skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>HNs decline

It's been in decline almost since it's creation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1723734 [2010]

and still going strong.

Perhaps it's the complaining about "decline" that keeps it great
Then it should tell you that's whats wrong and how to fix it.
Imagine a country leaving a trading block and then acting suprised it doesn't get any of the benefits of being a member of the block.
If you're using Linux it might be good to check if it's compiled in correctly. I use VLC with Chromecast on Android, it works well enough.
The terrifying thing is that people with your mindset are actually part of the bureaucracy of the EU. No credible company will keep a .EU domain if they go ahead with this unhinged plan to delete 250000 domains.
As a European, student debt after a masters degree will be $50K or more. Yes, without tuition.
To other users of InfluxDB : How do you read data if you want to group, filter, sort by something other than time?

We used to use InfluxDB to store our perf data where every data point contained a timestamp (thus we thought influxdb was ideal for our use case). But, soon we wanted to group, filter, sort by various dimensions and it lead to performance issues.

Bringing it all in-mem and using pandas to do that was very slow for us. Also, creating indexes for so many columns didn't seem like a good idea.

We switched to postgres and the decision has served us well so far. I just want to understand if influx isn't suitable to our kind of use-case or we used it incorrectly.
Great work, but you'd have to pry asdf out of my cold, dead hands.

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
A lot of the vibrant small villages and towns in rural Germany are struggling. Healthcare is a huge problem, for example, and there are attempts at solving the problem with mobile clinics but that's only fixing a symptom. Commuting is another issue as a lot of unskilled labor is put out of business by the larger businesses who can undercut them on prices. For example a local corner store may go out of business because they cannot purchase in bulk due to the small population, so an Aldi moves in 2 towns away, puts all the corner stores within a 10km radius out of business, and now all those employees have to compete for limited positions AND commute on top of that.
Microsoft could further save money by building an answer bot.

It'll cost less, answer faster and wouldn't be any worse than the current outsourced indian community support staff.
From my observations in the past two years living in Europe as a Canadian, it almost feels like a hopelessness due to the lack of social mobility here that causes those things.
Buffer overflow without any dynamic allocation:

#include <string.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

char hello[5];

strcpy(hello, "hello");

printf("%s\n", hello);

}

(gcc warns about, interestingly clang does not)
Data.gov, the public datasets on BigQuery, thebInterhet Archive, etc. The Twitter API is also relatively open, so is Flickr. There’s a lot of data to play around with, even if not all is as scandalous as the Panama Papers (but who knows...)
Probably depends on the country. In Germany, the student debt is zero in most cases, except if you received student support (Bafög). Even with Bafög, it's not a lot of debt.
I understand the Luxotica monopoly but everytime this comes up people recommend some Japanese company -- I can't recall their name.
An iPhone is made by many different suppliers. Apple only makes a handful of chips. Important chips, but hardly everything in the phone.
It's an important distinction that he makes when he says Silicon Valley is selling out America™, as opposed to the American people, which Palantir has sold out.
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No, he's definitely wrong.
Future Chrome update may kill some ad-blocking extensions
It would be great if I can filter those fonts that support ligatures (Like Fira Code).
Good for you.

And the answer should be, as with everything else: the amount everybody is willing to pay.

I understand your criticism, but what we‘re seeing is the fall out of the disruption of the news industry. The old model (advertising) isn‘t working anymore, so companies are falling back on the subscription model. (Or memberships) And yes they are expensive. But what‘s the alternative?
It doesn't matter if us.gov funds media or not if third-parties are nudging people to only trust sources acting in the US interest.

Sure they might oppose the sitting President but would they publish something which would undermine stated US diplomatic policy?
Does anyone still use waterfall? I'd thought that had fallen by the wayside a long time ago in favor of less rigid processes ...
You're missing the point – oils are (un)suitable for cooking primarily based on the risk of oxidation via heat. That study is only about the polyphenol content of olive oil (which, according to the study, do not get degraded as much as we might have thought), but it says nothing about the oxidation of poly-unsaturated fats.

Unsaturated fats are at a much higher risk of oxidation, which is why cooking with canola oil (7.4% saturated, 28.1% polyunsaturated), for instance, is so dangerous – without the hydrogen armor around the carbon backbone, the fat is at high risk for oxidation, after which point it becomes toxic.

The study you linked to even alludes to this danger:
> It is worth noting that all the heating methods assayed resulted in more severe polyphenols losses and oil degradation for Arbequina than for Picual oil, which could be related to the lower content in polyunsaturated fatty acids of the latter olive cultivar. These findings may be relevant to the choice of cooking method and olive oil cultivar to increase the intake of olive polyphenols.

