skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That analogy seems to support the idea that checkboxes require a "save" button to apply the change. In real life, merely ticking a box on a piece of paper doesn't do anything; you have to give the piece of paper to someone.

On the other hand, a toggle switch (like a light switch) has an immediate effect.
The latter is an astonishingly dystopian metric. Is the data published somewhere?
"How to use Calculators" by R. U. Kiddinme
This. I always keep that qr code screenshot & pharse in a seperate keypass database. Instant same 2fa anytime.

https://spa.bydav.in/otp.html

Shameless plug, I spinned up a local html javascript page to import export these code phrases anytime, with customization options, like issuer name, account name etc.
American or European?

European fries are potato, oil, salt.
Getting hugged too hard; great idea though! I tried a few times to get the following query through, saving it for later: "complex instrumental music like Plini or Nick Johnston with lots of melody and guitars"
It's not a random Pharma company mandate, it's an FDA one. I think it's in here: 21 CFR Part 314.80 Postmarketing reporting of adverse drug experiences.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFR...

At its heart I get it — you don't want a company's employees to be burying reports of adverse events. But now the company is liable to ensure such things get reported. And thus they pass this liability onto their employees.
Shoutout to QBASIC.EXE, a single executable file that managed to teach me to program, pre-internet, with no more than its built-in help system.
Lucky to have never contracted it. I'm a bonafide hermit anyways so social distancing wasn't 'new' or 'special' to me. I've also worked from home for as long as I can remember, and COVID-era lock-downs didn't affect my work. Again, lucky.

COVID reminded me of a few simple facts such as the importance of an immune system, and I double-dosed Vitamin D more than I should, along with probiotics and cultured/fermented foods like Kefir & Kimchi. The mental health aspect of it affected many even though they had a good immune system. Not being able to socialize affected many of the extroverted types. Glad to see they're thriving now though.
I wonder whether this system works for zip-compressed files, such as large .docx, .npz, etc. These are common large files, but it seems that rsync cannot handle compressed files.

Would Jamsync solve this problem?
It's a reference to this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

:)
It's about the "boy who cried wolf" vs how incident management works.

False positives can make real issues get an insufficient response when they occur (e.g. sentinel getting eaten).
I wish there was like a "libawk" or something like it for programmatic usage. Its really a neat piece of work that is limited on being only a shell program.

At least, as far as I am aware, there is no programmatic interface
English text aligns on the left. So the checkboxes need to be on the left to be close to the text.

If checkboxes are on the right, they are either far away from the text or (I shudder to imagine) horizontally misaligned.
BASIC has SUB (for procedures) vs FUNCTION (for functions).
TLDR: interest rates used to be higher.
Saxon math worked out for me, although we didn’t shop around as far as I remember, so maybe Singapore would have worked fine as well.

My experience is that I didn’t really feel like I was memorizing an algorithm. Because the problem set includes assignments from all of the old sets, it is hard to memorize all of the algorithms. So you instead memorize the different moves that are allowed and have a general idea of what types of moves might be useful.

I dunno. I went on to do engineery stuff as an undergrad rather than pure math stuff, it seems like a good match because engineering problems are also often in the “no need to be super clever, just don’t mess up” vein, so it could be just a lucky match. This is what I mean by muscle memory — I’ll use the famous names theorems when necessary but sometimes you just need to bash the math until the thing you want is on that side of the equal sign and the other stuff is on the other side.

I think anything that results in

1) actually reading some textbook

2) actually working through problems for a couple hours a week

will compare well to the typical US math education pretty well anyway.
Funnily enough, I actually had issues with Coinbase today as well. All of a sudden they wanted to block me from using cards (no idea why, I've been a customer for at least two years).

I got told the change was due to security and irreversible, unless I delete and register a new account. I did that, and short story it worked for a few hours. After that I started failing ID checks (using the same information I registered for Binance).

Soon enough, I couldn't top up either by card or bank. They sent me an email telling me to use "alternative methods" when they literally are none - except directly transferring crypto over which kind of defeats the point.

I filed a complaint (different to a support ticket), so we'll see how that goes...

PS: Binance has been giving me issues as well. They owe me 5 USDT, and they told me to keep the chat open for approximately eight hours. Not as bad as Coinbase, but definitely not without issues.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. This post is about as congenial as religious flamebait gets, but it's still that.

