skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it doesn't have to be a free will argument at all, but rather luck overwhelming skill when it comes to outcome. we still have some margin of control, but on a much smaller scale (and effect) than we believe.

it's not even surprising we'd jump to such conclusions: our brains are designed to tease out and magnify the significance of the things that we do and control.
What customer data? That you chew with your mouth open? What are you doing in a restaurant that is such a tremendous, valuable secret?
>”Chinese has no bite-sized phonetic components with which to build foreign sounds...”

That’s not entirely true. There is bopomofodutunuh [1]. Maybe it’s not as well known as Kana.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
I tried notion and coda, which are both AMAZING products and are vastly superior to Google docs.

But I ended up back at Google docs. Everyone has it, simplifies sharing and planning vacations massively.
There are generally official conventionalized versions of Western names. The Western name space isn't all that large.
Occult Advertising or, how ads make us feel uneasy
Avoiding mutations by updating non-destructively
I learned a most important trick watching America’s Next Top Model with my sister: Buy oufits, not clothes.

You make the decision on what goes together and looks good at the store. You try stuff until you find what works.

When it works, you buy the whole outfit. Possibly in multiples.

No more decisions when getting dressed. You have predetermined outfits for whatever activity you’re doing that day.

Refresh every few months or years as your life and personality evolves.
There is a massive reuse culture out there. It's just not been industrialized by a handful of companies or chased after by VCs. For clothes there are garage sales, second hand shops, and donations to those who are less fortunate (e.g., to the growing size of the group at or below the poverty line).

Part of the problem is the number of clothes that don't last long. They are expensive and wear out quickly.

Another part of it is culture. How many people can pull off wearing clothes from 10 or 20 years ago without being judged for doing so.

This is a larger problem than sharing and availability. It's cultural.
bitcoin...
This just smacks of jealousy. Maybe get some perspective and appreciate what you have, not what others have that you don't.
Yea I feel like it’s cliche to hate on America these days. For those comparing Switzerland to USA, you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture and highly optimized country to a land full of immigrants gathering in excess of 300 million.

Americans criticize their own country more than anyone else.

OP’s post not only misses the fact that Switzerland is not in the EU, but more importantly the spirit of argument is baseless with the general perception that things are better in EU.
> You'll have to pardon me if I'm reluctant to take my economics lessons from a linguist.

Your loss, not mine!
I'm glad to see growing awareness concerning plastic in clothing. The article mentions problems with cotton production as well.

With clothing I feel the same way I do about food, and the same way many people have felt for decades: I've been duped! It's not difficult, but it takes time money and effort to make good purchases, and that can be frustrating.
AWS Azure or Google cloud data transfer: 9 cents per GB

Digital Ocean: 1 cent per GB

The really weird thing is this should be the absolute lead on all Digital Ocean marketing but they don't even mention it. It's their single biggest selling point.
Then why, in a 3% unemployment economy, if you think that employees have so much power, why are there so many jobs paying minimal wage (Or less)? Why hasn't there been more upward pressure on wages?

Do you think people for some strange reason absolutely love these minimal wage jobs, and just stick to them, despite the pay? Or maybe, could you consider that minimal wage workers don't have as much economic power as you think they do...

(Do you have any friends making minimal wage?)
> Only the biggest players can minimise their seasonality enough to get close to this

Okay, like AWS

> and doing that is a service that it’s probably worth paying for.

Okay, but how many orders of magnitude?
See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315295
Correct. I use Uber to go to and from the car dealership when I get service. Taxis are nowhere near where I live, or the car dealership.
Of course, a gmail address in and of itself is not an indicator of quality, however on a single author paper it certainly makes me wary.

Just out of curiosity, what field was that in? I could certainly see some scientific disciplines having unaffiliated world-class scientists, but others it would be virtually impossible to do high quality research outside of a lab
NordVPN blog post, and the source: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
> Järlström has won not only the right to refer to himself as an engineer, a refund of the surveying board fine (though not the ticket penalty)

Would be amusing if he sued the state in small claims for extortion and racketeering to get the ticket penalty back.
This comparison can be read as saying that if one was to search for changes at the industry level, either technological or legal, then clothing looks like a high-payoff place to do that.
Whilst that’s true, it’s not how it’s experienced. Take for instance Mexico City which has been using up its groundwater at a tremendous rate; sure, the water hasn’t been destroyed in the chemical or atomic sense, but the lack of it locally is very real.
vinokilo.com if you are in Europe, they also have events in cities where they fill a space with sorted clothing and blast music way too loud (so bring earplugs)
I can see curren-gen VR and AR games leading to next-gen "real AR" glasses with an impact on far more than just gaming.
They look beautiful. You know, like art. Is that also of no value?

