skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> every time I go to Europe

Seems to me you go to only a specific part of Europe, i.e., central Europe.

I live in Europe and spend the last 3 years traveling/working around it. It is not one entity, and cellular infrastructure in one country implies nothing on that of another country.

So yes, Germany internet infrastructure and cellular prices is terrible, but Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland and many others got fantastic infrastructure, at least from my experience.
He took more than the average amount of glee in executing counterfeiters, and did up his apartments in red. Edgar Allan Poe couldn’t have written it better.
It's funny how videos such as this, which are optimized for engagement over learning, explain things in a backwards fashion. Instead of explaining how the thing works, and then showing you how to make the parts to build one yourself. They show you how to make the parts, and only explain what it is you're building at the very end.
How is "work from home becoming the norm" an upside?

It might be an upside for some people but it is definitely a downside for others.

PS: I've worked from home for more than 10 years, for several companies.
I've been wondering about the exact same thing. Basically, a sufficiently calibrated and targeted GPT3 bot swarm could be employed to render at least some parts of these communities into useless echo chambers.

I think that while GPT3 posts are usually identifiable after reading some sentences, I often also find that it's harder to realize when consuming precisely this kind of social media. I often just consume it absent mindedly as opposed to reading a real article.
Curious as to why they'd base this on AngelScript (which I had not heard of before today) instead of a more widespread language like Python?
Fastmail supports regex and wildcards off the top of my head, as I have them set up with my own personal domain. My financial accounts for example are in the format of “bank+xxxxx@domain.tld”
“The Koch family has supported the organization, and Charles Koch serves on the group's board of directors.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

That said, Tyler Cowen’s ethnic dining guide has been infallible.
Looks like at most £110k when you read the accounts. Not sure why you're not finding them and mentioning words like 'conspiracy' and 'cock-up' - they're right here if you bother to look for them:

http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...
No; to a certain extent, GPT-3's job is: "Make a text that looks like one you might actually find floating around the internet."

What's not clear to me, even from this thread, is what exactly they were expecting it to do instead.

It sounds like they were expecting it to say something like, "...but that turned out to be a bad idea, because the cigarette dissolved and then it tasted like cheap tobacco and paper."

But honestly, is that the most likely thing you'd find on the internet? Nobody goes a random direction like "I decided to stir my lemonade with a cigarette" and then plays it totally mundane. If you writing goes in an absurd direction, it continues to go that way. I don't think this particular example shows anything one way or another.

The bit about buying the shirt was obviously nonsense though.
Here in the US they claim it makes infection less likely. Supposedly uncircumcised men must carefully clean to avoid that. Haven't seen any compelling research to the supposed benefits. And there is a very real risk of mutilation or infection with any surgery.

More likely the Judeo-Christian influence lead some to justify the practice when it come under scrutiny.

EDIT: research not reach
it's common for people suffering from autism spectrum disorders, not so much in the general population.
I still feel a little sour about this result: mainly because it's "easier" to find data on adult patients, but children data are far harder to get.

So I feel this is a wasted opportunity.
Couldn't you lie the screen completely flat and build it the other way (reflecting the screen and passing through the camera), avoiding the keyboard problem?
Never, ever, buy a large game until it gets at least a few months of updates. You don’t want to pay to be a beta tester.

Just wait 6 months and if it’s not smooth by then it probably never will be.
14 months.

My favorite, very fuzzy memory of "early investors in amzn" concerns someone who appears to have successfully dropped off the map. We had hired a guy called who had graduated from a college in OR known for being a bit "wooly" but nevertheless generated high quality grads. Jeff wanted to hire some more people from the school, and asked the guy for suggestions. We ended up hiring (among others) a philosophy grad who was also a carpenter and cycling fiend. This guy designed and built the first specialized packing tables for the company. He was a gentle, reflective soul, not really into computers or tech or startups or any of what amazon was about, as I recall.

When he heard that Jeff was looking for "angel" investors (as opposed to VC money, which he wanted to avoid as much as possible), the carpenter went to see Jeff about putting his life savings into the company. My recollection is that he might have had about $35k saved up (he was a deeply frugal person, too). Jeff told him twice that it was a terrible idea, that the company was still incredibly risky, and it was insane for someone so young. The third time, Jeff relented, and allowed him to buy a bunch of stock.

Based on the article, if he had held onto his stock, it would have been worth about $5BN. More likely, he sold it along the way, and probably netted somewhere in the 10s to 100s of millions.