Admittedly the upvotes such a post gets are a bigger problem than the post itself, but there's not much we can do about those. (This post was upvoted to the top of the thread when I saw it. I've marked it off topic now.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I still use "MIDISoft Recording Session" to edit midi files. Seriously ancient software there, and it's having some compatibility problems (related to moving the mouse cursor) under OTVDM + Windows 10.
Therapy is out of reach for many/most people, at least in the US. Getting an appointment can take months and often they're only offered online, which isn't quite the same for a lot of people. Also expensive. Then, if you do get an appointment and can afford it, your therapist might be handling 400 cases at the moment, so your relationship is unlikely to progress past a superficial level where you can benefit.
+1 - Personally not a fan of cloud IDEs - I am ok if the front-end for the tool itself is html based but run by/on a local http/websocket server. Having to maintain my entire stack on the cloud somewhere is something I still havent gotten comfortable (yes we use Github for source control somewhere and cloud for running you stuff somewhere). Then again I didnt get containers 15 years ago!
But will it be 8x better?
The Next Generation of Search: A Chat-Based Search Engine
A major update to Perplexity Ask was announced today: the world’s first conversational search engine! Read answers with up-to-date sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can chat with your search engine now.
They come with a plastic insert you can clip on the front so you have a solid background to look at.[0]

[0] https://resource.nreal.ai/web/images/air/air_packaging_verti...
I don't think so. I'd be shocked if Facebook, etc. let you create more than one account with the same ID.
A very good observation: https://www.jefftk.com/p/wolf-incident-postmortem#1096589888...
What's sad is that despite it's current state, secret management has still managed to turn into a cargo cult. It's a "best practice" that people blindly implement without thinking.

But secrets are next to useless if they are:

- not used to limit number of people that have access to them (it is quite typical in small teams to give everybody access to production, which essentially gives you access to keys)

- not regularly rotated (at the very least when a person that had access to them leaves the company)

And rotation is hard: a lot of systems still don't support multiple keys, so rotation has to be very carefully tied to some form of blue-green deployment, which is often not possible.
Oh really? I've tried --shift-heading in the past and it worked to move headings up a level, but not to the title. I'll have to read the docs more carefully and give it another go. Thank you.
This is the explanation:

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FFm1yTf1aMAIC...

Ploum-ploum is only used in the south-east of France.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, stocks were viewed as a purely speculative investment. The idea that buy and hold will provide great returns is a modern one and is supported by the growth of the stock market in the 20th century.

There is also the issue of survivorship bias. The SP500 and Dow Jones indices regularly discard the losers and add new companies, so we don't know the true results of holding companies for a long period of time.
For sure I got significantly(?) better with classics like Spivak, Apostol, Rudin.

"Real and Complex Analysis" by Rudin, and the two books both named "Calculus" from Spivak and Apostol. But also from Apostol his more concise and far-reaching "Mathematical Analysis". And from Spivak his small gem "Calculus On Manifolds" made quite a dent on me.

Other than more "classic math" books, I also wanted to mention two outliers that I found eye-opening and generally awesome:

* Street-Fighting Mathematics, by Mahajan (http://streetfightingmath.com/). Intuitive, useful and fun.

* Geometric Algebra for Physicists, by Doran and Lasenby. I found the power and elegance of geometric algebra mesmerizing, and even if this book is also about physics and there may be more appropriate math-only books about geometric algebra, this is the one that made it for me.
This dev must be one of the few in the world that doesn't need Google or man pages when awk is needed :)
Yeah, this was pretty widely known internally at the time (I was there 2012-2017). I didn't have first-hand exposure to the information, but I had a ton of second/third hand.
Presumably because this targets enterprise use cases it's not a threat to the App Store? Although I'm sure Apple could easily find some way to consider it to be a threat.
https://archive.is/MFvb2
Oh, how I wish I could've been involved in the halcyon days of the computer industry. I'm sure it's all rosey looking from the perspective of someone who wasn't there, but the scrappy young development teams, humble small organizations, mail-order software, and general naive optimism of the preceding era seems like it was so much fun. Probably very challenging, and I'm sure frustrating, but I can only imagine the satisfaction of having worked on the Macintosh and breaking so much new ground.

I was born in time to experience the internet when it was a lot more fun and experimental, which I definitely am grateful for. I hope there are more "moments" like this in the future, though I can't help but feel they're mostly over when it comes to computers and technology. Things just can't stay scrappy and experimental forever.
Nim does this, it has 'proc' and 'func'. They define a `func` as a procedure with no side effects using the macro `{.noSideEffect.}` [1].

[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-func
How else can I delay needing to actually think through your question??
The selection looks to me to be an emphasis on readable, English technical typesetting... and then a collection of experiments used to think about features they didn't want to leave out.

Ligatures in Baskerville, mathematical typesetting, box drawing... the layout specs for Tengwar, with its alternate forms and ligatures.

I can't read Hebrew, so I have no idea how usable its implementation is here, but Hebrew was plausibly the most widely used right-to-left text system in North America at the time of publication.

Blows my mind they were doing this in 1976.
Related:

Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896901 - Jan 2016 (55 comments)
also many Google TVs do not support it
When I was 16 I locked the keys in my parents old car when I drove it so many times that my father, having grown tired of coming to my rescue, put a spare key on a dog tag chain and told me to wear it around my neck. I continued locking the keys in the car when I would drive it, but it was never a problem again.

