skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just agree we are better informed watching news from both countries when it involves them. Be it state owned or not.

This.

I wasn't necessarily meaning that TASS or Reuters were scripted or censored by CIA/Kremlin. However we can pragmatically assert both agencies have biases (cultural, political, financial, etc).

For example, according to Russia, the British government released almost no data about the toxic nerve agent case, no specific proof was made public. Other governments (France, US) said they support the UK.

Now that did lead to more sanctions on Russia, and the expulsion of Russian diplomats, but from an external observer point of view, it isn't rigorous at all. IMHO, many more reports and documents should be made public, especially about the methods used to conclude that the Russian government is the source of the attack.

Would the general public arrive to the same conclusions than the governments?

I'm 27 years old, I didn't live during the ex-URSS or the Cold War. All I see is 2 camps accusing each other and escalating without serious proof, and people are supposed to say nothing about it? To me, the days when we systematically accused the Russian government of all the shady stuff are supposed to be gone, and we are supposed to use rigorous tribunal procedure before sanctioning an entity, especially if it means deteriorating international relations
For 1000 USD you can get a Boox Max 2, which is basically full-fledged Android tablet with a great stylus, and which is better as HDMI-capable display too.

"Dasung Paperlike PRO vs Onyx Boox Max2 Pro Extended Monitor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pw-oCItgx8
Probably because he's trying to improve the roots of poverty than just for his company.

To do that unfortunately he needs exploit. It's not great, but if people are dumb enough to still do the jobs at those rates it's not going to change. The wages would go up if all the people actually created a need for them to go up.
> There just isn't much innovation going on in Europe.

Wow.

I'd argue the opposite is true. There's a lot of innovation going on in Europe - but a) it takes a long time for 'innovation' to filter through to the consumer, and b) successful consumer companies tend to win on brand, not tech.

The big problem in Europe (vs US) IMO is the risk tolerance of VCs, capital available, valuations, and large market size.

I personally know quite a few founders who started consumer tech companies in Europe and quickly moved at least part of their operations to the US as soon as they were ready to scale.
I dislike the current debt-based economy (based on extracting more US dollars from consumers) partly because of this reason. There is a reason why I wrote the Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay.
Meanwhile in the developed world: TGV takes 2 hours from Lyon to Paris, google maps claims a car takes 4 hours.

The French do like their train strikes though. Maybe let's try Japan. Tokyo to Kyoto: 2.5 hours train, 5 hours by car.

Additional advantage: I can walk around, and get a meal (not sure about the Shinkansen, but the TGV does have a restaurant). And read, or work, or daydream.
Microsoft is doing pretty well financially. MSFT stock is up 50% ($75-->$113) YTD.
I agree with the "skill" part of your comment and read it because of that; the other part of your comment I have no knowledge about one way or the other... I know what they claim, I don't know what the practice actually is.

However, I find that this "skill" focused quality seems to be degrading over time with lobste.rs. My feeling is that I'm seeing an increasing number of posts moving to the opinion side (politics/culture) and the quality of comments overall seems to be waning a bit too. I'm not saying the these are dramatic shifts, but nonetheless shifting. Perhaps this is inevitable with more and more members. (For the record I do not have a lobste.rs account)

I do agree with the parent article here... most of HN is a wasteland of "opinion" stories and comments (much like my comment here). I'm guilty of contributing to this, too... I do my best to not get baited, but sometimes emotion overcomes my reason. However, when there are "skill" oriented stories, the comments here on HN tend to have some outstanding entries, the quality of which I don't see as frequently on lobste.rs. lobste.rs is generally good, but doesn't achieve great as frequently.

The challenge of HN is sorting through all the crap... I don't use the HN front page. So far http://hn.elijames.org/ this has been helpful at the story level.
What is the difference in meaning between:

A: "you've reversed the vectored direction of time in your claim"
B: "you've reversed the direction of time in your claim"
Partnering woupd have been the preferred way solution. Throwing your whole professional future in the ring requires a real level of trust, I just didn't trust the potential candidate enough...

It feels good to be not alone in that situation, so!
> If you segfault, then the error is clear. You're crashing,

if you segfault. UB means anything can happen. Sometimes that's a segfault. Sometimes it means worse things.
>I’ve been thinking a lot about the fundamental flaws in economic metrics — there is just absolutely something missing in the current concept of actuarial efficiency — which is I think the only kind of efficiency that economists are equipped to talk about.

It's perfect for the purpose its used though: to justify policies that transfer more wealth and power to the rich, and to not give a crap about externalities...

>There is 0 value given to the experience of visiting a natural space or to forests which take thousands of years to grow which quite literally could not be reconstructed for any amount of money

If you have your own private island you don't care about some state park...
Thanks for the insight, good to have views of both.

