skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only the Netherlands; even without dedicated cycling infrastructure, cycling will be faster for distances under a couple miles for pretty much any walkable town or city. Deliveroo uses bicycles extensively.
Thought Dump
You must ask yourself what is the reason that people in London have more money. Purchasing power is not something that manifests itself out of thin air, as well as exchange rates of money.

An economy in which the people have multiple times the purchasing power must do something right. And moving people in that economy around is more valuable than moving people elsewhere.
The other fun tag that similarly changes parsing is the <XMP> tag - it is similar to plaintext, but can be closed. I’m unsure if it is still supported because I haven’t used it for a decade and not near PC at moment.
No chance. YT has 2bn+ unique logins a month. China only has 800m internet users max. Further the video streaming landscape in China is much more fragmented than outside the country where YT is dominant.
Reason should be Taliban with Pakistan to free Kashmir from India.
Yes, I agree. If we're talking about a normal career then having 115 vs 125 IQ probably won't make much of a difference compared to being diligent.

However, I think that if you want to be a very high performer IQ might be a hindrance. For someone like Musk or Jobs I think it definitely is.
The problem of effects in Rust (2020)
Could you have stopped Chernobyl?
Part 2
(see https://www.lesswrong.com/s/STQByy4J8NfLKkGQa/p/mqrHHdY5zLqr... for part 1)
It's not copyright law, it's the agreements that YT has with copyright owners. No one is going to license their content to YT if the site allows anyone to download whatever is there.
I know, right?

In all seriousness though, VC funding is mainly a function of market size and scalability of the business model.

There's currently a huge shortage of data science talent across the world, and a sustainable business funded by venture capital can help fill this gap quickly.
but isn't views also what you want when you're showing ads? I mean clicking on the ad would be preferable I guess, but I'm not sure how tightly correlated that is to users clicking on user generated content. I can see Facebook wanting to sell views rather than clicks to their customers.
A weird limitation of Apple’s subscription system is that the dev can’t close it on its end. The same way as a dev can’t refund purchases.

You’re left with running after the users to close their iOS subscriptions if they cut ties with your service.
> But from a historical perspective, desktop Linux was only made possible by Nvidia and their closed driver.

Intel Integrated graphics has been around for a long time now, it has open drivers and since its first release, it has been more than adequate for most non-gamers.

Maybe that's just me, but I don't really care that much about NVidia or ATI/AMD, and the state of their drives don't impact my ability to meaningfully use Linux on the desktop.
For instance, having a century headstart in industrialization and fast economic growth? It actually returns to a longer scale version of having accumulated wealth through working a long time...

Also taxi driving isn't exactly the most efficient of markets to compare value. London taxi drivers for example have a unique barrier to entry to become a taxi driver via an onerous road memorization test ("The Knowledge"), and that has nothing to do with the general British economy "doing something right."
Even the installation process has junk in the final steps when it insists on asking about cloud and stuff, although you want just a regular local account. In end I found it easier to use an Autounattend.xml [1], then deal with that crap.

[1]: created with https://www.windowsafg.com/win10x86_x64_uefi.html
It's a great little editor and I'm using it all the time.

I just wish they added a VBR profile for encoding h.264 video. Every time I make a clip with OpenShot, I have to run the final result through meGUI, converting CBR to VBR, reducing the size of the file quite a lot, while quality remains the same.

The default h.264 profile in meGUI would be perfect. Constant Quality mode, Quality = 23, AVC High Profile. Looks the same as high quality CBR but the video is many times smaller.
Show HN: Typed Postgres CRUD Queries
> I am personally wondering if Yourube themselves are going to start implementing some thing like this sooner or later; after all, you are paying for an ad free experience on YouTube premium, just to watch all of those new videos become filled with in-video advertisements.

