skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The venue blocks access. Linking to an inaccessible article will get complaints. That's the appropriate response.

If HN refused medium articles, this problem would solve itself. What value does medium provide to be worth losing HN as a source of traffic?
Fair enough. Either way, the fuel requirement makes it pretty much impossible to reach a significant fraction of the speed of light with ion engines.
I've been working in Switzerland for 6 months, from what I've seen it is very common to find jobs with 1 day a week working from home but very unusual to find 100% remote jobs
> that means that we can calculate your rent there to be between 30% to 48%. But I guess, just because it is in Switzerland, it should not be outrageous?

The article assumes that you would share the flat with others. Sharing with 2 others would mean effective rent is 800-1300 CHF.
Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector
The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases
> but the underlying problem isn't the algorithm itself. The real problem is the process.

So, the underlying problem is the algorithm, not the algorithm? That totally makes sense!

Also, if there are two contributing factors to a problem, and removing either would solve the problem, it is completely useless to arbitrarily declare that one of them is "the real problem".
http://archive.is/CAIBq

(Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences)
I don't trust that website. I know for a fact that their #4 issue is a bust. I tracked down the 'consensus' paper that had 97% of a few dozen climate scientists say that humans are having an impact. I don't believe in CAGW because of the math, and I agree with those 97% scientists. The rest of the papers that reference the 97% consensus fail to qualify it that the consensus was about any impact at all however little. I think CO2 having a logarithmic warming effect should frankly be the end of the argument.
Perhaps the people in charge of things at your high school were purposely setting things up for failure for some reason?

It does kind of sound like it. :(
At least one company includes a built-in automatically deploying parachute for whenever something goes wrong. Probably all of them will have to do that in the end.
Google Announces Nest WiFi
A perfect balance between 1984 and Brave New World sounds absolutely lovely.
According to https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm

$131k/yr as avg base salary for software engineer
and 173 for senior software engineer.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf]
It'd would give you an overview of instruments already existing you can plug into your business and skip some "research" phases without reinventing the wheel multiple times. It's basically time-compressor if you use it right; you can spend 2-5 years in inventing already invented stuff or just take what is out there and customize for your needs. You could probably get something similar if you have access to good advisors, but those are difficult to find.
What do you mean by "native" encryption? I used dmcrypt+LUKS. That is file system agonistic.
Prius's routinely get to 300-400,000 miles. The used market is full of 10+ year old Priuses with 200k+. You may have to replace a transaxle and hybrid battery, but they are $1k each. Part of it is Toyota, part of it is the Atkinson cycle engine.
Can somebody enlighten me, why use D when there is Rust/Go?

I think on almost all cases, and also having a bigger community, it is a win for Rust/Go.
I'm not sure what an "elite" college teaches that a "regular" college doesn't.

Maybe quality of student is better, but the content seems negligible.

Heck I find the personalities of young "elite" grads need additional shaping in the real world.
I laughed at this.
Or is it a case study that you need the resources of Amazon to pull off migrating from Oracle?
> Go to Spain, same salary

The difference is that in Switzerland you get paid that salary every month, not over the full year. (I’m exaggerating, but not that much.)

Edit: by the way, the “less taxes” remark is also quite funny.
So I'm guessing it's not quite as easy to hire in Switzerland?
In my experience, unless they have excellent monitoring and a team looking to ban you they won't notice. It's half courtesy, and the other half is because it's not likely to affect their business operations (by slamming the servers when they're busy) they're less likely to notice or care.
something I have noticed with vs 2019 is that it creates lots of processed, presumably to try and give itself more than a single 32-bit address space
IQueryable is the base of LINQ. I think you are looking for a certain provider not for the interface.
I recall reading a story in the book Weapons of Math Destruction [1] about a system used to assess people’s recidivism risk which judges were relying on for sentencing hearings. The problem is that the system showed a clear racial disparity in the risk scores yet at the same time it was more accurate.

That means if we try to tune the system to make it less racist, we’ll be making it less accurate. In essence, the system isn’t really racist, it’s a reflection of the racism in society which is leading to these outcomes. Ultimately, the problem is that putting someone in jail increases the likelihood that their relatives will commit crimes. It increases the likelihood that both they and their friends and family will reoffend. It’s a vicious cycle and it doesn’t appear to have any technical solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
> - Human problems are blamed on the system (A lack of human support isn't the programs fault)

Oh, you can sue programs now? I wasn't aware of that!

I mean ... seriously? What are you even trying to argue there?!
In other words, if you're American, it can be next to impossible to get a work visa.
Very nice! this sounds like a great project.

