skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Possibly mixing causing and effect here!!!

This is an unhelpfully abstract way to look at things. It doesn't matter what caused London to be the centre of the universe for UK society. What matters is that it currently is.

> Fast train routes in the north will allow Manchester to become a replacement for most things people go to London for.

The problem you're missing is that you don't need fast routes in the north, you'd need fast routes to the north, from everywhere, as you currently have with London, if you want to compete. You don't one new train line to Manchester, you need the thirteen or so routes in London has.

And then you also need a serious airport.
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We are launching our product with a referral program and I was wondering some different hacks out there to make this a success or if there are certain hazards to watch out for
You're not alone, I've been coding professionally for 12 years and I feel the same.
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Do you have any evidence that the numbers have been falsified or is your comment pure cynicism?
On the other hand, if parts and repair manuals were sold to the general public, you could have more Rossmans out there.

Also there is a whole spectrum of repairs between "replace some swappable parts" and "reball a CPU".
Minor point: org-store-link comes with no keybinding, C-c l is something you chose in your config (I use C-c s).

I also wonder hat "dynamic" means in dynamic link.
> Tesla manages to make the most efficient EVs without using heat-pumps

Not in lower temperatures without a heat-pump, which is when a heat-pump is at its most useful. Look how a heat-pump affects the range of the ID.3. There's worthwhile benefit even at 15 degrees Celsius:

https://i.redd.it/mjcgffzui0c41.png

https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/electric/id/faq/electric-car-te...

> why not consider alternative theories?

There's no need for theories. The engineering is well understood. The EV1 got there first.
> A human-level AI ...

What evidence do you have for this claim? What are examples of research programs that claim to be working towards this goal and why are their claims to be believed (other than being good marketing material for scaring people).

I already mentioned mathematical abilities (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23413003) and any general intelligence at a level of a human must be able to prove theorems without brute force search. I see no evidence that this is possible or will ever be possible with the current statistical methods and neural network architectures. And if we generalize a little bit then any general intelligence will be able to not only prove theorems in complex analysis but in all domains of mathematics and again I see no evidence that this is possible with existing techniques and methods. When an AI research lab presents evidence for any of their products being able to derive and prove something like Cauchy's Residue Theorem then I will have reason to believe artificial intelligence can reach human levels of intelligence.

My pessimism is not about AI being beneficial, my pessimism is about folks claiming human level intelligence is possible and that it will be malevolent. My view of AI is the same as Demis Hassabis' view because AI is just a tool and a tool can't be malevolent:

> "I think about AI as a very powerful tool. What I'm most excited about is applying those tools to science and accelerating breakthroughs" [0]

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[0]: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-deepmind-founder...
Wall Street is simply acutely aware that the global economy is highly leveraged and switching off the entire economy is likely to end very badly if a de-leveraging were to take place. Thankfully that did not happen.

EDIT: Of course, some hedge funds that were leveraged something like 100x on risk parity and correlation blew up almost instantly and caused a momentary liquidity crisis, but that was bound to happen :)
Which progressive?

You have made a strawman of progressives, and are criticizing that. I don't know any personally that speak as you've described.

I can see the rhetoric angle, as political entities abuse language to make ideas easier to transmit / accept. This isn't exclusive to socialists and communists.

I also encourage you to think carefully on what socialism actually is. There's a tendency to label anything socialism because soviet connotations would kill support for the idea.
You could probably ask the same question of Romania, Russia or Poland. I think it's just a question of the general business friendliness of the place. And there are quite a few American companies in Paris and Sophia-Antipolis
Not trying to discredit those numbers, but I wonder about the split per US state. Are they very close? Are there states that pay a lot more than others?
That feels more to me like hardware and software in the sense of a Jacquard loom. I suppose it fits though.

I was thinking more about what's going on in the brain. We have all the regions mapped to specific functions with higher and lower level parts. The low level parts seem to be like hard-wired stimulus-response mechanisms. Are the higher level systems the same at a meta level or is there a type of program running on the hardware of the brain?
Personally, I need my passwords across devices and across browsers.

I use Safari for personal browsing and Chrome for all work/business browsing. As a consultant, when I’m on site at a client location and they give me a machine I make a Chrome profile and let Chrome sync passwords. But I also work in highly regulated industries so I don’t carry those accounts and passwords off site.

But I also share my passwords with a business partner, so I need something like 1Password to keep, manage and share secrets. And credit card, and addresses.

