skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me most likely that the speaker had continued to be "resident" in the UK for tax purposes, and effectively had a second home in Spain.

As such, they were claiming welfare benefits in the UK, meanwhile working in Spain, and not declaring their income for tax in either country.
Wouldn't it make more sense for them to connection locally somehow? Via wifi or something, rather than that go through a 5G tower, which might not have signal at that point anyway?
Here is the same article from an established, pro-Brexit news website:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1415577/Brexit-news-...

Edit: Saw too late to delete that The Express also got it from Global247news, which seems to be less than a year old according to https://whois.domaintools.com/global247news.com
For context, I work in the industry. There are effectively two major use cases for which 5G makes sense: teleoperator backup, and V2X.

The former is for Level 4 vehicles that might get into situations requiring a human to take over (ex. traffic is being directed by a human at a broken light). If you don't have a safety driver, the vehicle needs to be able to call home and ask for help with video feeds and no wi-fi connection.

The latter is for a bunch of concepts that are mostly drawing board-only right now, but could maybe become real in time. Ex., platooning, bypassing traffic signals entirely, automated redirection for traffic decongestion. The issue with this is that OEMs really don't want to pay for the data cost, so there's at least as much effort going into non-cellular alternatives as there is into 5G.

But in general, yes, articles stating 5G is necessary to autonomous driving are pretty far off the mark.
TBF many corporate originals are also distractingly incorrect.
I'm not sure why people hate unions exactly. Seems weird to have "freedom of assembly" but then hate those that practice it for better negotiating leverage.
What will it take to get a giant cargo ship unstuck from the Suez Canal?
If this is a fake news article, the Daily Express indeed also fell for it because it's clearly where they copied that from: 'Anthony Cook, who has lived in Spain for seven years, told Global247news: “The Spanish dream is over for me, it’s time to go back to Cardiff."' This happens a lot more with fake news than it really ought to, and with publications a lot more respectable and trusted than the Express.
I found that 1.2MB 5.25" floppies were faster (they spun at 360 rpm vs the 300 rpm of 3.5" drives) and more reliable than 3.5" floppies in my experience. I had so many problems with 720KB (880KB on my Amiga) floppies, even with expensive media back then.
Who needs evidence when you have ideology?
First, all of that can be done with 4g.

Second, supposing you did need connectivity to have a self driving car, the challenge is having a good signal everywhere, not having 5g. You can't even get 4g everywhere.

Third I would never purchase a self driving car that requires any connectivity in order to work well.
What I've alays found strange is that it the importance of "choosing the right investor" is regularly thrown around, but where or how does that happen in a demo day type experience.

I'm somewhat assuming that the best companies have already lined up the right investors for their business before demo day, and perhaps use demo day frenzy to drive the size of the round, but what does this do to the trust with the investor as well?

Specific to YC, I suspect investors have the trust that YC has done the diligence over the previous months, and that they aren't going to put their stamp on a team they know to have issues. It's bad for the YC brand long-term.

Not saying that YC hasn't invested in companies that have had issues, but they are not knowingly putting those companies up as solid YC investments. Companies get kicked out of YC for ethics and other violations.
What's the story here?

The US does hundreds of these every year.
"More options" doesn't do anything on the first click, and on the second click it expands the menu and selects whichever artist is now where "More options" was.

This is very frustrating.

EDIT: And apparently selecting an artist from the filter list doesn't do anything but refresh the page. This is the worst. website. ever.
Counterpoint: although SSN was not intended as a means of identification, it evolved into being used that way.
It's good for clicks - the thick-as-pigshit expat Leave voter sawing the branch underneath themselves. In reality most Brits in Europe did not vote Leave, but of course the media have to two-sides everything for "balance".
Experts. Optimising your whole notation for beginners is pre-emptively putting up a skill ceiling. Beginners stop being beginners (at which point they’ll outgrow the beginner oriented syntax) but experts will remain experts.

