skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just this summer I saw the Angular Material team struggle with misunderstandings around this.

Some German (I suppose, based on the GitHub profile) had to write a UTC aware implementation and then others had to push them to realize the issue.

Seems time and other regional issues are really hard even for the geniuses at Google. (Yep, I honestly believe they're smarter than me, which makes this really confusing.)
Yeah the XZ1C hardware is exactly what I'm looking for. On the software side tho: Amazon and Facebook apps pre-installed, Google tracking, but also that kind of bullshit: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/09/13/pixels-suddenly-sta...
I don't know the percentage B2B vs consumer-focused startups in EU or US so giving a few examples makes no real sense but Spotify, iZettle, Skype and Pirate bay are all of swedish origin.
And business taxes in Sweden are among the low ones in OECD. Salary (after tax) is lower than in US but schools and health care is free so compared to US the living standard is not that bad, i.e. assuming the original poster assumption is correct, I don't think taxes is the explanation.
I meant the XZ1 Compact sorry. (I edited my post since)
My Experience with Apple as a Photographer and Creative Pro: In Short, Not Good
I feel the article does a poor job of summarizing the problem with loneliness (the diff between a need for socialization and one's ability to receive it) and solitude (the act of being alone). We all have a different need for aloneness, our buckets of social contact are of varying depth and, at different times, feel fuller or less full.

The best thing to do, IMHO, is to look inside and ask yourself what it is you want to feel less lonely:

- Are you feeling lonely because you are escaping a feeling or because you need to connect and you cannot?
- Is there something you can do today so your future self is not feeling lonely?
- Can you focus on upcoming engagements to feel comfortable being alone today?
- Are there people you can text a quick "hi" to fill that sense of longing, even just momentarily?
- Are there little pleasures that you've been neglecting that might only be done when you're alone?

It's not simple but the idea of looking inwards is easier than pretending to be a whale. ;)
When Does Having a CS Background Make Sense?
No doubt. I still preferred the name Raptor to Gecko, too bad it couldn't stay that way.
If everybody hopped in their Teslas instead of taking trains there’d be far more traffic on the roads, and slower commutes. But good to know that NY-Boston can be done on a single charge.
It’s relevant because producing bomb material and producing power are somewhat orthogonal, as evidenced by the fact that bombs were being made for about a decade before any power was produced.
Both can work.

Greed complicates things.
Maybe a higher ratio overall?
> And now we have circled back to the question at hand: why does the European tech industry fail to innovate? This kind of attitude exhibited above.

Uh, that wasn't the question?
Check out Barrin92's answer (above/below my original comment) for some examples.

I'm no expert on how you'd measure tech innovation. Perhaps patents - but US patents are much easier to get and much more easily awarded than in the EU, so probably not a great indicator of innovation (especially considering that more patent applications were filed in China in 2016 than the rest of the world combined).

Elite research universities might be a good indicator. I haven't got the rankings to hand, but am willing to stand corrected that the EU is at least on a par with the US in that regard.

Consumer banking is probably one area where 'tech innovation' has been much more widely embraced in Europe than in the US. Is that the kind of thing you meant?

If not, perhaps you could give me some examples of technical innovation which is common in the US and rare/lacking in Europe?
Each generation represents a new ‘giving out’ of the index. As you say this provides a runtime check against accessing a stale value. It’s a common pattern for ‘object pool’ allocators in game engines.
To be fair... AMD also makes CPUs and APUs. In addition, the community around AMD was smaller for quite a long time.

Not saying it's not good to contribute (it is), but perspective.
Should be somewhat careful with using LOC as a decent metric for code
My point was that UK MPs voted/supported this law so it's not really like this law will be forced upon UK thus the argument about Brexit is pointless. I'm pretty sure it will be translated into national law after Brexit.
> Flixbus? They spread all over EU with no added value created

That's not true. The added value to the passenger is that he can now travel across the entire Europe using a single ticketing system and a unified bus standard, saving a lot of time and hassle. But I agree, that it made a competition almost impossible. Flixbus competes not with other bus companies, but with trains and flights: in terms of price, time, and comfort. Sometimes in wins, sometimes it loses.
It is true that stuff like (to take a random example)

Total@Map[Function[{L}, Min @@ Table[dist[func[Array[c[#, k]&, n]]][L], {k, m}]], dd]

is normal and common in Mathematica code. Like with Perl, the culture has started from small scripts making heavy use of shorthands provided by the language, and slowly evolved to writing larger codebases.

Some of this can, on an individual level, be fixed by adopting a clearer coding style. But like Perl 5, the language kind of lures you to use the shorthands a lot.
Yes, that seems plainly obvious. Enforcing laws about faking caller ID would be a really good start.

But no, we can't possibly do that. Multi-nationals, including the larger US phone companies, would lose some tiny bit of money, so it's right out.
Ecmo is fairly recent (less than 2 decades) and still developing.

hiv has gone from being a death sentence to a chronic illness.

