skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is clearly only the opinion of a delusional Tory.

The majority of the public already recognizes brexit as a failure and the numbers who share this view are only increasing. The growing recognition of the scope and breadth of the lies used to sell brexit to the public is now being felt (Farage was always viewed as a liar, but BoJo and Gove are fucked in terms of their long-term reputations.) The UK will soldier on because they are too fatalistic for their own good, but the broader populace has come to realize that the issues are not temporary, are going to last for decades at best, and that many of them will only be solved at great cost. Right now everyone is just waiting for the NI protocol to blow up so that we can see just how few friends the UK really has and learn what if feels like when the US officially turns against us on trade issues.
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Could you elaborate on this:

> without realizing that high paid workers in the US are well taken care of in this regard.

Do these benefits go on if you quit your job? As in can you quit your job and get paid a little less for a while you search for a new one? If you only work a few years in a high paying job the rest in other industries, can you still expect a pension that pays enough money for your last 20-40 years of life? Can you afford proper health care you got in your great job in case you can't work in it anymore for whatever reason?
These examples make me feel that the regulations against false advertising are either insufficient. The last time I checked, in most states the only thing protected against is a monetary loss due to making a purchase that (1) wouldn't have been made otherwise, (2) resulted from provably incorrect information, and (3) that a reasonable person would have also assumed to be true. Implying falsehoods about a product without actually stating them is allowed. Outright lying is allowed, if a "reasonable person" would notice that they were lying. Only the monetary aspect is covered, and not the waste of time caused by the lying, such as your fruitless trip to Target, or needing to sift through all the lies.

Heck, in some states a buyer can't even bring a lawsuit for false advertising, only a competitor can. Because when somebody has lied to me and wasted my time, money, or both, isn't the wronged party really the unrelated person who didn't get to take my money instead?
Thanks, I'll check that out.

I've been using Swiftkey since before Microsoft bought it, and really enjoying it.

I know I shouldn't be surprised but I feel really betrayed that they use it to track app usage and link it to IMEI and the Google advertising id.
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Yeah, but I have seen MapBox in action in a number of apps, and have yet to see one native app, delivered with here.com. As it is, I even decided against using MapBox.

I'd need to see it in use a bit more, before relying on it for my users. Most of what I do is free, or low-cost work, aimed at folks in need. In some cases, lives depend on my work, and there's little money or glory.

That Google "squeal piggy!" thing I witnessed was quite sobering.

People seem to be quite sanguine about putting all their eggs into one basket. I guess that's kind of necessary, these days, but we need to be careful about choosing baskets.

I'm kind of a crusty, scarred ol' bastard. Takes more than a pretty Web site to get me on board, and I don't bring buckets of money with me, so I'm just not that attractive.
My take is that there is just a lot of money in the tech sector in the US. The larger “English-speaking” market makes it easier for businesses to make it there. Whereas in Europe, your addressable market is much smaller, and if you venture into other countries, you’d have to deal with another language/culture/bureaucracies/laws etc.

However, current day tech companies that can potentially address a global market from wherever(Europe for argument) are in a spot where they need to compete against US labour. I for one get paid significantly higher than what you posted in NL. It’s just that the average includes local markets and lower pay(or really pay online with other local jobs) in Europe.

There are always exceptions- San Francisco salary should not be compared to Amsterdam for example - cost and style of living is very different. I pay €3 for a cappuccino and not $8 :-) I pay €600 for my kids day care whereas in SF it is definitely substantially more. I can buy a family home for €700K here, whereas in SF I can probably get a garage for that… you get the point.

If one is single, and many of these perks don’t apply, US is the best place to be and make a shit ton of money and all the connections. Once the perks start to make sense, Europe it is.
I remember Aanand chatting about it, it was originally called fig https://github.com/aanand/fig and it was python scripts.
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There's two problems with this.

(1) It puts you at odds with everyone who doesn't share your moral calculus. E.g. Hitler did a great job advancing his mission, despite ultimately losing the war (because too many people found his mission morally revulsive). Things like "justice" and "fairness" are the minimum standard upon which we can (sometimes, to some degree) agree to as a society, so any mission that breaks those standards (as racism/affirmative action does) will rightfully experience a large push-back.

