skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Fifteen years ago there was no technology precinct or technology industry in Australia,” said Farquhar, “As computer science graduates the best we could hope for was working at a bank or a consultancy organisation… and Mike and I weren’t up for that. So with a healthy dose of naivety we started out on our own."

I was back in Sydney recently, talking to people who work in tech there, it seems that besides the addition of Google & Atlassian, not a whole lot has changed. NICTA/Data61 is still around, which is good, and there are a few startups now and we even have our own HFT firms! But in general it didn't seem like a thriving tech scene I would want to move back to.

Living in NYC, the comparison to Roosevelt Island cracked me up a bit, since it has a Cornell campus and basically nothing else.
It isn't, but for a good number of people it certainly does appear to be a more comforting approach to stop short of making any sort of ethical claims about the 'free speech' question because it means getting what they want: uncomfortable ideas punted into the closet.
Anne Frank wrote in her diary with a ball-point pen which was not even invented yet. Something to hide perhaps?
Shortage of lorry drivers getting worse: Not enough young drivers
No, the original version is actually the 4chan version. "Ironic shitposting is still shitposting" is the distilled
version we started using later.

Edit: Ok, I stand corrected. After checking it turns out the HN post is probably the source. It's just I saw it posted in its original form on 4chan most often.
"If you are wondering why I didn’t compared to Bitbucket it’s because I have never used it before."

"+1.8 millions of business are using Github right now, so the pricing must not be bad"

Lots of words but low on real analysis.
> Healthier foods can cost more

This is an outrageous lie; although they added the word "can" which is either quickly overseen or makes the statement useless.

But arrogant ignorant misleading propaganda is typical for the harmful mainstream media where writers are paid for words and stories and not for content and truth.

Unhealthy food and mainstream media are similar in a way.

Vegan products are the cheapest products.

Vegetables and fruits are cheap if one buys seasonal products.

Vegan high carb (e.g. bread, rice,...) and high fat (e.g. oil) products offer always cheap calories. Besides, getting enough calories in the US is not the problem according to the article.

Animal products are by far the most expensive and most harmful products. Note: They are also subsidized.
Why the cast of Riverdale looks so familiar
Dropbox may come through for you in the end. They've got a feature called "Smart Sync" that is a network file system implemented as a kernel driver. See https://www.dropbox.com/smartsync and https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/filesystem-integrat.... Not sure if it's doing block level diff or not though.
> Given a diverse enough population, your beliefs are almost certain to already be offensive to some sub group

That is some top notch rationalization of hateful and racist speech and such a reductionist view of the issue. Let’s maybe take a step back and consider the reasons -why- someone may find a belief offensive rather than making some blanket statement about the issue. Let’s also consider that being offended by racism is not the same thing as being offended by someone calling you out for being racist.
But in this discussion, we're readily avoiding the daily mayhem and death that cars actually perpetrate. A new perspective is seriously in order. Which is most prevalent and presents the greatest risk in an urban environment?

Should bikes yield to pedestrians? Yes, absolutely. Is that equivalent to drivers speeding, swerving, texting, road-raging, etc? Not in the slightest.
How does a study like this control for the fact that if you are depressed, you might not want to exercise that day? And thus it’s mental health that drives how much you exercise, not the other way around?
in footnote 3 you write, 'Candice Owens replaced the word “white” with “black”' . She replaced "white" with "Jewish"
You're right. It really was the dock connector that made it a viable product for many people. The fact that the first iPods were Firewire (which I totally had forgotten about and I even had a 1G iPod) made it very difficult to make it work outside of the Apple ecosystem.
Agreed. Bread is really bad in the US. The food culture is also terrible. Snacks are seen as a necessity. Most drinks are super sugary. Portion sizes are way too big. Vegetables always have to be processed beyond recognition, people can't often comprehend that I eat raw cucumber and pepper. Coffee used to be a small cup, now it's a gigantic Starbucks with tons of sugar and flavored syrup. You really have to put up a lot of resistance because if you follow the normal eating patterns you will get fat.
What? No! The whole idea of paying dropbox 10 bucks per month is to get a ready-made functioning solution.

