skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I would say anywhere in Taiwan other than Taipei, you'd be fine on $1k USD / month... so for those that would still prefer urban/city life, you should definitely consider Kaohsiung or Tainan -- both urban centers that are in the southern part of Taiwan.

Weather may be a bit more of an issue though (especially in the summertime), but cost of living is still very very reasonable.

Agreed on the language though -- Taiwan in general is a bit tougher to navigate for non-Chinese speakers. You may be able to get by with just English in Taipei, but in the rural areas or in the central/southern urban centers, it'll be a bit tougher.
Or Vegas, back in the day.
why not just use PWA?
Doesn’t this just mean you have the same ideological inflexibility these moderation teams do? I’m trying to understand what actual counterpoint you have made here.
Turns out they were, as is industry practice. And their right, as owners of the servers hosting the content.

I really hope it gets dropped too. It accelerated a contingency plan of mine where I take the safe assumption that all closed software is actually a cop.
No longer available and was only ever limited distribution AFAIK. Also, their hardware has a habit of dying suddenly. For non-free vendors I recommend replacing Windows on current-era Lenovo laptop hardware, AFAIK so far everything just works out of the box.
Hyperbole. Too bad it’s so overused nowadays, but sure attracts views.
I'm in Morgantown, West Virginia. A university city (cities don't get very large in West Virginia, the state only has 1.8 million people; it has seen zero population expansion for 90 years).

Sold my house not long ago, moved to Morgantown, and I'm renting now. My rent for around 900 sq ft is sub $700. Electric + water + Comcast is a combined $100, that covers all of my utilities. I'm under $800 for rent + utilities and under $1,000 for rent + utilities + food.

Crime is low, as is the murder rate; I don't think there has been a murder here in roughly five years. The Internet is great (Comcast goes up to 1.2gbps here for $80/month, but I don't have a use for that). There's a decent bus system that goes to most parts of the city and is cheap to use. The area, and really the state in general, is overwhelmingly green; drive a short distance in any direction and you've escaped civilization. There's skiing an hour away in the Winter, and a few popular lakes within that distance as well. Oddly housing prices are higher than they should be for the income levels of the region, and it has been that way for a long time, so that's a downside (but this is relatively speaking, as you can buy a nice house here for under $400k; for anyone working in tech remote it's not expensive). It is a boring, docile, quiet region, and that's not everyone's cup of tea; the restaurants are lacking, and there's no consequential nightlife; the nearest relevant city, Pittsburgh, is 80 minutes away.

In the US, university cities - which the US has a lot of - are often the hidden gems of combining safe (low crime, low murder rate) + a relatively low cost of living.
Except that this isn't the case. We know empirically because we have enumerated the single precision space completely.

So, the problem isn't bounded by simple probabilities. There are other properties involved that cause it to diverge from the "naive" probabilistic estimates. What those properties are we don't know yet.

The "rounding" problem is called the "Table Maker's Dilemma" and it descends into some pretty fundamental transcendental number theory.

This is not an "easy" problem. Proof that PI was transcendental is relatively modern (1885).
Thanks for your feedback and thoughtful reply!

FWIW, I used quotes because the rose that grew from concrete is a poem, and a phrase that is not my own. My intention was to not pass it off as my own. What I should have done is quoted or referenced a particular essay of PG's to demonstrate that he has in fact written posts which use a similar logic. In any event, I'll be more careful on my quotes in the future.

Your links are helpful, and based on them, I think you were right to call me out. Thank you.

One suggestion: Perhaps the site guidelines page could reference a couple of these links? I recognize they're off-site, but when I popped open a dictionary and a thesaurus to figure out how I'd crossed the line on "fulmination", it was a bit unclear to me which definition I was dealing with. Granted, precision is not always the solution and moderation is always going to require a bit of feeling rather than some strict criteria by which one comment is allowed to slide and another isn't, but it's at least worth considering IMO.

Thanks for being a great mod, dang!
Ugh, the blatant lies in VPN ads.

"MAKES IT SO YOUR ISP CAN'T SEE YOUR TRAFFIC" - yeah, congrats, now it's just another ISP that sees your traffic, which was probably protected by TLS anyway...

Heck, they even keep recommending the utility of Terms of Service violations like accessing contents from other regions.

VPN companies are scammy as hell.
There are many distributions. Packaging your app for all of them isn't feasible. Including all the dependencies right down to glibc is.
I joke with a friend -- a serious emacs maven of 20+ years -- that he took up NixOS only because he was no longer daunted by emacs.

NixOS looks neat, but holy hell I absolutely do not have the time to deal with the learning curve OR the implicit abandonment of all the tools I use to do my job.
The Social Dilemma free TIL Sept 30th on YouTube
I'm a libc author and I want to use this. Then I clicked on the repository and there wasn't any code implementing these libm routines. Instead it just had tools and they told me I need to install a 6gb docker container to use them.
Yep same here. I usually agree with the whole "your grandmother should get it" but don't think that applies here.
In terms of UI or actually under the hood?

