skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cleaner hands and a lot less shit?
On 1: I think the final judgment is yet to be made. We don’t know how many businesses will keep going for how long and if there is just a delay in bankruptcies.

Also, inflation in consumer goods can show delayed as well. And assets are already inflated. It’s a bit too early to say with confidence, that the stimulus prevented the economy from failing.
I’m not sure what you’ll gain from this question other than political comments.

Some will say no because of possible tariffs the EU could apply to sales into the Eu. It tends to forget that the rest of the world exists.

Some will say yes given the UK now has the ability to reduce taxes, invest in areas that it couldn’t before and provide competitive opportunities which anyone in the EU couldn’t

So it’s really down to the UK to take advantage of its freedom.
How are you less free if the a central bank issues a digital currency? You can still bitcoin all you want.
I am not against commercial banks per se. But me not having to rely on bank deposits for day-to-day payments (I presume we all agree that nobody wants to carry cash around) will force banks to do a better job at attracting my money. Maybe they will have to give me a better interest rate and give me some knobs I can tune to control how my money is invested.

Technology can be a catalyst for increasing competition between banks. There might be another (regulatory) way to do it. Whichever gets us there faster.
Yeah I remember them adding more ui design features to photoshop but the workflow was so painfully clunky and underpowered compared to fireworks.
I did a similar project with Kindle Paperwhite running for over 2 months on a full charge. It would boot early each morning, connect to wifi, pull latest weather and news, generate a png containing weather and news, show the png on the screen, shut down wifi, set RTC to boot again tomorrow and power down.

The problem I had is that eventually when it ran out of battery, I charged it and the process didn't kick off again. Probably I just need to ssh back in a get it going again, but I lost interest at that point!
I need at least 200 karma!
You can do RL on an raspberry pi. Depends what problem you are trying to solve but not all of them require video analysis and billions of parameters.
I would agree to this about working from home. But this applies every city as well - New York being notable because of the mass emigration during COVID.
"We have changed the algorithm to the approved ISO-8859-1 algorithm"
I would like to see Kotlin get more love, but that's just a personal wish
Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020
Some thoughts on that

1. This is likely not some stream of consciousness piece, where he basically writes his article as it comes up with stuff. It takes time, it has probably been edited numerous times, there's probably been lots of research, etc.

2. He writes that he studied English in grad. school, so I'm just going to assume that he's well-read. Probably had his fair share of exposure to the classics, as well as modern literature.
Could a genetic algorithm have been partially used in the chip design also?

For example, in the layout to the right of the DDR on the M1, it looks like some significant optimization was done, but only in certain areas.
Nothing wrong with Blue Origin per se, redundancy is great (and pretty essential to become a spacefaring civilization -- as demonstrated by the back-to-back Antares and Falcon failures a couple of years ago).

However, saying SpaceX, the established company, should relocate to be next to Blue Origin, the new start-up that hasn't shown much yet, for unspecified reasons just doesn't make any logical sense.

Also, I think part of the reason space enthusiasts don't like Blue Origin is that it has had a terrible return-on-investment so far. There's a limited amount of money that will put into space, and it's great that Jeff Bezos wants to spend a billion a year on it. It would just be great if there was more to show in return for that money. For example, Elon Musk claims SpaceX has spend about a billion on reusability for the Falcon 9. Just imagine such a leap forward every year.

Another reason Blue Origin gets a bad rep is that they don't exactly try to play fair. As mentioned by a sibling comment, they tried to patent something (landing on a ship) that's at best just common sense. When NASA wanted to lease LC-39A to commercial providers, Blue Origin tried to block NASA from leasing it exclusively to SpaceX on the basis that it'd be unfair to them, even though they hadn't flown anything that could use the pad yet (and still haven't). They landed their New Shepherd after a suborbital flight to 100.5 km just weeks before SpaceX landed their first Falcon 9 booster -- claiming to be the first to land a rocket propusively. That would be fine, except Bezos then tweeted "Welcome to the club" to Musk, ignoring the fact that orbital rockets are much, much harder (as evidenced by the fact that they still haven't launched, let alone landed one, 5 years later).
i thought Apple crushed other chipset in single core and managed to stay ahead in overall.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-a14-vs-a13-vs-snapdrag....
Her story is trailblazing, but unfortunately history is very large and the number of great thinkers and unreasonably motivated people is substantial. And that is just the ones we know about.

