jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a well known site in Sweden. I remember using it at least 10-13 years back. A quick Swedish googling found me a dozens of sites offering similar services. One even offered credit rating assessment at 1.5 dollar after the search.

I'm not well read on the issue but a lot of things are digitalized in Sweden. It's a cashless society, where everyone have a personal number that they can use for government service & signing up for phone contracts. The tax institute (like USA:s IRS) sends their deductions out digitally, and AFAIK they have a very open API a lot of digital services in Sweden use for online identification of a private person. So I assume those pages probably use the tax-institutes API for personal information, and then other APIs (such as real-estate portals) to tie information together.
Amazing how the same data does make more sense visually when ordered this way but still not compared to ==='s straight line.

The author linked to a jsfiddle that I changed to use the same colors as the original table and improved the legibility a bit which you can find at http://jsfiddle.net/4c5z60qg/ or view as an image here: https://i.imgur.com/assIoqN.png
There's something icky about singling out one individual for something a lot of others are doing at the same time, especially if you're in a community that praises those others.
Which school is that?
Ok, but you missed my point, my point wasn't that FAANG pays best in SV, my point was that employee-unfriendly practices from SV, which pays best in the world, make their way outside but without the compensation.
Yeah, overpaying and betting on 20 candidates in parallel is the reasonable thing to do, even if you're cynical enough to not care about the loss of life or health.

Every additional day of lockdown probably costs as much as the entire production lifecycle of a vaccine, including distribution.

I think the EU economy contracted at least 5% in 2020. The EU GDP was $18.3 tn, so 5% is about $915bn. That's $2.5bn per day (!). And that's just the direct impact, the whole psychological, PTSD, etc. longer term impact probably makes that higher, I'd be shocked if the total cost isn't something like $3bn per day.
Just started $5 on github, cheers for the reminder
`10**sys.maxsize` o_o
Is there a bug in the trivial example? I can't seem to follow how it's referencing one template and another in the function. But I am not a JS dev so perhaps I am just missing something.

This looks neat tho.
> He clearly had no idea of what the state of the art was in that domain, nor any interest in understanding it.

I think this is the most frustrating thing about these type of characters. They are usually very clever people, but by refusing to engage with people they look down on, they find themselves further and further entrenched in a narrow view - the ideas become stale without partnerships. Then comes the frustration and bitterness that no one is recognising their mastery while the world moves on. They are left isolated on an idea island and can only talk in terms of what they achieved decades ago. I suppose the idea of representing yourself online as one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance unironically(?) says it all.

I once read an essay about Wolfram that came across a bit like this, the difference being that he managed to create a following against the odds and a earn a living from it.
> Put simply: yes. I know a lot of people who enjoy socialization provided at the office

Find a co-working space.

> Heck, there at even people who like SF and city life on its own merits.

Remote work gives you the freedom to work from anywhere. That includes other cities. You can still live in SF if you want, or choose any of the other dozens of cities that provide more benefits for far cheaper costs.
You've got to be kidding me. Like if I have somebody's name I can just call up their government and ask what their salary is? I find that hard to believe. Please name these countries.
I would really like that leend that the EU didn't buy enough vaccines to die. Even before they ordered, after what I would calla media campaign, a couple of hundred million doses more, the EU had more the 4 doses per EU citizen, incl minors, on order.

From all suppliers with potential vaccines in the pipeline. There was no way to tell which vaccine would be ready first. e.g. the Sanofi one, also an mRNA vaccine, will not be ready before 2022 it seems. Sanofi will produce the Pfizer / Biontech (?) one from summer onwards. Just thrwong money at the production doesn't ramp vaccine production over night. Case in point the reduced deliveries from Pfizer due to capacity increases and temporary shutdowns at their Belgian site.

This is not a quantity issue, it is a distribution issue. And distribution is not the EU responsibility. Right now people are, rightly so, frustrated by the way the vaccination campaigns are running, especially in Germany it is a mess.

First culprit: The manufacturers -> the media in germany sided with Biontech and declared higher availability if the EU just ordered. The result: Culprit 2

Second culprit: The EU because it didn't order earlier -> Order volumes were increased, which led to temporary shutdowns of manufacturing sites to increase capacity. The result: The EU said "sorry, we made some mistakes, but now enough is on back order to get everyone an opportuniy till summer. And by the way, vaccination campaigns are the memeber states responsibility". Step in culprit three in Germany

Third culprit:The federal government. A nice one, as vaccination is a state thing over here and not a federal task. Still, allocation and call ups are going through the federal government to the EU and manufacturers. The result: They implemented a task force at the federal level. Still no increase in daily vaccinations in most German states so far.

