skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe most of HN, but i'm not so sure about the majority of small dreamers on reddit who like investing
I was in a WeWork once for an event in Berlin, around 2015 I think. It was the weirdest experience I ever had. Objectively everything looked cool, elegant and comfortable. But it felt super fake, cold and inhuman at the same time.

Also I assume because it's a premium location that they rented or bought for that WeWork office, that their prices will also be premium. And honestly, if I can pay premium, wouldn't I just get my own office?

It all didn't really click together, so I never entered a WeWork office again. Instead it let me to wonder if the start-up world has reached it's peak.

Edit:
To not just say negative things. The CEO of WeWork is a super smart business man. Another commentor posted an interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOb_ogQJWeI) and I have to say I would also want to give this guy money. He's totally able to sell his vision as something that already exists and just needs your support to get it finished up.
It's not typical French behavior, it's typical behavior everywhere but the US and Asia. Only there you are expected to lie all the time.
In Europe you are better off telling the truth, even to your customers, not only the managers.
USA Digitizers
I guess liboobs is next?
Same talk (slightly updated perhaps?) in higher quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL-I3-C-KBk
> It's just claims and organizations raising money for battery reasearch.

BMW has partnered with Solid Power to develop solid state batteries for their vehicles. It doesn't mean they'll succeed but BMW thinks Solid Power is worth the investment of time and money:

https://companyweek.com/company-profile/solid-power

> Also battery performance degrades drastically at low temperature

Which is an advantage of solid state batteries. Here's some of Toyota's research:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/new-lithium-battery-...

It's more than just claims. Someone will develop a viable solid state battery eventually.
It's the first time I've heard about Weboob, and it looks like a genuinely useful package, I'm definitely trying it out.

As for the name, I can see the tool is created mainly by French people. Frankly, having some Americans ask them to change the name would have to sound bizarre to them.
Makes me wonder if he was threatened legally.
> Although USMCA was signed, it hasn’t been ratified by the US and, due to objections from newly elected Democratic House majority, probably won’t be ratified in its current form.

The House party structure doesn't apply.

Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides that the President has the “Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.” Ratification is thereby approved or rejected by the Senate.
Analyzing Positiveness in 160+ Holiday Songs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706785

490+ points
Surely Scunthorpe bots would raise alarms for git and gimp? They are full word matches, and in my culture the words are more offensive than boob.
As deanmoriarty mentioned, this "request for evidence" is issued by USCIS when we (employer) apply for a visa or an extension. In the last 1 year, RFE was more or less certain if one is working for an Indian employer. I had never even heard of that term before 2017.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/25/h-1b-visa-rfe-trump-admini...
Firefox Add-On to Turn on Dev.to's Night Mode
My layman-scifi-loving hypothesis is that its not a planet that we are looking for but the remnants of the novae which birthed the solar system. this star core is likely mostly iron and other heavier elements, and as such is incredibly dense. It will probably be a super earth only a few times the Earth's radius but with mass over 10x that of earth. While detecting gas giants is easier due to their infrared signature, one such dense star core in (or beyond) the Oort cloud would be practically invisible to us in the infrared searches and using starlight occlusion (due to its much smaller size).
> As for microwave ovens and other appliances, if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer. In that case, I think the user need not take cognizance of whether the device contains a processor and software, or is built some other way. However, if it has an "update firmware" button, that means installing different software is a normal part of use, so it is a computer.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Should TC39 design a new JavaScript standard library?
Can you explain what you mean? I don't see how open sourcing their UEFI implementation is in any way "bringing UEFI into windows".
From the description, it sounds like a giant Peltier device, not a steam turbine (otherwise why would they care about having a cold tank?). Solar farms also have a ton of space in between turbines so I’m not sure that metric is relevant. Additionally, since this device uses very safe materials (salt and coolant), there’s no reason you couldn’t dig a really big hole and shove the device inside...it would also provide some nice natural thermal insulation. When it comes to storing energy far from urban areas, cost is a much higher priority than energy density.
Do you have a link to the forum post about the Quiet Linear mod? I'd be interested in checking that out.

I used the Matias Ergo Pro with the Quiet Click switches pretty much exclusively before I got my Model 01, so I was already very used to that style of switch when I first got the board.
> The surgeon's office later told her that he belonged to two different medical groups. One was in Morgan's husband's health plan network, the other wasn't.

I got this one, it was mindblowing. For ER work, they'd bill through one practice, for scheduled appointments, another.

I got balance billed for $11k. My father, who worked in employee benefits for over 30 years, couldn't even figure out what was up at first. Then they filed to send me to collections because I kept refusing to pay (note, I'm in California and this billing is illegal for life-threatening emergency visits matching the situation I was in). Finally, the insurance company stepped in and covered me, but we were only able to achieve this because my family knew people personally at the insurer.

