skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the recommendations!

I've read about servant leadership, and I think it's part of a broader awareness and awakening that we can be and do things differently than we did in the past. It certainly fits with how I prefer to act, whether a leader or not.

I think where the leaders I'm working with are struggling is, many were groomed under a different system, and it has been a challenge for then to adapt to/believe in some of these new principles.
That seems _much_ more convoluted than a synced notes app. Worth the effort?
Ornithologist?
You're really looking at the google pixelbook, that has linux app support, pen support, there's no fully open source machine with all that. If you want something fully open you're limited to slower systems like the pi3. If the pi4 makes a major leap then the pi4 may be fast enough to use to build a tablet device around.
I'm a Deja Vu guy myself, but something (I think yesterday) here had me actually considering switch.

https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts

Same metrics as Deja Vu, but with serifs! Shame coverage is so low.
I remember about a Space 1999 episode in which they find a planet where the animals have gone extinct. They eventually figure out the last group of animals tried to stand out the plants but failed.

Maybe it is related to that episode you mention?
I work on very large codebases, and I very seldom rebuild the whole thing. 99% of the time I rebuild a small dll in a few seconds. The focus on the time it takes to rebuild 8 million LOC is misguided imho.

Also, not using stl and boost because it is too slow? In my experience people who make this argument often use significantly worse implementations with serious shortcomings.
You'd be amazed.

One example: Deployment of updated software to 15+ VM's by the method of:

1) Development team creates lengthy MSWord document describing steps, including Bash command lines to perform each step interspersed among narrative paragraphs;

2) Operations team performs deployment by copy-pasting the Bash command lines from MSWord doc. into terminals (repeat copy-paste for the 15+ VM's that are being updated).
It seems to still be invasive: https://www.freestylelibre.us/support/faq.html#faqTabstab-3

> The sensor is applied to the back of the upper arm with a simple, disposable device called an applicator. When the sensor is applied, a small (5mm) filament is inserted just under the skin, and held in place with a small adhesive pad.

'Inserted just under the skin' means it's still invasive, but that sounds nicer than regular needle-sticks so perhaps 'less-invasive' would be a more accurate description.
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Thanks - had a look at their page.

I find it a bit strange that they use the word 'harvested'. They mention it's stress free.

Why not just use the actual words, like killing and slaughtering. Are they afraid it's going to turn people off?

Animals can feel when they are about to die and this alone creates stress - so this whole process is certainly not stress free.

I don't think you can kill a living being (e.g. cows or pigs) that doesn't want to be killed - in a humane way.

We have to face the fact that our demand for meat creates animal suffering and when it comes to factory farming also environmental destruction and poor working conditions for other humans. We then have to ask ourselves why are we eating meat - for survival or for pleasure?

In modern socities it's mostly for pleasure - which then becomes a moral question, i.e. does my demand for meat justify all the things mentioned above?

Also, when you look up the definition of 'humane' it includes the words 'compassion' and 'act of kindness'. Mixing those words with killing and slaughtering (when it's not necessary for ones survival) somehow doesn't go well together.

But making an effort to only purchase meat from those farms you mentioned is still better than purchasing meat that comes from factory farms.
Why is mykowebhn dead? It is true, redwoods would be destroyed by hurricanes.
Colts vs. Chiefs Live Stream: Watch AFC Divisional Round Game Online
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/playof-colts-vs-chiefs-live-tv-03_0.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/playof-colts-vs-chiefs-live-02.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/playof-colts-vs-chiefs-live01.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/chi-vs-col-live-playooff.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/chiefs-vs-colts-live-stream-0003.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/chiefs-vs-colts-live.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/2019-chiefs-vs-colts-live-pallyoff.html

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/webform/pymes-d-disenadores/copia-x/2019-chiefs-vs-colts-live.html
When I lived in Canada I used to occasionally see infomercials about blood sugar monitors that didn't require pricking fingers - are those considered to be any good or is it some kind of infomercial scam? If they are considered to be mostly accurate, why can't that technology be used instead of having a 5mm needle in your body, which probably feels uncomfortable, particularly for the elderly.
I think I understand you a little better now, thank you.
It seems like the two things that should be taken under consideration when taking the government hostage is, "is it worth it", and "can we win". I personally don't think border security is that important but I understand lots of people feel differently.

But I really don't think the Republicans can win this argument.
When they controlled both houses and the presidency they couldn't pass the wall funding. So I'm not sure why they think they can do it after losing the houses. Especially since this politically hurts them among independents far more than it hurts the Democrats.
Correct, I really like alt left click to move windows but for some reason I prefer resizing with the title bar even if takes one more event (keypress) to make it show up, and one more to remove it when I'm done.
If Musk gets a margin call, forced liquidation will create downward price pressure. He has to do SEC filings and announce it to the world. It could create huge panic sell and open a door for a takeover.
Erm... no?

