skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're underestimating the amount of consumers who value the "Wi-Fi enabled" feature sticker plastered on the box and marketing spec sheet of a product on display at Walmart.

Manufacturers go with whatever marketing tells them will sell and what consumers are buying.

Personal anecdote time: I was part of a team developing a HW product a few years back and one day our boss comes in fumigating:

Boss: "RGB! Management wants us to put damn RGB LEDs in our up-coming products."

Us: "But why, what for? Do they know it has zero usage in our products?"

Boss: "Doesn't matter to them. Sales guys said our competitors have RGB now and customers will not buy our products anymore since they see that the competition has one extra feature we don't have, so we gotta put that RGB in ASAP somehow."

Us: "Ok, and what shall our firmware do with the new RGB LEDs?"

Boss: "Don't know <shrugs>. Marketing is still trying to figure that one out, so we'll code the firmware before the product launch."

I rest my case. This whole consumer industry is absolutely mental.

And so, today everything needs to be internet connected, because it's another feature on a spec sheet that marketing/sales demands.
> stripped annotations out of files and askedPyType to infer them, it failed to do so in 77% of cases [...] MyPy found that only 15% of the 2,678 repositories examined were type-correct; this may be a result of MyPy being very conservative and producing false positives

The paper referenced is a year and a half old and type checkers have fixed/added a lot since then. Also, I'd guess that more projects use Mypy than Pytype and fix errors reported, so that may be another reason more pass Mypy even without annotations (though conservatism does play).
Sorry if I misunderstood, thought you were saying it was good that they were simply dropping all future attempts after three hours.
Ok yes I was too black and white, but still a lot of programs should be OK. You need to harden web browsers differently to (say) a calculator.

Also bulldozer is almost definitely vulnerable to spectre.
Discrete mathematics was a better "weed-out" class (N=1 so mileage may vary). Half our class dropped after spending half the semester on propositional calculus and truth tables. The rest got stuck on sets, counting, and big-O notation. I don't even know how it got that bad; we could even use a sheet for notes on the quizzes.
As of 15, iOS has pretty good support for MFA built-in. You create your login/password as usual and then scan the QR code to setup MFA too. It's not easy yet, but it's very possible for HN readers (i.e. tech-savvy).
many companies are cheap for a reason, such as slowing growth.
"Working in tech the entire cost of your produce for the year (you quoted $400-$500) is a few hours worth of income."

This is highly presumptuous. We don't all make over $100k.

On top of that, you're assuming that you could offset the cost of the produce by working a few more hours. Many of us are salaried, not hourly, and have restrictions that we aren't allowed to work for other companies. The option to work more hours in that scenario is not a valid one. Trying to account for opportunity cost doesn't work when there's no opportunity being lost.
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I'm too risk averse to hold cash. I unironically denote my assets/nw spreadsheet in the current price of mcdoubles rather than actual dollars.
Ok, I'm in the process of doing this myself (started a new position after 12 years at my last job just over a month ago.) I take the approach that I always liked with people who I helped mentor at my last job: Just dig in on each new task, try and figure things out and when you get stuck, outline what you did/figured out, what you think maybe the next step is, and ask some clarifying questions before you get completely in the weeds. Take some notes so you don't need to ask THAT question again. You'll get up to speed reasonably quick, won't flail too much, and generally be respectful of other's time.

Remember, you're new and it's ok to be clueless at the start. Just try and use each new thing you do to accumulate clue and you'll be fine.
Do you mean a timing mindset, where you hold cash until a market index drops a preset amount, and then immediately dump all cash into it, and if it rises a preset amount, you immediately sell all of it?

What would those presets be? Could you model this and see how that performs traditionally?
On macroeconomic terms, "investing" and "saving" are synonyms. The savings you put on paper instruments are just lent to somebody making an investment.

So, no, investing in future productive capacity is exactly the kind of thing that triggers that paradox.

Anyway, everybody seems to severely overrate their understanding of those things. I would advise people to not use macroeconomic theories to plan their own lives.
If you want to build your own 6502 this is a great kit with amazing tutorials. He sells all the parts, but you can also source your own from Adafruit or whatever easily https://eater.net/6502
> Dividends are not taxed.

I wish.

But no, dividends are taxed:

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/...

What you probably miss is that dividend tax for non substantial holdings (less than 5% of the total stock) is withheld before being paid out.
I just looked at my password manager and it has 421 entries plus a few secure notes and other things. I don't believe I have the capacity to remember that many 12 character random passwords with symbols, numbers, capitals, etc...
The LG Prada and the other phones which later led to the KP500/501 and similar phones (I had them as teen) had semi-multitouch.

