skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live just outside a small town (3,000 population), and I get 20mbit/s up and down via a local WISP that uses Ubiquiti PTMP hardware atop the local water tower. I pay $125/mo for the privilege, but it is enough for both me and my wife to work remotely with both of us nearly always on video calls.
> All it took was a sneeze and the whole thing falls apart.

But it didn’t fall apart. I’ve been able to get nearly everything I was getting before the pandemic. Prices of some stuff has increases and there are a few things that are harder to find, but the variety of goods available to me now is still way better than it was even just 20 years ago.

The system is stunningly resilient. Shortages of a few things doesn’t mean “the whole thing falls apart”. You’ll know if that happens because people will get really violent really fast when food or water stops.
Not a good phone.
I've worked crappy jobs and never worried about getting fired. The crappier your job, the lower the threshold it's considered 'expensive' to replace you. It's not that hard to meet that threshold of contributed value. Employers generally have an incentive to keep you for this reason, unless you're truly terrible or something else is going on with their finances.

It's a little patronizing for you to assume I have no experience of being unprivileged just because our opinions about it differ. Or that those without privilege can't manoeuvre their way into choosing a slightly better job, even if they don't have an absolutely free choice over the space of all possible jobs, or even if they have to take a worse one temporarily in order to transition to where they want to be. Not all poor people are mindless cattle devoid of planning or agency.
How to debug a GitHub Actions’ secret
I have been maintaining some Svelte components. But as many of them here, my profession is in React as of now.

One of things Author didn't directly point out is about JSX. I mean you can build JSX of a component incrementally in your component code. But that's something I am missing in Svelte.
They also don't profit from ads and tracking.
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The highlands are difficult. They have lots of hills, lots of bedrock very close to the surface, and low population density. It’s hard getting any mobile coverage in some areas let alone 3, 4, or 5G. It’s even tougher on the islands as cables can get damaged and microwave links perform poorly during winter storms.
I wasn't expecting someone to mention it :-)
We need protection from which government? All of them? I think that is probably impossible.
No idea but it would be preferable optics wise to stage as an internal Chinese policing action against a rebellious province rather than a full on military invasion of another country and all that would entail.
I'm not in the UK, but surely you guys have some sort of equivalent to Gumtree/Facebook Marketplace, as well as semi-legitimate cash-only businesses and tradies that are trying to avoid tax?
Polymer bank notes are considered better for the environment because of durability and under the guise of recycling, but now that we know about the catastrophe of microplastics, are they really?

The volume is massive: with the most used notes lasting 3-5 years it won't be long until you have a billion plastic notes in circulation.
When HN goes ad hominem I usually bookmark whatever HN got riled up about to read later. It's a sign that there's something interesting to think about ;)
It was not exactly inaccurate, more dumbed down. The film covered the basics well I thought, his early life, the impact of a relationship with a boy named "Christopher", the use of Bombe in breaking Enigma and the secrecy needed to keep the code-breaking from everyone. His personal life was I thought fair - it certainly compared role of women and gay men, and said something about need for brain not brawn.

It did dumb down in some horrible areas however. There was a overdone conflict between him and his superiors and peers - until they too realised he was right in Hollywood fashion. The actual code breaking was ... "my god what if they put Heil Hitler at the end of each message. We could use the new computer you have built to break the message and then put the play on right here."

But to be fair I don't think even I would have sat through ten minutes of Cumberbatch explaining cipher theory to get a proper grip on that.

Overall, its a good way to introduce the kids to the origin of computers, the need to stick to your principles, and prejudice is bad.
You're ignoring the variables that conflate. Plenty of people I know are burnt out, tired, and not as productive as they are at their peak. This isn't "WFH". This is WFH and quarantine and not being able to travel or take travelling vacations and worrying about your health and the health of everyone you care about and schooling at home and a pandemic and......you get the point. No data claiming a productivity drop during this pandemic can be isolated to WFH with any reliability.

I'm burnt out. My productivity has been garbage this month. The cause isn't WFH or even work in general - the cause is that it's been an utterly miserable year for the world and it's wearing me down. I'm tired of isolation and I'm tired of constant reminders in the world around me that I'm surrounded by idiots without empathy who would rather protest their right to put others in danger than take basic precautions to protect those around them, and I'm ABSOLUTELY tired of the fact that these people haven't learned or changed in an entire year.
> Old paper £50 notes will still be accepted in shops for some time.

