skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrefour and Auchan don't exist in my country, but Lidl is one of the biggest supermarkets (#4, ahead of well established local brands) even though they only entered the market a couple of years ago. The #2 and #3 supermarkets are owned by Scandinavian supermarkets but rebranded - basically just a different name, same colours and style. The #1 is HQed here, but has a majority share of the market in neighbouring countries.

Tesco is big outside the UK and Ireland in a few Eastern European countries such as Poland and Hungary. I think they were the first hypermarkets in these countries. I've lived in Italy and Spain, and my local supermarkets there were Carrefour and Auchan.

So yes it varies... But my point was that if you actually look it's fairly easy to find a supermarket brand that's HQed in another country.

Maybe more common (where I am) in Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe, as these markets are younger, so it made sense for foreign brands to come when everything opened than establishing everything from scratch.

Of course it's not so integrated as the US - you explained this yourself, brands and marketing are tailored for the local market - but it's not so uncommon as OP suggested.
> He was pretty early, and quite contrarian, in betting on computer and quant strategies and thus took the “low hanging fruit” early on (def wasn’t low hanging back then when no one knew or believed in computer trades strategies)

Also the data back then was much harder to acquire. Bloomberg didn't even exist at the time.
Multiple finance firms are on record as doubling down on London, including all of the largest names.

Your sources are all conjecture.

>“I would expect that 3,000 to 4,000 more investment bankers, especially industry-focused specialists and debt and equity issuance advisers, will have to leave London and come back to Europe,” said Andreas Halin, founder of Global Mind Executive Search Consultants GmbH

Oh, so it's analyst conjecture and not an actual source. Goldman Sachs themselves have committed to the city -- with a billion dollars in office space alone.

>London Finance Job Openings Fell 49% in 2020 on Brexit, Covid

Huge leap to blame this on Brexit given the virus conditions. In actual reality, looking at real headcount numbers from the Financial Times, almost nothing has happened (some firms have expanded). [1]

[1] https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...
So, we're talking about a woman with multiple violations of child care standards, culminating in an incident where her landlord was concerned and called the police, whom found her 22 month old alone and seemingly neglected for many hours... and then ongoing efforts to try and create a supervised reunion and return to the home failed?

I don't doubt she has her own story where she's the victim, but...
The macbook range had years of delays
According to the Bible God "came over" a 12 year old Mary, sneaking into her bedroom at night like some creepy uncle, to "pop her cherry" before her newly wed husband Joseph could.

The child of that came to be known as.. Jesus.

Which should be a stark reminder that all Abrahamic religions have their roots based in such absurd and ancient practices that none of them hold up much to scrutiny under modern standards except when framed solely around an entirely fictional "Good guy miracle making baby Jesus".
if you find cnc routers cool, as i once did, i recommend you check out the world of machine tools- i.e. things that are used to make steel (and aluminum) parts. i would suggest starting by understanding how a manual lathe and vertical mill work (blondiehacks on youtube might be a good place if you are totally unfamiliar), and then seeing how they are driven with cnc is very cool. though that part is somewhat similar to cnc routers, but just much more demanding. and the precision is incredible if you arent familiar with the world of machining- even low grade hobby machines can hold tolerances of 1 thousandth of an inch easily across 18" of travel. its also a very interesting world because its been steadily evolving over the last 100 years, and metalworking for who knows how long before that. just be prepared to watch 1000's of hours of youtube videos, machinists like to make 45 minute+ videos for some reason.
> If the Jan 6 vote did not happen or if the results were not approved - Joe Biden was still unambiguously 'chosen' by in a free and fair election by all accounts?

The only account that has any force under the Constitution is the one made by Congress of the electoral votes cast by the States. That's why it was the target of the insurrection; if that could be manipulated, whether by giving courage to secret allies who might otherwise have a failure of conviction in Congress (what Trump overtly called on the crowd to do), or intimidation, or by forcibly removing members who were obstacles, then the election results could be undone; the “steal” could be “stopped”.

> Would the factual legitimacy of his election result in SCOTUS validating his claim to the Presidency?

Almost certainly not, and if it did it would be the Supreme Court voiding the Constitutional reservation of the role of judging electoral results from Congress, a different kind of coup.

> Would Democrats even remotely accept anything other that Biden as President?

No, if it was clear that the count was going to be obstructed and incomplete, rather than completed with a different outcome, but the House was capable of acting, they'd probably just elect Biden Speaker.

> If the 'election was rigged' - doesn't that invalidate the entire Congress as well? Including Pelosi? And all the Senators?

Legally, they are separate elections held at the same time, so, no, not in the eyes of the law, even if the first part was a conclusion of law, rather than a propaganda point to rationalize an application of raw power, which is what it would be.

