skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021 codenamed 'Sun Valley
As economists we are certain all of our models are wrong! But some can be useful in a constrained environment to answer specific questions, so thats why we have so damn many of them!
Agreed, I've been working online for 20+ years in the Scottish Borders in a town of 15K people, with the forest and fields a minute walk away.

> Everyone who goes into the woods is trying to get away from something.

Getting into something is maybe more apt. Walking the dog in the middle of the countryside is very peaceful and regenerative, it grounds you. "Getting away from something" makes it sound like the something is the modus operandi when it never was. It's almost like it adds more nuance to a man's story, you know, the fast living 21st century tech man who has an epiphany. Perhaps the 80-hour a week tech worker's walk into nature means something more than other people's... or not really.
What do you think happens?
It's far simpler and more effective to just tax the plastic. It also provides a revenue stream for the government that can be used to fund green initiatives.
> Iirc the angular learning curve was negligible; React's is steeper,

Almost everyone I've encountered has found React easier than Angular, though React is more prone to lead you into analysis paralysis with options, since it covers less OOTB and there are so many alternatives that interact with React for each of the other bits.
The Numbers Game, Herbert L Fred (2000/2015*)
If income is taxed, less resources get allocated to work & workers. If alcohol is taxed, there is less alcohol. Tax petrol, less cars.

It is a high bar on the word 'impossible' not to be able to guess what the rough impact of a tax is.
I took a look at the picture of JWC, and I can't quite see the resemblance, but maybe I'm missing something. Is there any mention of JWC working in tech?

Edit: From the missing persons website:

> Last seen on shrimping boat in the Texas area in the Gulf of Mexico.

Seems somewhat unlikely that's him.
If anyone is curious about the why:

Mort Sullivan's Personal Opinion That
McDonald's Is Located In The Area, And
Would You Like To Eat Food With Ambient
Air In The Area Of Surrounding Properties,
And We Will Putting Up Signs & Asbestos Tape
Around McDonald's On The Sullivan Trust Property,
Where The Manager Called The Police On Mort Sullivan
For Cutting The Grass On The Sullivan Trust Property, And
Everyone Can See The Picture Below Showing Area!

If I understand this correctly, the McDonalds manager called the cops on Mort and then Mort fired back by filing a suit regarding lead and asbestos on the area. I'm not sure how Bucky got involved though.
> Xi did arrange himself a lifetime position.

He did or the political party did. Also removing term limits isn't the same as giving oneself a lifetime position. Lots of countries don't have term limits. Like Germany for example. Nobody would claim merkel is a dictator.

> And yes, a dictatorship's stability can fluctuate.

Right. His dictatorship is so wobbly that he made himself emperor. Which is it?

There is lot you can criticize china, unfortunately, the nonsense you see on social media really misses the target. Whatever happened to the pathetic "winnie the pooh" nonsense?
Also, plastic is not one material. Taxes can be based on the re-usability of the plastic in question. So very durable goods could still be made of plastic and not have restrictive taxes. This could make it easier to achieve because we can re-purpose the existing plastic manufacturing industry without having to build up entirely new production techniques.
Target sells refills for many of the brands of hand soap they carry right on the same shelf next to the small dispensers...
Document your code just by hitting “record”
One datapoint; My maternal grandmother is from the north of France and is now well into her 80s. While very Catholic herself she never pushes me or any of her ((great)grand)kids towards it. My wife and I never had our son baptized, never even entertained the idea and I have not heard her complain about it. When she came to visit me in the US in the early 2000s and asked to go to church, I found and took her to a local Catholic church; all went well. She even noted how 'comfortable' the church itself was. I get that; the church from her town was built in the 15th century and it reflects that. It's cold and dark and when you step out, it's probably cold and rainy. The one here was bright, warm and in warm and sunny California.
The most interesting part, in the process of looking up a church for her, I showed her a brochure (it was the early 2000s) for an evangelical megachurch (by California standard); she was not into it at all. She seemed to have seen right through it with the flashy local pastors. Commented about how it was just tricking people. I didn't have the heart to tell her.
There is no level 5.

There absolutely is a level 5. It was defined and measured in the survey. Both links confirm that.

But then they did not break it down in the reporting because few enough people fell into it for their survey to produce reasonable statistics on a per country level.

