skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people who actually believe in states' rights as a real principle ...

OP's implication was that such principled individuals exercise not much power in the real-world politics of our time.
But if the demand for meat drops, and demand for veggies goes up, do you think farms will all of a sudden abandon monocrop practice? Of course not, because that’s how farming-at-scale system is designed. They want to use fewer tools, ultra specialize in one crop, offload it in bulk at the end of the season.

In the end you’ll get a huge selection of bland and tasteless vegetables, engineered to grow fast and large with a thick skin to prevent pests from eating it.
If you collected a soil sample (a few spoons of dirt from 5-8 places in your garden, put in s plastic baggie.) Then get it tested - ask for a 32 element ICP. It's fairly cheap, 10-20$USD, gives you a run down of those 32 elements, and then you can see if there are any anomalies. They give you an answer in ppm (parts per million.) For example. Then you look at the published standards for soil quality. For example in your case, residential criteria. In your state. Find online.
If you are more than a factor of 10 or 100 above that, in one element, you may have an issue. If there was a fire, and ashes blew your way, there could be detectable amounts.
If there are, especially if those elements are suspected to originate from the fire. You can worry about further tests. Some organic compounds- by products of the fire may be there, and be measurable. And that gets more expensive.(~ $500)
But you'll probably find everything is ok.
not as consistent as the best humans yet, but they have won https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack
Isn’t there a difference between corporatism and economic conservatism?
Opt out by mail for a service you've only ever interacted with via an app on a phone shouldn't even be a thing.
You can already accomplish this by defining relevant sites in your query.

Maintain a few lists of sources you deem authorities in various disciplines, and voila…

While I agree the current state of search is pretty brutal, it’s still a slight improvement over the limitations of a physical library or encyclopedia.

That said, IMHO it’s unreasonable to expect any ‘search engine’ to be able to capture the intent of your brief query string, survey the current authorities (simply determining said authorities is contentious enough), and return the type of results you’re describing - in countless languages and across infinite disciplines, no less
How would you compare yourself with Quantopian? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantopian
I don’t think I’ve ever looked at anybody’s profile on github, and I can’t imagine that anybody has ever looked at mine (including me). It would just be a list of commits to source control, right?

Can anybody who uses this feature explain what github profiles are for?

I don’t know that I’d go so far as to explicitly hide that information, mostly because it is so mundane as to have no value to anybody.
Sounds cheap. This one has 40k views less than 12 hours after being posted.
I love these diagrams. Does anyone know what they were created with?
It means, should you ever want to sue them for something, now you can't. Instead, they just decide the outcome arbitrarily, and you have to accept it.
They usually use batteries that are not the best. But the good kiosks will offer at least a one year warranty on the new battery.
They're changing the way that you can handle issues with them. Normally you have the right to sue an organization for wrong doing. (I.e. they stole money from you, they literally reached into your bank account and drained it, etc.. you know civil stuff)

However, with arbitration.. the corporation can remove your right to do so and force this disagreement to be settled through an organization that they pay. It limits your rights, it limits the amount of money you get get back from the situation you encountered, and they do not have to abide by any normal laws sorrounding civil litigation.

But hey, you typically don't pay as much as you would of a lawyer upfront.

This isn't an action that people are consenting to.. it's something they're being forced into.. unless they follow a difficult procedure to do avoid it.
How is it possible to opt-out of a legal process?

How is it possible for this to happen automatically without agreeing to it?!
Because owning a social media company that dominates culture is equivalent to owning a newspaper.
The FTC needs to make a “click to register, mail to modify your preferences” illegal similar to how “click to subscribe, call to cancel” is now outlawed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250063

P.S.: At least can venmo be compelled to act or confirm our choice if we are forced to mail in their form? Can they claim they never received it, that it was printed incorrectly (since the form isn’t a PDF and can be easily rendered differently by various browsers) or missing some specific info?
Your credit score is higher if you pay off your credit card in full every month. Although, yes, it does reward having multiple cards with a high limit.
Looks great fun! Wish it had batteries and small speakers, nice while on travel (like the OP-1).
I have had this happen to me as well. It was pretty annoying. Somebody used my name for a Twitch account. I wanted to do things the 'right way' so I didn't verify the email, didn't log in and change their password -- I contacted customer support instead (mostly just to see how it would work -- I have a very unusual name, so this is a kind of rare event for me). It took them, I think, years to delete the thing.

I've never really been 100% sure if changing the password and logging in to delete the account would violate the CFAA. I mean nobody would have gone after me for a Twitch account anyway, and I'd definitely have felt moral deleting the thing, but the letter of the law...
People can and have written image decoders for custom formats in Javascript [1]. This seems like the same thing but for a very domain-specific use case.

Worth it? Not sure. But possible? Definitely.