It could handle two fingers, as long as one of them stayed in place and only the other one moved. That’s how it implemented something kinda like pinch zooming and scrolling. Android in fact copied the same method for its early touchscreen devices and supported it until relatively recently.
Interest rates were much higher back then, so equities were not as competitive an investment, given their risk level.
The exception is U2F, which binds the key to the domain name to prevent pass through attacks.
In this case, more.
As a counterpoint I'm running on Ryzen 5000 with a RDNA 2 GPU on Debian which is working pretty well. (zero CPU/chipset issues and one GPU issue which I can work around) The main 'trick' to running hardware (mainly CPU/GPU) that was released within 3-6 months of the last Debian stable freeze is to run Debian testing for driver support.
In a world where there are people that will hit you with a steel pipe and will not be stopped by the legality of the matter then it is your fault for not putting on the helmet.

But that isn't a good comparison for this case as what he did was not illegal. Unlike hitting people with steel pipes.
I really would like to see some proof of worth here. What changes--organizational wise, code wise, or otherwise--have been made as a result of this tracking? There seems to be a presumed usefulness for this tracking. Is there still a need to do this tracking?

If it's genuinely useful and you're a transparent organization then it should be an easy thing to write up. "See! We avoided this *catastrophic* thing!" Demonstrate that the data has a very defining role in decision making or just get rid of it. The demonstration of its usefulness needs to continue as long as the tracking does. What significant problem(s) is being solved here? Sated curiosity isn't that compelling.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan

Point is we also have a long history of genuine quacks and loonies, and they outnumber the genuine Cassandras to such an extent as to invalidate your heuristic. Statistically, if someone disagrees with the mainstream scientific consensus, they aren't a brave voice fighting the tide of darkness - just wrong.
An Ubuntu dist upgrade on a machine of mine once forgot how to read an encrypted root disk. That its own installer had set up originally, and the config of which I'd never touched (the machine as a whole had approximately no customization, in fact—it was just a box I had hooked up to a TV, nothing special going on). This was just a one-version jump, mind you.

[EDIT] Oh and there was that release in the late '00s, I think, when they pushed out PulseAudio way too early (shoulda never done it at all...) and it caused your whole X session to crash if your browser loaded any Flash content at all. Which was still in wide use at the time. How the shit that got through QC, I'll never know. There's no chance, in that year, that someone testing or developing it hadn't tried to load HomeStarRunner or something, or had a Flash ad try to load. Hell I think YouTube might have still used Flash on Linux at the time.
I find Steam to be the least-onerous (phone-based) 2FA tool I use - it pops up automatically when needed, and the codes are only 5 characters with a mix of letters and numbers, which I somehow find much easier to remember and type.

Granted, I don't know if those features involve security sacrifices, and I'm sure I'd get annoyed if I needed a separate app for every tool, but the user experience is more pleasant there for me.
Plus Twilio/Sendgrid who are still trying to make Authy the standard, despite it being closed source/closed spec. They do let you use SMS as an alternative, which I guess makes sense being Twilio, but SMS 2FA has proven to be significantly less secure.
Incidentally, I'm currently reading/researching on financialization and came across this short, well accessible paper[1] on the topic. It shows how 401(k) and such retirement funds played a big role in fuelling the financialization activities.

The paper title is "Fueling Financialization: The Economic Consequences of Funded Pensions"

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/109579602110622...
Hackers took down some Russian military sites, including the main one (.mil) subdomain and made them return the 418 I'm a Teapot error.

It has double meaning in Russian because чаиник (chaynik) - Russian for teapot is also slang for a fool, a newbie, inexperienced, dumb.
Dividends are taxed punitively, though.
I used to have a hard time remembering apropos because I assumed 'apropos' was some sort of unixy mincing of another word or abbreviation or something, and I couldn't figure out what it meant. You know, like 'mkdir' means "MaKe DIRectory"

But it turns out apropos is just a regular word. Once I learned this, I haven't had any more trouble with it.

apropos : Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apropos
Funnily enough, it is widely acknowledged in the electric bass community that, once past a certain price point, spending more to buy a "nicer" bass gets you only marginal return in the quality of music you can make with it. The solution to getting a nicer sound is usually not in buying a nicer bass. Yet many still save for boutique and custom made basses that cost north of 5000 dollars.

The difference is though, if you like a bass very much and it is comfortable for you to play, you would spend more time playing and practicing it, which I think is exactly the point of buying a mechanical keyboard (at least for me). It makes working on it more enjoyable.
Interesting processors? Yes, Intel released IA64 with Itanium which was interesting and a dud in the market. Then they came up with Xeon Phi, which was a dud in the market. Then they brought Larabee, which was a failure in the market. Part of Larabee's issues did stem from process limitations. Intel had every opportunity to hedge its bets by buying from TSMC, Samsung, or others just as everyone did, but kept sinking more money into their own foundries without getting what they paid for.

