skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This instruction cannot result in a significant performance improvement for any js code that isn’t absolutely perf bound on just converting floats to integers. If your code is successfully making that your bottleneck your code has problems. None of the major benchmarks (I can’t even think of micro benchmarks that could really achieve this) are spending significant time doing double to integer conversions.

And as a nail in the coffin for this nonsense: javascriptcore does not use or even emit this instruction: https://mobile.twitter.com/saambarati/status/104920213252247...
I agree! When you come to the Philippines, skip Manila and go all the way to Cebu or anywhere Visayas area or Davao.

Internet?? Well yea! Depends on the area you're in. I have 50mbs on a fiber connection and no major problem so far. Except when I travel to nearby islands, then internet connection can be really bad.
> those gyros were replaced. Twice.

Hmm, I think the second time the gyros needed replacing, and the gyros were the limiting factor on the telescope's lifetime, I'd have installed a redundant set.
I hope the former and not later is true.
I don't think anyone is planning to send up a repair mission, Hubble is merely being kept alive as long as possible.
I agree about the type system, but as far as async is concerned, javascript with its (now standardized) promises is miles ahead. The main advantage IMO is not to gain performance, but to allow concurrency without data races (as required by a GUI that needs to wait for a server). If you try async programming in C++ or Python you'll quickly discover that half of the libraries are pre-async and block, and you'll have to resort to threads and still worry about data races.
As an IT professional living in Hungary atm, take my advice and don't come here. I've been living in Stockholm, Madrid and Wien for a while, so I have comparison. The intellectual community is evaporating, and although the city is nice, that shine will only last for a couple of a weeks. If I had a remote job, I'd go back to Madrid, loved it there :)
What were we told? That the artic ice would be in retreat and that the permafrost would begin to melt? Sounds as if the predictions were pretty accurate.
A Lightweight and portable alternative for electronjs
As someone who has lived in Barcelona for over 23 years now I agree with some of these points, but it also depends where you go in the city.

1) Climate - Yes the summers are warm, but not extremely hot, I have a lot worse time when i go visit the southern US for example.

2) Yes I totally agree we have way too much tourism in the city. However, the restaurants that try to rip you off etc are all in the touristy areas, and most of us who live here dont go down to those areas anyway. Regarding paying for parks, its 1 park, and if you live here its free. Most colture-related stuff has good cheaper offers for local citizens.

3) This is just personal taste, the city center is the old city with over 1000 years of history, its normal that the streets are small and disorganized.

4) Yes its expensive to live here, but we also have a great quality of life, with lots of places to go eat, drink and enjoy yourself. Yes the local salaries are quite on the low end, but if you find a good international company you should be fine.

5) I dont know where you come from, but its not unbearable; also there is tons of walking culture in this city. There is an great public transport that can get you almost anywhere in the city in just a few minutes. Most people dont drive, or even own a car, its mostly people living outside the city (or on rainy days). We do have days that are worse in regards to traffic and pollution, but this is a problem most large cities are facing and there are projects in place to improve.

So im sorry if you have had a bad time in Barcelona, and I agree there are things that need work, but its not as horrible as you say. Hopefully they keep adding bike lanes and continue to reduce the car traffic in the city center.
> Did someone say ARM is RISC?

Load/store are still always separate instructions, and instruction length is fixed — that's RISC enough. (But the distinction is not super meaningful these days anyway.)
Warsaw is a beautiful city with quite an active and thriving tech community. I thought of moving there after a visit recently, until I heard about a recent city sanctioned far right rally attended by 60K people demanding a "White Europe". Any dreams of moving to Poland ended after that
Istanbul (and all of Turkey, obv.) is run by a dictator who tortures detainees, and arbitarilly arrests journalists and human rights workers

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia...
How would Berlin compare to a town like Leipzig? Seems like Berlin is getting comparatively expensive.
> There are lot of consulting companies in Pune but I dont think that qualifies as excellent tech scene.