How is it acceptable in any way to make sweeping statements like that?

> There appears to be no way to talk about people with Down's syndrome as a group without offending this guy's rule

Yes there is - talk about people with Down's syndrome as you would about people. It's also perfectly possible to talk about the often related physical/health/mental conditions that affected people with Down's without making 60's throwbacks such as saying "they are all happy".

It feels like we've come forward leaps and bound on racial equality, but it honestly still feels like a lot people treat those with disabilities as an invisible subclass of inhuman monsters.

Disclaimer: I'm the father of a daughter with Down's
Say you have a government that does only two things, of equal cost.

Feed hungry children, and make Statues of past leaders for city squares.

Now imagine the budget of the government was cut in half by Congress. Which of these two things do you think they would stop doing?

The answer is very likely to stop feeding hungry children. Tax payers will feel that pain and become irate at the budget cuts and demand the budget be reinstated.

If they stopped producing statues, taxpayers would probably not notice and wonder why the budget was so high to begin with.

So it goes with the American federal government. The departments shut down things that will cause the most pain, fear, anger to the public until the public demands budgetary reinstatement.

Credits to Thomas Sowell for the analogy.

If you want a good laugh and also see what the fed wastes money on, go look at Rand Paul’s Festivus thread on Twitter.
Ikea does delivery here in the United States, but their delivery service has a bad reputation.

There are small businesses that have been created around this. I found a business that would purchase, deliver, and assemble items from Ikea. All I had to do was send them a copy of my Ikea shopping list.

In my particular case, they purchased items at the Elizabeth, NJ location, which has a 3.3% sales tax [1]. If I didn't use their service, I would have had to shop at Ikea Brooklyn, which has an 8.8% sales tax [2].

[1] http://www.sale-tax.com/ElizabethNJ
[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/business-nys-sales-t...
Growth mindset vs. fixed mindset
An accidental double blind leading the blind study.
I used Fira because I felt the same about ligatures, until I found Hasklig. It has similar ligatures, but the overall font is better imo. https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig
It is the only variable I can control in my life.
Of all the great people I have met, diligence followed by honesty have been their most memorable and admirable traits.
You can have a great work ethic and ask existential questions too.
No, I think they are both challenging. I'd say someone who knows a lot of back-end and a little front-end knows about as much as someone who knows a lot of front-end and a little backend. Except front-end insists on constantly changing so your skillset is going to expire a lot more quickly there.
Nice but damn long code block.
Maybe ask if he can break it up into smaller functions. Better to get him thinking about quality and reuse. Like that comments though, better than most code out there.
I'm also following a GTD-like approach (and I strongly second the recommendation on the book)

My Trello board has the following columns:

- MAYBE - for things that I'll maybe do

- BACKLOG - for things that I decided I'll do at some point

- WEEK - for things that I'll do this week (limit: 8 items)

- TODAY - for things I'll do today (limit: 5 items)

- DONE - move things here once done

Once a week I do a review session where I clean the "DONE" column and reshuffle things in the other columns as needed
> The next stage in automation is expected to make the work that most people are able to do completely obsolete

That would leave a large untapped resource of human labor.

I don't understand why capitalism would leave that unexploited.
Jim Breen's EDICT dictionary lists 'great' and 'old boy' as core meanings for associated kanji. Aside from an in-group honorific suffix the kimi kanji is also associated with moro no kimi or a Shinto wolf spirit which may be a good definition of a tycoon. :)
I was a huge Tokyo Cabinet fan back in the day. Was a big step up from BerkeleyDB for some workloads we were doing a lot. Always disappointed it was so fractured with successors and less adoption than I felt it deserved.
I'm too used to non monofonts, but firacodes arrow ligatures makes looking at JavaScript es6 syntax so much easier.

Are there nonmono fonts with arrow ligature support like firacode?
Without a legal background or at least an understanding of the legal force of treaties, what you’re saying sounds both alarming and vile. In the context of treaties though, agreed upon by governments subject to recall, elections, and separation of powers is the foundation of modern diplomacy. As we’ve seen with Brexit, treaties and laws are both subject to oversight by the electorate, for better or worse.

Beyond that the reason you can’t be extradited to Saudi Arabia is that few countries have such treaties with them. It’s true that the US uses it’s military and monetary power to shove unfavorable conditions where possible, but that’s a universal feature of powerful nations, see China for clarification. Such treaty obligations can lead to problems like the persecution of Kim Dotcom, but it also leads to confrontations over human rights and fairness of laws.