(2) Does the action actually advance the mission? Sometimes it might backfire. E.g. I know people (that live in America) that don't like going to black doctors, not because they're racist, but simply because they know that they were subject to affirmative action, so might be less skilled than non-blacks (using doctors is a good example, as it usually invokes a strong rational response "would you rather take your child to the best doctor, or to the second-best doctor?")
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How about explain why you disagree? Instead of saying shit like that? Also I never called anyone a moron outright.

There is more to a political party than their stance on a single issue. If you can't see that then you are a moron. And yes, I did just call you that, outright.
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Fyi ... a correction as I've since listened to the book author's background since this thread. (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sean+platt+inte...)

>> "10x author"

>Written by a tech guy.

The author of that book, Sean M. Platt, is not a tech guy nor a programmer. He's a high-school dropout that started writing articles and stories. Now, he's mostly a publisher.

The interesting thing is that somehow, the "10x programmer" meme made its way to a non-programmer and he adopted it as "10x author".
You have to give a place and a time frame for these things, there are some places that did see 40% yearly inflation for multiple years in there (along with years of say "only" 10%). So while year on year inflation isn't consistently running at 40% it is still running very hot. Specifically some of the areas outside the major cities have seen spectacular inflation in house prices. A colleague of mine sold a house in Ontario for 200K CAD or so in 2016, same place now recently sold for a bit under 500K. While that's not quite 40% year on year it's close. Sure this is just an anecdote, the place could probably have sold for more the first time around especially if more renovations were done, but there's a lot of such anecdotes and I think that's why people throw around numbers like 40% because that's what they've seen lately and perhaps lack the numeracy or data to look at the bigger picture more accurately. In fairness the inflation in that broader geographical area of that anecdote is "only" 110% over the last 5 years. But the fact that 110% inflation can have happened in 5 years across a broad geographical region is just nuts.

But yeah there's places like Barrie Ontario that are like +70% in 5 years, Hamilton 70%, Oakville 68%. All those three are around +30% in the last year. Then there's some places that were previously cheaper areas like Niagara falls that's +93% in the last 5 years.

Toronto for comparison is around 70% over the last 5 years but 15% in the last year which shows that the Covid situation has meant that inflation of property prices in the major cities has slowed compared to areas surrounding. Given that wages haven't gone up much these numbers in the real estate markets are just nuts. I can't imagine this is good for the stability of the broader banking system over there.
Of course! Even saying nothing is now grounds for canceling. Don’t you remember “silence is violence”?
Interesting, informative article that raises some good points.

I've always been leery of holidays that celebrate, even if superficially, single individuals. If anything, this shows the danger of doing so. I'd prefer formally recognized holidays be something attached to an idea or value, or something that arises from grassroots origins over a long period of time. So, for example, Thanksgiving or Juneteenth, but not MLK day, Presidents' Day, or Columbus day.

FWIW, I like the idea of eliminating Columbus Day (or another day) and replacing it with an election day holiday. Seems more functionally appropriate, and to place value on something actually critical.
> Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing/selling that data with third parties.

How did you check? Do you have a source/link?
No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft/IBM etc...

I always prefer Zoom but cringe when the other side insists on Microsoft Teams. I always seem to have a new problem with them or others on the call having problems with them. The never ending litany of new "edge" cases never ever seem to be resolved. It's the whack-a-mole software approach.

But companies continue to adopt Microsoft. We at saas pass have so many companies come to us for MFA after finding out different flaws in their MFA. But these flaws seem to be systemic with all their products.

I can't think of a single Microsoft product that is best of breed. Yet I also think Microsoft will continue to increase revenue regardless of how bad their products are architected.
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"At the Mission Support Center (MSC) in Innsbruck, currently the AMADEE-20 headquarter of the OeWF, team members are actively involved in experiments. They not only supervise the experiments by supporting the field crew, but are part of experiments themselves. Here: MSC team members are working on the psychological INTERTEAM experiment of the University of Bremen, which looks at the psychological effects of cooperation in stressful situations. (c) OeWF"
What is the specific point the Poles are in conflict with the EU? Marriage = 1 man and 1 woman? Only Polish people can make pierogi?
The article wasn’t clear.
Heh, I've held off on using Amazon's free "same day" delivery before because it felt guiltily greedy.

But the person running up your stairs is a function of throughput, not latency. Getting it a couple days later, but still ordering online, probably wouldn't change anything. I think getting it in 24 hrs just means the logistics supply chain correctly predicted the warehouse to stock your item.
Is 64 bit really not enough? 2^64 is a very big number.
You might be surprised to realize in a few years that they haven't died, you're just excluded from them.

