skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Extends Covid-19 Remote-Work Policy to Mid-2021
The straightforward approach of ledger-cli also means you don't run into arbitrary limits any time soon.

I started using ledger-cli when I started a new business a decade ago, and it's still being used today with employees and representatives in a dozen countries and sales in several different currencies. The only problem is interacting with outside accountants who will never have heard of it.
XMCyber and Partners Earn European Commission Grant to Make Cities Safer
Vietnam, Indonesia, lots of Latin America in the 1980s? The US was also an actual colonialist power in the Philippines.
Except for the Sandy Bridge era. AMD was definitely not ahead for a while there.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-...
Tell that to the bike shops in my area, which have seen unprecedented business and have trouble keeping things in stock.
> But Intel has rarely been the best in microarchitecture.

When is the last time Intel was behind in microarchitecture? Ice Lake beats Zen 2, then you follow all the way back through Bulldozer, where AMD was utterly outclassed, then what? K10 vs. Sandy Bridge?

Zen 2 is basically a copy of Skylake, made 5 years late, that only got to compete with Skylake because Intel froze in time.
My guess would be that there are more interesting and recognizable voices by men than by women. Not everything is a CIS male's conspiracy you know.
Random Strings and Integers That Aren’t
Raiders
What iconic female voices would you add?
Or that a current renter is looking to own their own home instead, which seems like the much smarter option. Especially when the economy is uncertain.
Zettlr is an open-source alternative [0]. It’s surprisingly feature-rich for a one-person project.

I’ve tried Obsidian, Roam Research, and others, but Zettlr is simply a much more complete piece of software.

In addition, the developer’s perspective on their work and complete belief in open-source, privacy, open standards, etc., is really heart-warming [1].

[0]: https://www.zettlr.com/

[1]: https://www.zettlr.com/post/why-zettlr-open-source
> Suggestions to use <cite> fail as not all footnotes are citations. Using <aside> overloads the element, creates ambiguities as to usage, and leaves us with nonstandard footnote mechanisms.

I agree with all of your conclusions except this one. You appear to be contradicting yourself. How does <aside> overload the element? It does the opposite, by semantically separating <cite>s from mere textual notes and letting the client present the two however the user wants. I agree that within each category, it should be up to the presentation layer whether they are popups or footnotes or endnotes or just hidden altogether, but the distinction between citations and notes is an important one that can't be easily inferred. So what's the problem?
Only a few years ago people here on HN were cheering for Intel to "use its process leadership to make other companies' chips".

Seems like a laughable proposition now.
Was Dresden GF foundry shut down?
Pinterest Moderators' Fight to Keep Horrifying Content Off the Platform
established social sciences have very little credit overall.
barely science, after all.
The last thing you want if you
want to decrease unemployment is for people buying homes. Once you buy a house you limit your mobility and limit your optionality to go to where the jobs are.

In fact, you should be encouraging shorter leases.

I got rid of my house in 2012 after getting married so my (step)sons could stay in their much better school district. I was hesitant to buy a house in 2016 because I had no idea what direction my career might take when my youngest graduated in 2020.

I might have even gone the r/cscareerquestions route and “learn leetCode and work for a FAANG” and move to the west coast. But my rent was increasing like crazy and I wanted to lock in my housing costs by buying.

Thank God I found a remote opening at $BigTech. If not, I would be selling my house in the next couple of years and trying to move - under normal non pandemic circumstances.
As far as I can tell, someone actually happened to record a video of a slightly different ideal case: it was obviously a police officer murdering a black man when carefully framed and portrayed that way, the most clear, vivid, brutal and unambigious demonstration of police racism and brutality - but only for people who already believed this. Basically, a cross between what this blog post describes and a maximum-strength scissor statement [1]

The most vivid demonstration of this is that one phrase: "I can't breathe". It really is the most vivid image of racist police murder imaginable: a white officer kneeling on a black man's neck, slowly cutting off his air as he begs for mercy. It's appeared again and again in protests and news coverage worldwide. There's only one slight complication: Floyd started repeating that he "couldn't breathe" before he was down on the ground at all https://www.fox9.com/news/transcript-of-officers-body-camera... All of a sudden, things get a lot more fuzzy in terms of cause and effect and what the officers should've realized, and naturally one idelogical side has been claiming it debunks the whole thing whilst the other is using a different framing to claim this shows the police were even more depraved cold-hearted murderers than previously thought: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/08/george-floyd... It's almost the perfect scissor.

