skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the couchsurfing experience none of it was really dangerous, just really annoying.

My reason for going to Thailand was that I had an internship in Australia (I'm from the Netherlands) and I was going to change planes there anyway, so I figured I might as well spend a month in the area. While I didn't like the cities, there were many other nice and beautiful places.

People have different levels of risk tolerance and different interests. I have traveled in a number of poor or somewhat conflicted countries and while it's definitely not always enjoyable, I don't think everything in life is about enjoyment and they were really valuable experiences that shaped my view on the world in other ways. (Not to sound like a disaster tourist - in all cases I was either passing through or working in the area, it's not like I went to watch poverty or conflict.)
This is still going -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonicEnergy

This is about the general stupidity of the IT community, which is HN

If there was a group consensus around the obvious facts then these companies would just disappear and in theory we'd start making more stuff that works.

But the stupidity is ingrained in the community, nothing to do with investors.

The ultimate irony is things that might work are not pie in the sky enough, which is all the community believes in anymore.

Thankfully we still have the Jobs, and Elons and the Gates of the world.
I can see why he’d rather not have to deal with the licensing information (pretty soon you want an UI to decipher the alphabet-soup of CCGPLBSD/NSA/NZDAP-3.2xp...), but yeah, it would be nice. Iconfinder has that sort of thing and it speeds up matters a lot.
Let me offer you other quote from different link [1] (Nature): "Equipped with more-rigorous statistical methods, researchers are finding that social-priming effects do exist, but seem to vary between people and are smaller than first thought, Papies says."

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03755-2

Effects do exist.
Try the same with Red-Hat, Ubuntu and BSD, to see how much it has improved, hint nothing at all.
These aren't expensive policies, yes its cost is more than 0, but what country would honestly be bankrupted by this?
Isn't that part of the beauty.
I once came across an article about the making of Diflourdioxid that was one of the best reads i had thia year.
It would come from electrolysis of water, using renewable energy when that's in oversupply.

Overprovisioning renewables for immediate consumption works in tandem with hydrogen, since it means there will be times excess power is available to make the hydrogen.

The round trip efficiency of power->hydrogen->power through turbines will be maybe 33%. But this is FINE, if the capital cost of storing hydrogen in underground caverns is low enough and renewables are otherwise cheap enough (low LCoE).
In 2003 Valve determined that piracy, then rampant in PC gaming, was a service problem. They built Steam to provide a better service than piracy. Years later, after Steam has all but eliminated PC game piracy and helped create a thriving market even for the niche-est of genres, their competitors complain about their de-facto monopoly.

There's a lesson in here somewhere.
Oh hey, now my 20 background tabs can cost me money, that's useful. Will they show a ($) icon like they currently show a "playing sound" icon?
Not to mention that “sign up” conjures up images of signing your name on something, entering in to some kind of contract. What am I signing up for? What are my obligations? Do I need a lawyer present? Maybe safer to just close the window.. I know that’s not the intent, but that’s the mental image. Signing up means joining the army to me.
And this statement here (one I’ve heard before from others as well) demonstrates one of our biggest problems (speaking as someone who grew up in India) - and makes my blood boil.

Without respect for the individual and individual rights, Indian society will not progress.
Sitting on your high horse and making judgements about how the poor and uneducated (or any other group) aren’t ready for free speech is not the way.
Not an expert but my understanding is that you are largely incorrect. The "experiment" was a test the facility had to pass (dark station shutdown) in order to be certified safe. The site's primary function was to generate electricity. Secondary function to create weapons material precursors. That humans had to follow processes in order to avoid contaminating large parts of Europe is a fundamental failing.
Scrum Master was never supposed to be a full time job. It's unfair to taint scrub's reputation by abusing the vocabulary :-(
I'll take a Twitter thread which would not have been a blog post or any other kind of format otherwise, thanks :)
Its <3 percent per 1000km if using high voltage DC and multiplicative not additive. So 0.97^(20000/1000)= 0.54.
Just under half lost, not infeasible.

Also building enough battery capacity to offset the night is doable.
UK annual consumption is around 300TWH, let's round to 1TWH a day.

The nighttime consumption is about half of the daytime's so only 33% needs to be saved.

So we need 350GWH of batteries. It will take a while, cost 35 Billion assuming 100 usd for 1 kwh.
Or 2 billion a year or 0.6 cents per KWH of energy consumed.
Generally I would agree that it is a bad step to ban the app. It can still normalize censorship and if it becomes a main market player, you might loose the ability to talk about it and other apps might follow just because of the success.

