skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed it is your hobby project, with that in mind I wonder what is it like working on a project like that for multiple years. Specifically how to retain motivation and dedication.
Northern Ireland is not stable, every single day both DUP and British Government threathen the peace there

souce: im from Ireland, feel really sorry for any business wanting to setup there or are escaping the Brexit basketcase next door
People still use Firefox ? I'm little surprised.
Librewolf, yes I can understand, but Firefox ?
Unfortunately, the day Mozilla die, Librewolf will follow (and Google will cry).
> I'm from the UK so perhaps I'm missing something here, but how would the recruiter benefit from putting you forward at a lower rate? Do they not take commission as a percentage of your rate?

Usually, no. Some claim to be commission-based, but most just sell you for X to the customer comany, while paying you Y (Y < X). The customer company usually doesn't even know what the Y is, while you don't know what the X is. In extreme cases, the recruiter's profit margin can be over 50% (i.e. they make more money on your work than you do).
Didn't mean to sound negative about it, I love awk too. It is definitely small enough to learn in a day (or two), and it fills a niche people don't realise they have.
Do dealings with unethical companies, get scammed by unethical companies.
> There is a difference in expectations, so resolve it by making offers to MS for proposed changes.

Here's some more rude commentary for you: you are showing your hand, and it's a very poor / weak one.

You seemingly operate under the assumption that corporate-speak is some sort of invisibility cloak that gives the denizens of said corporations free reign to exploit whoever they like, and those exploited should politely ask for their soylent green in return.

Well, if I were giving my humanities-grad opinion to those developers in terms of dealing with people like you, I'd tell them to immediately recognize and refuse to deal with people like you, and more specifically to tell you that "if you want me to participate in your HR-speak, you can pay me a salary, until then the discourse is not on your terms. Maybe you should tell your boss to send someone else."
I’m a user more than I’m a developer. And there’s lots more users than developers.

I’m going to pay 3-5% for payment processing no matter how I look at it. So paying apple 15% to handle that is acceptable to me.

It’s one of those things that should be cheaper and is too much, but better than the alternative.

The payment part is the worst part of the purchase experience for me. I play a game that has a Mac version through Epic and an iOS version. Buying on iOS is easy, one click. Buying on Mac is a pain with some modal web frame pop up to a payment processor where I have to enter my payment info every time. EVERY TIME! I’ve already logged in. They know me.

Of course the price to me is the same in both situations.

So alternate payment processors will just be shittier for users. Bad UX, riskier data, and the same price.
It's a shame Mozilla is doing this. It's not the first insult to users/developers Mozilla has made, though they're still the less worst in the major browser developers.

I'm relatively okay with non-targeted advertising (in fact i'm strongly against it, but i respect their perspective). Just replace your Google partnership for default search engine with something else if it suits you.

But why on earth would my browser transmit all of my keystrokes in the URL bar to a third party?! That's an unexpected and very frightening development. That means a single centralized entity gets notice of all the websites i browse and queries i search for. All in all, this change means Firefox would no longer be better than Google from a privacy perspective.
> A compiler should not change the semantic of the code, even if the code relies on undefined/unspecified behavior.

You can argue that there is no semantic of the code if it invokes undefined behavior. What is the correct "semantic" of x+1 if x is the maximum representable value of a signed integer type? The language doesn't specify it, in fact it explicitly calls this undefined behavior; it's absolute nonsense. Should the compiler apply AI to determine the semantic intent?

> I don't get how someone thought that it is a good idea to silently remove apparently unreachable code.

This reminds me of the common misconception of C as a "portable assembly language". The standard is largely machine independent in that it's concerned with the effects of execution rather than how those effects are implemented by the compiler and eventually carried out by a real machine. As a result, you can write several pages of code and have the compiler fold it down into "mov eax, 123 / ret" and nothing that concerns the C language will have been lost.

If you have some expression that correctly folds into "false", none of the effects of the program as far as the C standard is concerned have changed. Yes, some undefined behavior may manifest differently depending on the optimizations made, but the language is not concerned with that.

