skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently reading Greg Egan's 1994 "Permutation City" that deals with the various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulated reality.

Some of the core concepts of the book revolve around a global network of computers buying and selling computing power and I can't stop wondering how the book would be different it it was written now.
> even including social benefits, the salary is 2 to 3 times less

Yea... no.

Especially if you factor in the cost of life.

Edit: Average salary in SF for tech workers is $142k vs $56k in Paris [1].

Once adjusted for cost of living, Paris is roughly 86k$ [1].

Now, you add all the social benefits, like free health care, retirements etc.
And if you have/plan on having children, you can add free education as well.

All in all it's very far from 2-3 times lower.

[1] https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2018
They don’t read books, they solve leetcode problems.

A friend was obsessed with getting into FAANG and relentlessly drilled leetcode problems. There’s a whole community around it, basically memorizing enough toy problems that they can pass these interviews.

The companies should know by now that these clever problems aren’t really that clever. I have not interviewed in a long time but I think I’d get kind of depressed if an interviewer asked me 2sum. I’d just lose respect for the company.
I'd consider the value to be motivational ammunition for an intervention that generally has few downsides and multiple possible benefits for the person affected. Your point about stigma does counterbalance that somewhat.

In other words, would I put the overview on the coffee table in my wife's office (she's a psychiatrist) for her patients to see? Yes.
By 'feral' I mean 'unfettered', wild.

I agree the subsidies are not helpful, but I think they exist to politically support farmers rather than to encourage particular foods.

That said (to use the latest irksomely popular phrase), I don't think the agricultural subsidies are the whole, or even major part of the story of the food environment.
Those 30k seem really low for current Paris standard. I started at 40k as a graduate in a seed-funded startup 2 years ago. If I had stayed there, I would definitively be between 50k to 60k.
Every tent camp in Seattle has at least a few of these bikes sitting around so I guess it's helping them get around the city if that's what you are wondering.
Because we are a great, enlightened, quickly broadening and quickly advancing society that is inoculated from the chattering of small minds.
Nietzsche was right about staring into the abyss and battling monsters.
As others mentioned, it's not uncommon.

The difference I believe is that activity seems more reactive than preemptive. Case in point, the mixtape as a precursor to the album, which exists primarily as a promotional vehicle. Even rappers that have already made it continue to do mixtapes for more experimental work or as a thank you to their fans.
> you can run your own off-site instance, that can be hosted with your favourite cloud provider.

How much would it cost to hire an admin to set up and maintain that instance?

The whole point of Dropbox is that I don't have to do any work.
Against the Electoral College (people, not cows)
Thanks, we've changed to that from https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dr....
The (possible) problem is that by writing it in something else you're adding a dependency on either a runtime (python, ruby, js, etc) or on a compiler pipeline (c, go, etc), so I can understand an aversion to switch to one of those.
The authors of the page clearly have an agenda. We all know the Holocaust occurred, so why let a page challenging or attempting to rewrite history exist? You're delusional if you don't think there are people who get all their news from their filter bubbled Facebook timeline.
My understanding is they are focused on user growth and improving the UX right now. Also, I believe they could be sustainable without being as widely popular as dropbox. IIRC eventually they will have a paid tier for their kbfs solution. I know I would certainly pay. For me Keybase is a one stop shop: identity management, individual and team chat, encrypted git repos, and secure file sharing all on a cross-platform system. No one really offers the service they do.
For the retirement bit, that's assuming that France's 110% of GDP debt or so won't balloon in the future and pensions won't be slashed by the time your retire.
Here's where I think you and others are missing something. Orange juice is in the hypothetical that they are discussing. There's nothing that says you have to make up a request. It can be a legitimate request, it just wasn't in the hypothetical.

The key thing is whether the response is "that's impossible" or "you can have that for this price." In the anecdote, the businessman told Gerald that he'd already passed the test.
Kaspersky VPN blabbed domain names of visited websites – and gave me a $0 reward
Cool. All the Nazis in one handy list
Which actually translates to like 99% of real user browsers.
Show HN: Electron Fiddle
What spoils? I think it would be rather difficult to claim that the general US population has come out on top as a result of Middle East adventurism over the past two decades.
The thing that is interesting about Google support is that, from what I can tell, it's primarily provided on a public forum instead of providing any mechanism to contact someone directly. Users of the forums can try to solve an issue, or, they can vote on issues they find important. If an issue gets enough votes, then, someone from Google will jump in and provide what is generaly described as pretty amazing help.

