skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's the only answer, and it's a good one! It will be great and benefit everyone if Microsoft can pull that off on all platforms.
Upload Multiple Files to Firebase  – Time to Hack
Previously
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464496
It sounds more likely that this is the real story. Jobs, from everything I’ve read, was the ultimate needler, and quoting over a whiteboard sounds like the very last action of a series of bullying actions. The fact that there is so much mythology around Jobs and Pixar that necessitates these clarifications really makes me believe that this is the case.
>Kenya is not Sri Lanka, it's a wealthier country.

Is it?
Measured by GDP, they are lower than Sri Lanka.

What metric are you using?
How can this be downvoted?

Did Argentina get trapped in debt with IMF because a meteor hit Buenos Aires?

Did a tsunami hit Athens?

These countries burned through their reserves with no responsibility at all, reserves which were hard earned money from the population, and people demonize the IMF alone?
No, he doesn’t. Dude, HE OWNS A HOUSE.

An overdrawn checking account PLUS A HOUSE is not the same as an overdrawn checking account in isolation. This guy is not poor. HE LITERALLY OWNS A HOUSE , dude. He doesn’t “need” the income any more than a rich person “needs” more riches.

Given his status as a man with assets masquerading as a man without them (“I own a house but my checking account is overdrawn, therefore I need money!!!”), It’s obvious that he took the gig primarily (or, more likely: solely) in order to write this article. Pretty dishonest that he doesn’t mention that IMO.
All the tunes use a single harmonic series. The bugle is a 1/4 stub transforming the impedance of the open air to the impedance of the lips. This will work at 3/8, etc, so multiple frequencies are available.
Other VPS like DO are toys in enterprise they don't offer anything useful, you get cheap VPS but that's it, DO is good for home side project.
Some of this functionality just doesn’t exist (no way to track gc when you have no gc), some of it uses C/C++ tooling (syscalls can be straced), some of it is just different (suspend points aren’t implicit), and some of it is on the way (tokio-trace is basically the real equivalent here but either doesn’t quite exist yet or is very new, I forget which to be honest).
is this site almost unusable for anyone else? hmm just seems to be in chrome.. smooth in ff
I think when compared with Chinese imperialism, people will miss the US
Interfacing Amazon DynamoDB with Python Using Boto3
It doesn’t sound terribly spiteful. He praises Jobs as a great businessman!
I've never heard of them, which leads me to doubt their credibility. One particular problem on the continent at the moment is the wild rise of fake news on subjects ranging from politics to even entertainment. Mostly circulated via whatsapp through random blogs. For general Pan African news content I recommend the following
- Africa Report
- Jeune Afrique (Translate, its in French)
- Africanews.com (Relatively new, but has a CNN like approach)
- Al-Jazeera (some great African content at times)
- BBC Africa (can be a bit basic but gets the generals mostly right)
- Bloomberg Africa
There are better national specific resources than these, but you'd have to have an interest in a specific country to care about those.
Not for all applications, but for enough applications to make it well worth it.
Sorry, I seem to have missed the ‘well-laid out argument’.

All I’m asking is that people read facts about the World Bank and make their own opinions.
I guess this could be useful for small ISPs in the US who don't want to pay for an iptv platform or is this more for people with security camera networks?
This is not the case in practice for most of what I'm doing, most of the time. I'm more of a power use than a typical user perhaps but I also have much higher end hardware than a typical user and I'm continually frustrated by performance issues that are primarily CPU, GPU or local storage related, although the network being a limiting factor is also common.
Tell HN: HN users getting spammed
I received this:

Subject: [Is this company good?]
Hello,

I've seen your HN comments and I would like to ask your opinion about this company: https://aaaccell.ch/

Do they look like a serious startup to you, or they just want to outsource to Romania (check the career page)? I've investigated the founders and they don't seem to have any engineering systems at the moment. So, is this just marketing?