My main point was to focus on goals. There's no point arguing any of these points without a focus on what OP wants from their career.
Please keep a blog of your efforts - would love to read it
150mph on rails = 240km/h

70mph on the road = 110km/h
An Introduction to a Most Sagacious Sumo
This game was brilliant fun, just got over 12k after playing it over and over again. It really reminds me of white water rafting, you really can move very efficiently, quickly and with little thrust if you properly read the course. Simple game, but great depth.
Well, don't give up. Like anything in life!

Arch wiki is useful. Also https://faq.i3wm.org and https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/
Ahh, thanks. I thought you were correcting me, not offering an alternative.
TSA de-cluttering tests get attention from ACLU
It really depends on what market you're targeting, but having to deal with 50 states' worth of law is usually not that easy unless it's an already well established segment. For example, even calculating sales tax and shipping costs online used to be considered a fairly complex problem until stuff like Stripe and friends took off.
this begs the question of government being the most efficient way to achieve these things. the story of capitalism versus communism is at least one indicator that this is not the Utopia you're seeking
Are banks saying that you yourself defaulted, or just that the given identity defaulted? Whether you as a person defaulted, or your identity was stolen and someone else defaulted with it, there is still increased risk from the baseline that your identity will default.
Did you just call me a pansy?
6 crucial things to know about running a micro-business
> This comment is out of touch with the current economic reality in the US. Unemployment is the lowest it has been in decades and real wages are rising.

To the contrary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-p...
The southern (DC-NYC) section of the Acela is significantly faster: It travels ~225ish miles in 3 hours, for an average speed (including stops) of ~75 mph.

There are two major factors that slow down the Acela north of NYC: geography, and conflicts with Metro-North. There are several sharp curves that keep the Acela trains from running at full speed, and the current Acela rolling stock doesn't accelerate very quickly even after passing through these bottlenecks. In the stretch between NYC and New Haven, trains are limited to a 90 mph top speed by Metro-North, and often have to go slower than that.

The curves are pretty hard to fix without buying up some of the most expensive real estate in the country, and dealing with the political battles that come with that. Fixing the conflicts with Metro-North is theoretically possible with just a bit of extra track to allow trains to pass, but operating that way would probably require more cooperation than either railroad has recently shown itself capable of.

This blog post has a good overview (which includes issues south of NYC): https://pedestrianobservations.com/2012/07/01/plan-b-for-hsr...

This one has a deep dive on how to fix one of the curves, which might give you a sense for how difficult these issues are: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/01/12/high-speed-rai...
I wonder if eink would be really useful to make a low powered smartphone. As long as you use software which doesn't burn a lot of power, like email and other stuff which is designed to run with fewer cycles.

At that point I would really care for software with a minimum amount of non fancy feature that doubles or triple battery life. If you make extensive use of text, and don't use high resolution image or set low limits, there are surely ways to make a more durable device.

Cheap androids are awesome, but I have no idea why they're becoming slow as they age, and I'm sure software is always to blame. I really crave minimalist designs when it comes to hardware and software.
Because there is no proper funding in Europe for those kinds of risks.
Whoever makes that shared world, that’s the next Facebook.
I don't think anyone pro-level would think of your point 1) as controversial or anything of the sort. This is a really well accepted, mainstream line of thought.
sold out :/
I think the issues go deeper than the degree program per se. Often the humanities are part of a liberal arts degree, which differs from other degrees not just in the major subject, but also in that it is broad in focus. Where I went to school, for example, you could get a math major from a college of science and engineering, or from the college of liberal arts and sciences. The difference was largely in terms of how much of the coursework was in major versus out of major.

I bring this up because often liberal arts degrees are predicated on an assumption that a person will be seen as more than their degree, even in the labor market. That is, someone who can complete a liberal arts degree in philosophy with good grades and the right extracurricular experiences, who has taken a lot of the right coursework, can go on to get a master's in computer science, or biochemistry, or a law degree, or MD, or learn the right skills from their employer.

What we have now is a problem where too much focus is put on certification. Employers (or their HR departments?) see a degree as a certification to do a particular skill. They don't want to try to surmise these skills from other experiences, or to train new employees in those skills, they want a box checked that says "this person can do A."

This I think is the source of this trend more than anything. It's an equating of degree major with skillset, or ability, or whatnot.

When you live in a society where having X degree is required, either by employer hiring practices or by law, as a certification of being able to do A, B, or C task--even if you do not actually need that particular degree to do those tasks--you are inevitably going to see everyone want to have X degree. When you create an economic environment driven by rent seeking and regulatory capture of one sort or another, you're going to see people try to position themselves accordingly.

