skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely Goldman Sachs already have an office in Frankfurt.

It's interesting to me what would fall foul of the new limitations. If the call is taken from someone in Frankfurt and they forward it on to someone in London, does that count? How about if they work in a team together? Or if the Frankfurt banker asks advice from someone in London. It seems difficult to draw a line there. I'm not really clear whether it's just about having a local subsidiary for compliance purposes, or whether it literally means no assistance at all, or what.
The NYT had an article estimating 70% more contagious but after quite a lot of scare writing, they quoted a doctor stating that the vaccines and antibodies would still work on it.

“No one should worry that there is going to be a single catastrophic mutation that suddenly renders all immunity and antibodies useless,” Dr. Bloom said.

“It is going to be a process that occurs over the time scale of multiple years and requires the accumulation of multiple viral mutations,” he added. “It’s not going to be like an on-off switch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/coronavirus-britai...
At least going back to the original MacBook. The one with the 10GB hard drive, around 2001-ish, did this.

It's a feature, not a bug.
Sure. But biometric authentication for WebAuthn or the related mechanisms built into iOS and Android themselves only takes place on your device. So at the extreme to "stop" you can just replace that device, I understand most people do that every few years anyway.

WebAuthn doesn't end up with a third party (say, Facebook) having biometric data, what they've got is just a public key and an identifier. Your device is signing to say it checked you are still you, whoever that is. It does not promise how it did that and there's no reason a web site would care.

Your biometric data (if that's how you authenticate) is only needed by your device, to verify this is still you when it makes that claim. So any changes (e.g. you decide to use your other hand) are a local device problem, no need to tell any third parties anything interesting happened.
I've studied social/psychological stuff, spent a lot of years suicidal and spent a number of years homeless which was incredibly socially isolating and even negatively impacted how people interacted with me online.

Some thoughts (intended as a buffet to choose from if it strikes your fancy, not a prescription for "the right way" to do anything at all):

1. It's usually not actually helpful to signal that you are desperate and lonely and your life is in the toilet. Once in a great while, someone will be truly wonderful to you because you did that but it's usually counterproductive.

2. It's usually better to look for one of two things: A chat-friendly space where it's okay to just talk to people or a discussion space on a topic that genuinely interests you.

3. Signaling desperation attracts predators far more often than it attracts real friends.

4. Support groups have a tendency to be all kinds of drama and not terribly helpful because it tends to be the case that you can't suggest to people "You could try doing things differently" because that will be taken as blaming the victim and it's just really hard to find good ways to help people solve their personal problems.

5. The best way to make friends is to connect with people you have something in common with. So joining discussions about things that interest you is more likely to help you connect socially.

6. Yes, you can have real friends via internet. I've had lots of real friends online over the years.

((germ-free internet hugs)) if you need/want them and happy holidays and all that.
Also, for anyone reading this curious how this works and what it can do.. Check out the commands.js file in the repo (https://github.com/braydo25/TwitchControlsMinecraft/blob/mas...)

This has a list of the different command types presented for voting. Each command type has a set of options that are randomly selected each time a voting round starts.

Whatever gets the most votes at the end of a voting round, that command gets injected into the server via Spigot and runs in the minecraft world causing whatever was voted to happen.
On the subject of touch typing; I’m curious how many people here are touch typists vs not? I am also curious what your thoughts are, if you’re a hunt-and-pecker, of how much that does or does not affect your productivity?

I have this ongoing argument with my kids because they want to hunt-and-peck with one or two fingers per hand and to me that’s like swimming with one arm when you have another arm and two whole legs to use.
Your 37ms is based on 5ms roundtrip and 0 CPU time, which is impossible. And add network jitter which might be worse than static latency.

And the Stadia market isn't people with fast monitors, Ethernet connected and ultra stable internet, but high latency TVs, avg tier Wifi, slow hardware to decode video.
Of course, how could I forget the brownfield sites.

I’ll let all the young people know there isn’t a housing crisis after all, and seeing as the millions of EU nationals residing in the UK don’t need housing, young people needn’t worry.
I really enjoy The Dollop's episode on this topic https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/379---the-landlords-gam...
Mac laptops have done this for at least 18 years, probably longer. That's the way they're designed, and how they are used by many people.
> If a developer chooses to remove their product from the App Store, what is Apple supposed to do about it?

Maybe you're missing that the customer didn't buy the app from the developer, it bought it from Apple.

If you buy an LG TV from Best Buy and then LG decides to stop selling to them, does that mean Best Buy stops having any responsibilities towards its customer (you)?

> There doesn't seem to be a difference between this and a developer removing a product from their own website and declaring it EOL. Or not declaring EOL, just removing it.

That's exactly the problem.

Moving your product to a different distribution system is not declaring it EOL.

