skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my experience, it is incredibly mind-expanding to live for some time in another country (or countries). Really live there, have a job, rent a house, make friends, etc. It is a process of detribalization, that can help you understand better who you are, what part of you is just an artifact of the culture you were brought up in, which parts you like to keep and which parts you would like to revise.

I did that, and it didn't "enlighten" me much. I think it may be because I was already very aware, thanks to Internet and the media industry, of an American culture, which is very different from my own, so I already had a good basis for comparison.

> Tourism is a farce. I guess it gives you the social status points of going through a challenge, without actually facing any difficulties or learning anything.

I never do tourism stuff (not out of snobbishness, I am just not that interested), but my aunt does, and to her, it's just a best use of her 10 days a year of vacation that she gets. She's working 6 days a week for less than a minimum wage, so the last thing she wants is a "challenge" really - I'm impressed that she does not go get lay on a beach somewhere and just regenerate, but prefers being bussed around Europe.

> Struggling painters could most certainly not afford to live in Paris these days, Montmartre or otherwise.

Why is it important for painters to live in Paris? You can paint anywhere and there's plenty of affordable places in the world.
If you want to negotiate a raise, you can tell them what you did and display that you want to grow more with and in the company. Without having anything to show that is not possible.

You can also take those interviews, ace them and use a higher offer as leverage, but that can be risky, as you company might say no and you need to go to this other job.

What I recommend is that people even though that they enjoy their jobs, they do interviews for perceived good companies, that they would like to work on, and in case they get an offer, they negotiate with their own company. So if the company doesn't want to give you that raise, you go to the other company which gives you a potential good outcome for both possibilities.
> Does it for the vast majority of users who don't need to ssh into their phone for (at best) tinkering reasons?

That's a hard question. Probably, I'd guess. See, what happens with tinkerers has influence over the other users. Stuff happens in an open platform that just doesn't, in a closed one. Though the biggest effects tend to be seen 10 years down the line, when tinkerers turn professionals (or not, if they didn't get to tinker at all).

> I'd argue that the majority of non-tech-savvy users are better of this way.

Non-tech-savvyness ought to be wiped off the surface of this planet. For the tech illiterate's own sake. Yes, it means less time to do some other stuff. No that other stuff is not more important. Even when you are busy saving lives, tech is too pervasive to ignore. I'm not asking for much. If people just stopped treating their computers like sentient beings that should be pleased with voodoo magic, if they just understand that bugs come from human errors somewhere up the production chain, that viruses can only go in through such errors (or the user themselves), that would be a huge step forward.

I know the market doesn't work that way. It's more efficient at capturing attention than it is at educating people (which is probably why the best school systems tend to be public). If the people were properly educated, many shady practices would simply not have flown. Malware would be much less of a problem.
> Selling directly to consumers will not be Starlinks main line of business

It absolutely will be.

What they have said is that it won't be Starlinks main line of business at the beginning, until the receiver costs have been driven down and the constellation is much more dense. At that point, they very much intend to provide internet access directly to millions of people.
Of course an earlier trademark filing is better then a later one.

But what does that have to do with the quesion here?

The question is if an entity that started using a trademark earlier would win in court over an entity that registered the trademark later.

For all I know the answer is yes.
Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California
In The Netherlands we have 1 cable provider that has Game of Thrones. So you're either subscribed to that provider, or you're out of luck.
You can change the icon on your desktop and in your application bar, possibly on the window bar too, surely?
Not sure if you’re talking about San Sebastián and the Basque Country but they are far from unknown or underrated. They are, however, absolutely incredible places to visit.
It is a wonder we talk all about huawei but accept they can block google, Facebook, Whatsapp, ... it is just ok they can do whatever they want in their countries as well as others. But not Eu, American, .... china is just great.
You misunderstood, original game developer has trademark registered in USA and EU and still their game was removed form sale in those markets.
A Decade Ago, Suicides Rocked a French Telecom Firm – Now Its Execs Stand Trial
It a power law[1]. The 'long tail' is part of the power law graph.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
Sounds a bit paranoid, but there is definitely some truth in your concerns.

Also that is very depending of your local laws.
I know for a fact that this feature is currently being developed by a harm reduction group of the EU.

Surprisingly I would much rather have it owned by the EU.
The extradition law is what any foreigner shall be worried about.

But if you concern about hongkinger, he is one of the start. Not just the usual as they are the new bred of young who think more about hk as home. It is sad they have to run. Sigh.
5-6 pints all at once should do it.
LEO satellites deorbit due to friction with residual atmosphere, not because of gravitational pull. Orbiting already means you are in an equilibrium with gravity.
Consumer Reports Not Thrilled By Misleading Navigate On Autopilot Headlines:
https://insideevs.com/news/351110/consumer-reports-tesla-nav...
Flexport.org is hiring senior engineers to scale our impact
Maybe vacationer would be a better term. You certainly aren't a traveler. You're not wandering around a place to travel somewhere. Just attempting to find enjoyable and rewarding experiences. In that sense you are quite like a tourist, and in the local's minds you probably are also about the same.
"PayPal really doesn't care that the world's most popular browser no longer displays the EV visual indicator."

