skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, for all reddits' worthlessness the top article on this very site right now is sourced from someone's experience that posted to reddit for help.

The proportion of the internet that hold PHD's goes down every day. That's fine
Institutional Ownership in Amazon is 58% - so arguably most of Amazon's shares aren't owned by people. Of course, eventually all this bottoms out in people....
Curious to know why you decided to take a pay cut.

And you mentioned that you lied during the interview regarding your salary. In India, companies usually ask for 3 months salary slip as proof. Does it not happen in the country where you work?
Hi!

If you're working in the major cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, then it's fairly common to see salaries for a medior of something like 45-55k and more for a senior (I've seen upwards of 70k for some roles in finance).

Some other notes to keep in mind when considering moving here:

* There is a "30% ruling" for high demand skills workers like in IT that will reduce your income tax [1]

* But, income tax in the Netherlands is high! (~40%) [2]

* Quality of living, infrastructure, education is great though, arguably the high taxes do you give you a lot back

* Healthcare is pretty reasonable but it's a two-tier system that costs a decent amount of your paycheck and still requires you to pay for mandatory insurance

If you have any other questions, let me know.

[1] https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/expat-ta...

[2] https://thetax.nl/?year=2018&startFrom=Year&salary=50000&all...
I had an scooter accident and was never felt further from the State
> we're about to find out

But would we know if social media are the cause of all problems? All we have is a correlation.
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I’ll read the guardian and the telegraph just fine. I won’t read the canary or breitbart. There’s a difference between different viewpoints and extremist propaganda. The internet fails to make that distinction. Rather than a shifting Overton window, we have an inverse one
But the country was full of sects long before the Internet was even a thing. The Oklahoma City bombers are a good example of terrorists which were radicalized by offline cults. The only difference is that now anyone can see it online while before it was hidden unless you looked for it.

Like your racist uncle, before people just heard him rant at the thanksgiving table but now the whole world can read his rants on Facebook. The racism was always there, it is just harder to ignore today.

So I'd like to see proof that the Internet actually helps radicalize people. It is true that it makes it easier to find radical groups, but it also makes it easier to find other views which would hinder radicalization. Before if you made a few radical friends they could easily become your whole world! So my naive assumption is that both forces roughly cancels each other out making an open Internet mostly neutral in terms of radicalization.
Helium balloons are commonly made out of Mylar instead of rubber, and can keep inflated for weeks.
Good on them. It's an outstanding product and they are iterating very quickly on it. The app UX is starting to feel like it's bursting at the seams - they've added in loans, and overdrafts, and savings pots, and international transfers and no doubt more is to come.

I hope they take the time now to streamline their UX. A mobile-first bank is an outstanding idea and Monzo have been the best to execute on it, but avoiding bloat and maintaining speed and simplicity will be one of their biggest product challenges.
I think this might be illegal in EU/my country, so my ISP (liberty global) just charges same price for bare internet and internet+200 channels bundle.

Cable providers literary make money by giving TV service for free. They sell pre programmed channel spots like supermarket sell shelf space - You cant change channel order :/ plus they track/sell TV viewing data
Monzo is basically Uber in this UK space, Revolut is Grab (read: terrible in comparison). The Monzo app works flawless, notifications are reliable, and most importantly I don't have to deal with some dumb bot called Rita (Revolut's automated help - but their 1st-level humans aren't much smarter).
There are 512 GB micro SD cards on the market today. So at that density roughly:

2 MB / 512 GB * 100 mm2 ~= 400 um2

400 square micrometers is an area of a square with 20 micrometer sides. Approx. 1/100th of the cross-section of a human hair.
David Mackay (Physicist and author of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html):

'Have no illusions. To achieve our goal of getting off fossil fuels, these reductions in demand and increases in supply must be big. Don’t be distracted by the myth that “every little helps.” If everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little. We must do a lot. What’s required are big changes in demand and in supply.'
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Great, I'll start with SSS. Any tips for a good optimization book to read afterwards?
"Astronomer krypa upp till kanten på Mjölkets svarta hål" (creep up to the edge of the milk's black hole) - Swedish
https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance might be a good place to look. Also, it's heavily dependant on where you live. (e.g. the US doesn't protect the citizen as well as France does: unemployment assistance, centralized retirement agency, etc.)
There having been equivalent evils before the internet does nothing to disprove the thesis of it causing harm. Even if you could show that the internet, is net positive (pun intended), I don't see how that would be an argument against possible further improvements.

Analogy: People being killed in accidents with horses is not an argument for disregarding traffic deaths. Nor can that fact be used to argue against seat belts or airbags. Only if someone were proposing to go back to horse & carriage would it make sense to reference total effects.