Ideally people would stop using it by choice. Perhaps too much to ask, but I know enough people that wouldn't use it precisely because of these issues.

Agreed that it is easy to play language games, but maybe your intention is to draw attention of a larger crowd that would be completely oblivious to it.
High end cpu's are banned from being produced overseas for exactly this reason iirc, so all of the latest tech are made in USA. China makes cheaper older gen components.

Edit: Quite a lot of high end cpu are now done in Taiwan TSMC, they caught up to US capabilities. But most of intels cpu's are still made in US.
I like that it allows me to open my chest a bit. I keep the two halves pretty far apart. It's genuinely made a difference in terms of shoulder and back pain.
If you are fine with the command line, then nothing beats some combination of Ghostscript, ImageMagick, and PDFtk. OCR is much more complicated but I have used Tesseract when OCR was needed. The results were mixed at best, sometimes being excellent and sometimes being terrible. It largely seems to be a function of the quality of the scan (how flat the text is, how horizontal the lines are, ...), though even seemingly minor deviations sometimes result in unreadable OCR text.
If solar/wind + batteries is cheaper than coal, why are new fossil fueled plants being built at a speed of about 10x capacity for every watt of renewable energy? Are people just bad at investments?

If I was an investor and I would choose something that has lower cost and higher profits, especially if it also favored political. Lower costs and higher profits are pretty nice. Choosing something that cost more and has less profits sounds terrible.
The salaries for devs in Europe are quite a bit lower than the SF/NYC/Seattle/Boston/Austin markets.

You can look at it as they’re “buying” these (and other) benefits via lower salaries across the entire market.
User-prompted autocorrect isn't "auto" at all, it's spell-check.
> Hackney cabs [...] very good

If you didn't mind listening to racist diatribe from the driver and were willing to support their tax evasion as "the card reader's broken guv - cash only".
If you are ever in that situation again, just tell them you only have a credit card, nothing else.

Of course, only do that at the end of the ride.

They are not allowed to pick up passengers if the machine (or meter, or lots of other things) is broken. If it’s genuinely broken and you still want to pay, you can call the number displayed below the machine and pay over the phone.
Just like the BSDs, mac, Android, ChromeOS,... there is a certain beauty that even if the whole design is a bit Frankenstein like, at least it was kind of thought out together.
But unforeseen factors are always a component of accidents. Otherwise it wouldn't be an accident. Of course boost is planning for this to happen.

The point is that it does happen despite planning. It won't happen in the same way in Germany but something else can happen.
Lots of places including Apple and Nordstrom use iPhone as a mobile checkout or scanning device. Lots of restaurants have iPads that just sit all day and are used as a POS.

Personally I think an iPad outside a conference room is a waste of capability but it shouldn’t harm the device or be dangerous.
Understood. However, I find irrelevant results far too often in practice most of which can be avoided based on mere absence of the requested keywords.
Can anyone who has also used Spacemacs explain why I might want to switch?

I've been considering doing a new setup with Spacemacs anyways, since my config is a huge mess right now (this was my first Emacs/Spacemacs/config experience), so switching to Doom Emacs would be something I'd consider.
Real estate isn't a great example because the carrying costs of unsold property in the form of upkeep, property taxes, mortgage, insurance, etc., are non-trivial. In general it's not remotely reasonable to hold onto property for 20 years without selling it. By contrast, the holding cost on a domain name is effectively zero, so there's much less pressure to get rid of one quickly. Plus, seeing as how the prices have only continued climbing over time, people who held out earlier and then got a good deal more recently don't regret it.

If I had a good portfolio of potential $1M+ domain names I too would hold onto them and wait for the right buyer to come along. I'm in no desperate need of money right now.
Just gut feeling - this might not be a hit towards competitivity because it might actually be worth to have well-balanced employee. I find a similarity to good quality code - hard to prove its usefulness with just numbers, but it does pay off.
Americans seem to struggle with their economy, yet still seem to look in the wrong direction when they try to find the cause.
Terrible shame that you’re mysteriously only carrying a credit card and no other form of payment then, isn’t it?

:)
Learning to Love Idioms
It took a few months, not years, for me.

I don‘t mind it. 99% of my time spent typing happens at my own desk(s) and the few times I use someone else’s keyboard don‘t justify compromising on comfort with my own setup.

A big part of what makes it hard for me to use a normal keyboard now, isn‘t so much the physical shape, but the programmability and additional modifier keys offered by the UHK, both of which I use a lot.
Thanks. I understand how you're reading this, but my observation is that actual practice on HN is less restrictive.

