skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're describing the opposite extreme.

No, I’m simply debunking the parent commenter’s assertion that “there is absolutely no motivation to be productive”.

> a large part of your toolbox and knowledge is perceived as "obsolete" within a short time (1 or 2 years)

This is a major exaggeration. I do a fair number of node projects. I did my first one ~8 years ago. I don’t think I’m close to doing my last one, and it hasn’t been hard to keep up with the changes in that time.

> Banks, airlines, public institutions,... don't operate on short timescales (5 or 10 years), they operate on long timescales (20 to 50 years out). They aren't interested in shiny tech

I feel like you haven’t worked in a bank or airline before. Most of them have ancient tech in their core infrastructure, but a) they’re not happy about that, they just don’t know how to change it and b) a vast majority of their technical workforce will have no contact with that at all. Your average sized bank will typically employ 0 DB2 DBAs (they’ll all just be contracted from IBM), and a very small team of Cobol devs. You could work writing code in a bank for 10 years and never meet one. Banks and airlines are constantly trying to modernize (especially since they’ve realized how much money they can save by employing SREs/DevOps engineers). They love shiny new tech. A large portion of my consulting work comes from such organisations that are highly motivated to implement it.

> there's still demand for COBOL and Perl programmers. You can perfectly build a career in as an expert in those areas.

No you can’t. Today’s COBOL engineers are the ones that survived getting laid off when banks decided they didn’t want to invest in COBOL anymore. There’s essentially no entry level COBOL jobs on the market today.

> you do not know half of this person's life and their decisions

I know he got laid off, and that he’s been looking for work since then. I also know his skill set is no longer in particularly high demand. I see this happen all the time. A significant portion of my work comes from large organisations seeking to modernize their technical capabilities. They tend to be filled with people like him when I start, and a non-trivial portion of them tend to be gone a year later (all of the ones who couldn’t adapt to the new technology).

> might be because he can't simply move to another area with more swing projects

There is really no such place. There are still companies that use technology like that, but the number of them is shrinking every year, and people aren’t using it for new projects.

The bottom line is that even in large inefficient organisations, there is still a strong incentive to be productive and to invest in developing your own skills. Most people expect their careers to last 45+ years. Even if it takes 10 years for your skills to become obsolete in a slow moving organisation, you’d still have to spend the first 35 of those years developing your skills.
That page made me feel good about myself: English is my fourth language, and it estimates my vocabulary to be at 23200 words.
I really dig the minimal ui and the illustrations you choose :) Also thumbs up for using Laravel (I guess) and Vue.
Check out Notion (https://www.notion.so/product), it's really smooth to use and loads fast
That should be it. Thanks, Deepthroat!
> I feel Europe is slowly migrating to a two tier healthcare system, a private and quality but expensive one for the ones who can afford it and a public underfunded one for everyone else.

Not sure if I'd agree. There are certainly fancy hospitals that look like 5* hotels but they're for routine surgery only. Top specialists are still at big hospitals because that's where the most complicated cases are treated and where the infrastructure is. You might be able to skip waiting time with private insurance but you won't see a better doctor or get better quality medical treatment. In the end, having a nicer meal and single room in your hospital don't matter that much medically.
Starling as well.
They lied about the reasons to betray 200.000 users in UK. One hint: it was not Brexit.
> Google operated city-wide public WiFi in Mountain View for many years. So, it's not like they didn't have any experience.

Google has been operating free WiFi in India at 400+ locations since 2016 and claim they've got a 8 million userbase [0].

> ...but I would bet the issue was not as simple as "they found out that street lights turn off".

I'd be very surprised if this was true. It seems more plausible to me that news.yc has anti-Google bias.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation...
Well, that shows there is no most boring fact, but I think it doesn't preclude a the existence of a set of most boring facts, with none more boring than all the others. Yes, that is an interesting feature of the facts in the set, but does it mean that they are all necessarily more boring than every fact outside the set?
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That was a quite interesting read; I hadn't heard that analogy before. It's a shame the formatting of the page really makes it difficult to engage with the content.
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At our company, your performance is evaluated in 5 metrics, with a grade for each. Those grades affect your salary during review. So even if all you care about is just doing your work and being paid well for it, then it would make sense to ask your manager "hey, what do you want me to do to achieve max score in all 5 categories". Then you do the things they tell you to do - it's no different than any other work task you might be given.
I think the post above yours was an exaggeration for the purpose of illustrating a point.
afaik they shipped cards from germany (really ineffecient) and were generally really really slow at anything
Select the US layout, not all of the games seem to have all layouts available.
- no IBAN number

