skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're hearing that. But "look at human history" could mean thinking a little bit about the great multicultural empires of the recent past... like you know, the Ottomans, or the Austrians, or the Indian Raj.

All of these ended in great violence, and once the killing was over, a much higher degree of segregation. (Arguably what's going on in Syria is still the endgame of Ottomans disintegration.) Not wishing to repeat this historical experience does not seem crazy to me.

Do you have other historical examples? Or you prefer to just imagine sunshine and rainbows forever?
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If you want an aquatic shell, there's always fish

https://fishshell.com/
Creating an underclass is a terrible idea. So we should strive to ensure an egalitarian, pluralistic society in which people can live alongside each other with respect.

(This includes not making an underclass out of people who are already citizens, either!)
Google is helping the Pentagon kill people with drones. How could they be “less creepy” than Facebook(who I otherwise agree is awful)?
> all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug

But who would force them?
> What would happen if society told a bunch of them to pursue new innovations and ventures instead?

Probably something similar to if we told them to pursue gambling instead: a few will hit the jackpot, some more will do OK, and the vast majority will fail with little to show for it.

And I'm really skeptical that there are very many "new innovations and ventures" that 18 years olds could pursue en masse.
Oh, I don't think they will have any issues using those themselves.
ML is best suited for situations where there is no practical solution using typical statistics techniques and where marginal improvements in accuracy lead to significant boosts in revenue or some other useful metric. It turns out there aren't that many of those problems unless you're operating on truly enormous scales.
> If you're telling me that eventually CRUD apps will be mostly automated away, then I believe you.

Don't. Read "worse is better" again. In the 90s CRUD apps were a solved problem. Then in the 2000-2005 or so they became graphical (access, foxpro, dbase, paradox, filemaker, and yes visual basic and delphi ...) and it was trivial to get CRUD apps done.

People who wouldn't know code from Welsh English made databases for libraries, of their CD/DVD collections/... just for fun even.

Today, that doesn't happen anymore. And the web frameworks we currently use for that by and large don't work on mobile and even those are losing in the marketplace for reasons I can't understand, but there is a new javascript framework we just GOT to use. CRUD apps these days ... need a web interface, an android one, an ios one, and more. Minimum number of programming languages required: Javascript, Java/Kotlin, ObjC/Swift, and a backend language (can't use Java for that ... that would make ... euhm ... that would make sense ? And yes, you could use even Javascript, but ... so let's use Python ... or Go).

And let's just not mention that such absolutely basic things as a data table that were lowest-common-denominator are now exceptional. Sorting by every column ? Rarely happens. Having all data in a single listbox with search, filter, and rapid scrolling ? Unheard of (because very impractical on the web).

So no worries about programmer jobs. Ever simpler things will require ever more programmers. Worry about enjoying programming.
Not long now ... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...
Yeah one of my first web scraping projects was using Wikipedia because I figured it would be easy to parse and have a fairly standard format, right? Well at least it was a good and sobering first lesson about cleaning data.
It depends heavily on a property. I rented a room in a fancy new build flat for a while and the only way I knew the neighbors existed was when I met them in an elevator.
Insurance for vacancies and dealing with non paying tenants -- no.
Some other posts identify her as working at ServerBeach, which was once a part of Rackspace.

ServerBeach's "Secret Sauce" was figuring out a hardware hack to cheaply integrate consumer-grade junk hardware into a typical DHCP/PXE-driven on-the-rack inventory and provisioning workflow.

ServerBeach wasn't the first company using bread racks and junk hardware, but the others trying to match their provisioning speeds were either throwing bodies at the problem or spending real money on switched PDUs.
Funnily enough, we tend to pick up most of our users after they've not enjoyed their experience with Quickbooks and are looking for something better. Maybe I'll ask a couple of them to highlight why they chose to switch...
> But for now this is a good start for creating a standard IM platform available for everyone to replace SMS.

Or it's just a bandaid on a hobbling, old protocol that we should move past. I think Google errs here in being too concerned about backwards compatibility. That there are so many alternatives (WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal) shows there's demand to move on from SMS. And Google of all companies should know how crappy it is to have to rely on carriers (look at the years-long Android updates debacle).

I hear what you're saying about standards being helpful on the Internet, but SMS is a shitty standard from 1984 that even then was built on compromises and hacks (basically fudging things by using an area of GSM that was never designed for messaging):

* "The GSM is optimized for telephony, since this was identified as its main application. The key idea for SMS was to use this telephone-optimized system, and to transport messages on the signalling paths needed to control the telephone traffic during periods when no signalling traffic existed. In this way, unused resources in the system could be used to transport messages at minimal cost. However, it was necessary to limit the length of the messages to 128 bytes" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Initial_concept
The engaging cinematography on this article really drew me in. Somebody could write an article about brick laying and if it had the same Nutella-smooth video I would read the entire thing.
So, you are saying sharing data through supply chain is difficult. It is difficult because data cannot be tracked in an accurate, reliable, secure way and there is corruption involved. And lastly, blockchain is the only solution to these.

