skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English is the most spoken second language in Spain, with ~35% of the population being able to speak it. Portugal is slightly worse at 27%, along with Ukraine (18%), Romania (31%), and Italy (34%). France (39%), Croatia (49%), Estonia (50%), Slovenia (59%), and Greece (51%) are all a bit higher. And then the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Luxembourg, and Switzerland are all between 60-70%+.

And although I wouldn't worry too much about language too much if your focus is primarily on work, Spanish is perhaps the easiest language to learn as an English speaker. You can achieve professional level fluency in 600 hours of study. Certainly with 80-100 hours of concentrated study and continued practice after that you can learn more than enough to get by in daily life.

Two big advantages with learning Spanish: 1) pronunciation is easy to learn and is the same for both written and spoken Spanish; 2) there are lots of cognates, so if your English vocabulary is good then you already know lots of Spanish words.

Spain is great, but for the purposes of picking a country for working remotely and having a longer runway, I would argue heavily for Mexico over Spain if you're picking a Spanish speaking country. The overall cost of living is low, internet access can be great depending on the area, you'll be on a similar timezone as the US, and services (cooking, laundry, babysitting, etc) are very inexpensive - leaving you with much more time to work (or to use your downtime more effectively than running errands/etc).
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One of my credit card/bank accounts - I forget which - didn't allow the use of non-alphabetic characters when I was setting-up the password.
"Ford's money came from products and they have to be priced to cover his higher salaries."

When you drive additional volume you get cheaper output due to economies of scale effects.

There isn't a fixed amount of stuff, any more than there is a fixed amount of money to make that stuff.

Sales depend upon people having the money to buy things. Wages are the major component of profit. And quantity expanding firms will always outcompete and destroy price expanding firms.
Had some trouble scanning through the article. You have this header

> Tips on applying successfully

And the next subheaders are

>> Talking about my idea only from a customer's perspective

>> Writing to sound impressive

>> Stopping to apply after a couple of rejections

Things were confusing, I had to go back and read the small print after the first header, which says "do NOT do these things". Maybe the first headers should read something like "pitfalls to avoid when applying"? Or rephrasing the sub-headers?
This car can do both? How is that not a clear improvement?
I'm not convinced that "statistics" or "OLAP" is a real use case for array dbs (p. 5). Do you have any examples?
If I need a database, I slap an exe with sqlite, and launch it :)

I know it won't scale to write-heavy Enterprise OLTP workflows, but there are plenty of cases where it's good enough up to millions of rows and gigabytes of data.
I got vertigo with the level of creativity here. Here's a couple of things and my first post on HN.

1 - Made this with Mark from Delta-V Audio. He coded a granular synth from scratch then we jammed together:

https://soundcloud.com/benedictmortimer/sets/biholomorphia/s...

You can check out his synth here, it's fun:
https://www.deltavaudio.com

2 - Made this with Kanad Chakrabarti. I did the synth and drum programming and he made the vapourwavey unreal / GPU Shader visuals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XEXaC7xfE

Here's a link to other bits and pieces. Hope that you find something you like.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5lSHzqed7L3SMDtjlJiayM?si=K1...
These days corruption is so rife, I am still amazed that whenever ones mentions it as a plausible cause of an event, there is a high chance the opinion will be buried with downvotes.
Corrupt governments are one thing, but it is interesting how governments created an impression that corruption is a marginal problem, that it does not exist. Rarely you see anyone charged yet alone convicted and if you see it's rather some little things in the grand scheme of things.
Some events are brazenly obvious yet I never hear them ever being investigated. I've been thinking how do you even report something like this if you only have your own suspicions but no hard evidence? How do you even get evidence that e.g. some regulation was bought? (e.g. you can see certain companies listed as party donors or belonging to a family of certain politicians and then you see a regulation going through against expert advice that hugely benefit those companies at the expense of competing businesses, yet even journalists known for being in opposition won't touch the topic).
I used the word "most" for a reason. Not "all".

Shakespeare made a living from the performances of his plays, not the written documents. Musicians made money from performances too. Most famous historical painters and composers had wealthy benefactors that enabled their work.

Creative people obviously enjoy creating, but professionals are doing it to earn a living. Look at the books on your bookshelf and the movies and TV shows you watch. How many were made purely for joy with no expectation of making money? Maybe some, but not most.
> Writing golang web services and static html embedded with with golang 1.16’s new //embed directive, we end up with a single deployable binary.

So you don't use Docker because you use an alternative technology to achieve exactly the same thing?

Docker is one way to encapsulate a service into a single deployable component with a standard interface. Building a single ELF via static linking is another way. But that's not possible if you use Python or Ruby on Rails or many other popular web technologies is it?
There is branch for elisp support in guile.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?h=wip-elisp

It works in principle but is slow due to some impedance mismatches that have to be bridged. Especially, Emacs has a special string format internally that is not native utf-8.

