skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prada.com: a baby website for a century old brand
I just did a Ctrl-f on this comments page, and on the article for "iridium", and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the disposable/expendable iridium buoys yet.

They absolutely exist and come in several varieties. These are not as big a secret as they were 15 years ago. The USN was the first user of such things, but other NATO countries have also purchased and deployed them, or developed their own models.
I'd guess that with the bigger deals they are doing all these things are up for negotiation anyway so they might not need a slick landing page with a simple pricing that a developer can understand in a few minutes.
Ah yes: the other Vince Gilligan TV show starring Bryan Cranston.
Why not? I’m sure if you cull the JIT you could probably compile it for the platform. Apparently there’s even macOS and ARM support, so it’s more than halfway there ;)
A typography professor gives out promo codes to his app to students
Blush Farms CBD Oil
As the name proposes, the full range CBD Hemp Harvest Oil is a 100% normal CBD oil got from the hemp plant. Made utilizing U.S.- developed hemp, each 30ml of oil is supposed to be liberated from THC and reactions. People are getting 100mg of CBD per 30ml jug.

https://djsupplement.com/blush-farms-cbd-oil/
https://twitter.com/blush_cbd_oil/status/1285448092842520578
>A bullet dodged without much effort.
What is interesting is that they probably thought the same thing. They clearly wanted someone that would capitulate to things that were asked of them.
I commented in the parallel thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23905523 . Basically, commercial scientific software has long had a software product model based on yearly support/upgrades, scientific software has a long history where even decades-old code bases are useful, and pharmaceutical research has a practice of doing their database searches and research in-house, in order to protect trade secrets.

So I think scientific software is more amenable to this sort of product+support model than you do.

Or rather, what I think of as a product sale includes a support contract or occasional re-purchase at full price, rather than a pure fire-and-forget model like embedded software.
satellites can zoom into objects as big as cars from space and even show humans, but no telescope on earth can show satellites in space, astronauts spacewalking , spacejunk etc.
Wow could there be better evidence of medicalizing “normal” than this article
Not most e-bikes. They're heavier than normal bikes. I just use multiple heavy-duty locks, through the frame and both wheels.
Because people make mistakes, and if you make an accounting mistake in a company listed in one of the largest indices, those mistakes are usually in the order of billions.

So it definitely makes sense to require multiple accountants to check the books of these companies _for mistakes_.

Also, running the simple algorithm is the last step of the job. When somebody gives you their books and transaction data, you need to convert that to a format you can first process, which is 99% of the work. Books, receipts, etc. come in dozens of different formats. Running the algorithm is 1% of the job.

E&G is required to check that, if there is a receipt from an external company that gave Wirecard 2 billion, and another receipt of Wirecard sending those 2 billion to a bank in the Philippines, that those are properly noted in the books and everything balances out properly.

They are required to assume that Wirecard is working in "Good faith", and this is not a German thing: everything else is just impracticable.

Even if you were to throw an infinite amount of money and time at the problem to verify that all transactions actually happened as reported, if all sides of the transaction are in on the scam (the company that gave wirecard 2 billion, wirecard, and the bank that stores them), then there is no way for E&Y to find out.

If they are aware of criminal activity, they must report it, and maybe E&Y did not wanted to be aware of that, but who knows, maybe Wirecard was just good at scamming, or E&Y was aware of that and reported it to the German SEC. We do know that a lot of people did report Wirecard to the German SEC over the last 10 years due to suspicions of criminal activity, and the German SEC, which is the only authority that can investigate Wirecard properly, did nothing about that.
> In less than 5 years, it went from being a highly respected member and culture, with a reputation for pragmatism and seriousness, to a sad joke and an object of scorn with a bad after-taste of good old-fashioned xenophobia.

pull the other one, if the UK relented they'd jump at the opportunity

realpolitik always wins

> After Brexit was decided, the UK tried to rejoin EFTA, and they were refused.

this is news to me, and I can't find any evidence of it either

the UK government has never had any interest in remaining in the EEA, which the EFTA requires

> Due to the situation after WWII, the UK was given special treatment. It was allowed to opt-out of most things,

it was never "given" special treatment, the UK accepted the full acquis communautaire at the point it joined

when future treaty modifications occurred the UK did not veto the changes (its right), and permitted the changes, remaining under the rules the members had previously agreed
About that "write-ppm" example. Using PPM type 3 will increase the size of pixel data by 2-4 times. Use type 6.
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Scaling Relational SQL Databases
Recently I was researching what are all the possible options when it comes to scaling workloads with relational SQL databases. I think other people can find it helpful.