If "the internet" wants to avoid the fate of more regulation, it is most sensible to take its critics' worries serious, and to try to find ways to be a positive force in the world without inviting the sort heavy-handed regulations that will otherwise follow.

As but one example, see spam, or child pornography: in those areas, tech companies, users, and governments found ways to effectively work together mostly without resorting to draconian measures.

For an example of such a process failing, look at the EU's recent "link tax": Because the tech community has been so adamantly opposed to taking journalism's existential fears into account, this rather unwieldy regulation will become law. This could have been avoided if, for example, ad blockers had settled for blocking only dangerous and/or the most annoying ads, an approach that could have easily reduced annoyances by 80%+ while costing publishers far less. Or micropayments that actually work, and users to use them. Etc.
Making 3 ads of the same product with 3 different budgets: $1K, $10K and $100K
Sorry for the blunt answer but: just open your browsers dev tools and start debugging: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/netw...

Determine if it is external factors (your connection/computer) or the site's fault. Learn something about web dev. in the process.Otherwise I would suggest not to complain on HN but with the supplier that you pay for the quality of this product.
The brutality of torture in Chinese prisons in unimaginable.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falun+gong+torture&atb=v128-4_f&ia...

Of course, it is not just China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and many others still use brutal medieval torture.
Github chose availability over consistency. Bad choice?
So..what the TPP was supposed to accomplish? At least before Trump's bumbling decision to withdraw to score rhetorical points with his base. Pretty sure think tanks are several moves ahead of Trump, if he even plans out his moves at all.
Or maybe there will be a new tourist industry of locals playing locals in VR to give VR tourists a more authentic experience.
> address some of the more egregious cognitive biases that cause so many problems in the world

I'm not sure how to interpret this - are you saying we should use CRISPR to make people think a certain way? If so this seems like a pretty horrific suggestion.
"one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"
Deep Learning for Classifying Hotel Aesthetics Photos
The problem wasn't so much that people took/were given loans they couldn't afford. Default rates fell for many years along with lending standards (not requiring a job, assets, or income for a loan became common). Continuous rapidly rising home prices kept defaults low. Believing home prices would always rise (at some minimum rate) made it rational for borrowers and lenders engage in this behavior.

To argue they were being irrational, you'd have to show that it was irrational for them to believe in the myth that this trend would never end, which is tantamount to expecting markets to not experience manias or bubbles.
Hotel comparison site idealo.de trained two Deep Neural Networks to automatically assess the aesthetic and technical quality of millions of hotel images
The article does put a (in my opinion, unwarranted) focus on actual violence. I don't think the death of community is well expressed by listing a bunch of isolated facts by a half-dozen of lunatics.
I agree. My father has terminal cancer and has been practically banging down doors to try to get onto medical trials for new experimental treatments. If other people in his position want to do the same thing then who are we to judge?
> No inline rendering of markdown.

That's incorrect, take a look here -> https://blog.rstudio.com/2016/10/05/r-notebooks
Handling currency in JavaScript just sounds like a bad idea. It's better to be using a language with a type system that has your back on this kind of thing, and preferably to deal with monetary values as rational numbers.

There's a good article on this subject here:

https://ren.zone/articles/safe-money
Family, friends, football club, being in ones own culture?

Not everyone is ready, able or willing to start a new life somewhere.

And an important detail to remember is that Europeans usually work a lot less than Americans. Due to progressive taxes people tend to choose for more time off rather than more pay.
when we start separating families and putting now-unaccompanied children in camps

That started under the Obama administration.
Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died
In Russia it's always #1 discussed and negotiated, because all the taxes and payments (like the retirement fund), including those that are supposedly paid by the employee, are handled by employer's accounting. Most people don't even know how much taxes and other payments they pay to the government each month, and most people don't even care that much whether the employer actually pays it all or doesn't. Just to clarify: not paying taxes and social payments on employee salary is, obviously, illegal, and employee is aware of that, but (1) in Russia, people generally don't care about breaking the law that much and (2) people don't believe in the pension system enough to care if they're paying anything into it or not. Most feel that by the time they get to retirement, government will find some way to steal their pension money, or it will be completely eaten away by hyperinflation or some other catastrophic economic event.
Welcome to the world of buggy software.
Work with MP3 file format tags in your .NET apps
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Afaik the delay is not in tuning per se, but in waiting for first decoded valid mpeg segment with I frame, and those are usually 1 per second?

What could be done, on the cheap, Cable provider wide is authoritative server ready to give you arbitrarily generated I frames with 1/60 time resolution on demand, as most cable boxes nowadays are two way anyway (they need upstream link to transmit all the spyin^^^ channel usage statistics back).
Your hotel room might soon contain its own edge facility
It shouldn't matter if she was going to get the position or not. This interaction between an interviewer and (recently) interviewee is just wrong. It is an abuse of power. If she HAD received the job offer, who knows if the advances would have ever stopped?
I have two system with integrated and discrete GPUs:

1. Intel Haswell + AMD RX460 (Desktop)

2. Intel Haswell + Nvidia GT750M (XPS 15 9530; Arch Linux)

Ultimately, I switched to using the discrete GPU on both systems.

