skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so sad that people nitpick on this article, trying to brush it off.

for WHATEVER reasons, women got only 1% of total funding. is that not bad by itself? does it matter that the reason is that there were few women to begin with? that makes it even worse. at least if VC bias was the only cause then this bias would be confined to one domain and easier to fix.
The double-linked list was just an example. Could also have been any other list container for Unicode code points, where each code point uses a fixed size of memory (at least 21 bits). You might even use a data structures where a 'base' character with (optional) combining characters are treated as a single unit, because for many operations they should be treated as a unit.
The difference, is that the CBDC will be even more centralized. To control currency flows requires the participation of many separate entities. With this new 'digital money' it requires only the participation of those who control the blockchain. ie political policy can be achieved programmatically, by having complete control over all currency transactions in a nation. This is very different from the status quo. It should be noted that cash will soon be eliminated.

The potential for abuse here is enormous. If you think shadow banning is problematic from a free speech perspective. Imagine being silently shadow banned from your local grocery store. Imagine not being able to donate to a particular cause/political party. Imagine not being able to give a friend in need financial support because their social score is too low.

People have no actual freedom without economic freedom, and this system will create a sword of Damocles that will hang over each and every person.
That would be one of my professors from grad school. At the time I was there, his teaching load was 2 courses a year, or maybe 3? The only reason 3 is sticking in my head is because he teaches the course he literally wrote the book on, during the summer.

Not a bad way to spend one's 70s, is it?
I have had the same question as well. I dont think it will get banned, I just think the society as a whole will take a long time to adjust those perception.

And we will likely have zones where all cars are AV. So as long as human sticks to rules and not popping out on a street for no reason. I still think we could have a future where AV becomes the default.
Absolutely! One of the key goals I had in the RFC proposal was to effectively pipeclean the path for other non-x86_64 archs, not just AArch64.

For AArch64, you are absolutely right, there's a lot of useful targets already ascending the Tiers, aiming to get to Tier-1.

All this will help AArch64 in particular to ge the top-class CI focus that the Rust community has built. Bodes very well for safety and security sensitive ecosystems, IMO.
It's better to ask why Telegram was blocked, and I think it's often been because of their channels:

https://telegram.org/tour/channels

In this case it's more relevant to ask why Twitter or Facebook haven't been blocked (if they haven't).

I think WA has a similar feature ("broadcast") but not as widely used (since it is limited to 256 people).
What about logging? Elastic is a must in every deployment!
Yeah. In my experience, specialized subreddits (like /r/math or /r/haskell) have less such silliness than HN.

For the first matrix, maybe a simpler example is M = [1 1; 0 0]. Then [1; 0] is a right eigenvector with eigenvalue 1, but [1 0] M = [1 1].
The parent comment (and the various other "but startup founders dont get paid!") clearly were arguing that the VC industry (and its startup founder participants) are not within a prestigious and well paid sector.

Failed tech entrepreneurs get highly paid tech jobs, they also had the resources (savings, safety nets via family etc) to be able to take on the risk in the first place. Pointing out the gotcha that startup founders go without pay for a while is akin arguing that cleaner's have a more prestigious job than being the CEO of Oracle while he had a 1¢ salary, its ludicrous.
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The thing is that it's not that bad given its age, and it's improving.
There's an open-source Android app which is published on F-Droid.
You're right!

The core team helped set the context and begin the process of understanding what Tiers meant and what the gaps were for AArch64 Linux.

Ultimately the approvals had to come from those 3 teams. I was particularly pleased with how well structured the process was!
There is a cat for that (C)
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Thousands of rides is not "without even a shred of data". You, on the other hand, have no data, yet seem to be very outspoken on the topic. If anyone is a bot in this conversation, it is you.
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Came across this little gem earlier - did not expect it to hit the front page! All credit to the original authors. Enjoy!
To be fair only "workers" and employees should be able to vote on employment law then, no students no pensioners.

This is why employment law needs to be take away from the states - have one federally defined set of laws - stops a race to the bottom.
> In the example above, Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil would be bridge languages for Indo-Aryan languages.

Tamil isn’t an Indo-Aryan language. It would be rather surprising if it were a good bridge for any two Indo-Aryan langauges.
Agglutinative languages are rough.
Surely not so much a troll as a tub-thumping snort of sarcasm.

The truism of sales is that if a customer comes looking to buy a suit and a pullover then you make sure to sell them the suit first, after which the price tag on the most exorbitant cashmere pulli will seem utterly reasonable. With that as a guide maybe science budgets are best discussed on the tails of bailouts?
> Do you know how much should female founders get, as a percent of VC funding for a given country?

