skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So cool to see people saying good things about C++ and I've never had the chance to take a uni course on computer science but I've always wanted to the GUI stuff with C and C++. Maybe I should try again. Thanks OP. :)
> PHP (which is a fine language

No it isn't. The language itself is awful. The PHP ecosystem is great though: easy deployments, good dependency management, healthy community, and the most pleasant framework I've ever worked with - Symfony.
>CBP Agent: types It appears you work for a remote startup. Are you currently working for them and/or do you plan on continuing to work within our country? Maybe they let you stay if you're honest? Likely you're on the next flight out and you incur the possibility of a visa blacklist.

More likely they could not care less, and welcome the money you'll spend in the country.

Those "work" restrictions are for poor immigrants that they want to discourage coming in (the kind you see on Mexican border and such) not for first worlders with mucho dinero.
I thought almost everyone had some type of herpes simplex (chicken pox, cold sores, warts, etc). Does that mean almost everyone is at higher risk?
if you could read it and give me a feedback it will really be appreciated
A country is seen like a household. You get to allow or disallow whoever you like, based on how you want your country to be run. That's called sovereignty.

It doesn't even matter if by coming in they'd made you more money, you could very well not want to get more money that way, but instead e.g. prefer your peace, cultural coherence, and lack of Starbucks.
Given the current state of those institutions, obviously those metrics are too difficult to define and measure and/or are too easy and profitable to corrupt.
I don't think immigration laws, or more specifically the restrictions on work that come with tourist visas, were designed for this case. What these laws are intended to achieve is to prevent tax evasion and a cheap short-term foreign labour force being employed instead of locals.

Digital nomadism however usually implies that you run a properly set up business in some country and also properly pay taxes for any profit you generate. Sure, the country you're currently living in probably wouldn't reject getting a share of that profit, too, but the currently accepted taxation principle is that you pay your taxes where your business transactions take place. Admittedly, in a connected, digital economy this can cause problems, some of which are exploited by international corporations in order to save taxes, but this is the current legal framework.

As a digital nomad you also typically don't take away job or business opportunities from locals because your business doesn't happen in your country of residence anyway.

Finally, digital nomadism probably - and pretty much like ordinary tourism - is beneficial to countries these nomads flock to as well, simply because you pay for goods and services locally, which not only supports the local economy but in most cases implies some sort of indirect taxation / VAT as well.
Suppose you work in a factory that you learn primarily makes nerve gas. Continuing to work there is a political statement.
There is no switching costs involved. I am in one of the big corporation who's gone through 5 different chat clients. It could decide overnight that one of them must die and it wouldn't matter.

It's one of the lowest switching costs. A few weeks lost to redo the integrations that really matter. That's about it.

Zero benefit in the end, they're all a basic chat with some fanciness of top. It's just time wasted for all the users who hates change and have to learn a new tool for no benefit.
I hire freelancers, If it's a small project I hire freelancers from Fiverr and for important things I hire from Upwork.
How we scaled wordpress to handle X millions of users per day
Red Ball Jump Game App and Get Wallet Amount
Also, I'd assume that if police officers noticed one such case it's pretty plausible there have been and will be other, unreported cases where people got lucky.
The country might like its own culture and peace just fine, and not appreciate an influx of freelancers and their local influence, regardless of any the monetary benefits.

The local poor might also not appreciate raised rents that benefit the few owning houses for rent (the AirBnB effect but with longer term "nomad" stays).

Western ex-pats in the developing world have a long history of being and behaving as self-entitled scum, which doesn't win many sympathies.

Besides hipster "nomads" are among the most insufferable of people.

But even more so, and on a more serious note, a lot of those laws are to discourage mass immigration from even poorer places, not the occasional "digital nomad".
I'd say try file an issue. "the headlines are hard to read because X" is more specific than the general criticism in the issue you linked, and if you look at the open issues things like "the contrast of text is not good enough, please change the colors a bit" was accepted.
I don't see why you are taking this line. The topic was not sexual abuse, my comments are not about sexual abuse, obviously the statement about consent has a very different interpretation in that context. But we were talking about working at Facebook and not speaking up. Why are you mixing these topics?
There is a lot of innovation around high tech farming in places other than than the country side. With hydroponics, you can grow all sorts of stuff anywhere you can supply water, energy, and the right nutrients. People are growing herbs in underground abandoned subway stations, old industrial facilities, on roofs, deserts, etc. The reason is that it works really well and you can get great yields if you can micromanage the conditions in which plants grow.

Food production is fundamentally an energy problem; not a land problem. Using cheap electricity, you can desalinate water, pump nutrients around, generate light and control the temperature.

