skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe is masterful at this. I actually laughed at the dark patterns. These people are DISGUSTING... They may see an increase in some metrics, but I'm convinced this kind of behavior is damaging to the brand: after going through the process with Adobe, I made a very big memory note: NEVER BUY NOTHING FROM THIS COMPANY.
> This is disingenuous advice considering all financial vehicles for savers have been gutted.

When you say "all financial vehicles for savers", you're really just referring to liquid savings products tied to the federal funds rate, right? Of course when the government stops handing out money to savings account holders, savings account holders will no longer be making money.

Corporate bonds are an alternative way to earn some interest in a low-rate environment without owning stocks.

Also, REITs are an affordable way to gain exposure to real estate without a minimum buy-in. For people who need real estate exposure but can't afford to buy a whole building, they are really underrated.

Finally, the market is pricing in several rate hikes this year, so your savings account interest rate may actually be revived soon anyways.
I love the sly assertion that Newman's Own Tomato Sauce is the best in the world :)

Now they just need to make Newman O's better. Aside from the mint ones, those are great.
"The main destination of Wheat exports from Ukraine are: Egypt ($685M), Indonesia ($603M), Philippines ($242M), Turkey ($207M), and Tunisia ($196M)." [1]

None of these are European countries importing wheat from Ukraine. Most of my food imports come from Italy. I buy local also. Finland grows wheat, among other crops. Saw corn fields cycling cross country couple years back.

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporte...
> While this may be true, it is entirely the fault of the dumb UK mortgage market that does not provide for fixed-rate mortgages for the full term of the loan. In the US, 30 year fixed rates are the norm.

That's not an effect of the market; American 30-year fixed-rate mortgages reflect intense government involvement.
> Consider also that traditional websites' servers have to run 24/7, even with no visitors.

And somehow, no websites will need to be run or databases spun up, in the futuristic web3 universe?

That makes no sense, almost all crypto-apps use traditional web2 technology alongside blockchain & wallet web3 stuff.
> This is disingenuous advice

It’s not advice. It’s reality. You don’t need to hold stocks in your 401k if you don’t want to. What happens as a result is your responsibility.
I wanted to love keychron but two issues:

1. No scroll-lock on their keyboards; many KVMs use scroll-lock to control switching

2. The TKL models have the upper-right key lock the screen and it is super easy to hit with my trackball right next to the keyboard. I removed the keycap which helps a lot, but stil...
I strongly disagree. I think, in the long run, investing in sustainable energy production is the most effective way to spend money.
That's a fair point, users tend to find interesting and novel ways to apply for Darwin awards with disconcerting ease. They also excel in coming up with reasons why all those fancy lock-outs don't apply to them. Tape, pens, kitchenware, anything will do to get that gear to run with the door open...
No, it's the same. Dividends add into your adjusted gross income.
I use the J2K photoshop plug-in - https://www.fnordware.com/j2k/ . And even macOS Preview supports JPEG2000 (HEIF on macOS on the other hand is not suitable for professional graphic works; doesn't work with CMYK).
This is the same logic (albeit different analogy) of closing your eyes, outstretching your arms and swinging them widely. Somebody is still going to get hurt, even if they really should get out of the way.

Strewing together moral absolutes means you stop living in the real world. Violence and war brings more evil to the world, even if it is morally justified. Your failure to acknowledge any of this is appalling.

Somebody whose lost their entire extended family and village by mortar fire because the Ukrainians fought back will be in an objectively much worse position than under a harsh Russian occupation. Weapons, in this case, escalated the conflict and created evil for this person, no amount of moral whitewashing over "freedom" and "vanquishing the aggressor" absolves this.

It may very well be the case that the net utilitarian impact of Ukraine escalating their response to the invasion justifies the resistance, but we live in the real world, and nothing is as cut and dry as you claim, not even a hostile invasion by a despotic power.
Amazon love to talk about being “customer-obsessed”, but this little slip of the mask is pretty stark evidence of the opposite: that they have contempt for their customers and simply see them as cash cows to milk.

Maybe most people won’t care, but this has put me off subscribing to any Amazon service in future.
I also love that they now have "subscribe" as the default option for purchasing things and you have to manually select "one time" to only purchase once.
You can also, say, install a plugin to fire emacs to edit a textarea.
Turbo Pascal 2.0. It was a fantastic IDE for learning to program.
SharedWorkers are in safari now as a feature you can toggle on in settings on iOS
As I mentioned in the article

> If there’s a way to reduce Bitcoin’s environmental impact, it’s certainly above my paygrade.

I think it's a really hard problem. I guess I'm not sure what "rallying against certain kinds of sites" means in practice - encouraging regulation? Social media campaigns against those sites? It seems like bitcoin mining has proven resilient to regulation because as soon as one place regulates the miners slip away to somewhere else. Getting ~200 countries to collectively agree on a set of regulations in such a quickly shifting landscape seems near impossible.

