skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always thought the office of Dictator in the Roman Republic was one of the shrewdest creations of political thought: you maintain the stability and checks and balances of a Republic governed by the Senate but the flexibility to allow one man to act with complete authority in a crisis/emergency situation. After the six month term of the Dictator was up (unless it was renewed by the Senate) the Dictator (and his second in command, the "Master of the Horse") either resigned or became the object of assassination (by law any citizen was compelled to kill a Dictator who didn't resign; if he had opportunity and didn't he similarly fell under the death penalty).

During his term the Dictator could rule by edit, abolish old laws, create new ones, etc. Once the Senate resumed control they would get the rare opportunity to keep the changes the Dictator made (or roll them back) without any one Senator bearing the onus for being the one to abolish old laws or create new ones.

Overall... it worked until it didn't, that is, until the rise of the Caesars.
Wdym "between"? Pytype is another static analyzer.
"If we asked your twin, who always lies, what you would say if we asked if you really wanted to cancel your subscription, what would he say?"

"Do you often sing or whistle just for fun?"
I'm firmly in the "tone wood doesn't matter" camp. I choose body and neck wood based on looks (if clear finish) and weight.
Follow up email explains why

> Since you have not used your Amazon Prime benefits, we are refunding you $129.26 which includes the full membership fee and any applicable fees and taxes.

Seems fair to me
I really wonder which effects this kind of user-hostile behavior has on the long term success of a company. This is probably impossible to measure since there is no second Amazon to compare with. I guess some execs were asked or incentivized to optimize one particular metric (number of Prime cancellations), and this is exactly what they did.
It's a combination microwave/convection oven.
> I think the assumption that you can test your way out of bad design is false. Design is about assumptions you make, and you cannot test these assumptions, because your tests have to make the same assumptions.

I think that's right. But what TDD buys you is that, when the design changes (and it should, if it's a bad design), and you have to modify your component/class/module/whatever, you can run the tests and see if you broke anything. You can then, for each failing test, think through whether the change should have broken that (and therefore the test is now wrong), or whether your change actually broke something that had been working.

This can make it far easier to make changes safely, and lets you make them with far more courage. It means you're not stuck at "we really should change that, but it might break something, so it's not worth it."
True but it’s probably safer than having characters that look like Mickey Mouse
What are the environmental and economioc costs of producing 1 tonne of substrate? It seems a glaring hole in your post.
4x means that you can encode with 1/4 the time of the video, right? That sounds nice, a lot more practical than when I tried before.
Ask HN: Are a lot of people gonna quit because of back to office?
Wondering if other people are feeling the vibe that everybody wants to get the flexible role, even if it's a slight pay cut.
Most static typed compiled languages also ignore types at runtime :)
The US, which has nothing to do in the Russian sphere of influence.
Food supply chains are definitely something to examine.

However Ukrainian wheat is exported to: Egypt ($685M), Indonesia ($603M), Philippines ($242M), Turkey ($207M), and Tunisia ($196M).

I believe Pakistan and several African countries are also on the list.

These countries are already aware and concerned.

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporte...

EU grows its own wheat.
Testivus on Code Coverage Metrics (2007)
This idea that even professional money managers, let alone amateurs with their own retirement funds, can consistently beat a market index has been debunked for decades by Jack Bogle, Burton Malkiel and others. There is still no good evidence that anyone (no, not even Warren Buffet) can reliably beat the market, and even if there were, you as an average investor would have no chance of identifying them before the fact. Play the market if you want, but don't think you can beat it, and keep the bulk of your long-term savings in index funds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
APL has had dedicated keyboard layouts since its inception, but that might be a bit unusual.

If you lisp, you might want easily accessible parenthesis. In C, semicolon is useful. Bash uses dollar and sharp a lot.
The UK central bank was actively harming their economy with this nonsensical peg. Comparing trading an obviously overvalued currency to hitting someone with a pipe is similarly nonsensical. The government was not the victim here, but the perpetrator of the crime. Soros forced them to stop before the central bank could cause even more damage.
I have similar experiences with high end keyboards like the Kinesis advantage and the HHKB2. As much as the internet likes to rave about these keyboards, they just are not for me.
As with most things in mental health, personal experiences will vary dramatically.

