ide progress through code however I find spending $100 to comfortably press a key every few seconds wasteful.

Managers, on the other hand, might benefit of good keyboards if they spend most of their time writing emails back to back.
https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

Consider the release cycle, and the support length. Maybe don't bother moving unless you actually need something new that depends on an upgrade?
We are already making a huge impact on marine life, today, with increasingly disastrous consequences. This reduces that impact.
I signed up on HN just comment how much I've enjoyed Bridgetown as a newbie developer. I just got my first dev job in Rails and I'm enjoying it, but I'm still more excited about playing around with Bridgetown in my free time. One of the coolest things is that Bridgetown is now integrated with [Roda](https://roda.jeremyevans.net), a fast and lightweight alternative to Rails. Which means I could use Bridgetown to build a Roda app with the frontend bells and whistles already set up, most notably esbuild and a component architecture. And for anyone who can't get enough of Ruby, the Bridgetown maintainer even showed how it's possible to build Web Components in Ruby: https://www.fullstackruby.dev/fullstack-development/2022/01/...
>They didn't roll out the release gradually? Holy hell.

Have you looked at dev wages for appliances? That explains everything in short. Everything has to be done for the cheapest price in the shortest amount of time. Fractions of cents are cut in every directions when possible. So when you're operating dev teams on shoe string budgets under constant crunch, there's no talent nor resources for sane management, dev and testing practices. Kind of like the game dev industry, but worse.

And the sad part is, there are really great devs stuck in that shitty industry, as it takes a lot of skill to write code so efficient it fits in undersized ROM or write firmware that can replace HW components.

Source: former embedded dev
It's the same as having a word on the tip of your tongue, you'll remember it once you see it.

Only a fool would rely solely a tool like this to run things you don't understand.

That doesn't make it a dangerous tool to use though.
Was there a reason you used Netlify?
Ask HN: What's the first IDE you used to learn programming?
Mine is eclipse to try Java programs according to the tutorials, and then Visual Studio to learn C++.
Does he have advice for what passive investors should do instead?
A deck without the pitcher can be interpreted differently if you're not there. Previously sent a video narrated deck and the older person didn't like it. Sent another one without the narration and they interpreted it differently. Curios to know if you've experienced the same thing.
oh-heck "Bring up the network interface. Goddamit Linux where did ifconfig go? Why do you have to NIH everything?"
As a dev who traditionally has used a Mac (and prefers mnemonic key shortcuts even on other platforms), the F-Keys get very little traffic. For those a layer is good enough, because most of the time they’re collecting dust.

Numpads can be nice in certain situations, but the vast majority of the time they also get little usage from me. For the times when I do need one, I have a discrete numpad (KBDPad MKII) which I can place freely on my desk (so it’s not robbing me of mouse space) and tuck away in a drawer when it’s not needed. Best of both worlds.
> The most famous study in this collection came out of Brazil.

The famous study done in Brazil was a fraudulent one, without authorization from the public health agency, where the patients that took Ivermectin had a 2 to 3 times higher mortality rate (very likely due to unrelated issues), but the numbers were cooked to make the drug look useful. That's the one with thousands of people that registered an effect.

There is also another one, with dozens of people that got an week effect. This one is most likely spurious.
Unlike American corporations, it'd probably have to be decentralized, highly liquid, and ideally trustless, but I can't think of anything like that. However, another strategy could be a basket of currencies in developing countries. They won't be immune to the cascading effects of an imploding US dollar, but theoretically would rebound better.
> other than being an oligarch.

How on earth is Soros an oligarch?
My experience has been that taking away the noob interface reduces the number of incidents. How quickly a little sleuthing will turn an "I didn't change anything!" into "But, I didn't think that would make a difference."

If it's something extra-special important, a POTS line and a modem make an excellent plan-B.
That one is also one of my favourites too. I have fond that this from Cherry (not mechanical, just made by cherry) is decent too: https://www.cherry.co.uk/cherry-kc-6000-slim-for-mac.html

There is something about that chiclet style that just works so well for my hands and fingers. Using a "normal" keyboard now is super fatigue inducing as you need to move your fingers so much compared to a chiclet one like this where your fingers just glide over the keys.
Many thanks. There's too many tutorials.
I would say it adds real legitimacy to that idea. The more people who have their 401ks in the stock market, the more it is true that when the stock market rises, people are doing well.

Also, what alternative do you propose? You need an investment vehicle that can handle enormous sums of money from people who will potentially have no understanding of how it works. That doesn't leave many options.
It became well known that getting it in a legitimate way wasn't possible, so those who were determined to get it, didn't even bother trying. If it was well known that you could get it by seeing your doctor, people would have gone that route, since it is much safer to take proper human dosage under supervision of a medical professional.
If you hold your stocks in a tax exempt account then you don’t really care about this though.

Pension funds, ISAs in the UK, etc etc; most countries have something similar. The vast majority of individual savers will not exceed the limits placed on these accounts.
> I was really worried that I wasn't producing like I should at my seniority

This is precisely the effect I'm describing. For most tech jobs, especially at higher levels, the generic tech knowledge can be a fraction of what's necessary to get a job done. Thus people notice a drop off in their output and freak out. A good senior engineer will pick up the new things quickly, but one can't expect to replace 10, 15, 20 years of hard earned wisdom in a month or two.
Anyone blaming "the media" automatically gets an eyeroll from me these days. It's really the laziest form of criticism available. People desperately want there to be some left-leaning media consensus that they can bash but in reality usually the person criticizing hasn't been personally spoon fed the information that they are arguing against. The biggest media outlets by industry include Fox News for TV, Joe Rogan for podcasting, Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino for text media according to Facebook so no there is no monolithic left leaning "media" consensus.
The update killed the Wi-Fi on the device too

>The ovens can no longer connect to Wi-Fi due to the wrong software update, so a new update cannot be performed.

