skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the things I want to see in the rest of Europe too. Still hope that we'll see a EU wide tax and commerce union leading into a unified system that includes the best from every EU member.

Also liking the sentiment that people want to have some kind of confirmation that everyone pays a similar level of taxes :-)
Public salaries make it much easier for bad negotiators to attain a good salary. You just look at your future co-workers, and ballpark around that.

Without that, people without industry contacts or knowledge can get utterly screwed.
The XPS 15 is pretty nice in my experience.
Pick almost any technology, even outside of computers. You could make the exact same statement. I don't see the ethical problem.
Might be true but I just can't justify spending that much on a razer branded item due to their pretty bad quality control on their mice and keyboards. I used to buy them all the time and the mice would all die in under a year and keyboards shortly after. Support said it was "normal wear and tear" and not covered.
Axes have been around a lot longer and they're still being used even now with chainsaws.

Some people seem to thing everything always needs to change.
The text makes it clear that capacity of the drum was 16384 12 bit "words", 196608 bits in total. The use of core memory was a big advance at that time. Previously the drums had been the main memory for that generation of machines, with optimal placement of code on the drum being seen as a major programming skill.
>Trashing the planet in a few decades for such a far away "problem" is absurd. All it does is significantly shorten the time we have here. We could decide that 500M to 1B years is enough, stay here and enjoy all the time left.

>If we really want to escape our fate on earth, well we could simply take our time to slowly develop ways go to space. Assuming that it is possible for humans to reach anything beyond the solar system, which may not be the case. There are practical physical and thermodynamic considerations that may prevent us from ever colonizing much in space, even if we were to try hard. In which case, preserving earth would not just be the best thing to do, it would be the only thing we can do.

Ultimately it's a moral judgement. The people living now are different in one key way from people who may exist in the future: they exist. At the core of economics is fulfilling peoples' revealed preferences. If peoples' revealed preferences show they prefer greater consumption now at the expense of people who may live in the feature, that's what will be optimised. What weight should the potential wishes of people potentially born in the future have compared to those of people actually existing now? That's ultimately a philosophical questions, outside the range of economics, maths or science. The one thing that economics shows is that the collective preferences of people existing now tend to put a lot more weight on the importance of people existing now than on people who might exist in the future.
I hadn't heard of CFront.

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

Interesting.
Could you, I don't know, require a license on high power handheld lasers? I see imbeciles shining what looks like 100+ mW laser pens (very cheap, very easy to get) on people.

Now, I don't like laws banning stuff, but these handheld 150-2000 mW lasers can seriously damage someone's eyes. And I'm not going to risk blindness or poor eyesight for the rest of my life because some idiot thought it looked cool.

What's a legitimate use for them? It seems to me that they exist only because "high power, fuck yeah". 50mW is enough for pointing at stuff, and you need industrial lasers to cut something.

Shining them in the sky and at people is already illegal, technically, but this is a real case where preventing purchase would be better.
I got the XPS 13 9350 and I was pretty disappointed. The wireless card sucks and after 8 months the monitor simply gave up and died.

Dell support is not abysmal, but it isn't great. It took me a few days to convince them it was actually a hardware problem rather than a driver problem.

I'm very lucky it died within guarantee. If it waited 3 more months and I'd have an overpriced brick on my hands.
For me it was the fact that 'pictures', 'show' and 'fuel' can be either verbs or nouns. Since I first parsed 'pictures' as a verb, it went downhill pretty fast.
That one is not wide. For video/music production the wider, the better. For $5k you can have a much better DCI 4k EIZO...
Probably far off in the future but assuming we perfect robotics and A.I. wouldn't it be possible to manage nuclear with no human-hands?

The thing then will be who takes responsibility for accidents caused by robots..
Derailing a discussion is the same anti-patterns as using fallacious arguments when it comes to "offering a different perspective."

Some notable ways they derail discussions are:

- Oppression Olympics: Saying the U.S. meddles with other countries' elections so it's not so bad that Russia meddled in the 2016 election. "Happens to everybody."

- Whataboutism: Deflecting or changing the subject to be about Hillary Clinton or President Obama.

- Oversensitivity: "They're just memes, lighten up snowflake." "Nobody takes this seriously haha."

As for res tagging, it's extremely apparent that their patterns of behavior they exhibit are fairly uniform. This is probably a side effect of the strict way with which mods of the subreddit ban anyone who doesn't conform to a certain mindset. It creates a strong signal about users who aren't interested in genuine discussion, but are incredibly biased and self serving.
Not really. Climate science is actually a decent analogy. We look at the historical record (observational, can't do experiments, very macro) and combine it with theory we can back up from foundations and experiments (done on a micro level) and get an overall picture of how things work. Just as we don't need to recreate the entire planet's history in a lab, we don't need to recreate the global economy.

