skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It's wild. It's their opinion OK?
Productivity has fallen, due to the pandemic.

people not working, less productivity
> But that's not up to the judges.

Sure it is. English common law countries place heavy emphasis on precedent. If the judge had refused to take the law literally in this case and done the reasonable thing instead, chances are this precedent would be cited in any future lawsuits of this sort.
The two are separate things. Chrome is built on top of the chromium base. I guess technically chromium and chrome v1 were developed and released about the same time so chicken and egg thing.
Queen, Captured by Mouse; More Chess Players Use Computers for Edge (2003)
CNN is just terrible. They have turned into the left wing Fox News. They report mainly on opinion, not news.
It varies a lot based on location and what's sold locally. If there aren't a lot of similar properties in the area that have sold recently it will be much less accurate.
Trump is still the only US president in this century that didn't start a war, neither directly nor indirectly. He should get some credits because of that.

As for his internal politics, as a non-American I don't care, as long as USA isn't concerned about internal and external politics of the countries I have some connection with.

And also in that regard, the best US president ever since I remember, and that goes back around to Reagan time.
Tell HN: Avito (Russian classifieds site) blocks the rest of the world
Russian classifieds site avito (https://www.avito.ru/) has restricted access "for users outside Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan." (google translate)
Yeah those are good points. I live in a bit of a bubble where most folks around me either WFH or have to travel to work. There are absolutely "specialist doctors" in every large city though...
What if their "greed" is simply an unpleasant choice they're forced to make to allow their organization to continue to exist?
So if everything in your car came from the US, except for a platinum ingot that provides the platinum in the catalytic converter, it is improper to claim that the car was made in the US? Note that the US is not a major producer of platinum.
> If a soup company imports that beef and uses it in their soup that is mixed, seasoned, and canned in the USA, I don't think it's fair to say they are not a USA product

I think it's very misleading if they're selling beef soup with an american flag on the front. Either way our disagreement just highlights the importance of the meat country of origin label.
It's such a glaring red flag that one of the largest public resources for getting pricing information on housing is also buying and selling that housing. Come on, this is so glaringly abusable that any teenager could tell you what's wrong.
I think the best way to get some perspective on unnecessary clutter versus valuable annotations is to wade into a project that you've never seen before, with many thousands of lines of python.

If you pick a line at random and try to understand what it does or why it's failing, you will have a hard time. Python (by design) is so mega ultra dynamic that each line could conceivably turn the world upside-down. Most code I've seen doesn't take advantage of that dynamism. But still - it's tricky just reasoning about stuff like: what kind of values that call could return?" or "what kind of an operation the index really does here?"
Netflix and Zwift are easy to cancel.
This is quite outdated unless you're maybe looking at only NIF or ITER. Significant progress has been made on the ability to generate magnetic fields with higher temperature more practical superconductors, which is one of the key design constraints.
Hm. I feel like this is more of a cautionary tale to always limit even unlimited licenses, if you depend on a third party not changing anything.
What they're saying is that a 1080p source upscaled to 4K and then uploaded to youtube and then downscaled by the client to a 1080p screen will look better than a 1080p upload because it has more bits.
I'm finding quite a few problems with the content this post and I couldn't help nitpicking because of the first problem.

This caught my interest at first,

> 68% of IT professionals increased their Kubernetes use due to the pandemic.

It turns out the original statement was about it being _during_ the pandemic, not _due_ to the pandemic. Please use the right words as 'due to' implies there was a causality to it.

The author then describes

> module A calls B and module B calls C.
> ... However, you’re also running these processes across the network

But in the same paragraph is equating modules with microservices. Modules are a code artefact within the application, microservices are applications.

Next there's a comparison between the latency and asynchronous services, and loosely coupling such services; these are different use cases, but neither have anything to do with k8s.

> Unfortunately, many developers using Kubernetes are working just the opposite.

So... then they've made the wrong platform choice? Not everything needs to go on a k8s cluster. And not every team can make a database system autonomous for various reasons; for those teams, staying monolithic should be the best choice. Changing your development workflow to fit a tooling's paradigms will cause more problems than the problems they solve.

> In reality, best practices today are completely counterintuitive to how legacy monolithic applications were built.

'Best practices' are the new (anti)'anti-pattern'. Everyone loves to throw around the phrase best-practices to describe methodologies that they are promoting, just like everyone calls things they don't like an anti-pattern.
it's a step in the right direction.

unlike some problems[+], this one doesn't immediately seem like a problem that requires widespread international cooperation. if country X cannot be bothered to regulate against companies using dark patterns for cancelling subscriptions, then the citizens in country X suffer the negative consequences. there's a local and short-term incentive for country X to fix the problem for the benefit of its current citizens.

maybe it breaks down if the state in country X makes policy decisions for the benefit of special interest groups (e.g. those enjoying the riches plundered by companies with hard-to-unsubscribe services) and is unwilling to regulate for the benefit of its citizens

[+] such as global warming
>> It would be like classical guitarists arguing over which brand of footstool improves performance the most.