[1]: https://bellard.org/bpg/
What teeth issues did you run into?

I'm not on a vegan diet, or a carnivore diet, but I worry about my teeth all the time. What happened when you changed your diet? Are these teeth issues, or gum issues, or both?
That's why I never got a data science job. They all seem too close to the business (much closer than typical web app development), and that's a bad thing in my book.

My solution is to try to move "down the stack" and retrain to work with C++ and math-heavy jobs (computer vision, simulation etc.). From what I'm hearing, developers in those area have much less contact with the business side of company.
Scientific facts do not exist, scientific observations do.
That would be a huge compatibility nightmare any time you upgraded database versions.
I do sympathise with how the whole "I dont want to call back and get placed in a queue with elevator music" was a big factor in the scam almost being successful here.

"Hopefully" enough people get scammed at such organisations, such that having the ability to easily contact a human at the company becomes a valid selling point, and lack of it an actual pain point for the company, so that pointy-haired CEOs start to appreciate it again.

I had to add my wife's name to our gas bill recently. There was no option to do this from the online system. I had to call 4-5 times to get this fixed. Each time I had to wait about 50 minutes before getting to a human at the other end.
It’s funny because the Onion has long since stopped being controversial enough to be at risk of being banned by anyone.
Have you looked at Axiom?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system...
i don’t see the economics working, but ok
If you don't opt out, you lose your right to sue Venmo in court.

Or at least, you have to pay a lawyer $500/hour to first argue for your right to sue in court, before you can even begin your lawsuit.
Perhaps via a virtual machine?
> How is it possible for this to happen automatically without agreeing to it?!

When you initially agreed to the TOS, there was a clause that said Venmo/PayPal can modify the terms whenever they want:

"We may revise this user agreement and any of the policies listed above from time to time. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it, unless otherwise noted. If our changes reduce your rights or increase your responsibilities we will provide notice to you of at least 21 days. We reserve the right to amend this agreement at any time without notice, subject to applicable law. By continuing to use our services after any changes to this user agreement become effective, you agree to abide and be bound by those changes. If you do not agree with any changes to this user agreement, you may close your account."

https://venmo.com/legal/us-user-agreement/

Every TOS you've ever agreed to has a clause like this. These agreements are extremely one-sided.
> Since types are optional in Python, it's necessarily true that an "Any"-like type is prioritized since it's the default. Moreover, cpython doesn't check anything when it bytecode-compiles.

mypy is pretty whiny about types, and sure, if you add Any everywhere then you have just defeated the type checker, but this is no different from putting interface{} everywhere for Go.

> Any-by-default and no-built-in-checking feels pretty defanged to me.

Is running mypy on the code base that much to ask?
> How is it possible to opt-out of a legal process?

via contract

> How is it possible for this to happen automatically without agreeing to it?!

by accepting the Terms of Service
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it also means that a class-action lawsuit can't be started against Venmo
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Arguing against meat is like arguing against cars.

Can society live without cars? Probably. We did before.

Will it be an interesting and convenient future? Probably not.

But we have alternatives (electric cars)! And we keep looking for more ways to propel. We don’t stop looking for solutions, just because gas is bad.

Same for beef. We have sustainable alternatives. Just vote with your dollar. Don’t buy factory meat. And help subsidize further research.

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water!
Whats the mechanics for how they’re able to do this?
For a $1M property, a 4.5% cap rate would be $45,000 in net operating income (after all expenses).

At least for residential property, you'd be lucky to get $45,000 in gross income on a $1M property in Los Angelas.

Are you talking commercial property?
> OpenBSD expects that its users will look up and apply solutions.

That is fine and all, but consider the following:

- if a solution is needed, that means that there's a problem; why should an update knowingly introduce a problem?
- caring about the environmental impact/load on the hardware isn't mutually exclusive with being knowledgeable and able to apply solutions; shouldn't the more conservative/environmentally friendly option be the default setting?
Similarly, real expectations our friends from NYC when visiting Colorado:
1- Buffalo would be roaming the streets
2- people would be riding horses around town
3- we would be skiing everywhere

Their real responses to visiting:
"Where are all the people"
Opportunity and freedom, to exploit others.
Where is your first sentence coming from though? Afaik keto works well by stabilizing and lowering insulin release with the effect of minimizing the storage of fat and carb cravings caused by sugar crashes.
If you want to you can literally skip a meal without becoming grumpy, lightheaded or ravenous.
Also: how can a diet composed of meat, fish, cruciferous and green leafy vegetables, cheese, nuts, berries, fatty fruits like avocado and olives, and healthy oils be one of the least nutritious diets around? A vegan diet is clearly scoring much worse on this topic I'm afraid.
To give you an example in this study where different foods are evaluated based on their micronutrient density (in an attempt to combat malnutrition) you'll see that the top foods are all of animal origin: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.80656...