You might not like it, but after work drinking is one of the areas where a lot of the meat of innovation and progression in the company happens.

I think a lot of people who double down on full remote are going to be surprised when they wake up in 5 years and realize they're pretty stagnant and have just become cogs to do the boring work. Which they might be fine with but I'm sure I'll be reading comments from them complaining about how their pay matches that too.
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I find programming is fairly analogous to math, music, classical art and any other endeavor with both complex analytical component and complex practical component - you need both to study examples and prior art, and do lots of exercises yourself (unless one is genious/savant in which case pedagogy conventions seldom seem to apply).
Egyptian pyramids might be more controversial, even though it makes a lot of sense that the clocks would have been molded in place from concrete. The large granite blocks inside the pyramid don't seem to be concrete based.

The South America sites with extremely precisely fitting, non-rectangular shaped blocks seem to have been very highly likely formed by using concrete and carved later. Cusco walls, Sacsayhuamán or bottom layers of Maccu-Picchu walls.

The site of Baalbek on the other hand suggests that ancients had the ability to lift up 1000 tons stone blocks. The nearby quarry with unfinished stone blocks shows that these were not formed using cement.

Perhaps the Eyptian pyramids were a mixture of methods. Perhaps some of the blocks were lifted up to position using an elevator like mechanism (the long pyramid side shafts without stairs), but then the regular blocks made with the concrete method. The "elevator" shafts don't go beyond half of the pyramid, so the idea of transporting large blocks all the way up is less compelling than using concrete.
Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
When you're 1 man show (or tiny team) working on some web oriented application beyond POC level and beyond heroku (for whatever reason) — managing your CI, deployments/rollbacks, DBs etc. looks like a nightmare to me.

Just properly setting up and maintaining a small k8s cluster looks almost like a fulltime job.

I wonder how do your CI, deployment workflows look like?

Any particular tools, practices, guidelines, architecture patterns to reduce pain & timewaste?

How do you CI => deploy/rollback stateless instances?
How do you manage your DBs and backups?
Etc.
> Sometimes I wanna jump into infosec

I don't recommend this. It's even more soul-crushing (or should I say "soul-crashing"?) industry than the dev.
>Don't worry!

Thank God for that!

>My (naive) belief is that people associated the procedure with good health but weren't able to explain why it works.

Also a naive assumption, but I suspect our ancestors understood completely that bad dental hygiene lead to both unpleasant smells and toothache. People are very good at avoiding both disgusting stimuli and pain!
Regarding reliability, in perfect conditions solar + 4 hours storage are starting to bid at $40 per MWh [0]. Nuclear is well above $100 per MWh

[0]: https://www.energy-storage.news/developer-8minute-says-more-...
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I've always got the impression it was territorial; "I hereby claim this space"
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You forgot Glencore and other raw materials companies ;)
+1, and this practice can be verified by TS with the `noImplicitReturns` setting (https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#noImplicitReturns)
To take the USA for example, it'll play out like this. As more and more renewables are built there will be periods where the amount of renewable electricity will exceed demand. During these periods, electricity will be very cheap and will be used to create hydrogen. The existing natural gas storage and pipework will be used for hydrogen instead, and hydrogen turbines / fuel cells will be built. So the natural gas infrastructure will be taken over by hydrogen, generated from renewable electricity. This gradual takeover will extend to heating. Natural gas boilers in homes / buildings will be converted to hydrogen, and so in the end the USA will end up with zero carbon emissions for electricity and heating.
Only way to make comparable money in Europe is by contracting. For some reason full-time employees are massively underpaid compared to US and don't tell me about living cost comparison.

Life in London for example is just as expensive if not more than San Francisco/New York. We pay for our national health insurance too and probably comparable to what Americans pay for their private.

People can barely afford an average house/flat as a full-time senior software engineer in UK and are not paid too different than any other office based role.

And no it's not because there is more money in US for tech, because a lot of people in UK work for American companies and I guarantee you they get paid less than their US devs.

American companies outsource their tech to Europe for the sole purpose if being cheap especially to eastern EU countries.
Most people use "order of magnitude" to mean "by a factor 10". I've always thought this was inappropriate. The origin of this expression is that the scientific use of magnitude implies a logarithmic scale. But "magnitude" was first used in astronomy with a scale that had a 2.5 base, not a 10 base.
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Guess why it takes 2 hours! If cars weren’t as accessible public transport would be better.
Projecting climate change into photos with Generative Adversarial Networks
I can see and support a war against China if they try that. If not then, when?
From the article

Poland: "judges in Poland's highest court last week ruled that the national constitution had primacy over EU law."

