skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how well that hypothesis would hold up in a quick comparison of alcohol consumption per capita vs birth rate.

Space aliens looking at those numbers might even mistake alcohol for a mild contraceptive.
> he started his careers pretending having the knife of St. Peter which used to cut Christ's ears

Are you sure you are not confusing "the knife used to cut Christ's ears" with "the sword used to cut the ear of one of the men who came to arrest Jesus"? Because I never heard the former, and I'm under the impression that I whould have.
Coding is still fun to me. But the bureaucracy that surrounds it has grown very thick. Finding a team where bs to coding ratio is reasonable is a problem.
I use it for home automation with HomeKit/Zigbee2MQTT and a few other things. Pluses:

- You can stuff it into a container very easily (https://github.com/rcarmo/docker-node-red - use the Ubuntu branch)

- There are loads of extra components for IoT, automation and cloud services (including low end stuff like sniffing multicast packets and doing WoL, both of which I use a lot)

- Works beautifully with MQTT

- You can build simple metrics and control dashboards with nearly zero code (although it helps if you know Angular to inject directives into the templating)

- It’s very easy to develop your own nodes using JavaScript without leaving the GUI

Minuses:

- Being based on Node means you have to deal with a dependency dumpster fire now and then (and I worry a lot about security)

- Many plugins are old, brittle, unmaintained and buggy (HomeKit support crashes the entire runtime now and then)

- Component behavior is inconsistent (some nodes pass on msg.topic, others eat it, etc.), even for built-ins.

- Debugging can be a massive pain, since effectively all you get is a scrolling console output in the inspector pane and the ability to add more debug nodes to your flows to “sniff” traffic into it.

- it’s very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with JavaScript, and it does not support anything else in the function nodes (I would vastly prefer ClojureScript or Python, for instance)

- there is no easy/intuitive way to join flows (i.e., do an AND gate) without doing trickery

- versioning is a major pain (I snapshot my setup by pretty-printing the JSON flow store every now and then - https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/f2a8a14ef5f3d77759555f3fea5e7...)

- The GUI doesn’t scale to manage large numbers of flows (I have 40 or something)

But I’ve resigned myself to all the above, because the alternatives are worse.

And, as an experiment, I recently built on it an App Store notification service to check when apps are discounted, GUI and all, with a SQLite back-end. Works great, although it lacks some elegance when dealing with databases.

Edit: forgot to add that it can be self-documenting up to a point (you can add Markdown notes to flows, and have a comments Node that you can drop amid your flows to annotate them), which is extremely useful when you go back to something a few months later and have to trace an entire flow end to end to figure out why it broke.
Coding is transforming a set of problems into a particular level of abstraction. Higher levels of abstraction exist (team, business model, etc.) and it's perfectly fine to find them more fulfilling and interesting as one goes.
I haven't coded in years as a result of being a founder and then CTO of a largish company. I don't miss it because my head is in a completely different place but equally absorbed in solving problems. And people are fascinating - hacking people, groups, teams, customers etc. is much more fuzzy and presents interesting problems as well.
After 2 incredible years of growing Robotex, I’m moving to the sidelines
Fair, but do we really need C levels of performance on the web? That's madness. They are mostly CRUD apps for God's sake. They don't have to be able to run liquid simulations at 200FPS.

IMO the level of Java / Erlang performance is, and should always be, plenty enough for the web.
How to Use GitHub Notifications for Fun and Profit
Noticed my GV number being rejected but the main number I have in GV works. That number was ported back when you could do that (maybe you still can?)

I wonder why that is. Maybe outdated databases?
The importance of context, modernism vs. postmodernism, and how to be a genius
Doesn’t fix the single bundle issue...
> How do they even know it's valid?

They can require you to prove this before processing your application, under GDPR.
You are correct my memory is a bit fuzzy, and your interpretation is probably correct.

Edit : after further checking, he was pretending having the knife of st. Peter, used to cut off the high priest servant's ear in the garden of Gethsemane to prevent the arrest of Jesus. (Which makes more sense..)

10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

John 18:10–11
Amazing to hear your story bro. Thanks for sharing it.
I wonder if there's business in GDPR trolling websites. Does it count as extortion if you give someone personal data and then say they must delete it or pay you money to not kick up a fuss.

Honestly, it sounds like it should be legal. Like the way ADA or CEQA trolling is. After all, that provides a valuable function.
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>Have you thought about just saying f*ck it and going on a trip? Not just a day or so but a week, a month, a year, get away from your current situation. Rediscover yourself and live!