Reminds of when I worked in a bike shop and I was a mountain biking. Mostly single track and some DH. I never understood the roadies who were constantly in search of taking grams, GRAMS off of their bikes. I remember two guys talking about pedals and they were literally talking about how much better their bikes were weighing 5 grams less than they do now. As a mountain biker, I'd have 5 grams of mud on my shoes inside of 10 mins on the trail so I never understood the obsession with weight with roadies.
All problems in software development can be solved by another level of indirection. Slow and buggy neural networks are especially suited for such a task.
And to pile on, the games are tuned to run well on Nvidia hardware. They haven't even seen this new GPU yet or even care to optimize for it. Sometimes even small changes can make big differences.
They went 32 bit x86 before adding support for amd64 bit and then eliminating 32 bit right before going to apple silicon (presumably in part motivated by rosetta 2 being optimized for translating amd64 software)
let's be sure to also give thanks to inflation and cheap over seas labor!
When she "increased her salary" she became the CEO seemingly without replacing her old role, becoming the only executive.
And also:

- Green elites are preventing more agricultural output in response to shortages.
Your intuition is correct. The exception is that DNS will, by-default, be sent to the default router DNS servers, which might monitor/track what you do (most ISPs run DNS that do this too), and unencrypted HTTP. Unencrypted HTTP is more and more rare as time goes on.

Most of the "shame on public WiFi" comes from VPN companies, which are just trying to fearmonger into a sale. Sure, DNS over HTTPs isn't as widespread as it should be. Sure, some websites aren't encrypted, still. But that doesn't mean that routing all of your insecure traffic to a VPN provider so they can handle it instead is going to increase your security. It just moves the threat model from "your public WiFi network and people on it" to the VPN provider.

If you really want to be safe, you could run your own VPN with algo (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo) or manually setup WireGuard and route traffic e.g., back to your home ISP, instead. That's probably my best suggestion, rather than using any of the cliche VPN providers that advertise everywhere.
Agreed. Except to say that many recent decisions have moved Firefox closer in alignment with the monoculture. So, you have to at least consider that maybe, even if it's just a few of the people complaining have good intentions, or might even be canaries in a dark mine with potential dangers of collapse. Unfortunately, canaries can't do much to fix the problems. They can only be used as warning signs by the people who can do something to fix things.
The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys past, present and future
So this is obvious bait, but the author's argument is the same regardless of which language you want to use. (Like I said above, it even applies to C itself.) Rust happens to be one she has actually worked on, but its hodge podge of features and package manager are unrelated to the ABI issue, which it's pretty clear she does understand.
Yes, it's news.
> but doesn't make food available

Yes it does. If people spend more money on food, food prices will go up, and more food will be grown.
At least with BitWarden, when I click on the extension icon, the site in question should still show up. If I have to search for it, either the domain has changed or something smells phishy.
Ah, fair! I know they exist, although they usually only include the really popular (like all MX or Kailh) switches, but I wish someone just made a huge sampler pack of all the top picks.

It's hard to commit to one when you're spending almost a (normal) keyboard's worth of money on just the switches.
I wonder if Zotero has any support for using refs and bibliography table in text-only docs, like LaTeX or Markdown etc?

I know that with LibreOffice and Word it's done using a plugin, but not sure how this could be done with text-only formats.
I've had a Unicomp keyboard for over 10 years now and still going strong. I'm a fan of the buckling spring keyboard and really enjoy typing on it compared to other keyboards I have tried.
For comparison, the highest-spec'd Mac Studio is $8,000 for 64 cores, 128GB memory, and an 8TB SSD.
"Lawyer-brain legalism" describes the right way to interpret law, though. The way to fix it isn't to be flexible about the law, but to write better law.
>biggest single costs the average person faces is housing

right, and because we do not have a fair market with price discover, and regulation has hindered progress, this has led to a basic living need to become a speculative asset, much to the loss of the average homebuyer.

if you expect your home to grow in value, you cannot also expect your son or daughter to be able to afford it in the same way.
Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts aren't necessarily into speed typing which would be a more apt comparison to the optimizations you listed (minus audiophile). I have always thought of them as being more similar to people who develop a palate for fine wine: the goal is to be haughty and say that you can't stand anything that cost less than $400.

I caught myself going down the mechanical keyboard path and settled on a Kinesis Freestyle Pro before I got in too deep. I have modified the layout just enough that it difficult for me to sit down and use any other keyboard. That probably counts as a success.
I use the gauth CLI tool + Hammerspoon (Mac) to make a menubar that generates codes and puts them in my clipboard. Just 2 clicks.
It's not a "yes/no" answer. If you're visiting http:// sites, if your OS doesn't use DoH/DoT, if you have unpatched vulnerabilities exploitable by same-subnet attackers, then maybe it's dangerous.

