skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quickly changing a few stats would probably be easier in an excel file, every stat is directly below the next, one key press to move to the stat and change it.is faster than scrolling 3 or 10 lines to the next one then placing the cursor on the correct character etc. I can see how it would be faster for some use cases. If someone is doing it then it is probably because they found it to be effective.
The 'Zeug' ending you're referencing doesn't just mean stuff - it comes from the verb zeugen (to procreate/beget).

So Flugzeug is really flight begetter (or perhaps flight creator)

And Feuerzeug is fire creator.

Much more sensible!
There are plenty of people whp are great at excel but you chose to talk about him. Don't give that guy any more attention. Thats what he wants. Lets all just forget about him and go on with our lives.
Exactly! "Kill all white people" sounds way different from the outside than from the inside.
>Often they are, surprise, legally required to consider it.

Well. They don't. This law is an example.

>but it's better than nothing.

No. It's worse than nothing, and that's the point. It will do nothing to improve security and but leave the associated burden that wasn't there before.
> I were to choose only one language to remain on the entire planet, it would be German

As I recall that didn't work out so well last time it was tried...
Common Voice
As a German, allow me to respectfully disagree. I think English is far easier to learn. I often find it easier to express my thoughts in English than in German.

I do agree that German is a beautiful language, though, and highly recommend reading Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra to anyone who does or does not agree with me on this one.
I once ran a social media marketing organization where we were very good about not scraping data outside of the terms and conditions of the networks we interacted with.

In so many of these breaches we're seeing cases where these analytics firms have data scraped from networks that is well in violation of terms - not mistakenly, but wanton disregard for data usage policies of those networks.

Why is nothing ever done about that?
Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of .doc as Word doc format?
If one were to write a word processor in 2018 from scratch, should they use HTML as the document format over .doc or anything else? Considering each browser is a free document viewer?
In other words, are there any big technical differences which make .doc better than HTML as a document format or vice versa?
Anyone manufacturing an internet-connected device in California will, from 2020

Is CA a major location for router manufacturing?
Maybe NewRelic is a customer and Apollo slurped up all their Salesforce contacts (aka NewRelic users)?
You could say the same thing about Russian. Like German, it doesn't borrow very heavily from other languages; and a lot of the words are simple variations of each other with different prefixes and suffixes. It was even the Lingua Franca (or "Latin") of the Communist bloc.

On the other hand, Russian might be an even harder language to learn than German, given that it's Slavic and uses a different alphabet. There's always Esperanto, which has more than 200,000 articles on Wikipedia; more than Latin even.
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I hate Excel. I use it extensively every day. It is amazing.
What's the best way to learn more if we are company selling off of shopify. Logistics is definitely a place where you can win and lose customers.
This isn't my area of expertise...

Should you be worried? I am not because I have a basic understanding of ionizing vs non ionizing radiation, and the inverse square law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
English still has he / she, so it’s not fully gender neutral, it still has gendered constructs in its ‘runtime’. There are a few fully gender neutral languages, Turkish is one.
It is sad to me how effective the smear campaign against Shkreli was.
I can't speak to mom and pop shops in small towns. I think while the concept is the same, this would be more along the lines of the town opening it's own discount store and putting the mom and pops out of business.

But I can attest to 2 products I've ordered yearly for the past 3 years, increase in price about 10% each year. The diversity of competing products has decreased substantially.
Google CEO quietly met with Pentagon military leaders over drone AI tensions
Are you saying the NSA bribed manufacturers in China to add these to boards - so Americans would discover then and accuse the Chinese government of espionage? Is this the stick to the tariff's carrot?

Remember, astronauts couldn't have met aliens on the moon, if the moon landings were faked.
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I appreciate and agree with all of the author's points, but I think that a few really well thought out and explained examples on a simple Github README is worth far more to me from a practical standpoint. I generally will look at the examples, try them out in a stand alone test, spend a few minutes seeing what the quality of the source code is, and then make a decision to go further with it or not. For a smaller project that only has a limited set of features I think most of the author's points are maybe a bit overly picky.
The idea that language limits or constrains the way people think (the stronger side of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is now largely discredited by the majority of linguists.
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The various forms of singular 'they' are not exactly well/broadly accepted in written English...
A few key highlights:

2019: Invest in the root if you want the fruit.

2019 Strategic Priorities
Deliver our Core Product Value
Widen our Moat
Operate as Owners
Invest in the Future
Be a Force for Good

2019 OKRs
Make Snapchat the Fastest Way to Communicate
Find Best Friends for all Snapchatters
Achieve Full Year Profitability
Lead the Way in Augmented Reality
Spread Positivity
Those aren't the awful parts though, really.

I would do away with the 'formal' form of addressing people (Germans have two ways of saying 'you') which serves no real purpose.