The problem is very much with the language itself. Overflow in signed integers is undefined behavior. The optimizer correctly won't consider it as a constraint to optimization. The language could as easily have defined signed integer arithmetic as modular. The standard does not have a "compiler should not change the semantic of the code" clause that applies to undefined behavior. As a general rule, the C standard is basically the antithesis to it. The compiler gets free reign over the effects of code where the behavior is undefined by the C standard, which leaves a lot of UB holes.
It says there are patches in development.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/205/3/351/849519

Despite these caveats, the study provides important new information and confirms findings from prior investigations. Overall infectivity was 1–2 cases per 1000 per coital acts, similar to that reported during latency in low-income countries but higher than estimates from many industrialized countries [1, 2, 4, 5]. The HIV load in the index infected partner was the main driver of transmission, with a 2.9-fold adjusted risk of infection per log10 increment in viral load. This is somewhat higher than prior estimates of transmission risk associated with viral load [4, 10, 11], possibly because the short follow-up intervals and frequent viral load measurements allowed more precise estimates of the association between viral burden and infectivity. The male-to-female and female-to-male transmission rates per sex act were similar after adjustment for viral load, which is compatible with other studies from low-income populations that reported no gender-specific differentials in infectivity [1, 4], but is contrary to findings from high-income countries that suggest greater male than female infectivity [1]. Older age was associated with reduced transmission per sex act, as has been previously reported [2, 4], and male circumcision reduced female-to-male transmission by approximately 47%, an effect compatible with the efficacy reported in 3 randomized trials of circumcision for HIV prevention [12–14]. Herpes simplex virus type 2 infection and genital ulceration increased transmission between 2- and 2.7-fold, as reported in prior studies [1, 4, 15]. The estimated 78% protection afforded by condom use suggests a very high rate of consistent use [16], which is atypical for married couples in sub-Saharan Africa. In summary, it is reassuring that this large study by Hughes et al replicated findings from many prior studies; it also probably provides the most precise estimates of transmission per coital act during latent HIV disease.
Anecdata, but the two engineers i knew that went to work in London/Leads are back, and now working remotely with a UK salary (80 to 100k pounds, way more than the 50 to 60k euros me and others friends make), full-remote.

I wouldn't be surprised that if the trend continue, Europeans will work even more for UK startup than they did before (i'm really tempted, i wanted to work for companies in East NA and be based in the caraibean, but Spain is at least as interesting place to live (and way cheaper) and UK salaries are very competitive, especially when considering paid leave)
UK was in that position precisely because of EU membership, now they are just making Ireland (and Netherlands) an even more attractive option
> Access to customer data See customers’ emails, so you can communicate with them for upsells, offers and product news.

It looks like they've updated the text since this comment. That bullet point now says:

> Access to customer email for support

> See customers’ emails, so you can communicate with them for billing support.

Harvesting emails from purchases for pure marketing is GDPR-dubious at best, and Paddle's main market is the EU (because it handles EU VAT in a way that Stripe cannot), so I suspect they're backing away from any implication that you could ever actually send marketing to IAP customers legally.
So "get over it" is your solution? Sounds like you've never been a victim. Place yourself in someone else's shoes please.

I mean I don't like the (self) censorship either and don't mind rude or mature words, since we're all mature here and calling a fucking asshole a f*ing a$$h0le is an insult to people's intellect.
Those apps for the most part don’t really exist in the EU. I suspect a big reason is due the the hard caps on card network interchange fees. So the size of the transaction pie is smaller, and banks get a larger proportion of the pie than their US counterparts.

In the US theres a very clear financial incentive for banks to try and cut out card networks, and claim their portion of the fees. The hard part then is convincing merchants to invest the time and money needed to support these new payment systems. Hence the significant carrot of providing customer data to merchants.

In the EU, the banks wouldn’t make a significant saving by cutting out the card networks. So it not clear how they would fund the incentives needed to get merchants to support their new systems. All of those provides a barrier to bank payment apps (for C2B payments, C2C payments all happen through normal bank apps), before you even bring privacy into the equation, which just makes a bank payment system even less appealing to merchants.

Having said all of that, open banking in the EU is creating new opportunities for merchants and banks to skip card networks, especially for online payments. So it'll be interesting to see how that ecosystem evolves over time.
> I just want a well-functioning and secure browser that people can trust.

You can't trust any of them. The real question is, who do you trust more? Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Brave. You can't trust any of them, but you have to pick one.
Thanks! At the very least I'm an introvert in an organization that heavily favors extroverts. This company bias was actually discussed in one of the nuerodiversity sessions at my company. Some of the other things discussed in the session made me think 'hmm that sounds like me'. Unfortunately, the company's was just about awareness and their partnership with Auticon. They didn't say anything about what they can or are doing for existing employees in regards to practices or allowances.
If he had predicted that the primary means of conditioning the public would be T.V. instead of hypnopedia, there would be no doubt that we're living in something like BNW -- or at least one of its spiritual progeny.
How did the eggs cause the product to go down?
Then again, if the Librem 5 were manufactured in the same volumes as a MacBook, that would probably save an order of magnitude in parts procurement, stocking, availability, and price negotiations, so in effect the costs would cancel out.
If they're still getting qualified applicants at $100/hr, then it's all good from this point of view.