I think I know. Given that 50% of population is women, for every country (more or less), then they should get 50% of the funding.
You already have been for decades at this point. The high salaries seen in some places is not due exclusively to locality but the quality of the employee.

What I'm seeing is people from low cost locations which traditionally migrated as soon as they could to get western salaries are not getting those western salaries without having to leave. I would say if you were at the highest compensation level you may see a decrease but it will remain that the best command large salaries as now. The difference will probably be that some who were the best and underpaid will have an easier time getting reasonable compensation and some people who were taking advantage of locality factors will now approach a more reasonable salary for their actual contribution.
…and cat-pilled.
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I think that's it. No argument that it's improved, so much, but if you're not already using it then it's hard to pick it over other options. Good luck to the fans though, you can do anything you need with it and if you enjoy it all the better.
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The OCR is what keeps me in Acrobat camp, too. And very sadly since this company is outright customer-hostile and the software is absurdly expensive.

I've been trying tesseract but find it lacking -- need a better shape/text/picture region recognition (people are working on it these days), and something which puts it back in tagged PDF form. I also want to try whatever Nuance/OmniSoft is selling these days since I used to be a OmniPage customer before.
Ask HN: Anyone had "bogus self-employment" issues freelancing remotely in EU?
Hello HNers.

I've recently had a potential freelance contract fall through due to fears regarding a "bogus self-employment" issue.

Although full-time but not exclusive and since the contract would be B2B (not self-employment) I was caught off guard by this.

Has anyone else working remotely within the EU experienced any issue like this?
Policy brief here:

https://hai.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/2020-10/HAI_DEL...
Sabine gave specific examples of scientific areas the money could be better spent on. Your bile is irrelevant to the discussion and has no place here.
It's a social thing more than anything else. People want to meet up with people; in many places outdoor bar/restaurant is one of the obvious ways to do this safely and legally.
Just curious: how do you do that with UK or Ireland since they are non-Schengen countries on islands?
At about 10m height the horizon is only ~11km away - fine for a ship but if you are going 550km/h in something that doesn't look wildly manoeuvrable it might be quite exciting.
> So it's probably not the case that we're missing out on any major breakthroughs.

Meanwhile, the guy who contributed the key insight that's lead to drastic reductions in the size of the prime gap problem, is working at a Subway. [0]

Hmm.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang
The latest version of PHP that I used was 5.3. The power, and disadvantage, was that it was basically a scripting language which allowed for quick prototyping and easily making some of a site dynamic and allowing for templating. For the more serious/involved/enterprise applications, a lot of workarounds were needed to cache database connections etc.

Lots has improved: ide support, jit, package manager. In doing so it became more mature now joining the realm of more serious, enterprise, languages which had all of this for ages. As such it is also being compared against those languages. At the same time templating is now easier and more cheaply done through static site generators. So imho PHP falls a bit in the middle and it is only kept afloat because of the likes of Magento, Wordpress, and other big products built on top of PHP that thrive by being modifiable by practically any developer.
This is just the setting of the example. For each of those distributions he takes two of them which don't overlap much and looks at the convolution (i.e. the distribution of the sum of two independent random variables described by them).

Edit: by the way, the irony is that the convolution calculates products of probabilities and adds them!
In my opinion the problem with her messaging is that while she says that we should not fund the next collider, I think the argument should be, what's the best allocation of money in physics? And there are legitimate reasons to have the next collider even if we have no guarantee that it will deliver GUT or whatever. We have to venture into the unknown. We just should not lie that it will prove supersymmetry or is guaranteed to find dark matter because it sounds better.
Thanks for pointing that out. It was two different points. The first point was that some people don't want to climb the ladder and so should be happy/content with doing their job "working to live, not living to work" kind of idea.

The second point I was trying to say was that if you only WFH, the same type of career opportunities that come from mastering soft-skills that build rapport will be unavailable. And where I was trying to go was to call out people who whine about this.

I agree I wasn't as clear as I could have been.
it’s lunchtime somewhere(here for ex)
Building a high energy collider is like building a larger telescope. The only things you can be sure of is that you will be able to understand whatever you have seen better than before. There is scientific consensus that we should be able to understand dark matter better by building one aswell. This is supported by technical arguments which are hard to communicate to the general public. Attacking this communication to the general scientific community is different from attacking the substance of these technical arguments. One can be done by a blog post, the other would need to be accepted by a scientific journal. Physical review letters would be more than happy to publish substantive attacks on prevailing beliefs about dark matter.
Gender equality paradox should tell us that in less gender equal societies women founders should get more funding.