I have no idea what happened to the carpenter, but I hope that he's happy somewhere with some beautiful handtools in a woodshop he built himself, riding one of many custom made bicycles across a lovely landscape. Based on what I knew of him back then, definitely the most deserving and philosophically appropriate winner at the amazon stock roulette game.
I sold 4 Bitcoin when they hit 1000 and I'm not even mad. I liked them in a Dell laptop with a discrete laptop graphics card back when that was possible using pools.
It seems to me that the best help from the individual's perspective would be to consult a therapist, and from a social perspective, to dismantle the idea that one's worth is determined by having sexual partners (and the converse, that some peoples' lack of worth is determined by 'too many' partners). Some (perhaps many, or even most) in the incel community seem to think they are entitled to not only a partner but a partner that will fit a certain specification.

I'm all for sympathy and understanding. But what kind of sympathy can regular people give without falling into the logic that everyone is entitled to a partner? How should we prevent that sympathy from turning into pity, which feeds the narrative that there is necessarily something wrong with not having a partner?

As a society we are able to do various things that go beyond sympathy for a wide range of individual misfortunes - we can assist the poor (throgh welfare programs and charity), and we can anonymize university applications and make buildings and media accessible to those with physical problems. I think part of why incels don't get much sympathy is because there's nothing society can do about that problem to help any particular individual. It can also be hard to empathise with; everyone has been single at some point, and on the whole, most peoples' experiences dictate that it's probably not as bad as being poor or disabled.
As "antifa" does not, in practice, mean "anybody who opposes fascism", "incel" does not, in practice, mean "anybody who is involuntarily celibate".
GCP Service Account YubiKey: Part 2
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Founder Grants: Fund a startup without giving up equity
The occasional failure scenario is well captured by private companies.
Another Fastmail user here. What's missing for me are Android widgets for mail, calendar and note-taking. Also, their note-taking app needs some work.
I believe I understand correctly UB and unsafe.

The cxx crate and the autocxx tool should make sure that the exposed C++ functions only take arguments types which have well defined semantics.

In your example, a rust Box<T> maps to a rust::Box<T> in C++, which cannot be null. And a unique_ptr from C++ maps to a cxx::UniquePtr in rust which can be empty.

If somehow the C++ code puts a dangling or null pointer into a rust::Box, that is clearly a bug in the C++ code.
Their board list probably has some good hints.
The US is worse still.
We had 1.5 days continuous driving without signal, including one town (Page).
Also California, which is probably not the end of the world, I recall a tech centered region is there, right?, so it has more blind spots than people.
The paper is at: https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(20)31023-4/fulltext
I was watching my task manager as I played. On my 4k @60fps on the Very High graphics settings and the GPU was spiked at 100% the whole time (GTX 1660). Sounded like the propellor was in my computer room. On my 1440p monitor are @75fps I was at Extreme graphics settings and GPU was at 40%.
If you need any mock interviews I am willing to help for free.
Anyone know of a source of bulk (e.g. 20kg) uranium ore like United Nuclear used to sell? I always wanted to refine some when I was a teenager but by the time I actually had a way to spend money online they were sold out for good.
>the providers had to take out huge loans and had to re-pay them instead of being able to invest in building out the networks or offer affordable services!

What's your alternative? Should the licenses have been given away to some blessed companies? I hardly think you can fault the regulator for holding a proper auction. The failing here was clearly on the companies' part as they overestimated the impact UMTS would have. That the companies then have the audacity to try to get the money back from the government is slightly shocking - "plz socialize these losses lol".

The problem is clearly solvable. The government could just pay for the coverage to be built out (payment pending operational towers, obviously).
openSUSE Tumbleweed and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also run on IBM Z mainframes. I don't see how "Red Hat" has revived mainframes, they are not doing anything SUSE, openSUSE, Debian and many others are already doing.
I don’t think an impractical nuke from 1961 is gonna move the needle much.
I started using Cuppa in July and have met around 30 people from various backgrounds. I love that you don't know who you are going to meet till you select their table. Cuppa has been a major value-add to me. The "no sales pitches" rule is awesome and has resulted in meetings where both of us have walked away with something useful from the call.
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
> Zurich

Switzerland's cell coverage is consistently ranked in the European top 5, along Netherlands and Scandinavian countries. I work at a company where hundreds of employees get to commute and work on the train, sometimes 3-4 times a week (pre-covid), and I don't know anyone who complains about cell coverage or speed.

I personally live next to a cow field and have access to 10 Gbps FTTH and 5G from two carriers.
first learn data structures then algorithms and at the end all languages becomes easy
The market is rational, the monetary system is what's insane. If the Fed doesn't start raising interest rates, this insanity will only continue and intensify. Buying cryptocurrency is the purest, most direct, most effective way to benefit from the current madness.