Suggesting that if you want to cook at higher heats with olive oil, you should search for one with an exceptionally low polyunsat content.
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Acuras aren't bad cars. In fact, they are quite good. Comfortable. Well-designed. Efficient. Reliable. And incredibly boring (except the NSX, of course, but that doesn't really count because it is so utterly unlike all of the other cars in their lineup).
This may indicate a technical issue as cn.bing.com was down earlier too. I'm also in Shanghai. Normally, bing.com resolves to cn.bing.com when there is no VPN, in my experience
The issue, I think, irrespective of the press, is that May is not fit to negotiate a suitable deal, the people want a people's vote, because there is currently no suitable replacement.
Yes it is a gamble but as I said, it is from Lenovo as well. The battery manufacturing date I got from a "new" one was 4 years old once.
> Calling them separate is at best a shell game, but more realistically actively deceptive.

It's neither. The volunteer community is wikipedia, and the foundation exists to serve it, not the other way around. If the foundation paid staff members to edit there would be uproar in the community
Probably too late to get some visibility, but I love this:

function my-accept-line() {
# check if the buffer does not contain any words
if [ ${#${(z)BUFFER}} -eq 0 ]; then
# put newline so that the output does not start next
# to the prompt
echo
# check if inside git repository
if git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
# if so, execute `git status'
git status
else
# else run `ls'
ls -l
fi
fi
# in any case run the `accept-line' widget
zle .accept-line
}
# create a widget from `my-accept-line' with the same name
zle -N accept-line my-accept-line
# rebind Enter, usually this is `^M'
bindkey '^M' accept-line

This replaces `enter` (empty command line), with either `ls` or `git status` if in a git repository.

This beautifully works as expected, I never got any bug because of this (as this could be expected for low level aliasing), and it does exactly what I'd expect: get current status of the current folder.

Now typing `git status` elsewhere is such a pain!
I'm not entirely surprised you'd feel that way - the British seem to be uniquely self-flagellating on topics of nation and state. But I'm not sure how you can support the European Union actively punishing the _people and businesses_ of the United Kingdom in response to the 'conduct' of the _government_ of the United Kingdom, when you think said government hasn't provided proper representation for their people. Whether the United Kingdom deserves it or not has little bearing on this technically unusual and rather petty decision.

I'm also thoroughly opposed to the idea that the European Union is always strict with its rules. It can be. And it is right to be, particularly in the case human rights. But it's impossible to pretend that there hasn't been gross flouting of rules over the last decade. When the stability of the Euro has been at stake, rules always take second-place.
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200 is a pretty meaningless number unless someone has inside knowledge of Apple and know how large the project was.

200 out of 210 is a killer, 200 out of 4000 might just be a re-balancing of skills/priorities.
That's quite the understatement.

I wonder what is taking Tesla so long to get their factory up and running.
I suspect that this will be rather damaging for the .eu TLD. If I were in a country that has a rise in Euroscepticism, right-wing parties while in the EU (which is pretty much most of them now); I wouldn't feel confident in getting a .eu domain and building a business on that anymore.
> as for some reason it has become overly political and "suits-oriented"

I believe the reason for this is that everything is political these days. Until Obama, tech companies were not politically relevant (Microsoft and Google as exceptions). Now, social media giants are in worldwide fights including summoning tech execs before parliaments over being abused for propaganda, and even the netiquettes are political now given that a huge number of those who violate them are right-wingers who then in turn whine about "free speech" and "censorship".

Also, the new generation of HN-relevant startups (think Uber, AirBnB, Lyft as the worst offenders) made a point of intentionally breaking laws to make a business at the cost of society. Of coure, politicians now take a close look at how companies backed by seemingly infinite cash reserves negatively affect their communities, and affected people also make their voice heard.

Finally, companies these days are more or less forced by social media pressure to take a stand on highly contested political topics. The most recent examples of this are (internationally) the Gillette ads and (nationally/Germany) a couple adbusters that put up fake Coca-Cola banners warning of our right-wing AfD, with Coca-Cola's communication director tweeting "Not every fake has to be wrong". Mostly those putting up the pressure are on the left-liberal spectrum and the haters right-wingers. In addition the role of systemic racism, sexism and transphobia in the tech and media world, as well as (finally) people speaking up e.g. about sexual assault, got dragged onto the spotlight by #metoo and other viral campaigns.

