skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I volunteered for the last few months. One thing that surprised me just a bit is how motivated I could be even without any money benefits. Also that charity warehouse was better equipped than my previous gig at a truck disassembly plant at some very large truck renting company. In the former we had a whole fleet of powered pallet trolleys or fenwicks, the latter had 2 busted manual pallet jacks and 1 fenwick. Go figure.
No, they don't, and in helicopters they even have windows in the floor.
Here is a short introduction to ergodicity in non-mathematical terms: https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1339621378765537282?...
I think he clearly is asking about the makeup of immigrants there being closely related European cultures because Switzerland has openly xenophobic policies towards Muslims, not historically Christian Europeans.
Romania. I'm registered as a "persoana fizica autorizata" (PFA), which has 2 types of taxation systems:
- real (which means you're taxed ~40% based on how much you earn).
- norma de venit, where you'll need to pay taxes for a fixed amount of money, even if you make less. This system is only for persons making below 100k eur/year, after that you'll be moved to the "real" taxation.

In op case, he exceeds the 100k limit and he'll need to register a company instead where there's a 3% revenue tax plus a 5% income tax.
I think so, just having worked with UK colleagues who were no different in ability and looking for opportunities overseas as a way to explore more places while holding a steady job.
As long as we're making bad jokes, here's another:

In order to get better at recursion, you must first understand recursion.

In order to get understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.

(yes, the lack of a base case makes the joke even worse:-)
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Fair - we all have obligations that would be better to do now rather than later, yet we procrastinate. I understand that.

However, in your examples, again - I think procrastination provides a useful signal. If you already have your sights set on "job X" while in university, and you find yourself procastinating all your assignments - maybe it's time to re-evaluate your desire to have job X (maybe it came from your parents or societal pressure rather than an internal desire) and be more flexible in your goals.

It's a bit idealistic, but I do feel that even in modern society, people can find fulfilling work even at the lower pay-grades - and if you're continually procrastinating all your tasks that are required for you to get that work, that is likely a useful sign that it is not the fulfilling work you are looking for.
Look at their impact on world peace over the centuries rather than their opinions on architecture.
“The most charming and attractive” 1985

“The irony of fate” 1975

“Winter cherry” 1985
Rainbow analogy meant to mean that often arguments a) focus on narrow aspects and b) don't explicitly define context. Excel patterns will be different from patterns in x86 assembly or high level software architecture.

Sometimes patters are prose about arrangement, sometimes template can be provided and in some cases even fully functional, generic code can be provided.

I don't see anything wrong with calling them "design patterns", software is about "designing" systems and "pattern" reflects the fact that they re-occur, can be reused, can be applied to similar problems etc.

The value is in recognising similar structures, communicating them, reusing solutions to already thought through problems etc.

Poorly designed code can be recognised straight away with ad-hoc, incoherent spaghetti. On the other side there are many poorly applied "pattern" implementations with idiotic verbosity that should be called out as "anti-patterns" instead (just mere change of the language is enough to move a pattern to anti-pattern).

Just because it can describe about anything doesn't make it pointless, just like "best practices" section can be about anything, it doesn't mean it makes it pointless.

Anti-patterns are very useful concept as well.
Great, as they should. The basic civics should not be private, open and performed under the public eye.
You're missing the point. Let me give a direct analogy: In erlang there is a fantastic error system, but sometimes you want to emit an ok/error tuple instead. There is a generally sane heuristic of when you do and don't want to use the error pathways, it's a part of making good engineering choices. Generally speaking it's the case where when you want structured errors you use the tuple.

It's possible that erlang developers are merely internalizing sone pain, but it's also a robust system that people have been developing highly reliable and broadly used (e.g. rabbitMQ) systems architectures in, so the choice can't be all that bad.
Puppy born in Oklahoma believed to be the first to survive with six legs
@kgwgk You are conceptually all over the place since you don't understand the topic.

"If EE is just a way to choose the U in EUT how does that mean that EUT is incorrect?"

EE doesn't choose the U in the EUT. EE has something similar to U in it's math where you can select any function of a certain class and plug it in.

One of those function when plugged in gives out the Kelly criteria.

"If it does give the right result why do you say elsewhere that "they aren't quite identical and it does make a difference" and you coded and ran a simulation that proves it?"

The simulation ran the game purposed by Ole Peters where they give different results. Only in special games like the ones typically purposed by economists, do they give the same result.
for the second thing, there's a famous presentation by Norvig[0] showing how many GoF patterns are "invisible" in powerful enough languages.

It's 25 years old, but still interesting.

[0] http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/
How do they distinguish between resting state and non-resting state?