In general, if jobs paid proportionally to technical difficulty, then theoretical astrophysicists would be making millions a year - while in reality they make much less than someone fresh out of a Javascript bootcamp.
For me at least, all the language Brave uses seems to indicate something similar to a pyramid scheme to me. I dunno, something about the whole thing sets me on edge.
Riding the waves keeps ducks in a row
Depressed "remoaner" here, with my opinions:

* Prior to Brexit, I reckon the UK's main selling-point to US and Asian multinationals was that it's a perfect beachhead into mainland Europe, namely as everyone speaks English already, so localization (well, localisation) doesn't need to be a concern at-first, and allows companies to test-the-water by marketing locally in the British Isles before expanding into the rest of mainland Europe.

* As the UK's regulatory environment was in the EU it meant that getting sign-off from British regulators (again: where language and cultural-barriers won't be an issue) is more straightforward as you don't need to seek regulatory approval in every EU country, only 1.

* Extant supply of highly-qualified, if not world-leading, scientists, researchers and engineers and access to its higher-education system - and those researchers and engs would have included more of mainland Europe's best too due to greater academic collaboration within the EU.

Post-Brexit: all the UK has is... speaking English, and that's it. Now non-EU companies need to seek regulatory approval in both the EU and UK - and the EU's market is considerably larger.

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I reckon within a decade the UK will find some way to rejoin the more important parts of the EU in-all-but-name, including (possibly!) even joining Schengen to alleviate all of the issues with labour shortages, tourism, and the rest - as well as seeking de-jure regulatory alignment - because the UK is really not the super-desirable market the Daily Express likes to believe it is.

I also sincerely believe the UK will also likely rejoin the EU proper - probably within a generation from now: the age demographics of the leave and remain demographics are stark - it's even been said if the Brexit referendum were held 2 years later then remain would have won simply because enough members of older generations (which lean heavily Leave) would have died off.
I assume the owners of Company 1 would need to bring the case, and if they're also the owners of Company 2 they would never want to.
Here are a couple more things you might want to look at:
- you need a comma after Hey (Hey Authors)
- audiobooks are "narrated" not "dictated"
- inconsistent capitalization in headings throughout (e.g. Write your book, Publish your Book)
- you need a comma before "and we'll take care of the rest" (under Publish your Book)
- Painfree should be hyphenated (Pain-free)

There are a couple of stylistic choices you might want to consider as well. You've got quite a few run on sentences. And most writers use "word processors" not "text editors" (assuming you're going for the average writer, not the HN crowd).

(Just trying to be helpful, please don't take this as criticism. Congrats on your launch!)
Before messages had unlimited expiry, FB would auto expire them after few weeks. When they announced messages would remain forever, I went back to check and kept scrolling up until my arm hurts and voila! there they are, messages that expired YEARS ago all of a sudden were visible!
Let me go on a brief tangent about Amazon. First, they are very hostile to the author. They force the price down on the eBook by leveraging their royalty range. Basically ~75% if the book costs up to ~9.99, if the book is more expensive than that, you get 35%. This means that the author loses money if they price a book higher than 9 bucks but less than 20 bucks (these numbers are not exact, treat them as an impressionist painting, not a botanical drawing).

An author on Amazon has the option of being exclusive to them, which unlocks some perks. Amazon algorithm will push exclusives more often then it pushes non-exclusives.

The reason I mentioning this is because Amazon makes it harder for the author by disguising all its non-competitive practices as them thinking about the reader. It is not, all these are vendor lock-in schemes.

There are many other stores for eBooks. Selling on them prevents you from being exclusive to Amazon, which in turns makes it push your book less often than it pushes those in the exclusive program. Trying to price your book higher makes you lose money.

Your friend has every right not to be forced into contact with an author. That is how it should be. The reason why most authors are trying to get your friend on a mailing list is so that they can have a platform that is not 100% controlled by Amazon algos. It is a hard business being an author, and it is much harder if you have no control whatsoever over your own platform.

I think that they key aspect I want to highlight here is that I don't think your friend or anyone should be put into a mailing list against their will. I hate upsells too. What I'm saying is that all those platforms make it extra hard for you to make sure you can contact the customers who actually want to be in contact with you.
It says that when this is enabled, "Mozilla receives your search queries".

This is a real shame as I was hoping it would be more privacy focused. Maybe it could just download a list of advertisers locally and then locally compare the search text to the ads but instead everything typed in to the address bar will get sent to someone else's servers. I might have had it on if it was all done locally (but I guess there is too many flaws in doing it locally for Mozilla).

Still very sad they are doing this, but at least it seems an easy opt-out/not opt-in.
It's disabled by default. Enabling DRM installs a non-free binary from Google, and the user is prompted to install it when a website attempts to play DRM media: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
A single bank being down is definitely NOT the end of the world, provided you personally do have alternative accounts.