On the front page at the moment I'm writing this, there are at least four more or less political articles:

- Uber secures right to continue operating in London https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24614806

- Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24611558

- French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24610266

- Assange Trial Day 18 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613979

The first two of these apply to "tech" companies, so you might include them in "hacking and startups" (though hardly under "intellectual curiosity"). The third is purely political and is definitely something that TV news would cover. But it visibly strikes a chord with HN's readership. The fourth is also political; Wikileaks involves email and web pages, but what doesn't nowadays?

Maybe you find that all of these should be flagged too. Maybe only the third one, I don't know. The weasel wording with "most stories" and "probably off-topic", in practice, allows these through, which is why I said that there is no (let me add: clear, explicit) rule against political submissions.
I have a cloud nine split mechanical keyboard. I really enjoy it. It is the closest I’ve found to the Microsoft Ergo 4000. I use it primarily for working on my MacBook.

Pros: very similar to ergo 4000. No immediate drop in typing speed like with an ergo dox ez.

Cons: easy to workaround: left alt is too left due the spacebar and the strange dial button in the middle. I ignore the dial and mapped the cmd key to ctrl and ctrl to capslock.
Coming from vim-vixen, I must say this is dope, some people complain about the new tab default change after installing this extension, but I find it fine tbh.
If treating their workers with decency is such an insurmountable hurdle then yes I would argue that we are much better off without your friend's company.
Agreed but it is ranked 127 so it’s towards the bottom as it should be.
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Depends on the time of day - Hackney cabs during the day in Zones 1 and 2 were good (though only if you had a good chunk of cash before they all had to have card readers), whereas private hire was better for those 2am trips home from some Zone 4 random location.

I'm not a fan of Uber specifically, but they certainly do blend together (most of) the best of both worlds for London cab use I've experienced.

I'd also argue that the Night Tube was really helped by their prevalence, so they've made even public transport better as a result (as a traveller, rather than an operator).
I use the averaged data of 1000 merged launches and then average the end result over a number of runs. Merging FFT calls is actually the way how I use VkFFT in Vulkan Spirit (with some other shaders between), so this benchmark is fairly close to the real life application use case. My benchmark most likely averages out multimodal distribution effects by design.
And our collapsing public healthcare system. :P

As my dad who still lives there told me, unless you know someone in the system or pay the doctors bribes or go to their private offices(because of course) they won't lift a finger to help you and just leave you sink in the healthcare bottomless pit of endless misery, bureaucracy and waiting lists where you keep being bounced around like a hot potato that nobody gives a damn about. If you actually want to be taken care of the right way, you have to pay up or know someone in the system.

And once you end up in the underfunded public hospitals, you then have to pay the nurses to take care of you and not leave you in your own sh!t, buy medicine, toilet paper and food out of pocket as what you get there is lacking or sub-standard. Basically, if you're poor, you're f*cked.

But yeah, at least on paper, some Romanian laws still got some things right, even compared to richer countries. Too bad that major corruption is eating all that away.
you might break the simulation :D
I used ctwm between 1998 and 2008 before switching to xmonad.

It's still a great choice.
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It's definitely a pain to re-learn how to type. I type quickly in general (as I'm sure most here do), and I'm used to the split layout now, but I was painfully slow for the first few weeks.
The old Sun workstations had a firmware in Forth that could run networking (very basic for bootp/tftp)
For me I like the feeling of cleanliness and freshness after having a shower in the morning before I start work. Clearly I'm not dirty or smelly after a hard day's work behind a hot Das Keyboard but l suppose it has become routine for me and unfortunately I can't abide the way I feel if I haven't showered for longer than a day.

A shame really because my inner hippy wants me to not be so reliant on showering and go for days if not weeks without bathing.
Most of the times you get so see the rating/review dialogs when the app was updated.

The App Store only shows reviews for the latest release of the app by default, not for all versions combined like the Play Store does.

So if you update your iOS app, there are no reviews displayed in the App Store for your app. To get some reviews for the new version, people show you the rating/review dialog.

At least that's how it was done at LOVOO (disclosure: I worked there). With every new version you'd see the review/rating dialog again.
Sounds like someone has been assigned an "old" PHP project.
Aren't the levels of Uber that allow a Prius to be used much, much cheaper than a black cab?