All kinds of messed up.
Love the work you're doing on observablehq mbostock! I am really impressed with the volume and variety of content you create. Especially love the generative art stuff!
If you haven't seen the exact video he's referencing it's here [1].

It certainly was nothing like just "fuzzy phone video". He had 360 degree video with fine detail clearly showing the thieves' faces up close, vehicles, and so on. His bait package also had GPS and several of the thieves took the packages home to open them. You can't have more condemning evidence. But this all begs the question. I expect that those thieves were indeed arrested, unlike the ones he caught on his home surveillance system stealing packages where indeed it was just some video snippets of the thieves taken from cameras several meters away.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo
"but because driving is better for everyone"

maybe "driving with rules", but driving literally kills via exhaust fumes. if you own a tesla, you've already dumped so much pollution into the air...

"it's what keeps the neighborhood valuable and your property value appreciating"

some people don't care about this stuff. they realise their time on this earth is too short to spend it on "lawn height requirements".

"The average person is pretty darn rational."

Humans aren't rational. At all. Reason is a rare tool. Case in point: the current advertising complex.
Yes. My reading is it would be a headset with eye tracking - such as the half dome prototype.

We also don’t know how much hardware assistance these headsets will have. So I
it could additionally refer to a headset with the ability to process or assist with this technique running on the hardware itself. This seems likely given the speed of eye movements and the need to reduce latency to generally imperceptible levels.
Do any Debian package names refer to anything which sounds violent?
If so, all offenders should be eradicated!

And how about that "fsck" thing, that seems like a thinly veiled swear word, too. I know I'm cursing if I have to invoke it ;)

Removal for an acronym ending in "boob" seems really over the top to me. Though in this apparently hyper-vigilant time in which we live, perhaps I'm not allowed an opinion since I am a male with only breasts and not boobs.
I used wireguard with a personal VPN [0] set up on DO. Worked great, although I occasionally had to tear down & set up a new server when it was detected.

[0] github.com/trailofbits/algo
Any plans for 2FA/MFA? A lot of businesses these days prefer or even require it for remote access. That would then make WireGuard a good alternative to OpenVPN in those environments.
But it’s the same product. Run by the same person.

It’s not like Zuck moved on to a different product besides trading trust for cash. How has he changed? If you’re an engineer and don’t get it then 20 year old Zuck is actually right about you.
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I hope pfSense implements this soon: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8786
This has been the de facto practice for ages in API integration. Everyone is doing it. When you grant Dropbox access to an app, can you say Dropbox is colluding with app developer?
That's how the law works. If YouTube were to start leaving the videos up, the complainers would just start sending proper DMCA takedown notices, and YouTube would be forced to take it down promptly.
If the difference between the trademarked word "meetup" and the non-trademarked term "meet up" is a single space, somebody could register a domain like "meetupwithfriends.com", call their company "Meet Up With Friends" and not face litigation from Meetup.com?
Nice writeup. I love this quote: "The first few times an engineer sees this kind of hype, they often think it's a structural shift. For engineers later in our career, we’ll often dismiss structural shifts as misplaced hype after getting burned too many times"
I was speaking of SQL, but if you can write it in SQL you can usually map it to SQLAlchemy. If worse comes to worse, you can use text() to drop down to raw SQL for just a portion of the query.

SQLAlchemy’s Postgres JSONB type allows subscription, so you can do Model.col[‘arrayfield’]. You can also manually invoke the operator with Model.col.op(‘->’)(‘arrayfield’).

So you should be able to do something like:

func.sum(func.jsonb_array_elements(Model.col.op(‘->’)(‘arrayfield’)).op(‘->’)(‘val’))

(Writing on my mobile without reference, so may not be fully accurate)
Thank you for that link. I tried manually setting up a VPN for my phone. It didn't work. After deleting my old wg0.conf (and adding the DNS to the client) it worked.
I'm not sure if I've misunderstood but I'm pretty sure this replaces TianoCore [1], incorporating some of its components.

[1] - https://microsoft.github.io/mu/WhatAndWhy/layout/
This just isn't true. The costs of the uninsured are not driving ibuprofen up to $60.

The % of people who are uninsured has halved in the last decade, and this hasn't changed a thing for insurance billing.
Best of luck brother/sister.

I was __very__ lucky to get to the end of the immigration journey successfully (got a green card after many years of H1B, I’m not Indian so my wait time was slightly less brutal), but those long years of uncertainty gave me PTSD and still to this day I live in fear of my permanent resident status being revoked for some irrelevant reason, even if I obviously legally followed the entire process, handheld by skilled attorneys. I have weekly/monthly nightmares in my sleep where I am abruptly sent back to my home country without recourse, which after so many years of living in the US is anything but home.

In perspective, these are very much first world problems, I constantly remind myself of that.
Replying to you, and ocdtrekkie.