> If a free and fair election were already held in November, and it was overturned for political reasons, what would be the point of having another one, if the results can be ignored on the basis of populism?

The same reason authoritarian regimes usually have elections; purely performative, rather than substantive.

> It would be total chaos.

Well, yeah, that's not really in dispute.
Some articles found by googling [1] [2] from two years ago describe this capability as "ultrasonic watermark" so it is not new. I think this is coming to light as Zoom has become popular with the pandemic. For a journalist wanting to sanitize audio I would think they need to remove anything higher than 15kHz.

[1] https://www.nojitter.com/video-collaboration-av/zoom-takes-v...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/22/zoom-is-bringing-ultrason...
There's really no such thing as pure arb. All trades bear some sort of risk that isn't entirely considered.
This is a great article and I'm happy the author mentions "an explanation of combustion exothermicity in terms of Pauling electronegativities is not convincing". I was incorrectly taught this view and it took me some time to unlearn it.

I keep seeing comments about how certain science topics are initially presented in an overly complicated fashion. But there are two forces at play here: correctness versus accessibility. The theory presented in this paper "predicts most heats of combustion with an error of only a few percent". This is good enough for most practical applications, especially if your goal is to introduce students to this topic.

But this is not the most "correct" description of reality that we currently have. A better model to decrease the error would incorporate information about the 3D structures/conformations of the molecules and some funky terms related to the quantum mechanics.

Anybody publishing literature about/teaching something like organic chemistry is stuck between this balancing act of correctness versus accessibility. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that you basically have to unlearn some of the stuff you picked up during the path to "accessibility" in order to properly move into the "correctness" phase. I genuinely sympathize with anybody dealing with the balancing act.

After studying organic chemistry for an extended period of time, it dawned on me that the well-thought-out explanations in my textbooks were just post-hoc rationalizations the field uses to avoid delving into the true quantum mechanical nature of the reactions. I'm happy I sacrificed some correctness for the huge amount of accessibility I got. But I'm also happy to unlearn some of the stuff on my path to correctness.
The US uses a common law legal system.. meaning the law isn't just what it says.. it's also how it's interpreted by judges and how it has been interpreted in the past.

You're arguing that we should use a civil law legal system... but you're several hundred years too late for that debate... and it has no relevance to this question.

So back to the interpretation: If this case went to the supreme court, why do you believe they would say: welp guess you're free? They also have the ability to say: Since the constitution says what it says, the court districts must be redrawn, and therefore the defendant must be tried in the redrawn Idaho district court. That's the way it would be solved by the legislature, and that's the way the court is going to force it to be resolved if the legislature doesn't.. because at no point did the legislature intend for a piece of land to be outside of our laws. An oversight is not intention.
A better solution is probably simplifying and reducing the number of laws, not making the government prove that you knew what you did was against the law.
I work in Java and Kotlin still. I miss doing OCaml. I miss writing C. I am trying to keep my sanity by doing Erlang[1] (gonna be our server for various purposes and I did not want to use Go because I thought it would be a great opportunity to perfect Erlang) and reading old books on Forth. I am also reading "Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet". For the foreseeable future I will do more designing and reading than implementing, but I will be toying around of course; for example right now I am doing hot upgrades and release handling in Erlang so I will not hesitate much due to ignorance when the time comes. This is just a minor part of it, of course.

In any case, Java, and especially Kotlin are quite tolerable with IntelliJ. It is a great IDE for those two at least. Plus I get paid, which is also a motivator... :D

[1] Truth be told, it is difficult to keep that sanity because I dislike the OTP documentation. I am reading books instead. I already know what their "target_system" does anyway, I modified it a lot for my use case but I reverted it because I thought it would be more of a hassle in the end.
You just need enough margin with steppers so you don't lose steps. Particularly during accelerations. That margin shouldn't need to be x10. It also depends on what screws you're using and whether there's any other reduction. You can get huge linear forces from a relatively tiny stepper. You're also going to need margins with a closed loop DC brushless/servo system otherwise while you won't lose your position you will get a position error.

There's also systems with steppers and encoders.

A common issue though is that the steppers are driven at too low of a voltage. You also want the right kind of driver that PWMs a high enough voltage to maintain the current at speed. That's because as the speed goes up the motor has higher back-EMF voltage that the driver needs to overcome. Constant voltage drive really suffers as the motor speeds up.

But sure, DC brushless + servos are nice, more expensive, and require more expensive controllers.
Now is a great time to build a pure-play data (DaaS) business
> The problem with the likes of Steven Pinker and Helen Sword is that they like their own writing way too much. But I don’t. Like their writing, that is. [1] I want to get some information from them and I want to get examples and counterexamples for the points they make. I want them to get to the point. I am not reading them for enjoyment, that’s what fiction is for.