I chose the 'large earthquake' example deliberately. We can't do experiments on the level of large-scale earthquakes, it's very hard and pretty inaccurate, but we can still do quite a bit of real science. And it turns out that physics is more than just earthquakes, just as econ is more than macro.

This isn't to say that macroeconomics is spot on or even good, but just to say the challenges around experimentation aren't fundamental barriers to scientific understanding.
It's sometimes nice to have the option for high brightness, as the situation calls for it. But there's no need to run it at full blast at all times.
Add: ...either the personal or business relationship.
Ask HN: What are some good tools for keeping a software project on track?
Hey! I'm coming into a new remote team as Technical Lead on Monday and I wanted to know are some good tools that can help us work better together.

Things like:

1. Know what each other are working on? (progress/blockers)

2. Know what is currently deployed to production and staging? (heroku)

3. Keep track of larger goals (milestones)?
Also not in Sweden, but the government uses a small trick where tax money is diverted to Swedish (exclusively) authors that have a book loaned. This is technically not part of copyright law since Berne convention prohibits countries from making a distinction between authors of different nations.
That is entirely true and I wrote so myself in my first comment in this thread. But this comment was about something completely unrelated (specifically, about public salaries potentially screwing over people who are able to negotiate a high salary)
Pictures: Inside Fukushima's nuclear disaster exclusion zone
It says that the notice is only sent if the details were looked up by a private person.

> Hotet resulterade i att branschen ingick ett avtal om att alltid skicka en kreditupplysningskopia om förfrågan beställts av en privatperson.
Can’t speak for Amazon, but I did hear a SWE phone screen in progress in a Google bathroom once. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
Video codecs: The ugly business behind pretty pictures
So should we stop saying "hackers" because it is also a term used by media and seen by the general public when talking about many unethical or illegal things?
There's no way to know how this will work out. Could be great, could be a disaster. If you give it pass, you might end up with regrets. It's a big gamble no matter which way you go. If you're certain that feelings are mutual, it would seem that there's one person whose opinion matters more than random strangers on the internet.
Im the writer and artist! Thanks for sharing!

Happy to answer any questions!
Transparency is enormous factor in the quality of life of all of us, and I think real transparency is not about public information, but public knowledge.
I can't really agree here. Blocksize sets a max cap on transaction rate, which is effectively a decision that the network should prefer high-value, low-frequency transactions, even though from a miner profitability (and therefore hashrate-security) standpoint, the opposite might be better. Might also be that a settlement network is the best use case for Bitcoin, but we don't know what the market would prefer because the scales are tipped in favour of high-value tx by people who believe they know best.
I'm somewhat confused. Are you saying that there is no relation between the structure of the large-scale Universe and the structure of Neurons? If so, then why do we get two models that come out looking very similar?

Of course, it is unlikely that there is a physical, causal link between the two. But if I have two photographs of two different things and they look similar, is it not then fair to say that the way those two different things look is similar?

[Edit: also - to be fair - it is not just models of structure formation (like the power law presented in the article) - we have pretty pictures of the large scale structure of the Universe as well http://www.sdss3.org/images/gallery/sdss_pie2.jpg]
I wonder how many of these didn't work out because they didn't scale well to real world complexity.
LG 5K 27" display. 100% coverage of P3 gamut. $1299.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62/lg-ultrafine-5k-dis...
When you're attempting social engineering, one form is better than the other.

If your predictions consistently fail, you're not doing good science.

If you want to claim you're not doing science at all but standup comedy or literature, that's fine.

But that's not how economics is presented to the public. It's always "We must do [unpopular thing] to get [defined outcome] because [economics is truth]."

If there's no empirical basis for any of that, the entire narrative is plain political fraud.
Who knows? The whole problem is that "darknet" is a label that doesn't mean anything definite, a buzzword but not a term.

You may say that a tool/network/protocol is decentralized and/or secure and/or anonymous and/or censorship-resistant and/or routed through Tor and/or doesn't leak identity and/or tamper-resistant and/or has plausible deniability etc etc and all these labels would mean something - "darknet" does not.

A "darknet messenger" might tick any set of these boxes, but the meaning is completely different depending on which of these labels apply.
>It seems to me the greater concern is dimbulbs plugging their phone into their laptop charger.

There is no concern. Phones request the current they need, and will charge very slowly if something is completely incompatible.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F3R8XC6

This model is selling about 200 units a month just on Amazon.

Most popular one on that listing is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F3R9136?th=1, rank 1000 estimated 250 sales a month.

I'm estimating all the models on that listing together are selling about 1000 units a month.