Thanks,
Vali
I'm not seeing the spite. The author several times credits Jobs for his actual contributions (such as the IPO), calling them/him "brilliant". It reads as a fairly factual and neutral setting-straight of some common misconceptions, while still giving Jobs plenty of credit for his actual contributions.
Why is that so absurd? They have a strong left-wing viewpoint, heavy on solidarity and anti-capitalist/anti-fascist thought.

I see no racism not calling for enforced monogamy or the taking of rights away from trans people or minorities, or anything of the sort.
It was, but it wasn't actually condemned. In fact, the West scrambled for Africa. They still are, just that they have another player who doesn't play by their rules now.
Runtime Type Check looks very useful when developing a system which communicate with other systems, cause we cannot perfectly predict other systems output.

I am grad to give you some development hints!
Startup idea: Suspect sketches using GANs
The title isn’t the title of the article. Furthermore, Im bothered that we’re starting to see words like “sad” and “disgusting” being used as full sentences.
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I am an African and I live in West Africa. I think China is doing great job for the continent and it is helping Africa upgrade her infrastructure.
But we Africans should know that sustainable development and transfer of technology cannot come if we fail to build our own indigenous peoples and companies. Nobody is father Christmas, everybody is there to maximize his gains. So , we Africans should wake up and take our destiny into our hands.
I have some concerns with Chinese loans, they are tied to we using only Chinese companies, Chinese technologies, and in most cases only Chinese labour. This shows that Chinese loans are not in the same class as World Bank own. There is nothing like open bidding and fair pricing mechanism. If we use only Chinese oriented inputs what benefit is their for the local communities and businesses? We must nurture , support , and empower our people and businesses.
Chinese is just trying to continue her 'supersonic' growth via African loans.
We have been mixing cement and granite before now , suddenly we are watching foreigners doing same in our backyard. This is inexcusable, and I cry each time I pass such site.
Posting the link[0] is nicer than posting a link to a tweet unless it's the tweet itself we're interested in.

[0] https://medium.com/@mobilehackersio/flutter-developer-top-ne...
How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
When I first started dabbling in front end code about 3 years ago, Vue really was easier for me to jump into. But part of that was the react didn't really have the simplest tutorials or articles on making a simple stupid page in the way that made logical sense to me.

Everything started with "Start with your webpack file" and I wanted to just swear off front end forever.

So vue was a breath of fresh air at the time. Then I started at a company where react was the norm and I can't imagine going back to vue at this point.
Netflix maintains their own CDN for video content. They place a rack (multiple racks?) in many different datacenters close to the ISP last mile (possibly within some ISP's own datacenters?).

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Sounds great. Thanks for sharing!
Your argument is that, because they had a fair trial and were found guilty, it is ethical to force them to work without compensation?

> Over the years, the courts have held that inmates may be required to work and are not protected by the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude. They have also consistently held that inmates have no constitutional right to compensation and that inmates are paid by the ‘grace of the state.”

https://www.gao.gov/assets/220/217999.pdf
Reading the part about them wanting to monopolise all leisure time is tipping me towards unsubscribing next year.
The Michael Jackson Script is an absolute joke and had arisen solely from NodeJS attempting to solve its own require legacy. It’s not the business of any other party to do such a ridiculous thing.

.mjs is an aberration, a solution to a poor implementation of one web server, not a solution. NodeJS need to do the hard work of solving their own problem and stop attempting to manufacture “real world solutions” with .mjs.
COBOL Forever
imagine when people first starting telling stories 50k years ago, how it must have felt to listeners at the time "but these people you speak of don't exist!"
I suspect it's the same, but operates thousands of times faster.
Yeah, I could see a language taking the position that referencing fooBar as FooBar is an error, and that level of case-sensitivity makes sense to me (my name is Martin not martin) but allowing both Martin and martin to exist as distinct identifiers is crazy.