> If a developer chooses to remove their product from the App Store, what is Apple supposed to do about it?
I haven’t used Evernote in years, and granted I was pretty fed up with it when I left. Maybe Evernote has changed since then?

But, compared to the Evernote I remember...

- Block level editing

- Backlinks

- Publish to web

- Better support for embedding different types of content

Notion/Craft are really in a whole different league compared to Evernote.
Playstation Architecture – A Practical Analysis
There's one photo organization feature I really want that I haven't yet seen in any existing asset managers: a way to group bursted photos together and hide a set of images behind one "representative" image in the main stream, while still making them accessible if necessary. Anyone aware of software that comes close?
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Traveler’s Notebook: The Last Notebook You’ll Ever Need
Words to Spice Up Your Developer Resume
It's a store of value, not a currency.
They wrote that if some state left USA then the citizens of that state would need a visa to travel or work.

Say Texas left. Then Texans would need a visa to go or work in Florida.
Alright people, i admit, i made this up for this thread for fun. Interesting to see everybody's reactions....wow, fascinating!

Honestly tho, I do believe an octopus could learn to do this.
Honest question, no snark --- which consumer space problems were solved, if I don't play Go and don't have FB account to recognize me on a group photos (both of these two statements are true)?
But banning indoor dining is all they can do. Isn't the big thing about Uber is that its evaded regulations...
There is an attempt being made to tightly moderate a strictly science-based discussion on COVID on Reddit, r/COVID19. Babble is suppressed and misinformation is corrected by folks seemingly with knowledge and credentials. Might be a better source of information than this.
Aren’t those all fictional except for Schwarzenegger who is real and Austrian?
Considering three of the five posts that user made in the last months are about how terrible various Apple products are, I'd argue their sense of identity is linked to that particular brand far more than many fanboys' and fangirls'.

(And the functionality, i. e. seeing flagged posts, exists? Or how did you manage to see and copy it?
Good point, presumably the UK could just recognize qualifications unilaterally though. It's actually a situation on the import side has a clear an unequivocal incentive to recognize the standards of the other country, to draw in talent, and not lose it to the other party. It's the one case where each country wants as much of a trade deficit as possible!
I'm confused. These people are pro EU, so they moved to... Canada?
The "cross platform app" ecosystem seems fractured in a way that you must either add 2x to 5x the effort to achieve it, or sacrifice performance and UX.
You can still buy "new" Intel Minis. But I think you're right, installing anything < macOS 11 will be impossible on a M1 Mini.
For the same reason we call the PDP-8 a minicomputer and the C64 a microcomputer. It's smaller than what came before it.

Then we realized it will continue to get smaller and after nano it will sound stupid so we stopped
I don’t disagree but OP’s argument is, to me, why AI isn’t going to put programmers out of a job anytime soon.
> If there was a version of gold that fluid and easy to transact with, people would use that instead gold.

Unless it was built on complex technology that most people don't understand. Hence comments like yours calling it a failure because there's still a stigma around it. Luckily the are others that have done their research and are investing heavily and helping build out the ecosystem.
The "right place at the right time" argument sounds like you could create a cohort of all the SV-based entrepreneurs who arrived there within a certain time period (supposedly the earlier the better?), and somehow all current SV-based unicorns would magically link back to those folks. If anything, I am observing a surprisingly small correlation there - the average founder of a top 100 YC company went through YC 5 years ago [1].

5 years ago is shockingly recent and well past the SV gold rush curve.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?top100=true
In any form of human co-operation we need to agree on some rules how that activity is carried out. It's not about some "ethicist" telling you what rules you must follow but majority of us agreeing to what the rules should be. The job of an ethicist then should be to point out problems in proposed and already agreed-to rules.
They could have sent any email they wanted, and they chose to disappoint their employees about nonexistent bonuses during the holiday season of a pandemic. The consequence for the test should have been a mass exodus of their more talented engineers.
This reminds me of a few game jams that were basically about one phase where artists create screenshots of games that don't exist, and then developers pick one of those screenshots and make it a reality.

It was as amazing as it sounds, and you had a lot of leeway as a developer to interpret so much about the game from the one screenshot. So multiple people could choose the same one and make completely different games.

One from Newgrounds in 2013 [1]. A more recent one on itch [2].

[1]: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1342155#bbspost24671968...

[2]: https://itch.io/jam/cartridge-jam-3
Amazon has hired 400k new employees this year. 400k. Plus overtime for existing workers. [1]

They also paid covid bonuses until (I think) June.

Oh, and they raised their minimum wage from 11 to 15usd/h. [2]

Oh, and they are paying Christmas bonuses of 500mUSD [3]

That sounds like a company making real strides and helping a shit tonne of it's employees exactly at a time it could just yawn and not do anything.