Edit: went back and found some more listings:

https://www.amazon.com/HP-14-inch-E2-7110-Windows-14-an013nr... My tools are telling me this single item is selling 1500 units a month.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-575-33BM-15-6-Inch-Processor-... estimated 2500 units a month.

Just look through https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-La... for the top laptops. Top 5 are all 4GB RAM.

Extrapolating a bit I'd say low end laptops are selling in the mid 5 figures of units per month on Amazon, or possibly low six figures.

And it seems that low end outsell high end in terms of number of units, at least - but since the high end can be 3 or more times the price, it's difficult to say how the total amount paid compares with this quick back of the envelope calculation.
I want to buy a MacBook, but if they manage to put a quad core in one of the 13 inches, I’ll wait a year or two
>(If anyone knows of anything like it for cross-platform desktop apps, let me know, I'd love to try it out)

Check out Xojo. HN user SyneRyder sometimes comments about it here, and likens it somewhat to Delphi. Cross-platform too. I'm in early stages of trying it out, so won't comment myself on it.

Xojo is a BASIC variant, and IIRC, was called RealBASIC earlier. While I've done some work with BASIC and Visual BASIC in my time, and don't puke out on it (as some people allege they do :), I confess that I prefer the syntax style of the Algol family of languages, such as C, C++, Pascal, D, and Go.

However, the convenience of VB, Delphi, Lazarus and similar drag-and-drop GUI app builder tools is real. Great for quickly prototyping something, and many a time for the final product too.
Even if you think it's fair, people being paid based on negotiating skill is a market inefficiency so it is still undesirable.

I mean, bench pressing a lot of weight or playing the flute are also skills like any other, but we don't want software developers to be paid based on that. We want software developers to be paid based on software development skills, or other skills that actually relate to doing the job.
But can't you configure the device to do e.g. fast matrix-vector multiplications instead of inference? I can be wrong, but I suspect that's what people do mostly on supercomputers anyway.
> Why not have unisex bathrooms?

Possible building codes. Or female employees that want their own restrooms.

This was the case a few years ago in an office I was helping network. Most of the people thought that unisex bathrooms would be a great idea, except the female employees that demanded their own bathroom space, away from men.
How can there be solidity "experts" for something that has existed for so little time?
I'd rather stick with 2x 25" Dell UltraSharp U2515H 2560x1440 monitors[0].

2 of those are nearly 3x cheaper than the 1x 38" curved display and for tasks that require a lot of horizontal space (video editing, etc.) 5120 is WAY wider than 3840. Also a curved display is pretty questionable for professional image editing (it distorts pixels).

I run the 25" here for development and video editing. Probably the best development environment upgrade I've made in 5 years.

If anyone wants to read a deep dive on how to pick a solid monitor for development, I put together a detailed blog post[1] that covers why I picked that 25" Dell specifically.

[0]: http://amzn.to/2jF3WHp

[1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-good-monitor-fo...
I am not pro nuclear, but fossil fuels are presently responsible for the active die off of the earths oceans and melting of its ice caps, id say things are being managed catastrophically poorly for those fuels as much if not worse than nuclear. Fall out zones like Chernobyl seem to have vibrant resurgent nature once people are gone. I am making a twisted argument I suppose for meltdowns, but all I'm trying to say is that this argument against nuclear applies just as devastatingly to everything but renewables.
Maine growers cultivate gourmet mushrooms
Not quite, because that leaves out the important fact that it doesn't operate over typical networks.
>As for the letters, just tell them you aren't eligible to pay. How do they know if you don't tell them? //

Or they could stop accusing people of being criminals without any evidence.

I've had one of these letters and they start from a position of extreme prejudice against the recipient; it's not a pleasant reminder that you may need a license it's an accusation that you're a criminal and will get a big fine.

You have to pay to tell them you don't own a TV too, there's no freepost envelope and no freephone number. It's a small thing but given the aggressive nature of their accusation I refuse to pay even 40p to let them know we had no TV on the premises.
I wonder why nobody gives up his good name for a crawler.
I've made the choice to never work for a company that doesn't let me work from home whenever I want.
Same here. I don't see the point in having a bright screen unless you're in sunlight or have a lot of glare.
The words are 36 bits. 3 12 bit characters (the analogue to a byte)
Look, if someone is pregnant and tells their boss they need to WFH, then they need to WFH. I cannot respect a company or a person that doesn't follow that simple rule. I know a couple of business owners in these parts that would have the manager sitting on the curb wondering how he got thrown out of the building so fast, and I'd applaud.
Seconded. I bought pretty expensive Razer keyboard and mouse ~18 months ago. The keyboard started acting up after I spilled water on it 5-6 times. (And yes, I expect a $200 keyboard to be waterproof!)