If you want a larger car, you can get it. You'll just pay a bit more.
I love my keyboard.io Model 01. I think a refresh is coming later this year (Model 100?). Worth the price IMO.
Some people feel the need to baby children when they are nearby, but are comfortable ignoring then when they are away, instead of actually being their all day or teaching the child a balance including self-reliance.
You absolutely did the right thing by keeping quiet. If you don’t speak Chinese (or any local language) it is so easy to be taken advantage of. There is no guarantee, but what if you grabbed the guy and wrestled with him, trying to get the wallet off him when suddenly the thief yells to the crowd “Help! This foreigner is stealing someone’s wallet and is trying to kill me!” Then a cop shows up who doesn’t like foreigners and it could be all over. The culture in China is different, very possible that someone could have seen that you are innocent but stayed quiet, avoid the trouble plus who knows, maybe he really did steal that wallet. I’ll go home to my family and the courts can decide if he’s guilty. Like things probably wouldn’t play out that way, Chinese (and Taiwanese, Cantonese) people are incredibly decent and well to do but the perfect storm of a misunderstanding could easily turn on you.
What American company owns BioNTech?
> - every language's reinvention of 'make' and their own package managers

Because those languages have a life outside Linux distributions, and even those cannot agree which package manager one is supposed to use nor developer specific packages that don't infect all users on the same machine.

And make is even outdated for modern C compiler toolchains with support for incremental compilation and linking. That is why everyone that cares about build performance is on ninja.
Why not get into the topic of taxes in a discussion of social security? :) They're the two sides of the same coin. There seems to be little discussion in here on the tax cost of this paternity leave law.
>> For that to be viable it would have to add a real benefit that people would be willing to pay for.

does not necessarily mean:

>> [I have little hope for a] commercial desktop office that is not Microsoft.

Companies (and consumers) might have no reason to pay for the actual software itself, but they will pay for:

- Support: where support is things like fixing bugs that are encountered, producing custom builds with cherry-picked bug fixes, etc. Also, more traditional support around getting it configured in your enterprise and/or migrating your enterprise to new software.

- Feature development: so that the software does what they actually need. (Some places might do this in-house, but usually you'd just contract out to one of the companies that has developers with expertise in the codebase.)

It's a mistake to think that money can only be made by selling a product. In the open source world you generally sell services (which is tough, but there are a few companies in this space).
Western as in democratic, high income, economically prosperous, broadly supportive of human rights, etc.
I used the microsoft natural keyboard for years and now the kinesis freestyle. I don’t know why split keyboards aren’t more popular. Proper ergonomics are important or your career could be interrupted due to RSI.
>One that reliably runs all the javascript needed to support modern Twitter/Facebook/GMail/whatever style webapps?

That can stay within the browser or some shared library. It absolutely doesn't need to affect unix/linux architecture in any way.
I tried Brew because it is always mentioned, but I went back to MacPorts because I found it easier (especially their version of flavors) and the permission issues.
But there are? A lot go a bit into the DIY territory but you can buy most of them pre assembled as well. With the QMK firmware you can customize everything you want about them.

e.g.:

https://splitkb.com/products/kyria-pcb-kit

https://github.com/foostan/crkbd

https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
Interesting perspective, though personally I find the black cabs more uncomfortable than a Prius, often getting bounced up and down, luggage rolling around in the middle, much more jarring stops/starts I've found too (though a lot depends on the driver themselves, and I've not been in one of the new electric cabs).
They're breaking TFL rules and shouldn't be operating in that case, congratulations you just got a free ride.
Uhh... as it happens I went through the numbers when a friend chose his car. Toyota Prius is very roomy. One of the very few that allows two child seats and an adult in the back.
They’re not all on them at all times though, nor paid equally by each app at all times.

From memory Uber penalises being online and passing on work, so assume there’s algorithms for that with all of them. Then you have the fun one where someone accepts a ride, but is clearly finishing one on another app, so your 3 minute wait magically becomes 15.
Why not? Nobody would care.

It wouldn't hurt anyone except uber if they lost their license. Drivers are already on Kaptan and Bolt so they're good. Those platforms offer similar rates so the riders are good.
For those of you who think your IDE is bloatware:

http://users.telenet.be/kim1-6502/6502/2ksa/2ksa.html

> "Cover: Schematics for a 5V, 3A regulated power supply and a
1K x 8 read/write memory block. The power supply and three
such memory blocks can be added to the basic KIM-l microcomputer
to provide the 4K RAM required by this assembler. Parts are
available from Jameco Electronics."
It's a new feature from TypeScript 4.1 (this version is yet in beta)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
I have no problem with old project. I have a problem with the developers who has old mindset.
I just picked up a moonlander that i'm really living.

https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
Yeah, I understand that.

I just think we as consumers should not accept that.