Meanwhile AMD gave the market what customers clamored for: a 64-bit extension to the IA32 platform. Then AMD gave us massively performant APUs. Then AMD gave us multi-die packaging and left the IO die on a more sensible process for that function while using smaller processes where frequencies matter more.

Then Apple with some help from ARM gave us a SOC for laptop and desktop use that's frankly kind of embarrassing AMD and Intel, not so much for the core design really as its integration with memory.

Intel isn't just unlucky here. They've made a series of serious missteps going back a couple of decades now.
Doesn't dollar cost averaging avoid the whole issue of timing the market? Index investing feels fairly safe to me with DCA if you can stick with it.
History has no value in predicting future returns. You just randomly picked a period to make your point. Many such instances disprove it where the breakeven return is more on the magnitudes of decades.

We're approaching a seismic shift in monetary policy, from expansion to compression in a high inflation world—something many investors haven't yet experienced.
> Emacs users often get the credits for inventing this hack. And that hack is about realizing how stupid they caps lock key really is. Well, maybe not stupid, but unless you write SQL all day long, you’re not using it enough for it to deserve such a good position right there on the home row on your keyboard. Replace it with ctrl!

Why didn’t I ever think of this? The location of ctrl has always been awkward to me.
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You must have not had shit management yet, or are cruising for burn out.
The first thing you should do is post a Show HN right here. Judging from your other submissions I assume you are talking about your fapnite.com thing? I mean, your app's potential audience is insanely large, so I would put a lot of effort into having a good SEO presence. With a good listing on Google and Bing, traffic comes automatically.
Reminds me of the documentary of how the wah-wah pedal was invented.
Apparently Warwick Electronics told one engineer to swap out an On/Off switch with a turn knob because these cost 0.25$ per piece instead of 1$. Which was huge savings in the 60s.

While experimenting, the engineer, who was also a guitarist, found that it sounds really cool to play while you turn the knob.

The director wanted to sell these knobs to jazz orchestras and big bands for the trumpeters, but the engineer was like "Hold on a second, I think we can put this in a pedal and make it a guitar thing".
Russia needs the gas too or they would sacrifice 40% of their GDP immediately.
1Password and its opensource cousin supports 2FA tokens, including auto-fill.

Yes, makes no sense in terms of security (storing both on the same place) but hey, it's life.
a friend of mine is a productivity researcher at a notable tech company. She studies all sorts of signals like hours worked , number of meetings , output artifacts like landed commits and docs created etc . overall productivity increased with lockdown , but work efficiency actually went down. basically people worked longer hours and had more meetings, but the output per unit of time went down .

burnout is real
Going on a tangent, I imagine that on spaceships or in space colonies there will be no place for mechanical keyboards. "Moving parts" will eventually break, and resource-strapped communities cannot afford that. For better or worse, touchscreen will be all they will have.
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It is one thing to aim, another entirely to have a nonzero possibility of hitting. Investment money seems to need only the aim.
i don't think it has. also, it has less volatility.
Yes, and use Preview Hunt to make sure everything looks nice.
The issue is that hardware interlocks might at some point be replaced with software interlocks, if they haven't already. See the Therac-25 incident for a concrete example.
Does IntelliJ use any kind of static type analysis to help the user autocomplete properly?

[== do we have something like Java???]
I think that's evidence that we just haven't done a good job when it comes to accounts and account security. Users choose simple passwords and reuse passwords because otherwise they need to remember a different complex password for every single goddamned thing they interact with, a number that has skyrocketed in the past decade or two.

I can't honestly say I know of a better way, though. Something involving identification using asymmetric keys would be a good start to replace username/password, but that doesn't really solve the problem of losing or compromised private key in a way that's any better than we have currently for passwords.
You are just buying Apple shares by proxy
Soros in his own head: Enlightened Capitalist who is using his financial might to create an Open Society™ where progressive values are wholeheartedly embraced

Soros in the heads of lunatics: Big Bad Scary Commie looking to make the capitalist system eat itself so he can usher in a new Global Soviet Socialist Republic with an army of third-world refugees - specifically the scary[0] ones with brown skin or poor English skills - to play the role of Randian moocher class

Soros in reality: Rich banker idiot who made billions of dollars ensuring the UK will never be able to join the Euro while throwing millions of it (0.1%) at random vaguely left-of-center causes to buy the secular equivalent of indulgences[1]

[0] fnord fnord fnord

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Late_Medieval_usage
Classic case of using a negative liberty- freedom from hearing complaints- to try to deny a positive liberty- freedom to speak one's mind.

