skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Schadenfreude seems to be the prevailing take in these kinds of threads, but as a Brit living in Spain I can tell you that the people in the article are not representative of most Brits in Spain. There are plenty of young Brits living in cities around Spain; it's not all just pensioners in the costas.

The vast vast majority voted against Brexit and are devastated, if not surprised, by how it has played out.

Luckily, getting residency was fairly straightforward, with the requirements basically being that you live and work / are retired in Spain.

The hardest part though is knowing that further generations are not able to exercise the same freedoms that we were able to. So many unlived experiences, friendships, marriages, children. That truly is the greatest shame of all.
>"...I don’t have enough credentials to become a resident, it was so easy before, get your funds in from the UK, do a bit of cash in hand around the likes of Benidorm and bob was your uncle, but that’s all changed now – hey, don’t be fooled thousands of Brits in some guise or other have been doing the same thing, especially in the entertainment industry!"

Could someone say what this means? I know Benidorm is a resort area popular with Brits but why was cash important if they were legally there anyway pre-Brexit? What's the angle?
It does not really come out to be that much more. As an example, each unlinked trip costs $5 for my local system. Most trips will take a transfer so a realistic estimate of the per trip cost is $8-10. Looking back at my Lyft history most of my trips cost $8-15 so very comparable.

It looks dramatically different because buses are subsidized while Uber/Lyft is taxed and for profit. To continue using my city as an example, farebox recovery rate is ~30% and that doesn't include capital expenses. The difference is made up by tax revenue. On the other hand out of my fare, ~10% is sales tax, Uber/Lyft take another 20-40%, leaving 50-70% to go to paying the driver for the ride.

The problem ultimately is coverage. If you want to provide frequent service to all parts of the city you end up running a bunch of near empty buses. That kills the efficiency benefits of the buses and when you look at the system as a whole it ends up being about the same as on demand.
Source? Where can I read more about these "powerful voices"?
Note: this is from April 2020.
It seems to be both.
I like the concept, but the author didn't really manage to land these very well. Several are distractingly incorrect and the list isn't long enough.
The MIPS R4000, part 9: Stupid branch delay slot tricks (2018)
Math Professor Makes Breakthrough in Ramsey Numbers
Bycatch is not always dead. Google around for the recent case of a whale caught in a japanese net for weeks. They eventually took action to drown it as "bycatch" and chop it up for meat rather than let it go.
I thought that regular intercourse is success.
“Copywriting”, just fyi in case it’s one of those “word I hear but rarely see written” things and not autocorrect.
As much as I regret that Brexit happened, I don't really think this is the direct fault of the voters that they didn't understand all the issues when voting for Brexit.

We have a representative democracy. Generally, you would assume if you're being asked to vote in a referendum, that either outcome would be implementable. Turns out that the referendum was really just David Cameron's plan to unify the conservatives, and he expected remain would win by a landslide, so didn't have a plan for if leave won.

Of course, we did vote for those representatives in the first place, so it's indirectly our fault either way.

That being said, given the enormity of this change, it was always going to be a challenge for the first year or two after it went into effect. In principle, EU scepticism is a perfectly reasonable view to have, our politicians just let us down.
What does that unclear language mean? You didn't pay for them or didn't make them?
We could drill way down. But then geothermal seems like the more sensible option. ;)

We could also go way up. But there is the sun already, why build another?
>"They were indeed allowed to keep residency rights, but they had to register for them"

Some of them said that they did apply for that residency but were denied. Wonder why?
Terrorists are going to break into a government facility, go a mile deep, retrieve massive concrete cylinders, and transport them back to base. Just to get access to low level nuclear material? If they want to poison people en-masse there are way better options. Uranium is a relatively slow killer. And we test our water supply for it because it's a heavy metal like lead. So any real attempt to poison people with it will get detected pretty promptly.

Groups that have the expertise to covertly retrieve spent fuel could probably just buy guns and shoot up a stadium. And that would cause more damage. The relative risk presented by nuclear waste is trivial.
What you said is correct. The UK doesn’t have a system for referendum, so they hacked an opinion poll with the question: “do you want to leave the EU?”

In a normal democracy with a referendum system, the people vote on a text in place of having the politicians do it. The question is always “to you approve the text such and such.” The first problem is that the UK constitution doesn’t have this system I think, the second problem is what to vote on. They could either negotiate a treaty first and then ask people to approve it, or they could ask people to vote on the mission of the negotiators (but it’s tricky since the outcome is not known)
Almost none of those are on amazons e-commerce platform either
Not many people seem to know that there was a software version of DisplayWriter on the original IBM PC. I know this because IBM were desperate to get into the education market in the UK in the early 1980s and I was at the time working at Middlesex Polytechnic (in the UK, university now) and they gave us a PC and the software - and it was laughably crap. I was a WordStar user at the time, and I couldn't believe how inept DisplayWriter it was - and I was a big fan of VM/CMS they sold us and the 4381 super-minis that it ran on.