EU: "If we don't uphold the principle in the EU that equal rules are respected the same everywhere in Europe, the whole Europe will start collapsing. That is why we will have to react to this new chapter which the Polish constitutional court started to draw."
"(note: Lebanese are white)."

Based on what? Is there an official colour palette you know about? Or is it based on their skull measurements?

It's quite amazing how fast we're walking back to all the racist theories for the 18th and 19th century ... but somehow this time for Good?

This american obsession about race would be less insufferable if it at least didn't seem crafted by a four years old. There's white, black, brown, and yellow. People from a colour are all the same. Somehow that's the basis to explain everything.

I mean, at least the horoscope has twelve signs, that's three times as much nuance ...
No I agree with you, i take no offence. I see the irony here completely. Especially given Australia's absolutely draconian laws and treatment of asylum seekers.
bit more self-explanatory
`it => Object.prototype.toString.call(it).match(/^\[object (\w+)]/).pop()`
Yep, and in your own code you can tell TS to verify your property access with the setting `noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature` (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...)

The TS crew did discuss having a "pedantic" mode, which is stricter than "strict", but I don't think it's on the roadmap any more.
I very, very much disagree with the type of suggestions here. Probably because I don't know TS but here it comes anyways...

You don't need a library or check that it isn't an array or anything like that. What you actually want to check is what it _is_.

You absolutely don't care whether that object is an array or a function or what have you. What you care about in that piece of code is that it satisfies what you want to do with it.

In the context of the article you can do an ad-hoc check on the fields that you require in that context.

Aside:

There are places where you want to have a kind of rigidity around the shape of your objects, including homogeneous collections. The JIT might reward you with optimizations in certain cases. But that is optimization, so you are supposed to measure first and only then apply them or have a very clear picture of how your runtime behavior will be.
I didn't watch it primarily because I was expecting his arrogant take on things. After reading your comment I'll give it a go. Thank you.
Is this a respected prize? I never heard of it before.

That said, no doubt that explainable ML/AI is important.
I'm French and maybe experienced a strike once or twice in my life. That being said, people who commute daily using public transportations maybe affected a few days a year. Usually, strikes are mostly planned in advance. Technical incidents are more an annoyance.
> In person they can cut me off when they start to get it,

the problem is that you have already interrupted their flow. Getting back into that takes valuable time.
Norvig is also the guy in a colorful shirt you can spot in many Google TechTalks!
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Maria Ressa

Neither of whom won science or economics prizes, which is what is being discussed in the article.
Congratulations!
I think Interpretable AI mentioned in the article is what is commonly called explainable AI.
Reliability means what happens when conditions are not perfect and outright bad.
You can even skip this step by using business chat and someone will give you the info much much quicker.

This is helpful when you don’t know the exact thing you’re looking for.
Thanks for this I'll check it out
Off topics but it’s pretty interesting that Nile crocodiles are now in Florida.

They’re big and they eat people.
Why would you want to use a MS login in the first place?

If something important doesn't work without a MS/FB/Google/whatever login, then I send them a hearty FU and move on.

And guess what? I'm still alive.
Yeah, that rule is super powerful!
First you have to compare with social benefits, then you have to add the fact that European countries are usually more egalitarian than the US
It's the first link if one visits their website https://fosscord.com/
A bit off topic, but does anyone know what tool the author uses to display the stats at the top of the terminal?
No, they still get massive amount of money from the other European countries
You're absolutely right. Should have stated that I meant a plain object (key-value-pair). But either didn't want to focus on this topic for that post because it would have been just a bit too much to talk about :D
From a customer POV, marketplaces make sense. No need to worry about creating yet another account with payment details on some obviously outdated Wordpress shop for ordering a cat toy or whatever small scale purchase.
Apparently they can also give a false sense of being on the right track, and lead to inexperienced hikers getting lost.
I mean, what I want is for the car to have an audio input that I plug a cable into. There's no reason for the car to be decoding audio at all.
I haven't used typescript much but it's surprising to me that you can pass a `const` value to as an argument which is not `ReadOnly`. Does `const` not really mean anything?
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