Anyone know if that study has been done?
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Extra battery life would be nice. It has always been a problem with Linux on laptops.
The fact that it is worse doesn’t make it bad.

I’d take Typescript over PHP any day, but not Javascript.
Self-signing is exactly what I've done for all my sites.

But browsers are getting more and more restrictive about what they will allow their users to see. Right now technically ignorant people will be so confused and frightened by warnings they click away. That's okay, I don't care about those people. But for many it's a deal breaker. I give it about 3 years before the big corporate browsers stop allowing HTTP at all. Search engines already deprioritize HTTP and eventually they'll just delist. And it won't hurt their income one bit.

The number of sites that don't HTTP and just 304 to HTTPS is already frightening.
Uhm

>Objectively, compared to other languages i've been working with it is more than OK. Despite it's lack of "style" it is easy to understand, host, tests, diagnose and it is powerfull for web applications.
>I've been working on a SaaS API with Symfony now for 2 years, our metrics are good...
>It is a good tool, it builds good softwares

Informed? These are opinions, dude. Where are the objective arguments? "It is ok, works for me" is not "being informed"
Gender equality paradox can explain this. But I'm not sure it applies to funding.
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In this case shareholders and investors are the main customers, with short term profits keeping them happy, execs get good bonuses, more money is poured in from market/vc to keep the gravy flowing. No incentive for the deicision makers to keep the product users(sometimes called just the products) happy, for the giants atleast.
I recently got a Palm m125, brand new in box, from eBay, for tinkering purposes.

The biggest hassle was setting up sync with the desktop, because that requires their app and drivers. But even that was ultimately a solvable problem on Win10.

But the old Palm apps install and work just fine, if you can find them. A more annoying problem is that a lot of them were shareware, and authors have long since moved on. But even with what's free, it's a handy little device; I can't think of many other AAA-powered gadgets that are capable of compiling C apps for themselves!

As far as battery life goes, I'll just quote one Amazon review from 2001:

> Another negative feature with this specific model is the poor battery life. The m125 requires 2 AAA batteries (included), however they only last aprox. 2.5 weeks under normal use (compared to the 1-2 months of the m105 and most other PDA's).

Sigh.
What people find "believable" or "realistic" will vary.

Within the genre of Science Fiction there is a sub-genre of Hard Science Fiction in which it's considered more important that it could actually work. Fire Upon The Deep probably wouldn't generally be considered at all Hard because it has Faster-than-Light travel, which is one of the things you generally would rule out of Hard SF because of how conservation rules in Physics work, if you can do FtL then you can do time travel (because space and time being the same kind of thing), and then what's your story?

"The Martian" a novel subsequently made into a movie is pretty realistic, turns out the setup (a storm on Mars separates Mark from the rest of the crew) is the least realistic part of that entire story.

If that's a bit too realistic, some of Liu Cixin's shorts are pretty wild while remaining down to earth about what's practical. "The Wandering Earth" for example.

Greg Egan is very Hard, but you may find you think Greg's technically possible stuff seems harder to believe than faster-than-light travel which isn't possible at all. The Clockwork Rocket couldn't happen here, but it's set in a universe with a different dimensional symmetry, the Amalgam stuff is set in this universe, but with a society far more advanced than ours.

But then if it turns out "realistic"/ "believable" counts like Star Wars style laser blasters and stuff then I dunno, lots of things, maybe you'd like Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch stuff, (or indeed Iain M Banks' Culture novels) which aren't Hard at all.
Nice. Would be extra nice touch if long press would produce muted sound (cut out early) as the cat keeps its paw on the bongo drum / cowbell.
Thanks, never would have found that.
Paralleling many of the other comments that give excellent test advice, it's also worth seeing if your CPU has Intel Quicksync support, which can give a hardware-accelerated rendering option to ffmpeg. See below link for reference of the flags.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync

Even the most low-end processors like the Celeron, if they have embeded GPUs, have this encoding acceleration built in and it makes a huge difference versus using the general purpose CPU portion. The generation of CPU will determine the encoders/decoders available.

I learned about this from the below post, and have been using the functionality where ever I can as it applies many of the popular transcoding sofwares out there, for example handbrake also.

https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-hardware-transcoding...
> php is slow and max throughput is 200-500 rps

I don't know where you pulled that number out of, but I just used an outdated version of `ab` to request the Hello World page of a fairly heavy PHP framework on a modest virtual server and got over 4k rps. Give me a proper server box and a well-written application, and I'll deliver the 25k rps that you want.