I've found PhotoGIMP makes GIMP UI more like Photoshop, which helps me a lot: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases

On a Mac I switched from Photoshop to Pixelmator no problem. Hoping PhotoGimp can help me do the same.
As someone who does quite a bit of C++ recently: for most uses readability is king.

If you did want squeeze out the extra performance you could also do something where you store `std::variant<>` inside a struct and provide an API like this:

if (auto int_value = value.i()) {
// *int_value == your int
}

and expose a `std::variant<> &variant();` for use cases where you want the more complex/faster stuff.
Ubuntu's upstream and release schedule ensures that its packages are relatively out of date. It might be worth trying 21.04 for real fractional scaling with Wayland or a different distro with recent packages and Wayland.
I was excited to use it! But I don't think it's available in Clang 12 (noted in this post) which is the latest version that comes with latest Fedora.

I didn't want to have to spring a newer compiler version than came with the distro.

Unless it's just a flag I did not turn on.
One of the reasons I enjoy using linux is the endless things you can customize, including the DE. You can easily switch your DE to something more inline with your preferences. Or you can install a spin with your preferred DE already enabled.
IANAL(inguist) but internet speak and memes have been studied for well over a decade by linguists. huge opportunity for publishing, and if they're lucky they might get hired by google. no i do not have an optimistic outlook for the field outside academia.
I don't know why someone downvoted you, but the flaw people are pointing out is that the initial agreeing upon a basis is equivalent to exchanging a preshared key. If you've got a preshared key, then why go through the trouble of setting up a QKD for sending PSK's? There's bound to be good reasons, but you're comment doesn't address this.
I'd bet it was network access. It's a bizarre and common problem (I see more people commenting on the issues all the time) which you can kind of fix by forcing 8.8.8.8 or a different nameserver into /etc/resolv.conf but it's unclear to me why this doesn't work out of the box.
Great business model right there
1” copper sphere. Satisfyingly heavy and wasn’t expensive, maybe $15 at the Smithsonian gift shop.

I keep it next to a similarly sized, nearly spherical light gray pumice stone I picked up near Crater Lake years ago. Satisfyingly light!

I was given a tungsten carbide ring that’s supposed to be easy on the skin, but it rotted my flesh. I tried not to read anything into it.
Using color to describe information ranges is an excellent way to add a passive dimension of information, and allow people to screen out inferior choices.

"Dimming" the entire screen on a choice change is extremely visually distracting. A small spinner on the data sheet would be an excellent indicator that "this data is about to change".

Excellent tool, I'm going to play around with it tonight.
Similar story for me. Switched 5 years ago after 10 years with Apple. You have to be pretty determined to make the switch.

I love it. I’m really happy with the switch and have no plans to ever go back but it’s a decision you need to choose and commit to. I’d never recommend it to somebody else. If Linux is right for you, you will seek it out and make it happen.
You mean like the ADHD obstacle course we have to complete in order to get medication? It’s maddening.
> I mean this particular part I have a problem with: "may choose to not give copyright protection" -- we, consumers, don't have a say in creator's copyrights, because we don't have these copyrights, creators do.

But demos doesn't mean "we, consumers" -- it means "we, the people". As in, the body politic, from whom all laws and therefore copyright ultimately emanates. Creators only have those copyrights because we've granted them. This is a law of man, neither God-given nor a law of nature -- we can, if we want, un-grant them.
Open-Source selfhosted databases: MySQL, mariadb, postgresql, sqlite...
> Unless something is completely unavailable elsewhere

I do run into this from time to time. Let's say I want the soundtrack to one of my favourite anime, from 2006.

Some items from it are also on the source game soundtrack, so are available on iTunes. This is actually kind of rare for older anime which usually don't bother releasing in iTunes outside Japan, but being a game adaptation helps it here, I guess. Still, anything composed for the anime are not included.

Some of it is there on Spotify. Actually, at one point it all was, and I can still see the tracks are there but grayed out in other people's playlists, so I assume there exists some region in which it was available, and the availability in my region initially was a mistake by a licensee who forgot to limit it to the regions they had rights for. Either way, it's no longer legally available for me.

So I could.... VPN to Japanese iTunes, thereby breaking the terms of service, (assuming it's still there) or I could try import some decade old special edition DVDs of the anime which contained the OST.

Or I could rip it from YouTube. Eventually, if you make no effort to sell to me, I'm going to resort to other options.
Is your counterpoint really that FDR was able to go places in public?

He notoriously hid his disability with a combination of canes, braces, and family members to hold him upright and even simulate walking.

