skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm somewhere inbetween, which honestly just means that I'm a bad touch typist.

I don't hunt-and-peck, but I'm also not perfectly keeping at rest on the home row. The result is mostly touch-typing, but if I don't have the keyboard in my peripheral vision, I start to drift.

Really just means I can't sit in complete darkness, but I'm sure it would have some implications if I were to try and use VR with anything that requires actual typing.
Ditto. I too am available to chat / talk / zoom. My email is on file.
The housing crisis has nothing to do with us EU nationals, and all to do with your goddamn English Parliament we cannot even vote for.
> will soon

I feel like I’ve been hearing this for most of the last 40 years and it’s still not come to pass.
Having consumed a lot of startup advice and founder biopics, it seems the one constant critical success factor is good mentorship.

I have no idea how to act on that nugget. All of my own attempts failed (clearly).
I feel like it's overstated. Take people's postures in front of a computer: it's often terrible. Bad posture, bad keyboard usage, non ergonomic hardware etc... Yet we survive. Sure, it can create problems after years of constant abuse (RSI etc...) but generally that's true for people who spend multiple hours every day doing it wrong.

If you learn to play piano 30 minutes every day for a year you'd really have to be doing it critically wrong to manage to maim yourself.

Of course if you manage to stick with it long term and really commit a lot of time practicing, you better learn good posture sooner or later, but I don't think it's worth front-loading all stuff. It just raises the barrier for entry without huge benefits IMO.

>This is something that you don't really notice several months in, but will bite you when you start to play a lot.

Sure, I completely agree, but unlearning bad habits, while annoying, is part of getting good at anything I think. You need to pick your battles when you're starting, there's so much to learn.

For me the equivalent would be teaching a programming course, but insist that everybody must be touchtyping in Dvorak on ergonomic keyboards when they're coding. While it's not necessarily bad advice in the long run all it'll achieve is make your students think that programming is a lot harder than it really is.
Even less Brits learn foreign languages and EU countries.

Raising a new generation of ignorants.

And Brits already lagged behind - a very small number can speak any foreign language.
This is one of the rare pieces of advice few people get. You can tell the professional in the room "Your idea is stupid and I as a paying customer do not want that." It's amazing how many people concede to the request.

The only place I can't get away with it is a dentist. They love giving x-rays...because apparently that helps with scaling.
The Most Contentious Presidential Transition in American History (2016)
You'd need to hash the cookie again in the DB, else a DB breach would give someone the power to edit any anonymous post.
No. The maintainer of software prohibits alternative clients. It's open source in name only. And when he decides to add ads to Signal, you can't avoid them.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
There are companies in certain developing countries who will skirt the rules on providing consulting and auditing/monitoring to the same company.

They do it for just about any ISO cert, not just ISO 27001.

It is a bit of a dirty secret with companies who work in heavily regulated industries. The companies in question will go through the motions, but make no mistake, you pay for the cert.

Sorry for being vague, just not looking to publicly out anyone. If you Google around, I’m sure you can find more about what I am talking about/much of the controversy around many of the ISO governing bodies.
I never had an aptitude for touch typing, but became very good at hunt and peck typing. This year I finally started to use proper form and not look at my fingers to type. I’m still slower than I was hunting and pecking, but I can pretty much write anything now without looking at my hands. Only took 35 years.
Much the same effect can be achieved by upping the requirements for exhaust mufflers and then actually enforcing them
If ease of use and onboarding is the criterium, WhatsApp wins. Promoting any walled garden is short-sighted.
It might help folks that can be helped by talking to someone. For someone like me, it would only make me feel bad, like I'm burdening someone else with the knowledge that I'm going to end my life; I know they won't be able to "talk me out of it".

I have no friends, no family, nor any coworkers since July. No one will notice me being dead then any more than they notice me being absent now. When the money runs out, I have the nitrogen tank ready to go.

Life isn't for everyone.
You're like five levels deep in trying to obfuscate that you can't think of a single example of that supposedly huge harm you want to avoid.
> California has had some of the toughest restrictions in the country to combat the coronavirus

And it's almost completely laughable how people are responding.

When the previous lockdown hit, everybody from about 5 houses around decided to have an impromptu block party the next day (about 20-25 people total).

If you're not going to enforce the lockdown on PEOPLE, then it's pointless.
Honestly I just skipped it having seen the IMDB reviews. I’ve watched all the others and it’s one of my favourite shows.
The fact that many self contained vision and language tasks can be solved with curve fitting is in itself an interesting finding. Certainly I did not expect this 10 years ago.
WireGuard: Great protocol, but skip the Mac app
Just visited it...seems like a great recommendation.
> He constructed a stage persona in exactly the way you ascribe to Johnson; the only difference is that you personally decline to accept Johnson's.