As for social media campaigns, it might shame some people but not others.

I don't have much of an answer for what to do here besides "hey, if I want to do a crypto project, I'm going to choose a chain that I feel like is being ethical".
> Fusion – the same reaction that powers the sun

This is dishonest, because the fusion reactions that occur in the Sun, and the fusion reactions that would occur in a manmade fusion reactor, are different reactions.
I get that you're being a bit glib, but this sort of thinking is pervasive and bothersome so I'll choose to take it seriously.

'make people not starve' is a laudable _goal_. It's a state of the work we want to reach. 'Subsidize corn farming' is a _policy_, it's an intervention that has all sorts of intended and unintended effects on the state of the world. Under that policy, fewer people starve, but also there's more HFCS, some farmers make more money than the would, some make less in inequitable ways, etc.

Regardless, if one thinks a policy isn't doing a good job achieving its intended goal, one can't just suggest achieving the goal as an alternative. If it was trivially attainable, why do we have government intervention and policies in pursuit of it?

One has to articulate an alternative policy, or at least acknowledge that an alternative is necessary. Why, after all, is it the case that the US produces as much food as it does. Is it in spite of the prevailing farm policy?

</rant>
This strikes me as tautological. If you're using anything statically typed you have to write the function signature before it's body.
...that made homebrew wine in his basement It is my understanding that alcohol is a no-no, so that would be my first guess.
Depreciation of assets like stocks and real estate will lead to a reduction in value in our portfolios, but not necessarily a reduction in the money supply. Money supply is only one factor here.
TIL about the -k option. Whoa.
I try to use software that stores its configuration in plain text files. I track those files with Git. That way, if I tweak my editor settings or whatever, a simple commit/push/pull synchronizes it on all the machines. The merge feature is handy when things inevitably get a bit out of sync, too.
I tried to cancel a month or so ago and couldn't figure it out so opened a support chat.
The Mac Studio shows us why Apple left Intel behind
> I think the test is if the person can easily move on to their next thing or not

I think this perspective is one that is a bit too privileged. Even in tech - many of us don’t have the ability to take 6+ month breaks between jobs, find ourselves again, and figure out a way to align the work/life balance. I spent a few months between my last job and my current.

You know what I did during that time almost completely? Interview. It’s why I left the other job - I didn’t have enough time to study and interview. 20+ interviews a week. Studying. Applying. Etc. Doing 3-4 onsites/week for a month at a time. Using my “off” days to study more. I took about a month off between accepting the final offer and starting the new job. It wasn’t enough but I had burned through a lot of my savings because of having to exercise options at my last company, pay AMT on exercising said options, and having to pay for another person who lived with me while living in one of the most expensive parts of the world cause all the jobs are here. (ex-wife who was in college and not working)

Again - feel like this is a very privileged attitude to take about being able to move onto the next thing. Most of us don’t really get an option. You just have to.

Getting to choose your job and when you move onto it seems like something only multi-millionaires I know do. The rest of us just slog through it because we have no other choice.
You are eligible for Pascal's Discount!
Isn't it easy to cancel with a normal credit card?
> not enough on actual institutions and capacity-building

We have the east coast to think about all that silly stuff
Lol Customer Obession
They use a buffer of 128 bytes for small requests. Larger requests come directly from AES_CTR_DRBG:

> There is a small buffer (currently 128 bytes). If a request for random bytes is 128 bytes or larger, it is generated directly from AES_CTR_DRGB. If it is smaller than 128 bytes it is taken from the buffer.

At least, that's my read of it.
I agree; for COVID news, none of those three are even remotely reliable. What disappoints me the most is CNN, they really have no reason to be as useless as they are while also riling up emotions.
It comes from believing that the chance of fusion reaching something that's useful is very small. If it's sufficiently small, then the expected payoff < the cost of the program, and hence the program is not worth pursuing.

Where you and he differ is in your judgment of how likely fusion programs are to succeed.

I personally don't think ITER is worth pursuing. I'm skeptical about other tokamak efforts as well. Small efforts that might yield more attractive reactors (Zap, Helion) may be worth pursuing, not least because such efforts would be cheaper.
What part of the telemetry is aggressive?
It's a shame. 90+% of their customers would hear "AV1" and think "Apple Video 1".
This is exactly how I wound up on an ErgoDox EZ.
Privacy works, but you should be aware that without attempting to cancel on the service, some providers get really angry. I tried and failed to cancel NYT, and they force-posted [0] a subscription renewal despite getting declines on the card. In other words, it didn't matter that the card was paused or that they didn't get authorization, they still tried to post the transaction. I don't necessarily expect this from every service, but it certainly wasn't as painless as I thought it was going to be with a virtual card number.