Feel free to suggest other ideas!
I mean ISO. It's lexicographically ordered. And gets more detailed / fine-grained reading left to right. (Year-month-day). I like those features.
Russia report reveals UK government failed to address Kremlin interference
Yes. But keep in mind that the copyright of any contributions you might get will be held by the author of that contribution, not by you. The contributor might license that contribution under the AGPL only, and thereby put a stop to your little scheme. You would have to either get a license from the contributor to your dual licensing scheme, or simply require all contributors to sign the copyright over to you, which is most commonly done in a so-called Contributor Licensing Agreement (CLA). However, CLAs are rightly disparaged for being unfair, in that it lets you, and only you, profit and monopolize what might become a community effort. A requirement of a CLA will most certainly discourage many, if not most, potential contributors from contributing.
As I said, I'm on the side against brexit, but what you're saying is not true. The EU is struggling massively with this current budget round and the loss of the UK contribution seems to legitimately be causing problems.

The shit about BMW's and Prosecco was just nationalist bollocks, but that doesn't mean that the loss of the UK budget contribution isn't real. Likely end outcome is EU budget struggles a bit for a few years, then UK rejoins as an associate or whatever new category they come up with.
It basically is always cheaper for almost everything than Stripe (except AMEX). Interchange++ is always less than Stripe's equivalent charge (2.9% or lower for European cards) and 12¢ is less than 30¢.

The page I agree is confusing.
Just a month after the App Store launched, someone sold a $999 "I am Rich" app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
Yeah an ebike can be considerably more heavy. What I had in mind for my description was something like a full carbon road frame and fork, Shimano 105 current generation components or the sram equivalent, and a good quality lightweight wheelset.
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There definitely are a lot of options to check out (one of the reasons I went with MediaWiki). I recommend playing with them to get a feel for where they diverge from one another. You may find features in some that you decide are necessary for you that a marketing list of bullet points can't get across.
UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
I wouldn't call the missing upstream improvements to LLVM and BSD from Sony, or Apple, thanks license, a more free alternative, but I digress.
65 MW is only $6M/year at the cheapest available electricity prices. Even less if you turn it off at night or when markets aren't as volatile.

100 bits/sec is plenty to make lots of money... If you consider 100 bits/sec is 1 bit per 10 milliseconds, with say a 5% bit error rate (can't do error correction without introducing delay).

Each end of the connection can make two candidate investment strategies based on globally available data. The 'bit' decides which strategy to go for.

Easy money for anyone who can turn the science into reality... Easy money that will dry up as soon as a few other people start doing the same...
Apologies for the Google Docs link. This is how the British Government has chosen to release the report.
Sorry in advanced for a late reply to an already off-topic tangent. It has been reported on heavily that mask wearing rates in the UK are low compared to Europe [0] although I'll fully admit not doing my due diligence in examining whether the headlines match the claims, those stats don't even include countries like Iceland, or Belgium & Norway which would be interesting to see given the difference in lockdown strategies, but in my defence mask wearing rates in the UK are low compared to similarly sized countries like Italy, France, Spain, or Germany.

The Scandinavian results are interesting but they do seem to be outliers, Sweden is definitely an outlier but maybe if you look at all the Nordic countries and include Iceland the results won't be too interesting.

[0] https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1281638035462004739
Please note that this is an old demo that has since grown into a full-blown game: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1291340 (Says Windows-only, but has a working Beta for Mac)

Here's a talk by Oskar on how generating such worlds work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcZb-SsnrA
It seems everyone prefers a different colouring to their syntax highlighting, which you get used to, and other peoples' looks weird! But code should look like what you personally want it to, surely. There's no one way. Sure, you could write a manifesto promoting your opinion to a prescription for everyone, but why? You don't have to look at theirs, they don't have to look at yours. Yes, maybe for code sharing, low- or no-colour is more like a common denominator, and not strange/disorienting for anyone.

I find one of the main benefits of syntax highlighting is it's less tiring on the eyes. And once you get used to it what your colours mean, much faster to read. Having it look attractive as well is just a side-benefit, though not a small one, if you spend a lot of your life looking at code!
Declaring and Initializing Maps in Go
It is the very first time I see anything about it, so not sure.
> This is quite optimistic. I'm not sure if you live in the EU, but the UK severely tainted its image and destroyed all good-will with most powerful EU member states. In less than 5 years, it went from being a highly respected member and culture, with a reputation for pragmatism and seriousness, to a sad joke and an object of scorn with a bad after-taste of good old-fashioned xenophobia.

I'm European and I've been following the news quite closely. Keep in mind that if you're the kind of person active on HN, you're probably in a media bubble.

Regular people, except for the French (maybe, even that is debatable), still like the UK.
From which year are the cloudless images shown when deselecting the live/daily layers? There seems to be one per month but all from the same year, right?