Besides, most webapps spend most of their execution time waiting for the database, memcached, redis, elasticsearch, or whatever. The speed of the language runtime makes very little difference.
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Fair point about the houses
I set in a location where I can legally be for a longer stay.
Building local projects from here and converting my individual travel needs into local collective non-profit project.
> Anyone who works with texts today as a programmer who doesn't understand the basics of character encoding is likely in trouble

And they can create a lot of trouble!

We have to deal with a system which generates what they call XML files using simple string concats, without regard for encoding. So while the header says encoding="utf-8", the data is a mix of different encodings depending on which database the data comes from, none of them being UTF-8.
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And it doesn't matter. Now it's a fully consensual relationship between Uber and the driver (and the customer), where everyone involved agrees to the terms voluntarily. The law changes that, and will simply result in the loss of jobs.
I don't know what to say in response.

Conciseness is a valuable property which, for web development, PHP seems to have given up.
Ah, I am so used to video on the web not being muted that this didn't occur to me. Thanks!
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I've been looking into GDPR and when a cookie consent is needed. In fact, there's no thing called "cookie consent". If you track a user, you have to get his consent before doing it, whether you use cookie consent or now. Ever since I joined HN, there's a lot of marketing going on here from privacy-first Google analytics alternative guys. I found this review showing Plausible and similar products using browser fingerprints and CName cloacking for user tracking, and they still promote those features.

I'd like to know your opinion on this. Do I still need to use a consent banner if I use these services?

Thanks.
No latency at all for me. Was able to play pretty complicated stuff and I'm used to the Launchpad X.
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Is there a SAAS that enable the powers of ffmpeg filters through a user friendly gui?
Hey there this is me. I'm in the US and we're just exploring the states, and especially more rural states to keep an easier social distance. It's been really fun actually splitting time between working and national parks etc. We've been in Vermont for the past 2 months where we did have to quarantine which was unpleasant but I was happy to do my part. It was also really heartening to read about how safe plane travel is recently too which helps. Our goal is to aim to be one of the first back into Japan when they reopen in April so we'll see.
I just came from HK when the lockdown started so now we're (EU citizens) just nomad'ing in EU which is, at least by car, not yet an issue.
Although it then remutes if I lock and unlock, or switch away. iOS is fun.
The proposition is California-specific. Will not change anything outside of CA.
Yeah, parts don't work for that reason. But cars are increasingly dependent on software, and they can use that. John Deere and farmers wanting but unable to repair their own tractors have been mentioned on HN a couple of times.
Meta: It might be worth investigating whether you have ADHD. Several things in your message point at it, and treatment can help.

(Apparently needing deadlines to get things done, finding it tricky to self-set deadlines, getting agitated when forced to work on things you don't care about, worrying about relative insignificance of day-to-day actions)
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You should take be asking the question why are the users using words like "awful"
LOL, I totally didn't see the part in the parenthesis! Και είσαι και απο το πί τσι κέι αν είδα καλά ;)
I am wondering this: are people who do crud apps (in php or otherwise) do consider race-conditions in the database? Like one query and then based on that query another one which inserts/updates? And if so, where can I read about the standard techniques used in practice?
I found hope in my life, thank you.
But only if it's operating at maximum frequency, i.e. if the clocks are the limiting factor.

As long as it's only TDP limited, voltage going down means amperage/current will go up in order to hit the power limit.
> I don't know how much that is, but I'd imagine

There's your problem. I think you need to go and research and see how much an employee costs to the employer in CA. In terms of taxes, overhead, accounting, insurance, and everything else CA demands.
Oh man, these are great notes, very succinct! I'm not much into proofs, but finally picked up the essence of Hamiltonian M-H thanks to this. (Also, I can't imagine what kind of genius it takes to rigorously derive such a method...)
Because unlike "good" languages it generates revenue.
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Words meaning often depends on implicit context. Low-code marketing is about allowing non-coder to do programming, whereas model driven is the old dream of backend developers to generate code from a model. Some editors who were in this business since a dozen years profit from the trend to wear the low-code trousers of course :)

As for me I don't care I'm building a meta-tool (so not yet another low-code tool) which will help use any traditional programming languages, frameworks or EXISTING OR FUTURE low-code, MDD because I'm agnostic to technologies, what matters to me is to get the job done both in quality and productivity.

Not there yet I'm in proof of concept phase but I'm now more sure it will fullfill its promise since it's built by eating its own dog food.