Funny story - I was about to rant that yeah, it probably wasn't by design because Paypal still as of 2019 didn't offer 2FA which, for a payment company, was quite disturbing...

well, turns out I was wrong, they now do. I just hadn't checked in a while, and of course received no email about it when they did turn it on... or maybe just missed it. Typically something you should advertise on each login if it's not activated, but hey, who cares, it's just money after all.
Iridium does inter-satellite linkage with RF, Starlink intends to use laser comms. The advantage being much higher bandwidth, and not having to license the spectrum.

The laser comms are very much on the roadmap, however they were not ready in time for the first launch, and SpaceX has a hard deadline to meet for getting sats up there, so the first generation is going to just bounce your signal back to a ground station. (Which will bounce it to the next visible sat to push it forwards, unless it has fiber.)
I once wrote an interpreter that performed some operation on interpreting a data structure. Because it seems that the interpreter was spending most of its time on interpreting the data structure, I thought it would be a good idea to 'compile' the data structure in code. That resulted in a lot of code, which took a long time to compile, but I was hoping that the compiled code would be much faster. But it turned out to be almost twice as slow. Then if dawned to me: The interpreter and the data structure fitted in the cache, while the compiled code did not.

I bet that in some cases using a dedicated memory allocator that takes care that objects that belong together are stored together, can result in execution improvements. If you using the default memory allocator, it could happen you get pieces of memory far from each other, especially if other threads are also allocating memory or because temporary objects (think string manipulations) are created during the construction of the data structure.
China as a whole has grown massively, making Hong Kong proportionally much less important than it was 20 years ago. That allows Bejing to stop their hands-off approach and "bring them into the fold".
You don't need an invoice to make something a business expenses and or tax deduction.

Even in the case of an audit, the bank or credit card statement showing who the money was paid to is enough.

Now, if you are giving cash, you would definitely need an invoice.
I have lived in downtown Brooklyn for about 20 years. I live in Brooklyn Heights and my company is in Dumbo, and I walk by the Brooklyn Bridge on the way to work every day.

There used to be a handful of adventurous tourists who would walk across from Manhattan and look around. Now the Brooklyn waterfront is on every single visitor’s wish list and it’s packed with people and selfie-taking nonstop, and almost overwhelming during busy summer periods.

I think it’s great. The Brooklyn Bridge and the skyline are stunning and I feel lucky to have this view every day and I’m glad more people are getting to see it. When I go visit the places they live and look at their great views I don’t feel bad about that either.
I don't see what's unethical about it. The only thing you're ruining by going to Everest is the experience of others going up Everest. Locals don't live up there. There's do delicate ecosystem to trample. It's just rock, ice, garbage and a lineup.
Robbers Cave: Exploring the dark side of a widely-celebrated psych experiment
> From a scientific standpoint, these results suggest that we might be entering a transition from discovering superconductors by empirical rules, intuition or luck to being guided by concrete theoretical predictions.

That would be an exciting development.
I believe the issue in f.ex. India is not censorship and population control, but rather a slow bureaucracy and in-fights between different government departments and the military. That said, things are changing in India. BSNL were just issued a license for offering IFMC services, including KA-band and L-band services.
Isn't that a common trope? (Was also used in one of Marvel's Avengers movies if I'm not mistaken)
It sounds like a hoax. If brains could be smaller, then heads could be smaller, and there ought to be some evolutionary pressure for that, in humans, at least: giving birth is not easy.

I don't know about other animals. There is particularly strong evolutionary pressure for birds that fly to have efficient brains (cognition / mass). Perhaps whales don't care so much if their brains are inefficiently large.
> Doing stuff the locals do is not tourist.

Dictionary definition of a tourist: "One who travels for pleasure.".
I’m not sure there is an expiration date. Wikipedia (so pinch of salt) has the text as reading that Spain ceded to Great Britain:

“the full and entire propriety of the town and castle of Gibraltar, together with the port, fortifications, and forts thereunto belonging ... for ever, without any exception or impediment whatsoever.”
A chosen key attack against the secret S-boxes of GOST
Scientists Say Chile's Southern Patagonia Ice Field Has 'Split in Two'
Cutting almost 25% of the workforce due to the merger is at least theoretically possible.

Cutting 25% of the workforce because aluminum process went up (and beer consumption fell 1%) certainly looks like too much of a stretch.
Interestingly, Google is believed to be the largest outside investor to Starlink.