Instead, optimise for teaching/learning the skills better rather than capping everyone’s skills. The presence of a learning curve is not an inherently bad thing.

Edit: re-reading your previous comments, I think you and I are in furious agreement haha
No, I'll give it a whirl.
> A certain amount of amount of British people were working "cash in hand" and not paying any tax

This was a grey area already when UK was still an EU member. EU was based on "free movement of workers, services and capital", but the residency rights of non-economically active citizens of other EU countries are ...complicated. You have the right to reside the first 6 months in another country as a jobseeker. In practice, nobody would know when you have entered the country, so you could always claim that you are within your 6 months and you are a jobseeker, so in practice deporting EU citizens was close to impossible, so countries didn't even try. But those Brits probably weren't staying in Spain strictly legally, even when they were EU citizens.
You don't need collective decision making if you can just run something like an air trafic control for cars, and do it using a computer.

If you do so, the ennormous technical challenge of SLAM, and route planning becomes redundant, and obviated, completely removing the need in some magic AI.

But you can do so with a cheap, and reliable UHF link, and not a fancy 5G modem.
All the big consultancies are pushing RPA, bots, automation etc HARd the last year in bigCo land. I think part of it is due to the wfh pandemic situation.

I’d wait 6 months or so, the bottom could fall out of this category fairly quick.
* Cries in Java - nay - ECMAScript version ES.Next Draft ECMA-262 *
Military propaganda is just the worst. This article is about how we're using our built up forces to conduct training exercises, demonstrating our military power to the world.

This article then criticizes how Russia has "built up a forces, large scale exercises and acts of intimidation, in the Baltic and Black Sea."

Similarly, it criticizes Russia for involving itself in Eastern Europe, and acts like the logical step is for NATO to takeover the region. After all, US hegemony is just and noble, why should anyone object to it?
The black death originated in central or east Asia but I don't think there's any indication that it was in China. Given the proximity, China might have been one of the first nations to be affected with the ability to document it, though.

The Spanish Flu most likely originated in the US.

You're likely right about covid, though.
If I have one day in Paris, it's definitely the Musée d'Orsay rather than the Louvre. Nothing against the Louvre of course, but the setting isn't really as good and you really have to plan where you spend your time.
If you google "Shaun Cromber" the only match is this article. No Shaun Cromber on Facebook either. Very high chance of being fake.
I wonder about how much corporate jargon is a signal of belonging to an in group, and how that might contribute to discrimination on the basis of race or social class.

I think we should save jargon for things that we don't already have easy terms for, and explain them clearly and regularly. I don't really care who supposedly "belongs" in coding or startup or corporate culture.

I care what people can do when they are actively included. Anything that makes that harder seems like being intentionally inefficient in a way that rewards people on the basis of social affiliation instead of merit.
The day's conclusion.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eMmmDmFEGssKdpAYJ5v3fS-970...

"Over 100 Billion Transistors" "47 Magical Tiles" "Alchemy of Technologies" "Our Most Advanced Packaging" and also "X Ponte Vecchio".

I haven't cringed this hard at marketing material since the iPad Pro ads.
I've been confused for quite some time over what appears to be official US policy that Vietnam should worry more about what the US thinks than it does about what China thinks. There is no model of the world in which this idea makes any sense at all. And yet, it was pretty much the only justification given for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Evil and suffering are relative, not absolutes. It's less evil than inciting and enabling genocides. Making workers pee in bottles or fire them for not moving fast enough is a different evil.

Netflix seems a pretty ethically- and morally-benign company of the FAANG gang: they're an online (and by-mail) Blockbuster.
I think I remember this name from my Usenet days. That could be the guy who was known for asking to be banned from Usenet :-)
Part of the reason UiPath is doing so well is because it raised the bar when compared to its competitors from 'the worst' to 'usable'. Blue Prism is alright, but they're so closed off and proprietary it gets in the way of actually solving the problem. AA is just, as you say, 'the worst'.