I burned out almost 10 years ago now, and I'm still not sure what recovery/redemption looks like. I know I'm getting closer, but it's a long process, and every unexpected bump in the road slows me down a lot. My main direct insights have mostly been around letting go of ego while somehow still finding things I can reliably dig in and fight for. Redefinition of context is a primary theme.
Intel caved a little, alder lake consumer chips have ECC ... if you use the right chipset:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-enables-ecc-on-12th-...
I never said taking anything from anyone without compensation. I said when someone dies the board of the company should decide where the shares go. I didn't say anything about their estate not getting compensated.

Would it be clearer if I said that the board should get to decide who can buy the shares, whether that be the estate (who would pay itself for them) or someone else?
I would recommend using `dataclasses.dataclass` over namedtuple. Namedtuples are factories that generate objects with different identities every time you create one and will not behave like you expect when comparing them. With dataclasses you can type-annotate fields as well as generate various special functions just as args to `@dataclass` so you get better safety, immutable objects (when using `frozen=True`), `__eq__` generation, `asdict` to serialize complex objects (recursively!), and a bunch of other great stuff.

I come from a massive hard-realtime system codebase that's mostly in Python and there's a lot of moving parts and complex data types. Type hints, `typing.Protocol`, and `dataclass` are all godsends for having any sort of sane, human parseable structure to the code. Being able to navigate to type definitions with `gd`/ctrl + click is massively helpful.
I personally love the whole decentralization aspect of crypto/blockchains, but absolutely hate NFTs for irreversably poisoning the well rather than just the fact that they're useless money laundering scams.

The problem stems from the fact that actual useful applications take time to develop, whereas just slapping an image on an NFT and investing in marketing takes no time at all. Same for cryptocurrencies. But IMO that doesn't invalidate the technology as a whole, it just speaks for humans' greed, nothing else.
I mostly do, but then I have large gaps in employment.
Show HN: QjsIpc, Invoke JavaScript procedure on dotnet with QuickJS and wasmtime
I Built a Dapp Token Farm
Gives them opportunity to force some kind of MRR on you. Newspaper subscription for fridge mounted screen, recipes subscription for ovens, sky is the limit.
Apple is a "Founding Member" of Alliance for Open Media (which doesn't really mean they are actually a founding member). I think Apple main issues with VP9 was that it was a Google codec by all means.
Apple already supports FLAC and Opus in macOS and iOS, and VP9 in Safari.

It could be that they are waiting to see if AV1 will actually get a marketshare outside Youtube or not.
Having a link or ability to cancel online (even with strange language or hard to navigate) is still better than cancelling your Comcast or newspaper/ESPN subscription.

Sadly.
If a camel is a horse designed by committee, CSS is the product of 10 generations of camel breeding by different committees, followed by some rounds of competing evil geniuses creating genetically modified variants.

We should also keep in mind that the use cases have completely and wildly changed.

That being said, it does seem like we are overdue for a clean slate.
I definitely get your point, but over-generalized comments like these are also dangerous.

Just as there are many MBAs who were or are veteran software developers, the HN community is large enough that there are many members who are professional investors.
IIRC, the patriarchal surname (i.e. mother's father's name and father's father's name) is carried on.

I believe it's also tradition that a spouse doesn't change their name but adopts a qualifier, so they keep their paternal surname and append 'de SPOUSE_SURNAME' to signify marriage in general conversation, though they are still formally 'X Y de Z'.

