skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Slack for work, and while it was an order of magnitude better than the dumpster-fire of Hipchat (which it replaced for our team), I still think that the interface is kind of "meh".

Custom emojis are fun, inline markdown is useful, but it takes a lot of memory for something that, to me, seems like it should be lightweight. We've had IM since the 80's, after all. There's a part of me that has a visceral reaction to seeing an IM client taking more than 100mb of memory (though to be fair they seem to be getting improving that a lot.
That's a true and important fact that's often ignored in discussion of this topic, but it doesn't mean we couldn't end up in a situation where introducing significantly more expensive forms of pollination is necessary to maintain modern crop yields. Such yields aren't natural either.
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Is Switzerland a good place to learn High German? I was wondering about doing that myself.
Naspers Has Invested $2mln in South Africa's SweepSouth
Really, from my understanding, you're right: it should not make sense. It's pretty much an absurdist book, it was adapted from a radio show and was more or less just comedy sketches centered in a ragtag, nonsense setting. None of them really have much to do with each other, nor do they really build off of each other, but I find Douglas Adams writing and ability to come up with what he does to be endlessly engaging and uplifting.

You mentioned judging the scenes by themselves; this is how I view Hitchhiker's Guide, as a compilation of great scenes that each occasionally do have some great meta-commentary on the world at large, and almost all are funny and self-contained. There isn't so much "development" as there is a progression of in-jokes.

The characters are more or less used as puzzle pieces to fit into a scene; while they might not really "develop" so to speak, they are fun archetypes that are thrown into silly situations, and we recognize them by what they do and say. They don't compare to most novels or literature when it comes to character development, but it can often be a gag as well just how far they've come without developing whatsoever.

It definitely does try hard, and it definitely is incoherent. This turns it off to a lot of people, and that's totally reasonable. For those who essentially want to read Spaceballs, however, it is a work of art comparable to Plato's Republic.
Interestingly, basing insurance on healthiness seems to be a new trend happening right now.

I'm a runner, and recently I've seen a lot of ads for a company called HealthIQ (I think) that offers cheap life insurance, but only for people who can run a 9 minute mile.

I think breaking into health insurance would be much harder because a) the administration is way more complicated and b) most people get health insurance through their employers, and normal employers won't be able to guarantee that every employee can pass a healthiness test, but I imagine they're working on getting around these problems right now.
I want to respectfully challenge this - many people do still use those tools and still will. But the user experience in Slack is objectively better, especially with large rooms with frequent content (as the OP mentions).

I lived in IRC in the late 90s and early 2000s. IRC is fantastic and open and federated. But if I want to get things done with a team, I'll pick Slack everytime.
Then you reduce the attack surface on this one special-purpose machine, which is much easier than doing the same on all your employees' desktops.
I'd translate "rechtschaffen" as lawful ... because Lawful Good is officially Rechtschaffen Gut of course.

(Sorry, this German is missing his Pathfinder group)

On a more serious note: I assume you could pick different translations for most of these words and I'm not convinced that the article makes any sort of generally applicable point.

What I do want to say is that the little exposure I had to the US culture ("How are you doiiiing? Are you alriiiight? That's SOOOOO nice!") is impossible to digest and feels .. fake.

I also have to admit that - living in Asia for the last 2 years - my tone and direct (or is it blunt?) communication leads to misunderstandings sometimes.
This is a succession of prejeduces, historic and contemporary events.

And some things are wrong. I don't know. Maybe you should travel there without trying to search for situations in which your prejeduces become real. I don't know. Im German and Im really tired of all these articles

I mean: relotius, VW, Hitler and Goethe.
If I would write an article about American culture in this way you would call me xenophobic.
You are the opposite of polite. You are racist.
"it’s an important [step] and sends a signal to the world that this practice is wrong, has to be stopped, and Canada will not participate in the import of these fins anymore.”

i don't get it.

why can't they be fished sustainably like anything else? why is it wrong to eat a shark fin but ok to trawl fish, or to wear a jacket filled with down plucked from a goose? this just seems like propaganda.

https://www.oceana.ca/en/blog/how-seafood-caught-look-fishin...
That's what I said:

You would find many more translations for "to lie" in a broader sense.
Interestingly, we don't get to judge objectively what a good manager is, but we can tell what the effects are.

Simply, if you can plan an expensive 2-week vacation 6 months from now without doubt or much stress, and with a high degree of confidence, you have a good manager.

If you feel your work is making progress and contributing positively to the success of the company in a clear way that you have control of, your relationships with your co-workers are based on a basic level of trust and friction doesn't derail them into a power struggle, and you are able to approach all your work with calm deliberation, you also have a good manager.

If you think these are things that are the responsibility of the employee and not your manager, you would be missing the point, because a good manager hires staff and maintains teams like this. It's very possible a good manager might not hire you or keep you on as well.

It's worth asking why a good manager would hire you, and whether your criteria for having a good manager is simply that they like you. :)
It sounds like you approached the wedding from the perspective of "here's the checklist of amenities we need to provide our guests", which you modified by striving to ensure each line item was reasonably priced. Not a criticism - I did that to, and for both of us it seems to have been a financially responsible decision.

However, for people for whom that isn't financially responsible, I'd suggest that that mentality isn't appropriate. The question shouldn't be "what do the guests absolutely require?", but "what can we afford? and what do we want?" In that order!

The bare minimum for a wedding is a court wedding. There are some reasons why that may not be the best idea at scale (that is, it may be individually appropriate but there are social reasons why that's not ever going to be the only sort of wedding). From there, the next thing you need is somewhere to gather some people. Are you really obligated to feed them? Depends on the time you pick. Are you obligated to rent a hall rather than find somewhere you can go for free? I'd say not. Do you need flowers scaled to the number of guests? Not really need, no. etc.