I'm not the biggest fan of RPA but it definitely has a use case. Though my hunch is that UiPath is going to be something like the Slack of RPA soon if there isn't any progress in the anti-trust front.

Microsoft is starting a big push with Flow/PowerAutomate, and Microsoft _owns_ the legacy corporate environment where RPA finds all its customers. RPA makes money charging expensive licenses per 'bot', and MS just gave 1000 free licenses of power automate to MS 365 customers (at least, the small NPO I just migrated got them). Good luck to UiPaths sales team going forward.
I think the best way to assess if the language has changed a lot, is to crowdsource changelog ratings from users directly.

They (we?) are the most concerned about changes, and the best suited to tell if async/await is a bigger feature than const fns.
The problem is that almost every asset class now becomes positively correlated during economic crises. It's very difficult to find negatively correlated or uncorrelated returns in those situations.
I don't follow. You have been coding for 40 years and you do not understand a[i] *= b[j] at all but you understood the expression I made up?
Build the trains without paying for them. California is much the same way, you have dozens of fantastic niche taxes to fund programs, but next thing you know you're paying $500,000 to house a single homeless family.

It would be easier to give said family $10,000 and exile them from the state, but then you'd have to face a very frank realization, California is not a good state for most working class people.

That's besides the point, let me know when this train gets built. More cities need public transit
Still, you'll need network for authentication and receive push notification in case of rerouting, maybe public key crypto can help in some cases but network is always useful.

Also to stream Netflix to bored passengers or zoom while zooming about.
One of the inputs in cement manufacture is limestone which is Calcium Carbonate. That is ground and heated at high temperatures with clay minerals to produce portland cement.

So CO2 comes from the reaction between limestone and clay. And comes from burning natural gas or coal to generate the heat needed to drive the reaction.
> OEMs really don't want to pay for the data cost

Isn’t a large part of the point of 5G the enablement of direct Device-to-Device (D2D) connections as a transparent optimization of device-to-tower-to-device links? That’s what is supposed to enable the platooning thing, IIRC.

I assumed that there would be no cost for 5G D2D data, since the carriers aren’t a part of the D2D conversation. Just like you’re not travelling over a particular 802.11 AP if you’re temporarily talking to a peer via an ad-hoc connection (e.g. AirDrop.)
Selloff likely a “forced liquidation of positions” held by Archegos Capital MGMT
Success, in a manner of speaking. But failure, in another.
Now do “leverage” -> “use”, please!
I believe 100% of Rust code written since 1.0 should still work today.
> the owner of all nuclear power plants is a state owned corp (EDF) that is "rescued" from bancruptcy every few years to keep prices down.

That is as dishonest a take as it gets.

First, the "rescued from bankruptcy every few years" is simply not true. The company has been paying dividends every year for decades, and I can't think of a bailout of company debt in recent years.

Second point: Like most french state-owned companies, EDF is a vessel of "creative" accounting from politicians, but you'll find out that it's not tied to operating nuclear plants specifically. It's just that as a public-owned company, EDF is a tool for public policy. Sometimes it takes on debt to do so.

For instance, EDF is legally forced to buy back green energy at fixed rates as part of a package to help develop green energy. EDF is also forced to sell nuclear power to its competitors (ARENH policy) at fixed price, when they ask it. This means EDF competitors can arbitrage this agreement by buying nuclear power below market at times, and selling green power when market is saturated at other times. From the state's perspective, it's an OK thing to open the market and promote renewables, but from the company perspective it makes no sense. Thus, the company "pays" for a public policy.

This kind of accounting is usual in other former public companies such as SNCF.