It is not like they are not implementing a feature but removing one.
Perec also wrote a book with no letter E, a mystery about the missing letter. The English translation is called _A Void_. It's hard to make sense in parts, largely works.

At parts it discusses the mysterious missing letter (E is not know) like threeve, the integer between 3 and 4.
> To be fair, the way malloc is used is actually the preferred way.

Is it really right? In C, isn't it considered bad to cast malloc result as it masks some mistakes? Also, the code doesn't check for NULL for the malloc result.
NFS is probably the most unreliable network file system that is still in use.

Even SMB is better
Few academics stake their careers on papers saying that X does fuck all (unless everyone already things X is amazingly effective)
I realized recently that although getting robots to understand humor is a hard problem, getting robots to develop stand-up comedy is tractable.

The reason is stand-up comedians have to develop their act empirically. They try out material that they think might be funny, and they try it out in front of an audience. They go through a process of constant trial and error. This is in contrast to what most audiences think happens.
>Let’s start with cost: As you can see in the chart, when it comes to how many calories you get per dollar, sugar, vegetable oils, and refined grains deliver a higher bang for the buck than fruits and vegetables

Somebody shopping with purpose can get cheap healthy food easily, but the chart they give did give me some thought.

If you use look at chart they give, fruits and vegetables are actually slightly lower on the $/100g axis, but have a much lower calorie density. This underlines one thing I've thought about: we are kind of too busy to spend all day eating low energy-density foods. The modern lifestlye has a decent amount of pressure to minimize the amount of time spent eating so we can get back to work.
This is a product-level dissection of what makes the app tick, not a technical discussion. The article discusses integration with other social networks, but doesn't discuss tech stack or research.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/judicial-watch/ those guys?

"Judicial Watch has made numerous false and unsubstantiated claims, with a “vast majority” of their lawsuits dismissed"
related: "All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17698135
Android: 75% de los usuarios ponen sus datos en jaque
French software engineer working at startups in Paris since 2010 here.

> What's the startup scene in Paris like?

Booming. A bit too much, if you ask me.

The ecosystem started growing fast when I arrived, basically. In 2011, the first real startup accelerator (Le Camping) opened. At that time, there was a very interesting meetup for the Parisian HN community called Paris Hackers, with very interesting people including founders of Docker (then dotCloud), Capitaine Train (acquired by Trainline), etc.

Today I would say there are at least 10x more startups and 20x more people working in them, which resulted in the average level of people in the ecosystem going down. There are accelerators and incubators everywhere, as well as very interesting things like eFounders (https://www.efounders.com). Meeetups have grown unwieldy large (e.g. the machine learning meetup is often having a hard time finding rooms large enough to fit its 200 - 300 people per session).

As for companies, some startups have become large (Criteo, LeBonCoin, BlaBlaCar, ...); some are obviously growing fast (Algolia, Aircall, Platform.sh, ...); some (like Moodstocks where I used to work) have been acquired by US companies which have set up offices in Paris, among other things to tap into the well known talent at French research labs in CS and AI (Google and Facebook in particular). To accompany all this, more VC funds are opening and rounds become larger and larger.

There is a lot of good to all this, but personally I feel like this is kind of a bubble and I miss the time, not so long ago, when we were all a bit more reasonable.

> How good does my French need to be?

It depends on the company. I would say most tech startups do most of their written work (including chat etc) in English. People might still speak French, but will switch to English when non-French speakers are around if they want to.

> Are there any languages/platforms/etc. that are popular there more than in Silicon Valley/Fairfax County (the places I'm used to working)?

I would say the obvious one is Python for Web backend. The French (and European in general) tech community has adopted Python a lot more while the US was going with Ruby. Some of the larger and older startups use a lot of Scala as well. Newer companies tend to use Go.