I mean, yes. If you're an entertainment personality you can have a stage persona and I accept that.

If you're a politician, then I reject your desire to have a stage persona. Politicians pretending to be something they aren't is a massive problem, and treating politics exactly like another form of entertainment is a massive problem with our society and our politics.

So I am doing exactly what your criticize, but I do it proudly, and I actually return the opposite criticism to you.
Maybe not on a macbook, but I can drive two 1440p panels from a single type-c output on Linux just fine.
The bank still has to run according to EU rules so in the long term probably easier to hire people from EU.
AutoPause Extension (With Resume and Fast Forward)
With the wing they would fly in the horizontal orientation, but there are jetpacks that work without wings.
It's fixed in the next major release so hopefully we can restore the value back to 0 when it's pushed out in Q1 2021.
You're telling me that the Lifetime original movie "Recipe For Seduction" isn't based on the actual life of Colonel Sanders?
It would create no work for the EU whatsoever. Like every sovereign country in the union Scotland would be in charge of policing its own border with the UK and ensuring that regulations are properly applied as it would be if Scotland left the UK without being a member of the EU.
I've had serious external display issues since they moved to Thunderbolt-3
They might have an office but they don't have a bank. Why not? Because operating a bank requires a huge amount of capital and a shit tonne of regulatory compliance. Literally 10s of millions in lawyers fees alone. Per year.

So no one bothers having more than 1 EU entity. Offices maybe, but not entities.

Starting in a week, the London entities that all those big banks set up are useless for offering services to the rest of the EU.

This is a big issue because its NOT enough to just get a PO box and register a company. You need to capitalise and regulators want to meet traders. You need to pass the local exams and comply with the local regulations.

Otherwise 101 foreign banks would not would have such a big London presence, they'd just run it from their home locations (Hong Kong, New York, Singapore).

For a long time, the UK has had a big advantage because the FCA were rapid and easy to satisfy. You could get a bank up and running here in just 2 years for less than 100m. Now you have to justify keeping that office when 80% of its business now needs to be done in Frankfurt, Paris, Dublin, Zurich or wherever.

This all seems like a lot of fuss and a bit anti business right?

The reason we all (America, Japan, EU, HK, Singapore, etc) do this is because its the only way to avoid major crises with huge knock-on effects. Capital requirements came in to avoid another sub prime bailout. The tests and training and licensing of individuals has grown up after 101 scandals, most recently the rate fixing on fx. Europe especially has learned that under regulation in finance is much more expensive than prudence. And prudence for complex, large, interconnected, opaque, big banks is pricey...
I mean, it's just a phrase you can put away the analysis.

It means any other warm body inhabiting that space at that time would have similar results. There are infinite right places and right times.
Factorio was one of the rare few early access games I paid for because even at like .30 I thought "This is a full game (and stable) and they still want to do more?!" Also I like the minecraft model of never changing the price. It always feels like a good buy then because it isn't instantly devalued at the next steam sale.
We should use Ergonomic keyboards
Nobody would dispute the element of luck in each rich person's journey. Or that the first million is the hardest one. And yet, it does seem that the particularly ambitious, smart and hard working ones tend to get more lucky.

Also, note this quote from Paul Graham [1]:

> Within about three minutes of meeting him, I remember thinking "Ah, so this is what Bill Gates must have been like when he was 19."

Not to mention that PG still declined him, and Sam refused to leave. Sounds to me like a bit more than just your average lucky kid.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html
I’ve found apple hardware to be better than ever, but Apple software to be worse than ever. I think they are building software with complexity beyond what they have the processes to handle.
It's easy to explain. All answers that you put in the first category are people answering the wrong question, that nobody actually here asked. They are answering the question "what was the thing that lots of other people liked, that I also liked", as if their opinion is somehow special here, on a semi-anonymous forum, where visitors don't recognize most other visitors. And since it isn't, their opinion is just one of the data-points in the "people, that liked product X" dataset. And people, who upvoted their posts also upvote something they like. And since things, that are liked and endorsed by a lot of people, but that are not worth the attention (in your opinion) you call "overhyped", it is pretty much by definition that the top answers to that question (which nobody asked) would be a collection of overhyped things.

The answers from the second category are answers to the question that OP actually asked: what are the things that were hyped prior to their release (or shortly after) and didn't disappoint. Unlike the first question, this can be answered somewhat objectively, because it's not about the opinion of some semi-anonymous HN user anymore, it's about things that are hyped before the release and having impact after. You personally may not like the original iPhone, but you'll have to admit that the early hype didn't really fade — maybe it's a shitty product in your opinion, but it did conquer the market. And even if people are answering/upvoting that based on subjective feelings, in the end it's still turns out to be a somewhat fair assessment of the topic: because a product was hyped before the release a long time ago (well, not M1) and enough people still can vouch that it "lived up to the hype". That's impact.