[1]. https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazons-hires-248500-people-q3...

[2]. https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-really-raised-minimum...

[3]. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55093821
If you think your country is heading in the wrong direction, moving to a country you think is doing well seems logical to me.
I think that's kinda part of the article. They are not small business friendly as they claim.
Honestly, most of those of us who are lonely also hate corniness and artifice. And that sounds like both.
Yeah, not surprisingly it’s not really that simple..
Some TVs just aren’t made for low latency, “game mode” enabled or not.
> Once in a while you'll see a follow up email from the sender saying that they are aware of many people reporting the email as a phishing attempt and that reporting the email was wrong and that link to that particular website is a company approved tool and that employees are required to complete the survey at the link for some department or center's benefit.

That's exactly what a spearphisher would say. Still not clicking a link. Of course, I would rarely read the company email anyway.
No. Europe has lower income inequality, and higher wealth inequality.

Good numbers are hard to come by since:

1) Much of the wealth inequality in Europe does a nice job of hiding wealth. Old money doesn't talk about wealth. But there are families in Europe with fortunes dating back a half-millennium. A half-millennium of interest, even at the relatively low rates over most of history, is a lot of money.

2) The figures are biased by people with negative wealth (e.g. debt) in ways which are somewhat different from what one would hope to understand.

A model to follow is based on a modernized version of Islam -- a wealth tax.
I'm not an Apple engineer, but I do development without a second monitor. I rarely miss it; it's not often that I actually need to look at two different full-screen windows at the same time. Usually alt-tabbing works just as well, and keeps my visual landscape more focused.
>assuming you have a perfect cryptographic hash function

Except there is no such thing (not in the sense you need it) - it too would be a perfect source of randomness, and you're just pushing the problem down the road.

As an example, NIST publication 800-90B recommends multiple randomness extractors, one of which is SHA. They recommend using twice the amount of entropy in as the entropy out to get random "enough" bits. Thus even SHA is not going to mix bits well enough as you want.

(The things called perfect hash functions in the literature map N items into N slots with no collisions, which is not what is needed here).

As a perhaps surprising counterexample to any simple solution, here [1] is a math paper with a proof that there can be no optimal algorithm that is best for all values of coin bias.

Here's [2] a cool walkthough on some of the ideas in theory that have been investigated.

[1] https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~qstout/abs/AnnProb84.html
[2] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/coinflipext.pdf
The Principles of Life
Edit: I agree with almost everything you just said. But for clarification:

Not trust, just statistics. Great Britain has ~half the fire related deaths per million people vs the US. Various differences make comparing countries difficult, but their doing reasonably well vs the US.

Anyway, I don’t think the current system is optimal. However, fixing the stairwell issue before telling people to evacuate might be better than telling people to evacuate tomorrow. Eventually, evacuation is likely the better option and should therefore be the long term goal.

And so it goes across a million possibilities which is guaranteed to be suboptimal and interact with each other.
> Bitter much? Yes. Yes I am.

Same here. I moved to the UK years ago (UK ancestry) specifically for access to the EU. eg Danish gf (now ex), working in EU both in person and remotely, UK/EU start up was in progress

To have my EU hmmm... "citizenship" be removed (when I damn well wanted to keep it), by the other half of the UK population just because they don't care for the EU.

There are no words that can adequately convey the sense of betrayal I feel over this.

It has destroyed many years of my life effort thus far, and has taken considerable time to start recovering from (moved back to Australia, now rebuilding, etc).
That's an entirely different point, not any point missed by the comment you're replying to.

What connects the two points is that they hold similar appeal in theory, and are entirely meaningless in practice. The UK has signed a number of trade agreements already, and none of them contain meaningful differences to the EU agreements the UK was previously part of.
The Taschen book of soviet architecture, but not as downfall porn, maybe some retrofuturism allowed, without over sentimentalist, oh what the hell..
Dota works well on Linux nowadays. Better than on Windows even.
Ironically the widely proposed alternative to EU freedom of movement is freedom of movement within the CANZUK group of countries. It's got 70-80% popularity in all the proposed constituent countries.
> ‘Siri tell me which restaurant in my area serves the most delicious sushi according to yelp reviews and also allows takeout’

Siri stumbles at way less complex queries than that. Every year or so I retry using it, and give up due to the error rate.
An accuracy of 99% and 10x slower is apparently preferable for me.
No. When they hire employees they (at least expect to) increase their own profit.

Losses are shared between a company and the employee losing their job, income is (unevenly) shared between an employer and the employee, profit is exclusively for the employer.
I think this concept was popularized by VCs like SoftBank. It also makes me wonder how much of a tech bubble we are in and what happens when it finally bursts.
You built a strawman and burnt it down!
> I can't find a framework in which it makes any logical sense. Can you suggest one?