Likely forth culprit (and now we are getting closer to the truth): The state governments. Why? Because the EU was very straight forward from day one that once the doses have been delivered to the member states its responisbility ends. They also stated the logistics and distribution will be critical. And that part is so clearly lacking, from appointment management to vaccine availability of the already manufactured and delivered doses. Until now, as that point is not yet really discussed publicly, we have no real improvements.

IMHO, things will get better once traditional vaccines will be available en masse. Then we can use well established supply chains for existing vaccines, e.g. the flew and other standard stuff, done by local doctors. I would also suspect, that once htis starts to work, Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna to find ways to allow the sae doctors to use mRNA vaccines safely and reliably.

Until then I am afraid it will be more a blame game than anything else. And this is the real tragedy here.
How do you suggest the US can do better, if they've let China continue this asymmetric behavior for nearly two decades? If China hasn't been participating in free trade fairly, do you think the US should continue letting that happen for another two decades?
When the GDPR was entering into force, I remember some speculating that monitoring Apache logs could violate it, since the user has not consented to having their personal details (i.e. the IP address) processed. What was the final consensus reached on this?
I see how they're useful, but I'm still not fond of them because:

(1) Often, the speed is wrong. Either they play too fast to follow along or they play too slowly and time is wasted waiting for it to show me the part I care about (or loop back around).

It's hard to get the speed just right. And AFAIK browsers don't offer controls to adjust the speed, and even if they did, it would be tedious.

(2) Personally I find animations (especially rapid or looping ones) quite distracting when trying to read the rest of the page. My eye just keeps moving to the thing that's trying to grab my attention.

I usually try to work around that by scrolling so that the animation is out of view. So, I'll live, but it's not a good user experience. And again, (some?) browsers seem to offer no help, like a setting to always enable animation controls (play/pause/etc.) or to loop only once.
Most juniors have a much narrower focus in their day to day activities. Their responsibilities tend to be far more focused on churning code and dealing with cool or bad tech choices, whereas the more senior you get, the wider or high level your job can become.
my experience in the industry of coding has driven home to huge points:

1. that each individual & each team has an enormous amount of leeway & personal responsibility. teams are vested with what power they take & how far they & their environment let them.

2. complexity is everywhere & typically to work, to produce, is to add complexity & create new ways for things to go bad. indeed part of what is most notable about FAANG companies is that they have colossal staffs- & notably many of their senior engineer ranks- working to manage & reduce complexity, by inventing continuous integration/deploy systems, by devising trackers for cyclocmatic code & cyclomatic data-dependency/data-access-pattern complexity, by creating more resilient infrastructure & new ways to administrate systems.

i fully agree that there is a huge opportunity cost. i think it's madness how focused & specific these interview courses are, what a set path they are on. but i also think it's been underspoken that learning algorithms & data-structures & less so systems are fairly core material to the industry, that these are basic truths that underpin every single thing we do. and i think the knowledge is acquireable and important.

and i think just as much, it's unsaid, culturally, a lot of my first point: that individuals in this industry have enormous liberties, that they are sent off to incredible & weird tasks, to go drag something or other back to the company. notably, it's just so so so so hard for a company to take responsibility for "it's" code, to re-integrate, to handle, the new complexity that gets dragged in to base, by each individual contributor. there are so few repeatable processes, so few really good ways for a company to systematically remember what any given thing is, how it works, why it works, what it does. code-bases are bits of the wild, collected from all over, so often from one or a couple of individual contributors who set forth on some expedition. even, yes, the juniors. hacking new tweaks, changes, sometimes it doesn't feel like big stuff, but to software engineer is to set out upon wild land, most every time.

the sociology of this is fascinating to me, the dynamic is incredibly strong, incredibly asymmetric in how much responsibility is given to the developer, how wild the tasks are, & the difficulty & crudeness with which companies step up to re-integrate, take in, take responsibility for, manage the work that gets done.
Is this per core or shared between cores?
Sure, you can do all that, but then I think you're in docker-land or something similar, and you are essentially building a system that works the way you think it does, and it may not reflect reality (arguably that is most testing).

And I think if someone is to build this containerized system for testing, it shouldn't necessarily be some app developer like me, it should be someone like the chromium or firefox team that know exactly how the browsers expect to communicate
Ok, summary:

This article lays out three scenarios: 1) accessing two random elements

2) accessing 3 random elements

3) accessing two pairs of adjacent elements (same as (1) but also the elements after each random element)

It then does some trivial math to use the loaded data.

A naive model might only consider memory accesses and might assume accessing an adjacent element is free.

On the Mac m1 core, this is not the case. While the naive model might expect cases 1 & 3 to cost the same and case 2 to cost 50% more, instead cases 2 & 3 are nearly the same (3 slightly faster) and case 2 is about 50% more expensive than 1.
A lot of companies are still sponsoring H1B, but it definitely got more difficult.