He also had a tremendous amount of power and money to force or provide his own special accommodations. Like having an army of secret service agents to help him deal with stairs.
Gearbox Arrives in Montreal
As someone new to Linux from 20 years on a Mac -- what's the deal with everything being free?

Seriously, where are the "take my money" opportunities. I don't want free OpenOffice. I want to pay $100 for something better, whatever the heck that is, maybe a little less clunky. I don't want free open source Notes app, I want to pay for something that's polished.

The Linux community is incredibly giving and passionate and it seems like it's all "free" but sucks up my time. I couldn't even figure out how to slow the scroll of my trackpad on Ubuntu after lots of digging.

Please, coming as a Mac user, take my money.
every function where you are reading from a string without writing to it or saving it, you can use std::string_view. Same for vector / array: anything non-owning, read-only should use std::span instead.
> Worth highlighting, for those of you that are skipping through.

Like my employer...
Few sites respect Do Not Track. Some even use it for tracking. So you force people to opt in to other tracking to opt out of yours.
I gather that Hungarian is nigh on completely regular with respect to symbol to sound. I was told this by a Hungarian, speaking English. Hungarian does seem to have a lot of diacritics which implies to me a deliberate formalism.
There’s many reasons someone needs to live somewhere, often unrelated to the financial reason or lack thereof.
Well to be fair he had the toughest act to follow, not just at MS but the whole history of corporate America.

Nobody had to come after Rockefeller at Standard Oil, but at MS there was Ballmer after Gates.

That and also Microsoft was priced for perfection, both financially and socially. Once you ship Windows 95 there not much you can do, there will never be a leap as big and so a natural slowdown in the rate of innovation feels like going backwards
I feel like some Linux users (like me) stop noticing the jank over time since we slowly become very adept at coping with it (eg. finding good resources on how to solve the problem so we can find the fix pretty quickly, or just knowing the fix out of experience.

In the end, it gets not so bad. But GUI front ends for package managers, like [especially] GNOME Software are horrendous from my experience. Which is not so great of a look; of all the things that should be user-friendly it should be package management (IMHO). Package manager failures (conflicts, whatever) are handled horribly by GUI front-ends and even then usually require some expertise to fix, which is a pain. At least Fedora Silverblue nails the updates so that stuff usually doesn't break... but of all the things that were broken OOTB for me on my install... it was (duh!) GNOME Software.
Ask HN: 150k listed products and growing, what's the next step?
Hi fellow hackers,

SaaSHub has been growing in all directions for the last several months. One of these directions is the number of new products submitted to the marketplace: 150,034 as of writing now. My previous similar report was 100k products listed as of Dec 2019. That's about 83 new products listed on average every day (based on a quick and imprecise calculation).

While that number might not be stunning for some investors, I'm proud of it, given that it's a one-man-army show. What is more, I've been told (by an investor) that SaaSHub is starting to make some of the leaders in the space (like Capterra & G2) a bit uneasy at night.

How did I achieve this? Small but consistent daily improvements six days a week.

One of my goals is to have all software products listed on SaaSHub and having them identify their competitors. That's one of the most objective ways to prepare the lists with alternatives after that, and that's what brings value to people browsing the website.

If you were running a website like SaaSHub, what would you work on next to make the most money out of it? (I'm making some $ - in the range of 4 digits/monthly; however, I'm sure it could easily go up to 5 digits with a slight push).
That mechanism of action is just what I’ve seen put forth by immunologists commenting on the these kinds of results.

While the author’s opinions on the necessity of vaccines do differ, they do agree on my main point: that empirically, natural immunity is indeed robust and tentatively even better than vaccine acquired immunity.

It looks like getting a vaccine helps boost immunity in all cases, whether you had a previous infection or if you had 2 doses and I would bet even after the booster, each additional shot will continue to provide some marginal benefit. So keep getting jabs, I guess, or you’re killing grandma.

I think at this point throwing in “you should vaccinate (regardless of your individual circumstance)” into your conclusion, even if it’s a complete non-sequitor, is a hedge against losing your job/funding/respect of your equally frightened peers. The COVID research equivalent of the “making the world a better place” SV trope.
For some values of 'fucked up'. Other societies may have different criteria for evaluating the relative priorities of housing and property rights.
No disagreement here. It's just good to see someone trying. :-)
Food blog please!
The Linux desktop never made it because it’s a terrible platform for distributing commercial applications.

The brutal fact is commercial software is essential to the success of any desktop or mobile platform. That’s because it brings massive investment. The total ongoing investment in commercial applications dwarfs that of open source desktop applications, in developer-hours terms, probably thousands, or tens of thousands to one. Getting to that scale means paying people money, and not just developers. Artists, designers, QA and domain experts in the specialist fields niche apps serve. There’s just no way open source apps can possibly compete.