I am a software engineer, I live here and I assure that I don't work in a consulting company. A lot of my friends actually don't. Infosys and TCS may be big but they are not the only companies in here, you know. It's like saying there no companies in SV other that social media empires.

> What are the excellenet Universities in Pune?
Universiy of Pune? Symbiosis? They may not be IIT's or MIT's but they are better than a lot of other universities in India and in Asia. Plus you have lot of other institues such as FTII and a lot of government/military institutes. Certainly a better intellectual environment than other places in Asia.

No offense but it looks like your knowledge of Pune comes from a outdated source or a glance over a google search.
From interview of Taylor Otwell (Creator of Laravel Framework) published on a blog.
I quit Facebook for about 2 years back in 2015. It was a good time to self reflect and focus on myself.
However I realised I was missing out on birthday/wedding/social invites.

I reactivated it and have a policy of only checking it 2-3 times a week. I dont have either apps on my phone.

My profile is tidied up and has contact information that my friends can use to reach out to me (hardly anyone has).

Reddit is the next thing I am contemplating my usage. It sucks up way too much time for the reward of fake internet points.
Lots of startups there, if you're the right person you will get hired.
Maybe, but without some good data it is hard to say. I do know that us sloth-like generation eat far less than our ancestors.
Weather and outdoors aren't great in Krakow. Language is also a pretty big problem: true, some educated youngsters will speak English, but the bulk of the population doesn't speak a word. Would not recommend.
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/multilateral-...
Check out university towns with offices of a few decent companies.
I wish this was true, but even the USA alone is enough to destroy the world. We need a new approach.
> But the (lack of) success of quit smoking interventions should tell you that it is different to what is described here.

It might tell you that it is quantitively different, but not necessarily that it's qualitatively different.

> Trying to get someone with a physiological addiction to realise the error of their ways is futile, like telling someone to unbreak their leg.

I think your understanding of addiction is probably lacking here. Many people can and do overcome physiological addictions due to some or other realisation. Conversely many people cannot overcome addictions without a physiological component, like gambling, regardless of how much they realise the error of their ways.
Cool Earth is a charity that can estimate how much carbon each donation saves.
Death penalty? At least that's what they call it in the USA.
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Shopify Expert?
It's min. 4 Weeks (by law) + national/regional holidays, which differ based on region in Germany and might overlap with Saturday/Sunday if anyone is interested in it. It's still pretty nice.
I think meat grown in a lab is a more viable alternative and much more promising than having everyone change to a vegan diet.
Currently working for a local Polish company as a dev, how would you go about finding a remote gig ?
FB is really great about making you feel guilty if you delete the app, don't use the app. You miss your friends, they miss you, you don't get all the news, you feel out of the loop, you are lonely again.

Deactivated (not deleted) my account a couple weeks ago. Guess what? Life goes on. Nothing happened. I am still in the loop and I spare a couple minutes per day. Gained a bit more freedom, at least it does feel like it.
It rains a lot in Amsterdam.
Agreed. Amsterdam is a great city, people are friendly and speak great English. An added bonus if you like travelling is that they also have one of the big airport hubs in Europe (along with Frankfurt and London) which means you can go almost anywhere in the world with at most one layover.
And the reason some developers don't understand micro-services is because they don't do any of those things.

They just stick to MVC and their preferred language.
What's the electronic music scene like?
Italian heritage.
> a type system with holes you could drive truck through

That's most dynamic languages. (Python is a bit more strong than others, sure, but whatever.)

> pretty much every other language has an async implementation that is either just as good or superior

Most other languages have async bolted on and a lot of existing libraries are synchronous. Pretty much all JS embeddings (both the browser and various server side things) exposed everything as asynchronous from the beginning using callbacks — and now callbacks easily get wrapped into promises and async/await works with them very well.
tl;dr: The ‘Assistance and Access’ bill proposes three new powers for the Australian government.

