skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Where do you get useful information on large home appliances?
Every once in a while we need to make a choice which washing machine (for example) to buy. I find amazon reviews absolutely useless, brand and model names not googlable and comparative information on features between brands and product lines very sparse in general.

Any tips?
It's not remotely 'similar'.

One is from a minor diplomatic dispute.

The other arose from a nuclear standoff that was the closest we ever came to starting World War 3 and therefore the destruction of all human life as we know it.
One of these days I'd love to see a grown up country come along and just do the good thing.

I like your parent/child allusion and who wouldn't? However, there is no parent available that could cuff the miscreant and make it all good. Besides: what exactly is "the good thing"?
Hundreds of Trillions of Pixels: Nvidia and RED Digital Solve 8K Bottleneck
This is a thoughtful position, the idea of quantification of costs is useful. I wonder how to propagate that back into development budgets and team behaviour.
Vote with your wallet is very effective with an educated populace.
RAID for DNA is a really good, intuitive analogy, thanks!
> I see people browsing through IG tapping to like for 20 minutes at a time and think to myself, “why are you even doing that?” It’s a compulsion that does nothing.

This. If nothing else scared me away from social networks the mind-numbing scroll-like-scroll-like behavior I see the users/addicts exhibit sure does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_...

The embargo is still in effect. I recently took a cruise to Havana. I was annoyed at the frequent reminders to those of us passengers who are US citizens about our restrictions on engaging in unallowed economic activity. Passengers who were not citizens of the Land of the Free have no such restrictions.
The top numbers are clearly bogus, Steam hours are easily manipulated and the top 5 exceed the length of time Steam has even been recording the data (started in 2009).
> Then again it’s also super easy to take a used car to get it checked out, but nobody does that either.

Neither of these assertions is true. The second one is easily falsified (even not being pedantic about "nobody"), as evidenced by the existence of "used car inspection" on the price lists of at least some mechanics, if anecdata is not compelling [1].

The first assertion is, in its falsity, makes for an excellent analogy to the topic at hand, which is evaluating developers.

Even a legitimately trustworthy, expert evaluator will not be albe to provide an evaluation that will reliably predict real-world performance over the next several years. This is true for interviewing candidates and for used cars. What one hopes for from the evaluation, is to significantly reduce risk by filtering out obvious (for ones definition) dealbreakers.

[1] Personally, I only buy used cars (and typically 8+ years 75k+ miles). The logistics of getting them to my mechanic for an inspection is the least easy part of the process, when it's a non-dealer seller.
I came here to point out nosedive. I searched just in case and voila!

Black Mirror is amazing ofc. But specifically this episode, Nosedive, should be studied and analysed in public schools.
On the other hand, Pilfered Pollen is a great name for a rock band! :D
Are you the owner of Vuzuk?

What is the main difference between Vuzuk, BlogSpot and WordPress?
The variation of this that I usually ask is, "What salary do you need to maintain a comfortable cost of living and what do you consider a fair salary given your experience and the job requirements?"

Depending on my flexibility in the hiring process I may give them a realistic estimate of my budget as well.

I want to set the stage for the best information symmetry I can (given the circumstances). This makes salary negotiations closer to a collaborative game than a competitive one. I've even told candidates that their ask is unrealistically low for their experience level.

Salary negotiation is the first moment in a trust-based relationship. To me it's very odd that we start that trust-based relationship with a very high-stakes competitive problem that relies heavily on information asymmetry.
> There’s a lot to be said for building things that work, but “move slowly and steadily towards a goal” just doesn’t have the same ring.

I'm reminded of one of my math professors. When a student asked him "How do I do this problem?", the prof would always respond "Carefully and correctly". And then he'd laugh at his own joke and give the student a real answer.

I thought it was funny. And I liked the alliteration.
There is no significance. Taiwan gave them some money. Palau will be fine and certainly weighed which decision gives more money. These places go back and forth like churning credit card bonuses. China could pay every one of them more so that there are no countries recognizing Taiwan as the "one China" but why bother? They are left as chips to send a message when needed.
Another for the "Scientists did something" series

> The (2018) study is the first of its kind to evaluate replacing fishmeal with a co-product in feed designed specifically for Nile tilapia

Hem, sorry but not.