They decided to hedge their bets?
Welcome to the wonderful world of interviewing in tech! And people wonder why most software is shit.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=19
Benchmarks are way too wrong. They were using a Javascript library called BarcodeReader and switched to their native that was already written in C++ using webassemly. How can you be 100% surr that BarcodeReader library doesn't step down and messing up your results? It's like saying "I'm using Angular for displaying hello messages to users and switched to native C++ using webassemly. Now my app is 100 times faster".
It has yet to be proven that adding one qubit double it's speed.
Btw there is no actual hardware implementation of a logic gate with Qubit.
I think quantum computing is a big load of bullshit taking a lot of funding that should be redirected at things like fighting ageing research.
This concept is usually called a power law distribution.
So just what is it that Glenn Greenwald did then?
Blame LA
America is turning against facial-recognition software
People who take it every weekend will get a kind of permanent tolerance where they'll never feel the magic again no matter how long they wait. And apparently permanently affect their ability to feel happiness.

This is common knowledge in the drugs community and harm reduction sources frequently quote the 3 month thing, although I'm not sure where it originally came from.
Contractors have to pay more in taxes, not less, since they owe both sides of social security and Medicare.
I deliberately excluded the Basque Country because it is better known, and does have some overtourism problems (indeed amazing places, though!)
Who Owns the Northwest Passage?
I have an interest in this - can you point at the earlier, superior research, please?
You have to keep moving forward with the times!

Perl removed CGI from its core back in 2014 - https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e9fa5a80
How odd. Nearly all of those pictures are not of begging, but rather of busking. Which you may also find distasteful but it's a completely different thing.
Even that should be optional. I should be able to do with my device whatever I want to — including bricking it, deliberately compromising it (for whatever reason), and installing a different OS on top of it. Of course, there should be some sane defaults that prevent me from it, but if I really wished to, I should be able to do one (or twenty) deliberate action(s) that make that possible.
What Hollywood does with people! Snowden is a whistleblower, not a martyr. It's not a soap opera, there will be no unrequited love suicide, no Hamlet monolog, no drama.
The whole point of all of these stories is funny/sad misallocations of resources. The "real problems" thing is a completely unrelated discussion. Not sure why you'd want to weave that in.
What Happened to All of the Universe’s Antimatter?
> Google has spent the last decade cutting apart the open part of Android and making it more and more proprietary.

Replacing those bits is still less work than writing your own entire OS. There are even open source projects to replace those bits.
Probably Kotlin, maybe Go or Python.
Ah but if someone paid for it, the problem must be exactly that valuable to them! And if it's valuable to someone, it must be a Real Problem!
Yes. But banning Huawei is a interpretation, right?
But given that the PNG comparison was shown before an extensive discussion on how lossy encryption works by discarding detail that is hard to perceive it's entirely appropriate as a starting point for this article.
I believe the Play store is treated 'special' though - F-Droid can't install apps in the same way unless you're rooted and install the priv-app.
Computer Scientists Expand Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge
Hong Kong these days is nothing more than a clearing house for China A shares. Shanghai is the big hub for International-China business these days and Singapore takes the APAC business.
That's interesting. Do you have any more info on where they are putting those factories?
You misread the article. They want to save energy by cooling the individual, not the room.

> The use of such devices could reduce the demand for energy to power central air conditioning by 20% in typical buildings, and enhance a wearer’s comfort outdoors, the authors say.
Or if you really want to play the fixed price game, better add a _large_ buffer which you may keep should the project miraculously complete on time. You transfer the risk from the client by doing fixed price work and risk is expensive.

And of course, _every_ client change, goes through a process that evaluates it for additional cost that gets added to the bill. I think this change process is a considerable money earner for consultancies.

But yeah, personally I always just charge a day rate.
iOS Apps for Recording Phone Calls
It's not like all decisions in the Chinese government are made by the same person. Asserting control over Hong Kong is likely to hurt business there (especially if it involves restrictions on financial transactions similar to the mainland), but the specific individuals putting themselves into positions of power have a lot to gain from abusing that for their own profit.
In short, Yes and Yes.

Even if you had an equity agreement day one, it's unlikely that it would represent what happened in the business over the last four years. Its always OK to revisit this with you co-founder, otherwise it will eat you alive.

It's reasonable to assume the funding was equity investment. It may be more of a case of, four years in, your co-founder wants to get some money back out, and calling it debt is the easy way to do that.

I find, as a general rule, when money on is on the table, founders start counting their nickels and dimes and re-visiting their decisions to maximize their benefit.

Time is the most valuable asset we have and yet its often undervalued as a contribution to a business.

