skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, eating their own dogfood also means not using an iPhone.
Couldn't be further from the truth, see my reply.
Here in the UK we don’t generally use A/C not because of health concerns but because there’s only about three or four weeks of the year we’d actually need it so in practice fans and complaining heavily during those three or four weeks does just fine. Our climate is generally damp, grey, and mild; the summers don’t get very hot and the winters don’t get very cold.

This might change with climate change though, I suspect in the future we’ll need better cooling and better heating if the jet stream gets interfered with. We’ll also need better drainage but there’s no shortage of scummy housing developers putting their underbuilt and overpriced shoeboxes on flood plains.
> As I was considering the switch, multiple people told me I was making a big mistake, losing out on both job stability and compensation. Those people had no idea what they were talking about.

Maybe they had “some” idea? I guess time will tell and hope this sentence does not simply serve to cast one’s own fears about having made the wrong choice.
Transpiling is a cool idea. Although erasing syntax differences between languages is easy, erasing semantic differences is extremely hard. The simplest example being garbage collection: if you transpile to C, you have to track garbage yourself and collect it. You either end up leaking some memory, double-freeing, writing your own GC or prohibiting some code to be transpiled to C.

There are more subtle ways. For example, overflow of signed 32-bit int is:

* Well-defined in Java. I assume in C# as well.

* Well defined differently in Python: it starts doing arbitrary precision arithmetics.

* Well defined differently in JavaScript, because there are no integers, only IEEE 754-like 64-bit floating point numbers.

* Completely undefined behavior in C and C++. See the "Signed overflow" section at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/ub and https://godbolt.org/z/y4vIi1 specifically, if you assume reasoning about undefined behavior is allowed in general case.
Using a *simple* version control system with a *simple* graphical user interface might go a long way to convincing them to use versioning. I would suggest SVN with TortoiseSVN, and would most strongly argue against GIT. Yes, all the cool kids use GIT. For simple users, SVN is something that's easy to understand and that they cannot get wrong. They are also highly unlikely to need to rebase their .xslx files.

We managed to get the sales people to use SVN for their work on proposals. Now the proposal is simply called "project name/proposal.docx", instead of having dozens of documents with unclear provenance around, possibly over multiple machines.

In addition to that you can lure them in with the option to roll back to old data, and central backups.
A 2 trillion dollar company that is flushed with cash should not have any process bottleneck.
Can occasionally be a problem with fossil fuels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire

"News reports described the incident as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe and certainly the biggest such explosion in the United Kingdom since the 1974 Flixborough disaster."
I think it's the implication that anyone that works for facebook is inherently immoral and exchanging their own ethics for cash, which is not true imo.

There are lots of great people doing great things at FB, and if we apply this standard to FB we should also be applying it elsewhere. I'm not entirely sure many major companies have been completely controversy-free... Work for Apple? well you are complicit in sweatshops. Work for Uber? Complicit in sexism and workers being taken advantage of. Work for Spotify? Complicit in artists not getting paid what they should get. I would be interested in hearing where I am allowed to work if we follow this to it's conclusion.

(NB: I don't work for facebook or any of these companies...)
Not joining one startup whose worth will be $0 in the long run is not enough. One needs to evaluate another type of exit that, in fact, is much more common that an IPO: acquisition by another company. In that scenario, you've worked hard for a number of years, the company will be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, and you still probably will end up with nothing. The name of the game is "liquidation preference".

I have been through one of these scenarios and it's incredibly taxing and stressful: all that work, company selling for a boatload, and all I got was a lousy T-shirt.

https://marker.medium.com/my-company-sold-for-100-million-an...
Try building a new house outside of a city. Look at how much it costs to run wires/pipes even a few hundred meters. Poles will cost to 10k each and you will be on the hook to maintain them. That it IF the local service has capacity for you. You might be asked to upgrade an entire service line. Today, for the same money, you can get a massive off-grid solar rig and never have to pay an electric bill.
The Taliban do not imprison children for crimes that don’t exist.

Somehow Blacks (kids in this case) are guilty of crimes they don’t commit.

Maybe that’s why the establishment supported Kamala Harris:

https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on...

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...
LEGO's always been expensive, in the late 80's early 90's as well, go ask my parents :D
I was hoping for interior pictures so I could enjoy the filthy rat's nests.

Instead I see someone has driven around and cataloged a target wishlist for someone who wants to take down communication infras- I mean cataloged very interesting sheds as a hobby.

Seriously though, why was this made? The site claims a combination of historical preservation and eccentricity. That's believable. I just worry about its use.
I don't know if this is constructive but here goes: Petroleum probably wasn't a great application for a lot of applications either, especially considering the by-product is Co2, oil spills etc; However, we've used it for hundreds / thousands of years in many different ways and it's been ok.