But I'm only an outsider on this, so I could be totally wrong here or missing some semantics or subtleties. I love learning about other cultures but there's so much to them that's hard to grasp without living within the culture for a long time.
Hrm. I dunno. I recently picked up a couple of old laptops to goof around on (a 2003 Thinkpad T41 and a 2005 iBook G4) and both of them (laptops!) have keyboards that are so much better than my modern keyboards that I was sort of taken aback. I think we’ve slowly been fed worse and worse keyboards for so long that we don’t realize what we’ve actually lost. I’d say the difference is more tangible than a $250 gold-coated cable.
Pessimist in you optimistically assumes there’s legislative scrutiny for them to face.

I would argue it’s actually an optimistic thing: there’s either legislative scrutiny OR Amazon isn’t managed exclusively by assholes, either way it’s an optimistic outcome.
I mean do what makes you happy. But I attribute nearly all of my promotions and success to doing work I am explicitly not paid for.
[Cancel Screen]

Are you sure you wish to leave Prime? You may be consigning your soul to eternal perdition!

[Return to Bezos the Blessed] [No, I wish to spend hereafter in the lake of fire]
What's the latest in virtual credit card numbers? I've seen these services advertised, but I haven't tried one yet.

I'd love to be able to "cancel" a subscription service by just deleting my card and stopping automated payments.

It would be nice if I was then not legally obligated to pay any outstanding bills, but I doubt I would win that fight, so I question how good these cards are in practice.

Has anyone tried one?
> I mostly don't believe in universal morality, I just try to find my own moral meaning.

I'm trying to steel-man here, but this reads to me as "I am mostly morally unprincipled" in the sense that you do not require consistency in your own moral meaning, whatever that is. Most people probably aren't satisfied with a moral system that's "whatever sterlind feels like today."

Here's a thought experiment: imagine if the powers that be in the West were fully aligned with Russia for whatever reason. As a result they deploy the full force of traditional and social media message control along with all the other measures taken to sway public opinion in favor of Ukraine. In that scenario, do you believe the vast majority of people in the West would be just as enthusiastic about the "special military operation" as they are about Ukrainian resistance today? Do you think your opinion would be different? Why or why not?
I disagree that it's unfair or outsized. You're talking about a browser that has lost 95% of its userbase and is financially dependent on its main competitor. The complainers are drawn from the tiny proportion of the people dissatisfied with Firefox development who stayed. The other 98% just fucked off somewhere else like they were told to.
> I’ve only ever heard this line of reasoning used to justify something unethical.

That doesn't mean it's not true. Soros's actions ending the peg helped the british people, whose government was throwing away billions of pounds trying to sustain the unsustainable peg.
The new aave UI – A peek under the hood
if you're connecting the display to a machine, why not just use the machine's OS at that point?
Not the person you're replying to, but I read that as "SpaceX pursuing production Fusion reactor designs would be a strong indication of Fusion being viable".
You can mitigate against those kinds of attacks using npm's `--before` option:

npm i --before=`date -I -d '-5 days'`

It will only install packages released before the specified date.
The nice thing is that you're used to a good situation. At your new job, when you feel uncertain, you can ask, "Why is this different?" The answer might be that you don't know who to talk to about an issue, or you don't understand the architecture as well, or you don't know your way around the code, and you can translate those differences into corrective action: ask another person who to talk to about the issue, ask a coworker if they can answer some questions about the architecture, study the layout of the code repo. This puts you way ahead of someone who is less experienced, or who is coming from a less ideal situation. They might not know what it feels like to be oriented in the code, to be in the loop, etc. Someone like that might languish or need coaching to improve, but you will get up to speed in no time.
Populating the page: how browsers work – Web Performance – MDN
When I canceled, a prompt came up that said something which made me feel like I was an idiot for canceling. Something like "Are you sure you want to miss out on all the great benefits of prime?" [YES/NO].

When I pressed yes, I felt like I had to buy into their premise that prime offered me great value...which made me feel like a fool.

Honestly, I am more entertained by the psychological manipulation of the corporations than anything at this point. Last week I bought a water bottle at a chain supermarket with a sticker on it that read, "We want to be your friend! Follow us on Facebook." I just laughed at the thought that a water bottle is trying to befriend me on behalf of a corporation.