I can’t help but read this in the voice of Dr. Kelso from Scrubs.
In my field of nutrition alone, there is tons more we could do to individualize and thus improve the targets for macro and micronutrients, as just one example. RDAs are only a rough starting point (when there is an RDA) as we understand more about individual genetics, food environment, etc. Why is all of medicine just invasive procedures and pharma? I'm not convinced that we somehow just need to sit and wait for some future time before we can jnvest and safely make use of markers over ones life to improve behaviors and health outcomes (for the benefit of an individual and others with similar medical characteristics).

Theres room to debate the degree and depth that we would utilize labs and other measures, but a complete non-starter mentality just leaves health outcomes to blind fate and promotes development of complex conditions much more difficult to unwind.
Searching for "pink" results in a muddy brown:

https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=pink
Psystar (which AFAIK is the only Hackintosh effort that actually got taken down by Apple) was actually selling hardware, and thus would cut into Apple's hardware profits.
He refers to the snapcraft, not the snap manager https://snapcraft.io/ , https://snapcraft.io/sosumi
Wait.

1) You don't think people have different learning styles?
2) You don't think that I know what distracts me while I'm working?
3) You don't think that evolution produces _vast_ diversity, and that people have vast differences in brain structure?
> One of the more interesting things ...

Yes, and this is often overlooked.

The question if we should turn machines into humans or vice versa, and that there is no third option.
That's a separate thing. I only meant to point to the heading "As a maximum entropy distribution".
Agreed this is less convenient than pandas for many tasks, however large market makers (citadel securities, Susquehanna, Jane st, Hudson River trading) employ abstractions like this out of necessity.
Perhaps they have countermeasures for this? Maybe a unique identifier for each meeting that alters the audio signature.
> If we instead built long term competence within public institutions, including competitive remuneration and career development like training programmes, there wouldn't be a need to have a door between the private and public sector quite as much in the first place...

That sounds great in theory, but the problem is that many of these leadership roles if not elected directly are nominated by the president and therefore they are political in nature and those politics can flow down through the organization.

For example the FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is resigning this week. Would he have resigned if Trump was reelected or would he have been re-upped for another term? Is Biden obligated to find this Republican a job somewhere else in his administration? Is Pai just supposed to retire at 48 years old? Can he go back to working for Verizon like he did for a period earlier in career? How many other people at the FCC have or soon will leave the agency due to the change in leadership?
No, you are not - and you cannot - be sure.

You can tell yourself whatever you want, but this kind of thinking has become pervasive throughout the culture as of late and it is a very concerning development. You cannot see a virus and you cannot prove one way or the other where you acquired the viral load necessary to come down with an infection.
I designed and built my own CNC router from scratch about 10 years ago. I just recently got it out to play with... Fun. But boy does it make a lot of dust to cut wood with a router (which is mostly why it's been sitting in the garage for so long, plus not a lot of time, plus it's not a very practical one, small work area).

EDIT: Random tidbit is that I control it from an old PC's parallel port. The PC runs DOS (the best real time OS ;) ) and uses some old free software called TurboCNC that can read G code and drive step and direction drivers. It has it's limitation but if you have an old PC around...
A corollary to #1 might be to structure your apps and data to be as portable as possible, e.g. use MariaDB or PostGreSQL rather than an AWS-specific dbms, maintain your own backups, etc.

Such portability can pay off in other ways as well. Example: a competitor to Amazon in the retail space told us they would not buy our IoT product with an AWS back end, so we had to port it to an alternative cloud provider.

This probably won't scale well when you get to a level of hundreds of millions of unique users, though.
Yes. It's public now, just incomplete.
Jason Fried: You have to build the thing and the market will validate it
Never said there is no relation. I’m saying that claiming there certainly was, in this case, is a stretch because there is counter evidence.

Of course, people will disbelieve it, and soon enough, someone like me pointing out the obvious problems with such claims will just be called an insurrectionist sympathizer and be arrested under the new terror laws. So eventually people like the OP can stop worrying their claims will be questioned.
In the states most roads and infrastructure projects are built by private companies that are contracted to do so by the government. There's offeten a public bid process between multiple companies to decide who gets the contract.
From my perspective, the only fool proof way of removing all audio watermarks from a conversation is to run individual speaker detection, STT detection, and voice cloning algorithms to "recreate" the conversation from scratch.

Even things like background electrical hum have been used in audio forensics.
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Stop delivering packages for two weeks, blame the govt...you'll find out very quickly that brown boxes are a real vector of power
See, this one does not bother me. Indistinct chatter / noise does not distract me in the slightest. In fact, that sound is actually a great environment for me to focus - total silence can actually be distracting for me.

Music on the other hand, I cannot program while listening to. Brains are different.
Somehow I think 99.9% of businesses will manage without giving it a second thought.
And a marathon is just running. Hikes like the author discusses are not "just walking".