It I will say that none of the password managers out there have amazing UI. I can’t live without certain features I. A password manager, but I’d consider any new entrant that works better than Lastpass and 1Password. I do intend to try Bitwarden.. I think my password manager license renews soon (but it’s not very expensive).
Could this solution be extended with a openssl pipe to offer encryption?
FYI, that resistor was probably there to bleed charge off the cap when power was removed from the circuit, to keep it from biting. Rather than bad design, it's a standard feature; as you've discovered, big caps without it can be mean, not only to careless fingers, but to the circuit they're in, besides. Granted, it sounds like the resistor had failed short as you found it, and without access to a replacement, cutting it out to get the bug zapper working again was a solid play. But now might be a good time to replace it.

Chesterton's fence is a useful principle for reverse engineering, and this is one example. Another is the snubber diode you find across switched inductive loads; the naïve assumption is that a reverse-biased diode can't possibly be doing anything there, and ideally you don't have to learn from expensive experience that, without it, the switch contacts will at best be eroded by arcing from the stored energy in the load finding a path to ground, and at worst that inductive kick will spot-weld the contactor and send the motor running away until switched out of circuit with a hammer.
If the English equivalent to "meet and hash things out" is "stolen fair and square", that might explain a lot about the Empire :-)
I find this to be a very frequent occurrence for me. What exactly did you do with those thoughts that made you feel better? Oftentimes I find that even if I face the thoughts head on it just leads to more shame.
being pretty sure that the market will crash at some point in the next year isn't really actionable information for an investor. a temporary rally at any point could trigger a devastating margin call. you could just sell all your long positions and buy back in whenever you think the market is at its lowest point, but you're probably not gonna make millions this way.

FWIW, I haven't sold anything, but I haven't bought any shares either since the beginning of the crisis. I would be wealthier today if I had kept buying on my normal schedule.
I feel like I'm constantly re-linking machines. I have 4 computers I use regularly, so it's a hassle. I can't say for sure if it's been a month since I last opened the app-- maybe a week or two, sure.
Many companies will not hire outside of certain countries i.e. US, UK....you may need to setup a corporate entity i.e. a Delaware LLC and work through a contract.
but yet, you make the same mistake again. You are listening to strangers on the internet.
Atlanta feds predictions of 2020 Q2 GDP :
https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/cqer/researchcq...
There are, the moment the famous Mittelstand realizes the need for that. Until that happens, it is an uphill struggle.
From http://srp.stanford.edu/demo/ "This demo requires a browser that supports both JavaScript and Java."

There's nothing modern about a system that requires Java in the browser. No thanks.
Qalculate is great, but often I just use GNU bc. You just have to remember (or make some type of alias) to pass it the -l flag for floating point etc., and I also use -q for quiet. There's also dc(1) for RPN.
nowadays it's usually cheaper to use a microcontroller. That actually wasn't true if you go back further than a decade. 555s heydey was when MCs were relatively expensive.
It's called "tit-for-tat" in th literature.
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what evidence do you have that they’re accurate other than taking the news’ word for it?
You might be right. Just to test I signed up for it, set it the exact same password, and 45 seconds is long past, but I don't appear to be banned.
Thank you for this, couldn't have put it better myself.

I'll go one step further and make conjecture that the entire Gaia-X thingie is likely from the get-go a nice little scheme to milk public money directly into the pockets of the proponents of the whole affair.

Brussels is teeming with firms whose specialty and sole purpose is fabricating bogus "projects" to squeeze EU research grant money into their and their clients pockets.
Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WW1 trenches of poisonous gas
Yep, and a good line from Liverpool and Manchester to Leeds would be a very good start. As then you good access to Leeds from many of the highly populated areas of the UK.
There's tons of research on altruism, decades of debates on group selection, kin selection etc.

Nowadays it's much less of a mystery than the popular opinion thinks. I guess the popular zeitgeist is a few decades lagging behind science.

Robert Sapolsky's course on human behavior and its evolution is on YouTube and it's great. Or read books on human ethology.
That depends on the bank.

Some allow you to sign the papers online and only require you to authenticate yourself to make the contract binding. This authentication can be done by letter as you said, it in person in the post office or with a video call in which you show your Ausweis.

Your bank just might not support these options, but some do.
> And I can set up two micro instances with terraform in less than an hour.

The post was more of a metaphor than a concrete example.

However, as a manager I can’t count how many times my team has declared that they can do something in under a day only to have it become a part-time job for someone to maintain indefinitely, or a multi-week rabbit hole as they debug some unexpected behavior, or technical debt as they neglect to document their solution, or a productivity bottleneck as everyone else must now either learn Terraform or wait for the Terraform guy to be available to help and so on.