Exceptions here are Apple Watch and Ruby on Rails, because they received some, uh, prenatal hype, but let's be honest: Apple Watch doesn't have nearly the amount of adoption iPhone had, and while Ruby on Rails was quite a significant thing at some point of time, it isn't anymore, other frameworks and languages filled the domain and now it's just "one of them" at best.
> The big non-EU headquartered institutions have had offices and branches in multiple non-UK EU jurisdictions dating back decades and have served eg local major corporates out of those offices this way for a long time.

How does this work out of interest? Could this office be very small, just with a presence and perhaps the capital to meet compliance, and then just refer onwards to staff outside the EU, or is there some expectation the work is done inside the territory?
Fast and Space-Efficient Indexing for Main-Memory DBS on Modern Hardware [pdf]
I’ve never been able to get a straight answer to the obvious question - which rules?

I always wanted a good solid answer to that so i could ask what stopped us changing them from within the EU but i never got past the first hurdle.
I think AI always means "does something a human can do that you wouldn't expect a machine to be able to do". So it is forever moving goal post. It just moves ahead in step with people's expectations of what a machine can do. Also magic is always disappointing when you know how it works. We just have the psychological safety of not knowing how we work, whereas in ML we always know what it is doing, and it is always kind of disappointing.
Like what in life that's worth a shit don't take some effort?

Being lonely sucks yeah...but take at least a bit of responsibility for it and realize that people make major changes in their lives every-damn-day.

Heroin addicts get clean EVERYDAY...you think being lonely is worse than kicking that shit? Guess what...you're wrong if you do.

Take small steps. Smile more. Be interested in others. You can do it for sure.
This kind of shit makes me so glad I'm running Debian unstable instead of macOS.
Then why is anyone complaining about it? I mean, it seems like a silly default to me, but if it's expected then I'm on the wrong side of what to expect it seems.
> 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.

I met up with a close friend a few days ago to lament how tough its been to live alone throughout this Covid period, to get rejected by dozens of companies while job hunting, and to do online dating and not only get rejected by 99% of potentials but have some of the worst first dates I've ever had in my life. One woman was literally multi-tasking while she was on the Zoom 'date' with me.

And her response was "I'm sorry that you're going through that" before switching to talking about her kid being noisy. And internally I'm thinking all these years I've spent listening to you complain about your job/husband/baby and this one time I'm being honest about how tough things are right now and you can't even bear to hear me out more than a split second? Give me a fucking break.

Covid-19 really revealed who my true friends are. I am quite thankful that I do have a couple friends who I meet on a weekly basis where we check in on one another and keep our spirits up. Without them, I don't think I would've survived these lockdowns without having a mental breakdown.
That all depends upon a given person's definition of viable.

Personally, I have more games that I know what to do with. Most of them are Linux native and the vast majority of those that aren't Linux native work under Proton/Wine. Performance or stability is almost never a problem.

The few games that I have encountered problems with under Linux use a custom engine and I have heard that anti-cheat software tends to break compatibility. I periodically boot into Windows to play games that don't run under Linux. That does not happen often since it is an awful lot of trouble when there are many excellent options that do work under Linux.
If you liked Dianxi Xiaoge, check out Liziqi. There are so many great Asian rural lifestyle channels. The cinematography on them is just outstanding.
I was going to nominate the Appalachian Trail in a top-level thread, but I'll just leave it here since it's outdoors-related. Also, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is an org that totally lives up to the hype and one which people who are interested in preserving the outdoors and natural beauty of America should support.
I’ve probably visited every day since launch, I read what interests me and usually skim all the comments on the front page because they’re often only tangentially related to the post so there’s usually something interesting in there. I don’t contribute much but the amount of times I’ve been able to solve a problem with “I read an article about this on hn” is significant.
That story is from the magazine The Spectator right? According to Wikipedia "The Spectator is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party" .

Being openly "conservative" means biased. Although they are entitled to their opinions it is good to be aware that they have a (conservative) bias. They do not try to be objective, they try to be conservative.

And what is "conservative bias"? It of course means conserving the status quo, conserving the power of the rich and powerful, conserving inequality. That kind of thing is what I think ethicists should be studying.

Note that to the conservatives, since by default they want to conserve things, don't want change, they don't want ethicists snooping around asking questions about what if anything might be unethical about the existing power-structures. No Sir :-)

So it seems to me that for a conservative magazine to criticize "ethicists" is very self-serving for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator
You are confusing having to pay taxes with things like permanent establishment.
Power + mouse + display = docking station.
You need some kind of lonely together COVID pod. Other people in the same circumstances. As long as your circle of contact is a closed loop, the exposure is not a big deal (same as with a family quarantined together).

