skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe 2-3 years ago, but at least in the cities the card acceptance is quite good. Berlin in particular and cafes in general being the exception.
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This is not an unorthodox or unreasonable position. The Mythical Man-Month is a classic text in software engineering and project management and essentially argues this very point. The analogy to child birth is actually also a classic one made originally by the author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
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I'm a Monzo user and really unhappy to find this out. I spend most of my time in mainland Europe and the free transactions and no ATM fees are the only reason I am a user.

Can anyone comment on how Revolut compares? One pain point is that I always get asked if I want to pay in GBP or EUR, or even the cashier selects without asking me, in which case I get massively ripped off if they select GBP. With Revolut will the card look like a EUR card whilst travelling in the Eurozone?
There are two-lock queues that allow consumers to mostly run independently from the producers while still using bog-standard locks.

Still you are right that lock-free algos really shine in implementing message queues, but mostly because they can be implemented with fewer or cheaper memory operations, so even in the uncontended case, the lock-free queue can shave some cycles.

> I, myself, like the approach of building my data out of near-immutable blocks and just replacing the references using atomic compare-and-swap, for example.

Yes, one huge advantage of lock free algorithms is that you can have read mostly data structures with no contentions between readers (most rw-lock implementations do require readers to write on some shared state).
LED filled mechanical keyboards and tacky headphone stands, oh god. And the professional masturbator chairs. Dear lord!

The equivalent of HN would be minimal macbook pro setups with large displays. Maybe throw in a moleskine.
This architecture is optimized for accuracy rather than speed. The official paper reports 200ms inferencing time per image on a GPU. This implementation is likely a bit slower because we use Python in a couple of layers. This is easy to optimize, but we haven't gotten around to it yet.

With that said, there are a lot of things you could do to make this much faster. For example, use ResNet50 instead of ResNet101. You can also reduce the number of anchors or the number of proposals to classify, and that should improve performance significantly at the expense of a little loss in accuracy.
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In your comment, you don't have a single statement that would actually compare US to any other government. I assume you understand the difference between absolute and relative value judgements?
IANAT (... i am not a theologian... but i've been surrounded by them for almost all my life)

> "there is no Catholic God, there is just one God"

I've been told that this is one of the main changes that resulted from Vatican II: there is only one God and it's shared by the whole world population. On the other side, the Catholics pretend to have the "right" way to praise that common God. (but that's not what you were saying)

Francis seems to be in line with the official doctrine. (and from the article this seems to be a constant in his actions)

> One of the most sacred Christian texts, the Athanasian Creed

Never heard of that text. And a quick visit to Wikipedia tells me:

"Today, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western Church."

After those two remarks, I don't think your statements are in way representative for a common way to understand the Catholic religion nor for the official Vatican position.
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Would be good to force a minimum font size, maximum slide count, etc. Through some Windows security policies...
What do you mean by "Java/Scala knowledge requirement"? I don't know much c/c++ but I use postgres just fine. There is a bunch of stuff in software ecosystem in a bunch of languages that if I had to know it all I wouldn't progress much.
Same here whilst moving from the UK to Spain. Also, their borderless accounts are a lifesaver when working with international clients.
Not quite. In the USA, classification as a security is usually determined using a four-pronged legal standard called the Howey Test.

A security is:

1. An investment of money,

2. In a common enterprise,

3. With an expectation of profits,

4. Predominantly from the efforts of others.

Selling something without making any promises doesn't necessarily preclude expectation of profits.
Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal
It's rather stupid to worry about global warming here, as concrete use in France is less than 1% of what it is in China anyway.
Eh, Simple Mobile isn't such a great deal. If your okay with T-Mobile (which is the network Simple Mobile resells), MintSIM at $25 a month for 10GB is almost certainly better. If you want better coverage, Total Wireless offers 5GB of LTE on Verizon for $35 a month, add 5GB more for $10 more.
Futex are a linux kernel-level specific waiting primitive [1]. The point of the OP is that mutex implemented on top of a futex has a purely userspace fast path that needs only a single CAS for each acquire and release in the uncontended space, so in this scenario an userspace spin-lock is not often significantly better (a spin lock release only need a store on some machines though). Spin locks are significantly worse in the contended space though.

[1] futexes enable Fast Userspace muTEXES, but futex themselves are kernel space and not particularly fast.
They are advertising a 2k phone with an image that shows a poorly pasted 480 pixel image at the top.
It started as that but it has expanded since. There are lots of people using Transferwise all over the world now. People going to vacation or living in Japan, for example, can save money by using TW.
I don't think there is a language without patterns. But in other programming languages (Lisp, Haskell), we just call them functions.

