skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Microsoft today has simply no presence in home automation, smart assistants, wearable or self-driving markets that have emerged during past 5 years.

Good, Microsoft spent a decade building "me too" products that weren't that good and even if they were nobody used anyway. Jumping on bandwagons too late didn't help them at all in fact it made them look like a bit of a joke.
It seems by focusing on 2D and not 3D applications, Matrox have successfully "dodged a bullet", in terms of the competition out there for 3D. Good move.
San Francisco's Plan to Tackle School Segregation Made It Worse
Trying to place Berlin as the whole of Europe is pretty unfair to the rest of Europe (considering it contains a wide variety of cultures and expectations on working life). Also, people referring to 'EU work life balance' are probably really talking about the much more substantial labor laws in the EU compared to the US, rather than meaning that they only work 2.5 hours a week for 90k$ or something.

I can't say I've had the same experience working for start ups in London, in fact I've had the opposite - competitive pay (probably about 20% less than working in tier 1/2 banks but above market in industry), good benefits (incl. private health, gym etc.), fair work life balance (incl. holiday days and WFH policies) and rewarding work with intelligent colleagues. Non-EU/UK workers that I've worked with have the same experience as far as I can tell (perhaps even more positive, considering that some of them require visa sponsorships).
... Yes, you are. Less killing significantly improved lives.
I’m not that user, but you can set a key bind to the uBlock element picker so you can quickly select and create rules all graphically. It’s like a scissor through a newspaper, not a lot of work at all!
Plenty of American companies facilitate surveillance and censorship.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/424584/new-evidence-that-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/surveillance-and-censorship-ins...
Sure it's ridiculous. But also it's not what the author says. Therefore your comment breaks this site guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and doing a better job of posting substantively here? You've posted one-liner flamebait twice already, which is not cool, especially on a divisive topic.
I developed a tool that makes it easier to convert a table into any format
What problem to solve？
Generate markdown tables online when writing Markdown documents.

Convert between Excel, JSON, CSV, HTML, Markdown formats.

Generate LaTex tables online.

Implement table to any format data through expression template.

... Any problems to solve?

What is it?
Table Convert Online (https://tableconvert.com/) is a web-based tool to converts Excel, URL, HTML, JSON, Markdown table and CSV to Markdown table, CSV/TSV, XML, YAML, insert SQL, HTML, Excel and LaTeX table. Built-in a little table editor, behaving much like cells in Microsoft Excel, Makes it easier to work with tables.

The last two days of the upgrade summary：
Add JSON converter, now support convert an array of objects to csv, markdown, excel, etc.

Add a options button for the csv tab output, custom delimiters are now supported.

Add minifier, now you can easily compress or minify your JSON, XML, HTML result.

Add IDEA converter, you can easily design the output based on your ideas.

Add a options button for the idea tab output.

Removed jQuery, compressed pages and improved website speed.

You should try Convert table to IDEA, which was just released yesterday. It may also have imperfections, or expressions are not easy to understand. However, I will make it better and better, helping more people to shorten the time of format conversion.
Thank you and appreciate your pointing me to a project that i can learn from. While i agree that modern-day PCBs often have their magic inside an FPGA/ASIC/MCU, the overall system is still defined by the PCB. If something doesn't work and i suspect the problem isn't in the software, then i should still be able to understand the schematic and follow the signals in the PCB at appropriate points to debug the problem. While there are lots of "hardware hacking" info, i can see no systematic approach to the problem. Perhaps with more study and practice i will learn to identify the key areas to look for and understand.
Visual Jabberwocky? (Possibly made by a GAN?)

Here is Alice on Jabberwocky ...

“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! … Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
Working with pdb in Python – The essentials of effective use of the debugger
> For SPA I found it's easier to use CSS-in-JS solution like styled-component or emotion. Or for Typescript I just use typestyle.