You might not have a lot of shared interests or whatever, but there are countless others suffering exactly like you- in this, you are not alone. People feel a little better being lonely together. And you know, two key ingredients to friendship are simply shared hardship & routine interaction.

P.S. Ever consider volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters?
> In C++, tons of information is needed from the user in order to make it work, while Python comes with a lot of built-in data structures like vectors, dictionaries and iterators that make it easier to use right out of the box.

just wrong
The Aeropress.
Light takes about a millisecond to travel 200 miles. Compared to the latency introduced by computation, it is pretty insignificant, unless you are connected to a server very far away.
Ok, I guess Sam is one of the good ones? I'm not convinced, but my comments haven't all been specific to him anyway.

I'm sure there are ways to lean on the scales and enhance your "luck," but if you don't attribute most of anyone's success to luck you are a fool. How many potential business geniuses died of cholera in the last couple hundred years?
Curious what the barriers you face exporting to the UK currently?

Given the transition period the UK has been going through with the country still effectively in the EU without being a member state, I’d have thought it would be the same exporting to the UK as any other EU state, at least until the end of the year.

Surely you’d have to wait until 2021 to feel any pain unless I’m missing something?

EDIT: Also, I’m fascinated. Are you allowed to market your product as “cheese” under EU regulations? From what I understand they’re quite strict on what constitutes basic foodstuffs like cheese. The dairy industry has lobbied hard against this sort of thing.
And Happy Holidays to you too Doreen!
“Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey” The lighthill report (1973)
ad. 3: it's an ugly truth, but it makes sense. People often want friends which can provide something for them, even if it's pleasant company. What can a desperate person provide? What can a desperate friend do other kind of friend can't?

ad. 6: then I guess I'm really bad at making friends period. It has never worked for me.
You answered jgilias better than I could, I feel exactly the same way. Async is deceptively simple in my opinion, because while it looks arguably even simpler than an explicit state machine, it makes your program flow nonlinear and I find that a lot harder to work with. With blocking code I can mentally step through the code follow causes and consequences easily, with async I feel like I'm watching a scifi movie involving time travel and parallel universes.

And the loss of control is also an issue for me. I write code for memory-constrained environments, with blocking code and OS threads I can usually bound my memory consumption fairly easily. If I surrender the control to a scheduler runtime I feel like it becomes a lot harder, although here I'm willing to concede that it might have more to do with my lack of experience with Tokio than an objective issue.
Why would the US sign a free trade deal with the UK, when it wouldn't sign one with the much larger EU? I fully expect my government to insist on conditions favorable towards the much larger and much richer party in UK-US trade relations.
At last! Can't wait to see this get in. :-)
Live captions for English video or audio are nice, but it still doesn't work for music (not even rap), and it doesn't work for other languages. It might work in a lab setting, but doesn't in currently available phones.
You're right, it started as an attempt to fit into 512 bytes but right now it's 4 sectors (2KB). Of course, on a modern hard drive with 4KB sectors, we might stretch our definitions a bit :-) (Though the BIOS still only loads 512 bytes in such a case)
The only reason to do that is price, which importing (from the USA, presumably) would surely negate. When chlorinated chicken has been brought up as a debate point it's as an example of a standard that might slip, that cheaper UK chicken might be chlorinated for a UK market.

I doubt it would be popular, personally.
> Signaling desperation attracts predators far more often than it attracts real friends.

This is something so obvious but has eluded me until you said it. I have seen this happen in work settings and have never been able to pinpoint it. Thanks!
TIL.

I’ve worked as a data engineer for the last two years and never heard of this being used in this context before.

Typically the word “data lineage” is used to mean this in my experience.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a meeting where someone mentioned provenance except referring to a show about paintings.

Lineage isnt the same thing, being a more specific technical term referring to keeping the history of datasets and where they came from (basically), but people actually say the words “data governance” and “lineage”.
This is especially true for portrait mode monitors. Ever since Catalina portrait mode/90 dev rotation screens reset to landscape every time you unlock the machine. I do it 5-6 times a day and have the mouse/key presses memorized. Yes, YES I want to keep these changes!!!
Yeah. When it goes like that my internal reaction is typically "Good riddance. Don't let the screen door hit you on your way out. Thank god I don't have to listen to one more minute of your whiny shit ever again because we are so done."
I like his life advice. Do you have any issues with any specific advice or just his age at the time it was written ?

You want to go in the right direction, age is irrelevant. Think more about what you want to be doing. Being ageist is not what you want to be doing.