That being said, nuclear costs figures should be accurate, since they come from the work of the french finance watchdog, the "cour des comptes", as well as from parlementarian investigations. You're right that these figures would probably not be possible without the scale economies of the initial rollout and without state-backing, but as you cite, this is also true for renewables or any other large industrial policy.
Really? Hilarious, given the sorry state of the English cuisine.
Idk, maybe I’m heavily biased as French.
two sides of the same coin - they're a expat to Britain (the perspective of this British article), and they're an immigrant to Spain.
Can’t really tell, I don’t know of anyone who has done the analysis since then.

One thing that’s changed is I no longer write the release blog posts. (This author inconsistency is mentioned in the post)
I don’t agree with reduced maintenance cost because all internal patches must be ported to newer versions of the component all the time.
As a point of reference I'm currently a Co-PI on a grant to recover the phylogeny of a hyper-diverse group of insects.

As to your first point- we are nowhere close to a complete evolutionary tree of life (assuming we could come up with what "complete" means). I agree we have good estimations of some basic major splits, but many things are in flux. Early origins? "Kingdom" classifications change multiple times each year still.

Your second point (aside from "people are dumb", which doesn't really hold) is not about evolution, and I'm not experienced enough to make a judgement. I strongly doubt, however, that the full capacity of "compute" you need to actually do genomics, is anywhere near enough to answer everything we'd want to. Today you need a full team of support, not just one person with grounded first principles (which I agree is often missing, but it's also required of more than one expert type).
I get that weird concept/location thing too, and I usually can't figure out the association.

For example, when I hear "Turbo Pascal" I immediately see the intersection of Lawrence Ave. East and Pharmacy Avenue in Toronto from the perspective of a person standing at the northwest corner of the intersection, looking south. I don't think I've ever been there on foot. It's a pretty unspectacular intersection. I'm quite sure I like Turbo Pascal significantly more than I like the intersection, and yet my brain has decided to link them.
I've never understood the need to keep code "up to date" with idioms. Most of the time idioms change incrementally; the seismic shifts I can think of a) have happened pretty much only once in a language's life, and b) were basically an admission that the original language design was bad and/or insufficient in some way.

Whereas to me it seems like Rust's idiom changes have mostly been around using some new language feature to make certain cases a bit cleaner; that's about it. They've all been very cohesive and in line with the overarching philosophy, so I don't really see why the old way would look foreign to new developers.
It is to garner or maintain public support for military spending
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/made-in-india-i...
I don’t think they did anything that would be construed as violating the law.
The personal attacks on Zuckerberg are really inappropriate. I don't know him or what he's like in person. I do think Facebook does plenty of questionable things. But so much criticism of him is literally elementary school playground level "Ewww He's weeeeiiirrrrdddd". It's stupid and embarrassing. Talk about the substance.
> I get Jonestown vibes from the public health establishment, since the policy position is absolute conformity. No exceptions!

Same. It's novel too: I've been vaccinated against Yellow Fever, and doctors here simply won't give you it without confirming that you will be travelling because the vaccine has a very real risk of harming you. It's safer than the risk of Yellow Fever if you're travelling to areas with it. But it absolutely is a risk/benefit trade-off.

> Doesn't infection from the virus confer immunity to other proteins not found in the vaccine

Certainly. Real infections also generate immunity in more parts of the body, eg mucus membranes, as well as stronger t-cell responses.

Though note that it's rare for diseases to evolve resistance to vaccines, because they work by stimulating an immune response rather than directly targeting something. The more highly engineered vaccines are at a higher risk of this happening than the lower tech ones based on the disease agent, weakened or inactivated. But this isn't like antibiotics where resistance almost always evolves eventually.
Well, "CAK" for contract and "CAKAPP" for the whole applying stuff to a contract are two I remember. It was hella confusing for the later one for multiple weeks. Plus, I got an email that I literally felt like I was using a Captain Crunch Decoder Ring to translate into English. It was a trip.
*Laughs in ANSI Common Lisp*
You are aware that countries like Poland and Romania are begging the US to station as many troops as possible on their soil, and do all kinds of back flips for this, right?