Effect of Dried Spirulina on Growth of Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Takeuchi et al. 1999. Aquaculture science 47 (2)

Taste of tilapia Oreochromis niloticus fed solely on raw Spirulina. Lu et al. 2003. Fisheries Science 69(3)

Everybody in the modern aquaculture industry is using marine microalgae to feed fishes since decades.
The bright side: next time someone googles the symptoms they'll find these articles about it
There's also MicroG wrapped in LineageOS so you can avoid G altogether

https://lineage.microg.org/
Traditionally that parent has been the US. And like many parents they subscribe whole heartedly to, "do as I say, not as I do."
React View Switching with Custom Events
I am sure they are very nasty and that law abiding citizens have nothing to fear from an orwelian surveillance!
You don't need limits. It works perfectly fine as an equation in the ring of rational fractions on R[x]. That is, an equation between rational functions shouldn't be read as saying "if you evaluate these for a specific value of x and the denominators do not vanish the results are equal" but as saying "these are equal as polynomials after formally clearing the denominators".

Concretely the equations he computes with

(7x+2) / (x+2)^2 (x-1) = A/(x+2) + B/(x+2)^2 + C/(x-1)

(7x+2) / (x+2)^2 = A(x-1)/(x+2) + B(x-1)/(x+2)^2 + C

(7x+2) / (x-1) = A(x+2) + B + C(x+2)^2/(x-1)

(7x+2) / (x+2) (x-1) = A + B/(x+2) + C(x+2)/(x-1)

are all equivalent by definition (because f/g = f'/g' means fg' = f'g) to

7x+2 = A(x+2)(x-1) + B(x-1) + C(x+2)^2

Evaluate at x=1 to get C=1. Evaluate at x=-2 to get B=4. IMO it's easier to get C by using the system of equations approach rather than the evaluation method at this point, since the coefficient of X^2 of the RHS is evidently A+C and must vanish, so C=-1.
Thanks for clarifying. I was skim reading and assumed "digital manipulation" was something to do with digital data, maybe listening to mp3s too loud or something, but putting fingers in your ears makes much more sense in this context.
Now that it isn't being influenced by an outside party, it is no longer narrowly winning.

My original point about Brexit being very close still stands and I would suggest that your Remain on 52% and Leave on 48% are still very close given the sheer pain of the separation that has become apparent since the original vote (you try listening to the news here - its bloody boring.) If you had waved say 60% Remain, I might take notice.
Wow. Awesome. Thanks for showing that you are smarter than the majority of people who don’t. Have some empathy for the normies out there.
That most geneticists aren’t as good at excel as you think
Install Linux on an Nvidia Shield TV?
I'd say that if someone can negotiate something significantly better, they're probably not dependent on any given offer anyway.
"How much effort do you want me to put into my work?"

I would hope that a candidate with that sort of response when handed an olive branch would have been screened out of the hiring process at an earlier stage than salary negotiation.
In all fairness, Excel is also notorious for being overaggresive when it comes to deciding whether a given cell should be converted to a date.
Also sharing.

Taking the time to save a link/picture, go to another site, and typing in a description and comments on material? Great. Seeing a cat picture and instantaneously clicking "share"?

Screw that. That kind of behavior is in the website's interest, not mine. It creates an endless stream of slightly-interesting material from people I know, just enough to keep me watching but not enough to feel like anything got done.

Spending time doing something compulsively that later you realize was a waste of time, then doing it again? That's addiction. I don't know what kind of addiction it is. It's certainly less addictive than opiods. But it's no doubt addictive -- and it is currently affecting billions of people worldwide.

It's an amazing amount of societal damage that nobody will ever be able to quantify. We'll never know the books that weren't read, the inventions that weren't made, or the people that weren't helped because somebody was watching social media.