Edit: Actually, I think your request is even more ridiculous. If what Norvig is saying is true, then every language has patterns, because every language has bugs. So you are asking to substantiate his statement by providing a counterexample.
What I still have problems to understand with, who really used QPX Express?
I looked at it several times over the year and it basicially only lets you search for flights (oneway, roundtrip, open jaw) but without any "advanced routing codes"
But those are the most important ones since you can specify booking class (not to be mistaken with cabin class), operating, marketing carrier, base fare code, layovers, aircraft type,...

Basicially QPX Express was always a paid and also very limited version of matrix.itasoftware.com

Instead the results were much better (and free) just scraping ITA and being able to enter all those advanced routing codes.
Great way for finding error fares, fuel dumps, ...
And there was no spam check from google's side, no IP request restrictions, no limit, nothing, whatsoever.
The code is a bit hard to go with when they changed to ITA v3 but once you figured it out (and it took us only 2 days since we had a working scraper for the previous version) to adjust it to the new code.
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That's a very high number for a full time position. I wonder what engineers actually do at Netflix? Seems like most of the work would be behind them...

I feel like a lot of big tech companies these days pay engineers to sound smart rather than for doing actual work. The interview processes at these companies would certainly indicate that.
Other HNers are making it more complicated than it strictly needs to be. Kubernetes and storage drivers are great and all, but we're talking hello world here.

So, if you want to keep it simple:

docker run postgres --detach --volume /save/my/data/in/this/path:var/lib/postgresql/data

That's it. (The --detach is to start it in background. Otherwise it would run in your terminal session and stop when you CTRL-C.)

Even if you don't specify a path for the data, the container would save its data in a Docker volume (a file), which doesn't get deleted until you explicitly ask it to. If you stop the container and restart it, it'll reattach to the same volume and find the data. If you delete the container without explicitly deleting its volumes as well, you'll be able to create another postgres container and attach the old volume to it.
It would be a neat trick to fool face scanners, for bonus points the shirt should just have a face of Thomas Crown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rDWENRI7c

Or I guess it's more effective to fool the scanners to think you're a dog/cat instead of a potential terrorist (because everyone is one nowadays, right NSA?).
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I made a website to prank people by letting them think I programmed an AGI. It is hilarious!

You can check it out on https://singularity-ai.neocities.org/ but make sure you read first the accompanying blog post on
https://aochagavia.github.io/blog/singularity-ai/
It's pretty common to write session data in memory eg. memcache/redis.
At this point I fear it would take a strong carbon tax to achieve that.

Building inefficient systems is attractive when you externalize all that inefficiency onto other people.
You are right, but the Poland corridor was probably the key to proving the model though.
ATM withdrawals is the main selling point though.

There are plenty of cards in the UK that do not have a foreign transaction charge on purchases (nationwide, lloyds avios, for example).
It seems like you're confused about zero-temperature quantum mechanics. Even at absolute zero, the electrons do not 'fall into the core'---they sit in the orbitals---except at extraordinarily high pressures/densities where (as in neutron stars) they merge with the protons, turn into neutrons, emitting a neutrino.

Note that neutrons are heavier than protons, and when alone undergo beta decay with a lifetime of about 15 minutes, turning into a proton, emitting an electron and an antineutrino. So a hydrogen atom, left alone, cannot undergo the process you suggest---there simply isn't enough energy for it. It's only at very high density that the coulomb interaction provides enough energy to perform this conversion. There may be new physics, such as proton decay, that changes this story, but as far as anybody knows, there is not.

Perhaps more precisely, at absolute zero temperature atoms with orbitals are mathematically what quantum mechanics predicts. I of course don't know how to produce an atom that cold in the lab :) Except... of course... I do know how to produce an atom where the electron is in its ground state. If I've just got one atom, that's easy-peasy. Then, what is its temperature? Because it's just one atom, it's not well defined.

There's a more interesting question you ask, though: can the electron have a tempature? The different energy eigenstates are populated with different amplitudes. The way those states are populated can have a well-defined distribution in terms of a superposition. But if we restrict ourselves to a classical case, as OP was thinking about, superpositions are not allowed. Then, again, you at least have a definite energy.

Moreover, just a single electron in a superposition of energy eigenstates... it's not clear to me that that thing has a well-defined temperature either, because 'average' energy means something other than an ensemble average.
The largest VOIP companies in America today are the cable companies, ACN (pyramid scheme with a few million VOIP customers), Vonage (a first mover) then a few dozen minor players that are near the half million customer mark. IMO its a big (but unsurprising) marketing failure.