1. The ability to make a voluntary request for assistance from a company to get information.

2. To be able to demand assistance from a company in getting information.

3. To build new ‘backdoor features’ into the technology, which compromises user encryption.

Narrowing the focus of implications of this to DApps seems, err, strange..
> The byte is a unit of digital information that __most commonly__ consists of eight bits, representing a binary number.

> The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits.

French has nothing to it.
Sadly this is true, even among software engineers and highly qualified people. You can still get a job without speaking Hungarian, and you'll be able to get through mandatory work stuff, but it may be uncomfortable during casual conversations. People often feel uneasy speaking English so they tend to switch to Hungarian if only one or two English speakers are in the group.
Now that you’re finally getting used to iOS 12’s new Shortcuts app, here comes Scriptable, a new automation app that runs JavaScript. It can make powerful and deep connections with your iPhone or iPad — working with the Files app, for example, or Reminders.Well, maybe you know how to program JavaScript. Scriptable lets you take your code, and integrate it with iOS. You can make your own scripts and use them to automate iOS.
Not a big call, it's what they do. They have huge departments for (legally) optimizing your tax.

Source: I used them to do this for a firm I was working for.
Thanks, you too :)

To make my store complete (for anyone thinking about coming to KL), here are some precise reasons why I think KL is nice:

- Literally everyone speaks English, basically fluent.

- Great public transport.

- Road traffic is light outside rush hours.

- Huge middle class, I don't see any poverty here really (compared to the rest of SEA). A ton of nice condos, very very reasonably priced.

- Mix of cultures (lots of Chinese Malay and Indian Malay) -> amazing food

- Almost no crime (this is the same in all of SEA)
15" MacbookPro because it just works, integrates perfectly with phone and watch, great support etc. And after 3 years I can still sell it for a good price.
Good question. If you work for a local company income tax is "steep". see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Portugal

Portugal has followed the "Nordics" model when it comes to taxes; income is taxed higher but services (healthcare, schools, roads and other infrastructure] is much better than in the US [or most of the rest of the world for that matter!].

The much cheaper lifestyle in Portugal more than makes up for the higher taxes.

I'm not a "tax adviser" and HN is not the place for that "tax efficiency" advice. But you should consider setting up a Ltd Company and paying yourself/co-founders [Tax Free] dividends.

I would [highly] recommend watching "Startup Legal Mechanics" [YCombinator Startup School]: https://youtu.be/BTShgZxiNV8

tldr; start a company [separate legal entity].
Not a vegetarian and not a McDonald's client, but I'd actually support them if they went all in on something like that.
Hi,

I'm living a bit north, Galicia, and I still think that Braga is one of the most undervalued cities in Portugal, it's kinda cute, warn, has a lovely downtown. You made an awesome decision. :-)
Presumably (as a non EU citizen) one would need a self-employed visa and residence permit.

It's easy (currently) for those of us in the UK, but from April, or for people from outside the UK, countries just haven't really caught up to the remote working situation.
No one lost friends from deleting Facebook. I haven't.
People are too slow with change.
Our worldly scenario is unique because we can basically predict our end now. Like weather forecast becomes more precise the closer it gets to the forecasted day, we know more precisely how and when we will end every day. And like weather, practically there is little we can (will) do to change it.
To be honest my rational view is that the situation is hopeless. We haven't even managed to stop global emissions increasing annually yet. That's the second derivative of temperature (even ignoring any feedback loops); the rate at which we're causing temperatures to increase is itself still increasing.

I disagree about special interest groups being the main problem; political will of the population is just as much of an issue. Even in the UK where the majority of people do believe in climate change, successive governments have failed to increase duty on fuel because of a popular outcry every time they attempt to.

