skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. When I worked for Apple, I would often take a gander at the iOS source code. There was a lot of legacy stuff in there, as in, "do not modify this method, we don't know what it does" in comments. There were certainly legacy components in there from many years back, and it didn't seem like tech debt was on the radar. At least when I was there.
What kind of time-cube tier crap is this? It's hardly fit for hackernews, is it, this rant about weird flag conspiracies and Eurocrats and Cromaggnons...

Read more about its history, how it was adopted, unsuccessful proposals, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe
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> But the law wants to insist that you can tell what Colour bits are by looking at the bits--as the article says, that's basically what DRM and other such systems try to do. But it can't be done.

Of course you can tell what colour the bits are. If someone uploads a recording of Taylor Swift's Love Story, literally everyone is going to know who owns it. Same is true of lesser known recordings -- someone will be able to show that it is based on something they own, and thus the colour of the bits is revealed.

> business model has nothing whatever to do with compensating the actual creators of the works whose copyrights they own.

Property isn't determined by who made something, nor should it. Otherwise, you would have no rights to your own home.
Honest question, because I have no idea how this all works: if people can just send letters for the cost of a stamp then why do they use Global Tel Link or Securus?

Really great thing you're doing here, I hope it all works out.
the automotive demand was already slowing down considerably before this all hit. but now it's a double wammy. I don't really need another car. I'd love to buy house, if there was one available.

It's funny how we don't really see the supply of houses piling up the way we do with cars. Granted, the housing market moves slower. But, I bet, even in 6 months, in coastal areas and the bay area, the month supply of housing will still be very low.
I think the vast majority of code that exists in the world today has at most one space between a variable and its type.
Doing work better and faster than most of my peers, but certainly not at ten times their work rates.
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> Elon said he thinks it's too high

He also said it's too high when the stock was around 200
"If [you're] hiring", do whatever you want. I would rather see a candidate contribute to opensource prior to the interview than be forced into contributing during the interview.
I disagree with this on two major points:

I don't think that social evolution is an individual journey for countries. England as a nation might have a founding date around 927 though there have been some pretty major upheavals since then - it isn't fair to measure modern day America a success by comparing it to 1120 England - I think that as a global community all but the newest countries are on mostly even footing with those more aged and ancient countries being at someone of a disadvantage due to having much less solid bases in their constitutions/founding documents - more recent organized countries have been able to learn from history and create founding documents that allow them to have a more stable society... though many of those are in extremely volatile areas of the world.

Canada is like a hundred years younger than the US and doing a fair bit better and Australia founded a mere twelve years after the US is clearly within the peer range and is pretty close to the top of that list with New Zealand (founded slightly more recently than that in 1840 which puts it closer to US unification following the civil war) is usually really close to the top of most of these rankings.

Additionally, I'm not certain the validity of some of the points mentioned above:

In terms of the US's journey it gets the advantage of geography and the same advantage Canada and New Zealand received - it wasn't a theater of war during WWI & WWII, Australia actually suffered catastrophically during WWI with massive numbers of casualties received when participating in the Asia Minor theater (Gallipoli is part of the Australian cultural memory) and in WWII Papau New Guinea was a territory (albeit a relatively autonomous one) of Australia and was a heavily contested theater.

In terms of economy, the USA wasn't a cotton churning backwater on founding, it had a strong plantation based economy but as the world industrialized so did America. Britain & Germany definitely take the cake in terms of the most extreme economic transformations but America was on the upper end of the curve - it did quite well in industrialization building a strong power that it transformed into global power as the other colonial powers collapsed.

Lastly, I don't know if the US really is the pre-eminent power of the globe - certainly in terms of military it's on the top of the pile... but economically - dutch and british service industries move a lot of money around and, the ordering you didn't mention, quality of life for the citizenry, is one category America is really hurting in at this point with endemic obesity, poor healthcare and extremely poor education.
To me, sounds as if he is an 1x dev at Amazon and a 2x elsewhere, outside A., not 10x though.

What about forgetting about these X and instead do what seems like fun on the spare time :-)

Friends, family, side projects / books if you want to -- but then because you want to? Life is short
If you don't know what kind of car you want, head down to CarMax and test drive about five to six vehicles in the category you are looking for. Find the one you like, then check later that that kind of vehicle and year doesn't have some kind of terrible maintenance problem (most don't, which is why this can be done later).

Right now, year or two old used cars are selling for more than they are worth - so if you are looking in that price range, a new car may be a better deal.