Now you are correct that I should not have said "under 2%". But given that the portion of the USA at level 4/5 matches the international portion at the same level (both cases 12%), it seems likely that the portion of the USA at level 5 (which the survey was not large enough to estimate) is about the same as the international average (which the survey measured at 2%).

Therefore even though the survey did not report a figure for the USA, it is likely that the real figure is around 2%.

I stand by my belief that this terms of service is sufficiently complex that even fewer can understand it.

You are right that the average Prezi user is more likely to be literate than the average American.
This is why I don't mess with crazy.
But also Lattice doesn't produce FPGAs nearly as powerful as Xilinx Ultrascale. So it's not like people are free to choose whatever. Plus, as the number of gates and other elements gets larger, sophisticated software with a lot of domain knowledge becomes more important - probably that's why Xilinx and Altera are not rushing with open source support.
Reoccurring cancer could also be an explanation for taking the step of getting rid of your digital lifelines and walking down the Appalachian Trail.
There are plenty of ways to ruin someone’s life with access to their phone number beyond compromising their accounts with 2FA.

What really needs to die is giving privileged access to underpaid monkeys.
> What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway?

South-slavic, is it not?
Ask HN: How do you track progress on CPU/GPU heavy loads?
I’ve been researching creative ways to track program progress and give myself a notification when things are done (or about to be done). For example, training a ML model or processing a bunch of photos takes an indeterminate amount of time.

I’ve seen some interesting ideas around CPU/GPU monitoring/tensor board/checking in with TeamViewer/etc but want to get an idea for the full variety of solutions out there for measuring (i) progress on your own code’s execution and (ii) progress on other programs you might want progress on (like an installer or a long render). What works for you?
I know you're only trying to help, but they look nothing alike. And going missing on a shrimp boat leaving Texas, to then hike from up north seems too odd for Occam's Razor.
Suru, but this is a good architecture for writing databases in the first place.
>It's less that lobbyists are involved but that "why go through the effort of setting up municipal broadband when we (AT&T/Spectrum) are more than happy to work with you and come to an agreement about serving your area."

Actually, It's all about the lobbyists and industry groups, often with model legislation from ALEC[0][1][2] that have blocked municipal broadband in 22 states[3] (down from 25 a few years ago):

"Over the past year, several promising developments have been made on the municipal broadband front.

Two states were successful in repealing their municipal broadband bans, bringing our tally down to 22 states from 25 states identified in our 2019 report. Those law changes are significant, and may portend similar measures being considered across states in the coming years.

This report is the latest in our annual series looking into the state of municipal broadband in America, and provides a state-by-state breakdown of the various roadblocks and restrictions used to prevent their establishment. This year, we’ve also compared access to low-price broadband in states that have no municipal restrictions versus those that do, and we’ve found that the former have lower internet prices on average.

State legislatures around the country considered a wave of broadband-focused bills in 2019. That signals not only the importance of addressing broadband access gaps for state lawmakers, but also a growing acknowledgment among state and local governments that they have a larger role to play in ensuring all residents have access to the high-speed internet."

>I'm not confident that municipal broadband will ever really take off in the US but I think local loop unbundling might have a chance since I'm sure companies are more than happy to unload all the expensive construction work to the local gov't.

I'd tend to agree, as long as state and local government officials continue to be bought (and critically, stay bought) by industry groups.

That's not to say that municipal broadband is the solution for every county/city/town. Rather, it's a solution that, under the right circumstances, can improve the livability, access to commercial opportunities, higher-paid residents and a raft of other positive outcomes.

These are local and state issues that aren't well suited to regulation/lawmaking from the Federal government, and should be addressed in that fashion. A good place to start would be to reverse the anti-competitive laws in place in 22 states that limit the ability of local governments to implement municipal broadband.

I'd say that if the big ISP's don't want it, it's probably a good thing to do.

[0] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Communications_an...

[1] https://www.govtech.com/network/Lawmakers-Mount-Federal-Effo...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/anti-municipal-b...

[3] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
I recall a time when payola was done under the table and there were reasonable attempts to keep it a secret. Careers were made and ruined, documentaries were filmed, many eyebrows raised.

My, how times have changed now that it is done right out in the open.
Thanks for the feedback! I have to improve the feature section.

As I just launched the MVP, I don't offer yet some of the more advanced features, but I will focus on them for the coming months.