On the subject of spaces, I do wonder why no language has used enough punctuation to make spaces allowed in identifiers. I mean, most Algol-derived languages could get away with it if they put punctuation between type keywords and variables:

private, my class: my instance = my factory function(my parameter one, my parameter two);
I don't see how I can't understand the Italian situation if I'm not living in Italy. The link I posted in my previous comment was from a "real newspaper". There are hundreds of links like that, all from "real newspapers" documenting the damage that the Camorra/Ndrangheta/Sicilian Mafia has done and how they're even expanding and threatening European mainland. I stopped buying Italian olive oil because odds are it's been tampered with by the clans. Even the Italians I know in Northern Europe prefer buying Greek and Spanish oil!

You may not like Saviano but a lot of what he has written and predicted in his book has been validated. The fact that he unmasked Camorra at grave risks to his own life makes it hard for me to see him as "gaining" or exploitative. He lives his life in hotel rooms or police barracks under constant guard [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-roberto-sa...
Forbidden Power (2018)
Working on being more social is something I’ve started to focus on as well. As someone who deals with mental health issues, I find great relief and satisfaction after spending time with friends.

I say this as someone who didn’t really do anything fun during the vast majority of college and tried to work hard.

Without spending time socially (outside of daily interaction) I was really just sabotaging myself.

Also, living on my own now and working a full time job, I think it’s important to focus on it to make sure I don’t let my mental health slip out of self imposed isolation (which has been a recurring theme in my life).
Prisoners in the US have largely been screwed into pleading guilty through a horrific bail system combined with malicious plea deal bargains (over 90% of convictions did not go to trial - https://theoutline.com/post/2066/most-criminal-cases-end-in-...). The Chinese camps are terrible in a different way, that doesn't excuse any of the inadequacies of the US prison system.
As a senior dev, doing remote work for a team that seems to be mostly junior devs has been some of the most frustrating things I've ever had to deal with in my dozen or so years of software development. The project manager asks for phone calls (never less than 45 minutes long) 3 or 4 times a day, all throughout the day for status updates and to discuss plans (which mostly consists of me listening to people talk over each other about things they don't understand). All this on top of a project deadline that was just on the edge of being impossible to meet. It felt like a death march, (I was told it wasn't crunch at one point, so they were trying to gaslight me as well) and it would have been so much better for everyone if they would have just let me work.

I've also been on on-site teams where only one or two junior devs work remotely. This always seems to work out poorly, but based on my observations it's usually due a combination of only being willing to only pay entry level rates, and failing to set deadlines for them. When we waited 4 months on a remote while he apparently just spun his tires on a simple bug, even after I explained the fix to him (it was ~4 lines, I basically said "try looking in X file on line Y, if you fozz the frob, does it fix it?") and he just like, could not. Also he'd have "internet issues" practically every day. Now the company is skittish about remote workers, even though it was obviously their own incompetence in managing him.

I know I personally do my best work when working remote, provided I'm not being pestered constantly. I just wonder if the "remote workers are bad" thing because it seems that many people seeking remote dev work are just starting out in programming or trying to transition from other jobs thinking those high paying computer programming jobs sound easy.
This is just p-hacking. It's really sad that in 2018 researchers are still pumping out garbage like this. All of these toxo behavior studies have been very poor quality. For example, there's been a few studies purporting that folks infected with toxo have significantly higher rates of schizophrenia. However, this is false, because toxo rates differ by 2-3x between first-world countries but yet the schizophrenia rate is mostly consistent.
Did Qatar pay you to add ‘disgusting’ to the title?
I didn't even notice that, but I think you're right--the two points don't play well with each other.