Hepatitis c has better treatment options.

Mri has had diffusion weighted imaging added within last 2 decades.

Lasik is also recent
Proof of Work (PoW) Is Efficient
Dual Bagpipes
Please, please, please DO NOT tell us that the whole groupie thing is false!
This post is predicated on the deeply flawed notion that the university's purpose and value is vocational training.
If you’re looking for a self-hosted blog that looks like medium I can also recommend Ghost: https://ghost.org

Pretty easy to set up, quite simple and open source.
Are you happy with the moral downside of working for a company that sells its users’ privacy for profit? A company that values automation more than customer service?
Ask HN: How do people with Autism survive full day onsite interviews?
Hi HN,

I have autism and I just did a round of on-site interviews. What stuck out to me was that I was mostly able to get the answer to problems, but I felt (subjectively, because no company will ever give feedback) that I came off slow, because I was overwhelmed by being in a new place, around new people. There was one answer that I understood that the interviewer thought I didn't get because of this.

I also am prone to anxiety. One interview I had a full on anxiety attack, and even though one of the interviewers mentioned that he wanted me on the team, I was rejected. I feel, subjectively, that it was my panic attack not my coding ability that was rejected. I've tried really hard, and improved lots on that front over the years, but apparently not enough.

Have you been through similar experiences? What worked, didn't work? Are there better ways to approach recruiters about why I feel like I'm failing?

I'm also aware that people are not hiring "brilliant assholes". People with autism often are thought to not have empathy. I don't know if I'm doing a good job communicating, and an interviewer's job is not to let me know if I've communicated correctly. How do I address this?
>> they don't seem to bother making default decent

Could you share your definition of "decent"?

How about calling up D. J. Bernstein's website (https://cr.yp.to/) and have a look and see if you can read it OK. Despite my ageing Mk I eyeballs, it looks just fine from here. It's also almost completely bloat-free and so loads and renders in a fraction of a second.

Medium and many other sites can be almost as good as this once you block all scripts.
The sprinter can do Berlin-Munich in (barely) under 4 hours.

https://www.bahn.com/en/view/trains/long-distance/vde8.shtml
Why it's worth learning Go
I think it goes both ways. There are plenty mundane things at BigCo for people to do.
I would be interested in knowing if this is how the banks get around the libel problem. New laws should be enacted preventing that, if that is the case.
> Yeah. Apart from nokia 8/7 and samsung note9 and s9, every current and upcoming phone (oneplus, pixel, huawei, xaomi, etc.) have the notch.

I was questioning the quoted statement.

> Manufacturers won't give you an option in the future

I'm not sure if you really believe that or if you have no idea how big the Android market is. Adding to your exemptions list there is also LG (just one has it), Pixel of course and there is just one Motorola who has it. And those are the brands that came into my mind. I don't even go into the endless others out there on this planet. It looks like a list with models who have it would have been shorter.

I like how you dropped everything else.
I think it's more about how the economic system is structured and how the government taxes corporations. In Germany for example there are a bunch of very large corporations that "dominate" their local communities in terms of employment (Bosch for example has 130.000 employees in Germany alone and 400.000 around the world!) and the regions where those companies are concentrated are among the wealthiest in Europe.

Of course you need to make sure that companies don't privatize all the profits without giving back something to the community, but that's (IMHO) not an issue of company size but rather a taxation issue.
You can patent ideas. Parameter sets are not ideas.
Live from Nokia World 2010
> but I wonder how less fragmented the US market is?

Far far less. Different languages mean the large majority of a countries population is largely culturally isolated from its neighbors. No one watches a pan-european news channel, read a pan-european newspaper or browse a pan-european website. They don't exist.

Different way of doing business, different mindsets, different world view, different media systems, different politics and different economic markets and conditions.
Portability. You need to have access to your authentication mechanism from multiple devices, phones, laptops, desktops, even other people's computers. That's why the password still exists. I raised this issue with the WebAuthentication standard on their GitHub and the first reaction was to doesn't its importance. I log into services from a least the different devices every day.
Why does the Zune HD have the message “For our Princess” inside of the case?
> I doubt people would transition to agriculture if it was harder than living off the land.

I'm mostly with you, so I'm not good at summarizing the other side's point. But I think there are several reasonable assumptions they talk about where they might be right:

1: these people usually assume that very low population densities are desirable (I mean, obviously, that's a prerequisite for hunter gatherer society) This is their strongest point, really, that no matter how fertile the area you live in, once you get more than a certain population density, you need to go agricultural or you need to starve.

2: before agriculture, perhaps people only lived in the areas where food was super plentiful naturally. It's totally possible, maybe even likely that there used to be more areas like that than there were after history started being recorded. - this argument is reasonable, but it's mostly a callback to 1. An active human eats a lot, and it doesn't take a whole lot of humans to deplete just about any eden.