When I transitioned from IC engineer to engineering manager, I quickly learned that engineers frequently assume the best-case scenario for their time estimates, while managers end up planning for the worst-case scenario. The catch is that it’s difficult to tell an engineer that their time estimate could be an order of magnitude or more short of a realistic estimate without implicitly insulting their abilities in the process. ICs also quickly forget that many of us managers were once over-optimistic IC engineers as well.
I would also add, try doing a keyword analysis on remote jobs to help guide the choice of the open source project.
Normally I would consider this off-topic, but prosecutors depend on relationships with law enforcement to try and argue court cases. Corruption and abuses are people problems, as much as institutional problems. It’s important to align incentives toward justice in all areas of the justice system.
While others have already written great replies arguing for untranslatability, I'll add my own views as well (as a trilingual, non-native English speaker).

I think what's immediately wrong in your argument is equating untranslatability with exact one-word equivalent. Then instead of arguing against untranslatability, you argue that translation isn't just equating word for word. I agree with that. Most everyone I think agrees with that.

What's missing from that view is that different cultures mean different ways of viewing and experiencing the world, which necessitates different ways of expressing oneself, that is, different words and expressions. Words and expressions carrying a "cultural weight" so to speak, containing deep meaningful connections with its people and their history.

A talented person with excellent knowledge of two languages and great skill using at least one of them (being themselves an author, or a poet) can translate great works from the other language. And yet the resulting work may not be able to convey every nuance of the original.

Try it if you speak another language and read both the translated version and the original of a great work of literature and you'll see what I mean.
Doesn't that seem a bit backwards? Google faces anticompetitive scrutiny because they created an open(ish) platform that others can compete on. But Apple goes all in on a walled garden where nobody even has the opportunity to compete with them. Doesn't that feel anticompetitive?

I'm certainly no friend of Google and I'm not losing sleep over them getting fined. But it seems that Apple is just as much if not more anti competitive and anti consumer, but they get a pass because of what feels like a loophole.
I am also not a seal, but this sounds really fascinating and so tantalizingly plausible.
> I don't understand the Wall Street estimates that unemployment would continue to 20%, despite the news that multiple states had already opened back up.

It came from adding up numbers on [0], and I also came up with about 19.7% - so the unemployment rate dropping from 14.7% in Apr to 13.3% in May [1] is very surprising.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
I think this is pretty good evidence that we're likely to see a rapid V-shaped recovery. The recession will be be deep, but it's unlikely to be prolonged. There's no fundamental reason we can't simply roll back the clock to Q4 2019.

Most business cycles are different, because they involve the accumulation of mal-investment during the exuberance of the late-stage expansionary phase. During the boom people make a lot of bad decisions. In 2007 people were allocating way too much capital to housing and the banking sector. In 1999 they were investing in Pets.com and Enron. In 1980, existing business models could not handle the rise of rates from 8% to 16%.

In many ways the hardest part about recovering from a recession is for the economy to figure out how to climb back to its pre-recession GDP highs, without falling into the same pitfalls from before. That necessarily involves a period of learning and trial, which makes it a long process.

However this recession is very different. It wasn't caused by speculation or malinvestment in the expansionary phase. It was caused by a totally exogenous shock to the economy. Once you remove that shock, there's no reason that GDP shouldn't snap back to its previous peaks.
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I think the point is more "this general strategy works for most people; but not everyone is going to get a $500k job from it".

It's a reliable strategy to get noticed and make a good impression. How much money you manage to make from that opportunity obviously depends on many more factors.
Same experience here.
I'd actually say interviewing was a very interesting learning and participative process.
Lot of companies handled it as a chat between peers. Usually there is a coding challenge upfront though (understandable).

The beauty of the peer chat was that it shows the company culture. Lot of interesting people. And makes you highly interested in the company and the job.

Not all experiences were great, but I didn't have to go through painful whiteboarding sessions
Sure. It's definitely more complicated than keeping things local but I wouldn't say it's a nightmare of complexity. It's worth it, otherwise people wouldn't do it.
If there are tests, I would start with those. See what the developers were trying to prove was true.
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This is real advice. You can expect whatever you want but if you are just starting you will get peanuts, as this is your level and fair pay.

Another situation is if you have experience but no portfolio. So you have two options - look forever for a project that will hire you without portfolio (usually this takes a long time, seen this many times), or you can complete few small projects for really small pay quickly and then you will be able to find a good-paying project way faster.
Actually, the company is not bad at all. And I still think that there is hope to implement good changes.
One of the big problems is that actually most of people there are with technical backgrounds, with limited managing experience. They might have been indoctrinated by MBA stuff, but indirectly, through "effective coaches" and like. There is a strong belief in brainstorming and other similar techniques, even though there is research that says that it's ineffective :)
> I don't understand the Wall Street estimates that unemployment would continue to 20%, despite the news that multiple states had already opened back up.