"Welcome to Costco, I love you." inbound.
>Assuming you have a job to work at. Or that (food) supply chains have not gone sideways.

If you want to mitigate that I still suspect it's cheaper to buy rice and beans, then stockpiling that, than it is to operate a vegetable garden every year. Not to mention, a stockpile works any time of the year. A vegetable garden only produces food during harvest time.

>E.g., how hard is it (for Ukrainians) go get potatoes with a war on?

how easy it is for ukranians to get potatoes when the ground has only recently thawed?

>How hard is it to get groceries after an earthquake (or hurricane)?

How useful is your vegetable garden when everything has been blown away and/or is rotting in the ground from all the water?
Debounce can be very personal - exactly how you push the keys has a significant impact on bouncy/chatter your keys are. It's not just about the mechanisms.

I have an ErgoDox EZ as my daily driver, and have occasionally had some debounce / chatter problems, but they've never been that serious for me. I bottom out hard on every keystroke, which is not ideal but I've never been able to retrain myself away from it, and I think that's part of why I have the issue.

Bumping the debounce up a bit worked for me. YMMV.
> Interestingly I'm still getting my packages on average of 2 days without Prime.

Yeah, the way they make Prime work and affordable for them is to locate warehouses everywhere, close to recipients. People have been observing 2-day non-Prime delivery times for years now. They'll also usually offer you a month-long free Prime trial once a year and you can do a batch of holiday shopping or whatever.
> Criticism is not a problem with free speech -- criticism is free speech.

"Criticism" is often essentially a threat to retaliation, or merely the heckler's veto [1].

[1]: e.g. https://www.foxnews.com/us/yale-law-students-bipartisan-free...
This is absolutely generic common practice, to one degree or another. Facebook is great at this crap. Clearly this example crosses some kind of line to people. But maybe more than anything because we got to see how the sausage is made. It's as open a secret as the fact that automated call handling is about intentional friction to limit needed call staff.
More like guitarists discussing guitars,
IMHO. Lots of people from beginner to master do just fine with six strings tuned to EADGBE but some people get into left-handed tunings or three necks with different tunings on each or a Chapman Stick or some other weird custom instrument.

It’s a deep rabbit hole you can go down, with a lot of equipment to buy and experiment with along the way. A lot of it has little actual effect, but every now and then you find something that really works for you and makes the daily grind at the craft much more pleasant. And also it’s fun to play on that cool looking guitar with a custom paint job or to type on that cool custom keyboard: this is my instrument.

(Me, my main keyboard change is mapping caps lock to cmd-alt-shift and fn-x to cmd-shift-x, both in the service of reducing the amount of complex knots I have to tie my fingers in to hit my many Illustrator hotkeys.)
Cześć! My initial thought would be humanitarian air lift operation to Ukraine. While closing space for Russian aircrafts. Will Putin Launch nukes immediately afterwards? It’s a good question. Will putin stop after taking Kraków? Or does he need Warszawa? It’s another very good question.
Many large university libraries will have a terminal if you know who to ask and where to look.
> You can't even hedge inflation without the stock market (or real estate, if you can afford the buy-in).

See also: treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS).
Yeah I'm in a similar situation, I just use a match lol. Every now and then it will make a sad little "tick tick" as I turn the knob. Not sure what's wrong with it but it doesn't matter, we have mastered fire.
Between fixed cost fees, things that are sealed behind an accreditation process, investments that need real person to person negotiation, opportunities that aren't widely published, and even data that isn't shared with anybody that shows up, I'm really surprised that anybody can be even be mildly surprised by that phrase.