That said, is art (or having a beautiful environment) worth, in this particular case, filling the oceans with junk and killing people, probably not.

But let's not pretend that fashion is a worthless status-seeking endeavor but playing video games is a window to a new world here.
We have that in Austria since decades. It works great. They tried without the green flashing but reverted a couple of years back to flashing.
Sure, but that doesn't really address how clients/websites use it right now, or even scale up to solving the fundamental problem (the best you can do is hide bits by padding requests/responses to a discrete set of lengths).

If you're responding to my characterization of HTTPS/JS as "broken", I'm referring to the fact it needs to make a connection to a well-known centralized-authority server every time it wants to retrieve a resource, leaving you at the mercy of your transit (and the server itself, which is obviously another major source of surveillance). Whereas something based on ideas like content-centric networking (eg Freenet) allows a user agent to retrieve those resources from peers or broadcasts, perhaps even over virtual constant-bitrate links.
Boeing can't even make an airplane without trouble and you think BoA could churn out a space shuttle? The space shuttle program was estimated to have cost $200B.
So much wrong with this. Look, hire good people. If you need to pay a little more, do it. Then trust them to do their jobs. If they don't, the customers will let you know. But for ... sake, just treat your employees like people; people who have bills to pay and family to take care of.

And make the food better. I was at a (admittedly not Outback) restaurant the other week and the food tasted about as good as what you would pour out of a frozen bag. Why do people eat out if this is what they get?

This incessant wringing of every penny out of every dollar is tiring. Tell your investors quality matters, employees matter, not their returns.
Study – Working Out Before Breakfast
To those reading the article from America: whatever is mentioned here about Europe or unions, please note that Switzerland is a planet on its own in Europe,with completely different mentality,laws and is hardly comparable with any other country. Also, the entire tech sector in there is more of a high end because of the costs.
I think I understand where you are coming from, and I've thought similarly before.

But billion-dollar companies have been made almost purely on "NAT punching". I've written the code, and it's more complex than it seems.

And RE: your lightbulb example, I love it, because it I will now use it to illustrate how even seemingly simple devices require ongoing software maintenance. Is it using a wireless protocol compatible with other devices? Does it use encryption/authentication (e.g. to keep the neighborhood hacker kid from controlling my lights)? Does the setup process require interoperation with a changing set of personal devices (phones, etc)? All of these things could require software updates, see e.g. heartbleed. And if you have a software update system, it now needs maintenance as well...

Not to mention if consumers want their hardware investment to continue paying dividends through new software features. That part should definitely be opt-in and open to competition.

But those engineers you hire to maintain your software aren't commodities. They have shifting interests, bills to pay, and boot-up time to re-remember all of the old code. Costs will be lower to keep them employed and making continuous improvements once a product reaches sufficient scale.

Competition would prove out which model is best, though, so no need to think too hard about it, we just need to improve antitrust/competition law.
Huh, that's interesting. I got 80% as well but I found Robo-Trump actually was the more composed speaker with more disjointed, stuttering conversations as more an indication of him stopping to think about what he was going to say.
I went from a stream of permanently money-scarce small businesses that had to work within tight means, to one that was small but with almost unlimited cash, where bugger all got done because there was no pressure from deadlines - why worry about making money if you're never going to run out?

My takeaway: abundant money can be poison.
And they should still be able to be held liable for what they ship.

If I get salmonella from lettuce at a grocery store, I still get to hold the grocery store accountable, even if the farmer was to blame.
The most damning evidence for your perspective is how the cameras are basically hidden, painted black, made inconspicuous.

If red light cameras were about safety, the addition of warning signs "Red Light Camera Intersection" ahead of the lights would drastically reduce the amount of dangerous behavior.

That isn't how the incentives work, though. Instead they hide them, throwing away the powerful deterrent they've created, in an attempt to make money from the unwary.
CppCon 2019: “The One-Decade Task: Putting std::atomic in CUDA.”
Binary logs seem great on macOS, why is this bad for Linux?
If you are approaching a turn, you should be driving at a fraction of the speed limit before even approaching the stop line. That seems to suggest that the time frame in which you can safely stop upon seeing a yellow light is correspondingly longer than when going straight at the speed limit.

