Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by chrisseaton » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

champtar wrote: post #16

2020 is not over, rC3 ( https://rc3.world/ https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3 ) starts on the 27 ;)

They scheduled a conference for a European audience between Christmas and the New Year? Why?!

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by phtrivier » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

throwaway888abc wrote: post #21

Brexit talks :-)

Maaaan would it gave made for some weird TV to watch those talks.

I really hope some day, all political negociationswill be filmed, archived, and unclassified a few years after the end of mandates.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by Tainnor » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #51

champtar wrote: post #16

2020 is not over, rC3 ( https://rc3.world/ https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3 ) starts on the 27 ;)

They scheduled a conference for a European audience between Christmas and the New Year? Why?!

they do the same thing for the CCC conference. I think the reasoning is "only the people who are really into it will attend". I agree that it's a bit... dumb.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by kerng » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #51

champtar wrote: post #16

2020 is not over, rC3 ( https://rc3.world/ https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3 ) starts on the 27 ;)

They scheduled a conference for a European audience between Christmas and the New Year? Why?!

Its always during that time proabably because school and universities have off - so many younger people can attend and government folks won't. Lol

It's one of the best conferences - already curious how this year will be!

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by robertsdionne » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2020/

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by nojito » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

F# is a better python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QnbV6CAWXc

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by gilmi » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:14 PM UTC

I don't know, I haven't watched most of them! But the best one I did watch this year was Alexis King's 'Effects for Less' (Haskell).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0jI-AlWEwYI

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by alex_anglin » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:14 PM UTC

Not tech, but economics: Mark Carney, who is the former governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, is the BBCs Reith lecturer this year[1]. Plenty of interesting points, questions and topical discussion in the series.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000py8t

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by VBprogrammer » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:18 PM UTC

Ok, it wasnt technically this year but I have to share this one just incase anyone missed it, because it's quite possible the best conference talk I've ever seen.

https://youtu.be/r-A78RgMhZU

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by albntomat0 » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 6:18 PM UTC

champtar wrote: post #16

2020 is not over, rC3 ( https://rc3.world/ https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3 ) starts on the 27 ;)

Since this is coming up in other comments, rC3 is this year's CCC (rC3 = "remote CCC")