I think what I meant to say is that what I tend to do is debate between doing multiple things, but then I end up doing none of them. I try to think things through--which thing would be best? which would help me the most?--but ultimately I sit there idly watching things go right past me. My goal in being more conscientious and deliberate is to cut through the decision paralysis and pick a decision and try to see it through to the end. What you mentioned resonates with me--getting stuck in thinking circles. I have been doing that for the past few years and maybe even the past decade if I'm being honest with myself. It hasn't been a pleasant place to be in, to say the least.
Why the 2018 Crypto Rout Was Needed for Long Term Growth
The Fairytale Prisoner of Choice: The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump (2017)
I think people are overstating the chinese capacity to run a world-class imperialist project. China still has a long way to go to making their own country functional before they can do this kind of outreach
I'm not convinced (they may in ideal condition, but it does not appear that the Sennheisers or Nuraphones have a boom - they're just headphones with a microphone, so I'd be skeptical of their performance in a noisy environment or if you're typing on a keyboard or any other distracting audio input; as I said I love my wireless Sennheisers and Plantronics for listening, but there are times I still want 3.5mm option) , but for the sake of the argument, my question remains - how would _your_ experience be worse, if your phone also had a 3.5mm jack?

(and lest we go down the argument of "what, do you still need a parallel port" etc - this is a standard that existed, depending on how you count, anywhere between 50 years and a century, which still performs the function cheaply, reliably and conveniently; whereas that lightning to 3.5mm to charging dongle will, if all goes well, be in the dustbins of history in 5-10 years or less - and we'll see how well the Bluetooth headsets work with audio devices 10 years from now)
I wrote an implementation of FFT based on a few choices that people may find useful. It is at:

https://github.com/gregfjohnson/fft

It is not the fastest or most full-featured, but it does have a few useful features.
1 - written in C, small, self-contained, trivial to download and build.
2 - uses mixed radix implementation, so data files with length other than powers of two work ok, depending on the largest prime factor of the length of the input.
3 - input and output formats either real scalar, rectangular, or polar complex values.
4 - convenient to use with other shell commands; works with pipes or files.

I am super-thankful for open source and all of the dedicated contributors out there, and want to give back however I can!
It wouldn’t be surprising if the author made $500 or less from this piece.
It has become popular on the left to blame the IMF for a country’s problems, when the IMF is the last resort for a country that has shot itself in the foot. Some people can’t handle reality when it conflicts with their fantasy.
> just write a new file you export data to be shared with someone else.

There's no good way to distinguish. Add separate File/Export command? Users will forget to use it. Add a checkbox on file dialog? Similarly, users will forget to check it. It's very unreliable.

The only reliable way is treat every save as "export data to be shared with someone else".

> proprietary file formats

Very few left, the industry has moved towards open formats. For example, MS Word documents are zipped XMLs, ISO/IEC 29500.
World Bank puts Sri Lankan GDP ~$87bn USD to Kenya ~$75bn, per capita the gap is wider, Sri Lanka ~$4,000 to Kenya's $1,500
It's no surpise that it should be herdlike, since the algorithms are operating with much of the same information.
If you feel you can come up with a better solution for module syntax ambiguity please feel free.

Over the last three years we (including hundreds of devs like you who come in guns blazing calling us all idiots) haven't been able to come up with something that works better.
William Gibson foresaw that one ages ago.
Yes! That's a very good point!

How is a data-formatting mini-language supposed to sensibly deal with this?

RFC3339 specifically prohibits the idea of unknown dates/months...
Simple, i self medicate. ive learned enough both about myself and basic pharmacology to fairly effectively manage it
While we can debate the relative merits and demerits of the CFA, it is still quite very strange and quite frankly colonial that the arrangement continues.And there have been coups in the past in the West African subregion which call into doubt this argument that Francophone African states have much sovereignty to change the situation.

Furthermore, regardless of the relative merits and demerits of the monetary zone, it can't be denied that France has an overt influence on its former colonies. Most of West Africa is essentially a French backyard policywise as France's political economy is highly dependent on African natural resources(Oil from Gabon, Uranium from Niger, Maganese and phosphate from some of the smaller Franco West African states). France's behavior is quite strange especially when one can see how Britain, Spain, Portugal and Italy largely don't politically matter on the continent anymore.