Thought of doing something like this, that requires money though, which I don't have.
One thing I found hard to grasp with Postgrest is SQL based authentication and authorization. It's not easy to understand and implement. It will be great if Postgrest also provides an auth webhook like SQLer. That way users can write or plug-in authentication and authorization in a language/framework they are more familiar with.
'Right to repair' gathers force
Does Facebook as referrer get around other paywalls as well?
It would lend itself as 'quick search' (i.e. by using a keyword from the adress bar) in that case.
Wisdoms of Hacker News
Whenever I hear Roll20 I just think of this post https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/9iwarj/after_5_years_o...
Will using a bluetooth headphone cause a damage to my head?
Ask HN: How to get admission into top B-schools in the US?
How about paid ones?
It is still undoubtably useful, even if thanks to technology we can manage without.
Uber and similar companies are nothing about decentralisation - on the contrary, they are centralising. One mega company which serves tens of countries where before you had hundreds of small taxi operators. Their value lies mostly in this centralisation.
Could Digital Technology Make Doctors of Us All?
You can withdraw consent, but data may have been collected not based on consent, in which case your consent is irrelevant.
Since moving out of large / enterprise style business and into startup culture I've definitely felt a big shift in my view of my job and role in this industry.

I've shifted my perception of myself from being an engineer/programmer to seeing myself as a product person that happens to use code to express my goals.

I still obviously expect and demand a high standard of code quality from myself, but I'd much rather do one thing every day to improve the life of a customer than wrap myself up in the more esoteric solutions to coding issues. I don't constantly chase new libraries and frameworks and build tools and I don't spend time discussing semantics while pair programming. I value pragmatism above all.

I feel like coding is now 40% ish of my overall skillset and am much better off for it, which seems to bear out in terms of opportunities that have opened up since I've made this change.
All things are clear with the power of hindsight. But if it were so simple you'd already know which company to throw your money at today and be a billionaire in a decade. Do you?
Wait, I’m confused. This agency that’s consulting for sears sets up a meeting for bill gates to sell his computers to sears?

How is that in the interest of sears?
I play something similar to D&D for 20 years and won't stop anytime soon :)
I have posted it already but I will post it again (as a former Austrian).

1. Mises, who did not work one day in his whole live in a private free market enterprise, has fundamentally not understood capitalism. He describes free market barter economies, e.g. in the middle ages, that have nothing to do with capitalism. At least he describes them very good, including, why interest exits etc.

2. He fundamentally does not understand the need to pre-finance industrial production. The pressure to recover the debt gives capitalism its impressive dynamic. But in the end it is basically a ponzi scheme that relies on
a) ever increasing debt, because previous debt is settled with new debt.
b) a growing economy that allows the creation of more debt.

Mises got the idea, while thinking very hard on a desk in an academic environment, that companies "save money to make investments". This can not be observed in reality. Very few companies are able to do this (e.g. IT companies like google). Most companies take shitloads of loans to pre-finance new production in the expectation that this loans can be repaid,recoverd with future economic growth. e.g. selling more cars.

Gail Trevberg touches some of this ideas (I got it from a German book from 1998) in this blog post:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...

3. Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.”
— Ludwig von Mises

This is his biggest joke since it is a tautology. Every boom goes with a credit expansion and every credit expansion goes with a boom. It is the principle of a debt based society. He is correct that a boom always ends in a bust. But this is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.

This is how capitalism works: https://i.ibb.co/9nms8xK/Net-Worth.jpg
I strongly identify with the parent comment: I have poor rote learning of isolated facts, but strong spatial abilities (sporting and visualization), relational memory and explanatory insight through the implied graph of connections.

When I was young, I played with construction toys (Lego, Meccano) and board games, including Snakes and Ladders (Chutes & Ladders in the US). Later, when learning history, I found I was not remembering dates by their year number, but visualizing their position in the decade and century on the zig-zag of the S&L board. I implicitly grew a spatial layout of multiple centuries, often with certain viewpoints that made sense for topics of study. I excelled in history because of my relational understanding laid over this 3D spatial view of the world timeline.

Perhaps you can guess my field of academic specialization and the sweet-spot in my career as a programmer? ... physics degree, then 3D graphics and information visualization.
Does the social aspect become different?
My sons play D&D fanatically, I remember it from years ago.
Very impressive you made the effort to include your visually impaired friend. I learn't something thanks
I was in a similar phase (not schizophrenia) but others yes. Meditation helped me a lot. Going out and meeting new people will also help you.

Depression happens due to you stuck in one place, with no way out. Just go out daily, experience new things you are good to go. Stay away from smoking, drinking, movies, tv shows, porn, and interent in general for a while. Trust me you will be back up in no time.