It's interesting to see how winter is taking hold of the planet - but a little bit disappointing that I cannot compare snowy areas between different years.
I am sure many developers don't remember just how much crappier the "crappier APIs" were. Back when Stripe became popular the alternative was XML and SOAP, documented in an outdated PDF that would get emailed to you, or if you're lucky, hosted behind 3 login walls. Then, once you start integrating, you realize that their dev environment is offline every other request, and doesn't match the production environment. So you just do the work blindly and hope for the best.

Having a decent publicly documented API was revolutionary.
> Licences are to restrict those who do not hold copyright.

On the contrary, licenses gives permission to those who do not hold copyright. Without any license, only the copyright holder has any rights to copy or modify the work in any way (except for fair use). A license gives permissions to non-copyright holders to do things which would otherwise be illegal under copyright law. A license can never restrict what anyone would otherwise be allowed to do, since it is not a contract.
Lately I've been into what I would call "the classics", Knuth, Peter Norvig, Minsky, Dijkstra... I realised most of what nowadays is called modern software/techniques basically consist in re-framing old essays from them.

Some of my references: the famous Norvig view on design patterns [1] and also his view of clean code [2]. Knuth on programming [3] also really enlighting.

1. https://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf
2. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf
3. http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html
No, blocking anybody with pronouns in their bio will eliminate a lot of progressive and most LGBTQ voices. It’s not a personal attack, it’s an observation of how you are scoping your feed.
For what it’s worth, it was introduced as a failure of an automated merge process and not direct programmer entry. Had braces been used the error would likely not have been caused (or would have compilation errors) but the fact that it appeared indented you the same level is not because a programmer made a mistake.

It is perhaps more telling that the code was compiled without an error indicating dead code which was the net effect of this merge, but sadly warning free code isn’t a goal.
This is a really cool project, I particularly like how well thought out the possible connections are between tiers. The only 'issue' I can see is that rooftops are often left inaccessible! Automatically adding some ladders or steps to adjacent would be a simple solution but I'm sure there are more imaginative and architecturally inclined people than me with better ideas!

My creation: https://i.imgur.com/fwR4E1P.png
You can do some pretty effective low bitrate critical satcom stuff with a buoy and molniya orbit satellites. The Russian military has been launching molniya orbit narrowband comms satellites periodically for the past 45 years. They're used for ground, air and naval C4I purposes.

With the long satellite dwell time over high latitude and Arctic regions, a submarine in the arctic ocean could surface a buoy that has a radome in its top, containing a small yagi-uda antenna with a fat oval gain pattern aimed straight up at the sky.
now you're really stretching it
Techcrunch : https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/20/spacex-successfully-catche...
Linux Foundation Faces Collaborating to Battle Covid-19
Wine does come with it's own D3DX runtimes, for example [0]. You only need to install the Microsoft ones if the Wine implementation is missing something or has a bug.

[0] https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/tree/HEAD:/dlls/d3dx9...
> Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.

The reason is: larger businesses will require more payment options than Stripe offers.

India? Adyen got you covered: [1] Philippines? Yup, everything [2], including offline payments in stores [3]. Mobile payments in Africa? No worries [4] And so on and so forth. On their payment site they don't even list all payment methods, there are so many. You search for a country or a payment method, and they show what's available.

Stripe has a very long way to go to realistically compete with Adyen.

[1] https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods#pmx=india

[2] https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods#pmx=the-philippines

[3] https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods#pmx=convenience-stores...

[4] https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods#pmx=mobile-network-ope...
Even without driving there's so much green space up here. And the weather isn't that bad. The east coast from Edinburgh to Dundee is in this weird spot in Scotland that gets significantly less rain than most other areas. It's just a bit colder.
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The Casino Chips Problem Solved with Python
UK based here, so for most projects I/clients want cards as the primary payment method due to the audience as they are one-off payments.

I've used GoCardless on one project; as the developer I didn't enjoy the experience at all. Setting up testing for all states was painful (as was getting items to the right state to use their scenario simulator). I see Stripe have rolled out UK Direct Debit support now; hopefully their documentation and testing story are better than GoCardless.
I think the point is you can easily get so focused on making the experience "delightful" that you work on things that would delight you, but that your users actually don't care about so much. And you need to take a step back, build something functional but not necessarily completely "delightful" & then figure out what your initial users actually do care about and iterate from there
I started writing a master thesis in a MediaWiki a long time ago. Did not work for me, maybe lack of keeping a proper index. It was a data graveyard. On the other hand, so is my whole home folder...
> Apple had a security bug that stemmed from indented C code that was indented but not within brackets.