(And before somebody talks about how great it is to have the planet connected, it is! Being able to communicate and research is nowhere near the same thing as having your head stuck in your phone eight hours a day)
As I said, we are just disagreeing on the definition of hawk.
Have you noticed what's happening in the Puerto Rico? An actual US territory.
I would suggest asking a bank that has a branch in both your country and Tanzania, or even try the national bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Tanzania

https://www.bot.go.tz

However if you just want to buy and sell the currency pair rather than making transfers to and from Tanzania I think you may have to use a forex broker as I don't believe most banks offer such a service. I could be wrong though obviously.
That argument doesn't hold up empirically. Plenty of HN users are able to disagree substantively without resorting to ranty rhetoric like you did in your last paragraph, and the disagreements are better for it.

Lofty descriptions of nobly pursuing truth ("deviating from consensus assumptions") against the groupthinking mob (everybody else!) are mostly self-flattery. People don't post ranty rhetoric because we want to strengthen diversity of opinion or anything like that. We do it because it feels good to vent. The problem is that others take it as a license to vent further, and by the time that process converges, it's all in flames. Flamewar is the ultimate groupthink, by the way; despite what the war parties say, it's always the same.
What's to really stop other providers from doing the same thing though? :)
I've always been surprised that nobody's tried to weld ARM SoCs and the ACPI standard together yet. (How would that even work? I have no idea. Maybe the SoC would have a standardized PMC embedded in it?)
Steam counts as "hours playing" all time that a Steam-launched app is open. That means that if you're AFK in a game, it counts towards Steam hours. If you pause it and have dinner, it counts towards Steam hours. If you just left it open on the title screen, it counts as Steam hours. If you have 3 games open, it counts as 3x Steam hours.

Considering that Steam launches itself when your computer starts and many people have multiple games, it's stupidly easy to run up super-high Steam hours counts. I've got over 1100 hours in Factorio, of which probably 1/3 were while I was sleeping, 1/3 while I was busy doing work or chores, and 1/6 were while I was checking Hacker News with Factorio idling in the background.
They would only be usable half the year because of whether. Also, have to consider that there are lots of people in NYC that will simply scrap the scooters for parts and spare change.
Seascape Photography: The Ultimate Guide
Well they did lease the Guantánamo Bay, but the current goverment says that the lease is illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo_Bay
Here is a synopsis of my complete model with out
my complete model of human psychology.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/artificial-general-i...
For a deployment pipeline that takes the HEAD state on the git repo, you are right, that's perfectly fine. However if you have other developers or SRE that have that repo checked out, they'll have problems. Not problems that they can't take care of, but an additional step nonetheless.
Oh I agree. It's just if you're doing grad school and you're paying with student loans, not the government, you're doing it wrong.
However, Instagram's reliance on the number of views, likes, followers, and so on still puts it in the same category as Facebook and its likes, Twitter and its retweets and favorites, LinkedIn and its likes and comments, YouTube and its upvotes and comments and subscribes... and so on. It's still a metric-driven network, even if the content happens to be better. And what is showcasing your brand if not grinding for better numbers?
Interviewing Elon Musk
Name your number and shut up. They will tell you if it's a problem.
And what is the current state of /dev/urandom on Linux? Does it finally block on cold start with too little entropy? If it does, then effectively everybody can finally just use /dev/urandom, if I understand it correctly?

If it's still not blocking, it seems that still the best thing to do is using getrandom( ..., 0 )?
> "The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it." Dr. Pamela Zave

Them: We need to add this feature for completeness.

Me: We do not need that feature to ship and make money.

Them: If we don't we're creating technical debt!

Me: You want to create a feature that needs to be maintained that isn't used in production. That's worse.

Them: It won't be finished until this feature is added.

Me: The program will never be finished.

Them: You're being unnecessarily difficult.

