skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m glad you pointed the driver economics out, I meticulously keep track of my auto costs (hour out to road trip [1]) and am always surprised by what my actual mpg/cost per mile is, as well as how repairs and maintenance add up over time - I honestly don’t think most Uber drivers realize they are just trading deferred maintenance costs, and depreciation expense for cash now.

[1]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-mpg/id298398207
There are probably even fewer people that know what right to repair is.

Free software just isn’t enough anymore because the licenses limit your freedom too. (and even my choice of the word “limit” here will be controversial between the Apache/MIT and the *GPL crowds).

Don’t have an easy answer :-)
Well, it does have resources. Wine from France, for example. Natural gas and oil (Norway for example). But the EU, so long as it avoids political fragmentation will be ok because they can manufacture products and they have skilled workers and knowledge. It's not just about resources.
I enjoyed reading them until I tried to get to the source of the 1980 data. The source appears to be from the National Center for Health Statistics, which ran surveys in 1971–1974, 1976–1980, 1988–1994, and 1999–2018.

I was disappointed that they then misunderstood this as an inflection point exactly in 1980 when that was merely the last point in a graph that inappropriately bashed several surveys together. They ask over and over "So what changed in 1980?" but the data doesn't support that year specifically. They seemed to start out from a fundamental misunderstanding and then used that to discount other data through the rest of their posts.
Regarding those "mega-corps", Europe has quite a few of those as well. Food, aerospace, automotive, machinery, pharma, chemicals...
When things are really frozen, maybe Ted Cruz can give some tips on last mile airfares to sunny destinations
No, obesity is a metabolic problem. And barring personal medical issues, diets of starch and sugar are the cause.

[EDIT], Folks, obesity is a result of metabolic disease. Obesity is an epidemic, and the science is abundant on this. This isn't a grammatic nuance, it's the essence of the global obesity epidemic that results from diet and eating habits. It's literally the foundation of the growing understanding amongst medical professionals of why low-carb diets and fasting work dramatically on this.
Come to live in South America and you will love your actual job. Trust me.
You still need to heat your home, are you there or not.
The article is actually talking about public debt, which is different from “investment” in the FDI sense, but is still “investment” from the investor's PoV.

I have a colleague who likes to say that “every concept expressed with less than three words is adding confusion instead of reducing it”, and I like this saying more and more every day.
Rising nationalism worldwide is a bane to European prosperity and I don't see that trend reversing. In the latest bout of EUR depreciation, one can interpret Russia's invasion as a nationalist imperative. The prior bout of EUR volatility accompanied Brexit, of course. And over the last decade, the US has been a better investment destination than Europe (probably the case going forward too).

In contrast, many commentators thought London (and Paris to a much lesser extent) would take financial market share away from New York during the aughts, the heyday of globalization. Celebrities like Gisele famously demanded to be paid in EUR, while Jay-Z showed off his Euro notes in the video for "Blue Magic."
More likely it will result in crippling the domestic UK tech industry while everyone else in the world ignores it. I really don't see most countries extraditing someone for the high crime of "let british users access a website without verifying their age".
It's tough to achieve a balance between healthy ambition to improve and nagging dissatisfaction and restlessness. I'm not in anybody else's head, but for me it's about matching my values to my reality. I pursue the things I value and value the things I have. Religion and culture have made things easier for me, I guess. Where I'm from, the things you've already achieved are a good life's work. (I guess that, and visiting your mom on a regular basis.) My parents are happy with me and I'm able to support my kids and everything on top of that is icing on the cake.
> There are other methods of distribution than app stores.

And all of them are completely irrelevant because only us nerds would even know about them let alone how to use them.

> People didn't buy their copy of Napster from GameStop back in the day

Those days are long dead.
POMDPs is exactly how one formalizes imperfect information games. This is where the concept of information sets comes from. To answer your question, any two player algorithm is going to apply to single player games as it is trivial to transform. For games like 2048, the "adversary" is simply the opposite of your outcome. For games where you are trying to maximize your score, this is the standard RL setting and any of the Atari algorithms (including MuZero) can be used.

In case you are wondering about cooperative multi-agent games, I would check this group's publications: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/publications/date/Shimon.Whit...
> The term [Free Software] has been around for decades now, and seems to be fairly well understood in the tech world.

For you and me, maybe. But no, Free Software is often misunderstood. I had to explain the difference on a group dedicated to Linux the other day.

It is worth pointing out, every time.
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Yeah. I mean that's the thing, sitting in front of the computer is a necessity because you need to type ideas. So your screen has to become a catalyst for your thoughts instead of being a distraction.