Eating meat is a problem given the vast resources needed to produce it. However, there's a lot of innovation in developing synthetic meats. Lab grown meat is becoming a thing. I'm talking about actual muscle tissue grown in labs. There are also many plant and mushroom based meat alternatives that are getting better and more popular. In short, we might eat a proper steak for nostalgic reasons once in a while in a few decades but we'll have plenty of alternative protein sources to supplement our diet with on a day to day basis. And making out-competing popular meat products like a big mac isn't exactly rocket science. The whole point of stuff like that is that it is industrialized low quality stuff. Most of the meat we're eat isn't exactly high quality stuff.
Feels good to see torch-1.0.0 when I do: "python -m pip install torch torchvision --upgrade"
The point is that a copilot is there to assist the primary pilot, not be that primary pilot all of the time - even if in emergencies a copilot can take over.

Frankly - if you're asking for emergency "landings" I'd say modern driver assists are probably up to the task. Most have a pretty decent chance of bringing a vehicle to a safe stop. And if it's an emergency, and the primary driver cannot do so - then the currently still inevitable unreliability isn't much of an issue - it's still much, much better than nothing.

Copilot isn't a bad name change. Not that they'll ever do it.
Maybe, but everyone's developing their own drivetrains and battery packs. Tesla's current advantage is that they've been using them for longer, but that advantage will diminish with time.

Mercedes and Porsche will enter Formula-E starting from the 2019-20 season as part of the marketing push for their electric vehicles:

http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2018/may/mercedes-eq-form...

Mercedes will be in it to win it (as they have done in Formula 1) so they can claim they have the best electric car know-how.
Aye. I'm making $13 an hour while trying to apply to every job that I can, while building out my portfolio projects to improve my resume, and grinding LeetCode. Needless to say I can't really afford to socialize or eat out. It really sucks after a few weeks :/
> There are 10s of veggies which you can cook in all combinations and with spices. Add bread, rice and you'll have dozens of dishes with all nutrients.

I don't think thats true - I've known a number of strict vegetarians (vegans?) and they've often problems with low B12 and iron. Eggs/fish a bit of chicken and a bit of meat make it way easier, but the amount required is way less than the amount of meat most people eat. As in many things the answers in the middle imho.
Everyone telling you to fire half your team has the luxury of never having to look that employee in the eye and telling them you're letting them go because the customer is always right and the employee never is.

Unless your product is so well-built and scalable that it could withstand the next 3 months without any dev support whatsoever, it wouldn't surprise me if firing half your workforce would be tantamount to shutting your doors over this. Plus, it's not like the remaining half will be inspired to work twice as hard, and it's not like "as long as I'm getting paid" devs are beating down the door to replace the ones threatening to leave at half the price. Recruiting talent is really hard, even when you're popular. Most of this board doesn't get or appreciate that.

Here's what I'd do. Unlike that guy who declined to make a wedding cake, I'd say, ok guys, but I make wedding cakes my own way, and I don't customize, so the top piece will be very traditional, and if that doesn't match with your special day, that's not my problem and you're free to take your business elsewhere.

Announce to your employees that you're going to do something similar for the pro-life group. Maybe in the sales calls, say you're going to watermark "right to choose" on printouts or something, and that's an area you won't customize. That oughtta shut up the malcontents and perhaps inspire them to work cheaper for you.

And then when the would-be customer gets all butthurt about your horrible sales skills, no one will care, because you're still willing to provide your service to them, just not the way they want, which is not newsworthy.
The climate in Tallin isn't that much different from Vancouver. Yes if you are used to California it's cold, but it's not Siberia.
On the other hand, there's a bunch of stories about people traveling to present something at a conference getting into trouble because that the border guard said it needs a business visa of some kind. That's maybe different kind of work, but also something one would think not that important.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494190
Tourists don't pay local taxes but benefit from services like roads or police assistance, and they're welcome because they do bring income to a country when their hotel/restaurant/souvenir shop pays taxes. I think remote workers should be seen similarly.
> I didn't bother clicking the other because that would surely also be a waste of time.

Yup. That sums up your attitude perfectly.
Firehole? Weird name...
Having recently been in the market, to choose between these two, I don't believe that the Jaguar is clear-cut the better car. Disclosure, I chose the Tesla Model S!

The Jaguar does have advantages. The Matrix headlamps are awesome, it has a heads up display, the interior _is_ nicer, and IMO, it looks like the ant's pants!

However, the Tesla is faster (at least the Model S), and the P100D of either the X or S blows it out of the water. The Model S has a longer range, more space in the back, both for passengers and luggage. The X has _even more_ space, and the Tesla has a nicer screen, with better software. The adaptive cruise, and lane keeping features also work better IMO.