Here are some ideas I've been bouncing around with some customers:

- Filter by any dimension on the dashboards.

- More performance metrics (like time to first paint and Apdex scores).

- Automated insights and anomaly detection (i.e. "XYZ page has a higher bounce rate than normal this week" or "Visitors coming from Y spend 50% more time on your website.").

As it's an early stage product, I'm still pivoting the direction constantly to find my niche.
Adding foldable wings would be a massive complexity and weight increase relative to the standard scheme which pretty much boils down to 4 motors + an IMU, with the rotors being the only moving parts.

The closest thing in the real world to the hybrid that you describe would probably be the tiltrotor, where the same engines which supply lift can turn 90 degrees to become forward thrusters on wings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiltrotor
We linguists have a saying.

A language is a dialect with an army.

There are, perhaps, few places where this is more true than in the Balkans. At least none come to mind.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24982298.
> My theory is that other countries rely much more on interactions with their neighbours, but that's just a guess.

I think that's on target. This probably plays a role in that as well:

US population: 330 million (1 country)

EU population: 446 million (dozens of countries bordering each other)
"This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Diagnostic data is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_DIAGNOSTICS build flag."
> The banks are supposed to check the signature,

Actually no, not anymore after the "Check 21" act. They're not responsible for verifying any aspect of the check. Kind of a crock.
Yep, got DSL at my current location in 2008 and they haven't upgraded anything since then. Very minor bump in peak bw they would configure, I'm at 15M/768k and that's as high as it goes. Network is garbage though and lots of time it's saturated upstream. $30K to run fiber to the DSLAM...if it was a fiber fed box I could probably get enough neighbors on board to swing it...but no.
Or you could not use liquid soap altogether ;-) it has no benefits over bars of soap that last far longer and don’t require plastic packaging.

Reduce, reuse, recycle - in that order
Earlier with a bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24977699
I'm not sure what "recent" means, but 3-4 years ago when i first got to China it was very difficult to open a bank account as a foreigner, even with a huge wad of yuan in my pocket. It might just be the areas i visited, but i tried several different banks while traveling on a tourist visa and every single one said no.

I eventually was able to open an account, but i had to show proof of residence (apartment lease), proof of residence registration (obtained from local police), work permit and employment contract. Even opening a second account a couple years later (required because many employers in China will only pay into one specific bank) and speaking fairly fluent Chinese i had to go through the same song and dance.
There are endless launcher apps and icon packs you can get from F-Droid or elsewhere if you want to change the look of your phone.
AnySoftKeyboard is the keyboard on F-Droid with the most features
>The point is, for Google search variable costs are immaterial.....
>No, the limit of profit over variable cost approaches zero

Ok well Google is an example, but the argument is about Internet companies not just Google, but ok Let's take Google and use that to go back to the more general level.

aside from any other arguments -

is it possible that variable cost approaches zero because

Google is a monopoly with a high profit margin. If the profit were to decrease a lot from each transaction then they would be at a position where variable cost becomes more relevant.

That is to say Google's special place has nothing to do with it being a magical internet company but rather its being in a seller's market that they dominate.

If it were suddenly to no longer be in a seller's market or to have to do stuff like save data longer to get value from it, or to earn much less per search because advertisers didn't want to pay, or to find that there are side effects from having too much traffic that ends up decreasing ability to serve relevant data because of signal to noise ratio thus causing a loss of profit etc. etc. we would end up with the cost to Google of a transaction being much closer to what they earn from that transaction.

In the last scenario I put up there, which I believe could actually be a problem if you project out infinite growth (search growth) does it become a "major cost", yes, in such a scenario too much traffic decreases the value of all traffic.

In fact too much traffic decreasing the value of all traffic is a well known feature of Internet companies, because internet companies actually use physical devices (just wanted to point that out, since there seems to be this special thing about Internet companies not having physical inventory) to serve their customers or users (depending on which we're talking about here) and this is why DDOS is a thing and why even natural spikes in usage can be problematic. So in fact, I would actually say about just about any online company there is - if you project out infinite growth ( of traffic ) does it become a major cost?

Um probably, and depending on how that a growth is structured it might in fact be a crippling cost.
> - AWS UI toolkit has aged by this point and each day it feels more dated

They're rewriting the console: https://abduzeedo.com/amazon-web-services-design-system

At least a few of their services have already been updated.
> I think the poster you are replying to is saying...