I hope that helps!
I guess you could make a case that Germany prosecutes Neo-Nazis, preventing them from forming parties that overtly follow their ideology, outlawing their symbols and restricting their freedom of speech. But that still doesn't come close to rounding them up and imprisoning them on ideology alone. They are not expelled, but they could flee from prosecution and seek asylum.
If you'd suggest the USA might give Alaska and Hawaii back to indigenous populations, what about the entire USA itself? :-D
Animagraffs: Animated Infographics about Everything
Yeah but it locks you in. Another example of how the hysteria around climate change is exploited by companies for profit. Once you buy Tide washing liquid in a returnable container there's a higher cost barrier switching to another brand. Unless they standardize the packaging this is a pure profit move.

On a broader note I often wonder if all the talk about climate change and plastics is not fueled by corporations ready to exploit it. I just cannot believe that a topic can suddenly become so big without an agenda behind it.
That assumes software developers think the problem is best solved by developing new software - which quite frequently isn't the case!

Oh how I wish we could stop reinventing this same stupid wheel badly. And change the "wants" framed as requirements into something more reasonable, so that we could get away developing less bumpy wheels, perhaps even use one off the shelf.
I guess not finding a bell or other durable label isn't too surprising if it was burnt as a way to hide evidence.

At best one could hope for something that was left by mistake or that unexpectedly survived the fire sufficiently intact.
No such thing as secret charges, just sealed indictments.
Ferrite
The technical committee are a bunch of dumbasses. There's no good reason to not specify bitint and bigrat at the same time.
Ecuador has full right to unilaterally choose their ambassadors, they don't need the approval of the UK. What is true is that the UK can then declare an ambassador persona non grata... But then they must be allowed to leave.

It was a brilliant ploy to get Assange out, if you believed UK would adhere to the Vienna convention. Unfortunately they didn't, and there's no one around who are willing and able hold them to it.
Transport Canada to conduct safety review of Boeing 737 Max
The only crypto that made me think it might work was JP Morgan's coin where they (a trusted third party) pegged each coin to an equal amount of dollars

Something like this (it's not clear if it is a pegged or just out there coin) from something with Facebooks reach would be ... potent.

If they just have some other floating coin, who cares. But if you deposit 100 bucks with FB and then can spend it anywhere anywhen. yeah Inthink that might be game changing.
Sure. But for South Korea and Japan it's less so; those nations already take a national security posture that leaves them exposed if the US were to turn against them.
Queueing to take photos of the changing of the guard or that kind of stuff is touristy.

Which part do you oppose the most? The queuing, the photo taking, or the finding of the changing of the guards an amusing spectacle worth seeing once in your life. If there's no queue and I don't take any pictures, is it still "touristy"?

The bottom line is that most "touristy" stuff became touristy because it was a kind of cool/unique/fun/interesting thing to see/do. I agree that if there's a long queue you have to balance how much time you want to spend against the value of the thing you'll see.
What I don't understand is why the Chagossians can't return to the islands even if the US base remains. Looking at the islands on Google Maps it appears that the western half of Diego Garcia atoll is mostly uninhabited and could be used to resettle them, and there are other islands besides. We are talking about a thousand or so people—there's enough space for that many.
We could really do with better words to distinguish between "wanting to go to a place or have an experience because someone else has done it", "wanting to do X in order to show it off to other people", and "wanting to do X in order to bring about a change in yourself" - because the latter in order to be authentic has to be genuinely unique.

Travel can broaden the mind, but only if you let it, and most of the ways in which it does are through giving you unexpected things, good or bad. The more tightly you plan, or buy a package in order to remove uncertainty, the less serendipity you get. You can't order a surprise for yourself.

Given this philosophy, I felt bad about allowing a tour company to plan my South American trip rather than booking dozens of transfers myself, but in the end serendipity worked anyway and somehow we ended up with two of us on an itinerary clearly designed for larger groups. Speeding across Lake Titicaca on a catamaran to ourselves remains a peak experience. Later on we got to Machu Picchu, which really is reaching critical levels of self-destructive tourism: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/15/archaeologist...

(There is also something to be said for both straightforward hedonism and the "precision relaxation" of people who go to the same hotel for 20 years to order the same drinks, but neither of those really needs or deserves to be allowed to ruin a local community or natural wonder in order to make it happen.)
C++ is a more type safe language than C, and some of these “duplicated“ features are actually adding safety to the C versions. Most of these “duplications“ are quite in line with the C++ philosophy and are there for a good reason, reducing countless bugs and making code safer.

And comparing a function pointer to a lambda expression is quite laughable.
Chinese companies are bad, but are American companies any better ? They have done the same with many traditional indian ayurvedic recipes.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/sep/08/wto.fair...
If you want to enjoy the kind of travel that a generation ago was possible, you have to do a little more effort and seek out those beautifully hidden places that the entire world doesn't know about yet. It's worth the hunt.