skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that the once ubiquitous Chinese VPN companies one found ads for everywhere in China have been driven out of the local market leaving people with gear and no customers, moving to courting offshore (from China) customers is the obvious move for these guys
That's interesting, and the “official but not strongly enforced” feel in the US does sound pretty similar to the UK, just from skimming through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat....
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Both Mustard and Brilliant look really cool. In fact in this video I wasn't sure at times whether the footage was CGI or real, testament to how good rendering is these days.
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This rather reminds me of the economic model in Terry Pratchett's "Making Money".
That’s absolutely amazing. Reminds me of Francis Bacon (the painter) and his flesh / gore themed works.
It wasn't stupid of you, not your fault LinkedIn literally impersonated you. The mail it sent out all those years ago was written in your name and as though you had actively crafted and sent it. Anyone who knows your name could have impersonated you. Don't worry about doing something wrong.

A quick google suggests linkedin was sued and reached a class action settlement in exchange for the practice.
For general technical roles, in no particular order. In only technical rounds. Leadership etc. rounds are separate.

1. Ability to explain their current project technically and suggest improvements, reason decisions, extend solution, testing strategy, testing coverage etc.

2. Simple algorithmic problem solving. Nothing complex.

3. Basic data structures knowledge, again nothing complex.

4. Depending on experience, ability to design a small part of a big system in the context of the big system.

5. Ability to identify entities/models for a simple use case keeping in mind the Object Oriented principles of design. No Design patterns, just basic separation of concerns, DRY etc.

6. For the candidate's language of choice, knowledge of the language basics. For e.g. in case of Rust, information of how borrowing/ownership works. Or for Java, how equals/hashcode works etc.

7. Passion about programming. How the candidate keep themselves apprised of new things in tech.
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This is incredible, I had no idea neutral electrode sensor technology had advanced so far.
Wonder if they had cross-core security vulnerabilities?
Also be careful with opening many of these images, as they open in Google Drive. Which will display all images viewed on this blog the next time you open it.
Fair enough.

For what it's worth, Tor does support choosing the country of your exit node, and is not as slow or unreliable as it has been in the past (although still not as fast as just using a VPS), but I watch YouTube over Tor without noticing anything unusual.
Flour is a natural product, that means the "Fallzahl" (A gluten test, where a rod is sinking into a dough over a given time) is differing by the harvest.

So what happens to get a industrial standardized product every year, even when it was a bad year (to wet at harvest e.g) is that flours from different locations are blended together - and additives like ascorbin accid (aspirin) is added.

Its just, that though the mineralic quantities might be the same- the content still might be different, as in slightly changing by the harvest and mill date.
This works well on mobile...and is not in the USA yet.

But I joined the waiting list so eventually it will work.
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Yeah. She wrote it while she was in sort of double limitation - unable to pay for baby daycare having only money from some social program and unable to find a job because lack of daycare. She was however able to write while caring about baby so she did it.
The Shinkansen is just so awesome. GF an I toured Japan last October and we did all inter-city travel by the Shinkansen, using a Japan-Rail pass, so you can just walk through the entry gates.
The punctuality is also unparalleled. On a different train, we arrived well in time for departure, only to find the train was delayed! Oh noes! The guy at the counter walked up and off the walkway to our platform to personally excuse himself for the 15 minute delay. Of course, the train was exactly 15 minutes late.

I wish Europe would have this level of high-speed rail. I'm starting a remote job next year, traveling to the office twice month. That trip will cost me ca. 6hrs one-way but with a Shinkansen, maybe 3 hours.
The continent would be so much more close-knit with such train service.
Fun fact, the device you're referring to was actually based on a different real-life water-based computer, the MONIAC[1]. It used basins of water, pipes, and adjustable flow regulators as a physical metaphor for the movement of money in macro-economics. I'm personally a really big fan, and I've need meaning to work up a simulation for quite some time now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
Heres the announcement: https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/3753
This is a really good idea.

It makes me smile to think that my 15-year-old self would have loved a feature that did the same but in reverse. That was, of course, a pre-internet, almost porn-free world.
What does changing the bias to recover look like in practice? Any resources on this?
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To flip the question around: what benefits does Tor give me over my existing setup? I can see an ideological argument, and I can see the $5 or $10 a month savings, but — especially given my threat model is well enough served by a VPN — I'm curious if there are other practical benefits of Tor that might help overcome the obvious downsides (more complicated setup, slower)
Some cities collect leaves and all you need to do is rake them into the street. The city comes around and sucks them up. I know I've lived in at least one if not two that did this - one of those cities also offered free compost to people. I seem to recall them using a street sweeper vehicle to do this with. And honestly, if you already use the street sweepers, might as well do what you can with them especially if you were simply going to have people use special lawn refuse bags for their leaves anyway.
Check out NomadCapitalist.com or specifically his YouTube channel where he has numerous videos about this exact topic. I know he recommends Georgia a lot for banking, but you might still need to open in person.

https://youtube.com/user/nomadcapitalist
You can be almost certain that LinkedIn knew it was illegal when they did it, and accurately calculated that the fine they would receive (if any) would be much lower than the value derived from increased membership. In fact they would be stupid not to in winner-takes-all markets like social media.