And lastly exercies daily. Go for a morning run (around 6 am) and then join a gym or a fighting class.
>What do you spend most time worrying about?

I don't really worry about much, it's just the general apathy and anhedonia. What does restrict me are traumatic things I've done thanks to my schizophrenia/psychosis.

Yes, I smoke pot (I know this is a stupid thing to do if you've been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but it's the only thing bringing me joy anymore)

I tried getting of my meds, but notice getting really restless and my thoughts begin to race when I do so.
America set the precedent with arresting foreign nationals for breaching US laws while on foreign territory with Dmitry Sklyarov
This article uses the word "pickle" a lot.

Pickles don't play much of a role in my life, so I'm a bit skeptical of the new pickle and beer economy.
The first time I ever played WoW was during the TBC expansion, the only thing is... this first experience happened from an account I had hacked at the time.

And the encounter was fairly short, maybe a few hours. I remember going to the Black Temple raid with a random group and also spending time in the area where the Sunwell raid was. Looking back, it's quite surreal to think that this little 'chance' encounter planted a seed that made me fall in love with the game.

But a few years down the line I knew I had to cut ties with the game, as I would sometimes go on a binge playing spree and not stop for many months. I say interesting because the game has been turned into an absolute garbage-can that I never want to touch again.

Playstyle became lifeless, classes got obliterated, and there are more cosmetic features being added than there are actual class improvements.

I'm kinda relieved that this is the case but I feel for the players who have literally invested their lives into their characters. Getting out of that cycle is really hard.

Fortunately, I never collected any psychologically-valuable items and simply played the game for the 'action' aspect of it.
457% rise in cybercrime in India in five years – ASSOCHAM-NEC study
That's the one - I wonder if they just rebranded some existing Regus places? Or maybe they're building as fast as WeWork, I'm not sure.

Funny thing about that list though - their app doesn't remember your office location, so if you want to book a meeting room you have to drill down from every Spaces location worldwide down to your country, then city, then office to find the one in your building. :)
Empathy has no place in Silicon Valley's venture capital funded run for IPOs and even more venture capital. "Fuck you, got mine" should be its slogan.
It should be noted that the right of access to personal data held about new is not new to GDPR and has been law in Europe for years.
Likewise, existing law requires personal data are not to be kept longer than necessary.

For example, in the UK both of the above are law since 1998. And that only implements an EU Directive from 1995.

Sometimes I feel that the main effect of the publicity around the GDPR has been for many people to discover existing laws...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Test Retries: An Android Monorepo Case Study
thanks for the replies
I didn't see it mentioned, but OpenRESTy has my business for declarative JSON APIs backed by PostgreSQL. It's nginx so it's got a bit of momentum working for it.
WoW was really tough for me to break away from - it was pretty much a 'second life'.

Was there anything particular that helped you quit when you decided to?
This company I'm working in right now has recently migrated from CVS to Git. Still stuck in XML hell though. And nobody understand the ginormous Ant build script.
The same will also happen due to diet changes in the next years. More and more people are severely cutting back on meat intake, specially smoked and processed meats, and it will likely have an impact on a multitude of types of cancer down the road.
There's no mention of any marketing material "abuse" in the article or CES's initial and revised statements. According to them, there simply wasn't a category for their product.

However, female sex toys have been demoed in the past at CES [0]... maybe just the award people are prudes? Have sex devices won awards there before?

0. https://www.geekwire.com/2017/ces-strict-rules-adult-content...
Thats exactly what Ive been feeling recently. But then I realized, we evolved, we grew, thats why our passion might change, and maybe you found a new passion that feel more exciting that coding.

I just written a piece of mind that might help you notice, whats going on with your passion. You can read it at https://link.medium.com/Td65gAxIkT
It's telling that Chinese consumers aren't buying cheaper, locally-produced alternatives. That demonstrates that while consumers don't have the money for a new Apple phone they're also happy keeping their old Apple and Samsung hardware rather than buying new cheaper alternative. That could be good news for Apple as it shows effective vendor lock-in, but it might also show that consumers are going to keep phones for longer and that the 18 month sales cycle is getting longer. That would have a big impact on future hardware sales.
> 4e wasn't “discard[ing] a big chunk of its worst, thorniest rules”, it was a re-write to sell splat books and accessories

The two are not mutually exclusive: the former is game design, the latter is business aim motivating game design, product strategy, and lots of other things. It was both.

> 5e was the streamlining and modularization that was needed so you could play it like it was 2e, or 3e/3.5e, or even 4e if you wanted to.