I have friends who alternate posts on social media between complaining about a lack of action on climate change and posting photos of their latest intercontinental travel. People are prepared to do quite a lot to look after the planet. What they seem less accepting of is not doing things.
A completely new set of hard drives for 44PB of raw storage would cost 1-1.5 million, and they're only growing by 9% (18%?) per year. It's not all that much, and it's not even close to their biggest budget entry.
Finally, a Native American Exhibition in the Met’s American Wing
Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Per month:
Rent is 500-600 EUR max (worst case unless you're actively looking to splurge), with the average going around 250-300 or so.

You can cover food and taxes at a basic level on another 300. Of course, YMMV if you only order restaurant food and such, but if you stop by a supermarket every now and then you're set to go as low as 600 EUR/mth to live comfortably. I got by on 400 when I really had to in the past.

It's full of tech companies (most involved in outsourcing for Germany, the UK and the US) that pay decently for the appropriate experience - at least when you compare how much you'll have left at the end of the month vs UK and Germany for example.

There are several major universities around, foreigners are a common enough sight and virtually everybody (that you're likely to run into) born in the 90s or later speaks English on at least a basic level.

There are plenty of events on a general level, though if you're looking to find communities focused on very specific niches, you will likely have a harder time than in SF, mostly due to the smaller population size.

You can likely afford to not have a commute at all if you go in the 500+ range for rent.

I've been living in it ever since I started college in it many years ago, and weighing the pros and cons, I find it can really go toe to toe with a lot more famous cities in terms of the kind of lifestyle you can afford and the problems you put up with in exchange.

Not sure if US citizens require a visa or not.

LE: Based on points made in other posts - it's rated as one of the safest cities in Eastern Europe and has very affordable private health care. Getting a tooth fixed, for example, is around 40 EUR. A doctor's appointment is usually in the 25-40 EUR range for most specializations. Public healthcare, unfortunately, is worth avoiding if it can be helped.

Water has decent quality - you can drink the tap water - but a filter is not a bad investment. Air quality is rated quite high relative to most other cities in the EU as well.

Great net speed.
Leipzig is way cheaper. I hear people comparing Leipzig to Berlin as of ten years ago or so when it comes to cost.
I guess it depends on what your criteria are. Bordeaux is a lot wetter than Nice, and the extremes in Montpellier can be quite harsh. There are no mountains near Bordeaux, and you need to drive a good 30-45mn out of Montpellier to get anywhere nice.

I completely agree that the night life and cultural scene is far better in student cities such as Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Montpellier etc
Oxford and Cambridge themselves are exorbitant, though if you like small-town life and are happy to get the bus/train into the city, there are some reasonable options nearby (I live in a tiny town 15 minutes from Oxford on the train, for example).
It's okay to mention this, but not fair to omit comparison with the US while the two were originally compared.

The scale may be different, but the situation in the US is not to good either on these topics, and has been deteriorating lately.
Half of that github doc is in italics too.
But if you can find a good community, then it may work out really well. Budapest is really affordable and SE salaries are very high compared to the average cost of living.
Minneapolis fits the bill. Maybe Pittsburgh.
exactly!
but seriously, it's just a [bad] habit ... thanks for pointing it out. hope it did not detract from my message.
CBFT as a 100x faster blockchain consensus
I think you can find more mundane but much more widely applicable uses for FPGA fabric in future, especially if we start shipping them in most ARM CPUs. For example, you can compress and decompress memory pages in real-time, which (for streaming applications at least) is one way to increase RAM bandwidth, or reduce system cost. Or hyper-optimize grep, sed and awk, and a hardware-assisted bitonic sort library for your DB. Cheaper, faster, lower-power compute for everyone.
In IT not necessarily.
The problem with Aarhus is that is very boring and dull, and the problem with Denmark, more in general, is that is very expensive it has no interesting nature (rather flat)

Copenhagen is awesome tho (but rather expensive); and in provincial towns the life is very quiet, perfect for families.
I quit Facebook before GDPR came into effect, so it's heartening to see FB now has better export tools. At the beginning of the year I had to write my own: https://github.com/danburzo/fb-export
Isn't US do the same shady things? but they justify them so you can live in your own bubble believing that you are better than everyone else?
>In France, French Canada and Romania, octet is used in common language instead of byte when the 8-bit sense is required, for example, a megabyte (MB) is termed a megaoctet (Mo).

taken from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)

French has everything to do with it. it got grandfathered into their system from previous notations while the rest of the world uses megabyte for memory as a matter of practice
Tasmania is legitimately one of the most beautiful place I've seen anywhere in the world. Bruny Island, Huon Valley, most of the East coast, Hobart itself... but you absolutely pay for the beauty with lack of amenities and convenience.