> The Polish government is asking the U.S. to open a military base in Poland as a counter balance to Russia. They've offered the U.S. up to $2 billion, as well as a promise to call it "Fort Trump."

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/22/670228558/poland-requests-u-s...
That may be, but looking back through recent history, there were plenty of powerfull people that fell into the grips of the fashionable, obscure and laughably wrong ideas, and ideologies. And imposed them on society through fiat, murder, and force.

The price of being wrong, always seems to pass down in society. Those at the bottom suffered the most in wars.

Just because you are INTJ, a billionaire with funds, and a fashionable reading habit, does not make you a qualified social engineer.

Generally, the masses going about, acting in their own self interest, talking to each other freely, makes for a better world, than one imposed upon them, through the dictates of a King.
Nothing to be embarrassed about -- it was the golden age of computing! Lucky to have been able to experience it!
My guess is that it’s a tax scheme.

They probably run everything through different subsidiaries in different jurisdictions and make the capital intensive retail business as bad as possible, and shift losses or depreciation around to write down any earnings in the US or Europe.

If the commerce division owes a big commission to Amazon Isle of Man, LLC, they “lose money”.
Yes, in my other comment I make fun of their cuisine but it’s all good sport.

I grew up in south west France. A lot of properties or village even would have disappeared without rich Londoner. I don’t resend them a bit.
Even the more obtuse one.
Heh. I don’t own a Harley, I currently ride a Suzuki cruiser. Most people I know who own Harleys bring them to a dealer. Harleys have become luxury items and so I don’t know anyone who really wrenches on them. In the meantime Japanese bikes are easy and cheap to work on and only require basic hand tools. And multiple carbs aren’t really something that would turn me off from a bike, though if course having just one does make things simpler.
Netflix+Zoom for all the bored passengers is the single best answer I've heard to date about why this is needed! You really might need 5G (rather than 4G) for 5X Netflix streams.
In the start menu you automatically get stubs for apps like Candy crush, Adobe CC, and others. You never requested them but they'll install on first use.
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd in reverse is copyright claimed
By viewing the description, you can see that the audio is copyright claimed by the licensing algorithm. How is this recognized with certainty by the algorithm?
High schooler invented color-changing sutures to detect infection
Also it might cause confusion with https://boards.4chan.org/e/ (NSFW)
I think the sad reality is a lot of folks vote based on a sort of instinct / sentiment. They hear truisms / sentiment that they like and someone convinces them X is that sentiment too. So they vote for X with little to no knowledge of what X is or means or how it plays out in any kind of reality.
One of my favorite books!
Have you read any computer vision textbooks? Szeliski's book for example is quite popular and sort-of free:

https://szeliski.org/Book/
~95% of expats were against brexit, but interview enough people and you can eventually find some real fools.

It’s just another case of a news agency focusing on entertaining people even if it’s misleading them.
That is absolutely hilarious - funniest thing I’ve read today. You can’t make this stuff up.
> But I wonder what intracourse consists of?

Thinking or, alternatively, fluids moving inside your body.
that’s the scuttlebutt.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-tiger-cub-archegos-...
Yes, on a bike everything is much more accessible and it takes one or maybe two people to disassemble it down to bare bits of metal rather than complex mechanical parts. Try pulling an engine even out of a Camry with just hand tools and your own hands...
I will admit that my current favorite is going forward. Story time. My direct report likes to challenge things. There is value to it, but it can and does get exhausting since he challenges relatively pointless things apart from occasional useful thing. This one time he challenged my boss over some minor interpretation of procedures, where boss was the final recipient of a report. I tried to gently steer him away, but no go. Anyway, eventually my boss got tired of the back and forth of challenges and said "going forward, this is how it will be done". The report, not yet fluent in corporate speak did not get the hint and responded with an equivalent of "no. stupid. we should only do it the way we have always done it." Going forward, he challenges me a little less now too.