Unlikely. It requires monitoring content and ensuring they people add (correct) timestamps for sponsored content. This would need to be verified by YouTube moderators and in general requires a lot more resources than you think. Crowdsourcing like SponsorBlock is feasible but it's unlikely that YouTube will integrate SponsorBlock into the site.
And then we got to add gambling mechanics into "microtransactions" which weren't so micro anymore. At least with horse-armor and DLC you see what you get. With gacha and lootboxes you can't be even sure about that.

And the money is gone forever. At least with Valve who kinda made it big you can recoup some of investment if you get lucky and use it to buy other games on their platform...
The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets
WaystoCap (YC W17) Acquired by MaxAB to expand it's B2B ecommerce platform
this is atrocious. Bunch of visual distractions made by avatars, horrible and disrespectful background noise/chatter, graphics like it's 1998..
Agree and that is why building a secure Cloud Landing Zone for enterprises goes hand in hand enabling developers to have the autonomy with Guardrails

This is my early and potentially slightly erroneous understanding of the situation:

- Jupiter Notebook support was enabled if you used the SQL API and not the Gremlin or MongoDB API. What is unclear is whether breaking out of the Notbook container gave you access to keys for just instances using SQL API or any API.

- CosmoDB is very weak in enforcing identity perimeters so keys are a weak point. Enforcing something like hourly key rotations is left up to the customer to build.

- Azure is pretty much an "it's public IP" unless you explicitly make it private. And even when they add controls like Private end points they have weird routing mechanisms that can result in traffic bypassing controls like hub firewalls.

- Using things like CosmoDB firewalls, private endpoints, automatic regular key rotations, and only enabling features you need should have helped if this was a hostile breach.

Take everything I said with a pinch of salt :)
Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Blocks of magnesium are not fire hazards are they?

Magnesium only ignites easily when in thin strips?
I'm not denying your experience, but I'm assuming the first time you tried it you either had help from someone who had done it before or a much better understanding of the pitfalls of software distribution than I did.

For me, I compiled a binary on my Windows machine, manually put it into an MSI alongside the the required VC++ redistributable, and it worked out of the box on every single system from Vista through to current version Windows 10 (and probably 11 too) - x86 and x64, with no issues whatsoever. If I had used the XP-compatible version of VS2015 I could have targeted that too.

Similar story for Mac (although distribution there has since become a minor pain in the arse with code signing and notarisation).

For Linux, I built a .deb manually on Ubuntu 16.04, specified the dependencies just like with Windows and uploaded it. Obviously this crashed violently on most things that weren't modern (for the time) and Ubuntu-based.

In the end, I fixed it exactly as you suggested - I built on an older LTS distro (on a CI server by this stage), shipped all of my own libraries and aggressively made sure that it would load those versions and only those versions. This still required some random hack to work on certain modern systems, as it needed a hack to support both modern glibc and a compatibility version bundled with the app.

These days, I could get a reliable Linux release up in a heartbeat, but this is only after learning the details of a fickle system through multiple iterations of user interaction.
Unraveling the Mystery of Brown Dwarfs
Altavista did not lock hundreds of millions of people in an alternate reality.

During COVID lockdowns, my Mom called me, and asked if it was true that at night choppers were going to spray something over NYC.

"Ah", I thought, "Facebook".
Sandboxing that is both secure and allows non trivial application software to work correctly is HARD.

I'm not convinced anyone actually got both right so far - see how recent sanboxing improvements basically killed Anbox on modern Android versions. Or try to get a ssh/samba server running on a Samsung Galaxy device so you can push files to it to avoid buggy inconvenient MTP - mission impossible!
Many factories, utilities, and other tricky hw like 24/7 b/c less restart errors

Blind men and elaphant? :)
MKL.NET.Optimization 0.3.0 released – high perf BFGS optimiser for .NET
At this point I think it may be question whether the problem lies with English itself. Such an error prone language.
Messages are money now.
Thanks for your kind words!

Our goal is to offer practical & affordable data science education to millions of people around the world, and joining Y Combinator is going to help us execute on our vision faster.

