skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the online documentation for Python stdlib is quite good. What I don't understand is why more of it is not available in help() from Python itself. For all the docstring features in Python, the stdlib somehow just has second rate documentation in module and function docstrings!

Compare with numpy and scipy, where the docstrings are comprehensive (there's a correspondance between online and embedded docs.)
I whole heartedly disagree. Micrometers and millimetres are very, very different and that should be obvious to anyone that uses grams and kgs, or meters and km everyday. Microseconds and milliseconds are obviously different orders of magnitude, that's sort of the whole point of SI prefixes.

That CTO is just doesn't sound qualified for the job.
At the core of a data centre, between VMs, it always makes a difference. An enormous one.
That certainly sounds like bs. The pre-soviet famines' causes were directly the repressive, backward, exploitative and simply evil system that existed and forced the peasants to starve so the nobility and select bourgeois upper class members co-opted into the system could live lives of decadence.
In an alternative universe perhaps where irrational ideas are mass adopted maybe...
For over a decade I've been having free bank accounts with free Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards, and I've been using them with services that allow me to create as many free virtual credit cards I wish.

I thought these services were already widespread.

Are people still paying for debit and credit cards?
This is definitely the more robust, durable and cheaper alternative. But clearly is a utopia for today.
Gordon! Get away from the beam!!!!
Yeah when I find myself wanting to write a comment that describes the implementation, I usually end up writing a test where possible.

I'm trying to think, but I can't come up with any kind of comment that has been useful that didn't have a "because" word, explicitly or implied.

Like, even if there's a comment like:

"This function only queries X and Y fields. Don't add more. If you need more than that, use this_other_function instead."

It has an implied reason behind it, and the mistake is not adding that reason to the comment. So this comment would be missing something like

"[...] because this is being used in a critical part of the code that is very nitpicky and it's very difficult to test because requires some annoying manual steps", or something like that.

There are probably situations where a "what" or "how" comment really are better than "self-documenting code" though. I would probably appreciate those comments if I ever need to read branchless code, SIMD code, or similar performance-sensitve witchcraft.
So, in short: Google and other companies shamelessly polluted the web with ads and personalized ad driven content, and since regular folks use ad blockers, and ad manipulating people abuse the very system those companies fostered, there is now a supposed need to get the house in order... ...by force feeding us ads and trackers, bypassing whatever still allows people to browse sanely.
Ah yes, after giving the middle finger to the entire open source community after you bought Audacity - only after screwing over the original userbase of MuseScore.

Tantacrul is a black mark on the FOSS community. Strong words, yes.
> ESL people are more likely to complain about just how many verb tenses English has.

Also the completely irregular spelling. You need to learn every word twice, first how to write, then how to speak. You can't just infer the sounds from the written word. Languages like Esperanto or German are better in this regard, you learn how to write a word and the odds are you'll know how it sounds as well.
The hypervisor is based on Bhyve from FreeBSD + Propolis in user space. Illumos actually has/ had KVM and there is a talk by Bryan Cantrill where he speaks about the porting effort. All of that information is readily searchable.
Try to work as a substitute teacher and see how it's not nearly true.
You can implement the features you want for your rental home without the downsides we hate by merely doing end-to-end encrypted communication--and likely even peer-to-peer direct communication (and, if not, using a neutral third party to coordinate rather than the manufacturer)--from your computer to the device in question and requiring manual approval of firmware updates, which should not involve any kind of vendor signature requirement.

The default assumption that the company selling the product should have complete control over the software running on the device at all times, that they should have complete control over usage and access of the device, and that they even should have complete visibility to all of the data collected by the device, is so ridiculous as to be downright egregious: it requires someone who has almost nothing but contempt for users--even if they want to claim they somehow are helping them "for their own good"--to even contemplate such an architecture.
You can think of anytype as a web-site builder. You can create pages (objects), databases, interlink them, create a sidebar. Currently you have only one private space, so it’s more about personal knowledge and productivity. With sharing you can publish a blog, create a community or a private team space. So a site builder with a ux of a note taking (so easy, no skills required)
I didn't know Caslon had such a strong heritage. It is my favorite font for reading books but I could probably live without the upper case Q.
Highly depends on in which country you are. For Switzerland I can recommend payrexx which also accept Swiss payment systems such a Twint.

https://payrexx.com/en/
> Computers are so fast now,

Agreed

> enthusiasts would be better served DIY; put a beige box in a local colo

I mean, like, can I provision a zero ops bit of compute from <mystery colo provider> for $20/month?

Edit: looked up colo providers in my city- “get started in 24 hours, pick a rack and amperage, schedule a call now.”. Yeaaah, no. This is why people use cloud providers instead.
If two nearly identical wallets (very minor, but noticeable differences) are placed on a counter and one is significantly more expensive... how would you expect those wallets to sell?