>The problem must therefore be solved on location, the spokesperson confirms.
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Why should that be how it works though?

We should be taxing people more, and guaranteeing much higher social security so we don't have to gamble our savings in a giant ponzi scheme. It shouldn't be on the individual to be lucky that a massive recession doesn't hit when they want to retire.. or depend on the market making a few percent a year just to survive.
www.DIDww.com offers numbers which can receive SMS to email, and can port your number into their service (and back out again later).
Because Burry et al helped collapse it sooner and softer, and their profits came from the banks’ losses.
To be fair, linking to another soapbox without its own hard analysis or sources isn't much more of a source than my own claim (below) or your claim. But I also can't find much of a source on this matter outside of articles talking about Apple's or Samsung's claims.

If you have 10,000 iPhones on a cargo ship that previously could only have 5,000, you've cut out a whole shipment. Whether or not this is realistically how it works is not too important (since whenever I buy it, I get tracking all the way from China and it shows China->Alaska->US, so it's likely on a plane) but let's assume this is a shipment 5 months in and they've downgraded to cargo ships.

Now imagine that, out of those iPhones, half of the people buying them don't have a USB-C brick and don't have any existing USB-A bricks+USB-A charging cables lying around, aka any new customer coming from a USB-A Android.

Indeed this might mean a lot more packaging like your video says, but these are people that already know for a fact that they need the new USB-C charging brick to charge their phone. For the other half of people that already have a wall charger, this new 5W charger that would have came in the box would have been thrown in a drawer somewhere, maybe never getting used since they already have chargers for where they need them, which is arguably more of a waste of rare earth metals than the packaging that the new charger comes in.
Its probably dependent on location, both in how much the Ukraine war affects that area and in how much it is feasible to ignore COVID. But I think it is pretty clear that even if their necessity were defensible at the moment, Corona measure like lockdowns would not be on the table because due to the Ukraine war most governments can no longer afford them.
i could see having something in there ready to go, and waiting until the meat hits a certain temperature to turn it on. If the microwave and the thermometer can both make it to the same service that could be automated. Since so few people run on premiss home automation that would require internet access. It is way easier to connect to a phone if the device and app just know to connect to a spot on the internet. port forwarding and whatnot are a pain for some people. That said I suppose the real reason is the company is collecting marketing data.
Is programming easy or am I doing things wrong?
I refuse to own an oven that is internet connected.

If my oven has enough of a computer to have a firmware that can be updated remotely, it is too dangerous to own.
Video out through USB-C also now working flawlessly.
I spent half the article trying to figure out if it was some kind of clever pun. But no, they are just using the wrong word.
I deliberately didn't mention the cables, and I'm happy to slag on their quality with you.

Glad they finally did the right thing and separate the chargers, which are excellent, from the cables, which are.. white. They're also spec-compliant, which matters more and more with Thunderbolt and the like, but I find that any other reputable cable is also spec-compliant, and is going to last me about three times as long.

I do mistreat them, to be clear, but at that price I should get away with it.
A Microsoft ergonomic keyboard costs about $130.

A special ergonomic mouse -- the kind a couple of my colleagues had on medical advice after some RSI issues -- costs almost $500.

For vanity, see the standard Apple keyboard, which costs about $200.
True but the story doesn't read as well when you put it that way.
Are you using MySQL or are you using MariaDB? They are distinct databases with different features.

MySQL has had a full-featured native JSON column type since MySQL 5.7 (Oct 2015). Here's the current manual page for MySQL 8: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/json.html

MariaDB does not have a JSON column type, instead aliasing it to LONGTEXT. MariaDB takes an alternative approach of providing JSON manipulation functions which work with stringy types. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/json-data-type/

Note that in some Linux distributions, when you try to install "mysql" packages you instead get "mariadb", so you may need to query the server to see which one it really is!
Do you use v1.1 or v2 of the Twitter API?
I said a jpeg pixel is the summation of 64 8 bit coefficients. The coefficients are 8 bit, but obviously the cosine values are not 8 bit. They can be floating point. All a jpeg need give is coefficients, the coder/decoder knows what to do with them. Summing 64 products, with each product = 8 bit numbers x cosine value gives more than an 8 bit result for the resultant pixel. In addition, there is another dct for the color values. This adds more bits of info.

The cosine values are transcendental numbers, they can have an infinite number of decimal places, yes? So adding up 64 products of (cosine values * 8 bit integer) to get 1 pixel value can obviously have more than 8 bits.
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Some places use a dedicated Twitter account

There's also the ever-popular email or text path

To an extent, however, there's no foolproof/failproof way to accomplish what you're describing: phones could be down (of folks don't see the message), Twitter could be down, statuspage.io or AWS could be down...

Also - being "down" only matters if you're trying to use whatever is down while it's down: I don't care that you had an outage last night while I was asleep ... unless I do care

If you get it fixed fast enough, no one will care (though in-depth postmortems are great to read sometimes)
That doesn't really answer OP's question, which is how everyone would turn those savings into goods/services. At the end of the day, the production capacity of the economy is fixed, and if there's more dollars chasing the same amount of goods, the value of goods will go up and the value of dollars will go down.