So if anything, yellow light for turns should be shorter. If you are still in the intersection by the time the light goes red, it is probably because you had to brake hard when you realized you had to yield to someone (i.e. ped on a crosswalk going straight). In this case, you should absolutely get the ticket because all western driving codes expressly forbid entering an intersection unless you can promptly execute your turn without waiting; it is strict liability.

So sure, you go slower through an intersection when turning. But this entirely ignores that you had much more time to stop safely for the yellow light; braking distance is quadratic with speed, so the effect is even more lopsided.
So where is a good place to buy good quality T-shirts for men?
The highest unemployment rate in the country is in Alaska (6%) and for people with less than a high school education it's 5.6%.
Not 3% but still the lowest it's ever been and lower than the average is in EU countries (6.2%).
The point wasn't that sport isn't used for protest, but how the people who use their sporting platform to protest are then treated.

The Australian runner on the podium with John Carlos and Tommie Smith in 1968:

> Norman was not selected for the 1972 Summer Olympics, and retired from the sport soon after.
About 99% of times I've taken a taxi I've called a number, spoken briefly with a dispatcher, then waited for my taxi. I'd say about the same ease as an app, maybe easier in the rain. Trying to enter info on a touch screen while water falls from the sky can be a trial.
Can anyone help me out in understanding how green energy is going to kneecap oil? I know the costs have gone down some, but iirc total oil energy produced/consumed is still orders of magnitude higher. Additionally, the margins on oil are still wide enough to absorb a lot of competition from wind, geothermal and solar.
I think a lot of modern history could be blamed on the mongols yeah. But you can go further back too and blame the Yamnaya too.
> requires phonetic transliterations of candidates’ alphabet-based names to appear on ballots and ballot materials in jurisdiction required to translate ballot materials into character-based languages

In my experience, Chinese versions of foreign words, including foreign names, usually don't approach the sound of the original as closely as Chinese phonology allows. That is, they aren't really meant as "phonetic transliterations"; there are other options available purely within Chinese that would approximate the original sound more closely.[1]

Instead, the goal seems to be that you're in the right ballpark on the sound, and then you tweak the name for other factors such as character semantics while staying somewhere in the ballpark.

And of course, once a name is conventionalized, you'd want to use that rather than innovating a new version.

[1] Of course it's possible in general that while my foreign ears think a different Chinese syllable would better match the foreign one, the Chinese disagree and really believe they are using the closest available match. There are plenty of ready examples, such as Coca-Cola, where this is obviously not the case.
If a company makes cancelling their service difficult, or tries to "auto-renew" your subscription after cancelling, call your credit card company to report that you want your to cancel that service and don't want further charges from them.
Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter would like to have a word with you.
free will doesn't necessarily require quantum uncertainty. it could also be that the force that set this universe in motion (as opposed to one of the infinitely many other possibilities) is the same stuff that composes our own free will. we simply don't know enough to believe in the lack of free will, either.
RoboTrump – A scary fake news generator using SalesForce's CTRL model
This isn't how science works! I can make a model giving similar results as real world data which shows that wealth is 100% determined by talent, or 100% determined by luck, or any number in between, doesn't prove anything at all.
Ask HN: How to learn new technical skills as a freelancer?
I've been working with PHP, specifically Symfony (and previously Laravel) in the last years. I also do some frontend stuff (Vue.js, jQuery) and some backend and infrastructure stuff (e.g. AWS). Most of the the new stuff I learnt because I had built up some projects on my own and fortunately they are making a bit of revenue, so I can justify working on them for a few hours each week. But I'm a bit scared I'll be stuck in this role for a long time and later will be too rusty to "jump ship".

I want to learn new (technical) skills that are not currently part of my skill set. Such as Python / Flask / Django; perhaps some Node.js (since this is where the market I work in is headed) and React or even C#. Less popular languages look interesting (Haskell, Rust, etc), but as a freelancer with family including 2 small kids, I can't really find the business ROI on those languages since the freelance market is still too small.

But I am expected to jump into a project as an expert. I can do some tiny projects with new languages, but I can't bridge that part going from 'small hobby projects' to 'expert'.

Have you had successful expansions of your skill set? Or maybe transitioned into a different domain or programming language?

I've even considered becoming employed for a year or two, using a different programming language, visiting workshops, before going back to freelancing with a larger skill set.
Cheers! I really appreciate your reply. Personally, I hate e.g. those "magic medallions" that are supposed to "absorb" EM and the like, but I'm not yet convinced that bathing our cities with EM is going to turn out to have zero health side-effects. In any event, the issue should be settled scientifically, eh? I was surprised to see this on SciAm's website, FWIW.
University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change
I upvoted your comment, but only because I think it agrees with the person you're replying to.
I have to ask, is this behavior necessary?
Now, if only bespoke shorts and tshirts became a thing.