How will blockchain help in tracking shipments in an accurate, reliable and secure manner and most importantly, how does it stop corruption? If possible, how about using an example for clarity? Let's say Apple shipping a new MBP from China to a customer in US. How does blockchain work in ensuring all the above features?
Glad I could convince you.
Yes, and what if you are shot to death?

It's very unlikely that all your contacts and family and friends are going to move away all at once. As some people leave presumably new ones are also coming along.
Oh yeah, I got the pleasure of cleaning 10+ boxes with WP a few months ago. Nasty stuff.

Nitpick @title: miners aren't hacking your boxes, hackers are mining on your hacked boxes.
Scroll zoom direction preference is basically a toss up, but the panning seems natural to me.
There is in Canada! Mortgages have 5-year terms, but 30 year amortization. When you renew at the end of your 5-year term, the mortgage company can ask for an appraisal and ask you to cough up enough money to maintain 80% loan-to-value.

That's even if you keep the exact same mortgage and bank.
GGP is thoughtless. GP is mean. There are thoughtful ways to point out that someone is not contributing. He could have left a link to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

In fact, a mocking reply like this does itself violate the HN guidelines in at least one way: it certainly doesn’t assume the most charitable intent for GGP’s comment.

Comments like GGP are why we have downvotes, and why comments that get a lot of them appear gray. No need to humiliate someone for the sake of signaling your own virtue.
A hackernews doesn't follow the Prime Directive
Both QT and GTK have more restrictive licensing, which is fair on its own, but when comparing to Electron you have to consider it a disadvantage.
As for most things the blockchain solves .1% of the problems Amazon solves. Dealing with delivery issues alone is something the blockchain cannot solve on its own. Dealing with warehouses, making deals with shipping companies, managing stock, providing results tailored to the user etc... The Blockchain isn't magic, it can't deal with that. You might be able to build a complex system of oracles and smart contracts to reimplement all that functionality but I posit that it won't be more effective or cheaper than a centralized system.

Think about the price you're paying for your Amazon prime subscription or your Visa card. Now think about the amount of complexity these companies have to deal with, handling thousands of third parties that are willing to take advantage of the system if given the chance. Dealing with human error. Dealing with scammers. Think how well it works on average. Now you want to undercut that using slow, inefficient and redundant distributed trustless technology? Good luck.

I could be wrong, but the burden of proof is on the cryptocurrency enthusiasts' shoulders because Amazon and Visa work today while Openbazaar and the Lightning network are still highly experimental.

>If you imagine that it is, then imagine forking it...

Can you imagine if we had 100THz computers? How cool would that be.
Why file loader and not URL loader?

To be fair this question is coming from a guy with a 4 day old stack overflow question that essentially amounts to "how the fuck do I use URL loader?"
Personally, I use OFX, but that's just the beginning. For investment accounts, you need price and lot info, for loan repayments you need interest / principal splits, and for w2 income I have the gross pay split into a couple dozen accounts -- state and local taxes, various insurances, and retirement investments. Most of this stuff you can't even get from online banking APIs.
For those interested, here's the direct finale link for the #davegoeswindows series.

https://daverupert.com/2016/07/davegoeswindows-finale/
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Basically, globalizing the domestic worker market. That's... both brilliant and disturbing.
More importantly, someone has to benefit from the inflation at the end of the day. It's either going to be:

* The token issuing authority, I don't think you'd like that
* The existing token holders, but then don't they already benefit from increased prices of their tokens?

Its like as if, you cannot create a system where you do not benefit the early adopters AND have them evangelize for you for free.
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I just love the dichotomy on HN where you get one article: “The Future of Software Is No Code” and another “Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia,” these two are seemingly orthogonal in my mind.
Can’t tell if trolling or not.

The cables have water barriers so the conductors + insulation remain quite dry.
> For many countries sending people to prime immigration target countries, the only visible fix is running their countries for them.

Funnily enough, the current "immigration" fiasco in the UK is about the Windrush generation, who came over from Jamaica at the instigation of the UK which was running the country at the time. The UK is trying to retroactively undo this and deport them, including people who were born in the UK, despite the fact that they originally came over on British passports.
Thanks for the feedback. We tried to make it as easy as possible, but I can see that it comes across as more legit if the install comes from the Firefox Store, which requires vetting.
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I saw her post, yes. One of her examples was the tragedy of SO automatically removing "hello" from the start of posts.