DisplayWriter was deeply, deeply pants.
It is not a figment of my imagination: There were things going on besides multiple forms of outright plagiarism within several submissions. Because there are often multiple forms of plagiarism occurring in the same submission, once you catch it, it's pretty clear cut that it was deliberate. It is not only in writing but at actual conferences when she gives speeches.

The individual I mention is known to wear a custom "code t-shirt" of the program (aka "product") that she claims to be her original work, to conferences and meetups. The t-shirt along with the code itself has the /exact same specific variable names/ that I provided via email to a colleague years ago. She is also seen wearing this t-shirt in several media publications. She also publishes "research" based on this "work" in peer-reviewed journal articles. It really is quite disgusting.
Now, we know who is going to manufacture Apple Car.
So Britain didn't exist until 1833? It wouldn't have been in the US if Britain didn't bring it.
Gonna need a citation on that easily substituted. Ending trade with China would kill Apple for instance.
The content and the presentation is superb.
> Working with my aging mother, modern UIs are very complicated.

I am a software developer with over 20 years of professional experience designing and building systems. I recently got the COVID vaccine. While I was in the observation area, there was a screen projected advising me to set up my 2nd dose using my smartphone while I waited.

I searched for the clinic web site where I first signed up for the vaccine, and then I filled in the same form again that I used to get a my first appointment. One of the options was "Have you already had your first dose?" I checked that, and my expectation was that the system would determine that I have priority for setting the next appointment.

Instead the system kicked me into a waitlist. Fortunately, as I was leaving, the staff were adamant about asking whether I had my second appointment set up. I explained that I used the website for setting up appointments and that I was on a waitlist. They were confused and said I should have been immediately scheduled for my second appointment. Fortunately there were a couple of staffed stations set up where they could set up your second appointment if you had trouble doing it via your smartphone.

The staff member told me I had gone to the wrong website (??) and, in a slightly annoyed demeanor, asked me for my email address. They did whatever they do on their end, and I got a date and time set up.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to go to the website you initially used to set up your first appointment in order to set up your second appointment, and I'd expect the system to give you priority in getting your second appointment when you check the box indicating that you've already had your first dose. (Otherwise, why even bother asking??)

I guess the thing I was supposed to do was search my email inbox for one of three messages where there was an embedded link I was supposed to click on. But this wasn't discoverable, and none of the information on the screen told me that was what I was supposed to do.

If an experienced software developer misuses the automated system, I'm not sure how the general public doesn't run into problems using it. Of course I do have a knack for always wedging myself into the corners of almost any system I use, perhaps because I don't think like your typical member of the general public does when it comes to systems.
> And then there's https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/know-prevent-fix-fra... which effectively calls for the end of open-source contributors staying pseudonymous.

I think that will do more harm than good. First of all a lot of critical software is security related and encryption related and I would guess a higher proportion of contributors in that area are more sensitive to protecting their identity than the general developer population. So you would lose out on some contributions that you would otherwise have gotten.

Second, a major threat in this area arises from nation states. However, due to experience with physical espionage, nation states are already pretty good at establishing fake identities for people (for example it would be no problem for them to supply a fake (or even real) passport/ birth certificate/etc or turning people who are already working in critical areas. Thus getting rid of anonymity would not even be a speed bump for Five Eyes, Russia, China, North Korea, etc.

So I don’t thing there would be much benefit, but there would be a lot of cost.
To be more precise, the flows are used to initiate authentication. They do not actually perform it.
> ...the idea that it is immoral to kill to sustain yourself goes so far against the way nature is organized

This is an appeal to nature.

> ... as long as you don't do it out of... greed

How does "I like the taste of cows and milk" not meet your definition of greed?
Mirrors only flip in and out, not left and right or up and down.
They thought it would only happen to others, as usual... They were so deep in disinformation that they called “project fear” any attempt to explain them what the situation would actually be. Because of course, who in their right mind would avocate for leaving the EFTA? Surely, brits spend money locally, so why wouldn’t the local governments bend the rules whilst the British government gets all jingoistic about continental queue jumpers?

It’s all fun and games until the borders get closed.

In the end, real people from both sides of the referendum pay the price.
One company making the driveteain, another the body and passenger area. We are returning to the age of coach construction a la the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachbuilder

Lots of companies have tried this. The concept even has a knickname: the EV skateboard. None have really taken off.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/trucks/a31707688/you-could-bui...
"Regular ejaculation" (2nd meaning) is also sufficient but isn't necessarily as fun.
I guess that’s what happens when you let people vote on issues they know nothing about.