Heck, even CSS modules is enough.
Cool, but it would have been nice to see that effort go to improving a non-Google mail reader (Thunderbird, whatever) instead of furthering Chrome's dominance.
Wow, I needed to stop reading that about halfway through. My mind goes to weird places when I think about consciousness in the abstract like that.
This tends to happen in every major bull market. The CEOs get an undeserved amount of credit. Nadella's been CEO only since 2014. Since then MSFT market cap gained $650 Billion in value. That's not all Nadella. It's simply the bull market and a strong economy boosting everyone's market cap.

The market keeps hitting new record highs and that's helping a lot of stocks

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...

On the flip side, CEOs tend to get an undeserved amount of blame during recessions and market declines.
Pork lard is eaten in the same way across Eastern Europe, not just in Poland or Ukraine, i.e. also in Hungary, Romania, the former Yugoslavia, and Russia and among Russians in Central Asia.
If it is being used or modified with regards to a wild virus doing virus things, yes. (no isolating and patenting a wild virus, vaccines, or research into wild virus and variations)

If it is being used as a machine to edit genetics as a way to patent genes, then yes.

If it is being used as a machine to do something less life related, maybe not.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/up-clo.... Thanks!
Keep kissing corporate @rse.

Some people don't use FB.

Some people would say FU to the thought of paying $2-3 to FB for anything.
An Entirely Different Kind of Quantum Computer
What? I have a somewhat recent surface. It’s brilliant. It forced the entire windows ecosystem to rethink their approach.

Behind the scenes for that miserable OS, is a mountain of work to make all their parts work. No longer will there be three tcp-ip implementations over Xbox,OS,server and other teams.

A lot of this was started under ballmer. It’s comtinuing under nadella.
Ask HN: How to Improve Working Remotely?
Working remote is definitely a trend and brings a lot of advantages for everyone (flexibility, cost, talent, etc), but I'm also curious about the issues and how people are solving it.

- What's the biggest challenge you are facing by working remote with your development team?

- What's the bottleneck in your workflow? Do you do code reviews? Do you do pair programming? How? What tools are you using?

- How do you onboard new developers to the team? How you transfer knowledge? How long does it take to a new developer to be productive?
Elastic doesn't care about freedom, they complained that they lost an opportunity to monetize it, copyleft will be equally destructive for them. Also Amazon released the sources, no?
Their very first example question is "Do you use source control?", taken from a year 2000 post of Joel on Software.

I think this is no longer a good question. (The answer will almost certainly be the affirmative, and the person asking it might sound unaware.)
Bose's 'jumping' car suspension system still blows minds (2016)
China’s rocket startups go small in age of ‘shoebox’ satellites
(We've since changed the URL - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756009)
That's a violation of GDPR. They need to be opt-in to be legal, not opt-out.
> Terribly ungrateful of you, but okay, it's not a crime.

Companies are not people. It is nonsensical to say that someone is being grateful or ungrateful to some abstract legal construct.

If the executives of some company decide to let their employees work on open source projects, it's because they think this will improve profitability in some way: advertisement, attracting talent, benefiting from free work, facilitating adoption, etc.

Most of these companies benefit from open source way more than they contribute. Which is fine, but let's not assign human emotions to things that are not human. Being grateful to a corporation is the same as being grateful to your coffee machine for making coffee when you press the button.

I am very grateful to people who contribute to open source on their free time.
Quoting from the Nori whitepaper at https://nori.com/white-paper :

Carbon Removal Certificate (CRC): a digital asset, or electronic certificate, that
is stored on the Ethereum blockchain in the Nori application. One CRC represents
one tonne of CO2-equivalent heat trapping gas that has been removed from the
atmosphere and stored in an industrial, terrestrial, subsurface, and/or aquatic reservoir.
Folding screens are neat but I don't think very many people are going to actually want one after the novelty wears off.
Around the World, Buyer’s Remorse Sets in for Costly Clean Power
Is it any different to the last 100 years where "enormous companies are owning the future" could be applied to railways or oil giants.

