skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most services will just give up trying to charge you and cancel your subscription after a few failed attempts, but I had a bad experience with BritBox a few years ago. I signed up for a trial with a Revolut card that barely had any balance and forgot to cancel, and then to my surprise when the trial ended a "delayed transaction" appeared in Revolut, and they overdrafted me. There was absolutely no mention of this when signing up for the trial, I only saw a $0 authorization charge.
this fails to embody the 3 great virtues of a programmer
When I came out, the company I was working for at the time attempted to put me in a "working group for dealing with trans people". I begrundingly agreed to this, but it turned out they didn't want me as an advisor. I dug out precedent for name change without a legal change (it's nearly impossible here); they dismissed it and then spent the rest of the meeting telling me they'd have to ask all the women on the floor if they were comfortable with me using the restroom. (I had not requested that whatsoever, i did not male-fail at that point). I handed them a copy of the SAP guidelines[1] (this was a much smaller company than SAP) and bailed. If you want to do it right, hire a real consultant.

Thankfully a few months later there was a change of leadership, and my name was changed in Slack/AD with no problems whatsoever.

1: https://www.charta-der-vielfalt.de/uploads/tx_dreipccdvdiver...
Apple bets ‘your next computer is not a computer’ in new ad touting iPad Air 5
Russia doesn't like him because he has been active in encouraging Ukraine's adhesion to the West. The amount of Soros Bad narrative since then (2015) has increased a lot.
> If they just took a fundraising approach like how public radio and Wikipedia do

People notoriously _hate_ both these group's approach to funding.
had

It’s physically disabled in new CPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx...
Hard same. Adobe cheated me out of around six hundred pounds by making it freaking impossible to cancel.

I finally escaped in 2021, after being devoted to Adobe for 16 years. I will never buy anything from them again. It's over now. I do miss Photoshop and After Effects but nothing is worth that nightmarish hassle. Da Vinci, Affinity, Fusion, Smoke... there are other options.
https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment
It's not solar-electric, it's solar-thermal. Does need some power to circulate the desiccant.
I've mostly seen Corne builds that match this description, but unfortunately they aren't very common. (https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/jyfrv2/ic_the_c...)
American Beef Labeling Act
Dunno... I do a lot of web browsing on an iPad and don't notice a problem with it.

I am a software dev at work and we had a time period where our product (React-based SPA) wasn't working on mobile Safari because of 3rd party cookie issues -- in the long term though the world was going that way and once we changed our cookies Safari works just fine.
I would guess that the single biggest ergonomical win comes from a split keyboard, where the hands are no longer angled outward. Any other feature (staggering, thumb keys, bowled wells etc) would give further, but much smaller, improvements.

At least this is me experience after 4-5yrs of Kinesis Advantage.
Why it isn't suitable for humans? To me it seems perfectly fine.

It is certainly not the best food source, but it a subsistence.

During famines in Finland people used to eat even bark, especially inner bark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread
A Bloomberg terminal runs a full-fledged GUI app [1]. It's true that it's very keyboard-focused (with terse text commands and shortcuts for everything), and most of us probably wouldn't describe it as flashy or even modern, but it's not a text mode terminal in the sense you're describing.

The core functionality — trading, charts, financial data, news — that the Bloomberg terminal provides traders is also available from places like Schwab (StreetSmart), TD America (ThinkOrSwim), and so on, but the Bloomberg terminal is just a lot more stuff.

Interestingly, one of the things that apparently add the most value (and which competitors struggle to disrupt) is the social networking built in that allows traders to chat and gossip with each.

[1] https://youtu.be/2ee-x6IXWK8
this is new to me and has no man entry. what is it actually doing? listing all executables in PATH plus all callable functions?
Grain reserves store grain in adequate quality for at least a year so subsidizing massive overproduction doesn't make a lot of sense if a bad year is the only concern. IMO a lot of food security policy around overproduction is related to poverty, domestic hunger and international starvation in normal years.