For anyone considering putting money into this, make sure to read this disclaimer from François Chollet (who made Keras) first: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1177633367472259072
Google Safe Browsing transparency report lists 40k new bad URLs per week - how large do you think the list is now? It is far, far too large for local processing but k-anonymity is perfectly trustworthy when used with cryptographic hashing.
They have no shame. They went as far as praising Switzerland's diversity and inclusiveness... Come on...

Healthcare may be the only reason, but you also have it everywhere else...
I expect the internal teams use Amazon Aurora instead of MySQL. Aurora is compatible with MySQL but is not owned by Oracle.
I'm gonna go on a limb and say the 2500-4000 CHF was per month which would be 30,000-48,000 per year :)
Like I said elsewhere, I could have probably fixed it, but I was lazy. I also wanted to try out Wayland, but I ended up going back to Xfce. Maybe when Xfce moves to Wayland I will try again.
Yes, Indian and Chinese devs are unhappy because the H1B system unfairly exploits them and makes them wait for > 10yrs to be allowed to permanently stay. Of course, American companies are getting richer on their labor and their citizen co-workers get away with doing less while making more money. However, anytime there is a discussion on wages, blame them for everything. Learn to respect the guys on whose work Silicon Valley is what it is today.
> a measured response instead of a purely reactionary response will just make things worse.

I'm not sure I understand, would you clarify this for me? It's been my experience that pure reaction is usually bad for discourse, so I'd like to know more.
You may be thinking of H1-B work visas. Those are capped but nationally rather than for Silicon Valley.
Ask HN: How to create a new Twitter account
I created a twitter account for my app a while back to keep people updated after we launch. Today I tried to log in and realized the account is suspended without every interacting with anybody and there is no info on how to fix this. I tried to add a phone number but this fails because suspended accounts can't be edited.

How am I supposed to create a fresh nowadays?
What housing do you mean? It is truly amazing here in many aspects, but housing is worse than rest of Europe. Rents are very high, you compete with many many people so any drawback on your resume (non-perfect job, kids, pets, coming from non-cool country) disqualifies you quickly. Houses/apartments are old, badly designed since there is little pressure to improve (people will come anyway). This is valid for biggest cities, some rural places might be better.

This and taking care for the kids (Switzerland is ranked among the worst/most difficult places globally to have kids, can confirm) are biggest drawbacks. Still worth it, but definitely not for everyone.
That’s 25 min to hb? And then you have to change trains or take a tram or whatever. So not 25 mins

Edit: 25 mins to 4th&kings get you as far as Hillsdale which is considerably cheaper too.
In high performance computing, the supercomputing cluster is usually a shared Linux environment. Each user gets a home directory and groups are used for projects. As an intern working on one, they gave me limited sudo access to run a few commands but not everything (stuff like reading logs was fine but not able to power off the cluster).
Anybody has link to a non paywall version?
Most of my Costco purchases are consumable goods -- fruits, vegetables, meat, and other produce. Things that I wouldn't even consider Amazon for. That gets me in the door, and, from there, it wins again over Amazon for convenience since I am already there. They have an excellent return policy and the employees genuinely seem happy and I know that they are well compensated and have health care benefits.

Don't get their bananas, though, they go from green to brown, completely bypassing yellow. I'm pretty sure that they are getting too cold at some point in the supply chain.
Depends on the position of course, but they pay much less than in the US. If you want to rake in cash, don't go for a tech job. It's much easier to make > 200k in some random middle management position at a bank.
Await the November update. When I remember right, they will update the designer till then.
Grubstakers is great. Haha yes the internal social network is the silliest thing. The employees doing fake convo and knowing Eddy is posting are both amazing anecdotes.
Make sure you are knowledgeable about raclette.

https://www.thelocal.ch/20180604/brit-denied-swiss-citizensh...
Descartes lived in a time when most people couldn't even read and therefore the people who actually wrote books might well have been some of "the greatest minds who ever lived". Today almost everyone can read and almost everyone has the potential to write a book. So if we are talking about baseline quality, the magic of books has decreased a lot since the enlightenment. Today a book is just an indication of quantity of writing and not necessarily an indication of quality. And it isn't like the "great minds" aren't also on Twitter or writing shorter form articles. The quality is there too, it just might take a little extra effort to find it.
"Woo" is a term used to describe magical pseudoscience.
> That’s a good 20-25% discount to what you pay in Switzerland.

I actually pay 60,- CHF, plus a bit extra for a static IP + IPv6. I was saying I have that option for four providers all under 100. :)

> Plus I heard from several colleagues and friends who are people of color that they faced more racism in Switzerland

I can't speak directly to this, since I am not a PoC. What I have observed is the racism that exists appears to be of a different type than is typical in the US. It is more an aversion to outsiders than against a particular class of people. But again, I can't really speak to it since I'm not in the position to be on the receiving end of it. (Everyone thinks I'm Swiss until I open my mouth.)
I mean, Go is funded by google. So, that's kind of what you get when you use a search engine that is run by a major advertising corporation, I think.