I'd also get rid of gendered articles and finally simplify word endings (adjective endings can go for a start)!
The doc format predates HTML by a decade or thereabouts.
I am holding off for more social reasons. But then I don't watch much TV either.
Or using salt https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywwba5/meet-the-artist-us...
> Do you know how many updates have deleted some people's data permanently?

One more than should have happened?

> It was one of the top call drivers almost every update back in windows XP days.

So you're saying that Microsoft had form for this and let another one through? That's pretty bad.

> There's a good reason that backup ALL important files is a mantra among people who know what they're doing.

Sure, I have at least two backups of my machine using different technologies and to different locations (and yet somehow OS X, or linux for that matter, has never actually deleted my files), I'm a techie, but most people don't because most people don't know what they're doing, and puffing out your chest and claiming technical superiority isn't going to help those people. As someone else pointed out, it's entitled.

> No matter the OS, no matter the hardware, stuff WILL get deleted.

Apparently if you use Windows it will.

> The UI

The UI is not fine, it's crap. It's been infected with tablety nonesense, and as I use a Mouse too it jars.

> tablets are very popular these days and microsoft does have to accommodate them. Of course?

That doesn't mean bits of my desktop OS needs to look like a tablet.

> And if you're ever upset about Candy Crush advertisements on Win10..... try installing ANY app on MacOS (which heavily relies on the app store unlike win10) and see how many advertisements you run into before you're done.

Of course there's some adverts in the App store, it's a store, and I expect to see them the couple of times a year I actually use it.

But day to day, when I turn on or log in to my machine, it's just that, my machine. Not someone elses machine that is a funnel for adverts.
we need gdpr in the us
Curious, what geographic regions are you referring to?
I normally connect my phone to my car via USB, in order to use navigation, but it generally tries to connect using bluetooth too, and sometimes it plays the sound out of just one side speaker rather than in stereo for no apparent reason. And if my car is on and my phone is not connected using the USB, it continually launches Android Auto no matter how often I shut it down. So I concur with the xkcd, although I think the issue is more the overall OS than bluetooth per se.
Is it technically superior/inferior to HTML as a document format for a word processor?
In this simple model there's not really a difference between appreciation and rent.
Tesla Releases Firmware Update Version 9
The Bloomberg article claimed Apple employees found the chip. So even if what you're saying is true, the article is at least wrong about how it was discovered, and that casts the rest of it into doubt as well. Also my recollection is the article claimed Apple was talking to the FBI, not Apple was contracting with a 3rd party who talked to the FBI. Similarly regardless of whether Apple was talking to the FBI directly or was going through a 3rd party, both constitute Apple "being aware" of an FBI investigation. So this only works if Apple contracted a private 3rd party to audit their servers, the 3rd party found the chips, didn't tell Apple, and talked to the FBI all without informing Apple of the issue. This strikes me as extremely implausible.

Also, I don't think I'd accept the claim that "Apple has never found" is telling the truth if it was a 3rd party that found it. Because if a 3rd party informs Apple, that report right there constitutes Apple finding it.
Dice?
As terrible as Java shared development has been, it's at least a plausible model.

"We give up the ability to monopolize this technology in exchange for creating an alternative that the marketplace accepts."
Israel doesn't want it to be a conquest.

The current fiction is that they are going to end up with some sort of two state solution, with the Palestinians getting their own country. If instead, this is really conquest, then we have the one-state solution option. But Palestinians have more babies than the Jewish Israelis do. So in a very short time period the Jews will be outnumbered by Arabs in "their own country."

I suspect the most likely outcome of this whole fiasco, is that Israel continues to build on whatever land they like the best, and if the Palestinians ever get their own country it will be on whatever land is left over. Perhaps all they will have left is Gaza, at the end of the day.

Basically, the Palestinians are fucked.
> You could develop software for customer#1 and use the same software for customer#2 with a non-Copyleft license too.

No, I cannot. Work done for hire is owned by the employer, not the employee. But, if employer chose GPL-covered software, e.g. Linux kernel, then he is forced to release code under GPL, so I can develop my code, e.g. kernel module for customer #1 and then use it with customer#2, because GPL protects my freedom. I don't need to reinvent the wheel, like with proprietary code.
Until it doesn't.

Is it das Nutella or die Nutella?
All that time, however many years they own the stock, they are putting in neither bids nor offers, so they are completely uninvolved with the price. You put in an order, and it influences the price slightly for a matter of seconds. But if nobody traded, there would be no market price.
From the article, "Because the manufacturers haven’t yet proven there is significant enough life-safety benefit to a laser-based matrix system, regulatory reworking is a tough sell."