I don't know how long we're going to wait, but we need to using petroleum tomorrow, and be very very pragmatic about it.
For me the main ones are Map, GMail and Drive/Docs. I'm all-in on MacOS and iOS and have been for over a decade, but those three apps/services are essential for me.

Search obviously, I tried DDG but it's not quite there for me. I tried Brave a few months ago but it was glitchy and unstable, on MacOS at least.

I could probably move to a different email service, but the rest of my family are on GMail and I don't see a strong reason to move.
The Parable Of Predict-O-Matic (2009)
> One of the annoying things about humans is they are profoundly evidence based.

I wish. Unfortunately, humans have insufficient time and energy to be able to be completely evidence based, so at best, humans have to evaluate based on heuristics and Bayesian statistics. And at that, I cannot help but feel we are quite lacking.
Show HN: Deploy without credentials with GitHub Actions and OIDC
> qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known".

After so many reports, investigations, and hiding their own statistics because they were embarrassing, it's clear they "reasonably should have known" about the childrens' rights. Qualified immunity shouldn't help them here.
Just because they call themselves autistic doesn’t mean it’s ok for you to be ableist too, particularly when you could have got your point across without the knowyourememe reference.
Good question!

I moved to IPhone after having to follow the uncertain and complicated upgrade roadmaps of Android Phones.

I use Apple Notes and Reminders heavily. They feel stable (of the kind of stability in which you know they won't be just wiped out of the internet) and they just work.

I'm considering moving away from Google Drive since I still cannot make sense of their new Google Sync and Backup client.

I will most likely stick to GMail since I really like the UX.

As other user here points out, GBoard for iOS is wonderful, I can easily type in three languages as a Spanish speaker who speaks to his German SO (mostly) in English.

I use Apple Music and it is very good, nice to have an alternative to Google Play Music, which of course doesn't exist anymore.
I'm in two minds whether this goes into HN or Show HN as it's involved writing a lot of code and exploring an undocumented system. I wouldn't exactly call it reverse engineering as I don't want to attract that kind of attention. I also created a new OpenFaaS auth plugin as part of this, so it feels like "Show".

The magic is: federating / trusting GitHub Actions for deploying to various clouds or REST APIs. Hope you enjoy this and it may help you to build an integration for your own project or product.

You may also enjoy the links to AWS / GCP for your daily work.
The German inflation that he posts pictures of was intentional, because they wanted to cheat the French out of the crazy reparations for WWI.
Author intends to present a rational, quantitative view of compensation yet begins by emotionally dismissing any advice contrary to his beliefs. Kind of defeats the purpose here.
Use cito for search. Just like "golang" vs "go".
That is projection.

I think if you look around in the world you could see many countries where government works quite well, with little corruption, maybe a bit slow, yet offering services that are better and more efficient than businesses could. In the US people have been led to believe this is simply impossible.

Government may be the enabler of corruption but there is no alternative other than to fix it. Libertarians may believe you can mostly do without a government, but they are mistaken.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14429271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407447
> trivial to turn water into hydrogen via electrolysis

The platinum catalyst is expensive, and as others point out, you need special piping for hydrogen.

More promising is direct ammonia synthesis: https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/ammonia-synthesis-go...
At this moment we did not get any funding, we've used our savings. We have an MVP fab.
It’s an article on a website called “primitive survivor” and its aimed at its audience.

Do start a help website called “big budget off grid” or something ;)
I think this weights more then simply making it easy though having cash ready does make it easy.

What seems to be most consistent is having a motivated buyer and a motivated seller, and then it seems like it's just the parties involved making some compromise so that both make a good deal.

If both stand to win, I don't think just because BH gets a discounted price that makes it any less attractive: owners might just want to cash out and see seize the opportunity. If the owner doesn't want to sell you could even pay above market values and probably they won't part with it.
I would say that's very subjective, to a lot of Facebookers working there is making the world a better place.
> so many entities were hacked

Weren’t the Panama Papers almost exclusively data from Mossack Fonseca?
Magnificent, we have a prototype, you will be blown away :)
> Some VP will ask "what weekday do users comment the most".

This is why people invented read models. Because the data model that works for the app and makes it easy to work with there might not necessarily work for analytics.

Generate analytics data from you app model so that both world can move independently.

> Need an admin portal? With blobs you are coding all these custom admin pages.

