skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Quite the opposite, and that statement is obviously uninformed. The science behind dark matter is very precise and exact."

From what I have seen they can get precise post-dictions but not precise pre-dictions because there are so many free parameters (basically you can put dark matter wherever you need it).

>"I've given you the link to the complete articles and also highlighted the major points. Try to read and understand them fully, then search for more."

The claimed predictions from the 1970s and 1980s are not mentioned on that page.

Also, that "startswithabang" guy is more like a catholic inquisitor than a scientist. I wouldn't consider him a reliable source because this behavior indicates he lacks the required capacity for curiosity, he can only repeat what authority figures say:

"The blogger (@StartsWithABang) contacted @scilogscom on January 24 by replying to a 15-day old tweet that announced our blog’s move to the new domain. He tweeted “Bummed that @scilogscom is in the business of promoting contrarian scientist viewpoints.”, and asks the SciLogs.com community manager (@notscientific) “[Why] are you allowing @scilogscom to promote contrarian voices that undermine public understanding of [science]?”, adding “You have taken on “Dark Matter Crisis” blog, whose mission is to undermine all of physical cosmology & promote MOND.”

The two agreed to discuss the issue via email, with the blogger adding that he was “personally worried that you are promoting clicks & false controversy over quality science content”, and states that he is “very, VERY disappointed about this move that @scilogscom has made”.

By now the SciLogs.com community manager has explained to us what happened after these tweets. He and the publishing director responsible for SciLogs.com unfortunately assumed that the blogger’s criticism was justified. They decided to close our blog without conferring with others or asking us for a statement. After we complained about the discontinuation, they performed an internal investigation, which involved reaching out to astrophysicists and other people, and have realized that discontinuing our blog was a big mistake. We attribute SciLogs.com’s poor judgement to two factors: neither the community manager nor the publishing director has an (astro)physical background, it was the first time that SciLogs.com had experienced an attack against one of its blogs."
https://darkmattercrisis.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/the-dark-m...

Anyway, I can tell you know even less about this topic than me so let's leave it at that.
This doesn’t address his problem of dependencies being “halfway across my computer.”
For G-d's sake, people, just use Markdown everywhere but in cases where something else is really necessary!
What company has a track record of indefinitely supporting products/services which have failed in the marketplace?
Only promoting people who launch new products, so they end up with a ton of useless new products.
People outside of finance really underestimate how important excel is in the finance world. It really is the lingua franca ( or the universal software ) of the industry. It is so entrenched that even google hasn't been able to move the dial. One of the major selling points of google spreadsheet is that it is free. What google didn't realize is that finance companies are wealthy enough to afford to buy or license software. As poor high school or college students, we all used google spreadsheet, but in the industry, we all use excel.

There are so much sunk costs ( decades of excel worksheets and decades of technical know-how ) that most companies aren't going to switch to another spreadsheet and migrate all that data and retrain their employees.
One thing that sometimes gets lost in the "health care is inefficient" discussion is that one person's inefficiency is another person's living. The cost controls the paper appears to advocate for literally mean someone is making less money, that someone will advocate strongly against it. I've spent the past 3.5 years in healthcare, everyone is convinced they're not the problem, that they're underpaid or overworked or whatever. I would love for some sort of centralized system to push down costs, but I fear it's not realistically every going to happen.
The concept of reification exists only in the context of a chosen language and its universe of objects, and it doesn't extend to the language's implementation. Given the language Haskell and its universe of objects, Data.Typeable provides a reification of Haskell's types into physical objects inside that universe. The type class dictionaries are not physical objects inside this universe.
1TB HDDs are expensive per GB though. The sweet spot is at 4 or 6T these days.
You grasp that you're not the talent. The job is to facilitate and enable those that are. You are Brian Epstein, not John Lennon.

Someone who brings their team achievable goals, and the resources they need, and then gets the hell out of their way.

Someone who encourages leadership (in all its many forms) to come from within the team, and doesn't see it as a challenge to their authority.

Someone who understands that respect is not magically granted by position.

Someone willing to make decisions - sometimes tough ones - on behalf of the team, to communicate both with and on behalf of the team, and defend the team's integrity and autonomy.