However the three big winning points for the Tesla:
1. Charge time: The Tesla can just charge faster, and it uses a lot less energy per km (or mile), so you end up needing to charge it less often, and when you do charge it, it can charge faster.
2. OTA software and map updates. This is just an awesome feature, particularly the map updates! They are just pushed to your car, no need to get it serviced to get the new maps, which also means that your maps tend to be more up to date.
3. This one is probably temporary, but still important for now: The Charging Network. The Tesla superchargers are in a lot more places than CCS-2 100kW chargers, which makes the Tesla more convenient for longer road trips.

If you _never_ do long trips, then 1 and 3 won't make any difference to you, since they both have enough energy for most people for day to day running, particularly if you have a charging pole at your work and/or home.

So, as I said, it's not clear cut which is better, since different needs could tip the above scales different ways. Which is just great IMO, since real competition is the only way forward.
Ask HN: Efficient search technologies for private networks?
From your experience. Can you mention efficient technologies to make information (pdfs, html content, images, wiki docs) easily searchable in a private environment? Can you mention open source technologies with this focus? Especially when hyperlinks can't always be an option to grade the relevance of the available information
And a better working version of skype!
Python is not efficient, but the bug you described seems like a problem with that implementation of malloc...
Person here.

Very happy indeed. I discovered Pocket as a result of it being integrated and have been a very happy user ever since.
Ask HN: A server admin panel that “just works?”
I'm interested in setting up my own server just to make it easy to run and play around with web projects. Does anyone know if there is a heroku like service that I can host on my own server to manage web apps/sites.

Think connecting to a git repo from the UI. connecting to a domain to create development urls: projectname.domain.com, that sort of things.

I'm not sure what to look/search for online to find what I'm looking for.
RIP: Startups that failed and shutdown in November 2018
Or they entered on the country on the US Visa Waiver Program or similar programs in other countries, which is surely the most common way to travel between first world countries (apart from inter-EU travel, which is more permissive again) and allows you to travel either for tourism or for business.
Are all these chargers compatible? I hope we don't end up with a mobile phone situation, where you needed 5 chargers for 5 phones.

I guess independent charging stations can have support for every car interface, but that still feels like a waste compared to a universal interface.
It’s more like moose don’t like wolves. A bull or cow moose can easily kill a wolf so it’s usually not worth the risk unless the moose is already weak or wounded.

Wolves will definitely eat from a moose carcass.
I think volume binding only works with Windows containers?

I seem to recall trying it with Linux containers and immediately hitting permissions issues due to incompatibilities between Windows and Linux.

I am at least able to bind individual files using Docker Compose's 'secrets' and 'configs'.
Either tilling or herbicides. It is not that simple to say stop tilling. No-till might become viable when we have farming robots that can deal with weeds. I think the bigger problem is moving away from crop rotation to monocultures.
Prediction: This is purely a marketing stunt and absolutely nothing will come of it.

I will get downvoted for this "cynical" comment, and in six months or a year, everyone will have forgotten.
It seems to me that writing a compiler that can target safe rust would be extremely hard with little benefit.
And...drumroll...Uber also just filed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633211
> That was bad for birds etc, I know, but hey.

This is why people shouldn’t be allowed to have pets.
That’s a misleading comparison.

Stockfish would still be an extremely strong engine even without the training. Alphazero couldn’t even move a single piece without having been trained extensively.
Measuring the value of something in terms of time spent for its creation or delivery rather than its actual value because defining these value metrics is too difficult is a problem with many economic transactions.

However, with these institutions in particular I'd say the metrics a pretty well-defined:

- both prisons and healthcare: Lack of recidivism, time until you're a productive member of society again

- prisons and universities: Economic welfare of former 'inmates'. Some universities for example operate on a business model where they get paid a share of the graduate's income for a few years after graduation.

Sure, like many metrics these probably could be gamed but they're way better than current metrics, including those state-run institutions of these kinds operate with (if they have any metrics at all, that is).
I skimmed this comment and thought you were suggesting the map would be used by wolves looking for a new territory.
Biointensive agriculture
I enjoyed that book. I recommend it. Details how the Steve Jobs that left Apple wasn't the same as the one that returned, along with the journey of how he got there.