In monkeys?
What type of visa you get shouldn’t affect your salary. Big advantage of O1 over H1B is that you can apply outside the yearly H1B lottery schedule. Pre pandemic the lottery was about a 1 in 4 chance to get a place. Qualifying for an O1 can be difficult though.

Whichever initial visa route you take make sure your employer starts your green card application as soon as they can.

SF doesn’t feel like a big city in the way NY or London does (LA is the major city in California.) There is substantially less cultural life here. If you work in Silicon Valley (best jobs are there) you’ll be working in an office park 30-50 miles from downtown SF.

The hardest thing I’ve found is the 8 hour time zone difference makes staying in touch with friends and family harder. Can’t just call someone in the evening.

Even if you live and work in SF you’ll probably want to get a car so you can easily get out and see California. There is outstandingly beautiful nature around here.
Shrug, add a nice zoom lens to make it's effective range several meters instead. Of course it would be far sighted but maybe you know most mosquitos will be several meters away anyway. Or have 3 cameras, one for the cm, one for the m and one able to zoom many meters to look at known problem spots like puddles or a bird bath.
I just assumed it was fake. It feels so scammy.
And the results are pretty similar to the 2018 vote on cancelling their public broadcaster, which also highlighted questions of corruptibility of big companies, but was not around privacy, technology, or surveillance.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/vote-march-4--2018_att...
It's the colonial empires that caused the refugee crisis? I thought it was the much more recent bombings. But if it was the colonial empires, how come Turkey faced no refugee crisis from their colonies in south-eastern Europe [1,2]? How come the refugee crisis was now, and not at the height of those colonial empires you blame?

You see colonialism when it suits you, and are blind to it when it doesn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Thracian_Bu...
> Dart is actually an awesome language to work with generally and is only continuing to get better

Not to kill your enthusiasm, but that can be said for almost any new language.

> I think it has HUGE potential on the server side but there is a chicken and egg problem there at the moment where there don’t appear to be any actively maintained frameworks

Which is why an active and vibrant ecosystem around the language increasingly is more important than the language itself.

Just look at Go. A terribly, inexpressive language where the common solution is to write code-generators.

But it has an ecosystem and the stuff people need. So people use it to write more software and more Go-libraries, reinforcing the platform-effect.
> There are people who happily pay $2,000 for an Apple laptop. There are people who are happy with Linux on a $100 machine from Goodwill.

This is the weirdest sentiment that I see all the time on HN, but enough people express it that I have to accept it as both widespread and genuine.

However, I think that if you think $2000 US for an Apple laptop isn't the best value for money you can get on the laptop market, then you're either very good at finding bargains or completely bonkers.

Yes, macOS is no longer for developers. Yes, for extreme workloads I use my linux ryzen7/2080ti or the cloud rather than the MBP. Yes, they had a strange couple of years with the keyboards.

But honestly, they're the best hardware hands down. Not just the best absolutely, but the best per dollar. And personally I love macOS, but I'm just a manager these days so I guess I would, right?
Helpful introduction to asynchronous programming in Python
I recently restored a ZX Printer, bit of a pain but mostly because the belts disintegrate on touch. You can buy new ones though [1] and you see them on eBay too sometimes.

Worth the resto for the wonderful noise they make!

[1] https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/zx-printer-replace...
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> Malicious actors can't give a bogus header, because you can verify the bogus header doesn't have enough PoW.

Ok, I guess you don't know how verification works. Here are the 19 steps: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_rules#.22block.22_messag...

Step 4) "Block hash must satisfy claimed nBits proof of work"

The bad actor has full control of that, he just has to make sure the fake header has enough leading 0s in phony header nBits, the function that checks this is CheckProofOfWork() at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/pow.cpp#L...

Step 10) "Verify Merkle hash"

Well gee-wiz, how are we going to do that without having all the transaction in the block that the phony header hashMerkleRoot represents? GetHash() at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/primitive...
One property that makes recursion attractive is that maps so easily to proof by induction. When designing algorithms, I'll often design a recursive version first, prove it correct, and then translate it into an iterative version. The translation is frequently required to implement the algorithm in common programming languages, most of which have poor support for recursion.

For an example, see https://github.com/tmoertel/practice/blob/master/dailycoding...
Protected against weather and sunlights but not against dumb kids with eBay lasers yet
Ok look, casual elitism. Color me surprised. Let me guess: 250k a year is "basically poverty" in the Bay Area?
> I wonder if this sort of thing could be honeypotted?

One method could be to anycast the domain to a bunch of edge servers which all relay traffic to the actual server.