Someone who understands that communication starts with listening.
Poland saved Europe from ACTA: can they save us from ACTA2?
Google Talk was simply too good to exist. :(

https://i.imgur.com/U6X92u8.png
I was in a hurry. I forgot to add where the reification comes in! Scheme's call/cc is just taking the current function frame's return address closure and passing it as a function argument to the function given to call/cc -- this is the reification of the current function frame's return address closure.
One describes the how and the other describes the what and the why. They're not the same thing at all.
This is about to get better - check out https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/pull/3304.
XML just leaves a way too much space for quirks.
Google's main problem is that they only promote people for releasing new products. So all the engineers and product people are highly incentive to only work on new launches. Doesn't even matter what it is. So now they end up with all these garbage products laying around, none of which make them any money.
Not just downvoted, flagged off the front page like a brick, while this fluff is on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606070

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612237

I love how all people talking about the second piece refute it, but it has over 30 upvotes.

Maybe it's not a social phenomenon, maybe it's the fact that people can vote and flag without that being public, on a site that requires nothing but a password, posting some generics about programming to get 500 karma and off you go.
Quick: name one specific project by George Soros.

Among the reasons why the criticism of him is generally seen as Anti-Semitic is that it rarely goes any further than "rich Jew". The Open Society Foundations supports hundreds of initiatives. They are all listed on their website. Go find something objectionable!
Internet censorship: how the German law became an example to follow in Russia
Facebook gave Netflix and Airbnb preferential access to data, documents reveal
JSON is harder to edit manually, honestly. Don't do it. Use an editor that supports editing the format.
I love setup.cfg, I've used it for years and indeed pyproject.toml is useless given that setup.cfg has existed for frickin ever at this point (and is supported by a multitude of tools). TOML is nice but its support isn't even in the stdlib which makes it very awkward to use for a core file like that.

Here are some examples of my libs/apps using it in the real world, if someone needs references for how to use setup.cfg with an empty or near-empty setup.py:

https://github.com/jleclanche/python-bna/blob/master/setup.c...

https://github.com/dj-stripe/dj-stripe/blob/master/setup.cfg

https://github.com/jazzband/django-oauth-toolkit/blob/master...

https://github.com/jazzband/django-push-notifications/blob/m...

Edit: I see you mention attr: src.__version__. I personally prefer doing it the other way around, with the version defined in setup.cfg and a pkg_resources snippet in __init__.py (https://github.com/HearthSim/python-hearthstone/blob/master/...).

To be honest I wish __version__ were automatically defined like that (but more reliably). Do you know if this was discussed in a PEP?
That's exactly what the parent is saying. We're not shutting down coal mines - they're just being made noncompetitive but in the long run that amounts to the same thing.
Europe's assault on American internet companies escalating
Is it possible "Right to Work" is a euphemism?
setup.cfg lets you configure setuptools with declarative syntax. pyproject.toml lets you replace setuptools with something else. The PEP explains why they didn't just reuse setup.cfg.[1]

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#sticking-with-setu...
It's possible but I think you are vastly overestimating how much rest of the world cares about HN.
> One thing that sometimes gets lost in the "health care is inefficient" discussion is that one person's inefficiency is another person's living.

You are not entitled to a living as bureaucratic waste. We should of course help retrain those who lose their jobs, just as we're doing for coal workers who are going to be out of a job within the next five years. I want my healthcare dollars going to healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, CNAs, drug research R&D, medical technology innovators), not private insurance companies, not administrators or third party billers, and most assuredly, not shareholders. I want the AMA to be handicapped from preventing us from dramatically increasing the number of doctors in the US (the American Medical Association operates as a cartel/cabal, attempting to limit supply to keep wages high); they also attempt to reduce the authority given to nurse practitioners [1].

> I would love for some sort of centralized system to push down costs, but I fear it's not realistically every going to happen.

The majority of Americans say the government should be responsible for ensuring health care coverage for all Americans [2]. Universal healthcare will arrive in the US eventually, the question is when. The current model is unsustainable, and will reach a tipping point.

[1] https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20171214/NEWS/17121...

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/13/more-america...
At least this story was written deliberately in a style that brought you in, even if you didn't know where you were going, and you were happy to come along for the ride.

OTOH there are quite a few articles in HN like "Update 2.1 on WhizBangBlahBlah" and I have to read half the article before I know what a WhizBangBlahBlah is and why I might want one. :/
yep - I think this is the original article -and a good primer / explainer for these patterns: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.

I pointed out that a couple of the phrases in the contract, when combined, indicated they would have IP rights to EVERYTHING I did not just work they paid me for.

They moved on to another candidate.
It would be interesting to see what the current US president would do in response to that. They are not exactly dealing with a rational man.
That's a good incentive to use public transit.