Andy Wingo is making a great job with JIT-support for Guile. We have to see whether emacs-guile can become fast enough to replace native-elisp. At this time it doesn't look like it...
Cluckbait
Instead of an array database, I would like to have an array extension for postgres.
And why wouldn't they be proud of it? Countries that intentionally focus on their own language (e.g. Japan or France) have managed to maintain more of their own cultures, while smaller ones have been more easily gobbled up by global American culture.
> none of the engineers at Rockstar has done this work in 7 years and a half.

Its probably because some project manager would have told the engineer who wanted to fix this that its not important.
Clock speed != single-threaded performance. Clock speeds plateaued a long time ago, single threaded performance is still improving exponentially (by being able to execute multiple instructions in an instruction stream in parallel, as well as execute the same instructions in less clock cycles), though the exponent approximately halved around 2004 (if the trend had continued we would be at about a 100-500x improvement by now).

https://github.com/karlrupp/microprocessor-trend-data
I think that's probably a fairly popular opinion - I agree with it. I just don't see property tax as making any meaningful impact on the wealthy (in my area).
I have a similar story, with an antibiotic that is also an immunosuppressant (I was taking it for that effect). After taking it for just 2 weeks, I had terrible pain in my arms and legs. My doctor suggested I keep taking it for a couple of weeks more, to see if it went away. It got worse, and I stopped it a week or so later. I understand this is a very rare side effect, so rare I don't think it was even mentioned in the leaflet - I'm just incredibly unlucky to have such a reaction.

I was left with small fiber neuropathy (nerve damage) in my arms and legs, and with CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) too. This means I'm in constant, unending pain (which takes a huge mental toll), that I'm tired all the time, and if I do any more than the gentlest of exercise, I fall asleep and am more tired and in even more pain for days or even weeks afterwards. It's fucking horrible.

This was about 6 years ago, and I'm pretty sure it's permanent. I haven't quite given up hope though - I have several Google Scholar alerts setup, and read several papers every week, in the hope of finding something that might reverse things even a bit.
If a stranger comes up to you and addresses you by name, you're probably going to be creeped out. It's human nature. Same thing here - you didn't start this relationship voluntarily or invest in it; why would you react positively to an unknown entity approaching you with prior knowledge about you?
Thankfully we don't need many people in cities to put solar panels anywhere because everyone is much better off putting them on a field in some deserted area where they can get optimal exposure.
I use docker
Did you look at the URL posted at all? The car is in final design stages, has enough cells to deliver 250km of range per week.
Strong +1 to this. I passed the FAANG interview after solving 100 leetcodes, mostly medium.

Being able to show up and do the work is table stakes –– and yes, I actually write efficient algorithms in my day-to-day because we process massive amounts of data. But the algos I write were invented 50, 60 years ago. My leetcode study process was to look up the solution and then memorize it through rote practice. Why reinvent the wheel? I'm not trying to win a Turing prize here.

But your intellectual mettle and day to day happiness in the company is tested by your ability to deal with people.
An artist invites anyone to book his time, while he's being watched AI's
Excellent feedback! I updated the article and used the heading you suggested. Thanks.
I'm curious how google is making money with array technologies. Is it mostly marketing to get geodata people to use GCP, or is there some other product?
hm, on p 8 I do not see a graphics, can you give the number please? If it is Fig 4: I had quite some interaction with the final editing team as they wanted to have every graphics with full page width, regardless of the intended (and submitted) size. In the end they suceeded. Fig 5 is a "nice" example. Also the table formatting in the Annex was nicely structured through colors, all gone.
I agree solar panels' weight shouldn't be a big problem.

About the fake, their car has suspiciously the same proportions than the BMW i3 and they have been accused of using many parts of an i3 in the past. But I want to believe they are trying for real. The i3 has a carbon fiber roof by the way.
Another YouTube channel to follow is “Wild Wonderful Off Grid”. It’s a modern build, so complements all the log cabin channels being recommended.
Oh man, I spent a lot of time in high school playing around with Tierra. It is a lot of fun. A while back I started to reimplement it in rust, just to learn it, but never got very far. About a year ago, give or take, I did do a reimplementation of another alife/GA style problem, https://gitlab.com/eythian/tracker - this evolves DFSAs to follow lines. I have some more ideas that I want to test out with it actually, it's time I got back into it.
This would've also caught the UK conservative party's trick where they set their Twitter name to "Fact check UK" or similar during a debate. Clever but morally reprehensible.
because they play in the major leagues where most teams have hundreds or thousands of servers, while they have those nine.

Yes, there is some horizontal scaling, but the sheer amount of vertical scaling here is still mind blowing.