[0]: https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012288214-F...
Do Svidaniya, Kaspersky – Goodbye
Spreads may have tightened, but payments for order flow suggest to me there's a new flavor of front running involved via HFT and dark pools. But I'm no expert.
They're definitely customer-obsessed... have you ever seen the movie "Misery"?
Kubernetes, by itself, does not really know how to "do" anything, but it provides a framework for writing components that do (controllers) in response to new resources being declared (I want to say "created" but nothing "real" exists until a controller does something) and updated.
> Is it really possible to improve 42 years typing practice with a new layout?

In my experience with dvorak no after testing for two years I had the same wpm as qwerty. If you can touch type you have maxed out your speed, the tiny reduction in travel time for your fingers just doesn't add up to anything measurable.

> Is it possible to be proficient in two keyboard layouts at the same time?

I can switch between mac and pc layout no problems, but when I learned to touch type on dvorak I forgot how to do it with qwerty. When I used a friends computer with qwerty I was searching for every key with two fingers hovered over the keyboard like a raptor. Maybe others can do it but I defiantly couldn't and found it very embarrassing to not be able to touch type.

> If you get accustomed to a non-standard keyboard layout, isn't it a problem if you have to use some other computer.

Yes! You look like its your first day using a computer. Once I could touch type I didn't really care what the key caps said and its fairly easy to switch between dvorak and qwerty on windows and I don't use other peoples computers often so it wasn't a deal breaker.

The only benefit I seen from using dvorak was that no one else could use my computer, as soon as they realised it wasn't qwerty they ran.
>What you're saying is young working age people should pay for those who didn't save for retirement?

Nice way to twist my words. If the system worked like I'm describing from the beginning, you wouldn't even be able to say that. Because you wouldn't need to save a substantial amount of money in a better system- everyone would have been paying it all along.

And a new young working age person would be paying more, but it's to benefit themselves in the future. So I don't even understand your point.

>And what happens when a recession hits anyways and the tax base takes a hit?

That should be planned for in whatever various ways it's being paid for. You pull in a little more money from taxes than you need to account for a buffer etc. This isn't rocket science.
Absolutely not. In fact, I'd say Soros is a hero in this story. It was not ending the peg that cost the british people, but creating it. The bank of england was throwing away billions of dollars trying to sustain a peg that was never sustainable. Soros' actions convinced the bank to give up and stop wasting the peoples money.
Maybe I'm weird, but I find naming like this really off-putting. It's startlingly unprofessional, unnecessarily aggressive, somewhat immature, and just doesn't feel nice.

Why do something great and then put a less than best foot forward when naming it?
Main point:
> "Americans have powerful fantasies about what work can provide: happiness, esteem, identity, community. The reality is much shoddier. Across many sectors of the economy, labor conditions have only worsened since the 1970s. As our economy grows steadily more unequal and unforgiving, many of us have doubled down on our fantasies, hoping that in ceaseless toil, we will find whatever it is we are looking for, become whoever we yearn to become. This, Malesic says, is a false promise."

It's the same kind of problem communist economies struggled with: why should a worker put out any significant effort at all if the results of their labor are being appropriated by someone else? You can work twice as hard, make a major contribution, but you get no reward - the rewards all go to some form of ruling class, be it the head honchos of the Central Committee (Soviet Union) or some small group of founders and their VC investors (Silicon Valley).

I suppose the alternative - living homeless in poverty without any access to medical or dental care - is the stick used to keep the no-contract wage-rate workers in line in the USA, while in the Soviet Union, the threat of deportation to the Siberian gulag served that purpose.

The solution is fairly obvious, create a system that rewards people fairly for their contributions. This of course means much less profits flowing to founders and investors, right, hence the organized political resistance to anything like that.
Looks like it's time to update the fantasy roster on pc part picker. A shame, since it had such a nice aesthetic! The Vision D looks so clean and well-featured

By the time I get around to actually building it, there may be some similarly-styled mini-ITX AM4 motherboards, so not all hope is lost.
The Supreme Court in 1993 described the Sherman Act as:

The purpose of the Act is not to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is to protect the public from the failure of the market. The law directs itself not against conduct which is competitive, even severely so, but against conduct which unfairly tends to destroy competition itself.

One of the authors of the Act says:

... [a person] who merely by superior skill and intelligence...got the whole business because nobody could do it as well as he could was not a monopolist...(but was if) it involved something like the use of means which made it impossible for other persons to engage in fair competition."

The Clayton Act directly says:

No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no person subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another person engaged also in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce, where in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition...

A monopoly isn't required, simply a lessening of competition.