Oh, the tragedy!

She completely ignores that it's more disrespectful to waste the readers time with small talk before a question. If she wrote an FAQ, would she write an FAQ like this:

Q: Hello HSBC, I hope you're well this Friday afternoon. I was wondering what your phone number is.

A: Hello dear customer. Happy Friday to you too! We would love for you to call us. We always appreciate talking to customers about their banking. It's XXX-XXXXXX.

Q: Hello HSBC, I hope you're well this Friday afternoon. I was wondering what your phone opening hours are.

A: Hello dear customer. Happy Friday to you too! We would love for you to call us. We always appreciate talking to customers about their banking. We'll be ready for your call between XX and YY Mon-Sun.

So that's what a non-"toxic inhumane wasteland[…]shaming[…]…excluding women and people of color" would look like?
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Why doesn't such logic apply to Facebook?

It’s like a journal that writes itself.

Yes it's good, ONLY IF the data is solely used for this purpose. Same thing goes to Facebook. How could you possibly know what they did with your data?

Google is actually creepier to me than Facebook just by comparing their market share in online advertising (Google is twice as much as Facebook), and how actively their officials engaged in political issues.
BTW, those are positives. Implying others are inferior is no worry.

That’s expected. I was really getting at primary value being more than, “we aren’t those other guys”
Solution: Ban Lobbying?
I think Amazon is uniquely positioned to come out with the first broadly applicable consumer house robot. To me, I would buy one if it could move around the house and handle some daily chores like taking the dishes/trash out, laundry, and the always classic getting me a beer. That would require 1: the ability to move around my house, 2 the ability to accept and interpret commands, and 3 the ability to recognize objects visually and how to interact with them.

Amazon has 1 partially solved with kiva, 2 with Alexa, leaving the big problem as 3. Amazon is well aware of 3 though because that is their main problem blocking them from automating hundreds of thousands of jobs in their warehouses. They even hold competitions for it: https://www.wired.com/story/grasping-robots-compete-to-rule-...

With all of that potential labor savings in solving that problem, and the possibility of a home robot using the same technology, I doubt anyone spends more R&D on this problem.
Ask HN: Any good paid or premium newsletters out there?
Looking for paid newsletters that you have found useful or beneficial. Thanks!

Here is a shared google sheet if you wish to share with everyone...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-QKU3UF9wQDlSFa-w-9_SWBWAXtRvF4RBhViC52c-OU
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Because my bank doesn't offer CSV export.
Your phrase is broken. You can easily compare apples to oranges.
How do you turn this feature on? I don't have it.
I guess it's cheaper to try and extend this whole facebook/cambridge analytica story than to do actual journalism. What's more you get to attack a business rival (doubly true for wsj v google).
and then you have a little cry, because that's really all you can do about it.
The mail is only as secure as who you send it too. If you email a Yahoo or Gmail account the email may be secure on your proton server but open to the others. The thing about security is everyone else has to do it or it breaks down. Gmail and other free email providers make it so easy people don't want to change.
I had a deja-vu reading this article, sounds just like the things that were promised in the 80s, then the 90s and probably other times I missed. There are periodic tides of centralization and decentralization washing over the IT world.

I do feel things are different this time around, though. SW distribution really has been significantly improved and there are much better ways of doing client/server applications now.

As to graphical app development UIs taking over programming - I have my doubts.
That page is really great, BTW.
As far as I can tell, this is an advertisement for QuickBase.

I can't tell from this article or their homepage how they are replacing code, but it sounds like they're trying to fill the niche of Microsoft Excel and Access, letting a semi-technical user specify limited queries and behavior.

Letting more users access the data they need is a laudable goal, but of course there will always be some need for the kind of precisely specified behavior that you get from code. "The Future of Some Software Is No Code" might be a more appropriate title.
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Funny part! I wanted to delete my Careem account. I could not do that. I cannot delete my account.

https://help.careem.com/hc/en-us/articles/115008681747-How-d...
This is quite besides my main point, but in any case, it's your economy, not ours; I don't see why the USD should be the measuring stick. The reality is that the amount of Bitcoin is being inflated every ten minutes.
They tried that in Iraq, and ran out of money a trillon dollars later without addressing any of the real problems.
Not only will it require them to include the info they're using to target you with ads, but also their source for that info (if it wasn't submitted by the user itself), the existence of automated-decision making, and "meaningful information about the logic involved".

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/
Well, Google receives free Mechanical Turk style image identification through their CAPTCHA (or whatever it's called nowadays).
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Reading code, particularly as a beginner in the industry.
> Inflation is a measure of prices, not the money supply.

