skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they don’t do though is tell people in Muslim countries that they must live like a European.

The Swiss rule their house, and let others rule theirs, and this is what I mean with living and letting live.
You can also combine that with a DNS-level ad-blocking pseudo-VPN running on the device (like a pi-hole but without the pi). That gets rid of most in-app ads and a ton of tracking.
> scaling possibilities horizontally but may be able to scale vertically

Let me guess. Vertically, bigger computer, horizontally, more computers?

These cloud business speaks is getting to my head.
The same protections should be extended to full time employment as well. In the same way your boss cannot compel you to do something dangerous and there are standards around safety and workplace rules.
How is that relevant? you claimed things have changed since then, show me the money.
The most wasteful are the richest though.
That's typical for Microsoft.
Sure, but we're comparing making x in salary in Europe and paying out of pocket for private healthcare if needs arise, or making 4x in US and having employer-sponsored private health insurance.

I know this is not everyone's experience, just comparing the choices of Sw Engs.
Don't get me wrong, I dig the retro art style, but at that resolution, dithering gets in the way of legibility. I think for the chess pieces themselves it makes more sense to trade off some of the realism (i.e., shading, specular) to better communicate the shapes, particularly as it's so important to game play
I guess same thing happens as when someone wants to leave Google ecosystem behind.

You give people the new phone number. It's really not that hard (and I'm writing this as an expat using multiple phone numbers :) ).
> "Marriage", according to anthropologists ....

There is a very interesting discussion about that in "Sex at dawn". Shortly put, anthropologists are very biased, and they will use their data selectively.

Today, there are people that live wholesome lives with multiple consensual sexual partners, search for polyamory.

IMHO, there simply is a lot of residual prejudice coming down from old religious dogma.
Is it though? The company demoted him and his career was only saved by direct intervention from the congress.
I absolutely love this.

One of the more poetic reasons why I like Ethereum VM is because it seems likely to keep running for a very, very long time. I would take a Long Bet that it will still exist 100 years in the future.

With that in mind, this might end up being the longest "continuously running" (both words with some heavy qualifiers) Conway's Game of Life implementation.
Seems like an incredibly disturbing characteristic to me. Especially if they tell the person every time they “didn’t make the cut”
You can although the specifics depend a lot on what you're swtiching from. A mechnical engineer, an accountant, a history teacher and a blue-collar worker will need to approach this in very different ways.
I think it's just more well-balanced over here to be honest. For Denmark:

1. We have a much more chill working situation. You work a regular work day, you're not the property of the company you work at, you do not have non-compete clauses (the company would have to pay your salary in full as long as it was valid), a lot of things that in the US come from post-tax salary is handled by the tax (education for you and your kids, healthcare, etc.)

2. Trying your luck as entrepreneur is easier and much lower risk than in the US. It's also quite easy to get "free" entrepreneurial government grants of small to medium sizes. As a result, there tends to be more, smaller startups, and bootstrapping is popular. When VCs aren't involved, salaries tend to be less astronomical.

3. Software engineer salaries in the US are blown completely out of proportions, and too market-distorting to be goal to have.

Just moving to where the salary is highest with no other consideration for anything else sounds... Short-sighted, narrow-minded and greedy (but not in a smart way).
> I don't get the rant around MSM. There's definitely mainstream media. And while they didn't fall for Q (although I still heard Q mocked in my bubble long before it was in the media), they have their own Russiagate conspiracy theory they're pushing. Here's another article from my bubble if you care.

Depends on your definition. "Mainstream" as what people watch/read and commonly accept as decent publications with some sort of professionalism and oversight? Certainly, probably every country has them! However, the people using the "MSM" label usually imply that all such media is bad, too biased, wrong, in a secret plot with X, etc. So which is it for you ? If you really do believe that all even remotely popular ( which would include things as diverse as like Fox, BBC, the Guardian, the FT, Washington Post, New York Times, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Mediapart, Der Spiegel, etc.) medias are corrupt/wrong/too biased to pay attention to or anything of the sort, and random bloggers, twitterers, forumers are better than them... I honestly do not know how to proceed. It's obviously a ludicrous notion that isn't and cannot possibly be true and the only possible explanation i can imagine is that you're applying the exaggerated logic based on the shitty US media landscape to the rest of the world.

As for Q mocking in your bubble... Great for you, I guess? Maybe professional journalists have more integrity than to popularize a shitty ridiculous conspiracy theory by discussing it. Maybe their usual sources don't include 4chan or w/e.