Tech is just the latest iteration and these 5 companies are our front runners. Will something else come along and dethrone them? Maybe, who knows.

The only difference i see here is these large companies are generating wealth for a much larger group of people via employment or shares. I'm willing to bet Microsoft and google have made far more millionaires then Rockefeller adjusted for inflation.
I wouldn't trust that title from reddit one bit unless there is a better resource making that claim.

The picture has an ear in it, so I guess someone merged two wildly different pictures in GANbreeder and the redditor just took it for some internet upvotes.
The original statement was about Nadella's own privileged background. No one is arguing that an IAS officer is more privileged than the CEO of Microsoft.

As an aside, salary is just about the worst way to evaluate power and privilege of government officials. By that metric, an AVP at Google is more privileged than the President of the United States.
Do you think that someone with 1 million dollars has the same power and influence as someone with 1 billion dollars?
You realize that CVS is a big company like Walmart or McDonalds, right? This person is parodying people who you're disgusted at.
Relatively,

The gov of India has a cadre or trained bureaucrats, who are selected after passing a rigorous exam. Its a check on your real world thinking skills in many ways.

The exam is hard, and people spend years to ensure they get through.

The people who pass are sent to the foreign services, admin services, and police services.

IAS officers have over the years earned a rep for being capable bureaucrats (modulo the level of noise coming from a massive developing World population dealing with issues ranging from poverty to corruption).

These are the people who run municipalities for what would be high populations cities in the west, secretaries to ministers and so on.

They don’t have money, but they are the nerves and ligaments of state machinery.
Indexes in PostgreSQL, Part 7: Gin
Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild
I was about to suggest Battle Angel Alita and Ghost In The Shell (the mangas) but yes, Heinlein has precedence. Iain Banks's Culture novels contain quite a bit material on cross-body consciousness as well and what that means for individuals.
no its not. It is Ozzie Joseph

https://graphcommons.com/graphs/cf637f7f-8eef-43fa-94a3-f861...
> The Chevy Bolt and to a lesser extent the Model 3 have already hit the "Corolla/Civic/Sonata/et al" sedan sweet spot for new sales

GM sold 18,000 Bolts in 2018 [1]. Over the same period, Toyota sold 280,000 Corolla Sedans [2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/3/18166619/gm-ev-tax-credit-...

[2] http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/toyota/toyota-coro...
Ballmer was also hamstrung by the 10 year antitrust deal
Until we have a vitrification process that doesn't do significant tissue damage, that will be difficult. It is being worked on though, as the ability to freeze organs would revolutionize transplants.
Europe and Nationalism
California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants
I don't think it is unreasonable to ask something like "What's your strategy for source control?" - not everyone uses git for everything and even if they do there is plenty to talk about.
That or you're writing in Dutch. Neither of ij, jk or even kj work in Dutch, because they are very common.
Tools Every Successful Writer Needs in Their Toolkit
U.S. fracking plan targets over 1M acres in California
just got this working with fswatch and sassc, thought I'd feed back that this is perfect, thanks :)
Yes, the whole argument is based on anti trust. Did you not read the article?
It surprises me sometimes how innocently naive people are. How people miss obvious jokes, parody and sarcasm online. I figured as more people use the internet, the less naive they'd be, but it seems like the opposite is happening. And the more obvious the joke, the more people seem to take it seriously.
TLS 1.3 enabled, and why you should do the same
Reading the Raw Bits of a C64/1541 Disk Without a Parallel Cable
Weekend JavaScript #168 – Node 12, the new create-react-app, and more
وصفات سعيدة أم مريم
It’s not that MSFT citizen is 4.5x productive but rather they are able to create product that is inexpensively and infinitely replicable. On the other hand majority of Luxembourg citizens probably are mainly just renting their time which is highly limited resource. I would actually expect much bigger ratio.
This is not how anti trust works. The idea is that once you gain certain monopolistic powers you have to play by different rules.
Chatbot:

- When I register I have to put my name. Then the bot asks me what's my name

- Talking with a bot is a frustrating ux. I don't have any choices on what I want to answer and it takes some time for new text to appear. I would prefer to just read a intro post

- switching the lights after the talk is quirky, I am neutral about this, but maybe give user a choice here? Since you make UX in the form of a chatbot

- After clicking bye bye I see the bot sends me something but I can't read it as I am moved to another screen.