Treaty obligations within Europe prevent them from extraditing someone for a capital crime in a other country. Being outside of binding web of treaties offers freedom, but it often offers the most freedom to dictators. So yes, US copyright law is a mess, and that mess spreads through treaties. That’s a problem with US law, not the concept of treaties.

Most of all, such treaties offer avenues other than violence for countries to settle disputes, and that value can not be overstated.
If they would do that by de-orbiting space debris it would both look nice and have a lasting effect :)
Per the people I know who have tried it, including the author of this post, it's totally painless. One can debate whether or not a filament you can't feel is invasive, but for all practical purposes it's the same as no filament.

For clarity: the measurement you pasted is the length of the filament. The width/thickness is ridiculously tiny. Basically, this product has the same UX as a nicotine patch.
Have you considered monoid? It’s a fantastic font with ligatures.

https://larsenwork.com/monoid/
Ask HN: What are your favorite PL blogs?
I'm looking for some good programming languages blogs. Ideally something that talks about different types of languages, both old and new, and shows how they are suitable for solving different types of problems. Most of the the googling I've done come up with links like "Top 20 programming languages in 2015", which is definitely not what I'm looking for.
We use KT's in-memory database in a scientific computing application I work on (to store a graph 30-100GB in size accessed by 100-1000 workers). The performance is very impressive, and it's been reliable for our use case. But I don't think I'd recommend anyone use it in 2019 -- having an active community (and someone to actively maintain the software!) is too important. A small performance gain over alternatives like Redis is probably not worth the tradeoff of using software that is (sadly) abandoned.

edit: That's not to say it is really in need of much development -- it's pretty feature-complete. But it's undergone a bit of software rot: the Debian package, for example, ships header files which fail to compile under many recent gcc versions. And the network effect is just not there. If you run into some database slowness, searching the Web for "Redis performance problem" might get you some ideas. Searching for "kyototycoon performance problem" will get you nowhere.
This helps explain why Renoir (the elder) is one of my least favorite of the Impressionists, while I love the films of Renoir (the younger).
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New Berlin Wall Section Found in Germany (2018)
I wear a FreeStyle Libre every day, AMA. It's very good for T1s, of course.

It's reliable enough - the biggest downfall is that it's around 15 minutes behind real-time, ie, what you can measure with blood. Sometimes it can feel 'stuck' too, and change rapidly between a short amount of time.

The second model, which I am waiting to try, includes Bluetooth alerts if a trend high or low is detected. This may make it even more useful.
I know a few truck drivers. They're not getting paid any more than in past years. Trucking companies may have increased demand, truckers are still getting paid trucker's wages. Enough to get by on at the cost of having to work 12+ hour days.
Dexcom G5 and G6 are the best available CGM systems for type 1 diabetics. What they add over the libre is a Bluetooth transmitter over the sensor, giving values to your phone every five minutes. Used together with xDrip and AndroidAPS it can easily safe the life of a person using insulin and not waking up to a hypoglycemia, me included. Or work as a part of a closed loop system.

The problem with Dexcom is the price. A sensor should be replaced every week and costs 80€, the transmitter turns off after three months and costs between 300-400€. If you understand what you're doing, you can easily extend the sensor lifetime to 3-5 weeks and transmitter to 6-8 months.

My take to this is, every T1 deserves a Dexcom system from the insurance. It easily saves your life and makes the control much easier.
It doesn't look like there any real explanation of the architecture beyond this logic diagram: http://www.ireneposch.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/logic-d...

From this it looks like there's two 8 bit registers on the left with control signal coming from the top of the image. There's some logic going on on the right, but it strikes me as not complete though. The fact I can't read the writing doesn't help.

There are two Youtube channels I know of where they make a computer and don't assume much about the watcher's prior experience:

This channel show a person building a more normal relay computer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-_rpS40owFzVVuxDF70Tw/vid...

This playlist shows another person building a more more normal computer out of silicon chips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...

If you want to know how this computer works, the first one will give you some idea because it's made of relays too, but the second one in particular gives a good, detailed, complete walkthrough of a working computer.
What do you think it means? Are we mere automata?
Context is important. For the Republican party, that means decades of using "border security" as a dog whistle for keeping out Mexican immigrants.

For Trump in particular, that means his speeches as candidate, "They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." He is a fearmongerer, and this is just another step of playing along fears of immigrants.
Yes one should assume most frameworks will be dead 2 years from now. Dependencies problems suck. And create security holes. When development starts going into the cloud get ready for a lot of pain the world has never seen before.
The plank in your eye.
Ask HN: How do you choose your company name?
Or how to name your startup? I am brainstorming a lot, but could not find any good name so far.
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> We need to talk about groups of people all the time. Yes, even racial groups

Of course, but you wouldn't make ludicrous statements like "all black people are good at dancing", or "all black people are fast runners" - so why would it be OK to say that "Down's people are happy"?