Even if it had been the most clear-cut case imaginable, one of the first things that happened was to turn it into something divisive and effective for signalling by - for instance - demanding charges against the other officers present that seem extremely hard to justify legally speaking, and calling for Minneapolis to burn until that happened. There is no escape from the process described in this blog post.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever
More like discourage the use of pure scripting without any regard for JIT/AOT toolchains or coding without performance considerations, in opposition to what we used to care about.

The example with Python and Django was what came quickest to mind, but I can gladly expand it to include Ruby and Rails, or any other stack that falls under the same Web sites/desktop applications with scripting languages umbrella.
>Those countries also have much higher trade barriers.

This isn't true. Here's a comparison of the EU, several individual European countries, Japan and the US[1], and there isn't much difference tariffs or trade barriers.

Global trade-barriers have been reduced to virtually nothing among developed economies, the US isn't unique at all. This is a stale old meme that seems to be popular in the US because it frames the US as a sort of victim of global trade which is a popular political narrative but not evidence backed.

The real difference is in the overfinancialised, laissez-faire capitalism of the anglosphere (the UK suffers from the same issue of deindustrialisation, Australia as well), comopared to the industrial policy and state/big business dominated capitalism of Japan, Germany, France and so on.

[1]https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/10/24/the-eu-isnt-protec...
Also, Intel owns like 15% of ASML.
I set it up, used it once, and then realised it's exactly like using the contactless card I already have in my wallet. I can maybe see the point of using it on a watch, but on a phone?

Slightly useful for in-app payment with Just Eat, though.
That's straight-up cyberpunk horror territory. What the actual fuck
We really are not training humanity to resist advertising at all.

If anything its quite the opposite and at the very least no change from before. We should try individually and we might get some success. We might try at a societal level but I have not see this occuring (apart from things like bans for things like cigarettes or products aimed at children). There's no fundamental human change occuring.

Additionally the vast majority of HN users are dependent on advertising. Advertisments are core to the western life. It's deep in our psychology, and requires more than just an ad blocker.
I see no evidence for the claim that the selection of help-worthy is often arbitrary. Anyway, I'll accept your example for the sake of the argument.

Of course, why shouldn't we help people who are second, third, or fourth born if they are at a systematic disadvantage according to robust data?

AFAIK, many societies have changed hereditary law over the past centuries to compensate for former advantages of first-borns in favour of other family members.
The astounding thing about the stock rightwing 1970s unions-caused-inflation narrative is that it completely ignores the role of oil price shocks.

Without renewables, oil was an absolutely bedrock commodity, directly influencing the prices of energy and raw materials.

At their peak, oil prices increased by 400%.

But apparently we're supposed to believe that greedy unions were entirely to blame, and oil prices and shortages had no effect on inflation whatsoever. Because cost-push isn't a thing, or something.
It sounds like you are in a great situation, by why would you aggressively pay down a 0% interest loan?
Wait, you think AI is overfunded?
Ask HN: No-FAANG-like-Perks, is it worth it?
Hi,
I interned in a Bangalore based cashflow-positive startup last year, and later on got a Pre-Placement-Offer (PPO) from them right after my internship ended. Things were fine until the placement season came and most of my friends ended up joining MNCs. Although my startup offered me a salary compeititive to Microsoft / Amazon at that time, Now I feel like I'm missing out on a lot.
I see them getting better Macbooks, with lots of perks (monetary & non-monetary), and to some level this bothers me.
The work that I do at this startup, I like it, I get to make my impact faster, code ships to production fast enough (as I'm the one deploying the code to the server), it does feel like I am a step back from everyone, I get almost no perks as compared to what other get. Also, the work isn't structured much, there is not much focus on code reviews here, since projects get handled by single developers here most of the time. So for eg, right now I handle the entire backend code of the project I've been assigned to, so I can obviously make things better by me, by following code quality practices, but that isn't the point here.
People have been telling me continuously that WORK > PERKS, but I cannot make up my mind around that, I still feel a little bit like a loser.
My question is, Is it all worth it in the end ? Will this work be beneficial for me ?
It will be made a priority. Landlords have money and donate to political campaigns. People who are being evicted do not.

Money matters far more then angry everyday people. Unless they start rioting and looting (which costs the rich money, so in a way, money still matters more).

Also, homeless people can't really vote a lot of the time, so as a politician, why care if a bunch of people are made homeless? They aren't gonna be able to vote you out.
WTF Is Composition?
What ultimately seems to stifle US companies, is management, bureaucracy, and "value to shareholders". They seem to forget their engineers, and what their business actually is.

