skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say this view overestimates both the depth and abstraction at which people actually understand the things they do in the course of normal living. These exercises won't turn anyone into a trivia master or gatekeeper, but it will give them working knowledge.

The point is that each of these things requires actually doing them and they are fun enough to practice, so nobody merely follows along. Sure, a class of 30-40 kids won't be able to do it, but that's the worst possible way to teach anyone anything while only guaranteeing they are all evenly disadvantaged.

A blackjack tournament or poker tournament over a few days is enough to get card counting principles down, and even if you are crap at it, you understand that probability is a thing, it has distributions, it's not always right, and you can bet against other peoples ability to interpret them.
I've never seen such a cynical comment like this one here. On what basis are you theorizing this?
> I've found these cloud editing solutions great for working with your colleagues but terrible for collaborating externally.

You can blame this on your O365 admins rather than Microsoft. For admins who want to generally restrict external sharing, it can even be limited to select Document Libraries. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/solutions/co...
Time for you to release a set of video lectures! [crosses fingers…]
Much lower than that -- aircraft ascending from or descending into airports cross tons of private property lines.
That 'raining, snowing, too hot, too cold' argument keeps coming up. You know, we humans are perfectly capable of dressing up appropriately and just enjoying the fresh air, whether it's warm or cold. In fact, it makes you feel alive!

Get the nice warm gloves and raincoat out for winter, or the super light and loose shirt with sunglasses for summer.
How many hours of commuting a day amounts to living "exactly where you want to"?

If you can save $1000/month in rent by adding 200 hours of commute, why is that OK? And once you add in the extra thousands of miles of car travel, and having to pay for a car rather than being able to bike or take a bus, and it doesn't actually save any money...

Here are the estimated costs of living for various campuses, by three different methodologies:

https://twitter.com/weinberz/status/1596299620266962944?s=46...

The highest cost of living is where there's no escape to cheap housing by adding long commutes.

The people running these towns with high cost of living could add plenty of more housing, enough to reduce the cost of living, but have been spoiled brats about it. The level of entitlement among homeowners about not even seeing an apartment is absolutely astounding.
Imposing those sanctions would be preceded by an investigation. The fact that only one dev got arrested is probably indicative that it’s more than just “for writing code”.
Charging a Model S over an american household plug takes 3 days.
i usually write my actions in the web editor, but i do use -m when committing from git itself pretty much every time
Something smells off about this story. It’s got linked references but I can imagine this ending up being disproven as one of those fictitious Wikipedia articles.
Now would be a good time to call your elected representatives and leave an angry voicemail:

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

2 senators, 2 congress reps, 4 phone calls, 10 minutes out of your day.
Gemini's COO is on the board of this bank.
They may be arguing against sanctions because they are ineffective and hurt the West. I haven't seen the stance to ignore the Ukraine invasion altogether.

I wonder why you would single out HN for these posts. They appear in every comment section even of the mainstream press, on YouTube and other places.

Ineffectiveness of sanctions is an old and legitimate topic. Certainly the topic is discussed behind closed doors everywhere. There is a difference between hardliner isolationism and realism. Ultimately, the Western economies have to function if $billions in weapons are to be provided in the future.
> People in the '90's would have bemoaned that the US was well down from its peak in The 40's

>>9/11 is the inflection point
>George Bush et al really wanted Americans to believe that, but why? It's not like Iraq is that much different from Vietnam.

This to me fails to note the categorical difference between the US's role before and after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Before '90 US was representative of one of the candidate systems. After '90, "new world order" of George Bush (the elder). UN was supposed to be the mechanism for unleashing violent force. So Vietnam and Afghanistan may look the same on paper (superficially imo), but they are two entirely different matters as far as the "international community" is concerned. This was the sin of the neocons -- shattering that implicit accord among the powers.
If people exercised instead of living in their cars/offices and walking 5 minutes per day they'd be able to do basic human things at 70 instead of having their body give up at 40
As my grandma would say, you're not made of sugar. If the new baseline for human life is to not be exposed to rain and never sweat we can give up now because we'll never manage to make that sustainable.
This is insane. Nobody should be allowed to block access like that. The land owner was harassing these men while they were on public land and is continuing to harass them using a court. The landowner should be in prison.
> Butler saw the push to the stars as something that could give humans a common purpose and save us from the terminal infighting that happens when we lack one.

This will only happen after we do something about capitalism, if we ever do.
the optimized version does it byte by byte
I'm not surprised. I've seen bulk MySQL reads in Python be CPU-bound. The interesting followup was that parallelizing reads in subprocesses wasn't going to help much because I'd get killed by CPU again when serializing/deserializing between processes. I was capped at a ~2x speedup.
The left embraced SBF and have some embarassment about the looting. If a poor black man stole funds like this, he would be locked up awaiting trial.
True but… that’s mainly because retailers took an accounting factoid and made it into a promotional holiday and thus set expectations.
Did Tufte say that regarding live presentations? As he's more of an infographic / dashboard SME.

