skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but my neighbours have somehow been on it for 13 years now.....

Well, every country has people who've learned to game the welfare system in order to never have to go to work (like faking various illnesses for example), but some countries make the process of being unemployed for life so dehumanizing in order to deter cheaters, that it's not worth it it unless you're really committed to such a lifestyle (let's say, knock on wood, you're disabled from the neck down, you have to show up yearly to the government officer handling your unemployment benefits, to prove that you're still disabled and can't work. Madness!).
If you're European, it seems like your best bet, if you can pull it off, is to:

* get your nice free college in Europe

* go make a mountain of cash in California

* come back and retire in your 30's and start a family.

but that depends on a lot of things going right. I'd rather raise a family in most of Europe, and retire in Europe. But I can't deny that if I'd stayed in California I'd probably have $1-2 million more. And the tax structures here make FIRE _very_ difficult, depending on where you are. Portugal is appealing if your income is foreign (check out the NHR program), and Germany allows about 12k per year in capital gains tax-free if I recall.
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Not so outside the US where I live.
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Shaw Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program
I think one reason is failure to embrace simple, open standards. The railways worked because, despite essentially infinite choices of track gauge, they picked standard gauge and stuck with it. Is it the perfect gauge? Probably not. But it works well enough and having a single standard gauge is far more valuable than optimising the gauge for each new line.

In modern software, integration wins. Look at MS Teams. Complete shite. A buggy, bloated mess. But it wins because it integrates many different services together. Be honest, every time you have done any kind of integration between two pieces of software there have been hacks. But appealing to standards never works. Instead you are just told to make it work. Those who make it work are rewarded. Those who appeal to standards are sacked. You've basically hacked your train wheels to make them work on dodgy track and then wonder why the train derailed.

It's not all bad. From the TCP layer down we have all agreed to a few standards that work. It's all the stuff above it that breaks.
There is monetary value being first and rolling out new features that generate news which attracts new users. Once a user is hooked more difficult for them to leave. Also it's a lot easier now to issue a patch/update over the internet instead of send out CDs etc. There really isn't and good reason to be as bullet proof as possible as there used to be unfortunately. This is especially true the bigger a company gets, nobody is leaving apple/Google over a bug.
>Not to mention the insane volatility, long transaction times, climate impact and high fees.

Not correct, transactions on bitcoin's lightning network take 1-2 seconds to complete and cost a fraction of a penny.
There is no denial about that, except most languages suffer from similar bloat.

When people count the amount of pages on ISO C++, they forget to include the standard library on the process.

Which on C's case it includes the expectation that POSIX is also available.
> so drink slightly less

But this is the whole difficulty about it. It's very hard to stick to a diet when there is so much temptation in the world. If you can have your aspartame cake and eat it, why wouldn't you?
> the lack of AOT until recently (in open source implementations)

The gcc project had a now discontinued AOT java compiler 2 decades ago.

Java is as open as it gets, with a standard, that can be changed through a community process. I feel the web is much less open with behemoths having basically infinite veto powers like google apple microsoft.

> In fact, GraalVM already supports Webassembly, including WASI! So in certain sense Wasm is already more general.

And teavm can run java byte code both in js as well as wasm :D
> I don't doubt that some hide their hate behind that, but that does not mean that all critisism of Israel is "hidden antisemitism".

We agree. Reread my post and it should be clear as I write "too many", not "everyone" or anything like that.

> I can't see anything antisemitic in the post you called antisemitic. What is it actually you think was antisemitic about it?

I didn't say that. It was a response to the generic wording of that post. Edit: Above I replied to your reply to to throw8932894. Are you confusing me for throw8932894?
Royal Mail – Reinventing stamps for the future
Instead of thinking of waking up your brain, think of waking your body. Have you tried a SAD light? They’re great for regulating waking rhythms.
>- healthcare is cheap and universally available, no need to stuff away money in HSAs to account for a sudden 100k$ bill from a broken leg or a million dollar bill from cancer

Hmm I wonder where this mythical cheap healthcare is...If you are not really sick (and most young people are not) you typically pay for things anyway (dental care)

>- public education for your children is free, you don't need to pay for private schools or (later on) for university

I dont have children? And judging by birth rates a lot of people dont as well.

>- housing costs are drastically lower than the US

Are housing costs relative to tech salaries really lower than the US?

>- no need to stuff away money for pension because we actually have working government-backed pensions

Again as a young, ambitious individual in Tech I would rather have more disposable income than rely on a ponzi scheme that's the gov-backed pension system.

>- way less commute expenses - we tend to have working public transport and even if you commute by car, the distances involved are way less

And we live in cramped,tiny,noisy,apartments...I would rather commute from a suburb and have a house with a garden.