> The most dangerous and deranged conspiracy theory of the last four years is the multi-headed Russiagate fantasy: the Kremlin has infiltrated the U.S. Government and controls it through sexual blackmail, Moscow has invaded the U.S. electricity grid and is poised to shut off heat in winter -- the craziest and most moronic shit possible. A 2018 poll found that ⅔ of Democrats — ⅔!! — believe that Hillary really won the election but Russians invaded the voting systems and switched her votes to Trump.

I don't see how that's relevant, at all. We're talking about "mainstream" media, not irrelevant US partisan politics. The world doesn't end at the US border, you know?
Yes, thank you! Fixed and deployed.
You have not understood the main lesson from the Challenger accident: the fact that everything went fine is not proof that everything is fine. That's exactly what normalization of deviance is all about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
This statement doesn't make much sense to me. Is there a theoretical limit to the length of DNA, or do you mean that human DNA is ~100MB?

The human genome is about 6.4 billion base pairs, where each base pair is represented by the letters: Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Cytosine (C), and Guanine (G), i.e. 2-bits. 6,4 billion is then 6.4E9*2 = 1.28E10 bits = 1.28E10/8 bytes = 1600 MB. Or 800 MB if you count the bases as pairs of two.

Polychaos dubium's DNA is over 200 times as long as human DNA[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaos_dubium
Don’t you think it hurts a child to cut their genitals? I’m ashamed it’s allowed in my country, and due to socialised health care I must fund it. It’s child abuse.
Likely lots of reasons, but you're not going to find any answers here. Sentences like:

The grand failure of the world's biggest free trade zone really is a striking fact to gnaw on.

do not suggest that the author will have any particular interest in facts that don't align with their existing ideas.

In reality causes are likely a mixture of:

- Tighter regulatory environment

- More barriers in the overall market

- Lower income inequality

- Fewer hours worked

And this says very little about the benefits or costs of the decisions that might lead to these outcomes, or why they indicate "falling further behind".
Presumably you'd have a healthcare plan of some sort, one which politicians have mandated over the years to cover practically everything. You might also keep some savings for this thanks to the fear mongering on MSM, whereas it would be rare to do so in a free healthcare country.
I think the left wing of the two sides has embraced prudishness, rationalizing it as being feminist (female nudity => objectification => sexual violence). The left has always had a large prudish faction, so it's not really a surprise.
This is financial law's requirement. They need to be able to find and arrest you, in case you used your account for financing terrorism. So Google Voice probably won't cut it, they need a real number tied to your physical identity.
Clearly adding further constraints can only worsen performance. I would code according to best practices except for cases where it’s possible to infer them implying tight bottlenecks. Then profile the code and if circumventing best practices results in a meaningful performance increase, do that.
Yes.

But these terms are way older than any cloud-computing and go back many many years.
Then try to calculate the energy / processing power spent per step.
The article makes the excuse that static (singleton) interfaces are inherently simpler and less resource intensive enough for it to be worth skipping regression testing (because testing that style of code is hard.)

Reading between the lines, it sounds like maybe they know they've dug themselves into a very expensive hole to dig out of. I've jumped head first into codebases that made the same excuse, and to me it seems severely limiting in terms of long term productivity. There are definitely benefits to simple, "static" singleton interfaces, and such interfaces aren't inherently incompatible with mocking and dependency injection. It does mean you likely need a layer of indirection somewhere, but if you're sweating the overhead of a single vtable lookup or explicit function pointer call on code that's internally accessing a non-trivially sized data structure, how are you even able to measure it?

The problem is that a handful of foundational static interfaces never got unit tested, and all the other code calls directly into them, so nobody anywhere wrote any unit tests because they couldn't (without touching foundational code that's unsafe to modify for lack of unit tests.) The first step in the right direction is to fix the foundation. This is terrifying for the folk that have been around a while and cemented in their assumptions about risk because they've tiptoed around modifying portions of the codebase for years. Luckily, a big benefit of static singleton interfaces is that it's very easy to modify them with O(n) developer time (where n is the number of references in the codebase). So, you just have to buckle down and get your hands dirty. You're pretty much guaranteed to find at least one latent bug in any old piece of code that you unit test, and so folk start to see the merits of the test coverage and it becomes easier to prioritize refactoring more and more ancient and scary code. After you've done it to half a dozen or so disjoint pieces of code, something magical happens. Suddenly, the vast majority of the codebase becomes easily unit testable.
Hey, just a suggestion: I would put a string and not the username/email in your javascript snippet to include in the html.
Also true in interviews. When asked about their weaknesses, some candidates who have thought this through might say something like "I spend too much time trying to help struggling colleagues" or similar.
How does Brexit even matter if border checks are suspended for imports?