^^ conversation last week.
who says it was the cuban government?

could've been any government's agency that had infiltrated cuba.
Traditionally that parent has been the US

Your tradition seems to only go back a few decades.
Brussels to act against tech groups on terror content
To me the moral of the story is that you may not be able to rely on your normal doctor or specialist to give the best diagnosis and now that we have the internet it may be necessary in some circumstances to be self-informed and even find our own specialist in a certain area.
The solution? Blockchain. /s
> Spreadsheets are not databases... but everyone insists on using them as such, so this happens.

They are, by Wikipedia’s definition: "A database is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically".
I'm one Facebook a lot and even on the rather leftward side and I don't experience any extreme toxicity (though I hear a lot about it). Some of my friends care about likes but mostly when they feel they're being ignored.

I administer a large-ish group where respectful discussion is non-negotiable. It works, it serves it's purpose.

I think "good moderation" is basically the answer for toxicity.
I wanted to include it in the original piece, actually, and I have tried to retrieve it again just to answer to you, but both attempts failed :(

I am fairly sure I read it here on HN, but I tried looking for the author's surname in comments and could not find it (or some obvious misspellings).

Sorry, if I ever manage to find it again I will update my piece too.
Nice that you're using npm-stat.com for checking adoption. I should use your library on the site.
Project priorities, I guess.
And chrome://restart
Funnily enough, Snapchat doesn't seem to have this particular downside. It has points/scoring, but they were always somewhat hidden away and I'm not sure if anyone took them very seriously. Like the rest of the app's UX, and sort of ranking cryptic and obfuscated (like the emojis signifying how your friends compared to you) and not made into an emphasis.
None of this is news, and the only reason it's now all over the place is probably because the State Department or some three lettered agencies gave a directive to ramp up the propaganda machine.

For those with longer memories, from 1949 to 1979, the US and most of the world denied that (the current) China existed and recognized Taiwan as China. The game has been played for decades now.
The problem with this reasoning is that assuming the content of the ad is not discriminatory, delivering the ad to some subset of your audience is highly unlikely to be illegal. For example, if you're a publisher that owns two magazines, one of which is popular among blacks and another is popular among whites, I don't think it's still illegal to publish ads on one but not the other, again, provided that the ad itself does not have illegal contents. The onus must be on the advertiser because the full extent of the targeting for the given campaign is not knowable for the publisher. Maybe the advertiser wants to reach men on one publisher and women on another publisher, this isn't something any given publisher can fully determine. Given how advertising works and has worked in the past, it's unlikely that any law would put the responsibility on a publisher for an entire campaign to be free of illegal discrimination on the basis of an audience it reaches.
> "real" programs (e.g. x264, imagemagick, povray etc.)

...none of which are CPU-bound, instead relying on either hardware accelerators or the presence of specific SIMD instructions.

Geekbench is pretty good at measuring how well a chip would perform / scale as a web-app server. (Ignoring IO bandwidth, that is. A benchmark that incorporated both would be brilliant.)
It’s only for ecommerce. You are either selling a product or selling yourself for likes. Every post is an ad. The amount of sharing that happens the today on IG is the same amount of sharing that happens when you watch a TV commercial.

It’s nuanced, but fundamental different from the photo sharing sites that came before it like Flickr.

The share button may as well be replaced with “Promote” because that’s what it is.
I once flew to China to skate SMP outside of Shanghai. Every year thousands of people go to Rutland, Ohio for Skatopia. If the airport is accessible by transit, of course people will go to use it. At least more people than would go to visit "land art".

Anyway, the point is that you're building it anyway and it looks super skate/bikeable because it's just a bunch of ridges. Add a few more obstacles and bam, awesome skatepark.
The fundamental issue I have with tools like this is they all require plugins, which makes sharing these spreadsheets outside of your organization nearly impossible.

I'd love to find a plugin that let's me do all this awesome stuff and then export a copy of the spreadsheet with static data and no dependencies/plugins/macros.

Does that exist?
Ask HN: Would you take a pay cut for a shorter commute?
So I'm at a crossroads. I just moved to a smaller city, about 50 miles from the nearest large population center. I still have a job in said population center making 110k. This results in a commute of about an hour

The problem is, if I take a job locally, I'm looking at a pay cut of 10-15k.