Now I keep a key chain with a yubikey on it that serves as a redundant option for 2fa to authenticate my google account, in addition to the app in my phone. I actually have two of them and the other is in a secure remote location. If you are doing anything critical in your google services you must have multiple 2fa options for disaster recovery.
... "after the shot was found ineffective at preventing infections."

As opposed to an alternate justification for early termination of trials: overwhelming evidence of efficacy.

(Annoying clickbait headlines are annoying.)

That said, an unfortunate outcome.
What ignorant tripe! Author fancies himself the self-appointed arbiter of "the libertarian creed," yet his criticisms are the usual boring and disingenuous ad hominems of "racist" "sexist" "privilege" I'd expect from a leftist.

These are the points he seems to take issue with:
1. Private property is important to liberty.
2. The solution to racism might just not be more racism.
3. Open borders are good in theory but have problems in practice.

Some may disagree with these points, particularly on their nuances, but to conclude that they are somehow incompatible with libertarianism is completely brain-dead.

I wonder what this learned author and philosopher is up to these days... Oh, that's interesting: https://www.foxnews.com/media/will-wilkinson-lynch-mike-penc...
Why does that strike you as myopic? Just the opposite, if the Rabbinate decided that they've never heard of these little bugs in the water and so they don't count, that would be myopic. The fact that this is a question which was debated a bunch in the orthodox world shows a flexibility that I think is underrated in orthodoxy. Is religion incapable of fitting their model over the continuum of life, or does it continue to adapt to new information?

I'm reminded of a discussion in the talmud. A rabbi says that he heard from an Athenian scholar that there is a type of... mouse? bug? The aramaic isn't clear, some kind of little animal. Anyway, there's this creeping thing which comes to live when the sunlight hits a certain type of mud at a certain time of day. There's a whole discussion about whether these things are really "alive", vis a vis whether or not you can "kill" them on shabbat (this discussion is had elsewhere about lice, which were thought to have generated spontaneously. Jewish law has always been flexible and adaptable and shifted along with changing understanding of ourselves and our surroundings. I don't see how this anecdote suggests any differently.

P.S. most (probably like 98% of) orthodox rabbis I have talked to permit drinking tap water even though it has little bugs in it, because they're too small to see with the human eye and thus are not forbidden to eat. If they were big enough, you would have to filter them, just like you have to check for bugs before you eat lettuce.
C could support the concept of nullable vs non-null pointers. Clang even already has this as an extension: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#nullabil...

There is also an associated nullability sanitizer.

I use this in my own C code all the time and null pointer errors vanish if you faithfully annotate every pointer. There’s also a pragma to make non null pointers the default in a file.

GCC devs would have to be convinced to add this to GCC and then nullability annotations would need to be added to the kernel. You can then do static analysis/compile error if you do an unguarded check of a nullable pointer.
Just because the saying is apocryphal doesn't mean the spelling "cool-aid" was correct. The saying is "drinking the Kool-Aid" regardless
Removing dividend does make sense because dividends are taxed. You cannot reinvest all dividends, unless you're using a tax advantaged account.
You keep saying "predicting the next token" like it's somehow a small task, but predicting the future by modeling the problem space is fundamentally what intelligence is. "The next token" can be influenced by anything from facts about the world to quirks in the way humans think. For it to perform at anything like the level it does, it must have built models of all those things.
Figures 6 and 9 look a lot like https://totalrealreturns.com/ , especially with the trendlines on these figures, logarithmic y-axis, (disclosure: my side project, recomputed daily at market close)

It would be cool to merge in some longer-term historical data as the article author has done, instead of just using actually-tradable assets like I've done.

Per the article, the author considers these charts "misleading":

> Charts such as Figure 9, with their accompanying commentary, and combined with the distinctive behavior of the product function, may lead investors to mis-anchor their expectations about the future performance of bond and stock investments. Faced with a yawning visual gap, and apprised of the numerical dominance of stock returns (in Siegel 2014, estimated at 6.6% real versus 3.6% for bonds), an investor readily infers that bonds are never going to out-perform stocks over any lengthy period.

I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion. A log scale hides a lot of volatility, but it's still fairly obvious that the stocks line has a lot more volatility, prolonged periods of substantial drowdowns (painful!)...

As another commenter points out, this article's use of price-only data (even if adjusted for inflation) is intellectually dishonest, ignoring returns from dividends. And yes, your typical price-only, non-inflation-adjusted charts from Yahoo Finance / Google Finance / Apple Stocks should probably be considered intellectually dishonest, or at least confusing, in my opinion...
Of course it depends on the filesystem. I’d be interested in what it is concretely, for each of the commonly used desktop filesystems.
FYI: I thought this was going to be a story about taking 5-15 minute power naps. Might want to adjust the title.