There are interesting startups using less popular stacks, especially functional programming. What is propably the largest French startup, Vente Privée, is using some Haskell, and so is https://www.fretlink.com (whose CTO is a former Capitaine Train CTO). https://margo.com is building a bank from scratch with Elixir and Scala (the CEO is the former CEO of Capitaine Train). There are a lot of Erlang people around too.

As you may see I mentioned Capitaine Train a lot because this is how the ecosystem is growing: thanks to disaporas of people from acquired startups (à la Paypal mafia). A few years earlier it was Exalead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exalead).

If you need more information feel free to get in touch. My email address is on my home page, which is linked in my HN profile.
Also everyone drives, even to fetch milk from nearest convenience store. It's too easy not to have any exercise all day
> Nevertheless, functions (with names) differ from 'where' clauses in precisely that: they have a name, and ideally, a function's name might tell you everything you need to know about it, though in practice, it is hard to fully and unambiguously state a function's contract in its name, especially if it has side effects.

Huh? What's the difference in "naminess" between:

bar x = ...
foo x y = bar (x + y)

and

foo x y = bar (x + y)
where bar x = ...

?
That's what you have in the US right now though. Subsidies go to unhealthy foods.
What is it exactly that you're refusing to excuse people from?
It works the same in the other direction. Cyclists also generalize about all car drivers. It‘s a human tendency to extract patterns from singular, highly emotive situations.
Why is the opposite of capitalism always government?

Feral free-market capitalism clearly isn't delivering what we want when it comes to food, but the alternative isn't communism. It's better incentives and/or punishments for the market. That certainly is where government (which, incidentally, represents the people, or should do), has a place.
17 companies hiring remote right now
> The ventilation started once we were in flight

I think how the A/C on an airliner is driven depends the location. There are the engines while in flight, the APU (Auxillary Power Unit, a small jet engine that starts the main engines, tops the batteries, and other tasks) while idling on the ground, off the batteries, or off a service cart on the ground. Running the engines burns fuel, the APU burns fuel, and having the service cart incurs ground fees. So it's likely that RyanAir didn't want to spend to keep the A/C going.
That's just the problem, innit -- if the taxation were applied according to FDA dietary recommendations, the wrong food would be taxed.

Assuming that the government will make the problems with food go away with regulatory pressure relies on the assumption that the government is as enlightened about dietary needs as you are (or claim to be). In reality -- even absent the graft rampant in American politics -- that's not the case.
I don't know how Euler came up with it, but here's a fairly intuitive way: think about circular motion. If something moves around a circle at constant speed, then its velocity vector is perpendicular to the vector from 0 to the moving thing. Once you have the idea (which isn't terribly difficult) that complex numbers live on a plane and multiplication by i is rotation through a right angle, this gives you the differential equation dx/dt = ix. Solving that is easy: x = exp(it). Since it's also easy (by definition of the trig functions) to see that x = cos t + i sin t, we're done.

Given the sort of thing Euler was good at, though, it seems just as likely that he looked at the power series for sin, cos, and exp, and said "aha!".
The whole notion of treating bicycles as vehicular traffic was wayward and has been debunked. It's really obvious that bicycles are not cars, you can tell just by looking at them.

There are differing levels of enforcement in different places, but I've made thousands, possibly tens of thousands of infractions on my bike in 35 years of commuting, sometimes right in front of the police, and I've never had a ticket. Is a rule really a rule if it isn't enforced?

If I say everyone needs to wear clown shoes to work on Wednesdays, is that a rule? It doesn't mean jack-shit because I can't enforce it.