The Fed is just going to keep printing as much money as is necessary to meet its full employment mandate (which is physically impossible at this stage due to automation). Employees all over the world are currently going round in circles and digging holes and filling them back up. Any white collar worker who takes their job seriously at this stage needs to wake up... What's going on is so obvious.

Just bring in UBI and abolish the Fed. Better have idle people getting paid to do nothing than busy people getting paid to pretend to do something and engaging in self-deception... And let's not forget all the people who can't get a job because their useless skills are not useless in exactly the right way as demanded by their equally useless employers.

I've seen many people get rich who have about the intelligence of a wild macaque and I've also seen very smart people struggling to make ends meet.
It's even worse: when you cancel a contract, they can turn it off remotely, but when you get a new contract, a technician has to come out and turn it on.
> If I read correctly the they're saying they found that children have higher viral loads in their respiratory tracts

As I wrote elsewhere in the comments, the researchers have equated the quantity of viral RNA with viral load. Studies in adults have shown that this is not always the case. There's no guarantee that there is active virus there (unless you try to infect cells with what you got from the swab).
From the paper: "The update rule in Eq. (3) is the Concave-Convex Procedure (CCCP)"

Soviet anthem starts playing in the distance.

"СССР" is "USSR" in Russian.
This is one of those articles that says a lot without saying anything. Why do these two museums not like each other?
Virtual assistant will screen your phone calls to block spammers
Quite eerie to watch the column of dirt rise so slowly after such a violent explosion. Same for the aftermath, other than perhaps the melted snow exposing the red dirt below, the landscape hardly looks any different after the test.

Amazing that the mushroom cloud nearly reached space.
https://github.com/localstack/localstack

Though I find a stronger argument in using containerisation to ensure an identical application run-time environment no matter the infra it’s running on.

If we are talking about infra engineering, then sure. That’s where I find localstack helps
Or they go after the people who have tried to hide themselves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I think this is a very odd thing to structure a life around, but then again I've never understood any kind of doomsday prepping.
I had the same in Cambridge, UK. Probably not 3 weeks but at least 2. Ridiculous.
Fantastic comment and exactly correct. The genetics argument is a complete fabrication, what I’ve heard before is that infants don’t eat enough solid food e.g. meat on the bone when younger but instead too much puréed soft food. But I’ve no idea if this is correct. But something is off.
Hi HN. I have always liked the idea of browsing with structured tabs. It’s sad there are very few implementations of this, and none on iOS before to my knowledge.

Even though making another WKWebView based browser is somewhat questionable, I included many features to make the experience smooth—iCloud sync, iPad multitasking/multiwindow, AdBlock, drag and drop, and more.

This is also my SwiftUI + Combine tryout project. It worked very well for me, despite the many quirks & performance degradation with larger views that required specific optimization.

It is still somewhat experimental at this stage, especially that it does not handle asynchronously loaded pages very well. But it’s something nice I made for myself, and I thought to share with everyone, totally free and no ads or tracking whatsoever.

(UI/UX work much nicer on iPad because that’s my use case I optimized for)
Windows was more prominent and didn’t have a real cli culture, Internet Explorer was still king back then. Dedicated Linux servers were expensive, virtual servers didn’t really exist, most people spinning up VPSs today would only have been able to afford shared PHP hosting with no shell access. And most importantly, web development was much simpler back then.
On (Internal) Software Quality and “The Correlation Principle”
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My theory is that there's cross immunity to other coronaviruses. This is now supported by molecular research but it's been my hypothesis all along. Basically little kids are so exposed to so many other coronaviruses they have greater immunity to sars-cov-2.

I've had this prediction I'd like to test with the right data that parents of young children, and those that work with them, have lower covid rates than demographically matched controls.

Ironically this would suggest that socially distancing kids might decrease immunity in the long run.
I think this comment is spot on. I've used cellular services in both Germany and Denmark extensively and they are nothing alike. Germany has spotty coverage; in Denmark, you have coverage pretty much everywhere even in rural areas. This is not just geography, it is also deliberate government policy.
Hah, that's awesome!

As they say, old airplanes were designed entirely by hand. At some point computers could do some calculations. In the nineties, the computers could analyze CAD designs. Later, the computer could iterate through designs and do dimensioning. Maybe currently, generative design of parts. In the future they will be able to do configuration.
> Something I've never seen in the US

T-Mobile: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/17/21293950/t-mobile-outage-...