Because of the regulations, the burden is on the manufacturer to show the matrix light technology is actually safer than the traditional one.
"Lots of current" in this case would only be about 20mA, generating heat that you can easily dissipate from just the surface of a 0201 resistor. I doubt many microprocessors have pins that can drive higher current than that.

Realistically, in order to drive it low you don't have to bring it down to 0V. Most 5V chips will stop registering logic high around 2.5-3.3V for example.
Sorry, that was in no way meant to be a personal swipe. Was just saying that the comment sounds similar to someone saying that. I should have said 'the comment sounds like what someone would have said about horseless carriages'
I've seen this happen too. And have some insight from the seller side:

6 companies might sell the same product at varying prices, some of them uploading 1000s of items they have dropshopping for, but no real inventory. 1 or 2 may legitimately sell the product at a manually entered price that's competitive - when those sellers sell out, the others who dropship at cost+100% show up as the default seller.

The big dropshippers make their profit off infrequent, high margin sales that can be auto fulfilled when legitimate sellers run out of inventory.
The same capabilities that are necessary to test defenses against chemical and biological attacks also prepare the way for offensive applications. If party A doesn't trust B, they are naturally wary of B's calls for A to halt defensive research. If B doesn't trust A, they are naturally wary that said "defensive" research is merely a precursor to or cover for weaponization. Party Z may later come along and use the research of parties A-Y to their own ends (e.g. Aum Shinrikyo cribbing the chemistry of nerve agents from open chemistry literature, poisoning people for their own weird reasons.)

I personally don't think that DARPA actually wants famine-causing bioweapons. The US has a large nuclear arsenal should it ever want to inflict mass destruction on the world, and its incentives align against making mass destruction cheaper or more accessible. But I can also understand why countries the US is hostile to may be less assured than I am. I can also understand the point of critics who worry that if this sort of research becomes normal and openly published, results may be later weaponized by some group, maybe a group that's not even a nation state.

If you're interested in issues like this, I can recommend the book "A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare" by Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman. Caveats: I found some technical errors in areas where I have knowledge (chemistry). It goes beyond documented history into speculation in places. But it's what first introduced me to the complicated issues around trust and Janus-like defensive-offensive R&D in this area; those have remained useful insights.
XML...
Yes... the problem of autonomous cars is likely that of strong, general purpose AI.

Unfortunately, the politics around autonomous cars insists that human beings are basically idiots behind the wheel, so the problem seems more trivial than it is. After all, how hard can it be to design an AI smarter than an idiot?
A lot of this is coming from the supreme court allowing companies to enforce Minimum Advertised Prices for items, and to require high prices. Amazon largely doesn't want to play the "see the price in your cart" game, and so, the price is what the manufacturer says, unless it's during a specifically authorized sale.

Before the MAP ruling, manufacturers could not ban resellers based on pricing, and you saw a lot more Internet discounting on products that the manufacturer saw as "premier" items, that they didn't want reputationally-impacted by low sale prices.
I've long thought it a real possibility that people are constrained (in certain areas) by their language.

No expert and not disagreeing with you, but I'd be very interested to read any literature you can recommend on the subject.
Amazon leads the market for many reasons among those price, selection [1], reviews, and then with more recent shifts faster shipping. The goal isn't to beat Amazon the marketplace. The goal is to bring the Prime experience to other marketplaces. I don't believe it's a zero sum game.

Amazon is a lot more comfortable than they were 10 years ago, and you can already see that as a result in higher prices [1][2] and lower shipping SLAs. Lifting the rest of the market increases competition and helps all buyers have a better experience.

[1] http://www.samseely.com/blog/2016/5/2/the-amazon-flywheel-pa...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-more-expensive-tha...
[3] http://time.com/money/5256866/amazon-prime-membership-price-...
What the other child poster said. This is 90% of my job. It’s really fun a lot of the time and absolutely brutal the rest of it. Be prepared for things like writing code that checks the color or text styling of cells etc. people encode data in whacky ways
Really, dude? That made you “sad”?
It's not like the MISO line is tied to a power rail. You just need to sink more current than the output of the chip you are trying to override. So the driver is likely in the single digit milliamp range, and in any case, you don't care if you toast the output driver on that chip. In fact, if you do, bonus!
FTFY:

"Excel THINKS IT CAN DEAL with many gigs of data thanks to PowerPivot and the addition of an in-memory database."

It's so cute when I hit ctrl-downarrow on a blank sheet and Excel sends me to row 1,048,576. Wishful thinking because if I ever filled 1M cells with functions, well... lololololol... time to use JMP...
also what you are saying doesn't make any sense. word itself is the document editor. the format just stores the metadata and actual data. word takes that and turns it into the document you see. it almost seems like you are asking each doc file to be a standalone document and editor in one file.
> When I discover bugs in open-source projects during my day job (which is on a closed-source project), I will be much happier having those fixes merged upstream than having to maintain our own private fork.

