skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO Swift is easier than JS or python for medium to large projects. Once you get to a certain scale of codebase where you can't keep all the systems in your mind at one time, weakly typed, interpreted languages start to reach a point of diminishing returns, and the inability to catch issues at compile time starts to be missed. You can mitigate this by writing a lot of tests, but this creates a large additional workload which more than outweighs the additional complexity you would have encountered working with a language like Swift in the first place.
My favorite part is

> If you add some obscure code such as below, to this or any other app, even if it has only the teeniest chance of being less blindingly obvious to someone else than it is to you at the time of writing, please please please add a fing comment.

This rings as true now as it did then and its my favorite comment so far out of this whole leak. I've reached a point where my comments are there to remind myself why I did a thing, because more often than not I'm the poor bastard who's stuck fixing what past me did, and past me was either a sadistic asshole or a blithering idiot.
Thank you! I was thinking about it - as clocks and controller are indoor it is unlikely that there would be stable GPS signal, external antenna may be needed. Another option is to add DCF-77 receiver, this one could be used in most of the EU countries, including indoor. May be will do this in v2 version :)

Another idea is to use FRAM instead of the board flash, to solve wear out problem forever :)
Worldometers is one-stop shopping for the entire planet.

There are reasons aggregators are useful.
One afternoon a student said “Roshi, I don’t really understand what’s going on. I mean, we sit in zazen and we gassho to each other and everything, and Felicia got enlightened when the bottom fell out of her water-bucket, and Todd got enlightened when you popped him one with your staff, and people work on koans and get enlightened, but I’ve been doing this for two years now, and the koans don’t make any sense, and I don’t feel enlightened at all! Can you just tell me what’s going on?”

“Well you see,” Roshi replied, “for most people, and especially for most educated people like you and I, what we perceive and experience is heavily mediated, through language and concepts that are deeply ingrained in our ways of thinking and feeling. Our objective here is to induce in ourselves and in each other a psychological state that involves the unmediated experience of the world, because we believe that that state has certain desirable properties. It’s impossible in general to reach that state through any particular form or method, since forms and methods are themselves examples of the mediators that we are trying to avoid.

So we employ a variety of ad hoc means, some linguistic like koans and some non-linguistic like zazen, in hopes that for any given student one or more of our methods will, in whatever way, engender the condition of non-mediated experience that is our goal. And since even thinking in terms of mediators and goals tends to reinforce our undesirable dependency on concepts, we actively discourage exactly this kind of analytical discourse.

And the student was enlightened.
Beware Windows XP Users the Operating System's Source Code Has Just Been Leaked
First thing to do is to realize that sales is a much more metrics driven endeavor than engineering.

https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/close-more-deals-with-meddic...
I've been a huge Beatles fan since my early 20s, I can recognize and sing almost every song, but somewhere in the last 5 years the relevance of their music just fell off a cliff and I never listen anymore. Some of it is probably life stage related but I can't help but think a lot of it is just that they describe a time that now bears little resemblance to our own. We're entering some dark times, and hearing songs from the golden age of the 60s can create a kind of visceral rejection.

I'm glad to see Abbey Road surpass Sgt Pepper though, past cultural relevance aside it's just a better album to listen to. I'm fully in support of ranking What's Going On much higher, musically its fantastic and its themes are unfortunately still so relevant.

As a ranking criteria I'd say a mix of music & timelessness or relevance are the most important, followed in distant third by how groundbreaking or influential they were in their time, as that feels more like an intellectual footnote than a judgment of the music.
> In Germany holidays are sacred, and you won't generally find people putting in tons of overtime to get a product off the ground

Hmh. That’s only 10% slower if you assume Americans never take holidays (which is probably not true at all).

I don’t really believe startupers work as much as they claim to however, because you are usually useless at 16 hours a day for a month.

How much did it take Elon Musk to go callig people pedos of working heavy hours and sleeping in the office?
RMS it is not first time he is loose with truth.
I apologize about posting this and finding out from the comments the site doesn't work in Firefox...! I was sent this and thought it was worth sharing.
Way of the Wolfe by Jordan Belfort. Bar none best pure sales book out there. It really did make a big improvement on my sames abilities. And yes, the guy is scummy, but damn his book works.
Tropigro – the modern plant growing appliance
Good for him.

I'm a little amazed at how little the Y Combinator model has been copied in Europe.

Now, obviously any new incubator wouldn't come even close to being able to offer what YC does right now with the extensive network etc. But hell, just offering 10-15 startups €120k every six months for ten years would be worth a shot. Maybe fly those companies to Berlin or London or Stockholm. Help them out with whatever you can, but mostly let them figure it out themselves. Maybe focus on startups from the EMEA region.