Drivers are held more carefully to the rules of the road, but given that they're ensconced in a protective metal shell, they have a lot more leeway with the law of the jungle. With cyclists it's the other way around.
If they ask simple questions, that might be a warning for you as well that they're in over their heads. It also seems to me that in this scenario, you'd be the subject matter expert and would need to set the right expectations so that everyone walks away happy in the end.
You should also investigate living in Paris and working in London. There are a lot more start ups and financial tech jobs there with salaries much higher. Its only a 2-3 hr train ride and you might be able to work one week on one week off, or short term blips of 6m at a time.
I know it's usually taken as an example, but I disagree. CmdrTaco was giving his opinion, not saying it would fail in the market. To him, it was lame.

This idea that we're always making sale predictions is a vice of the startup culture.
LOL, you are basically saying that by entering into an agreement like the Schengen Agreement and becoming less like nations, the overall group becomes more nationalistic. That seems like absurd circular reasoning.

The constituent countries in the EU are still sovereign countries. Unlike US states, they are free to leave at any time.
Most on-street parking isn't paid, so almost everywhere that's green on that map isn't available for delivery services anyway; it's going to be taken by personal vehicles that move twice a week for street-sweeping. Add more on-street parking and you'll just have more people with personal vehicles using it; it won't make it available for deliveries.

The best way to make delivery drop-off points available is to get rid of all the free parking and make it all paid, and keep raising prices on a block-by-block basis until there's typically spots free on any given block. It'll be a minor marginal cost for someone making a delivery to pay, say, $5/30 minutes (this will probably actually be cheaper if it means they can find a nearby spot, thus saving time driving around and time shuttling things from a farther spot). But $5/30 minutes works out to $240/day, which will easily discourage long-term parkers who shouldn't be using the scarce resource of on-street parking in busy areas anyway.

In less busy (i.e. purely residential) areas, it might make sense to move to a permit model, with permits costing several hundred dollars per month. There'd of course be parking meters mixed in with all that for people who are driving to the area and don't have permits.
There's a software limit, selected by the user, in the microcontroller. There's a per-bolus limit, selected by the user, in the pump. There's a physical limit, in the amount of insulin that is loaded into the pump at a time (typically 2-5 days worth).
> I think it's already in the "everybody knows" category

I’m sure most people have a pretty good idea exercise can help with mental health. I think the next thing that needs to happen is a broader awareness of just how effective exercise can be, and that it should be one of the very first thing tried to improve mental health. I think this should happen along with a general increase in mental health awareness (you can’t use exercise to help with your depression if you don’t recognize you’re depressed).
81.6kg ...wow, that's a bit over what I weigh. In sugar.

I weighed ~113kg at the end of high-school (c. 2005) and the first step I took towards losing weight was switching out regular soda for diet variants. People say 'diet' is still bad[0], but switching definitely cut down on my caloric intake. Slowly, but surely, I started paying more attention to caloric intake...which brings me to where I am, now.

[0]: https://examine.com/nutrition/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you/
As I mentioned, the App Store and the iTunes Store are still on WebObjects. It’s not because of vendor lock in, its always hard to change infrastructure. If ain’t broke, don’t fix it. No company is going to change from AWS to Azure to temporarily save a little money and very few statistically are going to take thier infrastructure in house that were in AWS and buy a lot of colo equipment in multiple data centers and hire a bunch of people to maintain it if it’s not their core business.

Netflix is famous for transitioning from thier own infrastructure to AWS. If you look at thier open source tooling, there are a lot of AWS specific pieces.
Mental health goes beyond depression.

So, one option is to ignore depression and look at other things.
Well, you could argue that Germany successfully avoided renazifying in part because of its anti-hate-speech laws.