I’d happily pay a decent sum for a set of charcoal tshirts that fit me perfectly and last for a few years of daily use. Bonus points of I get to choose a fabric other than pure cotton.
> mixture of SUN and Intel blades all backed by FC

What is FC?
> Well, for one, that would vastly reduce economic growth.

Yes, that's the point! I take the world without the economic growth where people are happy with what they have over one with economic growth and unsustainable level of CO2 emissions.
It will likely stifle my salary, and the salaries of a lot of high earning swes.

Like it does in Hollywood? Oh no wait, everyone from the stars to the extras is in a Union!
Rather than raw copy/pasting a good portion of the entire Wikipedia entry, would you care to highlight specifics you're interested in discussing?
FWIW, these are at least shared by some people. More than half of the clothes my baby wears are used, sourced from Facebook groups for local exchange/givaways, and as she outgrows a particular size, we just box those clothes up (except for the few we want to keep for the possible second), and pass them forward to someone else in need.
There are a lot of techies on HN with no sense of history. I blame the "STEM uber alles" educational agenda we've been pushing in the US ever since Sputnik.
> Could have to do with the fact that Google implemented new SELinux policies preventing the running of binaries from an app's data directory. Any binaries you run on Android 10 or later must be bundled in the apk and are read only on the device.

Does this mean the title should read something like "Due to Android 10 update, Linux on DeX will now require a jailbreak whereas it did not before"?
"A threat to Facebook is a threat to America!"

How convenient. As a surveillance organization itself, Facebook seems to be learning from the best surveillance organizations (NSA, etc). Now they're making the "national security" argument, and soon they'll probably try to use the "think of the children!" argument, too.
Just wanted to shout out grailed! It's become my go-to for tees. Awesome brands and vintage stuff is really cheap and the sellers are generally pretty honest and good.
> Just because you make a lot of money, doesn't mean you're not being underpaid or exploited.

If you are a Google engineer, you can go work for literally anyone else if you feel you are underpaid and exploited. It isn’t like Google is the only buyer of labor in that market. Some chicken processing plant in Iowa — that might be a different conversation, but this is Google. If you feel you are underpaid, then leave. Go work for Netflix, I hear they pay a lot. Don’t like Netflix? Try Apple, LinkedIn, or start your own company. Plenty of money out there for an “ex-Google engineer” with an idea.
It does have advantages, but it's not always worth the difference of "several cents per GB" versus "fractions of a cent per GB".
Of course I don't know what your kids are into, but Fortnite just started a whole new map, and there seem to be plenty of people playing.
Ask HN: MySQL vs. MariaDB as of 2019
When mariaDB was forked it was having better performance than Maria, is it still true?
Are there any major differences between the two.
If you work hard and sacrifice you will be rewarded. Frequently it is presented as quid pro quo.

At the end of the day if you work hard and do well, you could still have been lucky. Rather than that negating all of your hard work, a better reaction to this fact is a bit of charity for others. And I’m not talking donations, I’m talking about being a decent person and not judging others who haven’t got what you got.
that's not what people mean by the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for using AWS." http://wiki.c2.com/?NobodyEverGotFiredForBuyingMicrosoft
driver support for what hardware on the device specifically? Is it not open-source? aka can it not be backported?
How to Tax Tech Monopolies
Bought a H&M zipper jacket by the start of this year, somehow now it's is as worn down as a Adidas one I bought in 2011! H&M mostly sells disposable clothing, and they have the never of making "conscious" fashion ads.
Cynically, the Swiss will respond "bite me". After all they still do have a pretty sweet tax-heaven setup, despite the scandals.
Like Samsung is going to ever admit that jailbreaks exist. They'd sooner cancel the app and uninstall it from everyone's device.
The climate debate is not between “believers” and “deniers”
Thanks! I'll try that the next season.
I like a combination approach much better. Buy multiple shirts, tees, sweaters, and pants which can match with each other. Oftentimes these are less saturated earthy colours with white and black mixed in. It'll be timeless and easy to maintain—not to mention very suitable for ones who have analysis paralysis with clothes. You can't mess up!
Chilean President Suspends Fare Hikes, Protests Continue
China Tech Map
"Like it or not, the closed ecosystem of iOS provides more value to end users"

Is there any "official" proof for this statement? To me closed ecosystem of iOs (and semi closed Android for that matter) look truly pathetic comparatively to what I have
on Windows/Linux desktop