Just the usual scaremongering.

I also shop at Tesco and the stocks haven't changed at all.
I found a visual example here:
https://ashutoshbsathe.github.io/yacv/
I am sorry this is total BS, now even 10 year olds suddenly have access to porn, and amount of sex in society plummeted.

Secondly, I didn't sign up for catholic church, sex is not a sinfull activity limited to procreation only.
Image Classification from scratch without a PhD
Oh for goodness sakes. I don't know where you're writing this from, but Europe a is a big place. And lots of it is doing reasonably well - modulo lock-downs.

I'm not convinced at all that Europe is declining, though I am convinced that China and India are rising (as they bloody well should after the horrible history Europe has given them in recent centuries) though I'm worried that this isn't accompanied by a freer, fairer society in those places, just a richer one. Being richer is a good thing of course; freedom being of limited value to a starving child.

Which leads me to ask what your basis for comparison is? Because I've lived in wealthy parts of the US - much wealthier than anywhere I've lived in Europe - and seen streets paved with metaphorical gold, but I've visited plenty of places in the US that seemed pretty backward, poor, soaked in ignorance and hopelessly broken. When 2 million people in the richest country in the world don't have indoor plumbing then something is wrong with that country's measure of wealth.
> A genuinely new programming paradigm would not be the same as just a new...

How would this be different from, e.g. the development of modern high-level programming languages? To a certain extent, structured programming exists because we find it cognitively easier to express our programs in terms of if/then/else statements or loops as opposed to conditional jumps.

I don't think the "algorithmic" type of thinking is really escapable if you want to end up with code that actually executes.
Julia: A Post-Mortem
Modern agriculture cultivates climate change (2015)
yeah, i know what you mean. we'll see if we can somehow put some kind of a custom filter on the top of the dashboard to allow this usecase or perhaps add a search box to the top pages report. need to decide which way is best.
There are not enough oligarchs to make an impact.
thanks, glad to hear that! and hope you enjoy this feature!
You know it's panic buying and you know it will harm other people. That's why you want to do it yourself. You know that if others do it and you don't that it will harm you. So you take the "can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach and do it yourself. Is it wrong for an individual to "join 'em"? No. Is it wrong that individuals feel the only way to be safe is to "join 'em"? Yes. But that's not a problem you can solve by yourself.

The tragedy is that much of the food being stocked up in people's homes will go to waste as they don't have the facilities or knowledge to store it properly. Food suppliers have way better storage facilities than you do at home. They know how to keep food available all year round. There's also plenty of food to go around as should be blindingly obvious by observing the waistlines of people around you and that's including the fact that the food supply chain already has a ton of waste built in.

Tragedy of the commons.
But with most restaurants closing your will also have to subtract the food that would have been used there. Obviously most of them tried to change to a takeaway service, but I am pretty sure their overall customers went down by alot during all of this.
You're reading that the opposite way.

> A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality, where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has the same income). A Gini coefficient of one (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values

Was easy to spot, US and Russia are definitely not at the top when it comes to income equality as both are controlled by oligarchy
Overall production/consumption has probably decreased. This means that food has has higher relative share of consumption.

Therefore food prices shift right?
The efficient market hypothesis doesn’t predict that everything is priced in all the time. It predicts that you can’t consistently beat the efficiency of market pricing over a long term. It doesn’t predict that short term volatility can’t exist.
>Salary difference is so large, I would never move.

It's not like the EU wants you to move here, in the first place...
As long as you eventually eat it, it is fine I guess.

It is like energy and power demand on the electical grid. You lower the peak power demand.
Effective Rank Decomposition for Linear Maps
You may have a rad at this post by Alex:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/programming-sucks!-or-at-le...

If I had to choose one sentence to quote, it would be this:

_There’s a term for this type of boring software: information systems._

It matches perfectly my experience that developing software is great when the value that you are creating is more than writing the software itself.

Developing a new algorithm and finding the best way to express that in software is nice; writing a program that helps you test a new hardware module you are developing is nice; testing different layouts for your blog can be nice.

On the other hand, working as a software scribe, as in receiving detailed, non-questionable input and being tasked with converting it to a function, becomes tedious pretty fast. Your first CRUD web application may be some fun, but the third will be a déjà-vu.

Sorry to be blunt, but the software development industry can be fine only is your master skill is something other than software development.
I’m just thinking about how much CO2 emission was spared by optimizing performance instead of scaling horizontally.