Desktop: PRIME with Intel + AMD worked quite well (even with Steam applications running on the AMD GPU while the desktop was running on the Intel chip), but every now and then it caused the system to freeze, which was the reason I turned it off again :-/ Maybe I will try it again sometime in the future. But putting the additional energy costs aside, running the system exclusively on the AMD GPU is just fine (stable System + enough 3D performance for most games).

Laptop: Since nouveau had still the frequency issues last time I checked, I was mostly using the Intel GPU. Someday I was fed up with not being able to try any fancy new machine learning/neuronal network/CUDA based examples that I decided to install the proprietary Nvidia driver. I don't know what it is, but for me, the experience with the open source drivers feels much better (maybe the broken v-sync with the proprietary driver?!?). Every single time I come in contact with the Nvidia driver I wish that damn company would either die or provide (or at least support) open source drivers (and I don't really care about the license that much, the open source drivers just have a quality the proprietary ones lack).
To be honest and for context : 1) I’m French so maybe we don’t have TV on all the times (not saying that it’s true in the US, but it’s the impression I have from here. I might also be totally wrong. And in France a lot of people have TV on most of the time. But my wife and I don’t)

2) our kids (they’re twins) saw their first cartoon around 2,5 yo. They didn’t seen a TV on before that. And of course it fascinated them as any screen can do. It was Cars and I show them in 4 parts on 4 consecutive days.

3) Our TV is plugged on a RPI with kodi and you couldn’t use it with the TV remote (only with our smartphones) until they were 5 (and I bought a TV compatible with Anynet), so even if they managed to start the tv, they couldn’t go further. Maybe they did, maybe not, but they never told us if they did :)
You can get right up to relativistic velocities if you first sundive as close as you can while keeping your sail folded and protected by a heatshield, and then deploy your sail right next to the sun.

But anyway, if you carry a solar sail to accelerate, why would you not use the same sail to decelerate as much as possible too?
I run https://nextjournal.com

We archive full-stack reproducibility by allowing you to install arbitrary software and version these environments using docker. You can reuse these in other articles or pull and use them locally. `xoxo` is a signup code you can you if you want to give it a try.
Alibaba's Taobao launched own short video app to accelerate e-commerce sales
By far my favourite thing about Monzo is that the Android app is FAST. My old fashioned bank's mobile app is so slow and difficult use that I do almost everything with Monzo instead. If their app becomes bloated and slow, I'll be looking for one of the many other mobile first banks to switch to as there is really not much to distinguish them.
You can find notes on the book (most relevant ideas really) at https://sivers.org/book/DeepWork
"Astronomen schleichen sich bis an den Rand des Schwarzen Lochs der Milchstraße"

Perfect german translation.
Absolutely!

Page turns pace you down and it leads to better attention and retention. Offers retraceability, kind of like a memory palace building exercise.

Also, books are not files. So what we've online isn't truly a piece of software inspired off of books. Ebooks are like those enterprise-y TPS reports that no one wants to read. :-)
He was amazing - probably one of the greatest British living scientists before his untimely death.

I read his book on Sustainable Energy in my Physics degree and later his book on Information Theory when studying Machine Learning. Truly impressive to have contributed to so many different fields.

But yeah - after reading his book I came to the conclusion that the greenest thing we can do is to support Nuclear Power.
> The only thing that could possibly put me off is reliability

I'd be curious to know what the noise is like. One of the ways the MBP spoils you is by being almost completely silent most of the time.
People claim to want open hardware and the security you get from not being forced to trust a variety of companies. But then when it's time to put their money down suddenly freedom is too expensive. This is exactly why we've arrived in this position in the first place.
> ... maintaining speed ...

Sorry I know this is not the point of your comment, but I couldn't let this go: the Monzo app is by far the slowest app on my phone. Until their more recent updates it was nearly unusable on an iPhone SE. Still has >1sec response times on almost any touch event. (comments on the forum suggest this is because they use O(N) algorithms somewhere, and after 2y worth of events the app slows to a crawl. doesn't inspire confidence, to be honest.)

To the point that I focus on putting as many spends as possible on another card that has a better app, just so I can avoid spending any time in Monzo.

To end on a positive note: their support is so much better than the competition it isn't even funny. Apparently they are the only bank with a "brain required" policy for CS.
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Why would you use an API endpoint to download files in a build pipeline? Surely you should just use a clone of the repository?