The question is, is it dangerous enough to:

- Use a VPN? Yes, if the VPN is free, trustworthy, and not blocked by the wifi.

- Not use the Wifi, and instead pay for data/roaming? Nah.

- Tell lay users that "avoiding public wifi" is one of the top things they should do to stay secure online? Hell no. User attention is expensive, and wifi is relatively safe.

"I don't use public wifi without a VPN" is the new "I never click links in email." It's something semi-technical users say to show off how much less pleasant their online experience is for no particularly good reason. ;)
> Python type annotations are more useful for a human as a form of documentation, than they ever will be to a machine

I mean, machines serve people (for now!). So in addition to type documentation, type annotations are useful for things like "jump to definition" and "find references" and automatic refactoring. Moreover, the utility of annotations for type documentation depends on the correctness of those type annotations--if you don't have something like Mypy, then those inevitably annotations grow outdated over time and incorrect type annotations are even worse than none at all.

> tools like pytype or mypy will never capture all the complicated hacks possible in the Python type system

Technically you can represent any complicated hack if only via `any`, but that's just pedantry and we all know what you mean. Even still, it's not like "well you can't represent everything, so there's no point in trying to appease mypy" (which may not be your intended implication--I can't tell). The benefits of appeasing mypy are proportional to the amount of your code that is properly annotated--this is the thesis of gradual typing.

> as evidenced by only 15% of repos passing mypy

This very likely indicates that 85% of repos aren't running mypy regularly, or they're in some transition state. Certainly more than 15% of real-world Python can be described via Python type annotations.
It's still potentially dangerous.

You're right that progress has been made on most of the attack vectors, but as you point out, DNS lookups are still often done in plaintext. CT and pinning help, but not every site does it yet. Not all protocols are TLS yet, and of those that are, some are vulnerable to downgrade attacks (including SMTP).

It's definitely safer than it was, but there are still enough potential pitfalls that I'd avoid it for anything important - or at least use a tunnel. Besides, 4g is usually better anyway.
It's a slight premium for a low-end mechanical keyboard, about $40, that won't wear out nearly as fast as a rubber dome keyboard. The cheap keyboards that you get with a new computer are usually very low quality and not really intended for hours of daily use every day.

Just get a quiet switch that won't annoy everyone around you if you're in an office environment.
One can blame Airbnb, Zillow or whoever else, but the truth is that speculation in real estate and vacation towns have both been a thing for a very long time. If the population rises and we refuse to build more houses, the existing ones will get more expensive no matter what. The solution is out there in front of us but everyone prefers to dance around it.
I am of the opinion it hasn't affected them YET. Just a lowly developer waiting for his MBP for over 11 weeks now, waiting for Intel's mobile Alder Lake to roll out so I can cancel my order and pick one up.
What gets me is even if the number was significantly smaller the fallout effect is massive. A common argument I've heard defending the practice is "well they didn't buy that many homes, it was just a small portion of total sales" ...implying that its not a big deal.

Lets no argue the truthiness of that statement but look at it as stated. They buy one house within a 10-20 mile radius away from you and they do so aggressively paying 20-30%+ over the pre-bubble price (think early pandemic times when prices were more realistic then they are now)

Well now thats the anchor price on comps for the next guy just looking to sell his house. Rinse and repeat a few times with anchored expectations on an inflated value and we have runaway prices.
Python 3 types are very useful, especially when paired with something like PyLance. I started putting them everywhere and that's been a big boon to my productivity when writing Python.

Python is not Perl, it's very strongly typed, has operator overloading and close to no "special syntax" (i.e. Perl's sigils, etc), so it's kinda hard to follow code sometimes. `typing` helps a lot.
Where do they get better information?
Because I don't prepare and it rarely matters
I like the idea but the Calendly suits may have something to say about your name.
> tobacco companies and junk food in schools

Bear with me, I think these are actually two examples of net good (potentially) done by lobbyists, where their (admittedly uncaring) business incentives end up standing up for what people want.

Tobacco and junk food are big targets for the "protect us from ourselves" crowd who think they should dictate values to other people. Just because they aren't good for you, government shouldn't be telling people what to do. Luckily (and I mean this, it's essentially a coincidence) the incentives of tobacco companies and soft drink manufacturers or whatever align with giving people what they want, so ordinary people who would otherwise get pushed around by controlling political types (for their own good) get an unexpected ally.

I've seen this with covid too, few stand up for people who just want to do their own thing and not get pushed around by people who want to impose their values of maximizing for health (pretending to) at the expense of all else. The only groups with the clout to stand up to health officials mad with power end up being lobbyists for companies that are losing money hand over fist, and the interests align.