- when receiving a new card due to upgrade the old one becomes void but there's no mention anywhere of this

- the login didn't work consistently (faceid today, tomorrow password)

- no extra features, or very poorly implemented

the general feeling I got from N26: not up to standard. it's a poor app with poor customer support.
I'm glad to hear your thoughts! I have a great deal of respect for your technical judgment.

There are definitely errors in there. Some are inconsistencies as I experimented over time. However, the distinction intended to be expressed by =/← is the distinction between initialization and mutation. I might have gotten it wrong sometimes.

In the case of UML-like bubble diagrams, have you looked at Alloy?
Or to go more into the past, a modern day Zortech C++ debugger.

I still make use of DDD, one of the debuggers that made my UNIX development experience more enjoyable (vs PC/Mac tooling).
Wait what? How could they even put export restrictions on it?
Why is VC Twitter so peculiar?
For a prolonged power outage, the hibernate feature is probably more useful. And a UPS to perform it. But generally not impossible to survive such an event.
Revolut lets you receive many different currencies at 1:1 Interbank exchange rates during weekdays. That is pretty amazing compared to any bank.
Do you have a source for this? All I see in the article is conjecture.

(Edit: I am not nor have I ever been an N26 customer, just curious.)
Machine learning enthusiasts always treat this response as if it's a checkmate, but it's a silly stance, you are depending on either:

a) the ignorance or apathy of the person answering the question; and/or

b) deception if you are telling them it's created by a human, when it's not.

There's less inherent value of this kind of "art" for most people if they know it's created by an algorithm in milliseconds, rather than by a human artist who spent hours working on it. Maybe there is an audience who would pay good money for it, who knows. But I think most human beings would devalue it if you were honest about its source.
Any OS under VMware or KVM too, no?
Do we have any evidence that they lied? Like actual evidence, not the comments of a few outraged customers (one of them literally calling it "fake news").
It can be worse you could also work on SAP, like the author (No harsh feeling/flame war ; thank you to the author for this artsy experience ; but I couldn't help but notice this, I believe, relevant context).

To me these pictures are very nice looking from afar, but once you try to look in the details it makes you feel stupid that you don't get it, until you realize that it is senseless, there is no coherence, no point, no soul and it's normal that there is nothing to get from the picture as it's not in the algorithm.

The technique is perfect. But the art side reflection and emotion must still come from the eye of the beholder. It is deeply moving art in the sense it inspire strong negative emotions, the feeling that there are some stronger forces coming to crush you.

One such reflection that these collection should inspire is : "Is this the direction we want to take ?". Infinitely many garbage art stealing attention away from human artists.

Don't get me wrong, I like generated art but it's necessary to situate it in its context. That what makes it interesting. I even believe you can have machine explore thing and discover interesting thing on their own without it being formulaic, but we are not there yet.
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Do you know the CSS box model?
Hey, maybe you can help me get APL into my brain? I've been trying to jam it in there for years and it still doesn't fit.
Interesting. Not surprised this is the kind of story people might have adapted rather freely to sound more familiar to a local audience...
- Of course you have an IBAN, it displays when you click on the profile icon on the top right.

- Sounds reasonable?

- FaceID works for 30 days, after that you have to enter your pass again for FaceID to work another 30 days, it says so when activating FaceID

- I agree that there are no really nice "extras"
that's not how things work, apple products form an ecosystem, they work together :
i buy an ipad pro, now i'd like to use the feature with my 2013 mbp. Oh, but i can't, because it's too old ( or is it ?)

Same thing with apple watch. i "had to" buy an iphone 6 at the time because my 4gs couldn't have the apple watch software installed.
last year N26 was like: "we've just opened our London hub. we're adding hundreds every day. we'll be hiring hundreds of people".

this year: "With the UK having left the EU at the end of January, we will in due course no longer be able to operate in the UK with our European banking licence. Therefore, we are writing to share the news that we will be leaving the UK and closing all accounts."

translation: "not enough signed up in order for us to apply to the UK regulators."

honestly, this was by far the worst kind of response any startup can have. really amateurish.
I respect your will to not disclose your success rate, but I'd like to point out that "extremely high" means exactly nothing to me.