I find that amusing because I suspect that in practice not many shops accept them. It's hard for me to know because despite having lived in the UK for about half a century I've never had a £50 note.

Perhaps they have a plan to bring the new £50 notes into use. If today's cash machines only have the hardware to dispense two kinds of note they could replace the 20s with 50s. But inflation is low and cash is generally on the way out, so probably not, I would guess.
Supply Chains are optimizing for these things every day. Inventory and long lead times mean a lot of bound capital and costs. Both things are to be reduced, everyday. Some do it better than others.

The last container shortage, which lasted quite a while, was in 2019. Because of paint used on containers. The old obe wasn't allowed anymore in the EU and, if memory serves well, the US. So whole fleets had to be repainted. In China, because it is cheaper. So once containers returned to Asia, they were removed from circulation for a while. We also had the Hanjin bankruptcy. This time is interesting, because COVID already screwed everything up in Q1 2020, these issues were still not really sorted out by now. European ports will be in for some funny times now, they will run try until the Suez is open again. And they will get swamped. It will be sorted out so, it might be worse than usual, but generally these things can also happen due to bad weather. This industry knows what to do. Still really interesting, I am kind of sad I missed the SCM operations on that.
I think you win :)
interesting idea. that said there's a lot of power aspect in basic "adult" sex with bdsm etc...

and in that case the father was dressing as a child when he was torturing the girl according to an article so i'm not sure he was looking specifically for power more than being downright crazy.. but why not
I very much doubt Turing would have appreciated his name and image being used for propaganda purposes by a government that is scarcely different to the one that murdered him.
Yeah I'd go as far as to say "How are you sure that open code is what's in the actual package" is the most important question to ask here.
£20 in 2020 was £10 in 1994 - 26 years ago.

£20 in 1994 was £10 in 1981 - 13 years before.

£20 in 1981 was £10 in 1975

Before that 1969 and 1950

So that’s doubling in 19,6,6,13,26

So inflation is at long time record lows despite the last period including the 08 crash and covid
This is something I hadn't considered at all. As a non-US citizen the idea that all guns should be banned isn't that unacceptable to me in the slightest.
> I don't know how they're encoded on their database.

All hentaigana are available in Unicode 10. They can be found in the Unicode block 1B000–1B12F (Kana Supplement + Kana Extended-A).

For example, U+1B004 𛀄 HENTAIGANA LETTER A-3
This "Carrier Alliance" does sound an awful lot like a Carrier Cartel
So Asia creates bleeding edge technology and innovation meanwhile US just spies by it's funny social media sites?

how tables have turned
Hentaigana have unicode codes as you can see in this table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentaigana#In_Unicode

So all they need to do is use a font that implements it.
Cynicism contributes to divisiveness; convince me otherwise.
This is the second article about this for the week, and I have to wonder if it's not a trend that aligns pretty well with the SV diaspora finding out that they're not going to get paid 400% an average persons wage in the outside world.

(I do realize the article is about freedom of technology and not pay)

I do very much like the idea of re-framing software written for the public good as public software, it's a good reminder that the community around us can use software to great benefit, and we can solve problems within our communities not just on the internet with applied open source software.
Looking at the dates in the article - when Turing was convicted in 1952 the reigning monarch was... Elizabeth II, just like now. That's a long time.
Can you find that tweet again? I'm scouring every link I can find and I seem to have lost it.

In particular, there was one where someone said another ship behind them _also_ lost power/control around the same time and almost rear-ended them. I would really love to find that tweet again.
P2P bank transfers are a breeze under SEPA.
Another difference is that Simpson's "paradox" involves all the subgroups that the full population is partitioned into, unlike Berkson's "paradox".
You raise great points. I think what countries would need to do is to lower taxes (potentially considered to be controversial by some) to attract talent from other countries and keep existing talent.
> (and I suspect the UK)

Can confirm. Or rather, there are tax exemptions for working from home, as opposed to having a home office.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home
That’s a very US-centric view and mostly concerns quite established artists with traditional band setups.

DJs tour all day every day, and the current trend in pop music is to just release as many singles and eps and albums as possible (look at the rapper Future for instance). Not too familiar with Jazz but my impression is it’s mostly life on the road as well.