IBM in the past, Boeing recently, Intel right now.
The article starts with the assumption that the total amount of work in an economy is fixed and that the extra hours we make are make-work. I beg to differ. At least in high tech, we can improve a product or service as many times as we want. Each of these improvements can be from relatively minor to requiring years of research. The total work per year is how fast we move through these improvements. The free market forces this to be higher every year due to competition.
> Spectre V1 (speculative bounds check bypass / type confusion) is basically game over for intra-process memory isolation without introducing expensive or complicated mitigations

Code which is executed deterministically cannot receive timing channels (or, indeed, learn anything about its environment) and hence cannot exploit Spectre. This seems potentially practical for this sort of library sandboxing problem.
Riding the Rays (1992)
Yup, that's indeed the case. Each AWS account sees different names for the actual AZs. That's probably to prevent everybody always using the first AZ on the list (thus overloading the first AZ and underutilizing the remaining ones).
Garmin ships a feature called autoland. I think at least one plane is shippng with that.

Austin Meyer (of x-plane fame) actually build an ipad app that can be hooked up to the autopilot (he actually did this at some point but never shipped the integrated product probably for certification reasons) to do exactly this. It's called xavion: http://xavion.com/. Basically the app calculates the safest glidepath to the best airport for you and guides you to that. The feature is designed for engine out scenarios where pilots don't have a lot of time for making good decisions. It basically continously updates its plan as you are flying based on glide ratio, altitude, runway length and a few other factors.

The autopilot integration is probably not all that hard to do. It's just tricky from a legal point of view.
Th and U are soluble in F salts, but Pu isn't. A molten salt reactor that breeds U238 would have to be based on a Cl chemistry which is not so developed. Otherwise you'd get Pu plating out on your heat exchangers, clogging pipes, etc.

What makes the LWR non-viable since 1980 or so is not the uranium or even the LWR, but the steam turbine it is attached to. The power density of a steam turbine is at least an order magnitude less than that of the gas turbines that are used to generate electricity today. To a first approximation, the cost of something is proportional to it's volume or mass.

As it turns out, even if the heat was free the steam turbine alone attached to an LWR would make the cost of electricity uncompetitive. In fact, this is what mostly killed coal.

If nuclear power is going to have any economic impact we have to ditch the steam turbine for a closed-cycle gas turbine and ditch the LWR for something that operates at higher temperature. Unfortunately the last time people were writing about the topic seriously (1970s) people thought the motivation to go to another reactor type was that we'd run out of U235, not that gas turbine generators would come online and wreck steam turbine economics.
I think Outlook is blocking .zip files, can you add another .txt extension on the end so it goes through?
there is no such thing as "precise meaning"
Imagine Leetcode, but Sexy
> You are rediscovering why in traditional societies woman stop working when getting pregnant.

Which "traditional" societies? Because you sure as hell didn't stop working in any pre-agrarian, post-agrarian, industrial or ... you know any society on Earth prior to the invention of the white-collar job.
If the mobility was true to such an extent you wouldn't have the overinflation the real estate market to the degree we see in certain places. That all goes out the window if the employers in the area close down, of course. But then the landlords have the same problem anyways.
2nm then 1.4nm. Not sure what's after that.
problem is, expulsion from society sure sounds like “make a natural reservoir” to me...
If the things you're doing are so simple that you don't have to worry about credit or debit, you are free to show it that way.

But if you are doing accounting, debits and credits and balancing is important.

So yes, if you are happy to ignore debit/credit/balanced books, you are welcome to view asset as $2m. And lots of the simple accounting software will show it that way.

But by the time you are having to understand different types of accounts and different types of money in it, I think it is easier to use negative numbers are rather than CR/DB.
'Rarely' is probably overdoing it but Intel has had significant architecture mis-steps. It's been able to come back so strongly in part because of it's manufacturing leadership. Once that is gone though it will be much harder.
Google’s top search result is Google
Facebook seems to be down now (in Sudan, Africa)
Learning to Program by Building Tiny Python Projects
First of all, Jenkins was created in 2005, when REST was barely past the stage of being a gleam in Roy Fielding's eye. Yet, almost from the start, almost every page had an API (you'd add /api after the URL for its corresponding HTML page). With XML, JSON and Python (!) formats, with built-in search and filtering.

Secondly, to your point, there you go: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17716242/creating-user-i... I'm pretty sure that the reason there is no REST API for it is because you're supposed to be using your favorite back-end (LDAP, AD, etc.), with which Jenkins can integrate.

It's quite disingenuous to complain about the Jenkins APIs, there are a lot of them. They're not perfect or designed necessarily like something you'd design in 2020, but they are there.
> Pretty soon the countries we outsourced to will come up with better designs too.