Verizon: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/01/31/verizon-outage...

AT&T: https://www.kltv.com/2020/08/17/att-outage-affecting-custome...

Sprint: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2020/07/22/di...

All of them together: https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/15/t-mobile-att-verizon-outage/
The metrics listed are:

> Short lead time

> High deployment frequency

> Short mean time to restore (MTTR)

> Low change fail percentage

Those aren't as easy to game as LoC, which is the usual example for gamed metrics when people say "a metric that becomes a target stops being a good metric."

I think that saying is contextual, in any case. If you take it to the logical extreme you have to make organizational decisions without any information.
Google uses crowdsourced photos to recreate landmarks in 3D for AR/VR
Probably because Netflix is a more predictable income and was well-established before being available on iOS. There’s no way to know if your average fly-by-night 5$ app is going to be worth the disk space it’s stored on in the long haul. It may sell well, thereby justifying the expense of vetting it or it may be a total dud, in which case you’ve wasted staff time and energy putting it through the process allowing it to be sold.

Netflix also fills a very broad niche, so big that it can’t really be called a niche. Giving them some leeway makes sense.
I left amzn after 1 year of my options vested. Compared to almost all Americans, it made me rich. It let me spend 10 years as an at-home parent raising my daughter. Had I stayed the full term, I'd have owned 1% of the company (I got ripped off in my initial negotiations with Jeff :).

Occasionally I wonder what I'd have done with all that money, but very rarely. I don't miss the billions. The $1M (plus or minus) that I got out of it was more than enough to count myself deeply fortunate. Nobody "earns" that much money - I just got lucky.

I prefer the path I took - a great life, much happiness, low stress, and for the last 20 years, the fun and games of building one of the most successful libre software projects around.
True. However, often affluent people using citizenship-by-investment programs in e.g. Malta, Greece or Bulgaria have no intention of ever actually living in that country. They simply want a passport of an EU country so that they can freely move to any other EU country, and in that other EU country they may already speak a local language or be confident of their ability to do most things in English.
> Cutting out DeepSpeech seems sensible to me, it’s out of place in the general portfolio of products.

I disagree precisely because of the point you make later: "I’m somewhat concerned that Firefox will be irrelevant in fives years".

Functionality provided by deep learning is going to be an important component of many types of software interactions going forward. The logistics of this will be quite different from what we are used to in open source, with the need to fund and coordinate compute, collect and handle data being a more vital aspect compared to the past.

There are STT software, some mentioned in this thread, that match or are even better than DeepSpeech but none of them are as ergonomic. Accounting for the value of time, this means it will be more cost effective to outsource such capabilities to the cloud. Which comes with trade-offs that are difficult to appreciate in the short term: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24236489

I'd say DeepSpeech fits in the mold of Mozilla as a company providing solutions to complicated software problems that are better at respecting the user and their privacy.

In the old days, the most accurate TTS and STT models were built into the OS. These days, you need to call into the cloud to get the best stuff. In [1], Internet Archive complains about the quality of their OCR software. It's not that OCR is so bad, it's that the best OCR is found on Google's and Microsoft's computers. It's possible to cobble something together using open source solutions like EasyOCR, Tesseract+OpenCV but that will only get you part of the way there. What makes the cloud offerings so good is they have enough resources to devote to pre-processing pipelines and architecture tweaks and settings better able to handle edge cases. Most of the mass resides in edge cases.

From my vantage, the future looks to be one of software as thin layers built atop APIs which call into programs running on the servers of a handful of companies. You might not think this a big deal but these software will be the ones scanning the environment, writing the emails, completing the thoughts and planning the calendars for the majority of humans.

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2020/08/21/can-you-help-us-make-the...
Awesome project! I particularly love the AssemblyScript visualization resembling a city view. Thanks for sharing it!
I'm not sure I follow the definition of ownership, and maybe you can help me out here. Does ownership mean that, if class A owns property B and C, iswaac renders box A enclosing box B and C? How does it apply to function relationship when it's not a strictly nested tree?
This reminds me of Firefox 3D view [1] of HTML DOM elements, which is another handy visualization that's unfortunately discontinued. I think it helps frontend engineers fighting against spaghetti HTML/CSS code.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View
Latest accounts:http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0001012... shows £5.32M cash at bank, which likely will have grown to over 6Mn in 2019.

This is all at the same time they are kicking out their large commercial tenant who run an innovation centre (end of this year) so they can create some more museum, office and education space. I imagine this situation is not 'so severe' that they will walk back that decision.
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