The costs would consist of the fund (€36M) plus the cost of operating the program (perhaps a €1M/year). That would still amount to below €50M.

Idk. There are probably plenty of reasons why this would be a bad idea, but if I'd ever have 50 million to spend, this is what I'd try.
That's not the problem. The tax in Europe is similar to that in California. The problem is tech companies pay very very low.
Just saw this pitched at Purple Prize Kilo Hōkū Demo Day.

Seems like a cool aquaponics / hydroponics system.
But unless you make over something like 300k/year, you almost certainly get as much or more value from society than you pay in tax.
Total effective tax rate is perhaps 20-45% depending on location and salary, but education, daycare, health care, etc is very heavily subsidised instaed.
> You can still run Windows 95 programs on your new Windows 10 PC. While useful to some, I'll never understand why exactly is it done this way.

Because they make a lot of money on enterprise customers. The only way to convince them to upgrade is to guarantee the new OS version won't break their legacy software. But even on consumer market, in the 90s and 2000s it was important old videogames work on new versions of Windows, or otherwise people would not upgrade.

This comes from before the days of web applications and everything as a Service. Software vendors had to work hard to get people to pay them again.
“The State Machine” A new short story imagines a government run by machines
I am exactly in your shoes. Doing marketing as I write this.
Leave US pay. Europe pay is low even in Indian standards.
Would those affect a european-based company hosting and serving users in the US or Asia?

US-based companies face the same challenges when trying to reach European customers, so this is an equal playing field as far as I can tell.
The emergence of groups like this is due to three reasons:

1. The internet

2. The misinformation, sensationalism, and emotional manipulation in the groups themselves

3. A massive gap/amount of disinformation in mainstream media/lexicon/knowledge base

People are massively overestimating number 2, and massively underestimating number three. The general populace is not as stupid as people and the media like to think, it’s blatantly clear that there’s more to what’s going on than is encapsulated in the current public narrative.
Allow apps to disable/remove ratings completely, and prioritize apps with ratings disabled above those with ratings enabled.

In-platform ratings and the constant nagging would disappear overnight.
Nice - how did you manage to store audio locally yet enable both parties to have access?
Definitely not universal.
There is no such thing as a European tech ecosystem. It is very different depending on exactly which country you look at. Where did you focus your investigation?
I have seen this with other stories. Not being upvoted doesn't account for the rate of disappearance. I would like to know more about how uncontroversial postings (e.g. astronomical discoveries) vanish so suddenly, sometimes in seconds. Do moderators decide a story is just not interesting enough to stay?
It would depend upon the work.

If the work is embarrassingly parallel, then 25% more. (5/4 = 1.25, of course)

If there is too much work for four people to function effectively, perhaps more than 25%.

If the work requires a lot of inter-process communication, perhaps less than 25%.
I’ve also done the calculation that it takes an extra $1000 a year for me to have an extra $50/month net income.

The opposite side of that coin is that if I can cut my expenses by $50/month. That’s $1000 a year less that I need to make ends meet. Currently I make far above my local market income [1], but with my current skillset, this is the only job that I could get making that. I’m focusing over the next couple of years to pay off as much debt as possible to decrease my monthly expenses by paying off stuff and increase my (non existent) non retirement savings.

Every penny of my signing bonus (paid over 2 years) and RSUs are going toward “increasing net worth”. Just in case I have to get a job making local market salaries we will be okay.

[1]. This isn’t a humble brag. I’m 45 years old making about what a college grad 2-3 years out of school could make working at $BigTech.
https://archive.is/fFni3
The EU is silly. Most of these grants are picked up by beurocrats that know how to get them and enrich themselves.

Best example is that big blue brain project in Switzerland that got billions even when the science was not there.

Universities are currently filled with bureaucrats that know how to win grants and produce no results.
- readline functionality and history

- Hints and completions behind the Tab key

- Syntax highlighting as you type, along with auto-indentation

- Dynamic introspection with "?" and "??"

- Being able to run shell commands with "!" and capturing their output with "!!"

- Magic commands behind "%" and "%%"

- File system navigation
IIRC Apple requires apps to use Apple’s method to ask users to review. And they respect the “don’t bother me” answer.
Downvote submissions? Is that tied to "karma", or whatever we call our internet points on HN? Cause I can't do that. Only comments.
Hilarious idea that such advanced technology would be used to spread humans.
Needs a seizure warning. Other than that, it's a lot of fun.
Historically, artists never made much money selling music. Artists made most of their music going on tour, selling merch, or monetizing their likeness.

In the early 1990s I worked for Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond's record label, back when they were dominating the UK and European pop charts as The KLF (https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/20/537708922/...).

They never made a pound touring. Their success and much of their impact was tied to European club playlists, the sales of singles, album sales, and the media.