I think the rise in interests in MOOCs, etc., and criticism of traditional educational structures in part is a response to this overcredentialing. The irony is that the liberal arts degree, which is supposed to be a kind of happy medium, kind of has been squeezed out from both sides of that argument.
"in IEEE-754 there are 2^53-2 different bit patterns that all represent NaN"

From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp..., which describes how Mozilla implements nan-boxing.
> What are the Google results of issues. “Everyone you know” is anecdotal....

Good you cut "and work with" and the part with the other OS out otherwise this discussion might get serious and we don't want that do we?

See, that is another issue. I've been asking around on boards for how to solve the issue since it's so annoying. Either I got no answer or it was something along your lines "It must be your fault because Apple wouldn't make such a mistake". Meanwhile having an issue on Android means that you either already find the solution or you post on one of the dev boards where people are eager to find a solution. Or you just use another app because there is no obnoxious system mail app in it's ridiculous locked in environment.

Android 3&4 have been released 2011 so this doesn't add up here too. But the whole thing here is ridiculous for reasons stated below. I got that initial statement from this IT magazine: https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/iOS-12-offenbar-auch-...

> See how well that works in practice....

It works out fantastic I did that on every phone I had and have been doing it for friends and family.

> Since an iPhone actually maintains somewhat of a resale value,

Well as you are reselling already to an audience that is used to overpaying, it doesn't say anything about the actual value. Besides that, if you end up with one of the non supported ones, there is no way to put a different OS on it or is it?

> Consumers are holding on to phones longer now that they aren’t being subsidized by the carrier.

No idea where you're from but over here in Europe carriers still give you phones and the phone market is not dead or something like that. People buy new phones and even if they wouldn't, it wouldn't change anything about the argument I brought up.
Plug the difference in pay (less taxes) into an investment calculator. Give it a nice return - after all, you need to beat what you'd make earning the same and investing it yourself. Look at where you'd be when you vest, and calculate the exit needed to essentially make that return. First of all, what's the likelihood of that exit happening? Secondly, would you take the risk if you can't at least beat a moderately performing mutual fund? (Not even getting into idea that with Google, that same wealth could be invested in different ways, rather than all tied up in one company)

The number I came up with: 25% for return (doubles historical return of S&P 500; most decent funds are in 15% territory over last 10 years), worth about $750,000 in four years. So you'd need about a $13M exit at that point. (Obviously whether your pay returns to market, or you continue to be paid the startup rate, affects this, as does an exit before you are fully vested)
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This is a truly dumb article and I'm sorry I wasted time reading it.

Anyone who's familiar with the NYC->BOS Acela route will tell you that both the tracks and artificial speed limitations when going through Westchester suck. When you ride on the train, you can be productive the whole time.
Many states have laws that force electricity distributors and producers to be legally separate entities. So for example an electric producer that is closer physically or offers the distributor more value by producing at the right time could be favored by the distributor.

In other words the private electric company being compared to that has a vertical monopoly on both facets production and distribution basically doesn't exist.
5 hours seems optimistic by car, 4.5 by train as well given DB, German railways, track record. The big issue in Hermany is that supposed higj speed trains have simply too many stops. As a result the ICEs last generation emphasizes acceleration instead of speed.

France has it some how easier with dedicated higj speed tracks and basically no stops. Just as example, the one stop before Munichs central station is adding almost 10 minutes.
2011 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088871
OP-ED: Is machine learning the cyber equivalent of the F-22?
A sensible approach to Cross platform development with React and React Native
Basically what you're talking about here is arrogance.

And typically yeah... that's true. You don't really want arrogant people on your team, unless they're super productive and share their knowledge freely.
Japanese trains were lovely. Very comfortable. Great views of Mt. Fuji and the coast along that route. Definitely options for snack and drink. Don’t know about a full dining car, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Leaving the Old Ways – JQuery vs. React
Not the main point of the article, but he makes a comment that doesn't sit well with me.

> Also for SEO consideration, rel="nofollow" is also recommended.

If you are linking to another site, that helps said site's SEO ranking. If you use this in a way that the search engine views as cheating, the other site is penalized.

But as long as you and the other site are being fair, then you SHOULD link to them - they are obviously providing good content that you think is important, so why try to hog the credit and not give them the ranking they deserve.

Sitye like Stackoverflow do this to cut down on spam, (and perhaps because they want Google to view them as the original), but for a blog or whatever, why would you recommend this?
Moa, from New Zealand, were considerably taller (3.5-4m tall versus 3m tall) but much lighter (230kg versus 500kg).

https://hubpages.com/animals/Comparing-the-Moa-and-The-Eleph...
Logic bugs with undefined system state are much easier to debug than UB, that is why people use memory-safe programming language.
"Because in Europe no one has made money from consumer facing businesses."

Bollocks.