Even absent this, the point is that Germany is, in practice, freer than the USA despite having a less absolute stance on free speech.
Those same Linux users know they can just download rclone which is the client that has support for backblaze ;)
My top five in the 'Average Energy Impact' column of the Energy tab in Activity Monitor, as of this moment:

Docker (3.13)
Dropbox (2.08)
Outlook (2.03)
Safari (2.02)
Slack (1.57)

Total 131771 files currently on disk (I'm using Selective Sync, because SSD prices)
Good catch! I believe she did both replacements, in different tweets. I've updated the footnote to be more clear.
In practice, it probably just adds a bit more motivation or reinforcement to the existing body of knowledge. There is a lot of conflicting info out there about how much is needed, what kind, etc., so the fact that this is saying a broad range of activities and so on were shown helpful is a plus. Helps take the "should I run or bike or weight lift or... screw it, I'm sitting on the couch" out of it.
It sounds like the sentence you're quoting is the one taking a step back, while you're reasoning from a very limited set of issues.
Hackers at convention to ferret out election system bugs
x is actually 501.

Even past that threshold, you can't downvote responses to your own comments. That's probably a wise limitation when you think about it.

Downvoting threads is done with the "flag" button which appears at the same time. Unfortunately, as HN has grown past a certain size, there's gotten to be a critical mass of "made" high-karma censors, who flag nascent postings on a whim. The diversity of articles suffers, limited now to either the things censors like, plus a small selection of postings where teams will "unflag" (also available at 501) this price-of-admission flagging.

Running any kind of good forum is hard, and HN's moderators work really hard at it, but "strangled-in-the-crib" flagging both takes away from the value of the site and gamifies the forum to where it now takes a team to make a posting that survives. I don't have an easy solution, though it might be worth trying to limit flags to one, two, or ten per day.
Here’s an example. I think it’s not necessarily a good idea to encourage children to take puberty blockers, if they do any kind of irreversible effects. (I don’t know whether it’s reversible or not.)

Is this hate speech? Some would say that it oppresses people who are just trying to raise their children how they see fit. It’s certainly ignorant, since I haven’t done the research to know how to feel. But that’s partly the point.

It’s a tricky issue. But I’ve seen people get banned for less.

A few decades ago, it wasn’t ok to say that gay people shouldn’t be shunned.
Amazon Aurora Serverless Brings Serverless Computing to Relational Databases
Not sure about that alleged proper place of government (it is, after all, the thing we're supposed to vigorously debate, not declare as a just-so thing), but I'm all on board with getting subsidies out of sugar, corn, beef, and all the other garbage we subsidize.

Heck, if we're going to tax or subsidize anything, tax unhealthy food and subsidize the shit out of vegetables (and to a much less extent, fruits, so long as they're bound for market whole, and not just like oranges to be turned into juice).

And subsidize fresh produce markets in food deserts.

What we're doing now is the worst of all possible worlds, though. We subsidize the most environmentally destructive and health-destructive foods, with entirely predictable results.
This is slightly different. It's to differentiate between individual entity and legal entity.

But normal/regular person can be used as opposed to celebrity, or billionaire. Both Jeff Bezos and myself are natural persons. Only one is a normal/regular person :).
Monoids will save the world
English needed spaces because the graphemes are of variable length, so without spacing there is no telling in any quick way where one meaning unit ends and another begins. The idea that Chinese "needs" spacing is a little like a UTF-16 advocate saying "what UTF-32 really needs is surrogate pairs". No, spacing is not some kind of high tech invention by English, it's a necessity that follows from the its special design (also think the use of null characters to terminate strings)
There is no overlap between companies that manufacture insulin and companies that manufacture diabetes-related devices. (Not for any fundamental reason, it just happened to work out that way.)

Also, the amount of insulin used is not significantly different with a closed-loop system vs. not. Although closed-loop systems do increase the benefit of faster-acting insulin relative to slower insulin, and the fastest-acting insulins are more expensive (especially inside the US).
Measuring the value of code contributions
Really? They're computers...I wonder how many people participating in this had any kind of computer science background. Or even someone who's read some apocalyptic robot sci-fi. I can't really see people who know better hesitating to turn them off at all. I know i wouldn't...

Hell for all you know the begging for it's life is all a ruse to get you to drop your guard then....bam...it goes all terminator on you.