VOIP as a product never really made it into the home, despite all its features and enhancements. Instead, it is limited to the realm of businesses, where it is in most hospitals, medical facilities, chain stores, call centers, and so on.
Mondo. But it turns out there were some copyright issues (some other Mondo already existed) so they changed their name to Monzo.
I guess some people like companies that produce great products?
The guy in the first picture, Mihai Moldovanu is wearing a tee with a Greek flag. Does anyone know what the connection is? Did Romanians go to Greece to study computers, in the '80s or something like that?
And for anyone just needing flight, availability, schedule date and having problems to structed standardized data, isn't that what the GDS is for (Amadeus, Sabre, Worldspan,...)
There you have almost all carriers (excl. some LCCs), have all the data (availaiblity, schedule, pricing, ...) and its either cheap or free to access.
Just have a look at https://developer.sabre.com/docs/read/REST_APIs for example.
You don't even need a real GDS account with an office ID, just an API access account.
$100 for 24 months isn't that expensive ($4.16/month), I certainly expect a free phone with a cheap plan like that.
Also the fact that if you stuff enough text into a slide it won't overflow outside the slide, but rather Powerpoint helpfully starts to shrink the font size!
What dishonesty? The entire thing is a rhetorical exercise on the fly.
Just curious, why print it out?
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Ask HN: How do you name your teams?
Hi,
We have two software development teams and temporary names are X and Y at this moment. But we'd like to change them to something less competitive. Right now it looks like the Y team is the secondary to X team even though it's not the case.

So, we can't use letters (such as A and B, or X and Y), numbers (1 and 2, I and II, etc.) and Greek alphabet (alpha and beta which is similar to A and B). That leaves us the colours, animals, plants, and planets. We're not all men or women in any of the team. As a result, we can't also use Mars and Venus or Blue and Red/Pink kind of names too.

How would you name your teams in this situation?

P.S: If you are going to give team name examples, please be careful that they shouldn't be sexist, racist, or competitive. Thanks in advance!
there is an argument that humans develop immunity to sales techniques, and social media advertising is too new, and we have yet to produce mind-antibodies.

I mean, it's also possible that targeted advertising is just that much better than previous methods of advertising... I'm just bringing up the possibility.

It would be interesting to look at other major advances in advertising technology and see what excesses they produced. I mean, it's not quite the same, but it is said that in the Kennedy/Nixon debates, people who listened on the radio thought Nixon won, while those watching TV thought Kennedy won. I mean, it was another inflection point in advertising where new advertising technologies possibly gave us a different president.
20years * 50weeks / 4weeks = 250

assuming a man year is 40h/week and those 4 weeks were a crunch of 80 hour weeks, then 125 people worked on the same piece of software, assuming no ramp up time.

Is this even possible?
I don't find this, people around always need to have the latest phone it seems, but for myself I bought the Note 4 back in 2014 and still have it today 3 years later. It's got a crack in the screen and apps open maybe a millisecond slower than I'd like, but otherwise it does everything I need. I look at newer models and it just seems like the law of diminishing returns in effect; higher cost for smaller amount of noticeable changes. I've yet to see anything groundbreaking that'll make me upgrade.
> Your filesystem is not readable without a filesystem driver for the specific binary format used to represent it, so you cannot even read your text file without having something in your stack that understands a more structured data organization scheme.

This argument doesn't hold water, since file content doesn't depend on which filesystem it's on.

An archiver may choose to store data in some very particular way, like some specific tape driver. They're free to do that without corrupting the content of any files, since the files don't depend on the filesystem.

On the other hand, if an archiver chose to store, say, unzipped versions of their opendocument files, then they've corrupted the data: opendocument files are zips, unzipped data is not opendocument. The format does depend on the file content.
>With what water?

Chinese assume that they can drill a colossal tunnel through Himalayas from Pakistan, and have it connected to Arabian sea by a canal going through whole Pakistan's lowlands in a distant future. The pilot project to test the feasibility is the 1000km pipeline for water diversion from Tiben to Yangtze
Indeed. But I’m questioning an argument, not a method.
Behind them? Like, Netflix is through, no need to expand it's offerings? No need to improve it's UX? Introduce new features?
It's kind of clever, but also bloody stupid at the same time.
Mondo -> Monzo
It would put me off too if they were advocating for replacing OpenDocument, but from the article:

> Finally, let us reiterate that this essay is a thought experiment. The OpenDocument format is well-established and already well-designed. Nobody really believes that OpenDocument should be changed to use SQLite as its container instead of ZIP. Nor is this article a criticism of OpenDocument for not choosing SQLite as its container since OpenDocument predates SQLite. Rather, the point of this article is to use OpenDocument as a concrete example of how SQLite can be used to build better application file formats for future projects.
I use transferwise for US => UK. It also seems to be the most widely recommended of the services in the expat community.
If you make that assumption then you have already lost.