There are legit uses here. Margeret Hamilton being unable to use the computer[1] after the Midnight Computer Wiring Society came in & took the right to rewire the mainframe themselves, denying her her own positive right to compute/freedom from unexpectedly changing systems (itcs kind of both? im undecided!) is an example I think of a lot, an important respin on a classic bit of positive-liberties denying others, an important omitted crucial conflict in a bit of cyberlore immortalized by Steven Levy's book Hackers.

Rights do conflict. Whether we head towards a society where things are permitting or denied is a balance I prefer being able to see open, but often this ends up depending on civil cooperation to function, rather than rights proportioned perfectly so.

[1] http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...
Hmmm, I've never considered pre-heating a microwave; I thought it wasn't necessary, because the food would be heated using - um - microwaves. I must have been missing a trick.
Do you have a source citing this? This sounds like a possible reason but it's pure speculation without a study to control for this, or at the very least a pre-eval where they were evaluated for parasites before the study begins.
An interesting and amusing take on it from Gyles Brandreth who was in the room on the UK government side of this https://youtu.be/dwRfVtdqfWY?t=85
I have a simpler solution. The use case is not precisely the same, but for many scenarios, it's effectively the same.

Simply, like many, I have bash set up to record commands in .bash_history. I have it flush all the time, so .bash_history is always current.

# keep persistent bash history across sessions
export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a;history -n'
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
shopt -s histappend

Next, I have a simple cron job running every minute.

file=/tmp/work.$$
cat ~/.bash_history ~/.unique_bash | grep -v findcmd | sort -u > $file
mv $file ~/.unique_bash

Then, I have a script called "findcmd" that simply greps my .unique_bash file.

for var in "$@"
do
cmd="| grep \"$var\" $cmd"
done
cmd="cat ~/.unique_bash $cmd"
eval $cmd

In the end, when I need to figure something out, I head to the internet. Those commands are then captured for posterity in the .unique_bash file. If I want to know how to post a JSON file to an endpoint using Curl, then

$ findcmd curl json

And all those curl commands show up.

It won't let me do something I don't know, but it make my memory much, much longer.

And, yea, I admit there have been instances where I've completely forgotten the command, and had to head back to the web. But when I've done that, I can hit my history and see how I used it.

If, sometimes, a "bad command", a command done wrong, too many of the same thing, just lingers, I can go edit it out. But most of the time I don't bother.
I have a hard time viewing Apple's Spotlight metadata as a wrong. It's locally created and stored, it's transparently shown in File info and mdls. It can be purged and edited with xattrs. It doesn't follow the file across computers and you can outright disable file metadata and indexing if you really care enough and I've never seen or heard of any evidence of Apple sending this local data outside your computer. Windows indexes files and creates metadata, even popular Linux desktop distros do it, because it's a usability improvement for most people.

>But yes I wish this prompt could be completely turned off.

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
You realize you're being as misleading and unfair as 'the media' you wanted to criticize, right?
He is confusing country risk with index fund investing. They are two different concepts. Index fund investing is a trading strategy, but if you are investing in a risky country to begin with, it doesn't matter what trading strategy you use. The risk will always be there.
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I think they do that because a common fraud for small business and others (school districts, towns) is to compromise the bookkeeper’s computer and clean out accounts.

They may have an issue where session timeouts are too long and cannot be fixed, or outsource the payment function to another provider though a mechanism that they probably shouldn’t use.

I last saw that happen with a big commercial bank (HSBC maybe) a decade ago. The credit unions I use now don’t have that issue.
I would be highly suspicious that in this post, the msm is tasked with the standard of giving “straight news” but Joe Rogan is apparently no more quality with “sometimes it’s right, sometimes very wrong”. Why would you actively prefer one mediocre source of news over another mediocre source of news? They both seem mediocre and neither seem worth listening to.
> whose compensation has been effectively cut

Black Wednesday happened in 1992. In 1991 inflation in the UK was 7.46%, in 1992 it dropped to 4.59% and in 1993 to 2.56%. So, who was really responsible for reducing the purchasing power of British workers? Soros or the BoE?
Ortholinear is just one of those things, I was tripped up for a few hours at most. I took it slowly in evolving my QMK map for an ErgoDox, but for whatever reason my fingers just don't find ortho layout confusing.

Other people really trip up on it, almost as badly as switching actual layouts to e.g. Colemak. If someone out there hits that point and wants to get past it, the requirement is to train out errors, using a typing trainer which penalizes mistakes by, for example, requiring a word to be typed correctly before the next word is allowed.

Breaking the errors is a prerequisite for any jump in typing speed, whether that's a plateau or a new platform. It's annoying but it's the only thing which works.
However, as far as I can remember, they didn’t had to make a transition plan like they did in Intel transition.

They had to research how to make it completely seamless that time, for the first time.
It's just another way to attack antivaxxers without directly using the usual terms. That's why it became so hot.