skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sure it is comfy but compared to a plane

A large part of the comfort factor is that a direct train takes me from city center to city center, while a "direct" flight requires me to first get to the airport, then navigate the airport, then get from the destination airport to the city. That not only easily adds at least 2 hours to the trip (30 min x 2 spent getting to/from the airport, 30 minutes to get through the airport/security in the best case, 30 minutes to be there at the boarding time), you also spend at least half of the time actively having to do something.

A 4 hour train vs. a 1 hour flight? The flight shaves off one hour of wall-clock time at best, at the cost of being a lot more hassle. But you don't think about this when booking, nor about the luggage surcharge etc. You see "4:00" vs. "1:07" and "$99" vs. "$29".
That's probably exactly the point. They disclose salary info in a global forum without any context. For example, to begin with: what country is this? What city? Is this before or after tax? If this is before tax, how much do you pay in taxes? etc. etc. etc.

People joining in continue this trend, often with quips like "I make $145k a year, I'm underpaid". WTF? How is that underpaid? Oh? You probably mean "underpaid in a very specific area in the US"?

The resulting "developer salaries" is a dick-measuring contest with no context or purpose.
Wait I don't get it, why wouldn't everyone just pretend they're undocumented immigrants to get the highest pay?
Yes, but we're kind of unique in our standardized national public transport system. Undoubtedly our small size as a country helps there.
It’s "only" a three months travel. In prehistoric time or even modern times it was dream to even go to space, yet people step on the Moon. It will be costly, there will be deads but it the next frontier humanity has to cross before spreading further.
That's not fair. NYC-based software developers also like to measure our junk.
About time you edit his Wikipedia page then.
I want to use a Starship to put a solar sail factory on an NEO and send the sails to Earth-Moon L1 to block sunlight to buy us some time.

If you think you can change human nature fast enough to curb climate change you should think again; introduce new energy sources that are cheaper than fossil fuels and you can make them.obsolete.
Methane-oxygen propellant can be near carbon-neutral when using huge solar farms to produce it from CO2 and water in the surrounding air. No net increase in greenhouse gasses. However, the ingredients of this process would be redistributed to the upper atmosphere - the effects of this should be carefully studied.
Can you give some examples please? I'd be particularly interested in ways colonizing Mars would help us solve the serious problems we already have like bigotry, inequality, the climate catastrophe...
oh no my sensibilities
Yes, we aren't colonizing the Gobi Desert and we're supposed to colonize Mars? What a silly idea.
I had this epiphany the other day, any distributed application was actually a messenging system. (I can hear Alan Kay scream afar). Wasn't there a project like this ? a guy making some whatsapp revolution turning it into a generic app platform ? I forgot.
I would assume column oriented would mean the data would be formatted something like:

R1C1,R2C1,R3C1
R1C2,R2C2,R3C2

So values that have the same column are clustered together. Whereas normally in a file values that have the same row are clustered together. This is what column-oriented usually means when you are referring to databases.

I guess this is not what the questioner meant because they referred to using cut | sort | head as a solution. Though, I don't understand why head would be at the end of either problems solution so maybe I'm missing something. head could be a useful way of peeling out the column you want in the column-oriented problem.
The whole point of the parent comment was that there is no benefit for 'our species' if a handful of us get to visit Mars, or even if there were a small colony there.

What would benefit our species is drastically reworking the economy to stop the massive waste and production of greenhouse gasses (which Musk may have slightly improved with Tesla, credit where credit is due).

Also, putting more economic and political power in the hands of the many instead of concentrating it all in afew hundreds or thousands of people would go a much longer way towards improving our species than some 'colony' on Mars.
As I said renewable generation is only cheap because 1° we use our fossil-fueled infrastructure to build it 2° we have fossil fuels (mostly gas) to make up for its foibles.

But we don't have the resources to build up enough batteries and windmills without destroying the climate doing it.

The ecological and climate situation is absolutely cataclysmic. Rich people from rich country are far-removed enough from down-to-earth reality to minimize it most of the time, but the truth is that current trends are not only unsustainable but must be reversed as soon and as fast as possible.

We're falling towards the ground and accelerating, but as long as we haven't hit the ground we still believe everything's fine and someone will pop a parachute out in time. But all we have are handkerchiefs.

I'll remind you that the "climate goals" from the Paris agreement are 1° much too low to actually "save the climate" but at the same time 2° we're far from attaining them!

I'll tell you what "serious environmentalism" is:

Actually you, we, I, everybody should be terrified of the current situation. Planetary collapse is about to occur about any moment now, but the orchestra's still playing on the upper deck. If you haven't trouble finding sleep about climate and mass extinction at night, then you're probably not having a good grasp of what's happening.