Plan:

- Clicking over to PLAN tab and clicking on Life Goal it's not obvious how to delete Life Goal.

- Also there is some css problems there http://prntscr.com/nh4ppw

- Ok I can see trash icon next to the Task, but it took me a while... Still not sure how to Delete life goal

- Ok seems I have to delete first the tasks, then I can delete the life goal. Maybe it makes sense with user defined life goals, but the ones you populate?

- I deleted all the life goals and I didn't know how to create new one. I can see button on the left down, but it adds a task?

- Now I see I can click "make life goal on a task" I would still move add new task button somewhere to the Planning>Hierarchy tab (duplicate it so you can click it in two places)

- Making child task on the life goal suddenly creates Milestone. I was expecting this, but I think user should see "create milestone" not "create childtask"

- On routine tab you suddenly have normal X to delete. I think this is better than trash icon but you should settle on one of these

- Don't understand the feeling tab. I would add explainer. Is this shown anywhere else in the workflow? What's the purpose?

- I still have Plan my day in my backlog even though I deleted it.

WORK

- After clicking to WORK I got confused by 4 red squares. After all this time spent on your platform I finally saw the info icon, but it doesn't explain 4 squares for me.

- On the first square, clicking plus million times is a bad ux. Why not just let user write 30? if it takes 30 minutes?

- clicking outside the modal should close it

- 0.17 is not how time is written. It should be 0:17

Overall I won't be using your product. I don't think it fits my workflow that good.

Piece of advice for you, don't focus on desktop apps now, focus on mobile apps. In my opinion this would be of bigger value than desktop apps.
This story is not about AWS contra Open Source - it is about cloud computing versus selling software licenses: https://hackernoon.com/aws-and-mongo-and-open-source-efcdcfb... . I am waiting for AWS to publish their fork under an Open Source license (maybe even be more Open Source than Elastic), this would not change anything for them, and still kill Elastic.
So, let me get this straight...

Crypto Capital has claimed that the money is frozen and that's why they can't send it back. Execs at Bitfinex/Tether believe maybe Crypto Capital's principal, Ivan Lee, has stolen it and that's why he won't send it back. The NY AG contacted Portugese and Polish authorities and, from them, was informed that there were no official orders freezing Crypto Capital bank accounts in those countries. So the most likely scenario by far is that Ivan Lee has stolen the money.

The NY AG then files a civil lawsuit against Bitfinex, and in doing so reveals to Ivan Lee that the US government is aware that he has stolen the money.

But he (Ivan) has not yet been arrested. So now we have a guy who has committed a massive crime and who is comfortable with tax havens and living internationally and corrupting institutions and who has been given a fair warning to go into hiding before he inevitably is indicted. Oh, and he has $850,000,000. Doesn't he sound like, idk, a flight risk? If he flees, regardless of iFinex's failure to disclose the suspected loss to investors, gross negligance on behalf of the NY AG may contribute to investors losing $850 MM.

Why wouldn't they criminally charge the guy who they strongly imply has actually stolen the money first before they file a civil suit against the victims* dumb enough to send it to him? (* This is called VAF - Victim Assisted Fraud)

There's a lot of angles from which to look at this. Bitfinex/Tether are shady, no doubt. But if the NY AG actually believes what they are purporting to, this stands out to me as a bizarre choice.
It might take a lot of time to research even more material to get a wider context, but that half of a paragraph that contextualizes and compares situations to other parts of the world are often the most interesting parts of such stories, at least to me.
What Are the Best IVF Clinics in Delhi? – ARTbabyIndia
Pretty good explanation, would love to develop such an index-structure for another storage system I'm working on :-)
yeah, I looked at that, but a few things put me off (unmaintained, old version of scss, some caveats in the readme, etc).