Fun fact: Luxembourg is about the population of Milwaukee and the size of Rhode Island.
> it's very hard to find a job that doesn't look exactly like the 5 last jobs you had

That's funny, I've never had a job that was exactly like any of the other jobs I've had. Depending on how picky you are, I've never had a job that was even particularly similar to any of my previous ones.
The issue is not the variance of a specific data structure, but of how variance itself is expressed, which differs from one language to another. What you described is one variance policy.
Google considers what most small startups would consider a success, a failure.
x is usually years, not months. I think that 3-4 years is closer to a long sabbatical.
What a weird article. The latest brouhaha is about memory, not storage. The website shows a NAND SSD though as the main picture... strange... and incorrect.
I mean, if you have jq... But yeah, it won't be easy because the schema is necessarily bloated with stuff and highly recursive. You'll end up preferring XPath, IMO. And XSLT.
Maybe this petty fight between nation-states will finally do what financial legislation could not.
Six Months In, GDPR’s Impact Uncertain in the U.S
It's kinda scary that the US can do anything about straw purchases. US company sells to HK company, the stuff becomes property of HK company, US should be completely out of the goddamn picture at this point, HK company sells to Iran, done. The US govt must not be able to do anything about the HK company's intention to resell.
How do you think Thor’s hammer works when it’s sitting on the toilet seat?
Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Zero Trust, Biometrics, IoT, and GDPR
Planet ain't going anywhere. Only us.
Does anyone have a good alternative for someone who is not tech savvy at all and on an Android phone?

I set this up on my mom’s phone because she doesn’t get good enough cell reception at or around her place so an internet based messaging system works best. She is in very poor health and can barely hold the phone so something that doesn’t have a lot of small icons and in general just easy to setup and use would be great.
Another one to the cemetery
https://killedbygoogle.com/
PyCharm can!
Qupzilla also was a nice one until they killed it and migrated the code to KDE (triple facepalm).
Not much at all. You use the traditional system to wake up the more powerful radio/mcu.
Right, exactly! It bugs me that we have a wealth of examples and could have just said: "Look. Here's yarn. Do that, but for Python. Don't try to be too creative."

Poetry looks like it did just that though and I'm warming up to it at a very high speed.
Ah yes, my bad. The lawsuit in that article is indeed specifically about DRAM. A lot of the reporting on this mixes them up for some reason. But the DRAM and NAND industries are largely the same companies and both have been under investigation for price fixing recently.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261330-china-investiga...
Bangladesh's problem isn't that it's so close to sea level it's that it's poor. California's problem isn't that droughts make forest fires it's that they're aren't quite so rich that they can live in the middle of a tinderbox.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611135

2 fluff pieces, and the story that the linked comment attached to flagged off the front page right quick.

Maybe you want to take a crack at why?
There are several common things to look at, just off the top of my head. These all take practice.

1. Organization skills/project management skills: ability to pull together internal/external resources, ability to create clear plans, ability to build relationships with other teams to make cross-team collaboration easier

2. Communication skills: ability to deescalate and mediate conflicts fairly, ability to give both positive and negative feedback regularly, ability to create psychological safety, ability to deliver bad news while maintaining psychological safety, ability to run efficient meetings, ability to make unpopular decisions while still commanding the team's respect, ability to engage with different personality types and communication styles

3. Delegation skills: ability to translate ambiguous directives from above into actionable tasks for the team, ability to arrange tasks so that individuals have the creative freedom to figure out how to do it, predictability in decision-making, ability to shield team from external pressure, ability to give negative feedback immediately, ability to fire low performers before they fester into team morale and culture problems

4. Coaching skills: ability to give targeted advice, ability to match employee's own aspirations and growth objectives to projects, enough technical expertise to point people in the right direction, ability to evaluate skills and hire for them
This might not be directly on point but there have been several law review and social science articles pointing to the Canadian constitution as being the preferred template. Here's a link to the PDF of an article that appeared in the NYU Law Review.

https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NYUL...
Google have all but eroded all trust in their chat products. I can't see anyone adopting anything they ever release in the future, they are going to have to purchase an existing successful product.
I certainly wasn't going to use Allo or anything else after they killed Hangouts.
> A country locking up a foreigner for breaking their laws

It is absolutely crazy to think that US law should apply worldwide.

The article does not even mention if Wanzhou Meng is US citizen who broke US law in the US.