Results: We find that the top sources of priority micronutrients are organs, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, bivalves, crustaceans, goat, beef, eggs, milk, canned fish with bones, mutton, and lamb. Cheese, goat milk, and pork are also good sources, and to a lesser extent, yogurt, fresh fish, pulses, teff, and canned fish without bones.
my experience with python's optional type system was that the simple stuff works very well, but when you try to go down a type rabbit hole for more advanced stuff involving generics it becomes really unworkable, inconsistent, and hard to dig yourself out of.

but for little things, like just function signatures, it's great!
> can't fully represent heterogeneous values in a dict, given that you can't do this _at all_ in many statically compiled languages.

This isn't really true. For example, in Java it's Map<K,Object>. For languages without subtyping, existential types are often used. It's quite common to see in infrastructural code, e.g. caching.
What do Apple and large Apple shops do for identity management? Active Directory? OpenLDAP? FreeIPA?
fwiw i was able to successfully port this complex project into rust's type system.
Twitter, in general, is a remarkably open company internally. Because it leaks things like a sieve and has people dig into its products for new stuff, this ends up being the case externally as well. Most major A/B tests are announced via the various official Twitter accounts, for example, and employees regularly tweet about or solicit feedback about new features. Editing tweets, for example, had a concerted effort to avoid it from leaking externally (specifically compiled out of builds rather than being behind a feature flag, codenames, documents mostly put behind “do not distribute internally”) and it was still a somewhat open secret, since you could stumble upon it in the codebase or when searching for bugs. Companies that “care” take far more extreme steps to hide things than Twitter does, or I would argue even knows how to do. It’s not in their DNA.

With that said, the timeline is somewhat secret sauce but mostly it’s just a glop of various parameters that aren’t very interesting to share. Like, how are you going to even describe it to someone? It’s easy to talk about changing a button color, but “we promote retweets 10% more now” is boring and not really something that most people care about.
I can't believe nobody has pointed out that the original article debunking the DK effect is in fact an example of the effect. Truly poetic.
Not following the logic here - because monocropping is bad, it's ok to adopt a practice (growing cattle) that uses 10 times the monocropping per unit of food? Isn't that the opposite of what you want to do?
I’ve had jira tasks for committing to open source repositories at previous jobs.

Sounds like your employer needs to reconsider or have the value be explained to them.
Surely not the same scientists. Not even even scientists. Tobacco marketing people, yes. Can you find any examples to support the claim that “Those same scientists used to tell us cigarettes are not harmful?”

Scientists and doctors have linked cigarette smoking to multiple health problems since the late 19th century.

Now we have the tools to do our own reading, but probably not actual scientific research. That means we have the tools to confirm our biases.
I’d like to see an end to this trope of “US liberalism would be conservative anywhere else.” In terms of social issues, it’s blatantly untrue, and US liberals are easily the furthest left of any foreign liberal group on most social issues. In terms of economic issues, it’s only true when comparing actual laws – the progressive wing of the US Democratic Party is at least as far left as any liberal political group holding similar power in any other country.
I second Intuit many years ago. And politicians. This former company wants, this year, to have full access to your bank account, history, statements and balances just to download a 1099. The latter seem to share email addresses with abandon.
Sometimes it feels like Apple gets a free pass over here...
People say if you get a call from your bank, just ask what's the deal, hang up and call them back to make sure you talk to your bank. While for banks that may be true, a lot of companies outsource their call centers. I once called DHL for a question regarding a package that was on its way to me and the guy asked weird stuff like what my password for their internet portal was and the answers to the security questions to reset it. Of course I didn't answer anything of that and he was getting mad. I ended the call, double checked the number I just called (it was correct) and simply hit redial, ending up at another person that actually just answered my question without asking for all my credentials. After the call I contacted a higher tier level of customer service and it was simply waved off as "There was probably just a misunderstanding".

tl;dr even if you hang up incoming calls and call them back (or initially call them without getting called first) you might end up getting scammed.
Same! I’ve got the Pocket and I’m group 1 on Playdate and Q2 on Steam Deck, so we’ll see which one I get first.