Live presentations are designed to "lead the witness" (neither inherently good nor bad) - or rather, if a presentation really is merely a collection of things without a narrative, it might as well obey Tufte and lay it out all at once.
I'll be more brazen and say I would have expected some working, production code examples by now. What I've got is someone throwing it over the wall: ok, thanks, I guess. I'd rather know than not. But the code is smelly, internally it would appear to be failing because it tried to pass a loop kwarg which another part of it doesn't recognize: I didn't pass that arg.

From what I can see so far asyncio.gather() would seem to be the canonical refactor.

I'm not sure that I'm down with the philosophy of the loop stopping running AT ALL unless I ask for it. I've got long-running processes. I spew stack traces from within coroutines, and if the situation is dire enough I call stop() myself.

I always thought that being able to leave coroutines in the queue when the loop isn't running was a feature, not a bug.
I also seem to recall something about Salvador Dalí wanting a flaming giraffe?
You are already so prolific outside HN, have you considered collecting your HN comments in your own space?

Once I started doing this I found HN comments would grow off HN. Now there are a few subjects where I can just point people at a link the next time a subject comes up. And the link has often grown out of repeated iterations of debate on HN and elsewhere.

It doesn't bother me that people forget HN comments. I don't forget them, and that seems the important thing.

You _are_ right that one needs to keep HN at arms length. Over the years I try not to engage in repeated back and forth. I'm not writing primarily for whoever I'm arguing with. I'm writing for the silent readers.
> Americans should consider if they really want to turn their relationship with the world's largest economy into one that is purely hostile.

The relationship is far from "purely hostile". We're giant trading partners. The relationship is mutually beneficial.

As was said here, our restrictions on Chinese companies are nothing compared to their restrictions on ours. And they've built their economy using so much stolen IP that's it's hard to believe this wasn't CCP policy coming from the top. [1] [2]

It's also not hard to imagine CCP hackers using homegrown telecommunications equipment as part of this IP "procurement" process. Personally I think a move like this is long overdue. As has been said here, what's wrong with deciding who your friends are and aren't? We're trading partners, that doesn't necessarily make us allies. Yes this is geopolitical, and if geopolitical issues aren't issues of national security, I don't know what is.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-s...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_intellectual_pr...
That's interesting. Depending on the number of tracks/artists that you initially import it is possible that the tool won't find any similar artists.

Can I ask how many tracks and artists you are importing from your playlists and how many artists you are selecting in the parameters panel?
The Netherlands is not a regular country and cannot be used as a template for any other country in the World, except maybe some flat urban area, like Copenhagen, or the Vatican (which has a few hills more than the Netherlands BTW)

p.s. Dutch did not like to hear this, but somebody had to say it.
> Does it not impinge on their rights to fair choice?

What are you talking about. You just made up a legal right that has never existed. Try going and opening up a restaurant in any city in america without submitting to any health department inspection. You will get shut down.

There is no such universal right under US law to "fair choice" when buying goods, whatever that might mean. There are millions of pages of laws and regulations affecting buying and selling of goods in all 50 states as well as in the federal government.
My mind follows the same pattern, and often when I have to do something unpleasant or anxiety-triggering. The support email might be about something I broke, or the phone call requires a big ask, or I’m avoiding feeling incompetent about what I need to do. The distraction is almost always either to numb/overwhelm senses to suppress that feeling, or something new to make me feel competent / intelligent / good. As an engineer, checking HN often satisfies both needs.

Pushing back from the desk and breathing helps me recenter and refocus, and “costs” me only 100 seconds from the day.
This is incorrect. Imagine the impact on Starlink of property rights extended infinitely.

In the US there is not a specific limit, but the principle is “your airspace rights extend as far as could reasonably be used in connection with the property.”[0]

It also depends on frequency of overflight. A small plane landing at a nearby rural airport once a week is treated differently than swarms of drones flying at the same altitude all day every day.

So maybe a few hundred feet, maaaaybe 5000 feet if your property is a helipad. But not infinite.

[0] https://aviation.uslegal.com/ownership-of-airspace-over-prop...
So? No one's bringing them up on criminal charges.

If I think you're shady and you refuse to provide evidence otherwise, then I don't have to do business with you. And if I'm in charge of regulating business in the country, then I can prevent you from doing business here because of that perceived shadyness. It's that simple.
MS captured a lot of great revenue streams. Ballmer missed most of the opportunity but it's picked up steam in the last decade.
Find the Prompt
> it takes three hours to charge using a conventional three-pin domestic plug and socket.

