jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This applies at least in Vietnam/Thailand, but don't reserve rooms beforehand. If a place has a website, it probably means that it's expensive ($50+ instead of $10-$20), but doesn't necessarily mean it would be any better. Rather try to travel off-season, walk along a beach and ask to see the rooms of acceptable looking places. Check that the water heater and toilet etc. work. If you need wifi, you can open your laptop before even going and see if it picks up any networks.

If you fly in asia, don't trust Kayak/Orbitz solely to find flights. There are some local airlines that are much cheaper that might not be listed there, for example check out http://www.airasia.com/ for some really nice prices (Bangkok -> Vietnam costs ~30 euro). I don't have a solution for long haul flights, except do a lot of searches on different travel sites on different dates. Sometimes changing the dates by just a few days can take 30% off the price. Airlines are already competing so fiercely with each other that I would guess their tourist class seats are sold at very slim profits, so I don't know how they could go much cheaper.

Two kind of obvious things: If you can find a reason to go to your destination on business, you can deduct it as an expense. Depending on your tax rate this could be a huge help. Hotels are always sold by room and not per person, so sharing a room with a friend halves your cost.
I've long cherished a dream of seeing an organization made up entirely of scientists, that perpetuates itself through monetizing its research and development. It would hire out its members to positions within corporations or governments (rather like IBM consultants), and thus could (finally!) allow scientists to achieve parity with other highly paid - but far less VALUABLE - jobs.

I can imagine all kinds of accompanying benefits: a boost in the take up of scientific subjects in colleges and universities; talent that flourishes in an environment free of corporate profiteering; &c.

Philanthropy would be the only way to properly bootstrap this kind of 'startup'. But ultimately it could be civilization-changing!
Soon, one it will occur to one of the men who think that they could consider hiring a woman. Or maybe not.
> But I wouldn't generalize my case nor should you generalize yours.

The way I read statements that you replied to is with a silent prefix "based on the experience of folks I work/talk with". If one disagrees (i.e., sees different views prevalent), chime in and say so. There must be a way to express opinions that are between "that's my personal view" and "statistically significant, peer reviewed validation at this link".

As a personal data point, I see the same thing (around me) as the parent: opinions of Google tanked. 10 years ago an employee leaving for Google would be discussed with "wow" and "best of luck" feeling, while today it is mostly "well, at least he will be well paid" and " I am not yet ready to sell my soul". Just my 2c.
I checked the source to see what it's doing, and it actually is sending the text to every provider that has an email-to-text address, and therefore probably ignoring the returned failure emails.
Anyone that thinks medicine relies on strict logical reasoning isn't familiar with the reality of medical practice.
It would be at least as important to be able to call Java from Rust. Does anyone know if that's hard?
We do, check the readme file on GitHub - it's pretty cool!
One example is the Roland CS-10EM microphones/earphones. A pair is $99 on Amazon.
If Github is truly blocked, that could be devastating for outsourced work, on both sides of the equation.
12 factor and .env make a lot of sense. However they still leave some questions unanswered, such as:

How do the secrets get safely distributed to the machines where they are needed?

How to revoke/rotate a secret, especially once a compromise is suspected?

How to perform all this in DevOps-y, automated systems?

This is the problem space I work in.
Well vernaculars differ and a counter is a totally intuitive way to describe the air hockey score keeper. I'd be hard pressed to call it a score board especially since the keepers are on opposite sides of the table generally.

But I'm totally with you about teaching children that these are equations. I wouldn't be surprised if this curriculum or whatever was built by someone not comfortable with the word equation themselves, for whatever reason.
How far do you hold your phone from the eyes? Now compare it to your regular TV - how far do you watch it from? With 55" 4k UHD you'd get retina-style appearance from 1.5m upwards.
> I don’t see why people with money should have the right to force people out of their homes.

Agreed. Opposition to prop13 essentially is a statement saying that whoever has more money because they hit it rich on an IPO deserves the right to kick out established residents just because they have more money.
Disclaimer: used to work at GS. Left to work remotely in another region.

GS is a big company. There's lots of people there. Some 8k people are in the tech division. And the employer competition there is not just with other financial firms. But also with the rest of the tech sector.