(Driving prices down is making food a smaller percentage of the economy, making it more affordable directly to people in poverty and easier to support food programs from charity/tax.)
Useful to whom?

There is far too much marketing/designer pressure for appearance over function, appearance over convenience, appearance over <any actual useful metric>. All the extra complication brought onto the web protocols just so designers could control appearance of a page to a pixel (even though the original intent of web protocols was that appearance and content be disassociated).

Stuff may look prettier (debatable), but much has also been lost.
I really don't think intentions matter when contemplating moral questions, outcomes matter. Every economist was saying the peg would be broken, yet the bank of england was committed to throwing away money trying to save it. Every day they continued the british people were worse off. Soros was a hero in this story for being the person who convinced the bank of england to end their fools errand.
Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA"
Just to show you how untrue your statement is: if you get a tattoo on your body, you don't own any rights to that tattoo -- the tattoo artist does. The tattoo artist of Mike Tysons face tattoo receives royalties anytime it's shown in marketing or on TV.

If you are an actor, the tattoo artist must grant permission to the production for the tattoo to be displayed (otherwise it must be covered up.)
> Is it really possible to improve 42 years typing practice with a new layout?

Definitely NO, the reasons I have written down in another branch of this topic. Maybe your grandkids would have a chance to get rid from a layout with "typewriter" word on an upper row for some marketing goals.

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

I know a guy who uses Programmer Dvorak for emacs and QWERTY for rest of his life. It is hard to understand why he is doing so but I know this is possible. Maybe he just wants to get rid of anything except emacs :)

> - If you get accustomed to a non-standard keyboard layout, isn't it a problem if you have to use some other computer (where you cannot change the layout) for whatever reason, for example in an Internet cafe?

Yes, typing QWERTY is a problem for me, but there are not any Internet cafes nowadays. I mean if I need to enter my email into somebody's device I will do it in one-finger mode while everybody thinks I am kidding. If it is needed to write more than one line on somebody's PC there are always some ways to negotiate.
In Germany a new law will take effect on July 1st 2022, that obligates online shops to provide an "easily accessible, clearly visible" cancellation button on their websites, that allows to cancel any contract that has been established online or via App.

The entire procedure is described very explicitly in the law and breaks down to a 2-step process:

1. mandatory cancellation button, which, if pressed, leads to a

2. confirmation page, where a defined set of parameters is requested and a confirmation button then cancels the contract.

In my eyes the defined set of parameters on the confirmation page can easily been abused to make the process more difficult for the user.

The parameters required are:

1. Type of cancellation

2. Unique identification of the user

3. Unique identification of the contract

4. The desired end date of the contract

5. Means of electronic communication for cancellation confirmation (email)

Topic 2 can be made very difficult and is in my eyes superficial - if the user logged into his account, he is identified IMO.

Topic 3 is ambivalent, how do you identify an contract? By title and date, by ID? In my eyes there should be a popup with existing contracts to choose from (which can easily be done if the user is logged in).

Topic 4 is prone to errors, because many contracts have notice periods. So the user has to do research on his contract and if he gets the lifetime/notice periods wrong his cancellation will fail.

Information (unfortunately only in german):

https://www.voelker-gruppe.com/stuttgart/kuendigungsschaltfl...
RIPE: EU Sanctions and Our Russian Membership
As a trip-it free tier user, it’s not clear to me why this is a better choice. Is the value add purely the voting?
That is an advantage for the little guy though. If I sell 10 shares when the price is $100, then I'll get $100/share. A huge investor selling 1,000,000 of the same shares might move the price to $98 and average $99/share. Obviously these are made up numbers, and you don't sell a million shares by using just one market order, but the principle is the same. Large investors do have advantages, like better information.
This has always been part of the propaganda against the poor. If only you worked as hard as this CEO, you'd be rich too!