I'm not saying it's utopian, but for better or worse, they end up providing a much needed countervailing force against what might otherwise be a march to some technocratic hell hole where people can't make their own choices because someone knows better.
I'm arguing that people should lower their standards. It should be easy to understand that not everyone can afford own property walking distance to the city center.

I fully agree with you on prioritizing primary residence.
As you probably know, if you are above the normal IRA income limit, you can sidestep the limit for at least a Roth IRA via the Backdoor Roth [1] by converting post-tax IRA contributions to a tax-advantaged Roth. There are a few rules you need to keep in mind, but it's a good option.

You can also use an in-service distribution to move after-tax 401(k) contributions into your Roth IRA, the so-called Mega Backdoor Roth [2].

You need pretty high income and (for #2) a cooperating employer to make these work, but they're options for people who want to save even more tax-deferred. The proposed Build-Back-Better Act this year effectively removes [3] both 1 and 2, (so much for Biden's promise to not raise taxes for people making less than $400K) so this might be the last year to be able to do this.

1: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/backdoor-roth-i...

2: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/mega-backdoor-r...

3: https://www.asppa.org/news/crs-highlights-budget-bill’s-impa...
See also, when this was first posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400291 - Jan 2017 (106 comments)
How does a VPN protect from security vulnerabilities if the router/hotspot itself is compromised or untrustworthy?
How do you lose money in a market where homes only went up?
C++ community is split by the RTTI compiler flags
> (most ISPs run DNS that do this too)

Is there a source confirming this, or is this just speculation?
If one did need to worry about trusting public wi-fi, one would also need to worry about trusting one's cell service provider or home / business ISP. And you can use a VPN for an additional layer of security over all this, but then you need to trust the VPN.

But I think you're largely correct. If I'm on wi-fi that I trust less than my VPN provider of choice, I use the VPN. And then I move on and live my life.
>But iBuyers are always low-balling. They are bidding under the asking price with an all-cash offer that they hope will make up in speed and ease what it lacks in price.

But is asking price "market" price. As in does the seller price a 10-20% premium calculating this. Always easier to negotiate down than up.
Sure, they may have nefarious purposes. But it's also because most people have a working recovery path when they drop their phone in the river.

2FA without a recovery path that people will actually prepare for is a recipie for locked out users, and that's going to mean your customer service gets all the sad stories and hopefully has no ability to do anything about them.
“All over the country” doesn’t have good jobs, good schools, access to entertainment, etc.

But, I agree on the SFH part. The expectation that a 3000sqft house on 1/4 acre is the norm is completely unsustainable. Yet that seems to be what many people want. Even in high COL areas where demand and cost should be driving density.
Wow. The 6-month-long orbit around L2 is twice the size of the Moon-Earth orbit.
Sure it's 4 times as far away. But still, with the Earth rotating, the comms calculations for these guys must be messy:

[https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html Deep Space Network]
> Amazon buying MGM means that MGM films are very unlikely to be available on other streaming services, which certainly lessens competition.

Not substantially, that’s the important detail.
Maybe different countries have different laws or regulations on this sort of thing? I don't know.
I used to know someone that only went to the doc a few days after the traffic accident. Incomplete neck fracture, hanging by a thread. One wrong move and she would have dropped dead on the spot.
Bonkers. Scientific American hits the floor and easily goes under. It is math that a/ weeds out idiots and b/ instills engineering rigor.
They already did "pay a little".
The attack surface is large, so even if you've mitigated all the known vectors, there may be more you didn't know about.

I wouldn't blame you for just accepting the risk, situationally I might do the same, but it _is_ a risk.
Slightly related, but I remember seeing in the past an app/startup that offered a tool to manage the entire companies' calendar, where it tried to optimize everyone's agenda by rescheduling as many meetings as possible close to each other, so everyone would have a lot of continuous free time to focus on more demanding tasks.

But I can't find it again no matter how hard I look! Has anyone here seen anything like this? I hope they are still around :(
Recently canceled my Prime (nothing wrong with it, but I don't buy enough stuff to actually save money on shipping etc), it took like 20 seconds and 5 clicks, whatever.

Hate the game, not the players.
I use a `.dotfiles` github repository with a `setup` or `setup.cmd`, depending if its windows or *nix and which host. Additionally, I keep my config files in `.dotfiles/etc` and the setup scripts softlink the files to the right locations in $HOME. Examples:

- .dotfiles/etc/git/.gitconfig
- .dotfiles/windows/setup.cmd
- .dotfiles/linux/setup_ubuntu
- .dotfiles/macos/setup

The setup script depends on the OS, using `scoop` for windows (https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/12/automate-windows-app-setup-...), `apt` / `dnf` / `pacman` for linux and `brew` for macOS.