So as other commenters say, if other places offer similar conditions, but also remote work. It may be a differentiator. In practise though - working from home for tech some days a week has been totally normal for years. So I expect little actual impact on the company.
I suspect that website is not representative of general price changes. Maybe it looks at things that got easier to produce so they got cheaper via efficiency. They just don't sell cheaper because of inflation.
> if their competitors are offering better working conditions, their top employees may switch over

Speaking anecdotally as someone who's been away from high finance for a few years. The drift is towards firms who let their employees work together. I don't know of many high performers, or ambitious up and comers, who want to stay isolated at home.
That’s just like, your opinion man.

See what I did? It’s an older meme, but it checks out.
Banks get BS-tested in the market every microsecond. They need to have extraordinary levels of common-sense by necessity.
This will last at most only 5-10 years more [1]. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and Greece are brain-drained to the bone already. There is noone to come over.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/germany/2020/
Don't forget to claim tax on the portion of your house that is being used for work.
Yeah, I understand all that. If startups could be objectively and reliably valued at an early stage, there would be no angels or VCs-- banks would just lend to them. :)

But...

There is a market -- deals close every day. I am curious about whether there's any good data out there that can be used -- either as an entrepreneur or an investor -- to gauge the general reasonableness of a proposal. Is it within the bounds of sanity? Too good, too cheap, etc.?

My guess is that this information is guarded to some extent, since it helps people like early stage VCs price deals. It's interesting that the angel.co database doesn't tell you the amount they raised, making the valuation ranges interesting but ultimately not that informative about what the market is paying for early stage startup equity/notes.
Hmm. I started messaging using ICQ, then probably Yahoo, then microsoft messenger, now it's Skype. The first three offered exactly the same service. The other day I tried to convince someone to contact me on Whatsapp but he has already Viber. The network effect doesn't seem to be that strong, and sudden, catastrophic network switches happen all the time.
I realize this is difficult, but if you're working with Microsoft to make this happen, having a version of LLVM that generated PDBs would be amazing for interoperability, there's a lot of stuff in WinDbg (open the help file, it's actually a giant book of Windows-specific knowledge) and redoing it is definitely non-trivial (and in many cases only can be done by Microsoft because it relies on internal data structures)
A lot of these are tubal ligations, which are generally not medically necessary. In some cases the women weren't preemptively informed of the procedure or otherwise had denied consent and only found out they had received it later.

There was an investigation on a subset of these some years back, and a quarter or so were done without consent [1]. Even one would be cause for alarm, but there were/are systemic issues with this in the penal system.

[1] https://revealnews.org/article-legacy/bill-to-prevent-steril...
This is true. I've previously been downvoted for pointing out that Parler does moderate, but they're a small company so it's a slow process.

Parler is not the "anything goes" website that people like to conflate with Gab.
Do you have a source for that colour code leak? I don't disbelieve you, I'd just like to be able to read (and reference) the source.
Same for my family members that escaped Vietnam. They lived though the fall of South VN and the rise of Communist VN. They see and feel similarities now that scare and depress them.
This (and going private in Twitter) is the reason BBC uses screenshots instead of direct embeds (the link is still on the text and/or caption).
Interesting thought. I have noticed that recently Chrome has started being more aggressive on blocking sites that it considers harmful/scams.
We spent the last four years waxing philosophical about how social media influenced the 2016 election, I think it's time to admit that these aren't _just_ private companies and there's a very real risk that this wave of censorship has far-ranging consequences.
I'm not confused at all. I'm a very empathetic person and care a lot about people, it's one of the many reasons I speak up when I see things like this happening.

I was also raised by a convert narcissist and have experienced (and fortunately, overcome) the exact behavior being used to manipulate the population. It was used to manipulate me in the exact same way.

Deny reality all you want but none of what's happening right now is good.
The fire analogy is flawed. Nobody is preventing you from shouting fire. If you shout fire and there is not one, you may be prosecuted. This is important because it requires a demonstration of actual harm (not 'my feelings').
Out of curiosity, did you copy and paste this article into some grammer-checker to identify these typos? I didn't spot any of these during my (admittedly quick) initial read, and having something like this would be helpful for my own writing.
They probably used to play flight simulators (I did). The vertical ticker on the left is airspeed in knots. Ticker on the right is altitude in feet. Then underneath the left ticker find the word SIM, directly beneath it is the plane's current mach number, and diagonally below and to the left of that is a counter that tracks the highest G load the plane has sustained (it goes to 8.4 right as the pilot passes out then peaks at 9.1 during the pull out).
Less than 200KB each, doubt that's the bulk of it
In San Francisco proper, prices fell, because supply and demand are real, but those people spread out and prices are getting worse in a ton of other places, like where I live.
It doesn't seem to me like the Ferrari analogy works. The Ferrari excels at a narrow use to the detriment of other potential uses.