Nestle, BMW, Volkswagen, Ikea, LEGO, Phillips, Bosch, Fiat, Zara...

You may want to rephraze your rationale.
Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (1954) [pdf]
And you ask? Pick Google and you're set for the rest of your life as "Googler" and as "Ex Googler", if you decide to start your own startup, it's easier than ever and VCs will throw money at you.

Source: ex googler
The biography of J.Rockefeller by Roy Chernow, who managed to serve God and money.

“The secrets of consulting” by Gerald Weinberg, full of good wisdom.
Added!

Nice to hear that, BTW.

For this game - any idea to expand it? I finished 8 levels in one go, and it seems that there is a lot of potential for even more challenging currents, whirlpools, floating pieces, etc.

(Side note: mechanic-wise this game reminds me of UGH!: https://classicreload.com/ugh.html)
time has multiple vectors

downvote me if you will but you were the one claiming dinosaurs are birds
So much for taking a teaspoon of it. :(
> Facing the same laws, government, customs

Except the US is a federal system, so one can argue that rather than facing the same law, you actually have 51 legal systems (states + federal government) and 51 different legislatures - most certainly not universally the “same government”.

As another commenter pointed out, this rears it’s head for US startups all the time, with many different sales tax implementations, drug policy (marijuana legaliszation) etc etc. Even while at work the law varies enormously - my paternity leave rights as a father in California are vastly different than many other states.

The US isn’t as obviously simpler than the EU than one might expect in this regard, ~28 legal systems (if we ignore pseudo-federal arrangements like the U.K. etc) with a common core of business law established via EU statute, not 100 miles away from the common body of federal legislation found throughout the 50 states.

Cultural, language and custom differences can certainly be argued to be simpler in the US though.
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It’s really a shame that I could not finish reading the article because some spammy ad redirected me to a shitty lottery page.
This YouTube video is the best I’ve seen in explaining why things are the way they are in the US - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ
The issue isn't that they were listed separately, rather that they weren't explicitly denoted as being part of China; for example, "Taiwan" vs. "Taiwan, China".
I've done Berlin-Munich by car many times, maybe I managed that under 5 hours once, in the dead of night. But the usual is a couple (5 or so) construction zones which totally kill your average. 6.5 hours is fairly typical if you need to gas up once and take appropriate rests.
That's a good machine learning problem. Point a camera at the thing as you change conditions and the waveform and let hill-climbing do the tuning for you.
Using an httpOnly cookie is not more secure than localStorage
I used Sage a couple years ago for a cryptography course. I share your opinion, many times Sage was confusing or even frustrating. But I'd still say it's a great project, very capable, and... Mathematica is really expensive. Sage being open source and free is a real asset. This said, I don't think you should "learn" much Sage. At least if you know Python already. Just search for what you need when you need it, write the script you want... and that's it. Unless you are using it daily, at least.
You misread my comment - I'm saying that the argument is not that the fact that this other measure of unemployment is much higher than the standard measure shows that the economy is not healthy, but that the sudden divergence over the past decade hasn't been plausibly explained by anything except an increase in disaffected working-aged males.

>Of course it has. Being a stay-at-home-dad was unthinkable in 1950. Post-graduate education is increasingly common, as is mid-life career switching. I can think of many reasons why we shouldn't expect a 98% labor force participation rate from that demographic in this century.

All of the points that you raised should not show such a sudden effect in the past < 10 years.
I don't think it's egregious at all. We use terms like "gnocchi phase", "lasagna phase", and neutron-star mountains regularly in the nuclear-matter literature, so these aren't indicative of any pop-sci "massaging" by the author.
>Many thousand businesses moving €500k/year and using money locally is much better for local communities than 5 unicorns moving €50b/year

So a cottage industry of small, inefficient businesses is preferable to a large, efficient corporation because...? They naturally employ a lot of redundant workers? If that’s the case just skip the middleman and go with UBI if you want to just give away money to people for adding nothing of value.
If you are getting paid to deliver traffic to consumers then you would have a lot of incentive to not have congestion, since that would be losing potential revenue. That would if not solve at least improve the last mile issue.
Sorry for being pedantic but Siddharta is a story about someone who meets Buddha in person but instead of becoming a disciple he becomes enlightened himself through living a quiet live by a river.
add base tag with rel=noopener to everything you do today and be protected when browsers actually implement support for it.
why should a power company sell electricity at different rates depending on what time of day it is?
Hmm.. cool, I guess. Why though?

You're "configuring" your express server to use this package. Now you have a third party package right in the middle of your application for what benefit? I don't think it's very practical to run a new app for every PR. Sure, you have production tied to master and dev/staging tied to a staging branch, or tie master to staging and manually release production. However, what benefit does manual testing serve you on a per-PR basis?