It almost sounds like a reasonable system. Except of course that Hacker News is that public forum. And, it sounds like if you can't get enough votes here, you're unlikely to get your problem solved.

It will be interesting to see if HN as a Google support forum works in this case.
I sync to my NAS where it gets backed up to b2 using duply, cloud backup is out of scope for Syncthing itself.
That sounds like a problem with the definition of overweight, which probably uses BMI. BMI doesn't seem to scale well to athletic builds.
> The whole notion of treating bicycles as vehicular traffic was wayward and has been debunked

When, and by who?
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/2030/
Rocket Report: Firefly Resurrected, World View Accident, Bezos to Talk Space
Facebook adds requirements for page managers amid concern over fakers
Also, I like the Indiana Jones logo where they couldn't even Do It Right enough to have the correct kind of hat.
...and sometimes it is a profitable business.
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We also keep talking about this in terms of rejection (being banned, escaping parents etc), but it might well be that they were simply pushed by a reckless sense of exploration, curiosity, and personal ambition. Their world was endlessly new: what is beyond that hill? What is beyond that river? I'll find out, and if it's good, I'll make it mine. After all I'm a teenager, I obviously cannot die.

Right on. There are a lot of instincts humans show in developed society that work great in a hunter-gatherer society, including this one. See also:

-Tribalism

-Territorialism

-Hoarding
Lower bioavailability in plant sources of protein does not seem to hinder their ability to help maintain positive nitrogen balance, a key to building muscle mass.

Read
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/6686252/

Via
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1ajCmi1jk&feature=share
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717676

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732437
I agree. I always do it this way for this exact reason.

However, I'm surprised the author did not point out that they are calling malloc() without checking for a NULL return value.
Congresscritters want answers on Tillerson's rm -Rf /opt/gov/infosec
I knocked myself out when I was 17 years old, don't remember two weeks... I used to think I mostly recovered from that head injury, but I've recently realized that it left me rather non-functional. I'm making progress, but I guess I'm "invisibly disabled", in certain ways. Thanks for that description.

I took to taxi driving because of the flexibility: no direct supervision, breaks whenever I wanted, etc. I get nerve pain, so breaks were necessary. I was perfectly happy working 12-hour shifts, though...

> It’s even worse that in the US, Social Security disability is focused mainly on physical disabilities and randomly excludes certain social/mental imparements due to a patchwork of dumb laws. As such, people in social services are often unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place.

America is very much "sink or swim". The politicians don't appreciate that sometimes people need floaters to keep their head above water, while they figure out how to get the concrete block off their feet...
Cool product!
If anyone is interested in a similar research project, here is an amazing one from CMU, done about 5 years ago!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~shihpinc/gneiss.html

"Gneiss is a spreadsheet tool for using and analysing online data. It contributes many extensions to the conventional spreadsheet model to support using and analysing web service and other hierarchical data, and creating interactive, data-driven web applications."
Or a car company?
Search engine puts a page speed icon in the result, or uses speed in ranking. Not tagging only sites that use the engine's own code.
- This sort of thing has existed for a while, and people still use electron [0], [1]

- It doesn't come with a DOM implementation, so most existing js libraries won't work. EDIT: actually it does have a DOM implementation, which is awesome

- Its API is in C++

- People are lazy

[0]: https://github.com/zserge/webview

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17729633.
Julius Caesar Self-Motivation Hack
In inquired about a domain ~3 years ago that was grossly overpriced, from my work email address.

Two weeks ago I got a call on my personal cell from someone wanting to know if I was still interested in buying the domain.
the ignorant masses treat browser updating as if it's some kind of hassle rather than a necessary part of operating a computer along with a cool thing because it usually brings new features and better performance.

This is a problem of education, reinforced by the fact that the people making decisions in corporations are usually part of that same ignorant masses (CEOs and such), and rarely are they people with real expertise on the subject. Plus the people who run the I.T. departments who should be correcting their CEOs failures are too afraid of being fired so they do whatever they're told.

Ah humanity. It's such a simple problem to fix, and they make it so needlessly complicated.
You can see this one at least; there's a load of fingerprinting algorithms out there that don't rely on something plainly visible.