Silicon Valley has a phrase for such flagrantly unethical practice, it is called "growth hacking".
Ever looked at Azure Event hubs? We’re usung this as a Kafka alternative because it’s way cheaper actually (for xx million number of messages with a throughput of 4 MBs per second its 75 €) then setting up a full Kafka and keeping it running? Or do you see disadvantages on that technology? I’m not trolling or so, just curious.
> p.s. Please don't get offended that I said Japan was a tick too small for me. It doesn't have to fit me, I don't live there. I was just making an observation. :)

Why would anyone be offended? If you are 6'3", no place is accommodating for you. No train, bus, airplane, car or homes are built for you since you are not close to the average anywhere. This goes for whether you are too short or too tall or too fat or too skinny. Everything nowadays is built for the average. So you wouldn't feel comfortable anywhere.
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>>> Crumbly pizzas are not a thing.

It's actually a thing. You should try making one.
I received automatically spam from them years ago: growth hacking.
This isn't a solution. OP asked for an account that can be opened from anywhere. This one only works in a handful of countries.

> I can open account worldwide?
Not really, there was a point where it loaded pretty snappily. I think they bundled a bunch of stuff like email client e.t.c. and it was busy loading that stuff along with the browser. That's my recollection anyway.
It’s not something I’ve looked into, but being from Denmark, one of the most digitised public sectors of Europe, I do hear about our competitors.

I think you should look into Estonia, they offer digital citizenship and a range of other services. It’s not a full citizenship, but it allows you to do banking and create companies and such.

Not sure how commonly accepted it is in other parts of Europe though. But I think it might be worth a look.
bicameral mind is based solely on historical books.

"Achilles didn't hear the gods, he heard his other mind!"

etc.
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The services on that line terminate well outside London - distinctly non-urban dormitory towns like Stevenage, Welwyn, Letchworth, etc. A lot of the passengers are commuters from those towns.
> Pretty clear sign that they quit the Chinese market for whatever reason

Well, I'm not very sure, but we had few crack downs on VPN selling recently in China, some people even received prison time plus fine.

It's not very safe to operate VPN company in China, so maybe the best way is to sell that hot potato to whatever who wants to take it. The only exception is probably "Game Accelerator"(s) which is a special type of VPN that only transports game traffic.
Grimsby's tower is more my style:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimsby_Dock_Tower
I guess that’s the threshold then because at 188cm I found the shinkansen perfectly comfortable, even on long journeys (e.g. Tokyo to Hakodate). Maybe it’s because the foot rest folds up if you don’t want it by your feet :)
Great write up. As a photographer, the more companies are relying on this the more frustrating the mis classification of SFW as NSFW is getting. I’ve copped a few Facebook bans from automated detection (I assume given how quickly the report comes in) for images totally within their community guidelines. A number of my photographer friends are in the same boat also. I counted at least 5 of us on 30 day bans in October alone.
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The reason quantum computers have such a high error rate is because of this.

If I took schrodingers thought experiment and performed them on two different planets, they would die at different times. Gravity will skew the results.

Gravity isn’t static, it’s a wave that has peaks and valleys; it interacts with all things that have mass and don’t.
Can I ask what industrial sd cards did you try? I was going to try one of those out but I'd like to know what to avoid. Thanks.
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OP was asking for a bank that is available worldwide. N26 is not available in my country.
Ex-customer here:

Beware, N26 is not "mobile first", it's "mobile only".

If you intend to use it without mobile phone or your mobile phone doesn't use the original Google Play services (e.g. due to LineageOS), then you can't confirm transactions and that makes it pretty useless.
Revolut is not a bank (yet). It's nice to keep small amount of money there, but I wouldn't transfer all my money to them.

But yeah, they're great.
What happens if Julian Assange is tried in the US?
This is really interesting, thanks!

It makes me wonder if the flutter team is aiming to totally replace native apps or replace 'most' native apps, because I tend to agree with Hixie re the synchronous calls, but only in 90% of app use-cases.

The iOS text stuff is surprising, though, especially since the last beta release had a 'Pixel Perfect Cupertino' focus. Hopefully will be fixed before they bring out 1.0
The problem with Estonia is that I think you still need to travel here in person to open a bank account. The KYC laws are pretty strict. Source – I'm Estonian.
Even better, is remote hacking of analog computer even possible?
> (although the styling of the modern noses doesn't appeal to me at all)
It isn't supposed to look good -- it just supposed to make things efficient.