Referendums should be preceded by fact-checked pros and cons of each decision, side by side. But no, let politician sh*t-talk on TV and buses with nonsense instead.

Democracy works when the voters are informed. With disinformation, the loudest voice wins. That’s not democracy.
Great work! Really hope the author decides to run and see the performance in comparison.
Hasn't really changed much since though I think.
Relative to where it was in the 80s, Japan has collapsed. It has gone from over half of the United States' GDP to under a quarter. It's still doing well because when you start out in that strong of a position there's a lot of room to fall and still be healthy. If China follows the same arc as Japan did, China of 2050 will have significantly less influence on the world than China has today.
I am obviously talking about the order of magnitude greater abundance of thorium on earth than regular uranium used for fission. In what way do your address the point?
... so you aren't arguing the premise there (ie, that dirty bombs are inefficient for terrorists). So your argument is distressingly close to "terrorists would be ineffective if they did [this], so we should ban it to stop them making mistakes". I doubt you believe that, I'm just drawing your attention to the fact you have to attack the premise to get anywhere on this issue.

godelski is arguing that terrorists who can be convinced to try and use dirty bombs will be less effective than if they had chosen other, more damaging, options.
Or sufficiently new. Your phone from 5 years ago only has Android 5? "This banking app needs Android 6 as a minimum". Flash a "homebrew" Android 6 ROM? "This device does not meet the security requirements.". Frakk off!
Stringent language tests. You have to get good scores in Spanish, more than eating in the fish and chip shops of benidorm every day will get you.
Makes total sense to have a white label car platform, especially in a post level 5 self-driving future when automobiles become automaton providing a range of services going from taxying people to delivering groceries and even joy riding experience with vehicles that accelerate halfway through a corner for extra G. The fleet managers will want to customise everything ranging from designing the cargo area to branding the exterior.
What do you mean by recycled in this case? From my understanding you can pretty much only grind it down to garbage filler and maybe press it into some primitive shape. It’ll never become cling film or whatever again
This is not unique to this issue or populace. I know loads of people in the US who benefit massively from Obamacare and constantly advocate repealing it.

A lady I know who thinks the law is terrible was complaining the other day that her daughter had to get off her insurance at 26. I had to bite my tongue so hard to not be like, ya know, without Obamacare she'd have been booted 8 years ago.
Discourse should be failure, of course.

But I wonder what intracourse consists of?
> Why you would live in the EU, vote for Brexit and then cry when leaving the EU to return 'home' is beyond me though.

I was going to hastily comment that surely the Brits living abroad were not the ones voting for Brexit but then right there in the article:

> ”Yes I voted out, but I didn’t realise it would come to this, my application has been rejected and we are on our way home – the wife is in tears, she’s distraught if I’m honest and I’m not too happy at the prospect of returning back to the UK.”

This is exactly like that meme on Twitter:

> 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.[0]

Nope, I can't beleive it's come to this either.

[0]: https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736
I did a small amount of work in pre-deep learning computer vision. It was only about six months exposure but as far as I could tell, the field was a mess. There weren't general methods, just a list of specific filters, approaches and so-forth that "worked in some cases" - and a lot of leaned on a knowledge of the particular setup you were modeling - optics in some instances, Fourier analysis in others and ad-hoc processes for others.

Deep learning is general purpose, doesn't require area-experts and is more or less guaranteed to mostly work if you have sufficient data describing the task at hand.
Cash in hand means non taxed. So, not paying Spanish payroll tax, which includes hypothicated taxes for health.
Yet again this article mentions 5G being "a must for automated-driving technology"

I don't see why this is necessary? A car is going to need to make decisions without a connection so why does everyone go on about this all the time? Genuine question.
Note that wargames are intended to be lost, to reveal unacknowledged weaknesses. If most of the wargames you play end up with you the winner, you're doing them wrong.
Does anyone know why some were denied residency? Is there a threshold for professional credentials or proof of financial self-sufficiency they didn't meet?
I like the idea to try to improve these. But it may be a lot like suggesting updates to a coding style guide. Sometimes you can find some changes that improve utility value, and are worth the effort to collectively migrate to, but largely, the value comes from everyone understanding the standardized practices/terms. Whereby, I can join a company and quickly understand everyone’s intent.

So basically, let’s circle back on this and keep a holding pattern.
Sounds like a pretty nice way to get around having to constantly patch minor CVEs in base OS/distributions to maintain compliance - cut out the OS entirely.
Ask HN: How would I use a proglang to simulate a system with interaction?
For instance, a predator-prey systems between predator species X and prey species Y. There is a birthing process where two Y's of opposite gender meet together and have children. There is a predation process where an X eat Y's. And maybe some others.