>- we have government-mandated vacation time - at the least 20 days a year, most employers offer around the 30 day range - and unlimited as-needed sick time, which also means you don't have to stuff away money for unpaid time off.

Unlimited PTOs or european level PTOs are very common in US tech companies.
For the British it was clearly entirely about survival.
> definitely changes gut microbe for the worse.

Certainly not 'definitely' true.

"To our knowledge, there are no data on the potential influences of aspartame on the human gut microbiome. It is hard to understand how aspartame influences the gut microbiota because this NNS is rapidly hydrolyzed in the small intestine. In fact, even with the ingestion of very high doses of aspartame (>200 mg/kg), no aspartame is found in the blood because of its rapid breakdown. Upon ingestion, aspartame breaks down into residual components, including aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol and their components, which are readily absorbed so that they do not reach the large bowel."

Effects of Sweeteners on the Gut Microbiota: A Review of Experimental Studies and Clinical Trials: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6363527/
Judges Increasingly Demand Climate Analysis in Drilling Decisions
And the judge bought it:

> The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.

[1]: https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Faceb...
I let you figure out what iPadOS vs macOS offer in that regard.
So the fun word game stops working while commuting by train because it needs to stop me "cheating" in a purely fun /social game by phoning home during the time I have to play it, where the connection is spotty at best, and the quick game loop of guess, read result, think gets janked because of railway cuttings and tunnels?

All because someone coukd read the source to cheat and wouldn't, idk, just copy paste the squares about in their tweets?
> Europe has isn't that they lack money

"Lack" is a bad word but everything that's not around SV gets less funding. Yes, even in the US

> is that all the things US tech companies do to get ahead are illegal in Europe

So maybe don't do illegal BS and it will work out. In fact I'd say there's a huge market to be explored but enterpreneurs try the same stuff that works in the US without thinking about the market characteristics

> it turns out Netflix were impractical in the EU due to challenges both regulatory and linguistic

Netflix works just fine in Europe.
I've never noticed this.

Which users have you noticed ending up on front page regularly?
Just don't try to use cross document embedding (like putting an excel chart in a word doc) - that would blue screen my PC fairly reliably
>- no need to stuff away money for pension because we actually have working government-backed pensions

Lol, NO. Every Gen Z to Millennial European I talked to knows that our pyramid pension system is a scam and will collapse by the time we'll retire. Unless we happen to die before we can reitre at the age of 85 or whatever it will be increased to until then.

If you want to survive off your pension in 30-50 years, then you'd better have made some solid investments, otherwise your government pension will be worthless by then.
> However there are a few users whose submissions I see each day on front page and I wonder how they do this.

Some people simply submit a ton of stuff that could be interesting (looking at you tosh [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tosh], who seems to average like 5 submissions/day). I'm also confident that the more time you spend around here, the more you learn about what kind of content HN would like and submit it only if you think it has a chance here. I read a lot of different things during the day, but only half of those things are even worthy of a HN submit, while half of those half would actually have a chance of getting upvoted.
Imperial units are often tied to measurement devices or operations of a device, than just being a collection of odd standards.

A passenger jet can attempt a landing on a 3000 feet long runway from 4 nautical miles from touchdown point, flying 250 knots at 1500 feet. Altimeters must be calibrated to announced local atmospheric pressure, or the default to 29.92 inHg or 1013 hPa.

Autoclave is a device used for sterilization that exploits saturated(pressure equal to ambient) steam. It is usually ran for 15 minutes at 121C(250F). According to a random internet source[1], atmospheric pressure at sea level is around 15 psi, and 250F is the point where pressure of steam exceeds that, being a function of temperature.

(One of) the beauty of SI units is measurement devices itself are universally built and marked in SI units that disparate measurements across industries can be converted and compared against. There is no “3000 feet runway 4 miles away” in metric, it’s a 1km runway 6.5km away. There is no need to convert between inHg and feet and PSI, or lb-ft and inch-pounds just because F.G. Superman in 1337 who pioneered art of bicycle repairing set measurement and tolerance for a bike frame to be 50 +/- 3.5 inch-yard per fortnight centigrade.

But that requires phenomena to be well studied and measurements clearly defined against SI units, which is a point more industries than we care to admit has reached.

That has to be an aspect of why imperial units persist, despite NASA and cutting edge aerospace are moving away from it, other than there would be a simple matter of gross widespread ignorance.

1: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/95722/why-do-we-...
I found the concept pretty goofy when I was reading it but then I had to stop and remind myself that not only do I know shockingly little about the universe, our greatest experts do, too.

Whatever fantastical concept we can imagine likely exists in some iteration out there.
You can use a dedicated I2C controlled GPIO expander chip at the other end. For example, [1].