Just got sassc working instead, so happy again hehe
Grassland ('Real-Life SimCity') Is Hiring Remote C++ and Python (AI) Engineers
(The same startup from the Show HN: post a few weeks ago[1])

Grassland[2] is looking for software engineers with C++ and cryptocurrency experience and engineers with Python and DL framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch etc.) experience both in the Toronto area and remote (worldwide).

We'll now be receiving funding from a very prominent, international organization and a major university to support further development. More information can be found on my Facebook post[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529921
[2] https://www.grassland.network
[3] https://www.facebook.com/dathompson/posts/10156257618892544
I thought it was metabolised differently and/or used in greater concentrations, making it generally "badder". It's hard to find useful info because it's been seized upon by woo vendors but a quick search turned up these links:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649104/ Huge and I haven't finished digesting it yet (hah) but seems to think overall that HFCS is equivalent to sucrose which would support your statement

* https://www.webmd.com/heart/metabolic-syndrome/news/20090421... suggests that fructose is worse than sucrose for promoting insulin dependence and other risk factors in obese people

* https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/86/4/895/4649668 suggests a range of differences in how they're metabolised which I guess could go either way

All up it sounds like there might be some differences but it's not as much as I thought.
yes, but there's not an actual "registry" as such. Just a bunch of sites that have "useful go library" links.
Good point; the question could be, "What source control do you use?" Or ask about unit testing, CI, deployment, etc.
Hamas shifts tactics in Bitcoin fundraising, highlighting crypto risks
Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research
Why China Will Rival the U.S. in High Tech
Launch video here:

https://vimeo.com/332560919
> People shouldn't be pardoned for accidentally doing something good.

Following the same reasoning we should remove the nobel prize to Alexander Fleeming because trying it was "just good luck". In the end we would all live in a ungrateful and miserable society.

This sends a strong message that you must care just for your own problems and let the other people fall, or you have a fair probability of be punished by being a smartass
Which when you search for it, turns up:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190425143624.h...
OutOfMemory – a nerdy card game for developers
Imagine, one gov appointed person can move left or right tens of billions of dollars in market cap. Maybe, even, hundreds of billions.

Oh, and that person makes, maybe, $150K a year. Anyone gets what I'm saying. We're all flesh and blood.
Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak
The content could be automatically mirrored to github issues or vice versa
If asking something like that you may want to carefully ask how widely adopted the policies they mentioned actually are....
Go has an awesome standard library that does most stuff.

There's also a set of "semi-official" libraries for things like crypto that can't be written by amateurs ;)

There are some other libraries that are commonly used, but you can count them on one hand.

I'm a massive convert to this. Instead of spending my time working out how to get two 3rd-party libraries to talk to each other, I spend my time writing domain-specific code. and my debugging time is spent in repo's that I have a hope of understanding because I wrote them ;)

It doesn't suit everyone, and there are frequent rants on golang forums about people not importing dependencies. But every gopher seems to go through the same journey, and end up at a place where they just write their own code rather than importing it.
Lawyers agree: The GPL is Revocable when given for free
Will email later thanks for letting me know this. The specifics I was getting at was being able to paste a raw html signature or set a signature for a group of people. You can use html in signatures but you're limited to using you tinymce editor. It does, however, work and save properly if you edit the source of the page and then save it...so I can't see why I can't just paste in my html as is? Anyway, sorry for having a bit of a rant here. I'll forward the specific tickets etc. I sent later today. Cheers
Feds dropping child porn cases instead of revealing software details
They're actually heavily focused on consumption, not just sales.

The portal could be better, but all of the large cloud providers have areas of difficulty there. For the basics like spinning up a VM, it's pretty easy these days.