I would expect both of them to sell out. The people looking for a higher quality product will immediately go for the more expensive product, and the remaining wallets would sell to people who just need a wallet.
The reason things take minutes is because people ignore order of magnitude diffences when they're insignificant, (it doesn't matter if X takes 10ms instead of 0.1ms), and then over time someone builds on that and makes the same assumption (it doesn't matter if it takes 100ms, when it could take 1ms, followed by it doesn't matter if it takes 10s). Avoiding these order of magnitude differencdz early on is the best way to ensure you don't end up with a SPA that takes 15 seconds to populate a list with 20 items in it.
What's your better solution? Stop the movie and have the actor playing Bond break the fourth wall and talk directly to the camera? Meanwhile, legal notices in the credits are expected. That's where they go and are negotiated.

As far as I can tell, if the reviewers want to include the disclaimer in their credits, that is also fine. They just cannot include it separately from the video.
It sound nice, but I've been building systems like that since 2012 (usually vmware vCloud director plus custom code). Using hardware like Fujitsu's cx1000, Nexus 1000 distributed vswitch, brocade network switches, and San storage. The systems I built back then could dynamically provision separate network/conpute/storage segments for PCI compliance and more. If I were to build something like this today I'd probably consider using Kubernetes too and integrating it with public cloud for scale out. This way a business can have their "own" cloud that is much more cost effective at certain scales and access to "unlimited" public cloud resources at the same time (at the cost of increase in system complexity).

Is this just more of the same, or is there some innovation there? It is interesting that computing trends go in centralise/decentralise cycles. We can observe this as far back as 1980s. I can't wait for the next "decentralise" cycle as I'm under an impression a lot more innovation happens during that phase.
By allowing private schools to have no oversight from the government, pocket money and teach (or not teach) whatever they feel like? Did that work?
Correct. The “small/limited government” state legislature took away all sorts of rights from individual communities’ self-determination - involving things like running elections (but only in counties above a certain population size, meaning that exactly, uh, one large, diverse county was actually subject to this law) or mandating standards for animal shelters.
These are pretty interesting.
Here in Spain by law they can't disconnect you (not even for non-payment) if you have medical equipment like CPAP.
https://administracion.gob.es/pag_Home/en/Tu-espacio-europeo...
Don't buy Nestlé then?

I'm also not doubting that some products went up by 50%. My point is rather that most products I buy have remained surprisingly stable in price.
They can also use power in certain situations. If the wind is especially weak, they're usually kept spinning using electricity because it takes more wind to start one from a stop than to keep it going.

I've seen one that's sometimes a net-loser on days where the other turbines are standing still. (based on what a landowner said, from the stats the operator gives him)
Here’s a cool project which could potentially help with these handwritten notes they asking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw
There are alternatives, such as Stable Diffusion or DALL-E, but I feel that they produce far inferior results compared to Midjourney. Such a shame that they don't offer an API
Some people will argue that you can’t because IQ is relatively fixed according to a lot of experts. However, while you may not be able to increase your IQ score by much, you can certainly go acquire more education. Structured learning across a broad range of topics is good way to increase the depth of your understanding of the world around you, and even if that can’t be captured in an IQ score that’s a smart thing to do.
Consideration of ESG in Positioning
It's not an alternative, you can't obviate the need for comments with code.

What you're supposed to do is write the code as clearly as possible and then add comments for anything you couldn't manage to express in the code. Usually that'd be all the context around why the code is the way it is and isn't the way it isn't.
Definitely recommend any “nude” cultural stuff you may find. It empowers you with self acceptance and body(ies) awareness.

Germans calls it FKK [0] and it’s a think our civilization would highly benefit to incorporate. Also if anyone visit Belgium/ Netherlands, highly recommend an afternoon in a nude sauna garden. (For those wondering, no sex involved neither allowed). Naturist beaches in other places are great too but a bit harder to get when you’re a “beginner” : they tends to be public space that are also frequented by clothed-people and you may find yourself weird to undress among them, the first times at least.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikörperkultur
> When I watched AlphaZero play chess, I was just a tiny bit impressed. I watched it beat the Go grandmaster and I was not very impressed. Then I watched it play Dota 2 -- in which I've sunk several thousand hours -- and holy crap. Wow! It was suddenly terrifying how good it was, because I could judge the nuance of what it was doing

Funny, my game of choice is StarCraft 2 and when I watched AlphaStar beat StarCraft 2 pros I was significantly less impressed than when I watched AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go.
I've been with them for a long time and my guesses would be:

1. Strict rules and strict customer verification. Crypto mining that wastes SSDs is not allowed. Portscans, mass emails, etc. are not allowed. They also don't offer GPUs to the general public because it has been abused in the past. You usually need to send in ID documents just to open an account. My guess is this allows them to avoid most bad actors and, thereby, waste less money on fraud.