If looking for used, I've bought all the ones I didn't regret off private party sales from Facebook or Craigslist. Just lurk daily for about a month and get a feel for what the ones that sell are priced at, and know that the ones that don't sell are probably priced a little high. When you spot a good vehicle at a good price, move! Try to get in to see within 24 hours. If it's at a good price, it will sell quickly. If you want to buy it, get it taken to a dealership for an pre-purchase inspection (Usually $100-$200). If you had a mechanic you trust, he might do it for free. If it's good enough buy it.

If looking for new, then the first step is to find the online forum where the power owners of that make and model hang out, and find the forum thread or spreadsheet where they post how much they paid. This is incredibly powerful, and is the key to your success. It will often surprise you how low dealers can eventually go. Pick a price low from the list, but not the absolute bottom as your plan.

Next step is to contact by email many dealers around, tell the vehicle you are asking for, say you are shopping around, and request an out the door price. If you shop say eight dealers, you will be amazed at how much these prices may vary (like 10% of the value of the vehicle). If you see what you are looking for, go for it, and walk out if they change the price later.
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As someone currently taking a break from reverse engineering the internals of CoreGraphicsServices on macOS, I can't resist saying that iOS can't possibly be as legacy as this.
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>The supply of used cars awaiting auction is swelling from rental companies wanting to dump inventory and cars coming off lease

Though some dealership are increasing their attempted shenanigans to keep those lease returns from coming back for as long as possible [1].

Some of the annual new car sales projections coming out in the past day or two are daunting, so it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. There's been a few estimates that the previously forecast 17M units for 2020 (with an ASP of ~$38,000) may be more like 7.7M units for 2020, which is a $350B industry revenue shortfall.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/16/coronavirus-...
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The article repeatedly talks about “Eurocrats”. This is a combat term used by Eurosceptics but certainly not a term anyone would use who wants to write a neutral article.

Whenever someone writes “Eurocrats” it’s a good idea to stop reading if you want unbiased information.
https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000... is a good algorithm to use to keep peaks. At a maximum you need 4x the chart width data points. In practice, you can easily reduce that. I've implemented the algorithm before and it can be done in linear time.
What total mileage do you have? In my experience, it will start skipping on some gears after 7000 or maybe 10000 km and then you need to change the entire drivetrain, because it got destroyer by the heavily worn-out chain.

Learning to fix the flat myself was good because I can do it immediately in 10 minutes without having to walk the bike to the shop (which are closed during evenings/weekends) and wait.
I guess the sellers won't always go with it, but you can arrange loan terms at a bank or credit union prior to shopping.

For example, even huge banks do this: https://www.bankofamerica.com/auto-loans/

Smaller places might have a car buyer that does everything for you.

Really, the trick is to get a good price on the vehicle and then convince the dealer that you don't want their dirty, obfuscated, expensive loan.
How does your company handle the costs of mailing or delivering the letters?
> It should be this:

> int* a;

I must disagree... the following sends the wrong message the reader:

int* a, b;

Though I also agree that dereferencing is best without a space. Perhaps the correct suggestion is to not declare pointers and instances on the same line, but that's a convenience that many seem to enjoy
Their attempt to pivot into the search engine space was admirable, and interesting on a technical level, but their initial business model killed a lot of goodwill for me and (it seems) a lot of other people. The search engine never had as good of results as DuckDuckGo, and DuckDuckGo didn't get its start by spying on German Firefox users, so the value proposition never made sense to me.

The Cliqz browser was similarly problematic: basically just Firefox with some add-ons the functionality of which I could trivially pull from the Firefox Add-On Store, all under a brand name already tarnished. Might as well just use Firefox w/ DDG's "Privacy Essentials" (or Ghostery, once upon a time, before Cliqz bought it and ruined its brand trustworthiness, too) and uBlock Origin.
I remember the movie and book “1984” where people were constantly monitored by all available means, and voila, we are rapidly getting there. Having helicopters and drones watching everything we do is seriously creepy and us tech people are happily supporting it.
Excellent! you do indeed have a stronger statement, now that various misunderstandings have been fixed.
If I were a glass half empty kind of person I wouldn't feel bad about it. Those guys are always gleefully pointing out flaws in things. I would not turn away anything a doctor would recommend I do, especially not on my death bed. In any case, there's been dozens of these solenoid based ventilators, and this one looks especially pretty, but if they were actually needed surely you'd hear all about hospitals using these diy things to save lives?

From what I've seen doctors actually talk about, is that there's ways to hook up even four people on one of those expensive type ventilators, and doctors still don't do it, because just giving people air isn't good enough.