I've run more servers in what were basically hobby projects compared to SO.
Artists get paid for building a brand around their creations, not for making loads of pieces of the same thing. If someone were to copy one of his paintings, it would clearly not be of the same lineage.
> I live in a big city (London). Owning a car for me would be frankly insane. Where would I put it? If I was communing again, could not possibly take it in to work, there would be nowhere to put it at that end either, when I finally got through the traffic.

I live in a big city. Not owning a car for me would be frankly insane. How would I get to work? It'd take ~2 hours with public transport only.

It is both much more practical and safer to use a car rather than a bicylce (too dangerous) or bus (cannot reach where I go) and metro rail (Have to walk an hour for nearest station) for commuting; taxi, minicab, or uber for other urban journeys; and car rental for weekends away (all are too expensive in the long run).

I get that cases may vary. it's different in other cities. But the idea that car = burden, always, is very silly. I was unable to go where I want/need to go quickly until I got a car, and it was liberating.

There, fixed it for my case. :)

Of course, YMMV. :)
I wouldn't mind not having that feature of searching so far back instantly on a new device. How often do you login to a new device and want to immediately instantly search back to the beginning of time? I get that it's nice but... is that necessary?

There are various solutions to the problem of storing and searching history with different trade-offs. One of them is having the server store and be able to read everything since the dawn of time. I'm not a big fan of this one.
I think software that is no longer supported should go into the public domain.

If I can't buy it or get support, then I shouldn't have to worry about copying it.

Actually, this should be valid for everything.
That sounds sketchy as fuck. Whether I’m a California resident is not the type of fact that can be derived from publicly/commercially available data.

Their business model is to guess, and false negatives deprive Californians of their rights.
Yeah, from a mental perspective it's probably closer to stand-up comedy than a singing performance. Also you've got to enjoy it because otherwise, what's the point.
It's also potentially an energy source for space launches - the space shuttle boosters burnt aluminium.
> I'm a lead C++ programmer in the UK and I don't make that much.

Normal software engineers make that in Sydney and Melbourne. You need to negotiate a higher salary or switch jobs.
Anyone know why they didn’t just keep it around, surely having a few old batteries and a bit more shielding around the ISS might have come in handy?
Was it risky to keep them around or did the extra weight (even in a basically weightless environment) come at a cost to maintaining orbit?
Client churn hurts your business more than adding new clients can help
Wire guard on mullvad. They have OpenVPN support as well.
Gumroad is such a great model of company in my opinion: https://sahillavingia.com/work

HN dicussion back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275
Ask HN: Best locked-down C++ subset?
Every time there is a thread on HN on C++, people say you can restrict yourself to a subset of C++ and have a good experience. What are some good restricted subsets of C++ that exist? I’m looking for something opinionated as opposed to clang-tidy with its near-infinite customizability.
Of course you can find any opinion in a large enough group, but that doesn't make it representative of them. For example, you can find democrats that support gun rights over gun control, but that's not indicative of the party.

Considering the article said the government housing was run by non-profit cooperatives that put all ths money back into the building... I don't see how someone could operate a for profit apartment building and make any money once there was a majority market share by the government.
Another reason is that an entire course of Cipro is like five days. It was pretty much the only antibiotic my university health center prescribed while I was there and I knew many people who took it (early 2000s, USA) because getting university students to stick with a longer regimen was very difficult.
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I see theses posted all the time. Are people naïve enough to think that their favorite celebrity just sits on social media giving out $1000 to everyone that likes their post?
I find so many of my British friends who are attacking the NHS-of-Germany (for being overly political in this scenario) while totally missing the point that British NHS could be doing exactly the same thing at the same time.

That being said a lot of Europeans who would come to the UK would be appalled by the quality of NHS compared to other European countries.

So I would argue that I would trust what German NHS says more than the British one.
My car fits this profile. Short trips to school and a few errands, most under 5km. Used car, 20k+.

I can imagine this seems absurdly low for suburban America.
Rates for new installations are much lower. Complicated to work it out, but seem to be around 4p/kwh. Also, the landlord would not benefit from any feed in tariff as the tenant pays the electric bill and would receive any feed in tariff benefit.
There was a pretty incendiary flame war on Twitter about this: https://twitter.com/nathanbarry/status/1371549184701067265
Taotie Mysterious Monster from Chinese Mythology Hindi
i'm pretty sure if one wants a job he should go to the actual interviews instead of the mock ones... i mean what's even the point of leetcoding hard for years, it would be much better to refresh your tech stack, to apply to multiple actual positions and only then maybe solve some easy to medium leetcode
Shakespeare was a businessman - he wrote plays for money. The Globe didn't run on the love of creation. Bach's work was entirely possible because he got hired by a rich guy who funded his creative output. You'd never have heard of him if he had to support all of the little Bachs on whatever coins he could get busking.