This works in the tens of kHz. Indeed, for high-speed applications you need a different approach. But in that case you probably also want to run a realtime-OS ...

[1] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL9538A.pdf
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Integrating Systemd-Oomd for Improving Low Memory Handling
The New York Times mastered all this long ago.

It is not necessary to lie. All you need is to be selective about what truths you tell, and where. Some goes on the front page, some on page 13, other bits nowhere at all.

Hans Blix's UN reports, before the invasion, about Iraq's entire lack of any WMD whatsoever were too important to completely ignore, but were easy enough to bury in a back page. The entire lack of any primary source information indicating Russian interference in the 2016 election was easy to avoid mentioning anywhere.
Yes, the coefficient part is not great, though main thing though is getting candidates of the function form, from that using differentiation could be useful in re-deriving the coefficients. The fact that a tolerance is introduced into a symbolic method is a major downside to this approach. Using some alternative symbolic regression methods (i.e. https://datadriven.sciml.ai/dev/solvers/symbolic_regression/) could decrease this issue, though sparse regression finding the sparsest possible result is in general a hard problem.

But note that our plan is not to use this in isolation. I think the final solution will make use of a polyalgorithm. Sparse regression is in the low-medium cost of cheapness, so a polyalgorithm that does simple rules, then if that fails this sparse regression, then if that fails a larger rule set (maybe through e-graphs), then if that fails use the Risch algorithm. That could be a robust algorithm that attempts to take some fast outs before progressively falling back to the slowest form. Tests just require differentiation and checking equality.
Definitely. I was faced with this exact situation and regret not doing so. I survived several restructuring events but was eventually cut. Pay attention to why they are restructuring as well.
"I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself" - Winston S. Churchill
This was the right answer for me. There does seem to be people who aren't morning people in any situation. Some people may just have to grow out of not being a morning person. Not everyone has the control over their schedule to do what's ideal for them (especially when you have kids.)

For everyone else, train your body to sleep and wake at the same times. I'm a bit out of whack right now, but my best routine was when I could barely keep my eyes open at XPM at night and wake up on my own at XAM in the morning. It was like clockwork. I could tell you what time it was by my internal clock. Also helpful was going to sleep AND waking up in the dark. Sunlight streaming into your sleeping area is also like an alarm clock.

Don't do things which will mess with your sleep. If you're going to drink alcohol, don't do it during the week. I stopped eating after 6. Disconnected from screens an hour before sleep time. I was also on a sort of keto diet (loads of veggies, small portions of organ meat and fish, fat from coconut oil.

I have never experienced such mental clarity than I did during this time. It seemed like a switch got flipped one day about 3 weeks into this routine. I had this persistent feeling like I had drank 2 cups of coffee, but without the weird jittery feeling.
I believe that it would come down to this as well. The problem is both them being located in the US AND being a US company.

Alternatively they could mirror an approach that Microsoft had with ther Office Online for a while, that is find a European company acting as "trustee" for the data, so that even if the NSA came knocking the US based company would not have any data on any of their infrastructure it could give them.
That actually made me reconsider drinking diet soda, the numbers are on the same order of magnitude I thought it would be much further apart.

Is it possible that the aspartame hydrolizes in our guts after we drank it? "Disgusting drink check" wouldn't help then.
Thats why we got AutoRecovery as a feature! /s
Thanks for working on GNS. It's genuinely the most exciting tech project i've heard about in the past few years and i'm sure many people would like to try it out or get involved given proper communications channel.

A few questions:

- are you people open to the idea of an IRC/XMPP chan or a weblog/gemlog? following from afar (without being on the ML) looks like there's not a lot of activity, although i can see with my bare eyes the draft spec has evolved a lot

- how confident are you in your DHT spec/implementation for scalability and security? are other people working on different implementations? is there a testbed one can run scalability checks with?

- are you actively cooperating with other non-profit projects such as Tor? GNS sounds like it could be the missing piece in such crypto-secure routing schemes without memorable names ; i understand that GNS is part of GNUNet, but i'm asking about other ties/cooperations

- why is it called "hyper hyper" local root? maybe i'm missing some context (despite reading about RFC7706 and froot), but "local root" or "user-editable root" sounds clearer to me

- did i faithfully represent the technics/politics of GNS in those posts? if not please let me know so i can avoid to repeat the same mistakes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30155773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156175

- how can we support GNS and help make it a reality?
It is a lot easier to ship a patch, yet it's still not done, even for very basic pieces of software. Think about the dumpster fire called printer drivers, be it HP or Epson, or the entire print spooler concept of Windows. I would be ashamed to put such garbage on my CV, yet it all lives on since decades.
I'm not suggesting a pairing, but I think expecting that it might be 'on' is perhaps a bit, er, off.