And of course these debates now also happen on HN - with the difference here that many people are socially liberal, but follow ultra-capitalist economic viewpoints. This makes, in my opinion, political HN debates largely centered around the (negative) effects of SV-style capitalism while there are not many socially conservative or, worse, alt-right trolls on HN.

edit: another thing is, much of the tech scene didn't care much about politics or how their work would be used either. Only now, with employees taking responsibility for what their code does and who uses it and what ethical concerns they have with company policy, massive debates emerge. This includes stuff like Google employees protesting against working for the military, helping censorship in China or how employers react to sexual assault allegations. These debates naturally also leak over to HN, seeing how many employees for FAANG are on this platform.
Scrum rules: https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#definition

Perhaps you are right that good project managers are not too common, however, I find it easier to reason with one single manager than to reason with an entire team who has defined themselves as a "SCRUM team". In my experience the dogmatic nature of SCRUM means that teams take on an almost religious attitude towards it. A team like that is far more difficult to reason with than a single bad manager and disagreemnts often end with the conclusion "Yes but we do SCRUM and SCRUM says to do this.".

SCRUM contains some good princeples which I agree with like iterative releases and attempting to break down stories into manageable chunks, but the reality is that SCRUM is more than just a set of princeples to take on board, otherwise it would not be a multi-million dollar industry for SCRUM consultants and such.

You are right though, SCRUM has its use in preventing bad managers and bad teams from doing bad things. However at the same time I think it hinders good managers and good teams from doing good work.
I remember the hysteria regarding aluminum cookware when higher levels of aluminum were discovered in the brains of those who had had Alzheimer's disease. Then it turned out that the aluminum content may simply have been an effect of the disease, not a cause (and aluminum cookware was once again declared, for the most part, safe). Now, with this new finding, I wonder if part of the Alzheimer's pathogenesis isn't a leaky brain-blood barrier or something similar that allows substances that shouldn't be in the brain through?
one person's "delightfully silent" is another's "uncomfortably silent". As someone who grew up in a rural area (Irish rural, so nowhere near the kind of rural you can get in other countries), there seemed to be a shared feeling amongst just about everyone that everyone else knew far too much about their affairs. And if you're considered an outsider in the community it can be close to impossible for you or your family to ever break in.

It's easy to romanticise a rural area too and mourn knowledge being lost, but that simultaneously involves condemning kids to continue the same cycles as their parents maintaining traditions and practices with little motive behind it beyond it being the thing that was always done.

The small bubbles of rural areas are often far smaller and far more ignorant than densely populated areas too. I had no source of knowledge whatsoever as to how the rest of the world functioned until I moved away. There was basically no chance in hell I was going to be able to know what I might like to do with my life at 18.

One thing I never got with families who moved out of a city to live in a (much much bigger) house in the country was why they didn't factor the sheer amount of extra work that will be involved in expanding their child's worldview when out of school activities become slim-to-nonexistent.
A one-person craft bakery opened next to my home 3 months ago. Since opening, the owner-baker has put in 20 hour days, 6 days per week every week. No lunch break either, he makes a diy version of Soylent he came up with himself. On Mondays he takes a rest day so he can work for about 12 hours with the door closed to the public.

My observation is that he is does this by being upto his neck in debt, being aggressively resilient,having memorized the mechanics down to his bones, and intrinsically valuing hard work. Crazy but there he is baking bread 130 hours a week.
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Okay, but on the flip side I used the 2017 MBP for a year with no problems whatsoever. It's hard to figure out realistically how much of a problem this is for them.
Apperently not only UK, it is across EU.
That's what it should be, but it seems the EU are intentionally being difficult in negotiations.

They want to make life hard for Britain so others that have been considering leaving, think again.
You have plenty of alternatives...
It's overpriced with a lot of cheaper alternatives. Unless silence is of the utmost importance.
My point was that the interview process is flawed. It's really just a proxy for an IQ test (a gameable one). I think for a company like Google, it is somewhat understandable - they have very mature processes, strict coding guidelines, and overall very little choice in the tech you use. They are hiring for a "smart cog" rather than "innovative/experienced engineer".
Am I the only one that reads "Watcom assembler" when I see WASM? :)

In any case, it's pretty insane what they do now but I sort of fail to see how W(eb) assembly is different from let's say a Java applet?

It is not native code is it?
Okay, lame joke – but I'm both aware of that, and know that even if it weren't the case it wouldn't have to change.
I wonder about the detergent and such. And do they dry clean ? So many questions...
I mean... those laureates earned them fair and square, but also, y’know. Home court advantage...
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The stories are there because you have to be Don Draper to convince people to eat some of the recipes people put on the internet.

I’ve seen macaroni and cheese recipes that should have been called mayonnaise w/ pasta. One recipe for Spanish rice, wish I’d saved the url just to prove it existed, called for ketchup and soy sauce. I’m not sure if that was a prison recipe or if someone actually thought it was good and served it to their family.