We launched the bootcamp because we saw a need for a more hands-on and intensive program to help our users make a career transition to data science. However, we will continue to offer more free courses and improve the notebook-based learning platform.
I’m sorry, how does changing yummy mommy to boss make fun of anyone?
They could at least let you download videos for which the author specified a free license, such as Creative Commons, or videos that are public domain. There are a lot of these videos so why not?
Maybe even post noise.
I would think they will become more productive. I love working hard but working hours have dependency when it comes to being unproductive.

That many hours is just hard work signaling or some kind of test of commitment.

Working that many hours is ultimately a cortisol problem that only less work can solve. This is obviously sub-optimal.

Anything China ever seems to do is rather smart and reasoned so I assume they have just figured out this makes no sense and will lead to an increase in productivity.
> Also if a software engineer is good enough they may simply choose to work for an American firm

This seems a bit unlikely to me:

1. Ignores patriotism.

2. The number of good programmers in China is going to overwhelmingly outnumber the opportunities for them to work for a US company.
"Normal" working hours (i.e. 40-hours a week), according to the Labor Law?

China, as a country ruled by communist, do have a Labor Law favoring employees. They just don't enforce it strictly before. For example, you may refuse to work long hours, and if you get fired as a result, you can raise a "labor dispute" and you'll almost always win. The catch is it would take months to resolve and after that, the employer simply pays some severance and nothing more.
Interestingly, the first result in that search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198290

> There are very famous quotes from Richard Hamming (see "You and Your Research") and Richard Feynman (see "Surely You're Joking!") about the importance of working on problems that seem trivial at first. Not only do they help you enjoy problem-solving for its own sake, but if you work on enough silly problems, then eventually the odds are good that you'll stumble upon something that other people will later think is really important.

seems to use it as advice not to work on the important problems in your field, but to go down rabbit holes doing frivolous research..
this effectively extracts media urls from the current page, puts them into a m3u file and let's you open it with any application https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

mpv itself uses ytdl (or others) for accessing streming sites and will buffer the whole vid if you crank up cache settings like:

cache=yes
demuxer-max-bytes=5G
demuxer-max-back-bytes=5G
prefetch-playlist=yes
force-seekable=yes
The Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany
Examining a Process in Linux
I know about psyops, but what is "PSA type information"? (What is "PSA" for?)

(Agreed btw that most humans are easy to manipulate. How interesting about the carrots, I like to eat, for the eyes partly)
Googol?
hi,

imho. it heavily depends what you expect from "living", but you could easily live - read: rent a cheap room & eat healthy - with 1000 us$ which roughly equals 900 euro in a lot of cities within the E.U.

out of my head - starting with the most obvious & startup-friendly ones

# berlin (germany)
# vienna (austria)

and whole countries
# nearly anywhere in the eastern part of austria
# nearly anywhere in the cheaper parts of germany - more in the north
# anywhere in the central to northern part of portugal - imho. inculding lisbon
# nearly anywhere in greece
# lot of parts of spain (north, south, islands ... definitly not in catalonia/barcelona or madrid)
# in the cheaper parts of italy (south)

east-europe:
# nearly any country/place which was formerly known as "eastern-european" / behind the "iron curtain"

br,
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I am starting back into an IT field this week after a 5 year hiatus, and I am full of insecurity & doubt. Reading this makes me want to cry.
hey HN!

This is a simple typescript wrapper around the npm pg-node library which provides autocomplete and validation for basic crud queries out of the box, without having to use an ORM.

I do alot of refactoring on my projects and I find crud queries to be around 80% of my APIs, so having typescript have my back really helps out.

The idea is mostly to provide helper functions for the common commands we do, and leave the more complex queries to the same query APIs in pg-node, with a couple tiny optional helper functions for field autocompletion.