I really can't judge if that's worth it or not. I've done long commutes before and there are pluses and minuses of course. But I really am struggling to decide on what's the better choice: more money, or more time...

Thoughts?
OLEDs are a step above even LCDs in emulating natural light and preventing the glare that makes staring at cathode ray tube monitors less than a good idea.
"The rest of the world broadly agrees that China and Taiwan are the same country."

No.

The 'rest of the world' basically accepts that China and Taiwan are different countries, and would recognize Taiwan in a heartbeat if it were not for diplomatic issues.
I have sometimes had Excel force pasted data into date format, even after I've explicitly set the entire row to text format. I had to go back and manually retype every date-like entry. It doesn't always do this, but it's frustrating as hell when it does. I can see even an attentive researcher being tripped up by that.
You’re right.
After the monster Hunter World thing with threads I've taken a look at a couple games in Process Hacker 2. There aren't many games that spawn as many threads as that game. It's nuts!
We've had scooters and bikes that you can rent for quite a while now and its pretty cool
Nothing. It's about developer convenience, not technical possibility.
I'm also HLA-B27+ and have psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, occasional iritis, and fairly constant tinnitus.

I'll be curious to see what you learn.
Recruiters do know the range, almost always.
Can Additional Homeopathic Treatment Save Costs? A Retrospective Cost-Analysis
An admirable man. He is doing great work today.

His leadership came at a tough time, and he did not bring prosperity. The country did much better under his successor, Reagan.

We all have potential for good, in our own ways.
Why does Foxconn have its operations in Mainland China when it's a Taiwanese firm? Should I email them and convince them to move out of China?
This post was completely not what I expected it to be.

The "do not use in production" is the programming equivalent of taking a strong stance on an issue but then appending "but hey, I don't know" or "don't take my word for it".

They completely defeat the purpose of the entire statement and in the production comment's case, the code samples.

Let's ask a different question, what am I supposed to use in production? I had an email discussion with some blogger who wrote about a very narrow problem which I needed to solve. Their code samples worked, but poorly. The entire thing was a dumpster fire but it solved the problem and were the only one I could find after days of Googling and Stackoverflowing.

I did not care about their "do not use in production" comment. I needed their solution in my production system. What was I supposed to do?

Sorry for ranting, but I believe it is irresponsible to put code out there which shouldn't be used except for when it is the point.
> Vue and React make sense for large SPA-style applications

Agreed, but I want to point out that modern, large SPA-style app architecture and jQuery are not necessarily mutually exclusive. jQuery might not work with React and Vue, but it can work alongside other frameworks just fine (yep, without manual DOM manipulations).

jQuery offers utility beyond ensuring your code runs the same across different browsers. For instance, I've yet to see another `replaceWith` as concise as what jQuery offers or DocumentFragment generation as expressive as this: `$("<div>hello world <span>foo bar</span></div>");` For those two examples, the alternatives listed on http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ are either very verbose or do not mimic the full functionality offered by jQuery.

Where I work we've built an in-house JS framework inspired by React and Vue but that "plays nicely" with our jQuery legacy codebase. The framework evens uses jQuery at it's core for UI state management and DocumentFragment generation. Re-factoring our jQuery legacy code is a breeze when compared with re-writing it to conform to React or Vue standards. We write modular and consistent components with `this.props`-style state management, one-way data binding, and zero manual DOM manipulations while still using jQuery.

TLDR: jQuery offers utility beyond manual DOM manipulations and smoothing out browser differences. When used appropriately, it still has a place in modern JS component architecture.
> Even people who are 16, 17, 18 on the PCL-R are nasty sons of bitches. Do they meet the diagnostic threshold of what we would call meeting a diagnosis of psychopathy? No.”

So apparently the PCL-R is a scale to measure how nasty a son of b one his.

I just don't get it. What happens at the 30 mark in the scale that makes it an illness versus you just being a terrible human being?