However that is no reason not to use good security otherwise.

> And how did Western society just accept all of this anti-democratic craziness?

Because people buy it voluntary.
A while back, I gave a conference presentation, but instead of using Powerpoint, I just had a directory with a load of mp4 videos. It turns out that if you run xine with all of them on the command line, you can use the right arrow to skip to the next one. Put a long-lived static image at the end of each video, and you have a completely custom-built set of slides with whatever transitions you want.

In my case, I used the videos to illustrate mathematical models and results. It was a marginally more powerful method than using Powerpoint.
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Check out spinnaker.
The more people you put on a single project, the more communication costs - which grow with n! - start to dominate.

The solution to that is to structure the project into independent parts that can be done in parallel by smaller amount of people, thus vastly reducing communication waste. But whether or not you can divide your project in such a way is a question of its scope, and of design decisions you make.
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I think he meant $100/mo.
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I don’t think your point about dplyr holds weight because it explicitly draws inspiration from two base R functions: subset and transform.

And I don’t think ggplot2 is a great example either since it’s some of my earliest work and I’m actively moving away from that style of API to something based on regular function composition.

I wish someone would make this argument more precise so I could better understand it. From my perspective (apart from the pipe) I’m just taking ideas already seen elsewhere in R and trying to express them as cleanly and elegantly as possible.

(I hope your point isn’t that R is fundamentally ugly and anything that makes it more elegant is hence unlike R like)
From my experience though, Monzo has been much more reliable when traveling. It works in much more places in Asia for example. I traveled around Asia for a while before with my TSB UK debit card and it was getting declined almost everywhere, even in big cities like Hong Kong or Taipei (and yes I called TSB and told them I will be traveling Asia for few months in case they have some restrictions on debit cards in place, didn't help at all).

It got to a point I had to open local bank accounts and do wire transfers from my UK bank account to local bank accounts and use the local debit card. I just couldn't get my TSB/Lloyds card to work anywhere except high end western shops like Apple Store.
That's not what capital intensive means[1]. A company that has low margins as its business model necessarily needs to have a large body of transactions to get much revenue.

Six years to get profitable is not really a remarkable period for a VC-funded company.

1: It means requiring lots of capital to get set up, eg. because you need to aquire expensive assets to run your business. Buying your own hardware is more capital intensive that running cloud, even if the latter is possibly more expensive in the long run.
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What on earth is in that control software since it take 20-30 man years to write?

I mean, charging profile based on input variables such as temperature, total capacity, current capacity, health, available power ect. And then for discharging.

The battery and it's controller ought to be a black box you can either feed power or request power from, and query for data. Either I'm missing something fundamental, or the SW stack is a mess.
Mondo, they had some trademark issues with it and had to change it.
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Family contracts are a huge savings over individual pay as you go plans.
So, can we assume that if the production has to be multiplied by 10, the cash flow used for operating activities should also be multiplied by almost 10, giving expenses of way more than $1.4bn?
Hardly a thought experiment, when its on the official site.

This is purely a marketing exercise. They're hanging the thought experiment tag on to try and avoid undue criticism.
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Some people like to read the dead-tree version. Nostalgia, maybe paper is better for the eyes, paper books are generally lighter than the equivalent sized tablets or ebooks, etc.
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not just the UK, this is the same pain point for everyone when interacting between Euroland and the rest of Europe too.

Germany + France + Italy + Spain have _a lot_ of people sending money to non-euro countries.

EDIT: this could dry up quickly anyway though. My bank charges idiotic amounts to change and trasnfer money, I doubt there is any technical reason they must, they can get to TW level trivially, it seems, they just don't care enough.
There's really no fundamental reason why iAd couldn't have become a more powerful revenue generating part of their platform.

Maybe iAd could have performed slightly better if certain policies had been different. But iAd still had to compete with Google and Facebook whom by virtue of reaching effectively everybody, offer a much more attractive value proposition to most advertisers. Apple simply can't compete with that. And every decision Apple would have to make in order to be more competitive would be at cost of harming the user experience of their products, ie. the very thing that makes them able to charge a premium in the first place.

Of course, you can argue that maybe they wouldn't take that stance if they weren't so successful in hardware

That's not the argument I'm making. At all. My argument is that advertising as a business model is fundamentally incompatible with selling premium hardware products. To be succesful at one means making strategy choices that prevents you from succesful at the other.