Still looks interesting!
A Pathetic Example of Living Beyond Your Means That We Have Normalized
You can vouch for [dead] comments. When enough users do that, it will come back to life. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch.
I've honestly never fully understood Bergstrom's trilemma that set up this whole debate. I understand what it's arguing, but don't understand why the third option (we're in a sim) is the most plausible of the three...

I think it's more likely that we can't make conscious sims at this scale/fidelity (#1), or that a society sophisticated enough to do so would take issue with "simulating" bone cancer in conscious sim children (#2). I'd hope, at least.
Tip: You can bulk export your google authenticator app secrets for a disaster recovery like this. I had not seen this functionality before but I'm glad it existed when setting up a new phone yesterday. I remember the old high friction way of having to deregister and reregister for each account.

Howto:

... menu in top right -> export accounts
make sure all are selected, select export
It will generate a series of dense QR codes.
Screenshot / photograph / add to backup phone, save and print for your document safe, whatever.

Of course, this doesn't help if you're already in a loss situation. But recovery this way is SO much easier than typing in a backup code. Recovery is as quick as having the app scan each of the QR codes in sequence. For me it was just 3 dense QR codes.

I was a little surprised that it was this easy to extract all the secrets. I'm going to have to think even more carefully about what TOTP secrets go in there now.
> In a non-funny-money-world, government bonds would yield more than expected inflation.
> No one would ever give the government money expecting to lose money.

What would they do? Is there a dominating (stochastically) alternative?
I would switch to plant-based meat if it scored at least 2/3 on...

- healthier
- cheaper
- tastier

I think it currently scores somewhere between 0 and 1 out of three.
I willingly switched from Mercuial to Git due to, at the time, lack of in-repo branching and lack of history editing. IMO Mercurial shot themselves in the foot with some of their early decisions.
One of the great joys of retrocomputing is to learn these ”forgotten” technologies very few people talk about.

It’s funny that 8-bit computers from Atari and Commodore placed storage on daisy-chain serial buses with the drives running the filesystem management on their own CPUs.

I wonder how much data processing one could do back then by loading small programs in the drive RAM to, say, deduplicate or sort lines in a text file.
I misspoke, you are correct.
Thanks for sharing! Can you please compare and contrast with you.com?
And if you've ever applied for life insurance, you may also know that consultations with your doctor should also be treated similarly, lest they use a casual mention of smoking a cigar 17 years ago as grounds to increase your rate or deny coverage altogether.
That's what I thought. But at what utilization rate (%age of each month's hours) does buying it make more sense? 20%? 50%? 85%?
Does that cost include the externalities of how the oil actually used? I don't believe solar (+ all the other renewables) is equivalent to drilling for oil, piping it thousands of miles, refining it, then burning it somewhere. Happy to be proven wrong but this doesn't pass my smell test.
Not currently, but it would definitely be interesting to have an unzip done automatically based on the file type. Then you would be able to track the contents efficiently, rather than having large binary blobs with large diffs. I haven't heard of other version control systems out there doing this.
How?

By making text flow to 100% of the width you can easily resize the browser window for everyone's perfect reading width.

I usually run my browser tiled to 50% of the screen, the new design wastes a lot of space at that size (you have to shrink to really narrow width before it enters 'mobile mode' and uses 100% of the width again - I mean it's pretty insane, you can see more text at say 30% width, but at 40%-60% it pops out that useless white space padding on the left leading to a narrower effective text width)
I was discussing how it is not a meritocracy. Whether the career advice is good or not is not the point. The point is that we are not in meritocracy.
Ask HN: Are Interviews Getting Longer?
I was laid off in early December and have been interviewing since. I’ve noticed a trend of companies spanning the process over 2 to 3 weeks with multiple 1 hour rounds with different people. I’ve also noticed even more companies are incorporating leetcode style screenings after a phone screen and then having you do 1 to 2 more technical assessments with actual software engineers at the company. Last time I actually interviewed back in 2019, I had a phone a screen and then a single 4 hour block of interviews and that was it. Now there just seems to be a lot more waiting between rounds and recruiters don’t seem to like onboarding into their interview pipeline while you’re in progress with others in case you get an offer. Curious if others have had this experience in years prior and it’s the norm or if this appears to be a new trend for others as well?
Indeed, nifty. I've been using this (usually with Google rather than DeepL) for some time with French. I type my French, switch to English, then back. It usually gets the spelling and grammar better than I could.

Of course I could just type it in English in the first place and let it auto-translate. This is just for practice. And I always check to ensure that the result is what I wanted (as best I can).

It would be nice if they had a tool for that directly: pointing out the mistakes, keeping properties of the original text (like formal vs informal you), maybe even a grammar lesson to explain what I got wrong.