And yeah, I need a jailbreak for the Pocket. And Kryzz had to flee his homeland so getting flash carts is a PITA right now and most of my OG carts are with my parents :/
>They removed access to clipboard for background process, despite the fact there are perfectly valid use cases for that like clipboard manager

Or my beloved KDEConnect!
Didnt even realize there was a server version of MacOS!
Show HN prefix required
Because many people on HN don't read or write much Python.
I have to give Elektron some credit on how consistent their design language in the Digi-/-takt family of products is. Since the first showcase of the Digitakt in 2017, that brings it to 5+ years of consistency - that has to be really rare to see. I read it like they found a solution for a cover and are now just optimizing on the internals.
Seems like an opportunity for businesses like Do Not Pay. I'd pay $2 for this, and it can't cost that much to print and mail paper. I'd even pay a recurring fee to handle these sorts of dark patterns systematically.
$10,000 is on the very low-end for a brand deal with a creator who has 2.2 million subscribers.
Naw, my family and I, including two young children, have not eaten any animal products for a year. We've had a variety of really tasty food, and no nutritional deficiencies. Cost is no more than meat, in fact less. Other than "mmm, but bacon tho", there is no material difference from before we quite meat. To compare with cars, which have undeniable utility, especially in a place like LA where we live, is disingenuous.
I just wanted to comment on the website, I really love this UI
Yea this sounds like the IT department at his org just sucks!
Did you also “watch” those repositories? Just starring something doesn’t usually give you updates on its development.
Sustainable meat is a myth. It doesn't scale to an entire population of meat eaters.
Maybe you could get a job with people closer to you in intellectual curiosity? A dev job would be obvious good fit if you can get it, but if you don't, in many roles you will also work with people more intellectually-oriented than a warehouse crew.
Slipcover: Near Zero-Overhead Python Code Coverage
Apologies as this is not directly related to the post - what books/other resources would you recommend for someone who wants to get into algorithmic trading?
Basically if you fly out of SFO or Oakland Airport when you fly anywhere it's considered in this bucket for folks outside the area. It's such a huge difference and broad swath of cities/towns. From north of the bridge down to sf to Santa cruz to the east bay, San Jose and even further south. It's so much, so complex, and rich in ways not known by simply summarizing it all as SF suburbs.
Their system is to get in a room and come up with headlines. Then they go away and write a little copy to go with it.

So generally the whole point is just the headline anyway. I doubt anyone there would be offended by your comment (which I assume wasn’t intended as an insult, but just saying they’d agree with you)
No idea because I use Trashmail everywhere :D
Battlefield 1 as well!
Mountain View (location of Google HQ) has playgrounds where it is most likely unsafe to let your kids play. This is across the road from Google offices at Fairchild. https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fus...
Which is why we should stop eating red meat. Meat eaters are vastly more overweight than vegans.
Our real life headlines have become so wacky they're indistinguishable from satire.
This article is so hopelessly mis-informed, that it's practically hard to read without screaming "that's not how any of this works!" Most of their main arguments - type hints can be wrong, they can be ignored, and they don't inform you in a useful way about program state because of this - all evaporate as soon as you start using the correct tooling.

My stack is pycharm, mypy, pydantic, sqlalchemy stub, several mypy plugins, black, isort, tabNine completion, and a bunch of custom scripts/Make to automate the common tasks. I'm not even sure I'm on the same planet as the author. I can practically spot incorrect type hints, mismatched types, weakly defined interfaces, from orbit, that's how well they are highlighted. Since every type is known, between pycharm and tabnine I can type 2-5 keys and spit out entire lines of code. And since it's all typed, automatic refactor is a breeze.

I remember the dark ages, before type hints. It was rough. I lived in the REPL. Write 3 lines, run, Exception. Write 3 more lines, run, NoneType error. Ad nauseum. Now I write for hours on end and don't wince when I hit execute. And I don't have to go bug coworkers with questions like "hey what keys are in this dict when we redirect from the oauth endpoint".

Sure, I have my gripes, but it's mostly with the lack of power of the type system, like lack of higher kinded types. But I'm confident it'll get there.

Come to the typed side. We have less mental fatigue and screaming at neverending runtime oopsies.
I joined the VFX grind after this so I had no idea that Nuke was not always the industry standard (obviously not counting the early days)

Apple loves marketing stuff as "pro" when its really just high end consumer.
The basal inflammation level is in fact in large part periodic due to the cortisol cycle.
Taliban Ban TikTok App in Afghanistan for ‘Misleading the Younger Generation’
Explanatory twitter thread: https://twitter.com/emeryberger/status/1517227874507444227
Giving up cars has a real cost in terms of time and productivity. If one lives in a place without usable alternatives, it might even be impossible. Giving up beef has no such cost and is something that any individual can do.
I was surprised, and then surprised again when I saw it was a Onion article. Sometimes satire hits too close to home.
100% agree with you and the parent, but it should not be at the whim of a governor/president.
I look at profiles all the time to see what else people have made and in generally trying to judge the quality of their work.

Basically whenever I find a package I really like, or I'm skeptical about the profiles the first place I go.

What use is private profiles? Basically nil, but they want to turn GitHub into OnlyFans
If he has it. At standard margin rates, he'd need to put up ~$140 billion in TSLA stock to cover his TWTR offer. How much can TSLA slide before he doesn't have that. Keep in mind, private companies (SpaceX, Twitter in this hypothetical) cannot be used for margin purposes.