Sure, but if your editor can correctly color based on nesting it could very well fix the indentation to be correct as well.

> I myself prefer to use type to convey structure and color to convey semantics. Having keywords boldfaced helps structure to stand out while coloring parameters, locals and globals differently would help meaning to surface more evidently.

That makes sense.
We provide the recording tool, so it is recorded straight to rich data.
That's a tu quoque fallacy. Just because the UK has an unelected upper house doesn't mean that this justifies the EU having a democratic deficit.

Two wrongs don't make one right.

>The EU does have flaws, but that's not the basis on which Brexit was fought.

This is the whole point of my initial comment. You can't just dismiss all criticism of the EU as racist and xenophobic. That just causes more divisiveness and bad will.
> To be honest this feels a bit to me like saying that cryptography doesn't work that well because it's difficult. The article itself even has examples of people for which it has worked well (eg Steve Jobs).

No, the article specifically does not say that. It says the principle doesn't generalise well across people, for exactly the same reason cryptography doesn't. We have "don't roll your own crypto"; this article is the equivalent for "strong opinions weakly held".
I'm not sure if I understand you. It seems you are merely trolling, so maybe you can clarify your comment a bit?
There are already laws regarding accessibility.
Yeah, I'm also in Edinburgh. I honestly don't see the London appeal these days. There are a few cheap northern cities with solid tech scenes, little competition and cheap cost of living. Edinburgh's the best one, but I've heard tons of great stuff about Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham. Even accounting for salary (and those have been going up in Edinburgh recently) you're still better off due to cost of living. Plus green space!
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A little bit of an elite attitude much?
Confluence supports this, although its not free!
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> realpolitik always wins

The Brexit project placed a huge bet on that, and it seems they are losing.

> this is news to me, and I can't find any evidence of it either

It was widely reported at the time. Here you go:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/norwegian-p...

> the UK government has never had any interest in remaining in the EEA, which the EFTA requires

Perhaps, but nevertheless they were preemptively rejected, as you can read in the above article.

> when future treaty modifications occurred the UK did not veto the changes (its right), and permitted the changes, remaining under the rules the members had previously agreed

They did not only "permit the changes", they signed the treaties. Including the obligation to join the Euro, something that the UK never intended to do and everyone overlooked because they were the UK. That kind of special privilege is gone. By the way, the initial treaty that the UK signed already spelled out the goal of an "ever closer union", but then the UK politicians and media make Pikachu face when they rediscover this goal, and claim that they were deceived and that "it was just a trade agreement, never a political project".

And the rebates also existed, and had nothing to do with vetoes or treaties. It was outright special treatment. And still the UK kept complaining about its "contributions".
This actually reads more like a content marketing PR piece for Stripe than a summary of useful and actionable information for a startup.
I just read it but I think it focuses too much on specific tools (Redis, Node,...) and their configurations which might not be the best for most use cases. Especially if it's for a beginner who maybe doesn't have to start out with a load balancer and Redis.
> mortgage

When did you buy? I get the distinct impression from friends that even well off techies are struggling to get a big deposit together for a London property nowadays.
I don't think you got the point. The point is not to build a straw-man as an argument as I can do it too and it gets us nowhere.

>it's more that heating and cooling something freestanding takes a lot more

What about temperate climate without huge swings in temperature, plus its new house with A+ insulation and solar. So you are more green as you save on electricity.
Indeed proof formalisms are themselves leaky abstractions.
You really think anyone looking for a payment processing for their business cares about CPU and frames per second on a marketing website?
>> I see no reason to accept this.

Yes, I'm aware it's very difficult to get people to believe this outside of AI
research. Of course, it is entirely uncontroversial and very well understood
by researchers. For example, I was in a presentation by a gentleman who works
at DeepMind last year and who works on neuro-symbolic integration and he was
asked a question along the lines of "how can you model first order logic
without variables?" and he pointed out that he had a footnote on one of his
slides where he was noting this limitation and that work was underway to
address it.

Regarding arithmetic, none of the points made in your comment made in the
GPT-3 paper. In fact, the paper makes no attempt to explain what makes GPT-3
capable of performing arithmetic, other than to say that the mistakes in
carrying a one suggest that it's actually trying to perform computation and
failing. So I have to ask, where do these points come from?

What I mean is, you seem to have a theory about how GPT-3 works. Where does it
come from? I apologise if this comes across as personal or unfair, but many
commenters in this thread and similar conversations express strong opinions
and give detailed explanations about how GPT-3 and similar models work. I am
always left wondering where all this information comes from, given that
usually it can't be found in the sources I'd expect to find it, namely the
work that is being discussed (namely, the GPT-3 paper, in this case).