Instead it's a very effective (IMO) watermark that draws the attention to the app and it was probably one of the reasons why it's so popular. I've seen it on Reddit a few times going 'wtf is that?'. Think of it like the modern-day's "Unregistered HyperCam 2".
>You seemed to imply that safety at intersections between cyclists and pedestrians needed or was helped by traffic lights. I don't think that's true.

Safety is helped in London, in the real world, when people don't run red lights. You seemed to be saying that this wouldn't be the case if there were no cars, which is totally irrelevant.

>There's an increasingly mainstream view that just the opposite is true

Try crossing a busy road which doesn't have any lights. I have one of those on my walk back from work, and it's by far the most dangerous crossing.
Since English is only third most spoken language, why would they adopt English?
Keybase is nice, but it isn't a Dropbox replacement. Your files aren't accessible offline; that's kind of a core part of a file sync instead of a file store.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17169314
If you need a better paying job and need it fast, everyone in Paris is looking for developers, including myself. I'd love a good dev with some skills in sys, you can easily find my mail by taking a look at my HN profile if you're interested.
Merah Putih Features New Tech to Improve Satellite Broadband Service
In my experience PhD candidates always get paid, and Masters don't. They do sometimes, but you aren't priority and guaranteed. I do always suggest getting the Masters on the way though. 5 years is a long time, and if you decide it isn't for you, well you come out with something (and it was paid).
The usual argument is:

The process that decides what should be censored might easily be used to squash valuable and important minority dissent in the future.
Encryption doesn't stop him or her or you from working out what Thing 1 is up to
Is there a video or screenshot anywhere, I wonder? I'd like to see it in action. Rendering HTML could mean a lot of things.

It's not clear how much of a browser they are reimplementing. Features include XSLT and local storage, scroll bars, "text selection and dragging"? While on the to-do list is "full GIF support" and "CSS shadows." It's such a mixture of things that doesn't sound based on what you'd minimally need for a game UI.

"We've stripped WebKit to the bare essentials" - Sounds like maybe they took the non-rendering part of WebKit (eg layout) and wrote their own renderer(s)?

Fascinating.
Well, there is a general thing where small companies build a thing, and then they scale to the point where the thing doesn't work any more, and they have to make some changes.

History has taught me that accepting the inevitability of change is far better than trying to build a thing with so many features that it need never be changed.

In this particular case, I find it hard to believe that anybody will be "locked in" to a serverless SQL database in the same sense that, say, being a game company on top of iOS "locks you into the Apple Ecosystem," or writing your app in Rails "locks you into Ruby."
One 1930s essay to read before creating war-focused technology:
"War Is A Racket By Marine Major General Smedley Butler"
https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. ... For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out. ..."
If you're going to immigrate, learn the local language and do your best to adopt the local accent. It's tough, but it's the best investment you'll make in your new home.
Cue groans from a million geeks who hoped they were talking about the other Firefly.
So this is the good form of "on Fire" right?
I am working in Tallinn. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say anything good about the salaries here. I'm happy with mine, but it would be 3x higher in US and Switzerland (I have also worked there). What do you base this opinion on?
You can totally post on indiehackers in the community section, or producthunt in the maker section...
Tracking users with AdBlockers
Every online marketer, especially those specialized for tech-savvy audiences is probably aware about the use of Ad Blockers and how they prevent us not just from showing ads, but also from tracking information using tools such as Mixpanel, Google Analytics, etc.

According to some sources, the percentage of users with Ad Blockers should be around 20%, and on some tech-savvy websites even more.

Do you, as an online marketer concern with this fact and if so, what are you doing to collect the data from the users that are using Ad Blockers?

I am asking because I would be curious if its only us who see the problem. We developed a tool that enables us to bypass all Ad Blockers effectively, and would be curious if anyone would be willing to pay for such solution.
> That vanished to because pressing buttons is absolute and intuitive.

Are you really implying that pushing a voting machine button is more intuitive and "absolute" than using a pencil to mark a box on a piece of paper?

Have you seen these voting machines? The ones I've used before in PA were wildly complicated, and while I was there waiting to vote 2 different people had to call someone in to help them vote correctly.

>people did not trust the people who counted during the paper ballot time

The beauty of a well run paper ballot system, is that if you don't trust the counters, you can go count along with them. If you don't trust someone to not tamper with the box, you can go watch it all day. If you think the "other team" is trying to pull one over on you, you can get all of your friends to go down and watch the box all day, and count along. It doesn't matter their age, their primary language, their knowledge or the amount of schooling they went to, everyone capable of voting is capable of verifying those votes.