Curious to hear your thoughts!
I'm so curious about your daily routine. When do you wake, work, work2, chores and sleep? What is your agreement with your partner? How old are your kids and what do you find that they ask for you specifically for?
"I see some naive schmuck". Chill man, why the hostility? I'm only using free data to test it. I have no problem start paying for their API if the idea is validated.
I'm not sure why parent is getting downvoted. What's wrong about having the opinion that mandates should be "carefully scrutinized and evaluated before being widely enforced"?

You do not have to hold that view. You are free to criticize it. But downvoting seems counterproductive to any reasonable discussion.

As one HN'er put it:

> The downvote button is not a disagree button. If you disagree with something, add your own comment. That's the point of a discussion board. Downvotes are for comments which are not worthy of a response because they are not honest attempts at discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998406
I have been looking at seaweedfs for a while. I suffer from a pretty bad case of NIH Syndrome, so my gut feeling says I should implement it myself. But seaweed is such a good fit that I should probably just try it.

I especially want to know how well it deals with adding / removing servers, data loss and network instability. The beautiful thing with writing my own solution is that it takes at most 10 minutes to diagnose and fix a problem when it occurs.
DivaTrim Keto is a ketone weight reduction item?
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https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/270755038/divatrim-keto-reviews---is-divatrim-keto-legit-pills-price-side-effects

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https://web.sites.google.com/view/max-extend-shark-tank/
It's also like "defund the police" in that you have both carefully thought out policy changes and completely asinine extremist ideas co-mingling under the same label and the people peddling the latter use the former as cover when their BS is called out for what it is.
I have been working with CNN's for 5-6 years now, and every time I've needed explanations I used class activation maps

http://cnnlocalization.csail.mit.edu/

Can this help?
Your “RAII“ object can also be transferred if it supports move semantics (it really should). Both classes hold a unique resource (a file handle resp. a heap allocated object) that can be moved but not copied and the resource gets freed when the variable goes out of scope.
> makes those people dramatically better at surviving

Better at reproducing. Death after reproduction has much less effect on evolution than death before reproduction.

It is unfortunate that it is so often misstated (I am guessing you already know the difference, but I want to clarify it for those who are not so aware). As an aside, I think the article is complete and utter bollocks.
This is why musicians are almost uniformly on macOS. I love Linux and I've been using it since 1998, but there's a lot of work to be done on the audio front for them to catch up to Apple.
Nah, it's more a combination of memeing and that the avatar interface in VR Chat is horrible. Picking an avatar takes a lot of work. Some of the ones listed can crash some machines. Many of the ones listed are only available on the PC version, so you get some "PC-Master-Race" posturing. And there aren't a lot of good, default options, so you end up with a lot of people picking the same avatars. There are lots of other avatars, but most of them are very unhuman-like and several are just plane bad.

EDIT: for what is worth, I tangentially work on the same sort of software. My system is a training environment not intended for the public, but a lot of the same concerns are involved. Currently, we have no avatar selection system. Everyone gets the same avatars, differentiated by a name tag. This was 50% a deliberate decision to avoid avatar mayhem and maintain an egalitarian environment, 50% pushing off the problem until I can figure out how to give some options without devolving into avatar mayhem.
yeah, needs a strong heat source if it's a block. E.g. it's tricky to ignite a NeXTCube even with a blowtorch: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html
You don't need to buy goods and services directly but it is a good way to store and invest your wealth. Most capital controls are mute once you've exited into crypto.

On what basis do they hit you? Anyone that ever has any link to crypto? That's everyone. Crypto has a level of security and plausible deniability, that makes such things unrealistic. That's why you don't hear about it happening often.

To many people under these regimes, there is much more security afforded to them by crypto than by their governments and currencies.
I believe the comparison isn't adequate here since the British got massive advantages after WW2.
AFAIK only Cataluña applied taxes to empty houses [1]. I don't know how is it going. And there are no national laws, it's still a proposal [2].