By failing to provide compelling support for commercial application development and distribution, the Linux desktop has starved itself of the breadth and depth of apps needed to succeed. When you’re competing with the Mac, Windows, iOS or Android you’re not just competing with Apple, Microsoft or Google. You’re competing with the hundreds of billions of dollars in app and service ecosystems that have been built around those platforms.
Glad to hear he is doing well. Yes, there is a tremendous need to be able to push healthcare to the home setting, and of course early detection makes a huge difference. Thanks for your comments, and we're glad to be part of the solution to address this need, our focus being more on heart rhythm disorders.
Frankly would not recommend it for solo travel unless the woman in question is a really tough individual with experience in even more difficult developing-nation environments.
I purchased a 35 pound tungsten racing weight about 15 years ago, 70% tungsten if I recall. It's large enough that it's triggered my "why do I have this?" sense, but it is still cool to hold.

It's very important to realize that it's not a safe object, the kind you might leave on your desk at work.

If someone tries to pick it up for some reason, it's quite likely that they'll drop it.
Yes definitely good for one computer! And I really think that NixOS is simpler than Ubuntu but there are many different ways of setting up your configuration repo and that is difficult for beginners. The way I do NixOS is very simple. And I really want to make a comprehensive guide on how to do it my way because it’s so nice! But I had to wrestle with it for many months to get to where I’m at with my config repo.
Georgia (the country) is a good option.

This video has other interesting alternatives: https://youtu.be/9aY8_DISMJ0
Funny too as both Alphabet & Facebook do CSAM Detection. Believe iOS only uploads the neural-hash if & before the photos are uploaded to iCloud.

https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/04/google-ch...

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn...
The thing with boston/Cambridge is that in addition to “great” companies there are also several top notch universities there so the competition for apartments is even greater.
I quote you as follows: people in wheelchairs "pretty much couldn't get anywhere in public."

I assert that you are quite wrong, and I provide you an example of it happening. We shouldn't discount his achievements.
Not london, but i moved away from cambridge in the 2000s to switzerland of all places, which i thought was hugely expensive.

Well, in cambridge, i got kicked out of 2 flats in6 years because they wanted to raise rents, each time, i had to move further out, get a smaller place and still had to pay more money each time, i wasn’t getting pay rise in line with this and i think that’s still the reality across much of the uk, house prices and rents are rising higher than wages.

I also noted across this time that younger people apparently like staying in more and the selfish gits are spending less money on other things and somehow that’s their failing.

I didn’t have my rent raised in ten years here, in fact, as interest rates went down, i would have been well within my rights to demand a decrease. Also, bars, restaurant and clubs seem much more vibrant here than when i was in the uk, as if younger people had a bit more disposable income that flows in the local economy
Spanish, Italian and German spellings are a lot more regular than English. You can almost always pronounce a word correctly even if you’ve only seen it written.

English stumbles even with basic vowels. (After speaking this language for 30 years, I’m still unsure whether “pear” rhymes with “bear” or “fear”! This kind of thing doesn’t happen in any of the other four languages I know.)

Even French beats English in this respect, and that is an absurdly low bar considering the accumulated mess that is French orthography.
Why would you use brew instead of your system's integrated package manager?
Brilliant, what I love about tools like these is they're immensely useful without being overly into themselves. Kudos to the creators.
This angered me to the point of shaking, including one of the top comments in the thread detailing the madness of the law in France. I hope I never have to experience this myself. But Spain and France are garbage countries if they allow people’s right to property to be violated in such a disgusting way. I am truly shocked and wish these squatters only ill
which should not have been a surprise to anyone

Why is that? I have no background in immunology so it's mildly surprising to me.
I assume we’re talking about the acute flu-like side effects commonly experienced in the days after getting the vaccine. Presumably this person can tell the difference between those and whatever they’ve had for the previous 25 years.
Thanks for the detailed review. We need AI bots and media metadata to enable automated "supply chain analysis" of media and journal articles, including social network analytics of finance and other influence networks.

Such analytics are now beginning for software supply chains, thanks to a Presidential Executive Order. As warfare spreads from kinetic to cyber to psychological, we will need more tooling to keep pace with the analytical descendants of Cambridge Analytica. Social discourse can be mined in real time to identify high-leverage, transient gaps in narratives, to influence far-reaching real world policy.

Individual humans, parsing text for meaning, have an uphill journey.

TODO: create Streisand bot to extract downvoted comments from HN, differentiate between legitimate vs targeted downvotes, then republish to an audience for critical response on any valid points, i.e. use the infrastructure and human resources of would-be censors, to generate new signals.
My New Years resolution for 2020 was actually somewhat effective:

"Procrastinate later — there's always tomorrow!"
Better tungsten than bitcoins