You are exactly correct.

> ...against the vast hurricane of actual governmental conspiracies and the harm that can come from them, and that anything that might make it harder to hear about those conspiracies is far more harmful to the world than letting people say things that are untrue

There are several going on at all times. What's fascinating is how easily the vast majority of people, even smart ones, can so easily have heuristics planted in their minds that result in a Pavlovian response to the very mention of a conspiracy theory - any story that has had a "conspiracy theory" label attached to it by the media is from that point immediately classified as False - many people seem quite literally unable to concede there's a possibility that not every single conspiracy theory is wrong. What makes it even funnier is, from reading many comments on HN, it couldn't be more clear that people's knowledge of what the conspiracy world consists of comes directly from the mainstream media. The average /r/conspiracy subscriber has far(!) superior epistemic skills than the average that I've observed here.
Washington State is also controlled by the Democrats - the Executive and the Legislative.
I won't try to convince you of the quality of our consumer products but we also build industrial printing presses and 3D printers that are actually kind of cool.
I enjoyed the post and appreciate that more people are looking for privacy focused alternatives to traditional vendors.

Though I'm disappointed hear that one of the conclusions seems to be there's no privacy-focused chat vendor that does something as simple as not collecting identifying information on users until they interact with the chat app, with integrated consent collection (which is essentially what they've implemented with their fork).

Maybe the wider HN community might know of such a service?
If I knew that getting a job had nothing to do with skill, I most likely would have never tried in life and be happy because of a lack of college debt. Now, just hopelessness.
> This can be easily determined by looking at data breaches, and targeting emails that are found both on a cryptocurrency breach and a personal information breach with phone number, name, address

... and this is why you should never use your identity for these things.

KYC is a security liability.
> In the case of the fibers, the light just bounces on the walls of the tube, effectively lengthening the distance it has to travel.

This is incorrect, the reduced speed of light is due to the properties of the material through which the light is traveling. The material has in fact changed the speed of light.

The wave equation of light is dictated by the permittivity and permeability of the material through which it propagates. This is just a property of electromagnetic waves. Only the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. Or more accurately, the permeability and permittivity of a vacuum.
Two points: One, I don't know who you're looking at! They look very, very similar to me. Keep in mind, you have to age your mental image of JWM about ten years. Second, it's absolutely clear that MH wanted to "go missing" / be untraceable. If I were to accomplish that, the best way to do so would be to fake some sort of accident... like a mishap at sea (so that people believe you to be dead). Hence, shrimping boat.
French and Catalan aren't pronounced as they are written at all. Both languages have spelling competitions/TV shows.

There is an excellent TEDx video where two linguists that are advocating for a reform of the French orthography invent a word and then write a script to list all the ways it can be spelled, following the existing rules of French spelling. The result is 240 ways to spell it.

https://youtu.be/5YO7Vg1ByA8?t=266
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Man, you guys really kill it with blog/changelog announcements. Great job!
Happened to one of my friends who was also on T-mobile and had some bitcoins at some point. They got into his email and coinbase account, but he was holding any bitcoin so they tried to buy some which was declined by the credit card.
It may seem odd to say it, but given the choice between a runtime managed by Microsoft and a runtime managed by Oracle, I'd be more comfortable with the former.
Here's what they say for anyone who's looking

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/gdpr/introduction/
Actually it is not easier at all, the complexity is obscured by an onboard computer, which constantly helps to keep position, not to flip upside down and lose control completely. By applying differential thrust on different propellers it executes commands from operator to tilt and rotate. If the computer fails, operator, even with a direct control of the propellers, will not be able to maintain a stable flight.

From aerodynamic standpoint planes are much easier to pilot (all but military, same story with computers for better maneuverability) since they are designed to be inherently stable. So if all power is lost and you still have control of aerodynamic surfaces, there is not problem to land a plane after planning for some tens or even hundreds of kilometers (depends on initial altitude). This is obviously not the case with quadropters, loss of a single propeller leads to complete loss of control.
Maybe someone more savvy than me with this could age him ten years to get to get a better comparison... As for working in tech, yeah you'd think there'd be some record. But then again, tech is a great place to work if you want to be anonymous. E.g. could have been a contractor.
Then break the legion of builds in the name of security.
OK, time to write an article and submit here. That sounds way too interesting for just a comment!