I was reading up on the so-called Islamic Golden Age of Science. It left me feeling that we of the internet are unreasonably lucky to be living in an age where so many of the founders of a field are either still alive or only recently deceased. We may not even live to see even the obvious implications of the internet play out.
Snebu – Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility
Experiment on Go Lang, C++ and Java which is the fast (YouTube)
When should I hire [role] at my SaaS startup?
What are the policies being put forward by the California state-level GOP? They may only be considering things that CA voters do not really find appealing:

> The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[2][3] According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Switzerland is not that great either I believe. Looked it up last year, I could make ~1.5 times what I make now, but prices are on average at least 2 times higher than where I live now.
That's entirely possible. But don't discount covert monetization channels, such as supposedly "free" download sites that provide a vector for bitcoin miners and other malware.
Taxes are very low, though.
Microplastics Found in Human Placentas
I think most NY exits went to NJ by a good train line. NY should be fine.
The practicalities are bad too. I get incessantly, monotonously followed by bad versions of what I’m interested in, which I cannot shake off. It’s a galling imposition not only to be shown that I am being tracked , but that the narrow cluster of products I am bombarded with are bad, ugly versions of the things I particularly like. I dislike them more intensely than products I have no interest in. It’s an unusual flavor of a mild dystopia.

Very affirming to read that Dutch non-tracking ads seem to yield more value (wired mag link elsewhere in thread)
You know, just like a population of blue whales who're hiding in the ocean, NYtimes article contents are hiding in somewhere in browser's local storage too
I always feel like salary comparisons are a little biased by a slightly US-centric definition of a comfortable lifestyle (e.g. including a car, parking, bigger house requirements, etc) as well as underestimating some built-in benefits of other countries like free healthcare.

Are there good sources out there that would afford a holistic cost comparison of a typical London lifestyle (Tube, 1-bedroom in Zone 1-2, weekend abroad in Europe, etc.) vs SF, LA or NY for instance?

Otherwise agree that long-term the work from home trend could be slightly more concerning, but this won't materialise as soon as most think. There is still a lot of value in being physically close to networks of influence and decision-makers, which in the UK would very much still remain in London.
> Leaking a data structure proves to the compiler that it will stay around indefinitely (i.e: it has a "static" lifetime), for example, which allows you to do things with it that Rust would normally forbid.

Asking as a Rust neophyte: are you saying that one thus declares a static lifetime without using the static lifetime name (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/scope/lifet...)? In which case would you do one way over the other then?
We will find out is the only sensible answer, as the question is too complex really.

But, one obvious impact will be labour supply. Fewer European area devs will come to the UK, which will make things less attractive for big tech companies.
dead bodies
I look at how my high school friends ended up and it’s amazing how personality traits/biases, career choices, life partners, residency in certain cities and fate (or chance) altered our trajectories. One person who I thought would go very far has struggled terribly after he and his spouse were dealt a string of bad hands. Another made a career choice that is poisoning mind and body but is too late to leave now. Others have done well and I don’t think would change anything.
The Manhattans Project
The EU will dissolve in less than 5 years. Brexit is a howto manual for the other member countries.
In theory, theory and practice are the same.

In practice, they are not.
I think the biggest impact will be the loss of access to EU workers without hassle. I would have gladly worked for a company based out of the UK in the past; now I assume I am not welcome and can't be asked to find out what would be involved.
I love that ling's cars is still working!

https://www.lingscars.com/
I think the context is important here - it's in the "Designing for Inheritance" section. If you're doing that, you're already pretty far in the OO thicket which a lot of Python users prefer to avoid. Actively encouraging properties is not generally a widely held view.
> Clash Royale

A game called Castle Burn was also very good take on RTS on mobile. Unfortunately defunct now.
I just understood why I had one terrible day a few years ago.
London beats any European city by a substantial amount, even including cost of living. I don't see why that would change. Switzerland as you point out has similarly high wages.

I can't see innovation, talent or companies moving to the EU at any stage. It's a regulatory horror show and has massive brain drain to places that actually pay developers reasonable wages.

Developers in Sweden are paid the equivalent of 51k USD. This means even including cost of living such as health insurance, you can make substantially more in the US, London or Switzerland.