I personally am not arguing that it's impossible to rig a paper ballot system, just that it's significantly more costly (to the point that it would probably be easier to just run for the position legally if you are going to sink that much money into it), and it's magnitudes harder to get away with.

Let's look at florida, a state with a population of about 20 million. In 2016 9.4 million votes were cast. Let's look at one county, st. johns county. There were 136,000 votes cast in that county across about 46 precincts. So let's assume even distribution and say about 3000 votes cast per precinct.

In order to sway the election in one county, in one state, in one election, you would need to pay off or threaten around 46 people, probably a lot more. And you'd have to make sure that not one of them makes a mistake or "comes clean", and that nobody in any of the precincts you are trying to rig will sit around and decide to watch the process and blow the whistle at the first sign of something shady. And even if you were able to sway that county, you have another 66 in florida alone, and another 3000 or so across the rest of the country.

Now I know a "smart" way to rig would only touch "swing states", and would be smart with where they spend their money and time on to maximize the impact, but you are still talking about thousands of people all across the country.

If there were impending cases of rigging, they were found because it's monumentally difficult to cover up something on that scale.
Is it going to include people driven off the Internet by FOSTA/SESTA, for example, or is it just going to be the collection of alt-right types who are currently getting banned from major services?
Food producers are able to design such a wide variety of processed foods that it would be easy to get wolf-in-sheep's clothing unhealthy delicious snacks past most any government taxation scheme designed to stop them.
> "Junk Food" and Fast food tends to be between 100-300 Calories Per Dollar. Fresh Fruit and Vegetables are in this same range.

Is that median or average? Because from my understanding, that may be true at a large supermarket in a wealthy suburb, but at a small corner market in a poor neighborhood, which is often the only market a poor person has access to, the veggies are far more expensive per calorie than junco food, if they even have the fresh fruits and veggies, which they often don’t.
This hackneyed dialectical style seems to be pretty common in "business writing". Management consultants don't always write especially well, even if they're excellent persuasive speakers.
I would hope so, I mean, it would be pretty horrifying if it was easier.
So... information leakage may lead to literal water leakage.
This may help improve your understanding.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.cir.00000189...
Gamma ray evidence for dark matter outshone by a flock of pulsars
I'm actually a lot more interested in the product decisions than the tech stack. I wish there more product deep dives on HN.
Awesome.

Question:

Why are you wasting your time?

Do you wish to apply a blanket cure for the unknown multitude causes of mental health issues?

Why do you think reductions in the self reported “mental health” of the general population is useful for people who have been hospitalized with mood disorders?

Don’t you think that people who lie about how much exercise they do also might be lieing to themselves about their mental health?
No, in that case the ECI introduced voting machines, and the rate of booth capturing reportedly went down. EVMs foiled some of the things that the booth capturers had in their favour with paper systems: the ability to stuff ballots at high speed with an organized gang of people (EVMs only allow a maximum of 1 vote every 12 seconds.) the ability to stuff a large number of ballots (EVMs have a cap on the number of ballots that a machine can store.). EVMs also had a panic button which could be used to shut them down in the event of an attempted booth capture. What they lacked was an auditable paper trail, and they have been surrounded by claims of hackability countered by counterclaims of intellectual property theft.

Their first use was in 1982. You have over 35 years of Indian history and debate over these matters to catch up on in order to make an informed response to what z3phyr said.
No, community and state are two different things. Surely I do not accept social contract theory. But I do not think we will reach a common ground arguing this issue.
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many drivers have a tremendous sense of entitlement

It seems to me to be precisely the opposite. It is extremely common to see cyclists have a full 4-5 foot shoulder to ride on, but they always choose to ride as close to vehicular traffic as possible. Sometimes even on the white line. By doing so, they endanger everybody, and the only explanation for this behavior is entitlement.

So, cyclists, please change my mind: when you have a wide shoulder to occupy, and you choose to ride so close to the left of it that your handlebars are in serious danger of being clipped by vehicular traffic, why? Why not the middle of the shoulder, or, god forbid, the right side of it?

edit: thanks for the enlightening replies.
For the exercise itself I find that it's not the exhaustion, but the mental effort it takes to really push hard sort of resets my mental processes - I train powerlifting, so those 30 seconds where I'm going "this bar is going to kill me if I don't keep going" really changes my mental affect once I get out from under the bar.
Thanks, we changed to that from https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/roboticst-at-osu-use....