It would be nice to see the effect on the environment as part of the decision-making process for deciding whether to optimize versus scale.

I think developers have an innate desire to fix performance issues as optimization produces a better understanding of the code and the problem and developers would like to solve the problem in the best possible way. And it helps to know that the problem won’t bite again later.
I would assume it's a net win for those people to have those thumbnails.
Like UK?
True, 0. But I think Guile had an exact->inexact function.
Never mind 100 years in the future, this game of life implementation isn't running even now. As the article says, it would cost $80 just to register the code to run it, never mind funding each compute step.

And yet your phone could compute the next 100 years of this ethereum GoL calculations in far less than a second!
Say there's a quantum bowl with two identical red balls, and one blue ball. You take a ball with your eyes closed. Probably your ball is red, maybe it's blue. You open your eyes, see a color - what happened!

Here's three choices, none of them good:

1. Local Hidden Variables: When you open your eyes, you see which color your ball had all along! This is so obvious, but it's wrong for tricky reasons (Bell's Theorem) which I can't fit into the analogy; basically the ball cannot have "had a color all along."

2. Copenhagen: When you open your eyes, the ball just decides what color it is. The other balls will mysteriously agree, so there's not two blue or three red or whatever. How did they do that? Is that a real physical change, or just learning something new? (This is wavefunction collapse and it's very uncomfortable for obvious reasons.)

3. MWI: When you open your eyes, one version of you sees a red ball, and one version of you sees blue. Ok, but if there's red you and blue you, how can the red ball be "more probable?" Are there two separate "red ball" yous? Or maybe the red ball you is "more real?" (This is the relationship between the measure of the wavefunction and experimental probability, aka Born's Rule; MWI struggles to explain it, Copenhagen just postulates it).
Ahh thanks for that, guess i just didnt look into it enough to find it.
But is it the right advice or not?
First, non-rented months _really_ should count; as zero for that time.

Second, it sounds like they're over-leveraged.
Internet companies are in great part responsible for the phenomenal growth that the US or China are seeing, and I think it is hard to deny that the EU has completely fallen off the bandwagon in this regard - or didn't even hop on it in the first place. I remember seeing in one of Mary Meeker's recent reports that there was only one European company in the top-30 of global internet companies: Spotify, at number 30.

The situation is dire, and I'm not sure there is much to be done. There has been talk of the EU funding AI and cloud-computing superefforts, but I'm skeptical that this will produce results. I also agree with the author's sentiment that perhaps all the technological regulation in the EU may have stifled competition dramatically (Ben Thompson and others have been positing that GDPR for example may have been a boon for incumbents and a disaster for newcomers, as the former can afford to jump through all the hoops while the latter have a much harder time doing so)

There may be a good argument in the sentiment that many are repeating in the thread: growth for the sake of growth is not necessarily good, and wealth distribution is also important. But the EU cannot afford to completely neglect growth and its compounding nature over time, or it risks becoming completely sandwiched by the US and China. Maybe the ECSC was born primarily to foster trade between its members and not so much to worry about forming a "bloc" that could stand up to other superpowers, but I think it's hard to deny that this is a legitimate expectation of many EU citizens nowadays.

Perhaps the EU should think outside of the box and look for other avenues of growth, and also review existing regulation. I'm cynical on both fronts nonetheless: despite having been staunchly pro-EU all my life, I get the feeling that the weight of its bureaucracy makes innovation and changing laws very difficult. I find it much more akin to a continent drifting millimeters each year, rather than a massive fleet of ships, which would be complex to commandeer, but would still retain its fundamental capabilities for changing course and reorganizing itself.
>> choose to continue paying rent shows it is valuable to you.

> It is valuable to me.

That is the very definition of economic value.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economic-value.asp
Yeah exactly, cyberpsybin's comment reads as "now that people have enough money to buy food they ate all of it".

No, the problem is that there isn't enough food in the first place. The rising price rewards farmers who produce additional food. You just need to run a stimulus program for farmers so that they can expand and mechanize their farms to increase yields.

I wish people would look at physical reality first and then look where physical reality takes the market rather than looking at the market and ignoring what physical reality looks like.
Not in a casual setting, but when you're on lunch break and going back to work/a conference/whatever else you're doing professionally after that, it is unusual (and not only in the US, even the Germans, who love beer, tend to only indulge in it after "Feierabend").
What are the issues around Relay you’re referring to?
Wow, sorry. As the other comments say, there’s an underscore. I should have double checked!
Far less than he gains from doing the same, which is the point.