You have to build an "environment" where you can "blog" or w/e you deem productive. I've been looking at https://kinopio.club/ to be my "default screen on computer start" for organizing thoughts, but it's not perfect.
Good record stores outlasted Tower Records. What failed were record stores which were basically Tower records, only watered down weaker versions.
lol, ok, fair. I guess people would expect the pound to lose power due to Brexit in the long term
Except that Russia broke agreements to respect Ukraine, which is why (obviously foolishly) they agreed to give up their nuclear arms. This affair has (again) shown the the only way to guarantee the survival of you country is to be able to respond with a sufficiently high pain level. This is a lesson that Iraq, North Korea, Israel, Pakistan and probably Taiwan and Germany have taken to heart.
All crazy elimination diets work short term. The true measure of a diet is the one you can live on for years and be healthy.
It strongly depends on what type of structure you can assume and how expensive sampling is. Dreamerv2, agent57 on Atari, dreamerv2 and the generalized agent model trained on 600 tasks by deepmind might be worth looking into for different approaches on pomdps, but you can do much better if you impose physics priors by e.g. using neural ODEs for the latent state modeling.

POMDP just means "observations are not state" and that you need to use a stateful policy to infer the state somehow, but without further assumptions it's difficult to answer this question
Wifi mesh nets in the city. Sneaker nets in between
In addition to this, if they actually cared about children they would up the penalties for crimes. In the US it is 4 years in prison. Let's make it 20 years per image. That is what Maxwell got for literally trafficking children. But hey, let's add some red tape to the internet, mind numbing.
That's not what this person is saying. "Big glucose spike(s)" actually are the cause of diabetes. The more regular spikes a person has, the more resistant to insulin they become, which is where type 2 diabetes starts. The point of the comments I believe was just to say that certain foods cause different responses in different people. If plantains cause a large spike in a person, I would say that person should probably not eat them every day all the time.
No sure why you’re getting downvoted, this makes sense. Humans are incredibly good at adapting to environments. From your perspective, it sounds like a change of pace kept things interesting.
Average Wind Speed Across the U.S.
inflation is at 9% tho
This is NOT regulation of big tech.

This creates a barrier to entry that allows ONLY big tech access to the playing field.

These types of barriers to entry already exist in other areas like the pharmaceutical business and finance. Now we're getting artificial barriers created in IT.
> A perfect job does not prevent or cure depression.

> Well, a complex enough person, he was.

I read Kitchen Confidential in 2008 when I was an undergrad and while working in catering; the truth is that that kitchens is where you will find some of the most broken and subsequently some of the most interesting people you will ever encounter. That sad reality is that substance abuse is often just a coping mechanism/self medication for unaddressed mental health issues.

I felt Bourdain was suicidal when I read KC back then, and to be honest when he killed himself I was on my last tour in kitchens and I was the only one not entirely shocked or surprised.

His life was marred with lots of demons, and his success was enviable for anyone who has ever worked line, but he could never get away from that simple fact. Roadrunner was interesting, but sadly entirely woeful because it reminded me how much progress was lost because the entire culinary industry was riding on just him and all the media attention he could garner. There were many lost projects that will never come to fruition, and to me that is was I feel was the real loss.

He as a person probably wanted to die this way his whole life, so I can't see why anyone would feel sorry for him.
Every so often I see adverts for a far broader range of things than is plausible. I assume Amazon and eBay bought “$NOUN, buy it cheap!” for all nouns.

Didn’t see that today, sadly, but I did find this: https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM
Can anyone speak to these nanoparticles and why this technique hasn't been seen before? Maybe more generally why we haven't targeted this part of the virus that doesnt change?
High altitude balloon laser net
Personally that sounds like boring work to me (no offense/judgement intended). I think a lot of people imagine that just getting to code without any “distractions” would be ideal, and for some extremely introverted personality types that may be true. But I think even moderately introverted people tend to thrive with more social contact than you are describing.

For me, I enjoy some amount of social interaction by way of collaboration with colleagues. Working together with someone (either business/product stakeholder, or on the technical side) to explore a design space and figure out a good solution can be as or more fun than the flow state from coding.

Particularly during Covid with reduced socialization outside of work I think that I would go crazy if I had just 8 hours a day of coding with no other interaction.

I think it’s totally fine to want something more stimulating from your career. Maybe you can ask for expanded scope from your current role (eg doing more “tech lead” type work). If you are committed to WFH, perhaps try interviewing for a more senior role, which will expose you to more collaboration (All else being equal, it can be easier to get a seniority bump by transitioning to a smaller company, though this might entail a pay cut). If you are not committed to WFH, consider a role with some time in the office. It’s simply much easier to collaborate in person. Though of course, commutes impose their own costs.