I think a few years ago one UK bank had a downtime of a few days on their payment network. Wasn't that limited to a single bank? If you don't have to pay an annual fee for a credit card, why would you not at least have a few, to avoid such a scenario?

Plus, bank-specific individual account lockouts are far more common worldwide, or customer service and unlock department might be having technical issues. None of this is the end of the world for anyone who has several credit cards.
But I don’t want Mozilla to know what I’m searching for?
We are used to see awk very condensed one-liner, so the code in the repository is surprisingly readable. This makes it a fun project which can be used to learn a lot about both awk and git. Nice!
Covid-19 mortality risk correlates inversely with vitamin D3 status [Paper]
I don't get why you compare it with the entire semiconductor industry, and not Intel alone. ARM is still in the UK.

also, you're missing the point that whilst filming/entertainment on its own might be producing lower yield than a semiconductor producer's yield, it employs many more surrounding industries with their own revenue yield that is not included into total numbers.
Hi there! An - the creator of SpaceHey - here!
Anyone on SpaceHey can customize their Profile with custom CSS & HTML Code. They can also embed content from a few whitelisted sites via iframe embeds - such as YouTube videos, Spotify songs or Soundcloud players. Because they can embed such content from 3rd-party providers (like youtube/spotify/...) those 3rd-party privacy policies come into effect too when visiting said profile (additionally to the SpaceHey privacy policy, which is always available). I don't know what content the users may embed - That's why I show this disclaimer the first time someone visits a Profile so they don't blindly visit a profile and wonder why data is loaded from youtube.com (or another embed provider).
Do you have any ideas how I could make this better/more clear?
I'd appreciate your input!
I would hardly equate drunk driving to Novotny's actions.

But to address your analogy, I simply do not have enough information to tell whether Ms. Novotny is a bad actor or not. In the absence of such information, I can only assess a situation based on my prior life experiences.
It is even weirder if it is an employee. What kind of employee has access to both code and payment data?
The Myth of Startup Overnight Success
Currently sticking to 90 because of Mozilla's disregard for their users. I do not have any hope for Mozilla turning themselves around - a replacement can't come soon enough.
e2e does not mean FB isn't keeping the messages on their server.

it only means what is kept pn their server is encrypted, that's all. e2e has no impact on message expiration.
For semiconductors, Munich is not the best place to be in even if they have some talent. The best place at the moment in Germany[0] would be Dresden.

[0]: In France, Grenoble could be a good place. Anyway, everywhere in the EU would be good for the world level balance.
Until you type a username or a password.
The king of all prebuilt windows midis!
Finally version control for Famicom BASIC, it was about time.
May be UK was not suitable for an Intel fab before Brexit, but what is relevant now is not even an option.
Now think about any pan-European product or service and apply the same rule.
Quantum Money from Quaternion Algebras
Oh for fuck's sake.

We (users of the free web) desperately need to prevent complete takeover by Google's Chrome ecosystem. But when I see Mozilla wasting valuable resources on integrating advertising...

Mozilla, set up a 'Firefox supporters' program. I will gladly chuck you $10 a month to ensure Firefox remains viable. I'm sure I'm not alone!
LOL that's what I do too.

A bit of pdf2txt, awk and some shell scripting, and budgeting becomes very easy...
Why are you comparing iOS to Windows? MacOS to Windows, or iOS to Android make more sense.

A more fair comparison would be andorid. Or the Windows Phone, where Microsoft took 20%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone
Intel puts fabs wherever they can get massive tax breaks or incentives. That's how Ireland ended up with one with the long term commitment that gives them the ability to recognise all their EU sales in a low tax location
Thanks! Nothing automatible in this team that hasn't already been automated. I have used bat and ksh scripts to automate things in the past though.

I'm already at a minimum cash outflow. I basically gave up many hobbies for ones that are cheaper or free. My friends actually make jokes about how cheap I am.
When it comes to Apple privacy trumps ownership/monopoly. Its like a benevolent dictator. It can do no bad, if something is bad, then actually its good!.
I'm a Paddle vendor too, and they have been good! As a solo EU founder, having to do near zero accountancy is a huge deal that Stripe can't (currently) offer.

That said, I wish they'd improve their API. It's very limited, poorly designed in some places and extraordinarily slow in others. The checkout & tools are good enough that you can ignore it for a long time, but eventually you want to integrate with it and it's a massive pain.

Definitely the worst part of the product, and simultaneously the best thing about Stripe, which does occasionally tempt me to jump ship...
That's exactly what they're (planning on) implementing at a rate of 2.5 cents/km
Not to mention they got caught rewriting your URLs to add their own affiliate codes, which is even worse than traditional tracking imo.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-f...