I'm not alone! I know multiple coding languages but for fun coding (i.e. I'm not being paid to do it) I fallback to VB.Net as I just don't have to think about it, it just flows from my fingers. Once it's an EXE it's no different from C# and as no-one else has to support my code, who cares that it's in VB.Net. I actually don't understand the hate that VB.Net gets. I think maybe people are just biased based on their knowledge of bad VB code from the VB6 and earlier days.

I'm also a huge fan of ASP. It's small, fast, and super simple to deploy onto any Windows server. If you are just writing a small web based tool for end users that's easy for people to maintain, then ASP is still definitely the way to go for Windows Web servers. By comparison, I've recently converted a few ASP tools to PHP that run on the same spec of hardware (under debian, not Windows) and PHP is definitely slower than ASP.
I think it's more the gratuitous insertion of sex into an area that has nothing inherently to do with sex, not that the word is itself offensive.
the only problem i see is one thing. once you have the access token you can access all resources in all projects.

but besides that, you only breach/change your own account.
I mean keep in mind the GKE cluster does not use NetworkPolicy or other stuff to secure their cluster, too.
Well I'm the usually the one being radically free-speech, etc. And I guess mostly here too.

But: This project seems _really_ immature. Not that it should be banned for it in this case or any other. But you can't deny the intention behind it. And more: The photo you see on the projects website? You can find the un-edited original of it on the web. And the middle paper doesn't have the logos spirals on it... Which, again, is fine. But the naming is 100% intentional.
> I'm not sure that social advocacy should be a goal of the legal profession

It's generally not (outside of, perhaps, access to legal services, and the fact that legal advocacy is, itself, a proper subset of social advocacy.)

OTOH, lawyers don't stop being citizens, and social advocacy (in the broad sense) is a right and important role of citizens in a liberal democracy.
It's not just needing to have strong moral fiber, but also be willing to sacrifice whatever other parties in a negotiation offered for you lengthen the copyright period.
IANAL, however typically this depends on the likelihood of your business being confused with the original trademark holder. In theory, if your company is in an entirely different industry and sells unrelated products, you’ll be fine.

However in real life, corporations have near-unlimited budgets and will sue you anyway. See the Nissan.com saga for an example.

http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php
The "rule 34" of 2018:
If it exists, it offends someone. No exceptions.
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The name alone is likely not a problem, and it’s unlikely that other Scunthorpe names will cause problems purely on the name.

The authors of the project made the logo misyoginost (the OO) are two globes representing breasts, and there’s reports of other juvenile work in the same vein. That’s enough to cross the line.

There was a JS testing framework called Testacular, which was also fine until attracted more male genetalia references in the libraries extracted and the documentation, at which point it wasn’t fine anymore. Called Karma now.

Just a name can be can be unintentional, a language fub or acceptably silly and whimsical. But creating and attracting artwork, words, references and trolls makes things toxic.

There is a line, and it is the anti harassment team’s job to draw it.
Thanks to Brexit, Britain can now restore its draconian rules about kites and toy aircraft. Which was 50 metres. The EU-ruling is 150(300) metres.
> Saying that 'maven central' implies maven isn't decentralized would be the same as saying "Most go projects are on github, so go can't be hosted in a decentralized way because github is 'golang central'".

It's not, though. Because github isn't the default. You have to explicitly specify that you want a project from github every time you use it.

The difference might be minor from a technological standpoint, but it means a lot in terms of how centralized things become culturally.
For my thoughts on this, I'll just refer you to my post on a similar thread from a few years back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14196558

The rest of the thread will probably have some stuff you may find useful as well.
No, it's cyclists that typically die in a collision with other vehicles. But the behaviour of both contributes to the risk of accident.

I've seen cyclists drive the opposite way of the roundabout (at night), not using the lights. Breezing through crossings on red or where they had to yield. Seen them cutting into a traffic despite a broad, elevated, well maintained bike path along the same motorway. Taking pedestrian crossings without unmounting, and on and on.

So sure if the cyclist is not on the motorway the risk of fatality is indeed reduced - but not eliminated, as they still have to cross traffic. Pretending there is no responsibility on cyclists side is not solving anything.
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> You might as well complain that "modernism" isn't modern anymore or that "gothic" novels aren't from the same time period of gothic architecture... or that roman typefaces come from places other than Rome, or that italic typefaces aren't all from Italy.

I learned not to in front of people, but honestly, this is a problem - a problem of people introducing bad names, and then no one correcting them even decades later.
RHS seems right to me because it means the actions on the LHS happen consecutively.