I thought "maybe an object oriented language would be good for this." So I created Predator & Prey classes. But then when it came to instantiating the objects it quickly became stupid. What am I supposed to do to model the ACTUAL OBJECTS themselves? Two ArrayLists one with m predators and n prey? A two-dimensional array with Predator and Prey objects dispersed randomly and moving stepwise?

How do you model simple INTERACTION between objects?
>Honk!

We finally found out who runs GooseInfosec!
Sorry, it flows from the channel into the North Sea.
http://LALAUNCHPAD.ORG was done on about 5% of that budget.
There are plastic bags at the bottom of the mariana trench, arguably the most remote places on the planet with regards to human exploration.

It's hard to imagine a piece of the world that we haven't had an impact on.
This essay is taking the language author's perspective, but IMO the user's perspective is different and more important.

I think what people mean when they say the language changed isn't literally "the language changed". It's actually what the user is supposed to do changed: The idioms changed. The ecosystem changed. Code that I wrote two years ago still works but it looks foreign to new developers.
You aren't alone there
Samsung to deliver flagship devices with drones
I recommend Instapaper or Pocket. They’re cheap, but worth it
There are already states in the US accepting Bitcoin as payment for taxes. There are cantons in Switzerland where you can do this as well. https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/25/ohio-becomes-the-first-sta...
That is not the problem. Nothing wrong with moving where you want.
Solid points :) ;p xx
The main question for me is what the half life is for code I write. In c, with no dependencies, and -Werror disabled, it is likely decades. In python with lots of dependencies, it is probably weeks or months.

Where does rust with lots of dependencies (since that seems to be what cargo encourages) sit on the spectrum?
I've often thought referendums need a reconciliation process. My tri-county area in the US voted overwhelmingly for a tax and program package to build light rail transit.

Within 4 years they passed another referendum cutting the taxes they voted in to pay for the trains without repealing the referendum requiring the transit authority to build the trains. Doh!
I haven’t tried this product yet but the CSS export functionality in Figma doesn’t seem to be that smart yet - for instance if I’m using an auto layout to space elements evenly, I want the spacing to be defined as margins on direct children from the parent so that my CSS remains DRY and the layout concerns lie on the parent, not each child; but it doesn’t seem to do that kinda thing unfortunately. I’ll play with Framer seeing that people are recommending it here, I wonder if it’s better.
> A car is going to need to make decisions without a connection so why does everyone go on about this all the time?

Because they don't know it?

I'd say even in such reputable establishment as Nikkei, airhead "tech journalists" are running the show.

People are afraid to show their incompetence, and switch to technical gobbledygook.
I think the point is corporate doublespeak always assimilates and distorts language no matter which words are selected.

You and I can talk like humans, but corporate yuppies trying to talk like humans will always just ruin human words too.

Maybe we should just get the duct tape and not let the corporate clones go full mission-statement?
I can only theorize. Perhaps due to some error, the web upload submitted a 0 byte file which perfectly matched another 0 byte file.
I've been seeing more and more apps and websites have me login with my xyz app login info. Then, ask if it's ok to grant access to xyz app so it can access xyz app information. Makes sense only if you are a developer. You are granting the frontend access to the backend via oauth. Completely confusing for everyone else and was pretty confusing for me at first as well.
This bodes extremely badly for women's reproductive autonomy.
The EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement allows for existing residency to continue on the same terms as EU residency, i.e. no language testing.

The group of people in the article either: have chosen not to apply for residency in Spain (noting that the technical deadline to apply is not until July 2021); were not resident in Spain before February 2020; and/or were not meeting EU rules for residency in Spain anyway.
Fuck. I knew it.
Which begs the question what did this person think they were voting for if not that?

I get that sometimes people aren't sure what the fine details of something might be on a complex issue, but it's right there in the slogan: "out of the EU"
David Cameron is absolutely going to end up towards the bottom of that list of famous/infamous leaders you get ranked against at the end of a game of Civilization.
My experience of British pensioners on the continent is that they are overall very pleasant people to be around and do contribute to local life, even if it sometimes includes opening a pub next to the local café. Not all of them are living caricatures in Benidorm, far from it.
That sounds silly. Give me a test that I can actually reasonably learn the material for any day.
Exploit: make full use of and derive benefit from a resource.

We breed cows so we can exploit them. There is no air quotes around exploit, that's exactly what cows are to us. Resources for our enrichment.

Of course reproduction is the quintessential drive of all life. But cows are not reproducing in the wild so that point isn't even relevant. They're artificially inseminated to keep them lactating (in the case of dairy cows).

As to your edit, we're not talking about bacteria or plants which lack the physical ability for suffering as we know it. We're talking about bovines, huge mammals w/ a brain and central nervous system.