Which, to me, would be a very good thing, so I wish them the best of luck. Many large companies that exist because of an earlier lead (established decades ago) and high barriers to entry would benefit from hard competition. My 2c.
SSH Works in Minecraft
Ask HN: What was your first programming language?
Yes on the surface level it may look like that. But, he lives in Vancouver -- where boats are decently common as its surrounded by water, boats, and seaplanes.

He clearly talks about the millions he left on the table at Amazon. If anything, it's more powerful that a millionaire is fighting for the working class and showing some small hint of putting his money where his mouth is. That is a rarer image.
Didn't you know our neurons have a 384 bit resolution?
It's extremely hard to get women's voices to sound right in TTS, at least back when I was working on it. It was a striking difference, and I'm not sure why.

e.g. I tried to do an Alyx version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koU3L7WBz_s but it came out sounding nothing like her.
Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W
in summertimes there are a lot of old, loud and stinky 2-stroke scooters in german citys.

motorcyles usually don't have dampening around the engine or a silent exhaust because it doesn't look/sound as cool. i'd wager to say your bike is louder as a modern gasoline car.
See also: You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you by The Oatmeal:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
If you are living on credit in what sense are you wealthier?

> Outsourcing your safety net to the government is the classic move of a well-functioning society.

Are you watching the same news as the rest of us? where is this well-functioning society you speak of?
I think that the radius of a Silicon atom is about 0.1 nm. ~1 nm may be the limit of what's possible. The next nodes after 3 nm are likely going to be 2 nm and 1.4 nm.

3 nm is not available yet, though. Current best is 7 nm, I believe.
I use Google Pay for my personal account, and a normal VISA/Dankort for my shared account. It's convenient to easily find the right payment method. If Danske Bank would only issue cards with different textures! With Google Pay I just touch my phone to the terminal while Mobile Pay requires more steps (90% of my Mobile Pay purchases are... fancy strawberries).
Does footnote (bottom of current page) in html mean bottom of viewport or bottom of webpage that when printed out can take 4-5 pages. If bottom of webpage what is footnote if infinite scroll.

In the MDN example for cite it is inside of a footer element
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ci...

I believe a combination of aside, cite, and footer can achieve most of what is wanted - at any rate the main problem is that footnote is a concept arising from printed works and perhaps not directly transferable to the infinite canvas that HTML in the browser represents.

on edit: minor clarification.
Thanks for pointing this out.

I was working for a major Dutch electronics company and it was interesting to watch how whenever colleagues from their US/German brach would come visit the Dutch managers would treat them like equals and invite them to drinks and dinners but whenever colleagues from their Czech/China/Singapore branch would visit, the Dutch managers would politely pretend they don't exist.
Police are compelled to process evictions by the court. The chief has no say.
Can't edit the post anymore so adding it here - further research reading on improving the current attention model: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hxvts0/d_b...
There have been good and bad journalists since the beginning of journalism.
Yes, balancing is important. That’s why I’d prefer to end with assets that make sense in the balance sheet (or maybe you're happy to ignore balance sheets and don't want meaningful numbers?). I don’t see what do you gain by making the assets negative.

Believe it or not, I’ve seen financial accounts quite more complex than two lines (and they never included those CR/DB annotations in the balance sheets or income statements).
As I recall there is an example of a study that Feynman was wont to remind people of, done by a researcher back in the 30's that pretty much has never been cited once, but nevertheless goes into the great lengths one has to go to properly control for training rats.

Point being, just because a study is old, doesn't mean it's useless.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/02/the_rat_experi...

Frankly, if it weren't for my absolute refusal to support the academic publishing complex and the gatekeeping of knowledge, I'd give his article a read, and would be interested in being pointed in the direction of some of the papers that have challenged his conclusions.
Oprah? Beyonce? Queen Elizabeth?
It is a trope that every generation thinks the next generation is worse

I also think you're looking at Yugoslavia with nostalgic rose colored glasses. I understand it because I grew up in communist Eastern Europe and I have similar feelings about life back then, but let's be clear, everything was fine as long as you charted the expected course and had no major aspirations. If you had any sort of ambition, political, or economic, or if your personality trait tended towards contrarianism, you had to leave. It was also clear that European communist nations were being left behind by ever faster developing west. Had there was no market transition, you still would have had to import western electronics because our nations were never going to meaningfully compete in that sphere. During the time of Galaksija computer, the West was going through a much larger and much more broad and egalitarian PC revolution, and was only 10 years removed from the web. We were never going to catch up. The political structures of our nations, because they were monolithic an inflexible, were corrupt by the 80s. In my country the collapse resulted in social upheaval and very painful economic transition. In your nation, it resulted in many years of civil war.
"You can only watch old family friends open Christmas gifts so many times"

It is unbelievable sad and tragic how many people realize how untrue this is until it's too late.