It's the heart of winter here and fruit trees are blossoming. There isn't any snow in any ski resorts under 2000m in the Alps; they're hauling snow with helicopters ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuTKMkgY6A ) because it's not even cold enough at night for "snow guns" to work. I'm out there in t-shirt while it should be freezing. It's been the same temperature in Scandinavia last week as is normal in June. Half of the "non-return" points have been reach 40 years sooner than expected in the worst scenarios. 60% of wild animals worldwide have died. 65% to 80% of insects have disappeared in Europe. 88% of freshwater fish worldwide. Only 20% of land worldwide haven't been negatively impacted by human activities yet.
https://imgur.com/a/Og0vYAv
Ability to walk around is not given on cramped German trains.
I'm not sure about doing things the way he suggests but it looks like some treatments may be effective such as remdesivir and possibly even chloroquine so you could perhaps take those and expose people to get the equivalent of a vaccination with limited risk.
Absolutely correct. I am a small commercial developer, I would gladly pay USD $500/yr. to insure Qt carries on.

I have come to the startling realization that, having converted to Qt, I am now 99% Win32-free. And I get a free pass to UWP (the OS/2 of the 21st century) should I need it.
And then to take it one step further: focusing on prevention and being proactive, which may require more research funding, however that no one can or is widespread promoting a solid set of known practices to reduce cancer is a problem.
> the point is "he was trying to make non-americans feel bad".

I think it's much more likely that an American simply didn't bother to think that non-Americans would see the post.
The most significant difference between Gentzen's original calculus and the way it is most often given today is that discharge of assumptions are associated with labels in modern calculus, so each discharged assumption is tied to a rule, whereas in Gentzen's calculus, all instances of that proposition are discharged.

The innovation is essential to the Curry-Howard correspondence, because this labelling of assumptions matches variable bindings in typed lambda calculus.
Microsoft pulls Windows 10 KB4524244, confirms critical issues
Aren't EU trains electrified yet?
Bill Gates is funding some humanitarian ventures without thinking to the next decades externalities it has. 100% feel good and PR actions, yet questionable in the grand scheme of things.
>the author should also answer the question whether he honestly thinks he would have been better off 90 years ago if some cancer got detected with him in, say, 2 weeks from now (such things usually happen really fast).

No, the hypothetical situation in your question misses the gist of the article: the hypothetical situation should still be in present day but with much less funds having been spent on cancer research.
I always wonder what threshold people use for this term . This is a site where a person with 4 weeks bootcamp experience call themselves a software engineer
My understanding is that basically HS2 is massively over-specced compared to HS1. It wants high throughput and extremely high speed (80-100mph faster than HS1). I guess you could probably shave a few tens of billions off just by slowing the line down a bit - using ballast rather than concrete slab and such.

See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51415590

The only other thing I'd add is that Euston is easily within walking distance of St Pancras. But given all this already extraordinary cost it seems like you might as well connect St Pancras and Euston HS lines and have the odd Eurostar service run from Birmingham.
TGV is the exception.

German trains pack as much people as possible and occasionally you can consider yourself lucky if you manage to reach your seat, if the wagon is still available to start with.
> SJG's BBS was swarming with elite hackers.

Untrue. The BBS the hackers all hung out on was the one I ran called the Phoenix Project. There may have been a couple of people who were also gamers that hung out on IO, but they were there for the dice.

Source: Hi, I'm Loyd.
Hope that you put your home and all your assets in a trust for your kids before you got treatments. You can declare bankruptcy in Texas or Florida and still keep your house, but I guess that only works if you are still alive . . . after you die the medical community just files suit to steal all your assets.
The author doesn't wave away the benefits. He says they are real but only apply to specific cancers which account for a small fraction of those diagnosed. Are his statistics wrong? It seems you benefited, but this isn't a counterargument.
Fundraising and Exits Modelling
Right? TIL I get paid more than Dan Abramov even considering Facebook RSUs
I think the situation was unwinnable. You've exposed their incompetence. Rightly or wrongly, most people can't stand being criticized. If there's a solution to that one it's a diplomatic one, not a technical one.

Be similarly wary to point out bugs in code reviewer's code. Unless you have a healthy professional atmosphere and multiple reviewers, your best course is to manipulate the reviewer into "coming up" with the idea for the bugfix from your ticket.
Wow. You're right. I was on the train WiFi and the terminal smh changed it. Switching it off and restarting terminal solved the issue.

Thanks! Probably, Should learn more about operating systems
The SJG raid had nothing to do with Sundevil. Totally different crew. The LOD raids (which SJG got caught up in) were driven by an ambitious district attorney from Chicago.
It's not the companies that are proud of it per se. Not directly at least. The people who are proud of it are the ones directly involved, typically lower downs in HR or the public facing department.