Granted that's with glorious european 230V, but there you go. You can literally go out, come back, charge it, then go back out again.

The battery is 5.5kWh. The first gen leaf had an entry-level battery of 24kWh, the second gen starts at 40. It's more comparable to a phev battery (the first-gen Prius had 4.4kWh, the current third gen uses a 13.6kWh battery).
The tornado cash dev got jailed for life for his software, meanwhile mister Fried gets interviews with top newspapers after stealing billions. Where is the justice?
For short distances, getting my car out from under fresh snow is more work than taking the bike. Even when it's just a small layer of light snow that needs to be dusted off.

Also if I'm going to spend any time outside, I need to spend equal amount of time picking my clothes and dressing for the weather regardless of whether I pick the car or the bike.
Researcher: Apple’s pseudo-VPN abused for ad fraud
Black Friday May Be Dying, but Retail Workers Are Still Getting Assaulted
Same in here Alaska, except far more so and without the gravel roads. Air or water travel is the only practical way to reach most of the state. Sometimes foot, snow machine or dog sled are feasible for some areas, at some seasons of the year.
I agree. I don’t particularly like FTX but it could be the reason. It also reduces the risks to be rejected instead of applying with your own company…
> The last thing I want is some random camping in my backyard.

FUD. Freedom to Roam laws only allow camping a fair distance away from inhabited buildings.
Funny they brought back the "Ami" name (see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Ami_6%2C_8_et_Super)
I don't think there's a reason to pursue this but I can't see how this is too far.

I wrote:

> title implies "911 doesn't ring sometimes" ∈ "very scary issue dialing 911", that is incorrect

to summarize why the downvoted comment said the title is clickbait. (As in, it’s a scary issue with the phone, but if we limit to the domain of issues when dialing 911 then 'not ringing sometimes' is not scary, it's mundane.)
Someone just enumerated numbers via scraping -- seems like this only would have marginal value for spammers and maybe as a check if whatsapp was used by a given number.
There's a decided lack of understanding in this thread about the US constitution and the role of Congress, and what this story is about. US Telecoms is a federally regulated industry. Congress does have the powers to compel testimony from individuals or companies related to this situation. If they're not satisified with the responses they can prevent them from selling into the regulated market. They don't need to engage the judiciary branch to do so.

We can argue IF this is "right" and IF these companies have been unfairly targeted, but please stop the misinformation about not having to answer to congress and requiring a court of law.
Ask HN: Does anybody manage their own music collection anymore?
I'm not talking about favoriting and playlist curation on streaming services. I'm asking whether anybody still acquires and maintains music files and/or physical media.

Personally, I've recently tried ditching Spotify and revitalizing my MP3 and FLAC collection because of the oft-cited problem that a lot of the music I want to listen to simply isn't available there. Much of that music I expect never to be added, for various reasons. I've also experienced several cases of favorited songs and albums later being removed.

If you curate your own music collection, why and how do you do it? What methods of acquisition, storage, organization, and playback do you use?
Well, customers actually can buy less stuff and replace current technologic devices at a slower pace.
Hello! Creator of cryptobard.io here :)

> I don’t think the use case of this project is to share clipboard data with a VM. Especially not if you’re hosting the VM yourself (“clipboard access” implies you’re using the host). That’s an option in the readme BUT… why do all that? You don’t really need encrypted traffic, or identities, etc.

I have several years experience of working with contractor, who gave us access to their infrastructure by giving remote access to terminal windows server on VMWare Horizon. And there was NO clipboard sharing, files sending or folders mounting features enabled. We couldn't install any software, and user account (and all the machine) regulary was wiped and reinstalled from ground (on weekly basis). So, this service was created exactly for this situation.

Encryption is needed because of data passed into and out of VM is sensitive (passwords, logfiles, partial DB dumps), and my co-workers sometimes used insecure services, like cl1p.net for the same purpose. So, I written this tool in my free time :)

I'll add this explanation to README, as for me it looked obvious :)
The underlying reasons detailed in that report, again, are gripes about the corporate structure, transparency, and illegal practices. There are no current or past hardware or software threats detailed in that report. The "National Security Threat" posed by these companies is potential not actual. The justification to eliminate this potential is predicated on corporate shenanigans. The real threat they pose, in my opinion, is likely to U.S. corporation's stock price.
I would hazard a guess that many of the victims died from hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
>Wouldn't it be useful even if people have done criminal acts to let them speak about what they have done? If not to hopefully prevent it in the future, to be able to understand the motivation behind it.

Sure. I don't see why that has to be hosted by the NYT though. He could make a YouTube video at any time explaining all of that. The NYT talk was scheduled before all of this happened tho, so I don't think that was their original plan.

>But without that view, I'm afraid we'll throw away people like Snowden, Mitnick, Manning and more, just because what they did was illegal in the eyes of law enforcement.