A 30% success rate could be extremely high when applying for grants, or maybe for all I know an 80% success rate is what you get if you just make it up as you go along and you need to score above 95% to qualify for "extremely high". No way to tell one or the other from where I'm sitting.
> - Of course you have an IBAN, it displays when you click on the profile icon on the top right.

No IBAN support in the UK.

really bad startup, avoid.
> I apologise for the "It's both right and wrong at the same time" kind of answer. In summary I believe BTBurke is a fantastic language learner, but if you look closely at what they are doing, you'll see they are providing themselves with plenty of comprehensible input, and the production/output as actually a more minor part that facilitates this input.

Language is not a one way street. Being able to manipulate another person's actions and words through speech is as much a part of language understanding as being in a position to have others manipulate your actions and words.

Part of knowing a language therefore is being able to speak and write it. In order to learn how to speak and write it, you are not going to get away without speaking and writing it.

And even if Krashen's hypothesis that input is ultimately the whole story were true (which by definition it isn't), production would still play a critical role in memorization. Every time you struggle to find a word and eventually conjure it, it gets reinforced.
`range(stop)` and `range(1, stop)` are both supported, but without overloading, the implementation of `range` is messy as it has to work out the meaning of each argument manually.
it's known across the financial news teams that N26 left the UK due to very low adoption numbers. applying to the UK regulators did not make sense.
Whereabout in SA are you? Are the issues you describe more common in rural areas or is it in the larger cities as well?
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There is a difference, N26 is an issuing bank.
That means they have to follow different regulations than Revolut for example.

Its not as black and white, as usual with banking nonsense.
I don't it's fair to call it pretentious if from a human but beautiful if from a computer. You even said it yourself

> ... anyone pretending otherwise only believes so because they know a priori that it is generated by ML.

To me, a large part of an artworks beauty comes from its ability to make me feel something. These works make me feel nothing at all. So I cannot call them beautiful.
Python -style text formatting in C++ :)
Have you used the library - {fmt} - before? It's great that after years of effors it's core functionality was placed in the Standard.
>"Cape Town is beautiful yes, but so is New Zealand (where many Saffers such as my family emigrated to"

I found this interesting. I did not know that was a common migration. Is there any reason for that? I know they are similar latitudes but I'm guessing there's some other connection?
What I don't understand with this "modernity" is these "black background shimmery text" themes.

Because that's what we had in bad old days before the monitors were able to show pixels -- the text consoles could actually show only text and the technology used was too poor to have nice pale background and black letters.

But why would somebody want this on the modern displays, except because he does that instead of properly adjusting the background light or because "the real cool guys look at black screens" is beyond me. Seriously, the displays aren't cheap eighties displays anymore. And even then the expensive ones already looked much better by default than these "modern" themes now.

/end of the old guy's lawn rant

Otherwise, I definitely like every debugging tool that tries to have a good GUI.
Would be amazing if this could also integrate with a language server to provide code browsing functionality. These days I'm using Vim's gdb integration, which doesn't have any data visualisation features, but lets me use all of my code browsing plugins.
I don't think those automatically checkpoint the system state every 30 seconds, do they? They didn't use to. Hmm, maybe they can now? https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/MicroCheckpointing
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> Somewhat like Map/Reduce was quickly replaced by Spark, which has no real competitors.

I wouldn't say that - what about Flink? (https://flink.apache.org/)
Correction, the motivation for the 737MAX was that the Airbus A320neo burns 15% less fuel.
from my financial news insiders: "they left the UK since they didn't have any clients around. they figured that applying for a UK banking license would not make sense with such low numbers. thus, they've basically quit the market".
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Yes, my first thought was "reconstituted art"
Aviation looks like the industry least likely to go green to me. I doubt electric planes are ever going to be viable for anything other than a short hop which would be better done by train. Synthetic fuels sounds interesting until you look at how much fuel they consume.