The thing that makes me feel bad is this feeling it's some sort of off key joke. Maybe it has a use, but to me it seems like why is a big serious company like nvidia, making noise about constructing a ventilator that no doctor would use unless in an absolute emergency where they couldn't use a serious ventilator?
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Worked just fine on my HP Omen 15 laptop and not for 4 hours but more like for a week and half non stop as I had to encode whole pile of 4K videos from pro format to consumer (h264). All the while I was also coding and debugging the application. I set TDP limiter so that the temp does not go above 80C that still has all 6 cores running at around 3GHz if I remember correctly. The fans were running non stop but not full throttle.

Not a thing what I would normally do but my rendering desktop was out of commission for a few days while waiting for parts to arrive.
Okay, but "Google" doesn't sound like a stereotypical spyware company.

...alright, maybe it does now, but still.
There is still a huge difference in the amount of complexity in a solution and the amount of complexity in the computer system implementing that solution. In extremely simple cases, such as implementing a mathematical formula, the solution (in the form of words or an equation) and the implementation (actual code) could be on the same size order - there is virtually no accidental complexity. For business solutions, like a shopping web site, the difference could be a factor of 10,000 or more. But that's almost all accidental complexity, because of how organically the web and most programming languages have grown to handle cultural concepts like language, visual flow, authentication, encryption, cross-platform compatibility and so on.
> There could also be a sheepishness in wanting to conduct those studies with HCQ given that we still largely don't understand how it works.

How it works in what way? We have been using it since 1955 and people take it regularly. The risks are largely known. Remdesivir, on the other hand, is just over a decade old and is a drug in search of a problem (it was not useful in treating Ebola and I can't find any reference to it being used for other treatments). Maybe I should say it's an R&D budget in search of recouping the cost.

Look, I don't hate Gilead, in fact they make drugs to both treat and preventive HIV/AIDS. The latter being something I've taken before. But something about this all stinks.
I don’t really want to debate the case out of respect for Mr. Qin, but it was easy to observe that he was a SEV owner at that time, and due to present at SEV review, and fighting against a nag robot constantly enforcing a “due date” a week ahead of what he needed and tried to configure in the task tracking tool. Anything beyond that is of course my own speculation, but I feel comfortable saying it is an extremely stressful and unhealthy environment. Even more so when getting a bad performance review could cascade into you losing your job, losing your visa, and having to wrap up your entire life and GTFO within 30 (iirc?) days. Or find a new job within that short time frame that will sponsor your visa. I don’t think you should be so quick to dismiss such a case as merely a personal matter.
Oh, sorry, "real networking", sure!
Excellent. This is the what makes HN so valuable (when it works) - bring together intelligent people in a forum where they can discuss a topic in a respectful way - the opposite of Twitter :)
It seems the “next” button is not working on mobile safari on ios 13. It just reloads the page you’re in. Tried with and without content blockers.

However from what i quickly read from the links on the front page, the tutorials itself seem really high quality!
This is really cool. One of the best things about Rome was exploring at night. I took plenty of awesome pictures with the 6s, but this takes the cake. Thanks for sharing!
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Yeah. This is still tens of thousands of instructions per point.
It's a great signal for that, but it's still ridiculous.
I wouldn't expect the benefit to be significantly positive. (I live in a SE Asian country and come across these people all the time.)

The vast majority of them are spending $20,000 or less. VAT is Thailand is 7% so that's $1,400 in tax. And that's probably overstating things because much of their spending will be on things that go untaxed for one reason or another.

There's only a few thousand of these people in any given country, by most estimates I've seen. Which matches my personal experience. In any given country they will only be in 2-3 cities and if you spend time in those cities you'll be surprised how small the expat circles are even in a city of 10 million.

$1,200 in tax from 4,000 digital nomads is...$5,000,000. Thailand's economy generates $500,000,000,000 a year. The illegal expat contribution is a tiny, minuscule drop in the bucket.

Unsurprisingly, countries (just like neighborhoods that crack down on AirBNB) might want to optimize for people who want to stay long term, adopt their values, become part of the social fabric...not just maximize marginal income from people who will never even try to learn the language and don't have a single local friend.

What's more, the arguments all have a whiff of colonialism to them. If having foreigners working in your country and not paying income tax is so amazing....why don't you get your own country to do it first?

At the end of the day, the countries get to set their own laws. You don't get to ignore their laws because "well I'm an entitled middle class white man (there are effectively zero digital nomads who aren't white men, in my experience) and I'm bringing a lot of money into their economy don't you know!"

"Digital nomad" is just a "white person who is an illegal immigrant".