> If you're going to be riding, don't dawdle getting off.
Nozomi stops for 5 minutes at each station -- and at peak runs every three minutes.
> I can see an ideological argument, and I can see the $5 or $10 a month savings

That is the benefit of Tor.

There's also the fact that the VPN provider is in a position to know where your traffic is both coming from and going to, and there is nobody who can do that in Tor.
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liquid nitrogen. It’s abundant in our atmosphere, we can cool it using a vacuum.

Replace the jet fuel with a mix of water \ air \ liquid nitrogen.

Creates a lot of dense gas shooting through a nozzle at high velocity.
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Do you measure the happiness/moral/mood of your team? If so, how?
The cooling system ages - dust accumulates and coolingpaste become less efficient - which in turn can cause more frequent throttling of the cpu. (technically a peripheral to the chp)
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You could always use a stack of paper to average out the error.
You have a history of the discussion about how the problem was solved, right? That is pretty valuable, should something similar come up again.
Please don't use N26! There've been major security vulnerabilities in the past [0]. I wouldn't trust them with my money.

[0] https://theheureka.com/massive-security-vulnerabilities-dete...
The Chuo is Tokyo-Nagoya in 2027 and Tokyo-Osaka in 2045.

Could they make it earlier? Of course yes, but the amazing thing about Chuo Shinkansen is that it's 100% private (JR Central) money. The government did offer no-string-attached money to make it to Nagoya in time for 2020 Olympic and Osaka in 2025 [Expo] (this was back in '13), but JR Central declined. Japan population is declining so I guess nobody want to invest too much in case the return isn't as expected.
I’ve wanted to so something similar, adding tracking of the authors to see who is able to have an impact, or who is always wrong.
I don't use GitLab, but I would love to have any publicly known metric to get good jobs -- because then I can code myself a minivan, by hacking the metrics.
Just choose any canton bank, they’re identical
In some sense you could say the vast majority of people hear voices, it's just that we conceptualise this as the "inner voice". It seems somewhat plausible that people could conceptualise this differently if there were a sufficiently strong cultural pressure. Perhaps when we hear words in our heads that we describe as talking to ourselves, ancient people would describe the same experience as gods speaking to them?
General American.
Electrical design seems to have a lot of dead ends where we can't go any further. Does anyone have any insights as to what the current status is for transistors based on light?
I would like to start with chip design (did microchip programming as CS), is it even a feasible to achieve something in that field? Is there any good places / papers to start with?
Well, don’t take that as an unqualified endorsement of Roku...

The Roku software is top notch. It’s amazing what you all have done to optimize the software to run on really low end hardware. I’ve also heard good things about the SDK. I listened to a podcast interview of your CEO and he said that using low end hardware was a business decision to keep the cost down for the OEMs where the margins were already razor thin.

That being said, I hate Roku’s business model. From the same interview he said that Roku isn’t in the hardware business or for that matter even in the software business. It’s business model is collecting user data to sell to advertising.

Everything about that business model is irritating to me - from the remote with hard coded buttons to services that no one would choose - like CBS News and the defunct Rdio service to the ad that takes up half the screen.

I have a 4K AppleTV connected to the one TV we use most frequently and I replaced the Roku stick I had in my home gym with another ATV 4K.

The Roku business model is everything I hate about the consumer electronics business model outside of Apple. I like simple transactions - I give the company enough money to profitably stay in business and they give me stuff.

That being said, if my other two non Roku TVs in my house ever need replacing, I would replace them with RokuTVs. The interface is great, the TCL Roku TVs are dirt cheap, the mobile apps are great and Roku has a history of keeping their software up to date. I couldn’t recommend that most people buy an $199 4K AppleTV box when you can buy a $399 55 inch Roku TV from Amazon.
Kind of like seeing what the effects of insider trading would be right?
I assume that the VPNs buy bulk bandwidth, and also they have to compete with each other, whereas the ISPs have to run (or lease) the actual lines to my home.
Eiffel uses its own VM for interactive development, and compilation to native code via system C and C++ compilers. CIL and Java support is just a kind of integration support, the MELT VM is what matters.

Eiffel is a commercial language, with a GPL based license for open source projects.

It is also used in enterprise production code since the mid-90's, definitely more battle tested than Dart will ever be, which lets be honest it is struggling for survival.
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> Something needs to change, the same way Reddit’s ranking algorithm was changed based on Randall Munroe’s public suggestion.