Admin portal with direct access to database columns? No thanks! IMHO, admin portal should hook into you business logic so that all the constraints are validated. Unless your app is just a CRUD.
It seems like everything is a damn profit center these days. Prisons, hospitals, whatever.
Google Material Design is do bad.
I've been working while traveling on and off until 2020.
I've visited many coworking spaces. I live in a city that's as international as you can get. I've reported extensively on digital nomadic life for national newspapers.
Not a single place I've been to reflects this poll in any way. The crowd is so much more diverse, there's plenty of women, U.S. people are absolutely not predominant except for some bromadic enclaves like Chiang Mai, and jobs are also way more very diverse (lots of business analytics kind of people, for example). This is reflected by my talks with people that run coworkings and communities.
What this stats show is really the composition of this website's audience. The way the website is built and collects information is skewed towards a typical demographics of English native data/programming oriented nerds.
That's absolutely not an issue until you make stats like these and call the whole thing "State of Digital Nomads".
> public transport schedule (extremely accurate in Prague)

Give Citymapper a go if you haven't already. I find it vastly superior to Google Maps for public transport here in London.

(And I work at Google so, if anything, am probably biased the other way.)
This is very sad, we love our chips
It feels like burning oil forever is also dangerous too though?
Is the United States Training Taiwanese Troops?
What do you mean by stock for free? Do you only consider the base salary as the actual salary and stocks as bonus which could be $0? Because that doesn't make any sense...
Directional Wireless Energy Using Water
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Hey! There are some theoreticians like me lurking around as well!
Is ought fallacy.

Just because it is normal in marketing does not make it okay. I am increasingly of the point that marketing, by itself, is not okay.

In my browser, it is certainly not okay. I attempt to practice memetic hygine, so I do not want to see ads. Not wanting to see ads, and having some actual privacy in the first place, is why I use Firefox.
It’s definitely more than just being smarter. The shape of Buffett’s Salomon Brothers deal is an example.
Help us to survive this Covid 19 pandemic
Perhaps vision based and ML prediction or whatever would be considered passive in the sense that is doesn't pin an energy signature. Got it, thanks!
Thanks for the link - it seems Covid does something different compared to it's cousins.

"Our curation indicates that the cytokine response induced by SARS-CoV-2 is different compared to other CRS-causing respiratory viruses".
Danish Police Seize Speeding Lambo as Owner Drives It Home from Dealer
> The reason why BH has not been outperforming SP500 in the last 10 years is that cash is cheap for everyone (this is the longest boom in history) Once the water level drops again and we see who swims naked, BH will outperform again.

At the start of the tech companies’ boom, Buffett famously said he does not invest in tech companies because he does not invest in what he does not understand. Then he bought a ton of Apple a few years later, and that is basically the only thing keeping Berkshire stock in the game.

The last amazing deal I can recall that Berkshire made was Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis. Other than that, I think he might have been better off buying VOO. The company itself is 40% Apple right now, for which Berkshire paid full retail price when it was bought.

I think the parameters of the game that used to allow Buffett to achieve exceptional results have long changed, as evidenced by the numbers.
There's places like Chiang Mai where that's the case more often than not. But the nice thing is that you can break out of that pretty easily as a Digital Nomad, and plenty of places don't have that vibe yet. Even in Chiang Mai you just have to avoid some specific places full of wannabe millionaire dropshippers with an Ego the size of the Royal Palace, and you can enjoy your stay anyway.
Moreover, when I see “material design” it puts me off, because it reminds me how I hated my ex-android, playing button “wave” animations but not doing an action. Google ui is flat in all senses, and feels like a low-effort work stretched to the size of idea. Idk why they started to implement that ui for iphone, when it clearly had its own.
Google's entire business model centers around privacy invasion so how could it be otherwise?
That does sound like a cool idea, though can you imagine what a nightmare organising it would be? We’re an opinionated bunch as it is, organising would be like herding cats.
HMS President by Tower Bridge is one of these.
> Software engineers, like all humans, need to feel ownership

I've always found this to be very true personally. Unfortunately fear often directly opposes it, i.e concepts like "what if that guy gets hit by a bus" which are valid but sometimes taken too far to the point of attempting to make everyone easily "replaceable"... i've a saying to warn of this that has helped me alleviate such fears in others so far:

If you make your entire developer team replaceable, they will create code and products that are equally replaceable and hold no value. People are the company, they need to be valued as such.
Interview is not a date. Its a formal meeting where parties are trying to acheive something concrete. Hire a good employee, find a good job.

If someone starts off with asking about essential thing that is important factor for them it means that its a dealbreaker issue for them.

Whats the point of interview if they know there is no flexi time, and you only look for flexitime jobs??

Its actually a matter-of-fact approach that goes straight into details and saves everyone time. Given it was properly delivered I would be more inclined to hire engineer like that.
Possibly: tax the interest on those loans at the bank. Possibly count such loans against assets (reducing banks' lending capability).