You can talk to many other artists from that era who did depend on touring and merch, but also used distribution and sales of singles and albums (and advances on record deals) to establish themselves.

While plastic media was doomed long before Spotify, this "audio-based customer acquisition channel" is, by design, set up to benefit Spotify, record labels, and top artists, in that order.

Everyone else in the 98.6% tier gets the scraps.
Berlin mostly which is one of the major European tech hubs. I think the biggest one in EU.
Have societies justly and fairly treated individuals in the past? If not then there’s little reason to point to it when talking about a person in power “doing the right thing”.
How I raised myself from failure to success in selling - Frank Bettger. It's a classic.

I think sales can be broken down into:

1. Foundation of being perceived as an authority

2. Lead generation

3. Persuasion and conversion

4. Re-sale

Breaking it down makes it easy to become better at the sales process.
While artists made much more of their money on tour or selling merch, it didn’t take all that many sales of physical releases for an artist to top $12/month. Yes, the distributor and label took their share, and the royalty paid to the musicians was a minority of the sale price, but they could still make more money than they do now on streaming platforms.
OCaml is usually compiled by module, and module-module interfaces mostly all have explicitly declared types (in the .mli), so it's usually not very global, just within the module.
Not saying I am a fan of everything going on in tech world but it is pretty evident that AI is going to end up happening the West World “Rehoboam” big AI brain way than the Jetsons AI maid way, not purely due to corporate interests but rather due to the inherent cost of just making it work. Unless we can have PB/EB worth of storage locally then it’s going to be the cloud. And a cloud API with 1000 EB storage will always outperform your local 10 PB AI model.

The most practical approach that I can see would be to minimize the cost of accessing the model, making it free like author suggests for research, students, non-profits etc. and charging more for commercial usage, basically extending the existing cloud model.

One thing that I think should be free for everyone would be testing the model for biases. Basically if every AI API to check bias on any topic was free, then it could be improved by anyone including marginalized groups. If GPT-3 thinks all Indians are either doctors, coders, or gas station owners then I would like to be able to test, verify, and offer a patch without any cost, maybe even a reward. Otherwise GPT-4-5-6 will end up throwing away all Indian sounding last names applying for a construction job.
Love the idea but revokation became the problem now
So... why upgrade in the first place then, to solve what? Something I learned as a software developer is that if a piece of code is working properly, the best thing you can do is to leave it alone.
You have to take into account that cost of healthcare, cost of living and that Europeans typically don't have student loans to pay off.
> This goes to show one of the big problems with app stores. Apple wants to have a bunch of apps that all have 5 star reviews, so you think everyone using an iPhone is happy and that all the apps are Just Great.

OR Apple wants to improve user experience by requiring developers to use something that respects the “don’t bother me” answer. Apple is not the best, but not everything is a conspiracy
CDC Pandemic Planning Scenarios: Fatality “Estimates”: .00003%, .0002%, .005%
We changed the title to a substring of the title ("Coffee makers are demanding a ransom") to make it less baity but I see how that could be misleading. I've attempted to disambiguate it above.

Edit: perhaps a better solution is to change to the original source, pointed out by commenters in this thread. We've changed to that from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a....
The host of this show is known for wearing that exact outfit pretty much everywhere.
The bar for the same title is set differently depending on the company size / scale their products operate at.

It's generally awarded on your level of skill and responsibilities relative to your peers in the company, and not the industry per se.
Here's how. Hit the street and try to sell something to passers by. Hot day - maybe coupons for ice cream. Rainy day - maybe some umbrellas at a major bus stop or transit station. Keep leveling up from there. Find a problem and sell folks the solution.

All the book recommendations in the thread are solid.
Well I appreciate the audience for whatever its worth. The exchange added value. Thanks!
You say that, but between federal, state and city income tax in NYC I was paying a higher rate there than when I lived in London.

The reason is that you’re competing in a much more varied market with less silly money splashing about. Cost of living in London is high, but you’re competing for jobs with competent teams in Eastern Europe. That coupled with fewer VCs funding “Uber for cats” ideas, there’s just not the appetite for paying devs US level salaries.
It's not about the hours as much as the attitude toward work. The pace of work is just slower in general in Germany in my experience: when there's a conflict between a deadline and capacity in Germany, the deadline gets pushed. In US, capacity gets increased.

Don't get me wrong, I think the German way of working is way healthier and more sustainable, but everything has a trade-off, and the leave-it-all-on-the-table mentality of American startups seems more conducive to getting an innovative project with difficult technical problems off the ground in my experience.
Leaking info to someone not cleared to read it is not treasonous inherently unless it also meets the actual elements of us law.

> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
OpenAI's goals are (1) make money and (2) generate positive press coverage about OpenAI. (They make statements about wanting other things but that's mainly to help them achieve (2).)