As a former promoter in the EU, I can attest we have many great shows in my city which begin basically with just an email with an offer and a date and then it’s off to the races. Roadpony fits perfectly.
Hundreds, thousands, if not millions of artists across the world would kill for that email. Artists are insatiable when it comes to opportunities like this. Mind you, “rock bands” are a thing of the past. People just pack a laptop and thats it.

Futher, touring bands love to squeeze another gig in. Its basically free money. If you’re going to a festival, and theres a roadpony thing going on to have you play a venue that is local, of course you would just go do that as well.
About 10yrs of my academic career included studying much of Turing's work, I've read his biography by Hodges multiple times (one of the most incredible books ever written btw, covering in great detail everything you could want to know about Turing, his family, his life and his work), and worked closely with some of the best academics in the country on the subject of Turing.

I'm not showing off, and I don't mean to say my opinion is correct, but let's just say I have at least some claim to know what was going on.

I watched the Imitation Game with my wife who knew little to nothing about Bletchley park and Turing. I have to say, that given 90 minutes I couldn't have done a better job in giving them a good feel for the situation and the pressures, the ideas and personalities involved.

I can say with confidence that pretty much everything said or shown in every scene is significantly inaccurate, but taken as a whole, and with an understanding of the restrictions, it's a very good job.

If you can't live without knowing the specific truth, read Hodges. If you can, just watch the film then get on with something else.
Awesome. Just loved it. Thank you !! Namasakara :)
Definitely down. Not sure if because the amount of distractions at home, kid, pet, things to tidy up... or if because people are taking this more like exceptional times, so it is OK to slack.
Client side decorations doesn't necessitate having gigantic buttons with swath of padding.
They put those containers lower down, out of direct sunlight. This costs slightly more, but also means they're less likely to fall off in a storm.

It's 45°C for storage. There might be a higher limit for shipping.
Holy crap, is this ethical investing?

Or are they foreseeing legal issues that make it a bad investment...

> the way the company employs its riders is not socially acceptable, and poses a risk to its future.

Ah, it's the latter.
I did a MA of East Asian Studies at Helsinki University, and our professor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juha_Janhunen ) used the word sinogram as the standard terminology for the characters. I think this served two functions:
1) to disentangle the concept from a "character used in Chinese language", as sinograms are used at least in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese.
2) to create a parallel with words like "logograms" and "phonograms", as sinograms are not purely either, but contain features from both.
By all means, hire every diverse candidate you can if they’re the best and the brightest. Diversity and inclusion is a sure fire way to hire mediocre people. Every culture and every race has some brilliant folks. Hire them.
never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Textiles (through washing) and Tyres (abrasion on the road) are by far the biggest sources of microplastics. https://www.eib.org/en/essays/plastic-pollution

Introduction of these notes will probably not even be visible in microplastics assays.
Excluding housing and university fees, because that’s magic money
Absolutely. Vodafone sells unlimited data (incl. 5G) in the UK for £26/month (~30€), in Germany the maximum you get is 40GB for 60€/month. And 40GB is nothing if you are on the road a lot. Other providers are similar.
I would actually say the opposite: many people I know (in the 20-28 years old age group) who work in IT and earn good salaries in their countries have said they'd move if they can make much more elsewhere. I think its not just about tax benefits but also the actual potential salary.
Yes that film was awful- they took an individual who was 'very warm and friendly'[1] and turned him into the prototypical savant nerd (Sheldon Cooper, Sherlock Holmes)

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27701207
So it is in the best interest of the government to get a rasp and file some of of their side of the block. Nothing will match and thus they don’t have to pay.
It’s really cool that UK puts scientists to its own money.

Most countries will go with politicians, buildings and warlords.

I have to say that it saddens me to see Darwin go. Considering that the evolution theory is still considered controversial in many places(even in advanced countries like the US) I think it was a very bold move to have him on the note.
> XYZ-to-WASM

There is yew (https://github.com/yewstack/yew) which is a React inspired Rust framework that compiles to WASM.
What technique? It looks like a combination of xray and heat? I am curious what I'm looking at and want to understand the optics more.
> Vue doesn't come close to that

> thanks to JSX/TSX, and basically all tools support JSX these days

I haven't used TS and Vue together, but Vue 3 seems to have been written with TS, as well as having supported JSX for quite a while. What are the limitations?
People look at you funny if you have a CHF1000 note. But most shops will accept them fine.
Just because a language more complicated to someone with a different culture doesn't mean that it's unnecessarily complicated.