The message gets translated when coming from the top down or when going into the public. It turns into something to the effect of how inclusive and diverse the company is. The higher ups especially turn a blind eye (or are in complete denial) of the actual practices which happen.
Hopefully constructive feedback: the namespace Thorium is already heavily saturated in the Google Play store; while you're the only one on F-droid, there's competition with what appears to be well established apps with high ratings for some sort of solution named Thorium. $0.02, might be easier to rebrand sooner rather than later.
Netflix is the better of the bunch, but they still develop and support DRM (Digital Restrictions Management).

Apple is awful, they have a long and storied history of anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior. Pay-to-play developer ecosystem, walled gardens of applications, proprietary connectors just for the sake of being proprietary, armies of lawyers finding creative new ways to evade taxes...
There is no fundamental law of nature discovered so far that would stop us from colonizing other worlds. The problems seem to be related to either a) financial b) psychological c) engineering or d) physiological domains.

Once a human society learns how to thrive on a single colony there is no reason it could not spread across the planet.

You are right of course that interplanetary colonization is completely different thing from the European colonization of Americas.

But it's quite silly to think it is childish. The thing is, we don't know what it would be like.

So you could be proven right ("what a silly idea this was, let's go home") or you could be proven wrong (it turns out humans can thrive elsewhere and we become an interplanetary species).
heif_enc (or heif-enc if Homebrew) from libheif offers lossless and maintains profiles. I saw the same 50% reduction versus TIFF.

ImageMagick convert still damaged color profiles (refuses to write them, afaict?), as of a month ago.
A quibble:

> Gentzen died at age 35, a casualty of the World War.

makes it sound as if GG was a soldier or something. In fact, he was an academic and Nazi party member who worked in Czechoslovakia during the occupation. Wikipedia describes his death so:

> Gentzen was arrested during the citizens uprising against the occupying German forces on May 5, 1945. He, along with the rest of the staff of the German University in Prague was subsequently handed over to Soviet forces. Because of his past association with the SA, NSDAP and NSD Dozentenbund, Gentzen was detained in a prison camp, where he died of starvation on August 4, 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Gentzen
I do not have Huawei phone and I'm running Catalina.
Using Terminal as I have nothing installed on it yet :)

It happened because of WiFi I was connected, still not sure how it exactly works. Thanks for reply
I think I understand when this is most relevant: when there are many different things being sold that each need to have a different split. In my mind I was thinking of a team that sold multiple products, but where the split would always remain the same.

> In summary, the app is for any group that is receiving proceeds from the sale of a service or product, that wants to avoid the hassles of splitting proceeds after the fact.

Be careful here. The app is for a narrower group than that. As mentioned above, it's probably only relevant if the group has multiple offerings where the splits are different... otherwise you're just a middleman that does, um, division.

> The users aren't being charged to use the application.

While this is technically true, the app adds a cost to the final consumer, which is the same as the business "charging" the user. I don't see this as a "feature". Basically, it's an additional cost to the business -- it should be up to the business to include a separate line item on the charge vs. just increasing their price to the consumer.

In other words, allow the business to choose "show additional fee" or not. Businesses probably prefer just increasing prices to showing the user an additional "fee".
Medical licensing exam to be graded pass/fail
They also put a quarter-million copies through the crazy expensive (at the time) laser jet printer that I'd just bought a few months prior, paying over $3,000. They kept it for 4 years, 364 days, the longest they could legally hold on to it without charging me with anything.
You need to be considered for sainthood, with how charitable you’re being here. It’s also possible for interviewers to just be wrong and incapable of seeing it, like the one who misjudged the runtime of code that I wrote and didn’t even have the toolbox to resolve such a disagreement.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ilh7o/w...
Externalities such as?
Nobody's begging you to believe me. I'm just typing what I know from those involved
> Late into a career investing in other areas, what's the advantage of becoming a good C programmer? Especially in a time where Rust and Go are viable options?

It is the most popular programming language. There is a lot of code written in it. Most jobs involve maintaining extant code. So it's good for that. It's safe to say there will be a need for C programmers for the next 100 years.
50k per year pre tax in Germany, would end up being 30k after taxes. If you're married, you'd get substantial tax benefits and there are also benefits, if you have children.
What you're talking about would cause a shitstorm of Everest proportions if it came to light in any of the bay area companies I've worked at.

I know a lot of people too.
It is argued in the article that the survival rate didn't go up, but rather how it was measured: earlier detection means a longer period of survival since detection.

You argue that there was rapid progress in the last decade. The article agues the opposite (over decades even). It does this with citations and meta analysis where they find that much of the 'rapid progress' is not replicable. The article doesn't say that immunotherapy is not meaningful, but it does say it is over sold where there is hardly evidence of their benefit.

You also argue that the cost will come down, however there is no evidence for this. To the contrary even: according to the article it is going up significantly without any indication of improving.