The trend is quite obviously in the wrong direction: https://www.statista.com/statistics/655057/fuel-consumption-...

It's often quoted as 2% of global emissions, my (admittedly back of the envelope) calculations come out 50% higher without the cost of burning it at high altitude nor refining the fuel nor the infrastructure on the ground to support air travel.

My guess is emissions from air travel will continue to rise as the world develops and they will take an increasing share of the total as other sectors decarbonise.

This all leads on to political problems, how are you going to convince the poor to reduce their emissions when they see their rich neighbours jetting across the world on holiday.
I'm reminded of https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=24569. Someone please make a similar test of "modern art vs ML-generated art".
In the UK, in the past years, we have got used to anything and everything being blamed on Brexit so people have really grown cynical about this 'reason'.

Here, considering that they are faring poorly and that they launched in the UK after the EU referendum many people think (rightly IMO) that they are taking the piss by blaming Brexit.

It's also not clear whether a full bank licence is required to offer basic current accounts. I believe that Revolut operated for years without one and that the bank licence they have now is in fact an EU licence.

They seem to want to focus on the US, that's their choice.
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> There is a difference, N26 is an issuing bank.

Monzo and Revolut are too:

https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/07/is-monzo-a-bank/

https://blog.revolut.com/we-got-a-banking-licence/
If all we do is write Pythonic code (especially now that "Pythonic" seems to include type hints), what's the benefit of the highly dynamic CPython virtual machine?

Surely a faster VM, or even an ahead-of-time compiler, would be possible if we give up on some dynamism? Is that a direction the community should take?

(I think Guido's answer would be no, based on his apparent dislike of existing "Python compiler" projects such as Nuitka.)
I don't disagree with him on that, but there's really quite a bit of stuff in there about quasi-circuitry-like things: "machines" and "latches" and things like

> In the next chapter, we'll investigate how to make machines that change over
time, which will be the basis for us to store information. From there it's
just a short hop to actual computers!

so I think that grounding abstract computation in something that can clearly be constructed in real life is actually very much a concern of the book, even if he's not planning to cover IEEE-754 denormals, the cost of TLB flushes, or strategies for reducing the bit error rate due to metastability when crossing clock domains.
The thing is the UK trains used to be much better. Then the Tories privatized them and we ended up with this mess of private companies owning different regions of the country. Apparently that leads to competition because if taking a train from the City to Luton is too expensive they can just take a train from Leeds to Glasgow.
I love this series! Does anybody know, if anyone ever made a version
that outputs AMD64 assembly instead of 68000? Or some kind of gentle
introduction to a reduced version of the AMD64 instruction set, so that
I could do it myself? The instruction set is quite huge, so having
a number of primitive commands that get the job done would be nice.
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Just like any other language.

Are you aware that there are outsourcing projects doing Haskell, Scala and C++ as well.

Hint, the deliverables aren't usually what one would expect from the skill levels usually required by average users of those languages.
True. But why need all permissions upfront?

Security model should be automated. Request only when needed

Can't see why it needs all permissions upfront. Apps keep nagging u until we provide all permissions.

90% of my reddit usage is posting amd reading text. 10% is photo related. So browser is better for me.

I don't need an app to have all access when I upload photos once a month
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I love the ability of ddd to plot 1d and 2d arrays in gnuplot, while you debug, updating the plot after each next instruction. Really handy for numerical codes. I have not found yet another tool with the same functionality. The python calls from gdb allows to do something similar but does not update automatically and you have to use much more code
This was one of the reasons why NVidia went with Ada/SPARK instead of Rust for their security critical firmware.
Hey, I have a completely functional, regularly used Samsung Galaxy S5 (IMO the last good phone Samsung made, and I currently run an S9 as my daily phone, and my partner has an S10).

Anecdata is weird when it comes to mobile devices. It seems that some phones are really not created equal to others in the same production run. I presume it's sort of like processor binning, but not actually tested in the factory. Every now and then a customer gets a phone that performs perfectly, and the battery lasts for over a decade (obviously with recharging!) ;-)
> But they don't make you wait if it's life threatening.

That's literally what is written in the article. People who wait several months to get a necessary CT or imagery before they can decide to do anything about it. Some cancers can progress very fast in the space of a couple of months, it's basically the difference between life and death in some cases.