It's a very westerner thing to say "your language is too complicated, you should simplify it for me"
> You’ll know if that happens because people will get really violent really fast when food or water stops.

I don't think this is true anymore.
I don’t see this happening.

I’m sure (as far as bars go) contactless payment will be preferred more in future. COVID has sped up the process of that. It’s unlikely to see many £50 notes around. There were already a lot of “card only” bars in London and that was pre-COVID.

Also inflation is low and will be low for quite some time so that won’t be a factor.
Popular privacy extension ClearURLs removed from Chrome web store
Does anyone know what is the SOTA approach to lossless video encoding?
I also gave up -- it started OK and went off the deep end somewhere in the middle.
> But ultimately, real women are upset by it.

I wouldn't call anyone (woman or man) that can't handle being upset "real". In fact it is the opposite of it. It shows a distinct lack of skills in dealing with reality, that is if you accept that real life is not just rainbows and sunshine, no matter how much we desire so.
A nice tribute before the UK moves to the Euro.
> cool that UK puts scientists to its own money

If you want an engraved portrait of Gauss, Cliff Stoll will sell you a nice one: https://www.kleinbottle.com/gauss.htm
Lack of evidence to endorse clinical use of medical cannabis for pain
Are there any similar course builder tools that allow you to "fake" the language? I'd like to make a course for Papyrus[0], the scripting language used for modding Fallout and Elder Scrolls games but there is no runtime for this language outside the game and it wouldn't really make sense running it that way anyway... (So basically just verify the entered code matches some kind of "template" but with tolerance for different new-lines, indentation, variable names, etc.)

[0] https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Category:Papyrus
To ask the pointed question,
How do the employees you manage feel about the change?

Because for me the concept of managers 'just walking around' gives me that itchy feeling on the back of my neck.

And at the end of the day if the employees who write code/produce output are doing that efficiently that is the goal right.
I think the situation is different in the UK. I've never come across a person who disbelieves evolution. It would be equivalent to a flat-earther or person who genuinely thinks political figures are lizard folk.
The claim that his office was some playboy mansion harem goes counter to the extremely desperate concept of using suicide in order to get a date.

The 80's was a different time, but not that different. Unless the "topless people" were RMS himself sleeping on it, I have a hard time believing it. In theory I can imagine (but I doubt it) a warm summer where a team of emacs collaborators were all living and sleeping in the university office room, but I strongly doubt the implication sex went on there.
I actually just keep my VPN running all-week long since I'm too lazy to authenticate every morning.

For me, work ends when I switch my monitor inputs to my personal computer.
Fortunately we still have RMS to defend Free software
I thought we chopped down all the magic money trees?
A man worthy of the gesture, though I can't remember the last time I even touched money. Most bills are paid online/direct debit and I tend to use self-service at supermarkets.

I remember seeing George Galloway on a morning TV show passionately saying why Margaret Thatcher shouldn't be on any notes. At the end of the interview he was asked who was on the £5, £10, £20 notes. He had no clue. I'm sure most of us in the UK don't either.
I am not sure about this. I know there is a lot of controversy over inflation measures (mostly the basket of goods used, impact of tech in holding down the basket)

I take a unscientific approach in that I had a bar menu from 1971 (my birth year) showing the prices in old and new money. A pint of Skol was 5 new pennies in 1971, and today you can find an equivalent pint of lager at about 5 pounds.

So that's 100 fold increase in my lifetime.

A lot of that came out of the 70's and early 80s but current inflation does, anecdotally, seem higher than 1-2% a year.
Wow. Two absurd hyperboles (what is the plural hyperbole?) in one sentence.
Huh. The Lewis and Short entry just makes me feel like I'm missing something - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pinus&la=la#lexi...

"abl. sing. only pinu; gen. and abl. plur. pinorum and pinis)", but then it goes on to cite the accusative plural pinos in Virgil. And that note implies a strict distinction between dative plural pinibus and ablative pinis, which seems weird. Not that the rest of it isn't weird, I guess.

(As an aside, the note for quercus that "dat. and abl. plural do not occur"... I can believe that a lack of genitive and dative forms for vis is a fact about the language. Dative and ablative plural forms existing for pine trees, but not oak trees, feels more like a coincidence of the historical record than a fact about the language.)
HTTP 203 has a great video about counters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCi6AZMkxcU)which goes into more details about why counters/timers are a bit more complex.