To expand your example a bit:

class ShoutyContainer:
def __setitem__(self, index, value):
print("Assignment")

def lhs(): print("LHS")
def rhs(): print("RHS")
a = ShoutyContainer()
a[lhs()] = rhs()

Yields:

RHS
LHS
Assignment

If LHS were evaluated first, then it would be separated from the final assignment step by the RHS evaluation. That would be odd.
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Better to avoid computations on the Lhs entirely!
The Battle for the Name of Nissan
Ask HN:Django vs Static typed language's framework
There are new frameworks of static typed languages are available like crystal's amber and swift's vapor. What are the main advantages of these frameworks over Django ?
I mean, there's unlikely to be any official support of zfs on Mac and the fact Apple developed apfs recently could mean there's less appetite for community to port and support zfs on Mac.
Also the catalyst is patented and only made in one country (Israel).
I find that sometimes just talking about whatever pops into your head can make for good springboards into a fun conversation. Example: you’re talking and it stalemates, you look out the window and it’s snowing, so you say “ isn’t it crazy that no two snowflakes are the same?” And then the friend goes “yeah” so then you say “actually it kind of reminds me of people, we are all so similar, and there’s billions of us, but none of us are the same.” And just keep doing stuff like that until you find a new thread of conversation that sticks. When I find conversation hard, I usually notice that I’m second guessing my ideas, and thinking that it’s not worth saying whatever it is I’m thinking, and that’s what kills the convo, not that there’s nothing to say. You’re a complex human with complex thoughts, you’re insanely interesting and if you let your ideas out in a light hearted way, people will want to engage with them. Good luck!
> Slightly unrelated but note that many "American companies" are explicitly headquartered in the EU for tax reasons, and by structuring themselves in this way they are explicitly putting themselves under EU jurisdiction.

None of this matters to the GDPR. The GDPR targets companies “doing business” with EEA/EU residents no matter where the company is actually located. Even if you are a solely US company, if you are accepting orders from EU/EEA residents you have to be able to process GRPR requests. Think of it as a cost of doing business in that area. If you don’t want to do that, the. You are free to no longer process any EU/EEA residents data (some websites, the LA Times is one example iirc just completely lock EU IP’s because of this).

When it gets “merky” is defining that “doing business”.

Sure accepting payments and offering a service is clearly covered. But what if you ad supported. Are you doing business because you are exchanging access to your site for ad impressions which you get paid for? Who is processing that data? You or if the ad network one of your business partners who you have offloaded a task too? (Which is why domes of people/companies/ad men were shouting that the end was nigh before it came into force.)

But yeah as I said to you in another comment. Even if they were allowed to do business in Iran, the GDPR wouldn’t come into play here as they are not in the EU.

If they had any team members in the EU, they could try that route.
The update notification on macos can be removed by drag and dropping it out of the screen. But it will show up again (after 24h IIRC) if you don’t change your auto update settings.
In some cases, we're detecting the wobble in the star's light caused by the orbiting planet's gravity. We're not directly imaging the planet itself.
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> So instead of creating M packages * N OSes, we do it just once.

No, creating M packages x N OSes is exactly what we do. In fact, we create M+N package-managers x N OSes - and then also create MxN packages.

If you can write a language-specific package manager for all OSes, you can also write a non-language-specific package manager for all OSes, so I the "it doesn't work in all distributions" argument is just a symptom of my complaint. Instead of working towards a cooperative packaging solution where the effort of packaging can be re-used, we continue to create more and more special snowflakes and fragmentation.
I don't believe that copyright destroys culture, but I definitely believe that it limits it. Increased copyright policing in Japan could have an effect on a lot of dōjin circles, where a lot of derivative artwork occurs. I find dōjin artwork to be quite enjoyable, as it reminds me a lot of the Star War EU or mod communities for some video games that I play.
Elevation significantly increases visibility, such that the longest photographed distance on Earth is 443km :)
Wait. When I click the Hall of Shame all I see is a single link to a Twitter feed (probably my adblock is working). What kind of pattern is that? ;)
Oh, can you point me to more information about this?
They just keep pushing their spyware.
its already happened here in Vancouver, BC.

indian tech workers make up a huge part of startups to pre-IPO companies.

having said that glassdoor reviews show them to be awful places to work-shit pay, shit code, that turns to overtime.

I know one friend who was pretty much ousted by indian managers.

just don't expect new arrivals to respect or even be conscious of Canadian cultures or customs.

i hope they eventually learn and integrate here however.

not so great for tech workers already in canada.
That is something that would be built on top of WireGuard. I think some people are working on such projects, but the whole point of WireGuard "core" is that it's incredibly minimal in what it does.
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The most relevant looking link on the front page is

https://darkpatterns.org/hall-of-shame

which is just a link to Twitter

https://twitter.com/darkpatterns

.

Isn't this a dark pattern itself? :)
Why doesn’t Internet Explorer / Microsoft sandbox VBScript like Chrome does?
Gatwick airport suspends flights after reports of drones over runway