It depends, when this word was coined, it simply meant increase in money supply. We can prove it by looking at the word for inflation in other languages, for instance in Hindi it is 'Mudrasfiti', which literally means 'increase in currency'.

Increase in money supply leads to increase in prices ceteris paribus, so people tend to conflate the two concepts.

OP is correct in saying that 'Bitcoin is inflationary and will remain so until 2140'. Whether the prices in bitcoin rise because of that is independent of the fact whether bitcoin is inflationary.
That's true, but your landlord may have bought for much cheaper a long time ago. That's not available to you right now. So renting could be cheaper than buying and the landlord makes a profit.
Yep the title is misleading.

"Google has stressed that Chat is not a new Google app. Since RCS is a communications standard, it is up to individual mobile networks and phone-makers to switch on the functionality."

The title should be something like: Google has started the global roll-out to support a new messaging standard.
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
> I don't see why the USD should be the measuring stick

For inflation, it's not. A basket of real goods and services is. There are few practical baskets whose price, in Bitcoin, isn't falling.
I'm in two minds here.

On one hand, it's a bit of a shame that the article focuses on "no code". What the linked applications all seem to do is a pretty standard package of workflow tooling, reporting generation and data source connectivity. If any of them do a better job than all the existing ones them good on them. In my experience, good tooling here is quite hard to come by and could be very useful/valuable.

On the other hand, on the odd occasion that I've had users buy a tool believing they're doing my job, it's ended up net positive for me. When it inevitably goes south, the reminder that what I do is actually harder than it looks has been beneficial. Obviously, I always get in writing that I wouldn't ever have to support their efforts at finger painting.
Wikipedia is, by my estimate, to 90% about animals, places, historic places, historic animals, historic people, "notable" living people, and so on. How's that going to be relevant on mars? And who's going to vet all the articles?
I don't think Customers’ name, email address, phone number and trip data can be considered a minor breach
The camera should move when zooming in, for example if I'm pointing at the Empire State and I zoom in, the zoom should center on the building.
It's 100% true.

I've been using Make for 15 years across multiple programming languages. It's a small, dependable, and simple utility.

I've been painfully slogging through Webpack configs for 4 years. I dread dealing with it every single time I open the file.
Thanks! That already works a lot better.

To further improve things, I would suggest two changes to your webpack config:

1. Use the production version of React. It seems that you are using the slightly slower development version. (In webpack this is done by defining process.env.NODE_ENV = "production" and eliminating dead code afterwards)

2. Stop using webpack in development mode for your deployment. There are 272 eval() calls in your bundle because of this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zzarcon/react-circle/c1480...

Both of these things are already taken care of by the production mode in webpack 4.
The Reuters article does not bring anything new: Soros is a political opponent of the current government of Hungary since he is funding groups which are opposing the policies of the government.

For the FT, I couldn't read it since I don't have a subscription. Still the quote provided does not specifically talk about the “Wandering Jew” stereotype.

Of course I agree with you that the criticism of Soros by the government could lead to act of antisemitism as shown by the tags (of which we have no pictures in the articles), but this act of the government does not seem anti-Semitic.
On one hand, I'm glad to see popular concern for (or at least media coverage of) personal data privacy issues. On the other hand, I can't imagine this is news to anyone at HN, or anyone who's been following such issues for years.

Ok ok, maybe the mass public is finally becoming more aware of these issues, but they're also even more heavily invested in the services Google/FB provide than when these revelations were first known to a more niche online community.

I find it hard to believe that all this media attention is anything other than too little too late.
Ask HN: Is no anti-virus software still best practice for mac?
Just checking in on the community. I haven't found anything that suggests I should change my best-practices of not running and not suggesting others run anti-virus packages on their MacOS machines.

Is this still best-practice in the wider community?
Bingo!

QB is rather painful once a company chooses to do anything beyond traditional workflow.

Basically everyone wants more advanced features, and automation.

Go get em. Plenty of need out there. Would have loved to see you a few years ago. I’ll point the current staff your way. They may still want to take a leap this year.

Edit:
You might consider showing a US currency dashboard for the US. It’s a small thing, but may set the, “its foreign, meaning support might be off time zone” exception off to the side. First impressions... and all that.
I'm curious if the maintainer stats include demographics such as race, gender, etc. An open project where anyone who wants to contribute may do so would provide a sociologically interesting set of data points which could be useful in targeting STEM curriculum or highlighting success stories we don't yet realize.
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net migration seems like an entirely irrelevant number here. It's something politicians speak of in the UK just because it's smaller. If the issue under debate is assimilation, then every native who departs increases the relevant ratio.
nice ! GG
This happens if you become too addicted to fortnite
What makes you believe Apple sells their customer’s data?