One thing to note is that most companies only sponsor visas for senior level engineers (FB/Google level 5 or above). It's not easy to get that level, especially in bigger companies. I would say the best bet is interviewing for unicorn startups. They are hiring more aggressively and probably more willing to give senior level offers.
> If everyone starts dumping their nuclear waste like this

This sounds weird, but I feel like Japan almost earned this privilege when it had a reactor by the ocean melt down.
The vaccine policies are important, but not relevant to her case - she already had Covid, and a vaccine would not help her in any way.

The parent post and my response was about "the system" not taking her seriously, about the people where the damage was already done - are there any policy adjustments that would be useful for people like that? For people who now do have these weird, persistent, possibly life-long conditions, is there any better option than "dealing with it"? Denial helps noone, and can be quite harmful.
thanks, a quick glance brought "coquito" to my attention, and ponder why "cogito" is not in the suggestion list? a nod to French philosopher René Descartes

dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
This is the correct response to capitalism.
I’ve had the opposite experience. I’ve attempted to read a number of specs, and by the way I’m completely unable to parse them, you’d assume I was illiterate. On the other hand, I’ve found good, technical articles detailing how the same things worked and have found them much more digestible.
yah, logic is an idealization--a linearization in a decidedly non-linear and stochastic universe--that works in a constructed context but not beyond it. it's how newtonian mechanics is so very useful at our scale but cannot fully explain ourselves, much less the world or the universe.

understanding thiel requires understanding that he decidedly comes at issues with self-interest and ego first (and a bit paranoia) rather than priciples, despite the contrary image he tries to project.
Are dollars really yours inside the sanction happy dollar system?
What about a simple software dynamic control system with an accelerometer then?

Basically you apply some thrust to the engine and look at the resulting acceleration with an accelerometer.

Knowing the remaining length of the runway one can compute the acceleration that produces takeoff velocity at the end of the runway minus a safety margin, and then change engine thrust by the ratio between that desired acceleration and the measured acceleration.

The remaining length of the runway can be computed by knowing the total length, initial position and integrating the accelerometer data, or by using GPS knowing the coordinates of the runway ends.

This also automatically handles factors like wind, variable friction on the runway and miscalibrated engine thrust.
10W at idle sounds unbelievable, my AMD A1 server with 2x2.5 HDDs takes 30W at idle (okay, a bag of mostly idle services running).

Is this some special server power saving feature? Are you measuring at 12V of before the power supply? What kind of power supply do you use?

Is it noisy?
> Exchanges that aren't stupid keep the vast majority of their funds in cold storage

That sounds dumb on their part, as that money isn't doing work that it could. Perhaps they should invest it in the meanwhile. But since it's users' money, maybe set up a provision that only a part of the funds is invested, and the rest stay put, to give them back to the users on demand. Most people don't regularly take out all their coins at once, so the exchange won't need to have them all on hand, most of the time.
It's a common British expression for thank you and goodbye.
Also often used in Canada. I supposed it's bled into polite conversation online.

Cheers

Spit
I give Gemstone III and Dragonrealms full credit for my current typing speed. And I remember setting up a local TinyMUD instance for my friends on the school network then creating all sorts of weird items and creatures to mess with them.

It's funny... These games largely didn't have graphics (you could argue some of the more advanced interfaces like with Simutronics stuff did). Yet I have vivid memories of specifics places, creatures, items, etc from my experiences. A true testament to the power of imagination.
And, as I understand from Bogle's (admittedly dated) book, when that happens everyone rushes into the fund and it begins to underperform due to its increased weight/influence (see Peter Lynch's Magellan Fund).
The mystery loops might be some sort of impedance matching. 16 megahertz seems low for that sort of magic, but I don't know.
"Capitalism" doesn't mean corporations make the laws. Tons of capitalist countries have very easy tax processes.

Not sure what the word for a system where corporations gain political influence through lobbying, but I don't think that's what "capitalism" is.
KDE has a lot going for it but its customizability is so deep as to be daunting. Each time I've tried using it I've ended up burning hours trying to get every detail just right.

I think it'd benefit quite a lot from including several sane sets of defaults to use as starting points.
ah I see, I'll add that to the checklist
Here's a clever guess at why this might be true from an economics perspective (I'm not the author): http://cheaptalk.org/2010/08/10/blogging-something-i-know-no...
Confused about one thing, did the robot put 38.5 pills in a bottle, or did it formulate a pill containing 38.5 pills worth of meds into one pill, which the resident gave to the patient? I'm thinking sitting there and giving the patient 38.5 pills for the patient to swallow would have been considered unusual?
It is still possible to declare martial law in case of disaster, which I would welcome looking at how many "creative" people are there (at least here in Italy).
I second this great question...lots of elderly have CPAPs
Huh. I meant radical in the sense of large surface area. And I was thinking ~cylindrical.

But radial is a great idea. And as soon as I started playing with paper, the ancient muscle memory of folding filter paper came back to me.