Even without the water spills, the quality of the keycaps and the feel when typing gradually worsened after the first 11-12 months of usage. I am not opposed to paying $200 for a keyboard but I expect more durability for my money.

Ended up replacing it for ~$70 Chinese mechanical backlit waterproof keyboard that has been, and still is, the best keyboard I've ever used.

The Deathadder Chroma mouse is nice though. I used cheaper mice that I liked more both in visuals and performance but the mouse is passable. I don't think it should be that expensive for its quality but it serves me just fine for 15 months now and hasn't degraded in any way.
> I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn't made more news.

Why? It seems relatively safe, and there doesn't seem to be much else to do with it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
Yes, because none of Islam preaches love and none of Christianity preaches death to homosexuals.
> Calling VM's a mistake is surprising considering that today, a crushing majority of code (JVM, .net and arguably, LLVM) runs on a VM.

LLVM isn't a VM.

.NET achieved its position, because on Windows many of the APIs became .NET only or C++ COM. Not many people bothered to use alternatives to Microsoft tooling.

JVM achieved its position due to being free, and the huge amount of money and engineering resources that Sun poured into it, which in a way ended up killing the company.

Yet due to the pressure from Fintech customers, Oracle started to look into AOT compilation, with initial support for Linux x64 available on Java 9, other platforms will be supported later. Most commercial JDKs had support for AOT since the early days.

> In comparison, .net native and Core RT are tiny dots on the radar.

Yes, but that is where Microsoft wants to go. There is no pure .NET on UWP, other than via the desktop bridge, the transition technology to port Win32 into UWP.

> - Pascal UCSD Pascal was a VM (p-code)

Quite correct and it ran quite slowly, purely interpreted.

> A few anti-piracy schemes on the Apple ][ used their own VM to obfuscate their code

- ScummVM was extremely popular to create games

The games from Lucasart were hardly something where performance mattered.

> VM's were a thing in the 90s and they are even more of a thing today.

Given Apple's decisions on their programming languages, Go, D, Rust, Pony, Haskell, OCaml, the change of direction on Dart's design, I am not quite sure.
Start with an MVE, not an MVP
Great paper! Especially useful when talking to C++ fanatics who are proud of their language's de-facto reference counting via 'smart pointers'.
Because you should stop asking for generics like in Java/C#/rust etc..
Such generic to make custom type safe container is like using a canon to kill a fly.

You should ask for generic package/templated package.
It solve the problem, it's way simpler and and would only touch a small part of the spec.
More importantly, it wouldn't change the way we code in go today.

With generic package you only have to define the parameter in package declaration like this:

package list {Value: interface{}

And use it by importing it like this:

import list "container/list" {Value: int}

And that's why to go team asked for use case. To use the most simple tool to fix a problem so there is less chance for other problems to appear.
If every people wanting to make custom type safe container would stop asking for full generics and instead would brought their case with a simpler solution. I'm sure it would have a chance to go in Go 2.0.
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Just because there isn't a single event to point at and say 'that is the cause' doesn't mean that the damage wasn't done.

Auto accidents probably kill a few orders of magnitude more people than a nuclear accident, yet you don't see the evangelical preachings against cars like you do nuclear.

The other forms of power need to be well managed also, and they historically have not. I don't need to go into detail about the huge amounts of pollution the power industry has generated.

What is worse? A handful of accidents that kill a few hundred people? Or several thousand people dying from various cancers and respiratory illnesses cause by decades of pollution from coal plants? Not to mention the dangers of mining it.

Current where I live there is a huge push towards natural gas due to the increased supply/decreased costs thanks to fracking. I don't think we have even begun to understand the environmental impact of fracking, yet industry has unanimously declared it safe. Another huge mismanagement of our environment, in my opinion.
Downvotes is the last thing I expected on this comment. I expressed my opinion about what held me back. In what sense does that warrant a downvote?
As you note, both nuclear and traditional energy can fail spectacularly (e.g., Brightwater Horizon,) but a good comparison of these events can be tricky. Particularly, for nuclear "harm," careful how much is real science vs how much is merely the scariness of radioactive materials; yes, scientists could detect radioactive caesium and iodine from Fukushima washing up on California, but there's orders of magnitude difference between what is "detectable" and has any real chance of effecting you.
I'm aware and I did try out a C++ client but there was still a definite upper bound to its performance and latency was still ~2x Cap'n'Proto.
It's not just "well managed" nuclear that is better than fossil fuels. It's the use of nuclear entirely, including the horrible accidents, that is still better than burning fossil fuels.

We could have 100 more Fukushimas and not even touch the number of people who have died of respiratory conditions due to coal.

Please don't let the outsized, dramatic media stories about nuclear sway you. It's a viable, efficient, almost limitless power source that should be a major part of the world's energy mix.