I'm not positive this works out, but:

- Banks tend to be well-established, identifiable entities.

- They are highly regulated and audited.

The question I'm not certain of the answer is what the result of such a tax would be. I suspect such loans would tend to be crowded out or inerest rates increased (raising costs to the billionaire utilising this cash-out option).

This seems to me along the lines of an HFT transaction tax, possibly operating similarly.
Everyone I know at Coinbase is not only doing well but working less hard than at Facebook.
There are two different ways companies give RSUs.

1. You get $X of stock grant when you join. This gets converted to number of stocks based on the value of the stock when you join and then the stock vests over the next 4 years. So if you get a stock grant of $400k when you join and the price of the stock at joining is $1000, you get 400 stocks that vest over the 4 years.

2. You get $X of stock grant when you join. This grant gets divided into $X/4 over the next 4 years. The number of stocks then gets decided each of those 4 years based on the value at the start of that year. So let's say you get a stock grant of $400k. So you get stock worth $100k every year. If the stock is at $1000 for the first year you get 100 stocks for the first year. If the stock goes up to $2000 at the start of second year, you get only 100 stocks. If it goes down to $500 for the third year, you get 200 stocks. So upside is capped. You will only get stocks worth $100k each year.

2. is what followed by Coinbase and Stripe. Some other companies are moving that direction as well. 1. is followed by FAAMG.
Beethoven's last symphony finished by AI
The Chinese are censoring a censorship platform:

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censor...

Even more absurdly, the editors behind the campaign to blacklist The Grayzone made it clear in their public discussions that they were motivated to censor The Grayzone’s reporting based on the political perspective of its writers – not on the basis of any falsehoods or distortions that appeared on its website.

The Wikipedia editor who presided over the official “survey” to censor The Grayzone is a hyper-partisan supporter of the Venezuelan opposition. This figure also initiated and moderated the surveys to successfully blacklist TeleSUR and Venezuelanalysis, among the few news sources that challenge the hegemonic anti-Chavista perspective furthered by Western mainstream media.

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They have censorious editors like Philip Cross.

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/122772269668495360...
I can see why FB took down this extension. I tried it and it basically starts unfollowing everything without my consent.
Why do websites disable right clicking? If you right click on the page it just shows a browser alert. Very annoying for not much, if any gain. Now that I've reloaded the page, right click seems to be working as normal.
Oil might last a lot longer than you think at first. Even at the proven oil reserves of 2016 the oil would last for 47 years (https://www.worldometers.info/oil/). Additionally, new reserves could be found.
Another potentially very large source of oil is coal. You can make oil from coal via the Fischer-Tropsch technology. As there already are considerably more proven coal reserves than oil reserves, this would probably push out the point of "no oil left" a lot further.
I'm astonished about how much fuss a simple non-ascii character can make for people in this thread, as if it's the first time people see it.

I use such characters every day because my native language has them, so maybe that's why my tooling is naturally chosen/adapted to support it.
Wikipedia Is a Scam. (Twitter)
The Wiki had solved it using "Cee":

https://wiki.c2.com/?CeeLanguage
Oxygen is available in bulk at eminently reasonable rates.
Coinbase is different. The conversion to stocks doesn't happen at grant-time value for all of the grant. The conversion happens at the start of every year of the grant life. So if the stock goes up in the first year, you get fewer stocks for the second year (equaling to grant/4 in value). See my other sibling comment in this thread.
How could it? The reparation debts werent denominated in deutschemarks.
Good. Whether it’s on a device or on the web, I find material design to be a terrible aesthetic. Any kind of flat design in general is often very difficult to understand, the UI components blend in with things that are not interact-able.
Ask HN: What is your story of immigrating to another country?
What is your story of immigrating to another country? I am interested to know what path you followed, what plans you made, how you executed them and how long it took to achieve your plans and begin a life in a different country. How easy or difficult was it to find a new job? How do you like living in a different country now?

If you don't mind, please share your home country name and where did you move to.
When generating C you can quite easily cast all signed to unsigned, do the operation, and cast back, if you want to avoid signed overflow.
Google Maps in Japan is unusable. Many times it directed me which might have been the shortest way but through micro-streets that are really difficult to navigate instead of the more efficient 2-lane.
Bitcoin Cash is the one which continued to use onchain cheap transactions like it was invented and intended to be used.
Coinbase is different - see my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28808455.
FTPM vs. DTPM
Except that the upside is capped by the new Coinbase vesting policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28808455
I am assembling new storm shutters using multiwall polycarbonate sheets rather than plywood. They let light in and are much easier to handle.
Off topic, but is there meaning behind your name or is it just two things you like? (Yes I know who/what Godel and Unicode are)