Nobody is claiming we can't talk about people with Down's, or other disabilities, as a group - but we can do it without predujice and discrimination.
Yea but most industries don’t pretend to make the world a better place. SV does with a bullet; see Steven Pinker’s bullshit that Gates ate up with a spoon.
The text mentions 2 minutes as the time for “just do it now” tasks.

However, Allen recommends finding a thresholds which fits your situation.
zaktly, and one is enough. No doubt in my mind that China has at least a few spies in all major US companies. It's hard to catch, especially if you have a nation state teaching you how to.

But then a job is nothing compared to what China can pay them for a thumb-drive full of Tesla's secrets so even highly paid employees might do it for money. (Tesla is opening a factory in China though...so they might be ready to have some secrets stolen /priced in)
Completely agree. This reminds of the scene from Moneyball where trading players is discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjhHrcyiQI.
I keep hoping that the creators of fallabs make a triumphant return. They did post a small bugfix for a build error not too long ago, so the lights aren't completely out.

We used kyotocabinet exclusively for a project that ran for 3 years with ~1 billion txns/day in a big AWS cluster. Totally bomb-proof and a great piece of software. There's no reason not to use it today, really. Tycoon, the server, is good, but the library kyotocabinet is multithreaded and highly performant.

The flexibility of B+ tree or hash type stores, on-disk or in-memory with the same interface is extremely useful for building distributed systems. Very stable under load, and no data bloat as records pile up.

edit: nobody should feel guilty for using stable software with a reliable track record. Just because a project isn't being printed on tee-shirts anymore and breathlessly fawned over during the free happy hour at conferences doesn't mean that it isn't still a perfectly useful piece of software.
Thanks for clarifying.

As a side note, I think this requirement is completely bogus. You should be able to get any "read-only" medical device you want, anytime you want, especially in a country where there is no universal healthcare. I see a contradiction where on one hand the authorities say: we have to protect you so that you don't harm yourself and on the other the same authorities say: your health is your responsibility and we want nothing to do with it.
The “LOL Nothing Matters” Presidency (2016)
Yes - there is a lot of pagan traditions still alive and well in Slavic nations. In my personal experience, Slavic nations has much more pagan traditions than Germanic or Romance nations.

I assume that pagan traditions were prompted by the state in the same reason how Hitler promoted pagan traditions to unify all Germans.
I've seen a lot of insta-dead comments lately. I'm wondering if there's an automated moderation system getting out of hand, or if they really are (for instance) attempts at ban evasion.

If you go direct to the comment (click on the posting time), you can "vouch" for comments you think should be un-killed.
Yes, Ikea delivery is wonky in the US. Ikea themselves will deliver, but the cost is based on how far you are from the nearest store, and it's not cheap. Some of those third-party delivery services are good, but none of them are cheap.

Ikea stores give me nightmares. You can get in, but you can't get out again. What I really want is to be able to order stuff from Ikea online so I don't have to set foot in their store, and have it delivered quickly for a low flat fee. They probably should think about doing some kind of partnership with Amazon to make this happen.

(edit: added link)
https://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/service-offer/delivery.html?ic...
The second GPS week number rollover is coming in April
Bloomberg or WSJ rewrites this same "trucker shortage" article every month, like clockwork. It's amazing. I've read this same article every few weeks for the last twenty years.
Memories of Quake and Unreal tournament for me!
Drink water if it feels to be stuck. Usually a symptom of dehydration.
This is in fact how a lot of places still function. Or worse, developers telling the ops guys on the 2am conference call what to type. Then waiting for them to type it...very slowly.
Ok, but they might know classified information. Maybe when they worked or accessed it they agreed to keep it secret forever. That trumps usual NDAs.
Confessions of a Boston-area restaurant owner
Where’s Bunga? Tracking Orangutans with Drones, Python, and Gnu-Radio
Almost everyone of a certain level of means has multiple cards. If you only associate with people around your economic level, it is easy to believe that everyone has multiple cards. I have many friends in NYC with only a single debit card and either no credit cards (due to no or poor credit) or a few credit cards that are all maxed out.

It's also worth noting that many companies with subscription services specifically block signing up with gift cards. I do not know if this would apply to Google Pay or not.
Who cares what’s actually in the valley, it’s just a shorthand for the tech industry.
Words of wandought wiffle waffle

http://mentalfloss.com/article/61819/42-old-english-insults
Link is caps-sensitive -- needs to be https://dabeaz.com/sicp.html