To me (BrE), 'gone off' is like 'has developed off-flavours', which is like off-course & on-course but also off-side & near-side.
Linked from the thread:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.05.22268800v...

"The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against long-term symptoms of COVID-19 is not well understood. We determined whether vaccination was associated with the incidence of reporting long-term symptoms […] Vaccination with at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a substantial decrease in reporting the most common post-acute COVID-19 symptoms, bringing it back to baseline. Our results suggest that, in addition to reducing the risk of acute illness, COVID-19 vaccination may have a protective effect against long COVID."
I'm really excited to see what smaller and more powerful motors combined with increasingly dense battery technology does for robotics. Anyone with knowledge or expertise care to predict the next 10 years?
You need to transmit a certain amount of HIV particles to cause infection. It is called inoculum. In normal sex, it is quite a lot, I wasn't able to find an exact number, but it is in tens of thousands in ther least.

The vast majority of virions seems to be killed by the immune system before they can actually take hold.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
This is such an absurd view. If they did illegal things they would not be able to operate in EU. While some expectations of what is considered acceptable or not have changed in Europe in meanwhile, it doesn't mean they were illegal in the first place.
The second point you make is a true problem, the market is fragmented by too many regulations so the cost of establishing a company to the full EU is much greater than establishing it in US. But this makes a case to harmonize more the market. After all it's supposed to be a single market. but the "Single market" part is enforced only for physical goods and digital services goods are still not considered. It's Much easier for the industry Lobby to find a supporter in the fractured EU than in the US and EU in itself is very protectionist of existing business. That's why it will be almost impossible to fund any disrupting Company in EU
"Reinstall it regularly, because this is the Windows way."
When did you last use windows regularly? In the 9x era?
Cancer probably not. But for me it does mess up the digestion process and causes some stool problems.
I didn't really understand IEEE until I realized that they're more of an academic society than a professional society, despite what their marketing suggests. The academia mill is a weird way to fund training engineers for industry, and IEEE is just a forum for it.
So, they actually would download a car!
This is pretty much what the US did to itself in the first place - bulldozed half the cities in the country to make them car centric. There’s no reason you can’t do the same thing in reverse. Buildings are not actually all that permanent (especially in the US where in most of the country they appear to be made out of wood & plaster).
From a user's (or at least, builder's) perspective, autotools have the nice property that they work pretty much everywhere without requiring any additional tools than some shell and some make while also understanding a ton of standard-ish (well, they are part of GNU standards anyway) configuration options in terms of where to build something, where it would install, where to copy the files, etc.

I tend to build a lot of programs from source code and those that use autotools are always the most frictionless, especially since i like to put things in their own directories (so that i can easily remove them) instead of installing them globally.

From a developer's perspective, i tried to use autotools at some point and i really wish there was a real replacement that provides all the features autotools have (including not requiring to have that replacement installed, like cmake, meson, etc do) while being a bit more user friendly.
"poor access to routes to complain"

this
i believe it's a rite of passage for any new linux user on a dpkg-based linux distribution to install synaptic and with it every possible package.
I did not mean to imply that he was wrong, merely that from the sellers point of view there may have been other options.
As a night owl myself, I don't try to be a morning person.

I just do the things that don't need strong focus for the first couple of hours. Clear out emails, etc. I'm lucky now that I can schedule my time mostly. In jobs where I didn't have a choice, I found mornings quite awful.

Night owls often have more sustained stamina once they get going. Morning people who are bright and perky when they get up, also crash and burn pretty fast. They're sprinters, night owls are marathon runners...
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> Fallout 4 was released nearly 8 years ago. Dishonored: 10. Dishonored 2: 6

This sounds like a long time, but it's not in game development. Putting out a solid title requires multiple years of development.

> Deathloop is the better example to judge recent efficacy of the team

Deathloop isn't on par with Arkane's previous games. It didn't even sell that well. They put it on sale a few weeks after launch to issue damage control.
I think this is interesting, because most of the time when I get post from Royal Mail, the stamps haven't been postmarked. So in theory this removes that potential fraud - the post gets scanned, check it's valid, done.
I wanted to see this written out so here goes:

1,000,000,000,000

x 10,000,000,000

-----------------------

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Or

10 ** 22

Aka Ten Sextillion
Spoken language is as close as we currently get to expressing our thoughts in a standardized way.

It’s not a great standard, lots of variation and duplication, and above all undefined. But it’s what we have.

Agreements are but one use case of spoken language. Therefore you’re looking at reinventing language itself.

Not a bad idea at all. I do think we eventually get there. But it may take years and may need more advanced technology like AI. Until then spoken language it is.
As well as an event, a drink on tap can be ‘on’ or ‘off’, to refer to its availability.