I hold a rather controversial (at least for HN, apparently) opinion that, I don't think we can expect a corporation to be impartial if there's no legal impetus on it and there's no monetary reason for them to act impartially. Google is a business, that makes money from selling your searches and displaying advertising. So, it's going to do exactly that.
Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World
How to deal with self-limiting thought before a talk
And subtract the tax(es) depending on where you live.
uMatrix, can granularly block js, cookies, css etc on a per site and per domain (different elements loading into a site) basis.

Blocking all cookies and javascript on medium has minimal to no negative impact on my experience.
On the other hand, I think it's an advantage that plurality is ambiguous. You can always make the plurality certain with additional words and when it is necessarily, and e.g. "you" is already a pronoun that has ambiguous plurality.

I assume that your native tongue is one where pronouns necessarily indicate plurality, and also that your English education almost always uses they to indicate the plural. But there are languages that have independent subject pronouns that do not mark for plurality; they indicate plurality when necessary with other words.
Nasdaq Lists AI-Powered Crypto Index for Top Coins
This is a good thing. People are realizing that a $500,000+ upfront cost (tuition + 2 years' lost income) had better have an an astronomical ROI. In many cases, it doesn't.

Anecdotally, I went to undergrad at a school with an elite MBA program. It seemed to me that the only hard part of the MBA program was getting in; the MBA students were essentially paying to have a 2 year networking party. Their experience was like being in college, except they had money to spend and grades didn't matter (due to a grade non-disclosure policy for MBAs).

Because of this grade non-disclosure, the MBA was significantly easier than the undergraduate degree. Many classes had an undergraduate section and a MBA section - the same material taught by the same professor. After the midterm and final, the professor would post the median test score and standard distribution in order to establish the grading curve. The median score for the MBA section was consistently 1.5-2 standard deviations below the undergrad median.

Sometimes a class would be offered to mainly MBAs, but a few undergrads were able to enroll...this was always great for your GPA.
Introsort, which used by the C++ standard libraries, switches from quicksort to heapsort for the (sub)partition for which has exceeded the expected recursion depth, so it is guaranteed to run in worst case O(nlogn) for all inputs.

edit: which means it does not need a do nothing first pass and takes mitigating actions only in the worst case.
YouTube regrets: Anecdotal claims of damaged users
They can go slightly faster with a top speed of 350km/h instead of 320km/h but one could argue that is marginal improvement.

What happened with Siemens is tragic because they wanted so hard to get a foothold in the Chinese market, they agreed to the technology transfer. In the long term, they helped start a competitor that now beats them in other foreign markets.
3 people in 50m flat doesn't sound amazing.
Yes you can, but this person needs the python2 behavior in python3 which pretty much requires selectively replacing / with //.
Maybe the Toyota Corolla isn't the best comparison?
Microsoft is gradually porting what's necessary out of the Control Panel in a controlled manner. Rather than offering 1:1 functionality to existing items in the Control Panel, they're examining and rethinking everything. The new Settings App is a cross platform legacy free future.

Certain elements will likely never be ported, like Phone and Modem, but will remain forever in the Control Panel. And the Control Panel will probably be a platform specific feature of x86/AMD64 based Windows installs.
Ironic. It's an article about Microsoft and "online privacy" without any mention of telemetry that can't be disabled.
We (the David Bohm Society) released a website on Bohm Dialogue this year:

https://www.bohmdialogue.org/

On Dialogue is an excellent book. However, to really understand Bohm's vision of dialogue you would need to look at more than just that book. His work on dialogue is not separate from his explorations into the origin of human conflict.
Yeah I don’t think it’s a favorable comparison point for SWEs.
That works for writing new code in Python 2.7. It would also have worked for going the recommended route of gradually migrating toward Python 3 compatibility while remaining on Python 2, _provided_ you're working with an organized project that's amenable to converting on a file-by-file basis.

I can see where it falls flat on its face when you're trying to migrate a monolithic 6000-line script. But, IMO, that example falls flat on its face when used as a rhetorical device. If you've got a monolithic 6000-line script with (presumably) no test coverage, you've made your own bed, and I don't think that the inherent difficulties of maintaining something like that should be blamed exclusively on the 2->3 transition.
I agree with this one on some part. It will depend on the city. For Zurich, I agree with that but for Geneva, where I live, that does not apply. The cultural diversity here is way bigger when comparing to Zurich, the fact that a lot of international organizations (UN, Red Cross) are based here may help with that.
However, if it's similar to how Apple does it, the chip might be bound to the processor via a serial number or some other magic that's burned into the NAND at manufacturing, or OTP on the processor, or something else.