IMO there is a huge need for curation and review on the recipe sites, not just the mindless screen scraping that’s been the norm for so long. And you might not know it from watching the food network but there are other genres of food besides Italian and “tacos”.
My passport says European Union on it, does that suddenly become invalid?

I don't expect to be able to get a passport with EU on it for ever, I expect to able to carry on using the one I already have though.

I'm sure there are many contracts negotiated between British and EU organisations, under EU law. Should those contracts be ripped up? Renegotiated under British law?

That loan that a German company took out from a British bank under EU banking regs. Is that agreement null and void?

Both parties lose even more if this turns into a petty tit for tat.
Making room for that TSLA acquisition..
> Am I the only one to whom

Judging by your downvotes, yeah.

I dislike this caste system where some folks are higher than others because of the tools they use at work. This is the shitty attitude that makes several companies look down on front-end developers, for example.
Only if your everything else is not process heavy.
We do to a larger extent, but we also increasingly have similar social problems as the US. Economic freedom doesn't directly lead to good things. It is essentially economic freedom -> good social conditions -> good things. You can move to a more rural are in Europe and won't have to worry as much about money (especially if you are working remotely), but the social conditions will likely be worse, maybe even a lot. And you'll still pay the same taxes.
> some countries might get kicked out

I don't think this is particularly likely, because the EU doesn't want more countries leaving. Maybe Hungary will, but only if Orban goes completely off the rails.

> there's likely to be another Scottish referendum and they're likely to leave the UK and rejoin the EU.

Wouldn't surprise me at all. What happens in the UK depends on how chaotic the Brexit process gets.
Not all developers are terrified of speaking to real customers. This job is perfect for an extrovert developer.
Wait, I assumed this will be a js-app, but it actually is a executable binary?

Is that the courtesy of https://github.com/jordwalke/pesy ?

For some time I wanted to try ReasonML for server-side development, but for some reason I assumed, that most of the ecosystem would be node.js based.
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Great Job, Canada. They've shot down many of the lobbying companies when publishing this.

It's not perfect, but it's a good start.
What I think you're seeing is that people are paying the amount they're willing to pay. When your choices are $40/mo or $0/mo for the WSJ and you average an article or two from them a week, a lot of people will opt for $0.

Right now I'm led to think the answer might be consolidation. Or some other form of subscription intermediation. A dozen outlets is far more than I want to manage, especially when the price really has little correlation to how often I actually read an article from an outlet.

That buying a subscription doesn't make ads go away is also not helping. I do not want to pay to support something so I can be the subject of behavioral targeting, thanks.

With all that said, I do want to address one underlying point. "What's the alternative?", you ask. That's not my problem. That's your problem as a media professional. As a media consumer, I'm perfectly happy to watch the vast majority of media outlets dry up and blow away because they never figured out how to respect the people they purport to serve. I'll stick with the ones that provide me with value I find reasonable and treat me with a measure of respect.

I refuse to accept that democracy can only survive at the price of listicles and privacy-invading ads.
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>Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me because the phone comes with a USB-A cable and the laptop only has USB-C sockets.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQGJ2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightn...

I mean, usb C has issues, but not being able to connect to an iphone isn't one of them.
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I agree. I grew up in a tiny town where basically all parents had to work so we (the kids) had more or less no adult supervision of any kind. There were no mobile phones, no internet, no consoles (that any of us could afford anyway), sometimes not even a football, so most of the kids spent all day out inventing games and fun activities with a key around our necks. Everything could be a toy, everywhere could be a playground.

As a kid I never even considered an adult could contribute in any way to my free time and to the degree to which I will enjoy it. Of course they had a contribution but it was more akin to teaching an autonomous car to drive rather than you driving the car yourself. The end result is still a functioning car, but the implications of each case are vastly different.

Maybe the particulars of the situation made it possible. Small, safe town with friendlier people, fewer distractions available, more relaxed legal framework, fewer dangers out there, etc. But the implication that you need adults to build and maintain an environment in which kids can play is only valid if that's the way you lived it so it's the only way you can imagine it. It is sufficient but not necessary. There are plenty of other ways that don't involve parents to build their kids' playing universe. And having just one more possibility invalidates the premise of the original comment.
I was pretty excited to see steadily improving GitHub integration. Unlike the others here, DevOps has been my most positive experience compared to a few others like Travis and AppVeyor.

However, this confidence was seriously undermined when I noticed recently that my GitHub pull request validation build stopped working when I closed the DevOps tab.

Yes, seriously. I have to keep the DevOps tab open for my builds to actually trigger. My mind boggles at how such a design could even be possible.
What do you mean 'limits'?? There are no limits to deep learning! Singularity here we come!

(That was sarcasm. Sad that a disclaimer is needed nowadays.)