It’s also possible that this role is a good fit for you, and you are feeling a bit depressed due to the frankly depressing last couple of years. Think about whether your social life and hobbies outside work have suffered, and if there is anything you need to do to restart them.

And finally, FIRE is a totally valid goal. Work isn’t everything, if you can find a path to independence that is worth considering.

In summary, I think it’s valid that you aren’t finding your current situation fulfilling, and I don’t think it’s wrong to change things up to keep things fresh.
Do you think prosecutors won't use the least generous reading of the law?
Japan has a good solution for this - most of the larger train stations (and many of the medium-sized ones as well) have "coin lockers" (which, despite the name, these days often take transit IC cards instead of coins) you can rent to store your stuff until you're ready to head home. In larger tourist hubs like Akihabara there'll also be a ton of lockers in the vicinity of the station run by third parties as well.
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If it were dual-licensed, I think it’d be hard to find anyone who’d object. GPL is scary to me, though, since I prefer to license my stuff under pretty unrestrictive licenses, and I don’t really want to deal with the virality.
Sorry, I'm being a bit cynical here -- I'm suggesting that the DVDs contain nothing but extremely bloated crapware to download and decode the game that should rightfully be yours. Of course, I've got some morbid curiosity about what's actually on those disks, but not enough to actually look. My deepest condolences.
I think it's odd that I was thinking the same thing about a month ago. What it would take to create a "systems" level Lisp.

I think this is great, and will be watching this space.

p.s. Name is perfect.
I remember the woodworking post, and think about it a lot.
I don't think many people I know would abandon family, friends, language, and culture to move to a different country unless the incentive was very high. Moving to the USA is also quite hard and the rhetoric around it isn't great so even a double or triple salary (which I've heard is the norm in some industries eg. software) isn't particularly tempting.

I doubt Germany, France, Austria etc. would see much significant drain. Poorer countries (eg Poland) have been already hit quite hard and might be impacted a lot more by this though.
It's good to see that everyone agrees on the definition of NULL.
It's worth noting that this works for oysters almost exclusively, because they are voracious fast-growers. Most other species do not grow as quickly and cannot outcompete contaminants and must have a sterile environment to have any kind of decent end result.
This comment didn't deserve all these downvotes, the majority of human beings on the planet likely do not need sunscreen and benefit from more sun exposure.
The Haskell list is implemented as a monad. A list in general isn't a monad. You can use Monads to implement lists, but that doesn't make them Monads anymore than saying that lists are generic container classes.
You're making a distinction without a difference.

US sanctions are designed to completely cut off the target country or company from the global economy - even from doing business with foreign companies that have no obvious connection to the US. The US does this through secondary sanctions. If a European company does business in Iran, it will suddenly find itself unable to do business with anyone in Europe. Its bank will terminate its account, even if the bank doesn't do business in the US, because the bank is afraid of getting cut off from its business partners. US sanctions are designed to cascade in this way.

The end result is that Iran is almost completely cut off from the world economy, because the US decided that nobody anywhere in the world should trade with Iran.

I don't think any other country in the world applies secondary sanctions this aggressively.

When the US pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, it effectively forced the EU to pull out of the deal as well. The deal was oversight of Iranian uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief. But US sanctions scared off EU companies from doing business with Iran, so Iran got no real sanctions relief from the EU. It's a sign of how politically weak the EU is that it didn't respond in kind to US threats to sanction EU companies that did business with Iran. The EU effectively allowed the US to dictate EU trade policy.

But I wouldn't assume that this situation will continue indefinitely. Other countries will eventually respond to the US' overreach here.
Good link thinks. Have to say we're moving to pgSearch after implementing SOLR alongside a PG/Rails backend. Makes the stack simpler, less components to worry about (less headaches for gem versioning dependencies with SOLR). Lot to be said for it after reading through what's available now...
In theory yes, in practice the US basically never extradites people to the UK and if they tried you would probably have a good defence (against extradition) under various parts of the constitution.
> If you have a top tech job in the US you good have insurance.

Relative to health care in the EU, not that good. Top-tier platinum PPO from top silicon valley employers is still going to cost a lot out of pocket (way above the so-called max out of pocket) if you have health expenses and that's on top of the $25K-$30K we're paying for the coverage itself.
Has to be related to this maintenance announced a couple days ago[1]

> "We're conducting a short database intervention on Sunday, July 10th, 2022, between 9:00 - 10:00 am GMT+2. During this time, users will be unable to access all Proton services for 2-4 minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience."