It's not just a matter of "oh just go get a Hynix NAND part from DigiKey and reball the PCB". At minimum you need to copy the data over. At worst you need to bless the part with whatever secret sauce Tesla is using at the factory.
> I have no idea what I'm getting at Amazon.

When Amazon opened up to third party sellers, the floodgates opened. For many products it feels like buying from Aliexpress but with faster shipping and higher prices.
Argentinian security researcher arrested after tweeting about government hack
Lowes is heavily showcasing Craftsman tools now. I'd expect Kobalt to disappear as a brand.
In an ICE vehicle, something like a transmission is very expensive and takes up amazing amounts of space, and so any kind of redundancy is very difficult.

But we're well aware that flash memory degrades, corrupts and gets a bit screwy. Flash memory chips are also dirt cheap and quite small - couldn't Tesla of baked in a bit more redundancy in this case?

In our transmission example, any fault in the transmission is not catastrophic, but with electronics, a single bad joint or bridged trace can take the whole thing down.
Nearly 100% probability. Someone else[0] already did the ballpark math and came up with ~10,000 unique URLs per 32-bit hash prefix if you use the number of pages indexed by Google. My math has it coming out to be ~10 billion per 32-bit hash prefix. I simply did: 30,000,000,000,000/(36*8), but I might be doing something wrong, happy to be corrected.

The issue is, as mentioned in that comment, with visiting a handful of pages you can get a clearer picture of similar URLs that are being returned among these hash prefixes, which can be used to build a profile of your browsing history.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21255223
I bought a craftsman mower from Sears in the late 00's. It had a Briggs and Stratton engine, it was a great unit.

Sears has no identity anymore. It used to be the-place for appliances, automotive tools, and lawn equipment. Now it's like a Macy's with tools and lawn equipment.

I'm planning on picking up some scratch and dent applicances at the Sears outlet soon. That's really all I interact with Sears anymore.
In 5 IT security professionals fear their connected toilets will be hacked
1-2 seconds is 5-10 times longer than 200ms, so it's probably not that.
This is exactly what happened in 2008. When job prospects suck, it’s a great time to go back to school.

When the economy is hot, it’s not a good time. It’s not that unusual for people to not finish their MBA during these times. Connect with the right company over the summer and just stay. Most MBA schools make it super easy to come and finish up your degree.
To deal with this, I use the YesScript2 plugin, now I can read whatever article I want.
> 6) 300 CHF is still 6x what I pay for healthcare per month. I currently pay 46 USD per month for (from what I can tell is excellent) healthcare, vision, and dental.

You are the exception here, not the rule. 46 USD for Healthcare is pretty rare in the US. It's not uncommon for people to spend 500 USD per month, so 300 CHF would look good to many people.

There is also the potential argument that the Swiss healthcare system is better overall than the US system, but that could be a complete debate in itself.
> some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated

Oracle's strategy of buying companies like PeopleSoft is paying off.
Ancient Teeth Reveal Social Stratification Dates Back to Bronze Age Societies
The developer carrying it out still using 2015 MBP
10 euros a month for a 16tb bandwidth openVZ server at Time4vps. I have a 1TB storage server for 17 euros a quarter and it has 4 TB of bandwidth.

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A good MBA program will essentially teach people about the anthropology of complex human organizations.

For example: how do you create or (even harder) change a culture that is secretive towards one where people share more to improve rates of innovation?

How do you organize people to optimally interact?

How do you determine the potential value of expensive research projects (to see if it is worth doing)?

Then you go over case studies over the last century and ‘hope’ to learn something.
Early tech bros built the internet on the idea of everything should be free (even if at the same time they idolized billionaire CEOs) and now the idea of free is pervasive and things like journalism, a pillar of democracy is failing.
Living with Infectious Mosquitoes
IBM is just fill seats with bodies, they aren't actually creating anything like Apple, Microsoft, and Google
Steps to Protect Your Online Privacy
They might claim they own the content, doesn't mean they do.
Forced induction only minimizes power loss at altitude. Higher boost pressure can make up for the lower oxygen density, but at the expense of increasing intake air charge temperature, hurting power output.

The all time record holder of the Pikes Peak hill climb is an EV.
> “Offering the user a choice of which IPs to connect to" is absurd given Apple's target market.

How do you figure? What is Apple’s target market anyway, Mr Confidently Speaking On My Grandmother’s Behalf?