DNS queries of the domain return the closest edge which gets attacked, other edge servers can still route.
Yes, it's just a request but it's quite a worrying trend that it's okay to even have a politician propose this - especially with the Stasi not long ago...
And Estonia too!
Having been involved with a large U.S. Government aerospace project that ultimately failed (there are a lot of USG program failures, and a lot of them in aerospace) Mr. Jacobsen's statement that "FAA leadership seems to be denying any wrongdoing" sadly seems to ring quite true. So does the FAA PM asking him why he was in meetings related to MAX even though it may not have been in his formal "swim lane".

There is generally a very sad reticence to acknowledge mistakes within organizations, but failure to earnestly acknowledge, show contrition, and learn from mistakes is dereliction of duty in the public sector in my view. In my own experience, I was a lone voice asking "What are we going do based on learning from this that lessens the likelihood of future such failures?" It was and is an unpopular question. I don't foresee any organizational changes taking place, even though they should. And I don't just mean staff changes, I also mean clear commitments to principle, intent, and wiser behavior.
He's paying in time and risk, rather than money. He has to run the company, which presumably is a full-time job, and there's a risk it implodes before he has fully paid for it (which it didn't, but it might have done).
Mickey. Mickey Rooney. Who when he was younger did a lot of movies as a character named "Andy Hardy."

Andy Rooney "played" a curmudgeon on 60 Minutes.
Well, obviously I'm thinking about my future and college choices, but I don't think I understand what you are trying to tell me. You think I should stop freelancing and just worry about college applications for the next 3 years?
Xenophobia is a loaded term. There could be any number of reasons why they're voting against those things. And so what if they dislike certain foreign cultures? It's their country, and they can accept who they want, or not.

Or is Democracy suddenly not okay if the will of the people is misaligned with the "greater" society's views? Which, I would also argue, isn't conclusively in the camp that "xenophobia = bad". If anything, it's held by a minority of countries, and even then, not shared by all in those countries. But of course, xenophobia is a loaded term, so we could be talking about completely different things that fall under that umbrella.
Bioethics and the New Eugenics
You didn't answer my question, and those aren't opinion polls, the difference between them being whether they are binding.

You don't think those constitutional referendums which ban those historically Muslim traditions could be interpreted as xenophobic?

You don't seem intent on actually answering my question or even directly addressing it, so I assume you are just gaslighting in bad faith. Good luck.
Actually Roe vs Wade implied the right to privacy from the 14th amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The alternative "right to privacy" has been found by other cases in the generic 9th amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Probably this https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250780982_The_Valid...
Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it :) Maybe a less "traditional" resume makes sense.
>> six months

> Identity management is the tip of the iceberg: this needs to tie into any future digital currency, income taxes, property ownership, government benefits, and who knows what else.

I'll put my shoe on my head if you can find me a private company that can do this in six months. Previously on HN: CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs (technologyreview.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25975110

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How do you define "correct results"?

Talking about portfolio selection, for example, the EE - a.k.a. U=log(wealth) - solution may be the "correct solution" to the "we never spend a dollar problem and we have an infinite horizon" problem.

But EE cannot get any results, correct or otherwise, for many other problems that are much more interesting where EUT can be applied.

Like investment decisions when your horizon is not infinite and you intend to use the money at some point.
Speak for yourself. Many others have done the maths decades ago and realized that nuclear is the least bad option.

In my case: 1992.
> those aren't opinion polls

What do you think a referendum is, if not a poll of the population's opinion on something?

My answer to your question is to look at their actual positive impact all around the world, including for Islamic countries, not their opinions on architecture or dress.

I literally don't think there's a more peaceful, welcoming, open-to-others' cultures anywhere in the world than the Swiss. If you think they're xenophobic then everyone else is 10x more xenophobic.
The way to do this is to attract the mosquitoes by slowly letting out a bunch of CO2, that way you need to search a much smaller area.
When cryptocurrency became popular, it was hard to imagine a more poorly designed system. Generating random numbers, continuous guessing, to verify a ledger? That’s the culmination of decades of algorithm and performance knowledge?

Then smart contracts took the stage, and we realized they were an even worse idea than cryptocurrency. Permanently lose access to your money by locking it into a buggy computer program? How could we lose?

And now NFTs are the new worst idea. It’s somehow made the fundamentally terrible random number generation idea of cryptocurrency worse.

The collapse can’t come soon enough.
I'd measure the humidity (log and track it over a few days to see trends) and check if your humidifier is enough to keep it up at a comfortable level.
The author is confused about what an NFT is. It's simply a verifiable digital claim about 'anything'. It also happens to be a token that is easy to transact with, i.e., buy and sell.