This case might be retaliation and fear mongering similar to the case of Julian Assange which is pure retaliation and fear mongering.
So light it was floating over the wall
Few, but that isn't really the situation here. Google creates largely overlapping products that are bound to be consolidated or shut down altogether, and this is usually clear at the start. If I may rephrase:

What company has a track record of creating duplicate products/services and then abandoning them, allowing most to fail in the marketplace?
Sure, and I think that works here. But what do you say when the entire comment doesn't make any sense because it was formed from an incorrect view of what the article was really about, like in the example I linked? I guess "do nothing" is the option I choose, still frustrating.
You do not have a right to not be arrested in China. Why would you think that? They can arrest you for any reason at any time if you are on their land.
> How does she unlock her front door?

For many people, there's no need to unlock the front door because it's never locked. Having to lock your door just means you're living in a terrible neighborhood.
I see no one mentioned luakit (https://luakit.github.io/). From the site: "Luakit is a highly configurable browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible with Lua, and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and anyone who wants to have fine-grained control over their web browser’s behaviour and interface."
Skype is still everyone's go to.
Sure, that's fair.
> For example, you sell a business to someone who pays you a big premium for your goodwill value usually tied to the value of the customer base. It is entirely fair that, having taken the money in exchange for the sale of your goodwill interest, you not be able to turn around the day after the close and effectively steal it back from your buyer by setting up a competing business and conducting raids to get back your old customers. A reasonable restriction on your ability to compete in that case makes eminent sense and is not in any way unfair.

During the sale the customer information and contacts can be (and by default usually are IIRC) considered an asset of the company, as such the seller reusing contacts can be considered a form of corporate espionage and can be prosecuted in that manner.

This holds just as clearly for departing employees, making unauthorized use of a company's assets after leaving a company is illegal whether it's sneaking in and using your old office or continuing to use contacts, just because in one of those cases the data might be in your phone doesn't change the legality.

But! This sort of corporate espionage is rather common and hard to prove. This brings us back to the commonly known point that sales people have a habit of ruining it for everyone else /s
I have infringed on copyright, and I have gotten two warnings over it, which were enough to get me to stop doing so on my home connection.
I don't see the connection. Right to Work laws say that workers can't be forced to join a union. They don't say that workers can't voluntarily join a union; so why should they say that workers can't voluntarily sign a non-compete?
Why not WhatsApp?
Very simple interface, although rumour has it, ads might start appearing soon.
People use Hangouts. No one I know has ever used Allo. It hasn't even come up in conversation, even when they were marketing it. Hangouts, on the other hand, I get meeting requests all the time that include a Hangouts link. It's a quite popular technology...in my, admittedly limited, experience, it is a leading option, if not the leading option, in the "let's schedule an online meeting" sort of way.

So, I have no idea why they're killing Hangouts and it isn't clear to me what I'm supposed to use instead (as I also use Hangouts for that "let's have a meeting" purpose, and no one has ever said, "can we use something else?"). But, I see clearly why they're killing Allo. It could have literally zero users, for all I know. But, Hangouts definitely has a lot of users.

I don't think one should group the killing of Allo in with the killing of Hangouts. Killing Allo is a no-brainer, as it was seemingly a bad idea with no market fit (I mean, I guess...I never even looked into what Allo was, because I was happy with Hangouts, but the market has spoken, for sure).
From an Xoogler's perspective, the launches are all about the promos. Eg, just think about all those engineers who would not have gotten a promotion because then they would not have had a product launch in their promo packet.
Want to Be a Hacker? Go to Dallas
Let's try applying the same logic to another field.

"Without another solar system to act as a control, and astronomical timescales in which to perform the experimentation, the science is bunk. Our understanding of the solar system must rely on models which are constantly being tweaked to better fit the observations (first Newtonian gravity, now special and general relativity too!)"
Yeah, and "thou shalt not make deals with brown people in Persia" is a totally different law from from "thou shalt not collaborate with an imperialist".
The law broken was a US law which 'applies worldwide'. The actual supposed crime occurred in a trade between China and Iran.

No other country could make a law like that and have any success in enforcing it abroad.
> The US govt must not be able to do anything about the HK company's intention to resell.

What does that statement mean?
Not being able to work a job on your career path freezes it in place, while your physical body continues to age at the same rate. Thus, there is even a case to be made for > 100% compensation.

If you don't choose to retire a year later, the year you sit out is costing you what you would have been making in the last year of your career.

To explain in more detail, starting with the year you return to a career job, your pay may be reduced by a differential representing one year less experience, for every year until the end of your career. You miss out on the pay for the year you didn't work, plus all the raises between years, and the one raise you never got, because your career was one year shorter. All that adds up to the pay you would have otherwise received in the last year of your career.
+1

The capabilities provided by a tool like Leiningen[1] just makes everything even tangentially related to dependency management an absolute breeze.