And this, regardless of how you weigh the post's other objections to a CLA, is a very good reason to sign one for many contributions.
As long as you know how to access the data you store, it is mostly irrelevant what format it is in. Bytes are bytes, but less bytes means smaller files.
This apartment though has a second level of fakeness. What it offers is not so much a reproduction of reality as a reproduction of "influencer" life.

Are you seriously trying to present aspirational marketing as some new, "hyperreal" thing?

This is like the media comprehension version of "Each generation thinks it invented sex". We're not moving farther toward anything. We've been there since the nineteenth century.
There hasn't been a practical demonstration of the product yet, so there can't be a demonstration of demand.
Google CEO met with Pentagon military leaders to smooth drone AI tensions
Then use a real database. You probably have a SQLite dependency anyway, so take advantage of it.

Or don't, since SCMs are much better at diffing plain text than either.

> Also Excel could have formulas which might be useful somewhere and supporting formulas in config file is another level of complexity and almost certainly it'll be worse than Excel.

You'll have an easier time reimplementing Excel's formula system than basic arithmetic? I find that hard to believe.
A few answers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949299
It's not English pronunciation that's wrong, it's the spelling.
Good luck keeping it once manually driven cars are declared a public safety hazard and driving them is illegal.
At a time when Google is going to disown Android.
re iOS store, have a look at: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-protocol-c#license

If you need legal advice for your specific project and situation, speak to a lawyer.
Interesting. This discussion of such an anti-leverage point(?) of a language reminds me of Japanese, and not having plurals as first-class citizens :-)
We love Brex - they've been great to us and we love the integrations and easy receipt capture.
Dammit, I did it again. Sorry, thanks for calling me out. That's actually why i -like- HN, so few flamewars.
These days 20mA is a "high current" I/O. When you do the math on an 88-pin package, 20mA * N active outputs gets big pretty fast. The max total I/O current can be found somewhere around page 987 of the data sheet... don't stop reading early... :)

(edit: 88 I/O is a modest size microcontroller sort of chip)
I've always felt quite a bit of emotion contained in German, in a way that falls flat for me in English. Most American English writing has this simple form like "Fact. Fact. Fact. The end.". So much for emotional impact or nuance, but this could be a difference felt for your native language vs others acquired later on.
English grammar is far simpler than German grammar. Eliminating noun genders, declensions, and cases (as English does) is a great simplification over German. I've never understood the need for noun genders and I scratch my head at a society that makes its members memorize such useless information.

That said, German pronunciation is more regular than English pronunciation. Every letter combination is in most cases pronounced exactly the same in every word.

Take, for example, the vowel combination "ie." No matter where you see it in a German word, it will be pronounced "ee".

Likewise, the combination "ei" will always be pronounced "eye."

Contrast this with the scattershot pronunciations English has for the same combinations:

"Neighbor" uses "ay".

"Albeit" and "Atheist" uses "ee-i".

"Caffeine" uses "ee".

And so on.
point taken. I'd add tcpdump to the lot.
> People say "use a real database", fine, but where is the visual data entry?

Any visual DB client?

> Where are the easy adhoc reports?

Isn't that just queries? Then throw it into a view to "save".

> Where are the forms?

No idea what you're looking for here, but this sounds a lot like your first question.
If you can make insects that can deliver viruses to save plants you can use insects to destroy food supplies of "enemies" and cause famine.
I'm guessing you've never used these features if this is your comment.
Insurance firms send a clear message- fuck with us and we completely ruin you.

And before anybody downvotes me- please inform yourself- not a single person had to pay a penny more than what they had to pay before the price increase, except the insurance firms.
My former boss, in process of bidding for a bigger highway maintenance job, started with me with How can we do this in excel? Can we get all these X? etc basic questions, solved with vlookup or index or things. Things slowly shifted to just do this this & this, no desire of learning 5o know how, & the tasks became my extra responsibility, & anything breaks in that sheet because of long tangled inter-dependent cells, it will be my fault. Too much draining & taxing on mind.
Even worse, Bre-X was the largest gold fraud in history. It was a completely fake gold mine in Indonesia that was worth billions on the Canadian stock market, back in the 90s.
In the meantime, weren't there some very important European scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, etc who wrote almost entirely in Latin?
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I speak 8 languages from many separate groups (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese), and my impression is that languages truly put constraints on one's ability to formulate thoughts. Of course, mentalese, the unspoken one, is different, independent, but it's rare people retain it to their older age and by then prevailing cultural/linguistic currents shape their thoughts. Sapir-Whorf might be discredited as general hypothesis, but it might correspond to 95% practical state statistically-wise.
The fallibility of memory and the importance of evidence