The F-35 however was made to do everything, but excels at seemingly none of them.
My conclusion with a self-published book a number of years ago was that, once you get beyond flowing text, creating a Kindle version gets a lot harder. It can clearly be done--e.g. there are Kindle format guidebooks that work well. But when I did another self-published book a few years later, I was giving it away anyway so I just did a PDF version for tablets. (My last one is through a publisher but it's also mostly text.)
Anything different from using VSCode?
I loathe going into Trader Joe's because of the atrocious font on their in house products. Whole Foods doesn't have vegan marshmello unlike Trader Joe's so I still go there occasionally, but I never thought I cared deeply about design until I attended a school right next Trader Joe's. I walked 5x the distance to Whole Foods everytime to spare my eyes.
Sure, but in that case it's worth pointing out that Google had Google before MS changed their search engine to be as similar to Google's as possible.
That exact phrase is also in the first paragraph, the page heading, and in the url. The conclusion that it's the page title that has caused it to rank so well doesn't seem accurate. If anything I'd say that it's a combination of the exact phrase being in all 4 places.
I like it. But the specs displayed on your website do not always match the specs from Amazon. Example: Dell Inspiron i5547-15001sLV 15.6-Inch listed with 16GB on your website, 8GB at Amazon
File Explorer by pressing "t" is my favorite shortcut on Github since nested file structure gets annoying after a while of looking around.
For cables, Monoprice is also a good alternative (and, generally, price-competitive with Amazon).

Another commenter mentioned that Monoprice's HDMI quality has declined; I haven't noticed any problem with their Ethernet and USB cables.

For HDMI, Monoprice goes all the way down to $2: http://www.monoprice.com/Search/Index?keyword=hdmi

Best Buy preys on the 'I need this cable in 30 minutes for the big presentation' customer, and prices accordingly. Try buying coaxial cable - it's obscene!
> I don't think a voice can be copyrighted, but IANAL so you shouldn't bank on that.

The audio content (which includes voices) of the source work is copyrighted, and a mechanical transform of that work (which deep learning to mimic the voices clearly is) would seem to be a derivative in at least the literal sense.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927539
Cloud access? I have a similar problem where my various machines are behind NATs/firewall (personal computer, workstation...). It could just be more convenient to put it in the cloud rather than have to poke port forwarding or VPN rules between the machines.
They already did that, twice. First with DVD which used a weak scrambling scheme that was defeated, then with BluRay which used strong encryption, but people were able to extract the keys. The problem with that scheme is that once any one key leaks, you can't do anything about it, especially not if the key is burned in your CPU. You can't expect everyone to go buy a new Intel CPU each time someone manages to extract a private key.
Don't forget https://nomadlist.io

St. Oberholtz in Berlin is pretty horrible to work actually. It's pretty loud.
Ah nice. I was hoping to make it to Koh Phangan for the full moon party but my girlfriend got sick that day and we stayed in Phuket. :(

I haven't seen the Eastern islands myself -- definitely next on the list. Be sure to check out the herbal selection in koh lanta! ;)
Also interested in more details. Maybe a Q&A? Could be valuable to others.
So its basically SingalR for Android? Seems like a cool idea to me.
The difference is that I don't go around sharing my bitcoin private keys with Target like I'm forced to do with my credit card details. FWIW I've never had any BTC stolen but I've had multiple credit cards canceled by my bank 'for my protection'.
Where do these massive increase in security, speed, and cost reductions come from in a banking system built on bitcoin?
A friend and I have been skiworking in Austria over the past week, actually. We'll ski from ~10 to 12:30 then hit up a cabin at the top with good Wi-Fi, have lunch and work until ~3PM, ski until 4 or so, then go back to the hotel and have dinner & do a second work session after dinner.

It's been surprisingly great, though certainly pricier (even with the deal we got) than doing an equivalent attempt with Surfing in SE Asia. I also don't think I'd do it for more than a couple of weeks. Let me know if you're curious about a writeup and I'll put one together.
It is very feasible to learn enough of a foreign language from CDs to interact with people that don't speak any English.

For romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), the Michel Thomas CDs are the best that I have seen. For other languages, Pimsleur tapes are usually the best option.
Ironically, one of my unfinished personal projects is a project manager, so I can organize myself better, but I find just pasting random stuff into a notepad++ tab does the job most of the time. I also have a ton of browser bookmarks organized by nothing in particular (most of my logins actually say "Login") and a lot of random stuff in my downloads folder, repos I found interesting, pdfs, etc.

So I guess my answer is "poorly," but somehow it seems to work.
The F35 is hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
When I got to that line I just closed the article. I'm a pretty big critic of this program, but this article is no good even relating to this specific report.
it's easy to be aggressive when you risk nothing. that's about the only lesson I've taken from your posts.
Disappointing to see the use of the word 'suffers' in the headline. It betrays a natalist ideology that appears much too frequently in the reporting of Japan's shrinking population.
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Our engineering team creates software to manage the forecasting, purchasing, preparation, and shipment of new fresh ingredients every week, delivering over 1,000,000 meals nationwide monthly.
The nature of our business carries with it unique supply chain and logistical challenges that require purpose-built solutions and data analysis.

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The only part where I suggested to store a monad in a file is when I proposed it as a way of pausing a computation and resuming its execution at a later point in time. My mistake for mentioning the word "file", but I meant it in the abstract sense.
I really agree with you as well, but I can think of a few reasons to want simplicity.

First, including features that you expect others (beginners) not to use is problematic. You can't really claim to know a language if you can't read other people's code when they are using standard language features. So you have to learn all those features whether you intend to use them or not. And learning them means knowing when and why they are used. Usually, this kind of stuff is just deferred to libraries and language extensions. (Haskell-style Langauge extensions and Python's future imports are a wonderful idea, I think.)

Second, people like to get comfortable in their languages. If the C language designers just said "Hey, er..., you know all these curly b's are unnecessary, let's drop 'em in the next standard," people wouldn't care for it. More features + more power + backwards compatibility can only carry you so far before it becomes downright unwieldy.

I don't think people learn very well that they should just forget everything they know every 5 years and start on mastering something completely new. The problem is not in the language being too complex (like you said,) but in our culture and habits. People don't like complexity. That's why we work so hard to make it go away.
For every 1,000 diagnosed covid case, roughly 14-18 of them will eventually die. Rich or poor countries alike, that range has been consistent.

Wouldn't you say that's rather staggeringly high number to simply let things run course?
To be fair, I said established under the Obama administration, not by the administration. In reality I think both were riding the wave following the 2008 collapse. As such we could probably point the finger at financial deregulation under George W Bush.
> so we sacrifice a few percent of population for the future of the others

No, you sacrifice an uncertain percentage of the population (but probably larger than you suggest because healthcare systems would be quickly overwhelmed by a massive spike in cases) to both death and long-term sickness and disability, but for what? Lockdown causes people to lose their jobs, children to miss school, and others to suffer problems with mental health (although to use your phrasing, this would just be "a few percent" of the population) but it saves people's lives and health.

I'm also really disappointed that people don't get the idea that people dying and having long-term health issues doesn't screw the economy too.
For DC, there's an arguments about a state being able to hold the federal government hostage, which is the reason why a federal district that is not part of any start was specified.

Given that the existence of the federal district is part of the Constitution, it's arguable that making DC a state requires a constitutional amendment.
It’s quite ironic that people think this is a first amendment or censorship issue when the real first amendment issue would be if Twitter were not allowed to do this.
My guess is that Facebook has been hedging their bets and now that Democrats have taken control are going to change their policy in an effort to reduce the perceived need for regulation.
It's honestly not too different than the pandemic we are living through. But instead of a biological virus, it's more of a thought virus. There's a lot of discussion in this thread about whether information should be more or less open, but if anything I think this past few years has shown how ideas such as antivaxx, antimask and election fraud can spread extremely effectively online and infiltrate millions of minds. Reminds me a bit of CGPGrey's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
And in addition to those three, he still has plenty of other avenues with which to communicate. Again; email, text, Parler, WH.gov, his own personal website, press conferences, TV stations, so on and so forth.

Obama is just one president in a sea of 45 presidents over the course of 231 years. They all managed just fine without tech companies, and Trump will manage to find a way.
Content policies seems to be the most-likely damning.

Mentions of donations elsewhere are heavily paired with "donate" buttons, and I don't know if they had used such a button. Cost + voluntary bonus does, to me, imply valid use of the word "donate", and I'm hoping for something concrete, given the number of authoritative-sounding "can't say 'donate' w/o 501.c3" comments.