In reality, it's exactly the opposite. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20151720 Page 16, Figure 4. Average hours worked by income group. The poorer you are the more hours you work.
If you have to have a central authority, then you don't need crypto. The primary purpose of crypto's existence is decentralization. If you lose that, then you might as well just use an existing fiat currency.
Sorry you've had that experience

I've never seen what you're describing in many decades

Sounds like your applications are to blame, though - maybe relying on un[der]documented and/or outdated features?
I think I agree but that is the commonly accepted term for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization.
One issue I've always had with QWERTY (and probably this new layout as well) is that "similar" letters are often next to each other on the keyboard, making typo detection nearly impossible in English. For instance, in English, many short words with a "i" as the only vowel remain a valid word when the "i" is replaced by an "o" or a "u" -- pit/pot/put, bit/bot/but, tip/top/tup, pig/pog/pug, bitch/butch/botch, etc. This means if you go to hit the "i" key but accidentally hit the "u" or "o" keys, the typo won't necessarily look like a typo to either to the author or the reader.

Similarly with "s" and "d" -- pretty much every verb can be conjugated to end with either an "s" or a "d", so if you press "d" when you meant to press "s" or vice versa, it probably remains a valid verb, and thus is harder to catch.

For these purposes, my ideal layout would have interchangeable letters sufficiently far apart from each other to make typo detection+resolution easier. The most commonly used letters should be surrounded by the least commonly used letters so that, for instance, if you "jqb" I know you meant "job" and not, say, "jib".

This would also make swipe typing on phones far easier to use, as it would be much less ambiguous which letters you were aiming for.
> HN is not a hivemind.

Big claim. Add the keywords "Rust", "Webasm" or "Burnout" to your title and your chances of making it to the frontpage increase significantly.
Yea, I'm not saying I-bonds are great investments, but they are good if 1. your investment goals emphasize tax deferral/avoidance and 2. you need to diversify an equity heavy portfolio. I agree with OP in that you don't really need an advisor if you're just contributing to your retirement plan, and I'd add "...or to other tax-deferred accounts that don't offer much choice in securities". The types of investments I listed don't require any thinking or research. Just buy-and-forget.

I would personally argue you shouldn't be touching regular taxable investments like buying individual stocks or ETFs until you've literally maxxed out every tax-deferred options, but that's a more controversial opinion over which reasonable people can disagree.
Sign up wall makes this hard to read. However the content paints a very bleak picture of academics. I'm not so sure it's entirely accurate, but it is worrying that this kind of thing seems to be a trend.
I easily buy that much on Amazon on average. I spend $100/mo on Amazon just on sugar free Red Bull.

Yes, I may have a problem.
Not sure if you're making fun of scientology or referencing FNM. Both are good things to do.
font on the page is awful
Looks great!

Are there any resources in particular that helped you along the way, and may be worth sharing?

(Specifically for integrating auth and calendar events)

I am building something for personal use to manage calendar, todos, and time tracking
Kids, please start using Debian again.

apt-get install firefox
When a coal mine went down in China a year ago because of flooding, the global Bitcoin hashrate visibly dropped by about a third. This is maybe the only insight we have into the energy sources used by Bitcoin, and it's not a good look.

https://decrypt.co/68591/flooded-coal-mine-highlights-chines...
I used to use mechanicals with fancy layouts, but ended up getting annoyed having to switch between the fancy layout and QWERTY when working from my laptop.

I was then just using QWERTY mechanicals for a while, until at one point I realized I actually was typing faster on my Mac's keyboard. So I got an external magic keyboard, and I've been pretty happy with that.

I think maybe eventually I'd like to try a low-profile mechanical keyboard, but in general I think I don't see the appeal of regular "high travel" mechanical keyboards. They can feel "fun" but make me type slower.
Study: Language may not shape social outcomes
Related, yesterday I tried to cancel my Kindle Unlimited trial. I found the page easily enough, but when I clicked cancel, I received an "400 Oops!" page. Then attempting to visit the original page at all resulted in "400 Oops!" I waited for some time to pass and was still unable to cancel. I nearly forgot about it, but a few hours later, I tried again and it succeeded.