I mean, the obvious counterpoint within this context is that density really helps encourage specialization, so even if the life of a low-density hunter-gatherer is easier, it's not going to involve a whole lot of specialization.
Got full-time remote marketing job at cool startup with this
As a former devout Fluxbox user, I concur with this comment. I use a pretty bog standard Gnome now. It's not really an active thought so much as something that Mostly Just Works.

My productivity is about the same, since I use the same applications. The only thing I don't have is an incessant need to fiddle and tweak.
Canada doesn't, but many Canadians do.
I released a crate that implements a doubly linked list this way.

Here's an index. As you can see, it's got an index, but also a generation https://github.com/steveklabnik/indexlist/blob/master/src/li...

The list itself keeps track of the current generation: https://github.com/steveklabnik/indexlist/blob/master/src/li...

When an entry is removed, this is increased: https://github.com/steveklabnik/indexlist/blob/master/src/li...

Each entry also keeps track of the generation it was inserted with: https://github.com/steveklabnik/indexlist/blob/master/src/li...

When you call get, which takes an Index, the generation is checked https://github.com/steveklabnik/indexlist/blob/master/src/li...

Same as if you try to delete something at a given index: https://github.com/steveklabnik/indexlist/blob/master/src/li...

Does that make sense?
Survival guide for new developers
Which is why it's easy technically, hard socially.
Ask HN: How do I find a programming mentor?
I have just started to teach myself coding for AI/ML stuff, but I realize that there are large gaps in my understanding that I am unable to fill with online sources. I know that my code is inefficient and inelegant, but don't know exactly how to improve it. I know my knowledge of different paradigms is horrendously limited but I don't know what to learn next.

Someone who knows my learning history and will be able to just point me to resources is enough for me, I guess. I need very occasional but streamlined guidance, which is impossible to find over Reddit/ StackExchange/ HackerNews etc.

Any suggestions would be of great help.
This is how Microsoft code signing working. Your certificate just needs to be said valid at the time it was signed by using a timestamp service.
Sounds pretty close to bricking for the vast majority of Mac users though. Typical user won’t be able to solve it and good luck getting help at the Apple Store.
But it is connected.
Yeah, people have moved onto another dependency shitshow with modern JavaScript.
Tyler Cowen launches fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas
This comment might sound like I'm being difficult, but I'm genuinely asking.

You imply a downside for Bob in his avoidance of shared-vulnerability-relationship, you didn't explicitly state it - you said it hurts others who have expectations over him. Maybe the details of their marriage, which are none of my business, are where the answer is - but my question is: what is the downside for him?
The point of efficiency is that it affects the _size_ of the pie, and thus is (all else held equal) better for any set of priorities. To put it another way, whatever your goals are for society, from the most fervent anarcho-capitalist to the most ardent Communist, inefficiency makes them harder to achieve.

The parent comment's question still stands: if the benefit of inefficient businesses is redistributive, why not just explicitly redistribute the gains from efficient businesses? This is a Pareto improvement when implemented properly (or more likely Kaldor-Hicks).

This isn't a rhetorical question, and there are theories as to why am efficient economy plus explicit redistribution isn't a good thing, but a lot of them depend (explicitly or implicitly) on Dickensian views like "the lower classes need pretend work to build character". You can hardly take this for granted without making a case for it, as your low-effort comment does. Hell, even if you _do_ take the Dickensian view, there are UBIish policies that may fit it better than the decentralized inefficiency you're talking about, like "govt as employer or last resort".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_potential_energy
Aren't you describing a situation that persists with virtually every framework that relies upon external libraries and manages dependencies?
Or expensive to invent.

It's why I don't like most software patents, but why I think codecs, especially the modern ones, should be patentable. They're complicated engineering challenges requiring you to make numerous tradeoffs and I feel that just because the result is an algorithm doesn't mean that it shouldn't be patentable.

Other software patents I'm more dubious of, but I feel comfortable saying H.264 should be patentable.
Thanks for the clarification - and sorry to go full tilt at rebutting an argument you weren't making! (Though it was fun to cover the territory.)

You're right that without any aesthetic sense, everything gets bleak. Are things that dire, though? With the business media getting obsessed about unicorns, $1T market caps, etc., it's easy to believe that money fever has infected everyone. It hasn't. Friends who teach, make movies, deliver social services, write, etc. are still keeping some sense of goodness alive.
J. Blow Rant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker  or something [video]
Flixbus competes not with other bus companies

I guess that depends a lot on the market. Because certainly in Sweden Flixbus absolutely competes with the existing bus companies.
Looks to just be an implemented instance of Stories. Github is here:

https://github.com/hibiken/stories

Project appears stale, unless someone else has picked up the development.
Interested ? Take a look at https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards
It's been my observation that more businesses are B2B than B2C. Is just you don't hear about the B2B ones as much.