Some modularization, sure, but it many ways it took small steps back from 4e's mechanical streamlining. Which is a good thing, 4e's extreme mechanical streamlining without regard to the role of the mechanics at the table in service of RP is a big part of why 4e ended up flavorless and dull. 5e kept most of the mechanical substance of that streamlining, but refocussed on serving RP and, in so doing, made some compromises to the mechanical streamlining. This made it more accessible for the same reason a lot of programming languages that have less refined, pure, coherent, generalizable abstractions than Haskell are more accessible.

(Also, I think you are doing the people working on business strategy at WotC a disservice if you think 5e is any less well designed to sell splat books and accessories than 4e. In 5e, the choices matter more to players -- which makes having more choices more valuable. And returning to OGL and adding DMs Guild means that there is more opportunity for third parties to supply the relatively low-margin long-tail supplements that each have a small market but collectively provide a strong ecosystem that keeps people buying the higher margin core books and major supplements and accessories that Wizards dutifully churns out.)
>So what's your suggestion? Country X won't play nice, what do you do?

Nothing!

>What tools do we have available to us to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons and persuade bad actors?

Give up yours, or stop telling others what to do about theirs. The US is not a good actor either.
That is a valid excuse.

And the abnormal price hikes of the new model of iPhones indicate that Apple was well aware of the possible economic downturn, and thus sought to compensate the anticipated fall in sales by squeezing higher profit margins.

But what is their excuse for not penetrating the next biggest market in the world, one of the world's fastest growing economy, right next to China - India?

To me, Apple's attitude in India, and many other countries, is akin to that of a spolied brat who won't do things unless he has his own way. Some examples -

a) Apple management lamenting that India doesn't have a debt-based culture. (That's a broad view - the comment was more on how the cellular services providers don't sell their phones bundled with "plans" in India, and Indians and to buy their cell phones outright which obviously makes the iPhones to expensive and unaffordable to many).

b) In the last 2 decades are so, India has witnessed a revolution in digital payments and seen various innovations in this area. This has made it very easy to do micro-transactions. And yet Apple in India REFUSES to integrate with the local financial infrastructure of the country, and only accepts credit cards / debit cards from Visa or MasterCard for Apple Pay or iTunes. (Note that this is deliberate because the indian options give more privacy to the user - for example, with a credit card, Apple can know our credit rating and better profile us, but with certain indian payment options they will be deprived of this valuable information).

c) Objecting to certain policies of the government (this is understandable though from a capitalist point of view to maximise profit).

d) Totally ignoring the way how Indians use their phones and their requirements. (For example, Indians have been demanding a dual SIM phone for many years, and it is kind of a de facto standard feature here. And yet, it took about a decade or so for Apple to respond to that).

To summarise, Apple's management seems to lack creativity and the COURAGE to step out of thier comfort zone and try out new business models and / or new processes in other countries.
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#FAA #ICC
The handling of "ß" was recently changed; "ẞ" is the new uppercase form of "ß" since 2017 (Unicode has it since 2007)
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> If you ever find yourself wondering about these concepts, change the scenario to China. Under what scenario does the EU or US have power to dictate laws within China?

https://news.sky.com/story/huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-facing-ex...

> The global chief financial officer of Chinese phone firm Huawei is facing extradition to the US after being arrested in Canada.

> Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, has been detained in Vancouver in relation to suspected violations by Huawei of US sanctions placed on Iran.

So not only do people have to avoid the U.S. to avoid being subject to U.S. laws, they have to avoid U.S. friendly countries too.
A hallmark of a scam is unnecessary obfuscation and complexity in the business model (i.e., how you get paid).
In the case of the linked article, we're not talking about the presence of genes, but rather their expression.

Genetic expression is influenced by many things, some that we understand and some that we don't (yet), but it is highly plausible that this can be (and already is) influenced and optimised throughout people's lives.

People's negative reaction to your proposal is obviously because people think it's dystopian to think that the genetic hand you're dealt at birth is highly restrictive and deterministic in terms of your potential life outcomes.

Policies like the one you describe would lead to a horrible society, because anybody who comes to believe that they are doomed to a miserable, futile life will not contribute positively to society and may well contribute very negatively. I suspect much of what we're seeing playing out around the world right now is at least partly a result of this phenomenon.

If it turns out that people's genetic expression is far more important than their genetic blueprint, and that their genetic expression can be influenced and optimised to lead to improved life outcomes, then people will be motivated to contribute positively to society and society will be vastly improved.
regulation leads to less freedom. yes, it is known.
These brands are quite well known in Europe, but not in a good way. When my Matebook stopped charging after two months people called me dumb for buying a Huawei product. Just an anecdote.

I likewise have Xiaoimi products and their Mi Home app for smart home products is awful and a far cry from Apple's polish.