Developers in the EU get shafted big time. Free health insurance is not worth half, or even one-third the salary.
> but aren’t currencies mostly digital anyway?

yes, but currently only licensed financial institutions (e.g. banks) can hold accounts directly at a central bank. You, as a private person, can't. CBDC will give you that capability too.
I record what I say on voice memos, when I remember, just in case I need to hear it again, tho going back to it is rare.
Maybe there’s an argument from which markets move more quickly toward equilibrium. If you push the demand up for a slower part of it then the whole economy might tend to react more quickly than otherwise. Forgetting the specifics though.
Half the country thinks it's a fraud just like half the country thought the last election was a fraud. And just like last time, the next few years will have to take up this matter for discussion and ripping society apart. The only difference i see is that there won't be a federal investigation into the matter this time, leaving a lot of people convinced that indeed this was a rigged election.
Pompeii: Ancient 'fast food' counter to open to the public
My point was about how business interests between China and Africa lead to situations that put African states in compromised positions. You simply cannot put your trust esp in networking equipment in the Chinese government. Business or not. It's a terrible recipe for disaster as the AU discovered.
The original article : https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

A counter-claim : https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...

Sorry to have distorted the truth. The AD still revealed to a father that his daughter was pregnant. AFAIC this is relevant to the OP question about why ads should sometime refrain to "target"
This might cause wages to go up or alternatively a points based immigration system will allow any programmers to apply for a visa from anywhere in the world. I have no idea to be honest, it will be interesting to see what happens.
> Take away that power from them. End the issue in the fastest way possible.

So to avoid personal frustration, enable their dark patterns? I don't feel like seesawtron would be the one feeling empowered by giving up and letting them keep the money.
That's so true.

Being bi-lingual I also remember vastly better the 2FA code if I speak it in my native tongue.
I’ve spent more time reading this article, than this approach could save in practice if we accumulate all the saved milliseconds.
Switzerland does have freedom of movement with the EU so thinking it's a "non-EU country" in terms of talent access is incorrect
Thanks for your comment. I have enjoyed reading through these comments but I can't consider my own 'what could have been' without considering that which is outside of my self, namely God. My own beliefs do not see this life as the end. Therefore my present actions are shaped by my future hopes. I hope some day to be rewarded by God for my actions today. This seems more important to me than thinking about how my past actions may have made me more successful today. Many of the great moments in history were defined by men and woman giving up their lives for what they hoped for in the future. Not what they hoped would have happened in the past.
Technical point: Value functions that are a constant multiples of each other result in the same behavior.
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The short and relatively sympathetic response is Bryan Caplan's
https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm

(TLDR: most of the useful concepts from Austrian theory were incorporated into mainstream economics; what was left were some bold claims and a hostility towards maths and empiricism.)
https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm
Well that's bad.

I can't see anything past "xhain Berlin" with no horizontal scroll.
I think the Green party position is likely more appealing to California voters than Feinstein's record, but name recognition and party support make it incredibly difficult for another Democrat to beat her.
Whatever you pay (even 0$), you'll end up with 50% winrate sooner or later.

I never paid anything for this game and had a lot of fun for years.

You get opponent that's either good with bad cards or good with bad cards. But you have 50% probability to win with either.

You are only winning as you climb to your level of opponents.

It's quite brilliant way to ensure players are appropriately challenged.
Flatbuffers in Unity – A 40x Gain
I moved to London to do a startup in December 2019. All I can say is do not do this. The government during covid has been horribly inefficient, I just received my NHS ID in the last month (taking upwards of a year to process, during which time they denied me covid testing after I had the necessary symptoms) and I received my NINO 6 months after moving here, however now with covid they aren't even processing these anymore.

In terms of brexit, any sort of gains for a startup will be possible only if the British government allows them to be (for example with deregulation or the removal of GDPR or the reduction/easing of bureaucratic proceses). In my experience betting on the British government to do the right thing is a bad bet. They have the digital London effort but it seems more like a PR stunt than a good-willed effort to attract startups.

You will also encounter strange socio-economic effects that you would not see in other places, for example being an engineer and starting a startup here is viewed as a negative while being a business major is a positive. There is a big divide between capital and labour that perpetuates itself through these stereotypes that are not present in places like America.
In my opinion there's a wide open array of approaches from control that can help with this. Learning for Control is a new conference that looks at this very topic.
I like to mouth words out to myself to help me think instead of talking out loud.

While this is normally perfectly fine during in-person exams, this year I've gotten warned for looking suspicious because through video surveillance it looks like I'm reading something out for somebody else in the room during exams.

Because it's so ingrained in me, I now concentrate on remembering to not mouth anything rather than on the test itself.
Home Alone: A Post-Incident Review
Reminds me of a (joke about a) professor who used his finger as a pointer while reading...
When it comes to education online I prefer these, where they publish actual university course lectures and assignments than what you can find on Coursera and alike. There is still a big gap in the quality and depth.
> possible tariffs the EU could apply to sales into the Eu.