I think the author is just complaining what someone is willing to pay (and is paying) for NFTs. This argument comes up all the time, especially regarding items that have mostly status value.

The answer to that is simple, anyone can pay whatever it's worth to them. It's none of the authors business. Stop complaining.

There are artists and creators who have worked for years and never made a dime from their art. NFTs have changed their lives. NFTs create instant markets for any digital item, giving them value. And there are no middlemen.

The author is missing the beauty of this creative explosion and opportunity. Look into it for yourself and you'll see. Either that or stay poor.
Fortunately we agree almost completely :)

Preferential treatment can mean many things. For example, you can provide programs for ethnic minorities to retrain as developers. It could mean scholarships that are only available to black people, or immigrants, or deaf people. It could mean training recruiters and interviewers so that they are less biased in their evaluation of candidates - in ways that they might not even realise.

That said, aiming to hire more people from disadvantaged groups can have positive effects beyond just the people that you hire. It gives young people a wider variety of role models. It can increase your team's performance because you have a wider variety of viewpoints. It can lead to wider cultural change in the company as a whole, making qualified people from disadvantaged backgrounds feel more comfortable applying for senior roles.

And it doesn't have to mean hiring worse people. Perhaps it just means focusing more on problem solving and creativity and less on education and 'culture fit' in your interview process, or advertising your jobs in places where they will be seen by a more diverse group of people.
Just keep in mind, Switzerland has the population the size of SF Bay area for context.
As an Atheist, I feel that we should ban people from driving to Church on Sundays because of the waste and pollution that driving creates.
What's the complicated financial product? It's just equity.
I think what’s going on is that “hard sciences” people in physics etc have a strong feeling that most of economics (and behavioral science and psychology) is bunk, given that economists in particular seem to have all sorts of mutually contradictory theories, are always making predictions that turn out to be wildly wrong, and seem to disagree with one another on basic facts. This paper gives them ammunition to support these feelings that the emperor has no clothes.

I am not qualified to judge whether those feelings are correct however.
Sounds like Recipeasly 2.0.

Be prepared for a similar fate.
Why wouldn't it scale well?
One click on the authors name gave:

“Mr. Ildar Rakhmatulin
South Ural State University“
This is not the same situation as your examples though. Here you are basically saying that the resulting pollution from electricity generated to mine bitcoin is worse than other uses of that same electricity. It's a slippery slope if you start to decide what people can use their electricity for. For example. Assume exactly the same energy usage. Why is surfing on HN a better use of that electricity than mining?
Already tried; patch that lead to the fork was "not adding this feature," sadly.
> set it up in six months

There is no way it could be done in 6 months given any reasonable parameters you care to throw at it.
It is already possible to write legal contracts which say “whoever controls token with public key X, hereforth ‘Owner’” for many asset classes.

I’m sure there are many asset classes where you can’t write such a contract but I don’t think your categorical rejection is correct.
This may be more common with high volume workouts. I don’t get it on short runs, but distance skiing for 2-3+ hours will take a toll. This isn’t something that happens when I cycle or rollerski for an equivalent workout.
China at least 30 years away from becoming manufacturing 'great power'
>And so what if they dislike certain foreign cultures? It's their country, and they can accept who they want, or not.

Sure, but they are what we define as unambiguously xenophobic policies, even if it is a broad term which can include much more than that and were democratically enacted.

Whether xenophobia is bad is another story - I'm not really sure anyone would find much insight from a discussion about it.
That was an hour of fun on the week end. Another one in SmallBASIC:

https://gist.github.com/chrisws/b2a60d7143fab4eb0fd4afbab6bd...
If I understand it correctly, that receipt in conjunction with your keys allows you to prove you own the NFT and can control it on the blockchain(sell it, trade it, etc).
Hats off to people who do this kind of work. However... *clears throat*

I have real trouble using the term "research" for something like this, lumping it together with activities such as "research" in natural science, "research" in anthropology, or even journalistic "research".

The difference to me is that this activity could be "done", or rather entirely avoided, if Apple didn't decide to keep it a secret.

Mind you, I'm not saying Apple doesn't have good reasons to keep them secret, for some definition of "good". I just think that this person just spent hours upon hours of their life working around a quirk in our current society.

I'm aware I'm splitting hairs, but "we don't know what the architecture is" to me is fundamentally different to "we don't know what dark energy is." The former is something that could "easily" be changed, the latter is not. Lumping them together just cements the idea that the systems we built and navigate, for better or worse, are to be treated like natural laws that can't be argued with.

/rant
Magic links suck. I just want to use my password manager and not login to email first to login to your service after that. Medium for example uses magic links too and it's so annoying.