There is absolutely no investment transaction where it's not obvious that larger players have it better. Even when entering in a shared fund, more money means lower fees.
No. The S&P 500, like most other market-cap-weighted indexes, uses float-adjusted market cap, meaning that they exclude shares owned by other public companies when computing the weightings. So the fact that BRK.A owns shares in other companies in the index is accounted for; you don't get double counting, and so your exposure is not inflated.
How is Soros an insider on British government policy?
When talking about investing you need to read Kahnemann. The entire Thinking Fast And Slow book is very, very good but the relevant part is at https://acquirersmultiple.com/2018/04/daniel-kahneman-the-il...

> Our host, a senior investment manager, had invited us to discuss the role of judgment biases in investing. I knew so little about finance that I did not even know what to ask him, but I remember one exchange. “When you sell a stock,” I asked, “who buys it?” He answered with a wave in the vague direction of the window, indicating that he expected the buyer to be someone else very much like him. That was odd: What made one person buy and the other sell? What did the sellers think they knew that the buyers did not?

> Nevertheless, the evidence from more than fifty years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker.

> More important, the year-to-year correlation between the outcomes of mutual funds is very small, barely higher than zero.
Open Source Maintainer Sabotages Code to Wipe Russian, Belarusian Computers
The best part was they blamed it on government regulations.
"just fucked off somewhere else like they were told to"

Ah yeah, that seems like a completely reasonable interpretation of Mozilla's actions.
I hate that it spews so much irrelevant things. Run "apropos directory" on macos and see if you can find "ls" between

create_automation_image_overlay(8), -(8) - ."====================== create_automation_image_overlay overlay automation image content onto another directory ." ."

and

CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::Memory(3pm) - In memory implementation n .SS "$cb->_|_memory_retrieve_source(name => $name, [path => $path, uptodate => BOOL, verbose => BOOL])" .SS "$cb->_|_memory_retrieve_source(name => $name, [path => $path, uptodate => BOOL, verbose => BOOL])" Subsection "$cb->__memory_retrieve_source(name => $name, [path => $path, uptodate => BOOL, verbose => BOOL])" This method retrieves a storabled tree identified by $name. It takes the following arguments: name" 4 Item "name" The internal name for the source file to retrieve. uptodate" 4 Item "uptodate" A flag indicating whether the file-cache is up-to-date or not. path" 4 Item "path" The absolute path to the directory holding the source files. verbose" 4 Item "verbose" A boolean flag indicating whether or not to be verbose. Will get information from the config file by default. Returns a tree on success, false on failure. n .SS "$cb->_|_memory_save_source([verbose => BOOL, path => $path])" .SS "$cb->_|_memory_save_source([verbose => BOOL, path => $path])" Subsection "$cb->__memory_save_source([verbose => BOOL, path => $path])" This method saves all the parsed trees in storabled format if Storable is available. It takes the following arguments: path" 4 Item "path" The absolute path to the directory holding the source files. verbose" 4 Item "verbose" A boolean flag indicating whether or not to be verbose. Will get information from the config file by default. Returns true on success, false on failure
This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed
> What is the value of the shares with no voting rights?

I don't know, Google and BRK-B have no voting rights yet are quite valuable. The company still has assets of value. The value isn't entirely in the vote.
>If you have money, you need to allocate it in some way

Why do you "need" to allocate it? This is my whole point. Everyone acts like "oh my god, I must have my money making more money!"

What the hell do you think 80% of the country who has no substantial assets do? They can't do anything. The whole concept of getting rich off your own money is honestly sickening to me.

>how are you allocating yours in a way that isn't investing

I'm literally not. Even my house, for example.. I don't consider an "investment". Will it probably 'make money' over the long term? I guess (and well, it has substantially over the last few years, but again I had nothing to do with that- simple luck, just like it would be bad luck if it went down substantially). But that's not the point of me having a home.. I have a home as a place to live with my family.

This mentality of everything being an investment and our whole lives revolve around trying to accumulate assets so those assets can make more money... it's just sad.
I just discovered ctrl+[ can be used instead of escape. So now I remapped caps lock to ctrl and avoid both ctrl and escape. I didn't realize escape used to be where tab is today.
4K YouTube videos have a higher bitrate than 1080p videos