I could believe that an endpoint to download files looks at a cache, and if you are just using 'master' or 'latest' as opposed to a commit, I could believe that would be out of date.
How is the noise like, compared to the average modern MBP?
HRP-4 humanoid robot climbs stairs using open-source software [video]
>We’ll continue to open source more functionality. Eventually, all that will be left are proprietary hardware initialization bits and convincing Intel and AMD to open up there. We think there’s reason for optimism. Intel contributes lots of code to Linux and AMD graphics drivers are open source already. Maybe open hardware is next for them. Let’s keep pushing.

Even if AMD would like to, they probably could not because of cross-licensing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-licensing

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312509236...
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And yet they motivate all the decisions. Here we are, 17 years later, still in a "state of emergency" and the TSA has become normal.
If you only want file uploads, sure, but that's not all FTP is used for - if you do just want file uploads, sure POST to your hearts content.

But designing a HTTP API to implement the function that FTP gives you sounds like madness.
Because software these days is crazy complicated. You would expect lots of features from any web app that you visit :

- Autocomplete for most used items ( emails, users, etc. )

- Some real time tagging / categorising feature

- Confirmation blockers on dangerous actions

- Undo button for almost any action

- Fine-grain privacy related functionality

- Text editor with features, which renders whatever you type nicely formatted

- Tons of helpers, video playback functionality, photo gallery, photo uploads, etc.

- All of the above free and because of that, tons of analytics included in the page, which show you a relevant advertisement.

Yeah if you don't like all this you can replace Gmail with Mac's mail app or any other program that sends / reads mails.

You can also replace facebook website with the app on your phone.

But you can't have all those features run fast on slow computers and a slow computer for me these days is something < 16GB RAM or < i7.
> Smalltalk "messages" are good old method calls.

Technically, this is not exactly true. Messages are propagated to superclasses if an objects has no receiver, so they are more messages than method calls.

Also, the design decisions were to make objects an isolated entities which communicate by message passing. They does not have implicit mailboxes like it is in Erlang, and are not strongly-isolated, share-nothing entities (which is what makes the whole system fault-tolerant).

However, objects are definitely has some concurrency, but no async features in modern terms.
Screwdriver and soldering iron usually do the trick.
$5/mo seems high to me, but that's irrelevant. I'd happily pay it, if this could be a replacement for Facebook. But it can't, because $5/mo would be insanely high to most of my friends, many of whom decide what their plans are for the evening by how much gas is in their tank, i.e. can they afford to drive to town? And if my friends aren't there, it's not really a social network. I love this idea, but it needs a free tier to scale, and it needs a "pro" tier that's around $10-$20/year.

EDIT: Okay, apparently there is a free tier, but it isn't really viable. No way to post (without an existing, external blog) and no profile page.
Humans are, for example, very poor at making risk assessments. Evolution has "programmed" our brains to focus too much on certain things and not enough on others. These heuristics might have made sense in ancestral environments bit are quite harmful in today's world. Evolution has already "made us think a certain way". Why would it be so horrific to, for example, lessen certain of those tendancies, if they are harmful?
But it isn't. Aegis is probably one of the best counter-examples to an embedded system.
This isn't exactly JupyterHub but I run https://nextjournal.com which is a fully hosted notebook platform.

Sharing articles with team members and letting them run them is trivial. We automatically version the article, the data and the environment (docker image) and you can remix (fork) other articles. `xoxo` is a signup code you can you if you want to give it a try.

We're not far out (~two weeks) from launching our beta for private research. Here, you'll get your own private data store and docker registry as well as secrets management (stored securely in hashicorps vault).
Likewise, living in Melbourne Australia, I dropped out of school after year 11, tried an mechanical apprenticeship for a year but didn't like it so I started freelancing (Javascript) in 2013.

2013 $20k (freelance) 100+ clients

2014 $75k (salary + super) 100+ employees

2015 $70k (salary + super) ~50 employees

2016 $120k (freelance) 8 clients

2017 $70k (salary + super) 3 employees

2018 $90k (salary + super) ~15 employees

2016 was by far my best year, still living at home (with parents) and after tax almost all of it went into savings.

At this stage I plan negotiating for $120k after christmas which I think is inline with my peers.

And for those talking about $4 coffee's, most places I know give discount if you BYO cup!
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I was laid off from the $40,000 job due to downsizing, then I spent a few months job hunting, so I was extremely happy about getting a new job, regardless of the salary.

Lying about my salary was a huge gamble, I guess. But since the FAANGs are based in the US and I wasn't, I was counting on them not asking for the IRS tax returns since I obviously didn't have one.
Unless the server only accept images upload and serves you the original file.

This is (or at least used to be) popular to share arbitrary files on imageboards.