And so on.
Have you tried C90? It's a very small subset of C++ but it hasn't really changed in 30 years or so.
Grokking Monads
Sure, yet still somehow a stronger argument than the comment I was responding too.
Yes, apparently he is working on a project for a cable network.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrimitiveTechnology/comments/gscvv8...
Hawking was a mathematical physicist. His job was exploring the general relativity and quantum field theory, models which we already know describe our world with remarkable accuracy, trying to understand what they allow and don't allow. He was remarkably successful at this.

The Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems made us realize that black holes are ubiquitous in general relativity. It played a big role in the community's acceptance of their reality.

He discovered that quantum field theories on curved spacetime generically predict that different observers will see different matter and radiation in the same region of spacetime, depending upon their state of motion. This includes Hawking radiation from black holes.

His work with Hartle on cosmology helped open our eyes to what a wild variety of phenomena are possible in the early universe.

If you don't know Hawking's work, then you don't have an opinion about it. Not rating it highly isn't an option.
Without a crystal ball, there’s no way to know ahead of time who’s going to have an asymptomatic case. If there were a way to predict it with high accuracy, it’d be a different story, but for now that’s science fiction.
I understand that. I don't like seeing anyone downvote without some sort of reply. How do I know what part they disagree on? Is it on a matter of fact or opinion, or do they just not like me?
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Automated Detection of Control-Flow Flattening
Completely understandable for this case. I have no problem with it.

I find the opposite problem more puzzling: when an app (e.g messenger) only has access to certain photos, why can’t the image selector still browse all of them? Isn’t the image selector an OS component that shows me all my photos without the app seeing them (that is, the app isn’t rendering them)?

If this isn’t the case - why isn’t it? Is there no iOS system level image picker that runs isolated from the app? Or is there, but apps aren’t using it?
What is the equally capable or miles ahead version of Photoshop?
I’ve never tried scratch but I can see the similarity to writing cell functions. VBA is a different beast entirely, it’s more like using a dumbed-down version of JavaScript to manipulate a simpler version of the DOM.
> Because the benefits of antibiotics vastly outweigh the risks. You're better off taking antibiotics than getting a serious infection.

But isn't antibiotics something that gets given out in many countries for more or less anything? The US comes to mind. Which to my knowledge is the reason why more and more people in those countries dies of resistent bacterias.

I'm 35 and have been given antibiotics twice in my life, and reading about people getting antibiotics for a cold baffles me.
Scientists Are Planning to Build Noah's Ark on the Moon
I'm running Omnifocus 2 on my mac, and it's been broken partially since Big Sur. Omnigroup doesn't support it, won't release a patch, and sells Omnifocus 3 as a separate product. I'd love to be able to just fix this small error and continue using the thing I bought.
Because with Nuclear you are providing true cost which includes everything from insurance to decomission.

LCOE isn't a very thorough standard which you quickly realize once you dig into it.

Furthermore renewables are unreliable and thus require backup energy from reliable sources such as coal, oil, gas or nuclear. Because renewables are forced into use when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, they basically make the reliable sources more expensive.

I could go on with all sorts of ways this provides a completely skewed comparison structure.

Comparing the cost of nuclear vs. and wind and solar is like comparing the cost of construction and upkeep of a Boing 747 and a Cessna based on their ability to fly.
This is also doesn't mention that rdtsc and it's brother rdtscp should usually be used with a serializing instruction for small measurements. And/or a fence depending on what you want to measure. I'm interested how they are translated.
There's a little dynamic theory of learning around this. When I get excited I start trying but if I don't reach some escape velocity all the excitement and learning start to hurt my brain. Whenever I finally reach some level of concrete realization then that knowledge turns into pleasure and pride.
I didn't know that nodejs supports TCO under the flag (like on video), but unfortunately it was only for versions from 6 to 8. Curious why did they removed it
A lot of services reject numbers from known VoIP providers as a way to reject fraud (and I guess prevent people from defeating number-based marketing/advertising tracking by using unique numbers?).

You can work around that by using lesser-known providers. In the UK, Andrews & Arnold (https://www.aa.net.uk) provide UK mobile numbers which don't seem to be rejected by anything.
How Coronavirus Mutations Arise and New Variants Emerge
I think he has stated that he is working on a project for Discovery or some other channel.
I tried this for a bit, but it turned out a number of services (Google, Facebook) would fail (silently) when sending an SMS to Twilio numbers.

It might no longer be true as there was a Twilio support page that confirmed this behaviour but is now just a 404[0] (though you can see a mention of it on StackOverflow[1])

[0] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223134367-Sendi...
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/55852784
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excellent! thanks!
The public transport in your city sucks, sorry about that. Maybe fix that, not daft distractions like solar panels on cars.