[1]: https://twitter.com/ProtonSupport/status/1545698028895584257
I found sterilizing the jars (in a hot bath), innoculating the (brown rice) and getting the mycelium to take over took the most effort and time (takes like 2 months in the dark for the mycelium to take over the entire jar).

Getting it to fruit was easy and all I needed was some vermeculite to place the mycelium block on top of and a plastic container to act as a terrarium so it will trap the humidity from the spray bottle.
Management and marketing academic research has extensively shown that trust helps reduce transaction costs significantly. For example, check out Dyer and Chu 2003 article:

https://www.academia.edu/49924523/The_Role_of_Trustworthines...
I think now is a good time (now that they're out of research zone and actually working) for a flood of new people to enter this space and try to come up with more creative ideas than that. It's an exciting time for cool ideas and cool projects if we take off our cynicism hat for a bit.
My hope is that FS2020 will be the basis for many more real world sims as the technology improves.

I imagine a ship, train sim would go over quite well. Would be great if they were all in the same in game session.

Can also picture tycoon and enterprise type games doing well here.

And of course eventually there will be weapons, it is bound to happen.
What do each of the Tory leadership candidates think of this bill? I'll back anyone who'll scrap it.
Cue in Talking heads - once in a lifetime
The dollar is strengthening, you can look at the dollar index [1] which compares the dollar to a basket of developed market currencies [2]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index

[2] https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/DXY/
> My words were "slap on the wrist." I think only having to pay $1B instead of $46.5B meets the criteria.

The real wobble is about $19B-- the difference between Twitter's market value and the acquisition offer. I think it is likely Elon pays well in excess of $1B, but maybe captures a little bit of that $19B for himself.

> That's Levine's analysis of, "if the banks don’t put up their $13 billion then he doesn’t have to put up his $33.5 billion".

Yah, and getting the banks to walk and then trying to walk from the deal would be a way to try and pay only $1B. The problem is, he's walked before the banks.
Worth adding a notice to your website [1] as well.

[1] https://allenai.org/allennlp
Matrix over avian carrier
The reason is called free beer UNIX V6, with C compiler on the box, and the subsequent POSIX specification.

Additionally, people keep forgetting that C++ was born on the same building as them, thus rode on their wave as companion in crime.

Just like there is a reason most Web software uses JavaScript on the browser.
What was the main difference between the two locations?

Are these major cities or more rural?

I am thinking of a relocation to a less city-like environment but worry about the loneliness factor. The cities offer people, but less hobbies I'm interested in. City hobbies are mostly social and drinking oriented.
I may be wrong but international trade is often labelled in US Dollars [0], so for US entities buying at EU, it would change little, while for EU entities buying in US, it would be costlier as they would have (or their bank) to buy more Dollars to pay for the imported stuff.

For US entities selling to EU, nothing changes, but for EU entities selling to US, they would receive less Euros for a given amount in Dollar. As their cost structure is in Euro, they will have a lower net income.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_use_of_the_U.S._...
Unless someone leaks information which points to materially illegal behaviour, I don't see how people are going to get away with this.

If you leak private emails of any arbitrary company, there's a 100% chance some things will be taken out of context.

I suggest Travis was in some ways a kind of a giant turd, but that's definitely his right, unless it involves something illegal.

I'm wary of the press misrepresenting the issue like they did the FB CA scandal, which was actually a scandal, just presented as the wrong kind of scandal.
The Euro is down a few percent on the pound, but GBP:EUR has been overall stable +- 5% since about 2016. In 2016, it was roughly 2:1 for GBP to Dollar, and 1.4:1 for the euro, but the pound lost a lot of value after that.

Edit — sorry, misread the graph scale there. At any rate, the euro has been more stable against the pound in the last few years than either of them have been against the dollar.
> EU's economy but do benefit its citizens in many ways (as far as I am aware).

I guess you can easily argue that a stronger economy also is pro-citizen and benefits the people. I have had discussions with close friends in EU and I get the opposite response. They're all in tech aiming to move to CH for better salaries and stronger capitalistic/enterpreneurship environment.
> If an EU citizen accesses your website in America, that's still within GDPR scope.

No, that's not correct. You have to be clearly intending to (not just incidentally happening to) offer goods or services to an EU data subject.

> ship things to the EU

This wouldn't be enough to make the GDPR applicable. You'd have to be specifically targeting EU customers in some way, such as allowing users to pay in euros - not just incidentally selling some stuff to folks who live in the EU. Your other examples (such as having EU business assets) hold because they would make you an EU entity.
What’s the evidence for GDPR hurting the economy? And how large is the effect?