Now, I know it's slightly paranoid to assume that it wasn't just a bug preventing me from canceling, but at the scale Amazon operates at, and the SLAs they shoot for, what are the odds that it would occur at the moment I try to cancel? To the conspiracy theorist side of me, it felt like a dark pattern.

In my mind, the lengths that Amazon would go to to prevent Prime cancellations adds more suspicion about my Kindle Unlimited cancellation experience.
How to make your API backward compatible
I wonder if that percentage of tech-savvy "elderly" is going up over time. I know I remember hearing that about anything computer related 20 years ago, but many of the people in the upper age ranges now lived with computers for a majority of their life.

My grandma is not tech savvy, but can follow directions pretty well. My spouse's grandma is tech savvy to a certain level and manages her own computer and photo library. I know either of them would likely be able to hold down a button and follow some set of directions to join a wifi and upload a file.
I had the exact opposite takeaway from the pandemic.

Doubling down on blatant lies during a mass casualty event is exactly what spooked so many people and fueled the anti-vax movement.

"why would they lie? what else are they lying about? what are they hiding? whats their motive?"

misinformation thrives in a low trust environment. sure misinformation agents can sow distrust, but that should be seen as an opportunity by the institutions to set the record straight and gain trust, because if their ideas are really misinformation there should be no issue with having a conversation that demonstrates it one way or the other.

The exact wrong thing to do is double-down on lies, penalize, cancel, and censor free speech, and socially shame, berate, and hummiliate people that are just as scared, confused, and vulnerable as anyone else.

That's how you lose trust and how misinformation wins.
Public Radio wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't also constantly run ads.
There's a component of human psychology where it just feels good to optimize a thing. It seems to be particularly prevalent in men, especially those of the technical persuasion.

The funny thing about it is that it feels good to optimize a thing regardless of how important that things actual performance is. So you see all kinds of hobbies where people spend inordinate effort eking maximum performance out of shit that just doesn't matter:

* Audiophiles, as you note

* CPU overclocking

* Punkin chunkin

* Hypermiling

* Tether cars

(These hobbies always have names. I think it distinguishes the pursuit of optimization for its own sake from simply trying to improve a thing for functional reasons.)

The point isn't the performance, it's just the enjoyment of making a number go up. In many ways, the less useful the number is, the more enjoyable it is top optimize. Because when the performance doesn't actually matter, it means the stakes are lower, failure isn't harmful, and it feels more like play and less like work.

It's easy to criticize people for putting huge effort into improving things where the benefit is not at all commensurate with the effort. But the thing to realize is that the optimization isn't the justification for the effort. It's the joy of doing it in the first place.
3090s are in stock now, for example Best Buy and direct from EVGA.
Tell HN: 1Password6 is dead on Chrome 99. Indefinite license is finite
I happen to like my indefinite license for 1password6 but Chrome has made a change in version 99 that renders the 1password plugin dead. Support says I need to upgrade to 7.

I've asked 1password legal to buy me out of my license as they may be in breach. They do have some language about breaking changes made by Apple - https://web.archive.org/web/20140902010520/https://agilebits.com/home/licenses. I haven't found the exact license but have requested it. We'll see. They did push this indefinite license thing and half a decade falls marginally short of indefinite.
There should be a rule that the percentage of people who successfully cancel and the time it takes them to do so has to be the same or better than the signup process.
"you're not wrong, Walter..."

but this isn't your blog

I would agree that both C and Unix are highly disorganized/decentralized. There is no standard pattern to arguments passed to commands, for example; if this was standardized as much as possible, Unix would become much easier for noobs. And C? 40+ years later and we are still dealing with bad design decisions in it.

But yeah, this isn't your blog. and also, how in the hell did you get burned by unix this badly?
Luckily Russia had anticipated the increased shelling months before and therefore just happened to have 180000 soldiers surrounding Ukraine before this increased shelling happened right?
> It seems to spawn a new process per tab

Isn't that how all browsers work these days?
Not my opinion, but from what I've seen, it's a different standard.