I don't think there's a supply problem that would be fixed with new buildings. Last governmental statistics shown that there were at least 3.4 million empty homes [3]. Statistics coming from the private sector (real estate agencies, and a private university) this year, they calculated a 10% of vacant homes nationally [4]. That's a lot.

I think there are no good statistics on the quantity of homes that are owned by "regular folks". Also, what's a "regular folk"? Is my landlord, who owns more than 50 apartments in top notch locations, a "regular folk"? (Not counting on the illegal things he's done)

That's why you can't only focus on big companies, like Blackstone (they own 20 billion € in real state just in Spain [5]). A study that has been making the rounds this year on all the economic press [6](pages 22 and 25) has been used, wrongly, to show that "big landlords" only (hah, only) own 4% of all the rental homes in Spain. But if you check the list, it only shows the top 40 companies, being the number 40 in the list owner of 121 homes. Also, I don't see any private owners.

Do you stop being a "big landlord" if you "only" own less than 121 homes? I can't see my landlord in the list.

Truth is, there are empty houses. The rental pricing rise doesn't correlate to salary rises, specially in big cities like Madrid or Barcelona. In less than 5 years (that's the time I stayed in my last apartment) I've seen prices rise 30 to 40% in Madrid. Before COVID AirBnB didn't help either [7], and 30% AirBnB owners were proprietors of at least 5 houses [8], so, pure speculation. And although people (specially those who can WFH) have been leaving Madrid after COVID, rental prices haven't lowered that much[9].

Sorry for the long rant and my terrible English.

1: https://atc.gencat.cat/es/tributs/impost-habitatges-buits/

2: https://www.eleconomista.es/vivienda/noticias/11325256/07/21...

3: https://www.europapress.es/economia/noticia-cuantas-vivienda...

4: https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2021/02/02/economia/1...

5: https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2018/09/17/companias/...

6: https://atlas-reanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/Estado-y-te...

7: https://www.eldiario.es/economia/concentracion-airbnb-manzan...

8: https://www.eldiario.es/economia/airbnb-espana-anfitriones-g...

9: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4639918/0/el-precio-del-alq...
Very few desirable countries (other than say Singapore, etc) have lower taxes than the US, so FEIE might be irrelevant if your local country has high income or capital gains taxes.

If you’re doing the digital nomad thing to avoid paying taxes anywhere (except to the US, which you can’t avoid) that might make QSBS more desirable, but under the specific scenario that:

- you live in a low tax country like singapore (or you intend to stay a traveling digital nomad for years to dodge any non-US taxes)

AND

- your business doesn’t pay you a salary significantly higher than the FEIE cap of roughly 100k/yr

If you make $500k/yr living in Singapore, the FEIE is irrelevant (since as a victim of American global tax you’ll pay US income tax wherever you are) and it’d be better to convert as much of your salary into dividends/distributions as possible to pay lower cap gains rates.
Ohh thank you, yes. Seems like enhanced version of the playlist I linked to. The whole lecture series in this enhanced version:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctkxgWNSR89bl7hTOS3F...
Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993)
Maybe so, however if they drop their take to 15% from 30% it will drop their annual profit by 30Billion , which will influence the stock price massively.

Senior management who have a large chunk of their salary in stock arent going to do it easily.

Apple can survive without this money yes, but no one at apple is likely to let it go without fighting for it.
It is more profitable, not more valuable in any usual sense of the word.

By the same token you could say that moving money for the mafia is more valuable than preventing violence and disease in poorer societies.
Why don't you go ahead and write a few paragraphs explaining your idea.
Sorry, this version of the same lectures has better video quality:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctkxgWNSR89bl7hTOS3F...
> Just after the report was published, the Times revealed that a previous version had been shelved, because it showed one of the top links on the site was to a story that said a doctor died from the COVID-19 vaccine, a report from the Chicago Tribune that was circulated widely by anti-vaccination groups and pages.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-...
We talk about humans NOT the Machines, Servers are 24/7 the admins are Not...i hope ;)
Good for him?