Why do you state that the "bizarre claim" of not having improved treatment is "just wrong" without providing any supporting evidence for this?
Of course, but in that time I've missed what is happening in the channels I was joined to.
The government of China gave them forty years of peace and breakneck economic growth. To the point that Americans have gone all nationalistic because China is surpassing the US in various fields of technology. Besides that, while I understand that freedom and democracy are important, it's not like Chinese are living under stalinism. World tourism destinations are packed of happy Chinese tourists, US and European universities and companies are full of Chinese nationals (many of whom say they want to eventually go back to China to "give back" and contribute to its growth), and Chinese have access to all the consumer goods that make our lives happy. This is more than you can say of many countries that started from where China started only a few decades ago.
The US has social safety nets.

Nearly half the federal budget is spent on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And there are numerous other programs: unemployment, housing assistance, snap, etc.

There are also state and local programs as well as private charities.
omg! moving to flutter.
It's a Turing-complete, general-purpose programming language. What should stop you using it for anything?
Very fun.

It turns out that it is easy to implement a natural deduction system using a system based on Hilbert's approach. A discussion on this for metamath's set.mm is here:

http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmnatded.html#natural-deductio...

Many steps are an implication phi → ..., and the antecedent mimics the context (Γ) of most ND systems.
Google gets so many applicants it's irrelevant how counterproductive the interview process is. It selects for people similar to the interviewers, but that matters little, since they can afford to say No to 99% of candidates because thousands will still apply.

What boggles my mind is to see the same type of "skill testing" whiteboard coding interviews at smaller companies and startups that pay far less and don't have golden handcuffs to offer.

I've been at Google for 8 years. If I went to one of these smaller companies to interview and they asked me to whiteboard a data structure or algorithm problem I'd just walk out. I'm not the best programmer in the world or particularly shit-hot, but I'm sure there are many that are that would do the same.

Companies copying this process are doing themselves a disservice.
Lucky you, 29€ would be one direction regional train inside Germany, short range between major cities.

100€ both ways can be considered a good price, unless one also owns a Bahncard.
No, public means public owned and operated by government, ie: not private.
I really hate meta discussions, but that being said, I’m going to do it anyway.

It’s rare on a discussion forum that a thread goes from

- righteous indignation

- clarifying non insulting reply

- reply with a genuine question

- reply with a genuine answer.

- the original poster admits that they should learn more.

I had to commend both of you.
If we're going to calculate like that I think it's only fair to calculate in the average American's medical cost including insurance premiums which can put quite the dent in effective take home pay.
Show HN: Oberon to LuaJIT bytecode compiler and IDE with source level debugger
Can you elaborate? I'm not totally sure what you're defining "cyber-grooming" as here.
I think it's called Slack now.
The Orion interplanetary ship would also have been huge - it was planned to be able to reach Jupiter:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...
This is not "travelling" any more. This is sending spores hoping they will take root somewhere, but they will be forever disconnected from us, in space and, more importantly, in time.

What's this mania you have of disseminating yourself? Even if you build ships that carry human genes sequences and send them on a million years trip, who is going to benefit? The sequences you sent?
Referral bonuses for women and minorities, and especially female minorities, are 5x what they are for white men at my company. They may not say "go discriminate against white men," but they certainly say "we will pay you a lot more to get us somebody who isn't a white man." I'm someone who really likes having diverse engineering teams, but that sort of practice is pretty distasteful and obviously not meritocratic.
I like how HN downvotes when asking for a “source”.

I was merely expecting a “this is false because of X”. Rather than “this is false”

I guess we all have our biases.
A handful of low level employees deliberately violating company policy is very far from your original statement of"several large companies in my area which, due to diversity pressure, blatantly discriminate"
Oh man, don't I know it. I work for a small business whose long-neglected Wordpress site (nothing e-commerce-ey, almost no plugins, just a glorified billboard/contact-info type site for a non-tech company that no-one had updated in literally years) had been exploited in uncountable ways. It had probably been owned long before I was even hired a year ago. A few months ago it just broke, it was too riddled with problems to salvage.

I was able to convince the bosses to let me take on the fixing-the-site project solo, even though my job has little do with IT. I replaced it all with a static site generator I wrote in Go. No logins, no PHP, no database, nothing to exploit in the first place. Anyone in the office can update it by copying images into arbitrary subfolders in the generator's images folders, and double-clicking the update executable. It builds and uploads a fresh site in a couple of minutes with nice gallery carousels. And as a bonus it loads basically instantly on even the bargain-basement shared hosting we're on.

I do wish that IE compatibility wasn't one of the bosses' firm requirements, due to a lot of our clients not being tech people and still using IE on decade-old computers. Life would be so much simpler if I could just use CSS grids for layout. I f'ing love grids.