FF has historically been concerned with privacy and transparency. When they move contrary to that, people "hold them accountable" by issuing public critiques.

In comparison, I'm not sure that the Chromium project ever intended to have privacy as one of their forefront values.
Stacking only reveals physical malformations. It won't reveal weight imbalances, will it? e.g. one part of the die weighs more than the other for some reason.
"before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK8Z8hulFg
Amazon introduced a dark pattern to try to get you to accept your refund in the form of Amazon store credit rather than back to your original payment method.

On my iOS device, going to Amazon.com in safari, I initiated the return, and then the question of how I want to process the return came up, and the top 3 or 4 options all resulted in me not getting my money back. The option to refund to original payment method was all the way at the bottom (had to scroll), and in a different color/formatting such that it took me effort to recognize it as an option.

My parents and their ilk would have no chance against this kind of nonsense.
Theres a huge upgrade in my opinion just going to a basic mechanical - but of course very rapidly diminishing returns after that. Wait a bit and look around and you can get something pretty decent for less than 50$
Had I liked linear switches, I would have jumped on the opportunity to use one of the new variable-depth linear, contactless switches (like wooting, steelseries or even razer).

I tried the wooting lekker edition and the experience was like trying some really good audio equipment. I seriously started salivating. Really really weird.
C# – Optimizing string.Count from LINQ to hardware vectorized instructions(2020)
It's an effective regressive tax where lower income earners subsidise middle and high income earners. Is that what you're arguing for?
Coding in Ukraine
There is also https://github.com/xiph/rav1e
"May?"
> HN seems to shoot down everything with negativity

Except marketing-driven products, which get really overhyped here.
Wait. Sending what you want to do to a webservice (GPT-3) doesn't sound clever?
I'm 50 and learned to touch type years before there were personal computers. I switched to Colemak a couple of years ago and it took a year to get really proficient.

I can no longer type in Querty, though I have no trouble using swipe keyboards on phones. I'm a faster typer now.

But the real benefit is that it no longer hurts to type. Typing in Querty hurt my hands after a while to the point where I couldn't type or use a mouse. Typing in Colemak fixed that, even though most of my work is on my non-ergonomic Macbook keyboard.
Exactly what I have been using for years - its nice they are finally getting more popular. I bought one almost 10 years ago now and it was one of the only models available. Still typing on it right now and it looks almost new. Cherry MX Blacks ftw
I'm so glad there are other people who notice these things like I do.

Yet, you also have my condolences. It is not fun...
https://archive.is/GKau0
> considering apple propaganda of FASTEST CONSUMER GPU

Well as a mostly Apple user, I don't read Apple propaganda. Or nvidia propaganda for that matter.

The M1 Max mac studio's full system consumption on load seems to be ~50 W. I wonder how much performance nvidia can deliver with that. I think ... they simply don't have a product in that power budget?

I know most people only care about FASTEST CONSUMER GPU (yay, it doubles as a leaf blower and a space heater) but I still think nvidia's best product was the 1050Ti ... decent 1080 performance in 75 W.
Yeah, my Grandma (chemo-brain-fog-addled at the time, now just terminal-cancer-brain-fog-addled...) accidentally signed up for Prime while buying a Secret Santa gift, had to help fix that (she didn't even know that she had an Amazon account, much less that she had a monthly Prime subscription).
Gotcha, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Hi nyellin,
Here is our sample doc: https://app.theneo.io/demo/theneo
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THIS is why Debian exists.
- “Friends? This town is just the place where I live and go to school every day, before moving on to the next destination.”
I can't speak in detail to whether it'd work or be a good idea, but there has been an attempt to design a fraud-resistant carbon capture coin. https://www.gwern.net/CO2-Coin
Just some retrospective on this. The more I look into Michael Tracy, the more I find myself regretting suggesting him. Perhaps replace him with Dan Carlin.
I do own my own company. It's pretty easy.