That was a long time ago. Reddit ranking is even worse than HN's now and is manipulated by political and news organizations now with the help of reddit employees. Reddit is a highly biased propaganda site. It's not a platform anyone should be using. In many ways, reddit is worse than facebook.

I stopped using reddit once I could predict what I was going to see on the frontpage day after day. Sadly, I'm starting to be able to predict what's going to be on HN's frontpage now.
Thanks for that, didn't know. I am curios if you are insured and even if someone steals your money, you get it back.
That isn’t an argument for claiming the opposite.
The successor of what.cd have been going well though.
Yea, thanks for pointing that out, you are right, and that is why I love it :D But I see how that can be a problem to some people :) I am the kind of person that tends to focus on the positives.
Learn from Kernighan. Most tutorials are dry and teach "follow these steps". The better ones explain the "why" of the feature. Kernighan comes up with fun examples to keep the reader engaged.
I try to avoid SPOF. I carry separately 2 cards from 2 bank accounts. I use 1 for guaranty (hotels never cancel them manually which can be a problem if you often change hotels), the other is for consumption. Also, maybe you should change your bank. Mine is sending a card replacement whereever I am on the planet in a few business days.
You can’t say something isn’t collected either.
But you probably have your wife in your contacts.
To be fair, they could just be saying LinkedIn because it's easier than saying they bought the number from some shady middlemen, and people are less likely to react negatively to it. Unless you used a unique number only for LinkedIn, the number could have been shared by anyone (even your telco).
Has anybody closed their LinkedIn account and do you miss it? I keep procrastinating to do it myself.
Haven’t used their borderless account but I live in NZ and get paid by a UK company into a UK account. I use them to bring all my money back to NZ and have nothing but good things to say about them. I usually have the cash in my NZ the next day but sometimes I’ve had it the same day, they’re really fast.
Yea, you can open it from wherever you are, you just have to know someone in one of the supported countries and you should have a valid passport. A friend of mine opened it while I was living in Italy and there was no problem. The address is used to send you the card. As soon I received his card, I sent him all the details and he started using it through ApplePay and online. But thanks for pointing it out. I didn't make it clear enought
I suspect the dated-even-for-the-time computers in Alien and Bladerunner were a deliberate choice. For example the painfully slow screen updates in Alien must have been a deliberate choice, monitors of the time were fully capable of near-instantly displaying a screen of text.

It seems likely to me that they wanted to give an impression of a low-budget operation using antiquated tech. The Nostromo is a bulk cargo carrier crewed by little more than space truckers, it wouldn't have the swanky latest tech of the time, but how do you portray that? You can't try to portray people using 2050s tech in a film set in 2100, say, and expect people to get that it's supposed to be crappy old gear.
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Formality is now able to fuse native datatypes (goodbye ugly λ-encodings)
If you live in Tokyo the baking goods chain, Tomiz, probably has at least 80 kinds of flour depending on what you're trying to bake.
I did not put the name in the description of my question. But I used them as well. When I came to Germany they opened me the account without the German apartments registration. I confirmed my identity with the web camera and my passport and they sent me the card by post to my hotel. Easy. But I think they can do it only within EU. If I travel with their card to another country and will lose it, they will not send it worldwide.
cool, i will look
Lawncare workers: it's the best way to do the job, therefore that's how we do the job.
Me: your job is dumb.
The problem isn't whether it's insured, the problem is whether anyone believes your claim that it was stolen.
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Or a human body where overtime every cell is replaced but the memories of childhood remain.
Litre, cm, metre - all are human-size units that are useful. It's easier for me to ad-hoc measure a cable in metres than in feet because the distance between my hand and my opposite shoulder across my chest is about 1 metre. Similarly, a kg of sugar weighs about the same as a litre of milk, and I've been drinking milk from litre cartons all my life. (As a kid in Ireland, there were three main sizes in the shops, 1 pint and 1 litre cartons and 2 litre bottles. 1 pint was always too small for a family of three - you'd run out before it went off.)

I think you're labouring under parochialism of measurement. Grow up under a different system and you'll see there's nothing special or advantageous about the imperial system at all.
It sets the dangerous precedents of foreign governments imposing rules on internet companies that have no "real" local presence.

And before you ask what's wrong with that, let's not forget that Saudi Arabia, China, and I'm sure 5 other countries have forced Facebook/Google/Microsoft/... to hand over data and then used it to execute gays and dissidents. Even in the UK case, it's pushing hard for these companies to just hand over all data they have to their secret service (not even limited to UK citizens).

You know, to "protect the children".
This should be the HN motto:

"If you aren't paying for it, you are the product".

Also, VPN isn't a magic cure for the disease of privacy violation. You are just choosing to trust the people running the VPN service over the people running your ISP. Should you trust a VPN company more than your ISP? I really can't say, but VPN isn't a magic fix.
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