Edit: OK, I used filter paper from a shop vac, 20 cm wide by 30 cm high, with six faces triangular faces on the top and bottom, and eight faces on the sides. The ends of the faces on each side are sewed together, with an elastic strap connecting them. So the base is a diamond, ~18 cm wide and ~12 high. There's cloth edging on the top and bottom, and a cloth-wrapped 1 cm x 5 cm strip of aluminum edging to seal the top of the nose.
Ordnance Survey maps are fairly well done (as good as other sovereign efforts), but the UK's approach to map licensing has probably hurt the country economically and heavily limited distribution of OS maps. OS is maybe the most antiquated map licensing agency I've ever tried to work with.

In the US, you can get the USGS maps for free. In Switzerland or France, you can get SwissTopo or France IGN in a manageable way for reasonable licensing fees. In Australia, it's a little complex, but you can go province by province and license the maps, sometimes for free. Many, many countries provide high quality maps for free or reasonable fees.

But Ordnance Survey's maps are incredibly expensive to license, hard to administer/govern, and can't be purchased for much less (if less at all) than OS charges in their own (terrible) app. And thus aren't in my app like so many others are.

The US approach to making USGS maps public domain has created enormous economic growth. This is a nice paper on the economics of maps: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.34.1.196
I understand it's frustrating to be representing a minority view, but please stick to not being inflammatory. That's critical, given the levels of stress, fear, and anger right now. And you've mostly been doing a good job of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"The ingredients are cheaper[1], denser and have a longer shelf-life than the final product, and the process of turning one into the other requires much more time than effort...."

"1. If you fancy living 13th-century style, 2000kcal of home-made bread is 35p of flour, salt and yeast."

In a quarantine:

1. Minimising cash expense is good. Cheaper is better.

2. Storage space is limited. Denser is better.

3. Minimising exposure risk through shopping runs is good. Longer shelf-life is better. Stock up, then live off supplies for days, weeks, or months.

4. Time is abundant. Long-running tasks are not a detriment.

5. Low effort is generally good.

"Quarantine bread" minimises use of resources and exposures to risk which you'll want to minimise in a quarantine, and takes advantage of the abundant time resource.
Yes, any speech calling for violence is not helpful and I think worthy of discussion about the effects it has on our society.

Groups can practice boycotts, peaceful protests, civil disobedience, political activism, fundraising, etc. without resorting to violent speech.
And how many years this will last? Mind you that while some countries are already solely running on 4G, there are other countries still having a large 2G phone usage and large 3G data usage. It is only fair to compare it to this - otherwise it would be unfair to those who rely on older technologies to connect to the world.

I need to point out that I do not really disagree with RCS' intent - but Google aggressively trying to promote RCS outside of commited carriers is not just weird but can be dangerous.
I am trying to understand this: you are compiling programs on Windows?
It's not misleading and it's not wrong. He made his goal clear. Listen to the full one hour of the phone call.
Driving for Doordash or Uber Eats might be a good option. Lots of downtime at night, you could bring your laptop along and work during the gaps.
This is the best context I can find:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearings/IcO0QpCJdQYC?h...

I strongly agree with his comments in their original context.
It's not dirt, it's shit. The insurrectionists smeared shit around the Capitol buildings.
Hyundai who also recently bought Boston Dynamics.

That could be very interesting if things go well with Apple.
Usually just large bladder in the trunk.
> the team had helpfully base64 encoded all the secrets in a debugging build, which was also in the open bucket

It's laughable that we still use base64 in any sort of security context (username:password), because the only people interested in decoding it can do it effortlessly. It almost feels like a weird form of procrastination, where we know what we're doing is wrong, but we're just too damn lazy to do anything about it.
But then the "appropriate limits" are part of your theory.
No one should be suggesting votes = accuracy of opinion, this is demonstrably incorrect.

What I'm arguing is that how popular an answer is is actually a valuable piece of information, outside of its direct tie to how truthful a comment is. Having nothing there doesn't help me determine how truthful a comment is more than knowing popular opinion.
That's a very fair point. Unfortunately, when I don't know the subject matter at hand, social proof is pretty much all I have to determine good opinion from bad. Keep in mind that the title of this submission has to do with learning from HN, so that's the perspective I'm taking as well. If you don't know anything on a subject, the most popular opinion isn't necessarily a bad jumping off point for further research. I'm also not saying that you should ignore lesser voted answers on that basis alone. I'm simply saying that in a vacuum of other indicators, vote count works in a pinch.
Hacker News needs a Meta HN.
Maybe it was a bit of both.

Kind of like a snowball rolling downhill…
I suspect the fact that Cydia sounds and looks something like Chlamydia doesn't help with the fear factor...
I wish I understood any of that, because it does seem like it would be fascinating :)