Prioritizing people with concrete project ideas helps them in both areas: they're more likely to convert into paid customers down the line, and they're more likely to generate "OpenAI technology is now being used for X" press releases.
The best thing I ever learned in sales is people must be comfortable to be successful. Find something relatable and that will often lead to comfort which will lead to a productive conversation/chance at a sale.
Hashicorp vault? You probably have more secrets than SSH to protect.

If you’re on AWS also consider high value add built ins like EC2 instance connect or ssm session manager so you can manage host access via IAM.
It's this pretty common even in the US outside of silicon valley?
It’s a write-up describing a bypass of Single Origin Policy in Safari’s Reader View. Just a blog post, and it mentions that vulnerabilities are fixed in the August 2020 update
In Oracle there is no difference between a NULL and an empty string. My understanding is that this design decision was made long long ago before there were any standards or a realization that this was a bad thing and now it is too late to change.

By far and away, the way NULLs are handled in Oracle is the biggest problem with moving to a different database.
Definitely one of the worst dark patterns to a site you frequent.
You're disappointed by the discovery of a new brain structure? This seems like a wonderful discovery to me.
The scope is not to produce "unicorns" but to drive innovation and R&D for all different kinds of projects.
Those funds should not act as VC with the only purpose of growth, but it should fund sustainable innovative companies or open source foundations.
Lately I've been seeing the EU founded logo on more and more extremely useful open source programs that everyone uses and which had no funding sources because of the lack of "extreme profit" in the horizon and that should be the results that this grants achieve.
The reason EU companies don't pay US tech salaries is that there aren't enough super profitable companies, and also, related, that the most profitable companies don't properly have to compete for the best engineers.

I think we would move in the direction of US tech companies if we managed to create five world-class tech behemoths, but I don't see that happening. Taxation will necessarily affect things; some places have an employer tax that approaches 100%. (Half the salary to the employee and half to the state, then tax the employee's share again afterwards).
> The Earth today is not capable of sprouting life (abiogenesis). In fact, from the fossil record and genetic studies, the Earth has almost certainly been unable to form new life (out of un living substances I mean) for billions of years.

Playing devil's advocate for a bit, how do you know that existing life, honed by evolution, doesn't simply outcompete life that is continuously born abiogenetically in places like hydrothermal vents [1]?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent
> Historically, artists never made much money selling music.

Yup, so why start now, right? That would go against tradition.
I think the book "Spin Selling" may be worth your time.
Changed to that from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a.... Thanks!
If you need to work in order to keep a roof over your head, food on your plate and to take your kid to a doctor, then you are working class. It doesn't matter how much money you make, because it is never enough to leave the working class and live off of your assets indefinitely.
Does it really make a big difference if it’s true or not? Even in the case where it’s 100% certifiably true, it’s just one anecdote. As you point out, you need more data on a trend to take it more meaningful.

That all being said, I think this sort of tale can still be a useful tool to have a discussion around. And then that discussion can in turn produce questions that could later be backed up by research and data.
Is the labor cost of cargo flights such a big factor motivating unmanned planes? Or would the entire design of planes be changed such that human dimensions and systems wouldn't be needed? I imagine though, that the planes would still have to be pressurized.

It seems on first glance that all the extra effort to design and operate such systems isn't a huge cost savings over 2 pilots?
Yeah good luck with that. There's a reason so few giant tech companies come from Europe, and it isn't cash.
> For QAnons who’ve taken the red pill, the world of MSM is unreal, designed to deceive and prevent us from seeing the truth.

2nd article comment

> So one thing that all of you anti conspiracy theorists never talk about is how many ideas are no longer conspiracy but found to be true,

I think the power of QAnon comes from the fact MSM hasn't reported properly on the most important ongoing matters since WWII.

We still have no real whistle blower protection. Assange is currently silenced and the
coverage has been very disappointing in MSM. This reinforces the doubt on what is real told by MSM for many years to come.
That's great, but you should stop the dark mode evangelization propaganda.
The mirror test also gives widely different results in humans. Canadian children pass it at 2 years old, while Kenyans fail at 5: https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Journal%20of%20Cross...

Would you conclude from it that Kenyan children are less (or not at all) "self-aware" than Canadian ones? Or that the leap from "recognize reflection" to "self-awareness" is unjustified?
As a software developer in a southern European country, the current scenario is just appalling. Salaries have receeded to the levels of the worst years of the previous decade, and we are now forced to make less money with worse conditions than at our previous jobs, because there is nothing better available.

This is good news, but we need investment two orders of magnitude higher before we think about fixing this situation.

If you are an American or Australian thinking of moving to southern Europe, consider moving to a developing country somewhere else instead. The job market will be similar and life will be much cheaper.