There have been three suggested already

1. the ancient greek view (in which one was not fully even or odd).

2. the view where the definition of even requires having 2 as a factor. This is not as good a definition of 'even' as having no remainder when divided by two for all the reasons the wikipedia article will tell you, but it's logical and consistent, and quite probably tracks with common (non-mathematical) usage best.

3. The other view is about how we use the concept of evenness in normal language. In normal language, and for good reason, 0 is a special case. I don't tell people that a Zoo has an even number of unicorns. If I'm talking about sharing cookies between my two children, I might say that 2 cookies are even, or that 4 cookies are even, I will not say that an empty cookie jar has an even number of cookies in it.

There may be others, I'd be the wrong person to ask, since I consider 0 to be even.

But the reason the article came across as elitist to me is because while repeatedly stressing that you believed in taking a charitable interpretation of the responses and the reasons for them, your starting point seemed to be the wrongness of the wrong answers, and your charitableness seemed limited to trying to find reasons for why those people were so wrong.

An actually charitable treatment that followed your described principles might be very interesting.
This is a theory-focused academic conference, so all of the work being presented is pretty fundamental, meaning it could underpin all kinds of applications. By analogy, if I invent a hammer that is balanced to drive nails faster, should I consider the broader impact that a bad actor could build a shelter faster?

This is all about politicizing fundamental research, because it's in a field that's in the spotlight. As work becomes more applied, I can see the logic that scrutiny and consideration of its ethical implications should be increased, but pretending that authors of the kind of fundamental advances presented at a research conference like this need to speculate on the kind of end applications they could underpin is just people with nothing of value to contribute trying to muscle in to a popular venue.
It's beautiful for them to have their Independence Day on the same day as New Year's Day. Congratulations, UK.
The Guardian is also a relatively reliable source of world news, one of the reasons it is frequently mentioned on HN.
The EU did not exist in 1982. Its predecessor, the EEC, was more like a trade-bloc and lacked any sort of foreign-policy cooperation. The creation of the EU in 1993 was supposed to improve this state of things, and it did - in a lot of situations, the EU now speaks with one (bigger) voice. It might not be as loud as some would like (partially because the UK pushed hard to water down anything defence-related, for fear it would supercede the NATO setup they prefer), but it's there.

Similar considerations apply for the Balkan wars, that started before the EU existed.

On Ukraine: it's not like the US did anything either. Ukraine is not an EU member. The responsibility for guaranteeing Crimea's security, under the Budapest memorandum, sat squarely with the US and... the UK.
While it's great to talk about broader impact of new algorithms, I think it's too late to limit AI from taking control over humanity.

I see exponentially stronger algorithms every year, but the advancement in being able to set a limit to it is nothing so far.
If you don't mind the 1000ms input lag.
I have a few friends who have taken out of state contracts to do development work under the same premise. They've both said as soon as the pandemic is over, they'll finish their contracts and start working back in their home states again.
So... it doesn’t change the actual argument.
I'll also add my vote for wfh.

Everything is better at home. Home gym, home office, better mattress, etc.

I never realized just how much better it was until I tried it and now I don't ever want to go back.
Uh, I think 'what're we supposed to do when paying video is impossible/makes no sense' is to blame.

Also, what did happen to .eml? Isn't that just a well known extension for raw email format? So in a sense it's used.. billions of times a day?
My #1 is “Adam Savage’s Tested” at https://youtube.com/c/tested

Then BosnianBill’s LockLab at https://youtube.com/c/bosnianbill

Then TheLockpickingLawyer at https://youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

Of course, no list is complete without Maru at https://youtube.com/user/mugumogu

The crazy guys at ModernRogue also make the cut at https://youtube.com/c/ModernRogue

I’m also enjoying ThisOldTony at https://youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony

Edit — How could I forget:

SmarterEveryDay at https://youtube.com/c/smartereveryday

The PunishedProps Academy at https://youtube.com/user/punishedprops

The incomparable Simone Giertz at https://youtube.com/c/simonegiertz

And The Slow Mo Guys at https://youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys

?!?
The idea behind resharing it is basically to grab someone's attention who is contemplating self-harm and redirect them. The number is always available, but from the sound of it, someone about to commit self-harm is often feeling hopeless, alone, and has severe tunnel vision. So you have to get the offer of help right in front of them. This is why the number is posted all over bridges.

It's also allegedly a very acute thing. Many individuals contemplating self-harm, I am told, don't really want to, and are in that vulnerable moment only briefly, maybe only ever a few times. So helping them is truly possible.
There are advantages to using a fake identity for your product. There's no risk of a McAfee situation.
The Rise and Fall of Pearl Paint
Ah, I see, I didn't realize there was that much structure to the payload. Thanks!
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There are other types of law besides contract law. I assume that's covered the first day.