The entire state only has 500k people in it, and you feel it. Shops close early, and close multiple days a week to save staff costs. You have to buy most stuff online, and shipping takes a while longer than anywhere else (for obvious reasons). The internet is mostly fixed wireless, unless you're in the middle of Hobart. There's regular power and Internet outages. There's a lack of people-stuff, so very few meetups, and it's very hard to find friends.

Most my family are down there (chefs and farmers), and it absolutely suits the outdoors types. Fishing, boating, hiking, and photography are all just cheating down there.

But I wouldn't call it a hub for... anything. You're on an island, and it very much feels like it.

Without a doubt one of my absolute favourite places in Australia (and the world) to holiday though. It's in my top 5 "places people must see before they die" list.
This, I never use laptop because it's slower than a good desktop and 2 to 3 times more expensive
How does a non-Indian English speaker go about hunting for an apartment lease in Bangalore? Especially short-term leases. This is the biggest bottleneck for me.
Penetration test to medical web
Has anyone done penetration test for your lab equipment web app, clinical diagnostic devices?
If so, which companies' devices and results?
it's phenomenally inefficent

I don't understand that at all. If you're generating more than you're consuming, then you lose 100% of everything you can't store. Which means 0% efficiency past some point!

But "the round-trip energy efficiency of PSH varies between 70%–80%, with some sources claiming up to 87%."[1]

That's not as good as batteries, which are probably better than 90%, but it doesn't seem bad at all when compared to 0%.

IMO your other arguments are much stronger. Bad to destroy unique geography. Not viable in many places, whether it's because of no water or because of bad geography.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Terry Pratchett wrote a letter to The Times about taxes, reproduced in "A Slip of the Keyboard". In it he says:

I have been enormously buoyed up, though, by hearing from journalists and other pundits that ‘the rich won’t end up paying the 50 per cent income tax because their smart accountants will find a way around it’. When I put this to my own accountant, a senior member of a reputable London firm, he laughed and said: ‘Unless you want to go and live abroad for a very long time, or associate with some extremely unsavoury people, or invest in risky tax schemes, then for someone like you there is really nothing that can be done.’
The Earth could absolutely use more Gwynne Shotwells. She is amazing.
+100 votes to this. My last job didn’t need to go Microservices and Kubernetes. But we did from the beginning. And the overhead of getting the greenfield project off the ground was immense. I kept thinking a aimple albeit inelegant monolith would have helped us prove the concept better and that we could have used it to then refactor once operational. If I take nothing else from my time at that startup I’ll tske this: sometimes you don’t need all the fancy tech that is hyped from the incumbent platforms with a vested interest in getting you onto their platform, sometimes it’s best to role out that tried and true Ruby on Rails or LAMP stack to focus on the product.
He seems to have some underlying personality disorder that is not helped by pot. For some, marijuana causes alcohol-like disinhibition. Typically manifests as laughter or risk taking, it is kind of rare.

(In as much as that can be diagnosed from a bit of text.)
Why is this on the front page of HN?
Interview with Super Fighter Team, Publisher for Zaku on Atari Lynx
Virtue doesn't scale. But corporate catering does, and one of the big caterers (Sodexo?) is rolling out a whole new set of base menus that are meat-free.
If you're so far removed from former classmates that you don't hear about the reunion from any of them that do have Facebook, are you really missing out?