The Pixar stuff in there was really interesting. Creativity Inc has been on my reading list because of that book.
This Is Why Most Scientists Think Planet Nine Doesn't Exist
Nobody mentions that the dude was also paying for his other 2 servers? So how can it not be his account. It's obviously the authors fault
Ask HN: Is it normal to be emasculated and subservient in your workplace?
I have just started to work on an European IT company as a software developer and I think the vibe at the office is quite toxic. But the problem is that I seem to be alone on that and I'm the only one who think it sucks. It's not rare to be yelled at, humiliated in front of your coworkers with so called jokes or asked to do overtime just because, it doesn't matter if your wife and toddler are waiting at home. It hasn't happened to me yet but this morning I heard my boss bullying a nice guy who is in my team because he's late with a task and the sprint ends today. It made my blood boil so bad that I'd undoubtedly punch him on the spot if I was the one being yelled at (I've never slapped a single soul in my whole life but there's no way I would accept that), I felt so bad for him because he was totally defenseless and didn't even tried to argue back. He is a really chill dude and he invited me to have lunch later, he did not know that I've heard the conversation and he confessed he was really nervous because he didn't know if he would be able to finish his task, he told me he was planning to do at least 4 hours of extra time this evening just so he could a have a chance to finish it and then nervously laughed it off. I feel so sorry for him that I told him that this kind of things happens sometimes and he should not feel ashamed. He quickly bought a sandwich and returned to his desk. These dudes are being so emasculated that it doesn't even seem real for me.
have we finally found a way to monetize PL research?
The force of the vacuum
$8,100 per minute apparently: https://www.google.com/search?q=1.07+billion+dollars+per+3+m...
IAAL. It’s odd that Orrick doesnt mention how the data submitted will be handled. It’s not addressed in the Terms of Use, and there doesn’t seem to be any privacy policy. Also, the fact that you side-stepped a very straightforward question (“What will you do with my data?”) by citing the bona fides of your lawyers is a red flag. Just saying...
I never played Myst, but lately I played Quern and The Talos Principle.

Pretty intense games.
Which headers are you talking about?
Nope.

There are four standards, although only three per market. And, in essence, there are two surviving standards per market.

1. Tesla US connector
2. Tesla Everywhere else connectors (CCS with a mod to allow DC charging over it)
3. CHAdeMO (used to be the thing, but lost the war)
4. CCS-2 (European standard, what most new cars, except Tesla, support)

The rumour is that the EU Model 3 _will_ have a CCS-2 port, which would be great news, as that means essentially one standard in Europe. The S/X though have an older port which will only work with Tesla SuperChargers, the hope is that there will be a CCS-2 adapter made available, but that is only a hope, not even a rumour.

In the US, all Teslas have the "Tesla socket", and all/most other cars have CCS(-2).

A few manufactures still make CHAdeMO cars, but, IMO, they _will_ stop soon, since the infrastructure just isn't there to support them, so people will also soon stop buying them.
Perl 6 is still 9 times slower than Perl 5 when parsing log files with a regex. I don't quite get why the feature which made Perl famous has now taken a back seat. Why should I take a 9x performance hit?
Well if you order an object online, then you have to wait 1+ days for it to arrive ;)
Thats not healthy. I've convinced my cat to switch to vaping. Now, he only smokes when he drinks. But I'm a realist about this sort of thing.
> How will Tesla be competitive with the Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW, Porsche, Lexus, etc. electric cars coming out in the next few years? It may not be a good idea for Tesla to buy more plants. Maybe they should look for a buy out.

That all depends on how successful the continued ramp-up of Model 3 is, and how fast they can ramp up Model Y.

Once the production line for those two are running smoothly, I'm sure they can continue to bring the price down, and I'm sure they'll stay ahead of the others in this regard. I think the heavy focus on automation was a mistake in the short term, but they'll still gain from it in the long term once they've de-automated the things that don't make sense. Trying for something hard like that always leaves you with some new innovative methods that actually work.

Once they have one truly mass-producing production line, they're safe as far as I'm concerned. Once the bring-up and capital costs of it starts to be written down, they can at least make a couple of model just as cost-effectively as other manufacturers.

Once the Model 3/Y is stable I'm sure they'll bring some of the development in battery cells/packs back to the S/X. Perhaps the motor as well. If they came out with a new model right now I'm sure it'd be cheaper and more profitable than the Jaguar I-Pace. But that's not their focus atm.

There's still some uncertainty for Tesla ahead, but I think they're over the worst of it. There's good reasons to be optimistic.
Which nick was transferred?
Why I would spend time learning UI/UX when I can be 10X more productive building functionality. Designer even good one will charge you much less than your developer time.
> The rumour is that the EU Model 3 _will_ have a CCS-2 port, which would be great news, as that means essentially one standard in Europe.

This isn't a rumour anymore btw, it's confirmed
Are they profitable, though, or are they floating on VC money?
Introduction to the DAT Network
That is the problem.
My mom taught her cat to fetch with thin plastic rings the size of bracelets. She'd sort of chuck them like a mini Frisbee and her cat would swipe them out of the air like a pro athlete. She used to get her cat toys but they had a tendency of mysteriously disappearing forever.
One can write pretty much the same code in python/c++11/whatnot and it also feels quite natural to read:

for number in numbers:
if number <= 10: continue
work(number)

Do you have a better example where the Perl syntax would shine?
Only if you know exactly what you are looking for... sometimes going thru years of emails can be super painful.
Company size, team size, role functions, salary range, culture...
Tesla offers other EV manufacturers the ability to be compatible with their superchargers... so far no takers