Isn't that what the 2000 page trade deal they just signed is for?

> It tends to forget that the rest of the world exists.

the EU offers unilateral zero tariffs on all goods except weapons to all Least Developed Countries. Seems a strange way to "forget that the rest of the world exist"
Sure, but what part are the L1... I can se a bunch of similar patterns to the L2/3 caches but I would like someone that knows to draw a border around them!
Applying the brake on the slipping wheel is one half of traction control. Reducing the power going to the wheel is the other half. I accidentally demonstrated this to myself many years ago when my car suddenly was almost completely ignoring my throttle input for a reason I couldn't explain. It turned out I still had the parking brake on and when I went over a patch of ice and the car lost traction, adding more brake wouldn't do much, so it simply ignored my throttle. Because I wasn't moving more than about 5 miles per hour to begin with, it felt like the car just refused to move, like a stubborn mule.
Covid-19 made us live more sustainably. Now what?
> commercial banks invest my money on my behalf without me having any control over the process. CBDC is presumably just a store.

Central banks have been against direct accounts for retail for this reason, because they didn't want to be in the business of retail lending as well.

What would be the alternative there? It seems unlikely that central banks would go into the business of vetting and giving out small business loans. Could a commercial bank function with only giving out loans and no deposit (I guess it would get loans directly from the central bank instead of balancing its balance sheet with deposits?)
The lockdowncels are utterly obsessed about how much the lockdowns help and any word against them is a heresy.
Yeah, it's best if it's possible to do it both ways. With url and also by clicking links and maybe even add a select/input to go to certain page.

If you look at any e-commerce systems, ranging from WooCommerce to Shopify, Amazon and Walmart, I think they all use pagination. Some Amazon pages do have infinite scroll however

I have also been frustrated without having the ability to quickly go through commits... Or I think releases for that matter?

For instance, browsing through tags/release versions, which should be a very valid use-case in my opinion also uses cursor based navigation.
That’s their bad faith argument. They probably see anything causing the tide to rise all boats as erosion of their socioeconomic position.

Austerity is part of the recipe for turning a country into a failed state-see Greece.
2020 Men of the Year: The Experts
Nah, I've always been terrible at RTS games but I'm still obsessed with them.

I'm also pretty far into creating a generative RTS and it's turning out well. Maybe you'll like it too!
This looks great! I've been playing around with NGINX RTMP for video streaming a bit but this seems much more manageable. Looking forward to giving it a whirl!
Covid Changed Content Moderation
>as underestimating some built-in benefits of other countries like free healthcare.

If you're at FAANG (which the original post was talking about) then there's little advantage of free healthcare imho. You get top of the line company paid for healthcare. You can see a top specialist in a week with no referrals needed and someone almost as good same day.
Node.js compatibility: Using NPM packages in Deno
If there is hope against the worlds major forces of oppression, it is hackers, getting the links up ..
A multiplatform debugger detection library
Pithy, withering and all too true.
“opaque” here means we are hiding the real ID of the “cursor” item.
Thanks for sharing this information.
What is sustainable about millions of people out of work, businesses failing everywhere, children being stuck at home with their education and socialization severely handicapped, and politicians fighting over how best to dole out aid?
Ask HN: How to stop people using my RSS reader web app as a proxy for evil sites
I'm building an RSS reader web app. It takes a list of urls for feeds, and returns links to items in the feed.

Due to CORS, the requests have to go through a server. The server also parses the rss feed and just returns a few bits of relevant information. The url, title, and date of the entries.

If I allow anyone to use my server to fetch any RSS feed they want.

What can I do to stop someone nefarious using my server as a proxy to build a list of links to evil/illegal things?

Other than building a database of trustworthy sites, which i'm not willing to do, I can't think of a solution.
Agree direct comparison is tough and multifactored and would be highly individual (how do you put a price on being a 2 hr train ride away from Paris whilst having much better job opportunities than Parisians). However, given that compensation in US is a large multiple higher I think it would be easy to agree it's better overall. For comparison Big Law pays 20-30% lower on average in London vs. NYC and finance pays marginally lower (outside of quant finance where London pays a lot lower than NYC as hedge funds don't have to compete with FANGs for tech talent that wants high pay).
It's too early to know right now. We can see that there has clearly been a lot of damage caused by Brexit but it may bring on more opportunities in the future depending on how regulations and relationships with other nations develop.