2. Extremely long-term investments. They typically build their own hardware and then use it over 10 years. They have their own flea market where you can rent older server models for a steep discount. That means they will have a long time where the hardware is fully paid off and still generating revenue.

3. Great service. With a mid-sized company, I can call their technicians in the middle of the night. The fact that we could call them in case of a crisis has generated A LOT of good will. But I would be truly surprised if they didn't make a profit off those phone calls, as they charge roughly 4x the salary cost.

4. High-margin managed services. In addition to just the cheap servers, they also offer a managed service where they will do OS and security upgrades for you. It's roughly 2x the price of the server and it appears to be almost fully automated. I know some freelance web designers who will insist on using Hetzner Managed for deployment for their clients, because it is just so convenient. You effectively pass off all recurring maintenance for €300 a month and your client is happy to have an emergency phone number (see #3) in case the box goes down.
class ... static ... constructor ... super ... this ... extends ... @. Give me a break. I thought we'd moved on from Angular's attempt to turn the front-end into Spring.
As a gamedev, that sentence nearly gave me a heart attack. :)

I get where you are coming from, but the amount of work you can do in 5ms is mindblowing.
Can you elaborate more on this? Obviously they've "acquired" these open source projects - which probably leaves a bad taste in the mouth of many OSS purists - but they're also investing significant money into improving them. At the end of the day there'll be a much better open source app.
- "It is certainly not as far-fetched as Leonard Bernstein's controversially slow reading of Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations with the BBC Symphony Orchestra."

That link got Google-holed, but I think it's the same content as this one (?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkklz0Vird4 ("Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations | BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein") (1984? or 1982?)

(Or it might have referenced a specific passage of that recording, but I can't easily figure out which).
Most people might not appreciate "good code" but they'll sure as hell un-appreciate bad, unreadable code.
That ends with:

"Update: I was not truly in the dark for a week. My smart home runs mostly locally and Alexa really is just a polymorphic interface. I was just able to use Siri. Though out of habit I’d sometimes say “alexa” only for her to remind me she’s locked out."

So none of this home shutdown actually happened. It's fake news.
re Hollywood:

The Limelight Department was one of the world's first film studios, beginning in 1898, operated by The Salvation Army in Melbourne, Australia.

The Limelight Department produced evangelistic material for use by the Salvation Army, including lantern slides as early as 1891, as well as private and government contracts.

In its 19 years of operation, the Limelight Department produced about 300 films of various lengths, making it one of largest film producers of its time.

Limelight spawned offshoot production efforts from former employees using end of life Limehouse equipment, eg: the 1906 feature length classic The Story of the Kelly Gang

The original cut of this silent film ran for more than an hour with a reel length of about 1,200 metres (4,000 ft), making it the longest narrative film yet seen in the world.

The first proper 'Hollywood' feature length was the 1915 KKK film The Birth of a Nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limelight_Department

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Kelly_Gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation
The skillset of successfully founding a company and the skillset of successfully scaling a company are not the same. The latter is a hard thing to do that requires understanding both customers (current and potential) that you never speak to and employees that you barely speak to.
Sounds like salt soup! Not surprised it tastes OK.
Related table of models:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
You seem out of touch with what the government in sweden has been doing so far.

I agree that there are big social problems in Sweden. But I don't see how sending Kurds to die in Turkey; and generally blaming every problem that exist on immigrants while doing nothing to address said problems, will solve anything.
Is there a library that can generate SDFs directly from the font's Bezier curves?
When searching for board games to buy recently, I read many reviews.

The problem I found was that all the games revewied were linked in an affilaite sales agreement.

This created a 'bubble' of games that many reviewers reviewed.

Searching further, I found that board games are so loved by millions that you can find quality reviews from peoplw who buy many games. You can even find views of the full contents of games so you can make a further informed decision.

None of this was on social media, just a good old fashioned web search.
Or drill horizontal, from your current well.
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You can get a 2% cash back rewards card and literally receive 2% of every dollar you spend back, deposited electronically in your bank account whenever you press a button on your credit card website.
Here https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/system/initial-rack-setup
Hard to tell about the principles of the law itself.

I don't hold any of the British government departments in high regard, so I will assume malicious power-seeking on their part regardless of anything else.

But for the principal of forced decryption?

Most non-criminal organisations don't know how to secure their communications properly, so while organised criminals that hire decent IT can trivially secure their communications, I don't expect criminals to be generally capable of keeping out of sight of the authorities.