And in software, the B2B market is just bigger. Consumers buy/use off the shelf software, businesses can pay you to create custom software. The margins are lower but the to risks are also lower. It's just nobody talks about the latter.
Or just use a static site generator like Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/)
Search for CALB 100Ah LiFePO4. There are other manufacturers too. They're about $125/cell.
Unrelated - Are you teejsound?
"Hard" science fiction...
Aside from Google v. Oracle I'd say Oracle has actually been a fantastic stweard to Java (much to everyone's surprise).

This a fairly huge deal because this was the defacto way to check that any given compilation of OpenJDK or variant meets the spec.

You used to have to talk to Oracle and get their pass/fail to prove your binaries we're legit.
but how will it know if my sailing by the Lee is faster than the waves?

and I'll lose out of surfing!
There's a difference between "numerical stability issues introduce small chaotic perturbations" and "the game is literally unbeatable if you play on platform X because the physics step doesn't properly scale Y to framerate and a trivial conservation-of-energy analysis yields an impossibility result for level 3".
I am unfortunately forced to use Mathematica because my scientific collaborators do so. While I have become very proficient at it, I don't like the interface or the language very much. Its a functional language put into an interface suitable for iterative programming. Loading external libraries is very non-intuitive, and just being able to separate a single program over many files that you can simultaneously edit is hard.

I am looking forward to the day I can switch to Sage and return to coding in emacs.
Because it's not really a nonsense. It's an asymmetry in the multiple places. We can turn it around and say, let's customers (eyeballs) pay zero and content generators pay all the expenses.
By asymmetry I mean that -who's calling who? With telephone it's established practice that one who calls pay, and what works. With traffic we may pretend the same thing, one who sends let say GET - pays, but that super complex technically. Another option is to pay only
by outgoing traffic, that eliminates doble dipping. So in this case, because of asymmetry most of traffic should be paid by Google. Alternatively, let's pay by incoming - in this case customer pays a lot and Google nothing. Tables turned in case on Backblaze - customers should pay zero. I love bashing ISP like other guy, yet situation is much complex then we a tryong to pretend it is.
> that means that every data center should be getting free bandwidth from ISPs, since that traffic is requested by the customer

More or less! If the ISP is already in the data center, they should freely peer with just about anyone that's providing data their users request. Even if they're not in that datacenter, datacenter bandwidth is cheap, and should be cheap, because it's very easy to get from a datacenter to the internet core in bulk.

> Basically you create 8K streaming service and DEMAND ISP to give you interconnect and they MUST deliver that content to the end users and recover cost on the end customer side.

If you get your data to the peering point, yes, that should be viable. That's explicitly what the end user pays for, everything between their modem and the internet.

A streaming company doing that is basically being their own ISP. And there's no reason for one ISP to pay another in this situation.
I guess there are two types of modelling of interest in the video: firstly the modelling of where the water will go, and secondly the visualisation of how it would look at a particular location. For the modelling of where the water will go it's fairly simple and well-known at this point: you take a raster digital elevation model, where the value of each cell represents average elevation across the cell or in some cases elevation at the centre point of the cell, and then you effectively pour in water at your starting cell/cells, (which would be the coastline in this example) and let it propagate across the raster according to elevation. Some of the techniques are covered here: https://www.supermap.com/EN/online/Deskpro%206.0/SDTechTheme...

The limiting factor (as another poster has commented) is likely to be the resolution of the data available, as processing power is generally good enough these days to handle any reasonable scenario - the study area is limited to the area of the storm and adjacent areas, and there are few areas where there will be a comprehensive DEM available to e.g. sub-meter accuracy. With increasing availability of drone LIDAR data we may well get comprehensive data that pushes the boundaries of what we can do, and which will require generalisation to coarser resolution. I suppose when the effects of even a few inches of water can be so catastrophic in terms of insurance claims increased resolution could be extremely valuable. For example I know that insurance companies already have sophisticated models of risk where flood risk is just one of many layers of modelled risk that they combine to avoid having too much risk in any one area.

The second type of modelling is the 3D modelling seen in the video. With a good 3D GIS dataset as seen in e.g. Google Earth you could take the results of the analysis described above and use this to determine which areas will be affected by flooding. It would then be a case of adding a layer powered by fluid simulation with the other layers in the dataset set up as 3D entities around which the fluid must flow. The point is that once you had your data set up as well as your fluid modelling, you could zoom to any location and view the results in that location, and do this on the fly - whereas in the video it is almost certainly a one-off canned job for a single location.
I see. Do you think people at Amazon are inferior?
>Compared to other discussion boards, I usually find HN threads are far more thoughtful and less antagonistic.

You realize this is because HN shadowbans people whose opinions don't fit the crowd, right?