Lastly, one just has to compare the state of Francophone African states towards most of the Anglo states, they are on by definition normally poorer and more fragile. The likes of Togo, Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, and Guinea are on the whole basketcases, and play a part in why West Africa, which is the region China has lended to the most is the poorest.
As the article points out, passive funds, which have become a dominant force in the stock market, own the same stocks as everyone else in the same proportion.

When passive funds as a group have net outflows, all their holdings must be reduced in roughly the same proportion. But passive funds as a group cannot reduce their holdings by selling stocks to each other! It's impossible to take water out of a boat by scooping water from one spot and pouring it back into the same boat in some other spot!

Therefore, to reduce holdings, passive funds (or their broker-dealers) necessarily must find other -- i.e., non-passive -- buyers willing to take those stocks at some market-clearing price. Alas, everyone else, in the aggregate, also owns the same stocks in the same proportion.

Potentially, this can produce temporary imbalances between passive net sellers and non-passive net buyers that get corrected via declines in price. Passive net sellers, being price agnostic, do not care; they're on automatic.
> I recommend that you read facts about what they do before reading random opinions online (from brand new accounts, especially).

I could make the same argument against this website:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=africanstand.com
" It's easy to forget to handle one of these five cases."

/feels cold shiver wondering if i've every used read()/
Better infrastructure doesn't help the local economy?
Just to clarify:

It has NO microtransactions or ads or other annoying mechanisms.
You're Smarter Than You Think
Geezus, not that type of health insurance. We're an insurance provider over a century old, blue cross and blue something or other. We're not in the business of death panels, and we have similar feelings towards the tin-foil-hat wearing masses that Catholic priests likely have towards people who assume since some priests are pedophiles, they must all be pedophiles. Some insurance companies(in the minority) are driven by greed and have a reputation that reflects that. Not all priests are pedos, and not all(or any that I've heard of) insurance providers are murderous thugs trying to extract every last cent of wealth from their customers. We're a non-profit organization for that matter. If we somehow extracted a ton of wealth, we wouldn't be allowed to keep it anyway.

We have some strict(and irritating for profit-centric people) governance... one of the more interesting pieces of governance is called the "85/15 rule", which roughly translated, means that if we take in $100 dollars, the government mandates we use $85 of them to pay your costs, and $15 to pay our staff, light bills, and any other expense we have. If we end up only using $80 to pay your costs, we have to refund the remaining $5 to your group plan.

Here's the obvious secret about health insurance that people like to have conspiracy theories about..I can't speak for other institutions in other countries, however...our stance is really simplistic: you can't pay premiums if you are not alive, therefore it is in our mutual interest for you to remain alive. All the conspiracy theories such as "but you don't want that cancer patient in your insurance group plan!" are just that..conspiracy theories. We absolutely do want that person in the group, because then that group's rates go up! The costs for that patient's care are more or less fixed(and known), built on the assumption of a terminal outcome. We're going to pay for it anyway, and try to make that miserable experience as pleasant as possible for everyone involved. That type of service is how you get repeat business, and a good reputation.

This likely falls on deaf ears. Feel free to return to the zealous insurance hatred, and I'm going to return to writing code. Not for death panel machines. Promise.
> This is exactly how browsers do it, by the way. If you `import` something, is a module, period. The `<script>` tag is the only place that supports both, so they use a `module="true"` flag to indicate which is which.

This is not entirely true. If you import something and it's served with a content type associated with JavaScript modules, then it's interpreted as a JS module. But if they are served with a wasm content-type, they may in the future interpreted as wasm modules. In node there's the additional content-type of "CommonJS file" which has to be handled somehow as well.

Non-module script tags aren't really relevant because node itself never supported scripts (at least not what the browser and the ECMA standard calls scripts).