The aftershocks are going to go on for a while. Evictions, pay cuts, restrictions on restaurant capacity in the reopenings, bankruptcies, collapses of a bunch of small businesses.
I agree with your assertion that most users could get away with 10,000 bits. My point is only that there's always going to be somebody who still tries to do something that fails, so you have to pick some set of tradeoffs. Yours seems reasonable.
There's a lot of stuff in the PAEA bill that put that obligation on the USPS, just because the whole bill passed with support from both parties doesn't mean that the particular prepaid debt obligation isn't the work of "conservative extremists" the history of particular provisions is important. A lot of otherwise objectionable provisions get included at the threat of a filibuster from ideological groups.
It's also ignorant. Kin/group selection and altruism has been researched for at least decades. The only debate is the mechanism, not the existent and value of it to the individual.
+1 for BitWarden, it's perfect for what I need. Instant sync across devices and browsers, TouchID support, no cruft or nags. It just works.
I wrote a blog post about my rewrite: https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/go-cli-how-to-and-ad...
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When I read about your overseas deployment, something goes off in my chest - about which country you're going to be deployed to and what horrors await the people there. It is not about you, but about the historical imperialism America has been perpetrating over rest of the world, starting in 1899 with the Philippines.

And I've read enough history to wonder why and how the black population has suffered so much injustice for so long. You ask "why now" and you question their motives. But the only explanation I could come up with - for why they suffered in silence for the last few decades - was that the enemy was too formidable. Yet there is a breaking point, and George Floyd probably was it. I'm not hopeful that there will be any change though. On the contrary the American system will make black people pay, in a long, insidious, and institutional manner.
This is kind of strange considering that new jobless claims were 1.877 million and continuing claims are 21.5 million for last week. Which is a rise from the week before. There was a big dip 2 weeks ago so maybe that's it.

Anyway these job reports always get revised months later when more complete data is gathered.
The desire to go out is very unevenly distributed. I know people who are desperate to go out, but I also know people who plan to mostly stay in until there's a vaccine, and they struggle to believe the first group really means what they're saying. ("They must be trolling", I've heard from multiple friends.)
For me it's some combination of the darkness and less "other stuff happening". Otherwise I just want to go outside and otherwise get distracted by the hustle and bustle of humanity.
Admittedly, the FAZ is not representing the most tech-savy demographic over here. regardless, the statement is kind of representative, so.
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But we are 10 years into a bull cycle. Shouldn't we see a recession soon regardless of COVID?
As a self-taught junior, my move from Croatia to Germany in attempt to get a "better IT job" at the end of last year was something between amusingly comical to amazingly absurd. Even before the Corona wave hit.
> National Defense is a luxury good until it isn't. Moreover, it is not something that can be purchased on short notice.

This is a semantic game. Sure "national defense" is important, but the US military is not primarily a tool of national defense, it's a tool of global empire building and management.

Most of what the US could ever plausibly need for actual defense is sitting in nuclear missile silos and submarines.
Can you go into more details on this? I've only worked closely with UK/USA companies and I'm really interested how they compare to German/French ways of doing things. Does the Netherlands more closely align to the Uk/USA on this?
If they’re salting like they should then rainbow tables aren’t useful. They would just have a plaintext list of weak passwords and do a direct lookup. Rainbow tables are just a compression technique for hashed password lookups which wouldn’t work with salting.
This is great, thanks for doing that!

It would be great to add this history of Clojure paper. There is also a C++ paper he wrote (http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/callback.html).

Other things Rich has made:

- ClojureScript (https://clojurescript.org/)
- Datomic database (https://www.datomic.com/)
- edn data format (https://github.com/edn-format/edn) - extensible data notation (subset of Clojure's syntax)
- Transit (https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format) - format for conveying values between languages
- Fressian (https://github.com/Datomic/fressian) - extensible binary data notation, used by Datomic
- REBL (http://rebl.cognitect.com/download.html) - graphical tool for browsing Clojure data
- Codeq (https://github.com/Datomic/codeq) - Clojure+Datomic application to do code-aware queries on git repos

List of talk transcripts: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/tree/master/Hi...

Playlist of many talks on YT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdCLR02grLrEwKaZv-5Q...

pre-Clojure projects:

- http://jfli.sourceforge.net/
- http://foil.sourceforge.net/
Ha. That was also happening here.

We never saw a drastic shortage, though. The store was empty or had limited supplies for a week or two then they brought in a large shipment and everybody cooled off.