I don't think we have to talk legal or illegal. He stole billions of dollars from his customers. There's 0 silver lining there.

>Does that mean it's right?

No, it just highlights the bias of institutions.
Most people don't build their program for NVMe drives, but for cloud. Try benchmarking it in regular instance in AWS/GCP using default SSD and you will know that what interviewees said is true, as they are likely not building it to run a program in "your" laptop.
Investigation after the handcuffs would be appropriate. And it would surprise me if the IRS is unable to find fraud in undeclared gifts like the reported $16M condo his parents somehow got in their names.
I’m pretty sure she’d have strong opinions about folks like Musk owning and controlling the means for that push.
Can't hear what actors are saying on TV? It's not you
The difference of extremity does not make comparison unreasonable.

Exploitation of workers is at the core of both circumstances. Downplaying/ignoring one set of circumstances because it is lesser on the scale of abuse is the more remarkable point of view, in my opinion.
Thanks for an excellent description of a use-case where they make sense. Sounds great!
So what did you mean by this?

> Because different programs, implemented differently, run at different speeds...

We're talking about two programs with exactly the same purpose - ingest TypeScript and output JavaScript. It's a pretty clear-cut comparison, IMHO.

> The Go code, on the other hand, is usually simpler and quicker to write

I'm writing Go code at work, and Rust code mostly for fun (but used it at work too). I'd say this has changed significantly in the last 2 years. Now with rust-analyzer and much improved compiler output, writing Rust is very simple and quick too. I guess getting into Rust can be a little harder if you've only ever used GCed languages before, but it's not that hard to learn - and once you do it's super-effective. And the type inference of Rust is a huge reason why I'm using it - while Go has none.

Another thing to consider - usually the code in Go is much more about writing algorithms yourself instead of using library functionality (this is changing slowly thanks to the new support of generics but most code hasn't caught up yet and there aren't good libs using it so far). The resulting code in Go can be convoluted a lot and contain very hidden bugs. People also usually don't bother implementing a proper search/sorting algorithm for the sake of simplicity/speed of development - which you'd get automatically if you used a library function - so the code is less efficient. My Go code is usually 2-3x longer than the equivalent in TypeScript or Rust.

Go is great, I like it. Rust is great too. I recommend you to do what the esbuild author did - test it and choose for yourself, don't bother too much about others' opinion.
I know NextCloud, for having self-hosted it for years, alongside many other similar software and having reviewed its code. I am a strong proponent of open source, both as a user and a developper - and managed IT for very large companies (thi si to bring some context to my comments).

While something like NextCloud or Seafile it is fine for personal use or for small teams it is no way close to something like Microsoft 365 with the extensive backend it provides out of the box. Not to mention email integration.

Again, this is from the perspective of someone who uses and develops open source software and hots a lot of services for personal/family ise, but also from someone who knows the complexity and shitbat crazy wrchitectures you find in large, distributed companies.

If we managed to have in Europe something similar to Zoho, driven by European laws, that would be fantastic. We do not, and this is a real shame.

> But should be viable and if a company has Money for Microsoft365 they should have money to pay to someone to set it up manage for them.

Microsoft 365 is expensive, but the expense of running a home-made solution for a large company is not only the pure management, but also the ability to have hope if there is a problem. I have raised issues for Nextcloud (some of them quite impacting from a security monitoring perspective) and the community replies were horrible. If NextCloud does not monitor the community forum when someone raises such issues then I cannot have any trust that they will fix it for a paying user.
Uber probably isn't the best example given that the company prided itself in being 'fucking illegal', but your point generally stands.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/10/uber-investigation-...
In France it’s 7800€, but with government subsidies it goes down to 6900€.

There are options (including the orange colour you want!), but the only worthwhile one is the Cargo variant (in place of the second seat) for 8200€/7300€. No battery upgrade.
You're right, my comment only applies when bandwidth is the bottleneck. In Python, that web parser could probably do even better with asyncio in a single OS thread.
In my humble opinion, here are some of the best appliance brands that don't require smart features to be enabled or offer smart features.

For washers and dryers: Speed Queen makes some of the most reliable washers and dryers I've ever seen. You'll pay an arm and a leg for them, but they're known to last for between double to quadruple the length of the warranty. My family recently had to purchase a new washing machine, and the Speed Queen display at the store showed off the drum unit designs for Speed Queen vs their competition; Speed Queen uses a single giant gear made of stainless steel, whereas other brands use super complex plastic gearboxes.

For refrigerators: it's really a toss-up; I was able to find plenty of high predicted reliability models without Wi-Fi on Consumer Reports' website.

For other appliances: I haven't had to look for any other appliances as of late, but I always look to CR first because I personally trust their ratings. Your milage may vary.