Non-professional criminals will probably all get scooped up easily by a surveillance dragnet.

And the only way past the competent criminals is old-fashioned intel gathering.

But the British government can't actually act on dragnet-scale information anyway:

They've been cutting back on police, court buildings, magistrates, public lawyers, prison buildings, prison staff, and parole boards.

Even if they hadn't, surveys of drug use alone suggest they'd be criminalising a double-digit percentage of the population they can't afford to put through the police let alone the courts. Given what the UK counts as "extreme" porn, I'd guess that's also a double-digit percentage of the population.
So basically the Twitter Blue argument. If scammers can make more than 50k out of it, they'll pay it gladly.
As someone considering a similar pivot, I'd be interested in hearing about your move into PM from engineering!
The whole situation here seems bad because people being cut off from their existing prepurchased smart devices is bad (and going to happen when servers get shut down). Can we separate that from the entirely correct action from Amazon of "if you are going to insult our deliverypeople with racist language, we no longer will send them to your house". Leaving aside any moral judgements of doing business at all with such a person, Amazon would probably face some legal liability for constantly asking their employees to put up with that.

Also, while the US certainly has racism, I don't think it's fair to call that "US-centric". A lot of countries have a lot of racists.
Could you please elaborate how and what you know about managed Kubernetes on Hetzner?

I am asking for this since a while and was told there is no way Hetzner would offer such a service. Certain Posts on Social Media have also never been answered with any kind of indication that they are actually working on it.

Please provide some Details on this.
Costs vary: In Australia, contract offers ranged from $500 to $100,000, with an average of $16,500. One undercover investigator, hired as a hit man more than 60 times in 20 years, lists his largest proposed payoff as $200,000 in jewels (and that was just the down payment) and his stingiest as “seven Atari computer games, three dollar bills, and $2.30 in nickels and dimes.”

Some of the highest-profile hits nowadays happen in Russia, where the rise of wild-west capitalism has led to a boom in contract killings, with victims including politicians, editors and journalists, businessmen, even poets.

How much do you think it would cost to hire a Russian blackop/elite troop fleeing from his country?
Yep same case. He's not a quick learner, is he.
I think multi-national energy sector should be working toward the goals without the regulations. The more prep done before the change the smoother the transition.
Thanks! It was actually inspired by rvaiya's warpd [0] which has a similar grid mode but with quadrants instead.

I thought that needing to choose out of four quadrants at once is a bit overwhelming on cognitive load for something that is meant to be a subconscious extension of your hands, so instead I just unified it with the arrow keys as a "shrink in this direction" choice rather than "choose one of four quadrants".

Changing it to bisection/binary partitioning also means that don't need any visual aids as it's exceedingly simple to see which edge your target is the closest to.

[0] https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd
> his own travel expenses?

I am simply saying that a man with 2 billion dollars in his bank account can do whatever he wants.

It is also pretty naive to think that Tim Cook expenses can be questioned by an Apple anonymous accountant.

of course this is all hypothetical, men like Tim Cook would never hire an hitman paying cash personally face to face.

> "You're charged with Murder 1, which is a capital offense in this state. Are you ready to die for $5000?"

> "Tim Cook made me do it."

at best that could legally qualify as insanity

But even assuming it costed 200 thousand dollars, would not change that for a Tim Cook it's a day's pay
Can you put some flesh on those bones? I knew a bit about the audacity data collection problem, but not about the MuseScore userbase...
"The researchers can’t yet prove that the objects are dark stars—only that their characteristics are consistent with being either dark stars or galaxies populated by regular fusion-powered stars"

"It's either something or nothing", way to undermine the premise.
Another case of precision but not accuracy.
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Scale the technical difficulty and innovation of the product with the size and competency of the team. The market will always say they want more and the job of the company leaders is to know when to say no. AWS did not begin with everything it offers now but rather started with fairly boring things (even for the time) that they expanded over time. This was after a decade of learning how to do this internally so they weren't starting from scratch.
But there isn't lead or other heavy metal in the cast iron itself. If there are heavy metals, they are found in the glazing, so the best thing to do is buy pure cast iron, not glazed cast iron. The same goes for ceramics, but you can't really buy ceramics without glazing, because the ceramic itself is porous - I personally replaced all ceramics with glass and stainless.

Just as a single data point, all our kitchenware today is:

glass, borosilicate glass, pyrex(the US made ones are not borosilicate),

stainless, titanium, cast iron (that we season ourselves),

wood (but not bamboo -- too much glue in there), silicone (for mats and mittens).

Almost no plastic anywhere.
Entropy. You loose bits to a known source, which reduce entropy of the UUID.