Amazon buying MGM means that MGM films are very unlikely to be available on other streaming services, which certainly lessens competition.
Thanks, didn’t know that. Turns out there are no “crater” Lagrange points, so the analogy doesn’t really hold. But that also means there are no stable Lagrange points, so the question doesn’t hold either!
My point is that not allocating it is not an option. If you have it, it's in something, and that something is an allocation decision that you've made (even if it's cash). You can decide to not participate in the stock market (and that's fine) but then your money will be in cash, in the equity in your house or in anything else you buy with that money. Picking those assets over the stock market is still an investment decision, and that decision comes with its set of risks and potential returns.
> On the other hand, MyPy found that only 15% of the 2,678 repositories examined were type-correct

Not surprising. In my experience, upgrading or downgrading Mypy always breaks type-checking on real code bases: older versions because they fail to infer types or have bugs, and newer versions because they are stricter or error on '# type: ignore' that are now useless (but were needed to work around bugs that are now fixed).

And there are 10 Mypy version released over the last 12 months, so projects probably used different versions than the one used by the authors of the paper.

While the article does not mention when they downloaded the repositories, I am guessing they started in August 2019, given section 3.1 (with no specified end date, besides the paper's publication in November 2020). And the single Mypy version they tried (0.770) was released in March 2020.
> 1. There is now a completely untapped resource on your SOC.

If you’ve ever used a desktop PC with an Intel CPU and a dedicated GPU, you’ve also have a completely untapped resource in your machine (unless you were rocking a Xeon or some such). It’s not entirely illogical when you consider the benefits of economies of scale.

What matters is whether the experience you can get with the hardware you do use is superior to competing offerings. Have Apple Silicon Macs reached that point for Linux users? Probably not, unless you have very specific requirements and are willing to live on the bleeding edge, but the case is starting to appear for some specific needs.

And of course, they are working on drivers for the GPU and other hardware.
The 2007 papers predate the Win10 design linked by the grandparent comment. I haven't read the 2007 criticisms recently, but have read the Win10 design many times. I don't think there's anything objectionable in the current design.

Edit: I guess the criticism about the generator running in user mode is still true, although I don't think it's the flaw the authors do. Also, I think the current design adds forward-secrecy / key erasure vs the criticism mentioned in the 2007 paper. I believe the O(2^23) attack described is gone now.
My 2 cents:

It’s really hard to get consumers to switch behaviors for something they already can do through other means. Perhaps this is more efficient in some respect, but only if you ignore the inefficiency of changing your ways to learn a new tool, and further separate it from your existing communications medium (ie text messaging or whatever). I don’t feel like the value proposition is super high here.

In general people only tend to use 7 apps, and to create something for a rare activity will be very hard to keep in mind when you go to do it. So capturing the moment when people need to do it with when they find out about you is difficult to time… and that’s if you can convince them to try something new at all.

If you’re going consumer specifically for trip planning, I’d focus more on specific pain points versus “nice to haves”. It’s not clear from the website that pain points are considered. It also feels very structured, eg that you know how long you’d stop at a given place. In practice I don’t think many people operate that way, especially for a vacation unless they have reservations.

I’d suggest finding a niche with clear pain points that this solves, and then focus on that demographic. That may likely not include consumers.

Good luck, it’s really hard to make something new, put yourself out there, and know whether to stick with it or not. I’ve been down this road before. If you don’t try, it really won’t work!
When I first read this comment I assumed it was someone sarcastically pretending to be the creator and not the actual creator, and I thought, what a dick... LOL

Looks neat! I've already been using github copilot which I've found brings some more joy into coding (even when it's a little off).
Maybe I’ve missed something, but the eco-friendly blockchains you’re describing are virtually all using some variety of PoS (“PoH” for solana, so-called “Nakamoto” PoS for Tezos.) I’ve yet to encounter anything convincing me that PoS in its various incarnations, does suffer of centralization in a way that PoW doesn’t.

Maybe blockchains are useful somewhere outside of crypto speculation, but blockchains that are marketed as eco-friendly and secure and decentralized deserve extra scrutiny in my mind.

I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but I do try to keep up to date with the technology. POW sucks in terms of resources, but PoS sucks in terms of centralization, and, it follows, security (the core selling points of blockchains)
Devs of bcachefs try to get filesystem into Linux again
I didn't say it was useless, just that it wasn't a magic bullet and AVX-512 isn't particularly innovative, and doesn't solve most users' problems.

I think you're missing the point of my post, I agree with all your points in specificity (except one, but not the forum to discuss FMV in modern compilers) but they miss the grander point that Intel hasn't made computers faster via more SIMD. The amount of expertise required to make use of it is just more evidence of that.
There is a difference from audiophiles.

Unlike audio, people can objectively see and feel the difference when you use different keycaps, switches, etc.
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