As to why it's here, HN readers seem to like topics related to stoicism and perseverance.
Such pedantry emerging from what I can’t imagine to be anything other than a strong desire to deliberately misunderstand me means it’s not worth further engagement. Good luck.
At least for running, my experience is that suffering is most definitely a skill that you can improve. You get faster when you realise that the level of discomfort that stopped you the last run could actually be so much worse, and yet somehow you can still run faster.

I agree that suffering for its own sake probably isn’t worth it, but if you want to run faster/farther, getting used to suffering will let you improve.

Don’t over train, but don’t always listen when your body wants to stop, unless it’s joint pain :)

For people who enjoy the suffering itself; well that’s a different hobby than running, and I won’t judge.
This is hard to see working for difficult image problems .. in te sense that if you can algorithmically label, isn't your model done already?

However the thing is about labels being noisy and using multiple labeling strategies to help train a higher fidelity model - https://www.snorkel.org/
I long had dimensional accuracy issue that the whole axes seemed to stretch and contract like 5%, on a cartesian 3D printer, and it just went away after I switched to Servo42B setup.

I think it’s microstepping. Steppers with microstepping enabled and controlled by an 8-but micro must be assumed to produce zero holding torque and assumed they always miss a step or two.
> It would seem fairly easy to argue for almost any crime that one simply just didn't know it was a crime.

That only works until the government knocks on your door and points to the regulation you're violating. Then even if they don't prosecute you for doing it yesterday, you're all out of excuse if you do it tomorrow. Which gets you to stop.
Agreed. High powered servos and associated controllers are great with an infinite budget, but properly sized steppers are perfectly fine for hobby CNC machines.

The forces involved can be estimated ahead of time with simple math. It's easy to verify stepper motor holding torque with a common kitchen scale. Cutting forces can be estimated with readily-available calculators online.
Good call, considering they've already been.
An AI that understand what the user writes? We are far away from that.
"All my service processes hang."
"Kill all"
Bricked
Perhaps you are right and there is no political solution.
A "in a hurry" hack might be to run it through a bad phone line? Still understandable, but you can probably guess that the phone provider is going to crush the spectrum and significantly reduce the bit depth.
No, it is to prevent Trump’s upcoming tax fraud and foreign financial crimes from carrying criminal penalties, only civil penalties.
> there's more limits on harmful ideologies and violence but less restrictions on sex and nudity, for example.

Also more mindful about privacy, in many EU countries one can't just doxx people, not even criminals.

A popular example is this story about a Swiss parliament secretary who got fired for posting nudes from her workplace.

EU outlets censored her face and left the nipple [0], US and AUS outlets showed her face but censored her nipple [1], while the British Mirror pixelated both [2].

[0] https://images05.xn--sterreich-z7a.at/sex_01.jpg/rl2015_arti...

[1] https://www.9news.com.au/world/swiss-secretary-posted-nude-s...

[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/secretary-working-s...
Granted it's been a few years since I studied chemistry, but isn't the word "combustion" defined as "exothermic reaction"? At least that's what wiki states. If a reaction doesn't create heat, we don't call it combustion.
Those are commercial structures that prey upon the vacuum left by old structures disappearing.
Likely this, for his impending tax fraud and foreign financial crimes.
> Exotrail’s nanosatellite thruster runs on 50 watts of power and is equivalent in volume to 2 liters of soda.

Don't you confuse it with 2 liters of milk!
This seems enormous. If you don't mind sharing, what are you making with this machine ?
I'm just going to come out and say it. Isn't everyone a bit more nervous about the precedent set by amazon after the parler deplatform. Regardless of how horrible the things were said there, aren't there companies out there kind of wondering if AWS is a risk now?
Interestingly they discontinued the PE exams due to lack of candidates.
In the late 80s, I bought a perpetual license for PKZip, which I still have in a notebook somewhere. I used it to bundle my own shareware program. Of all the programs, theirs seemed like the one with the most shareware-friendly licensing scheme and user friendly unpacking process.

Stupidly, I sent my brother an encrypted ZIP file with my source code, and of course it's the only copy remaining, and of course I can't crack the password. I've tried some cracking programs.
There's a lot of anthropomorphism in that. Intention to warn, feeling danger, making decisions... They're indicative of an intricate system, but let's not jump the conclusion of inferring it's a sentient system in the lens of our own experience.
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If this is an executive order then it can be struck down as soon as the next president is sworn in. Executive orders are easy-come, easy-go ...
Is a third-party recording software detection capability likely to be implemented in the future? And how successful would it be on Windows vs Unix & Unix-like systems?
Dan's company, Creo, used to build high precision machinery very similar to CNC machines. He used to give some amazing tech talks and his videos are similarly amazing.