Given the ability of money issues to tear marriages apart, I'd say a new couple should strive quite hard to avoid debt for their wedding, and I'd say, get brutal with those costs. If social conventions are driving you into debt, screw social conventions. They were not, in the past, built for that purpose. To a non-trivial extent, they are built in the present for that purpose, and the answer to that is to not just decline to play, but to be angry at the people manipulating those conventions to put you in debt, just to ensure you stay in the right frame of mind. Plus if enough people do that, we can take them back.

"If social conventions are driving you into debt, screw social conventions." has application well beyond this particular matter, too.
Last summer we bought 3 Mac minis for some summer interns to use (biocurators) and I used the same apple account for each of them. We had a very confusing standup meeting the next day trying to figure out why seemingly random scientific text was continually replacing what had been in their clipboards. It turns out copying syncs across all devices, not just iOS <-> Mac.
Ease of switching, like if ActivityPub takes off, you have a backend SN you join, but can switch at any time, because the data is all the same format. Networks can consume each other's content. Interface is decoupled from the network.
Citation needed.

Also, you’re assuming that “cellular anti-aging” is good for your health. You could be right, but you could be wrong.
I didn't know about this one. I made mine as a simple jsfiddle sketch two years or so ago. Yesterday I've decided to upload it to see if someone cares for it.
Lowly Skype does just about everything Slack does. Though, they added "channels" after Slack.
>>This is the case for most novels: you have to read seven hundred pages to get the handful of insights that were the reason the book was written, and the apparatus of the novel is there as a huge, elaborate, overbuilt stage set.

This is a pet peeve of mine in any type of art, especially installation art or sculpture where a clear and simple point can be quite literally expanded into a elaborate and overbuilt set that doesn't add to the impact. Or worse, obfuscates the original idea.

But then there's an explorative type of art where the method and the process is much more meaningful than the insight or punchline that the novel may have been built around. The Waves by Virginia Woolf, for example.

(edited to use my words more good)
> The only question left is single thread perf

I thought this benchmark was about single thread perf? From the article -

"However, according to a Cinebench score shared by Videocardz on Twitter, the 3600 levels with the Core i7-9700K in the single threaded test."

Whilst this is only one benchmark, it's looking like they've caught up or even overtaken on single thread performance too.
I don't like subjecting a bunch of people to horrible images on an industrial scale, no. And I don't think "it's making us money and we can't think of a better way" is an excuse to keep it up.

[EDIT] and given that second sentence, no, I'd get nowhere in American politics.
especially if you reach out to slang, you will find words like Bescheissen, Verarschen, and so on. But still, mutual trust is indeed an important thing to the Germans, and what's more important, it applies to society in general, not just your peers or connections.
Not always with country-level granularity. It'll tell you "Britain or Ireland", but not "England", for example.
Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation [pdf]
I've started to think I'm better off building lots of small OSS libraries than one big one.

The big one seems like some massive accumulator bet, which is really unlikely to pay off, whereas one of the smaller parts may just have an impact on it's own...
The best manager is no manager. If you must have one, then the second best manager is one who connects you with the right people and improves your career.
Guide to Website Design Cost in 2019
PG&E Retires Power Line That Sparked California’s Deadliest Wildfire
Love paying with a suica for taxi and basically anything, I've stopped taking any taxi that does not accept it and I'm considering changing my laundry place just because of this.
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Good analysis. I suppose Enlightenment philosophers were going through a similar experience when they reflected about the traps of the devil, and how could you be certain about anything at all.*

This was shortly after the invention of the printing press, but before society learned to adapt to the flood of thoughts (most of them, ramblings) from any lunatic, now easily reproduced en masse. They invented newspapers and the scientific method, so maybe it was worth it.

* (Their answer was to begin from first principles, and double-check everything with reality, a novel way of thinking that brought the scientific revolution; before that, arguments from authority carried a lot more weight).

Maybe we're just facing a similar dynamic from the arrival of the 'net, which brought us instant mind-to-mind connection. I'm betting on the blockchain being used for radical accountability. Even if we won't be sure of what information is true and what is a deepfake, at least we'll be able to consistently assess what bits of information are coming from the same source and thus are built to support the same worldview (and also that it isn't being changed behind our backs, 1984-style).
The Ugly Truth about Adam Goodes’ Story
Try to get the average office worker to use IRC today and see how far that gets you. It really behooves Engineers to put themselves in the shoes of actual users once in a while
It's not static content. It would have been expensive to keep the services running. Not just in terms of computing and storage, but also for the headcount. Speaking of the latter, who would want to work on maintaining a read-only version of a project frozen in time? (The enterprise version will evolve, etc.) I am not even going into the legal implications.
As a spaniard, I checked out the topic of Euskera's origin for a bit after several trips to the area left me a strong curiosity in the topic.

What I found out is pretty much that every bit of information has to be taken with a grain of salt, because there is a very strong amount of urban legends, fringe historians supporting outlandish theories with just a bit of anecdotal evidence like the ![vasconic substrate hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasconic_substrate_hypothesis), and bad pseudohistory. There's always claims of mountains of evidence of which just one or two (usually already debunked) examples are provided.

It is somewhat comparable to the pseudo history that's sometimes seen in the African American comunity in the US (like the black egyptian hipothesis, the idea that Jesus was black, etc). The issue is a mix of lack of well funded investigation, distrust of mainstream authorities by the people affected and local pride (that causes good sounding stories to be spread without much research).
Although it's true that cars switch owners, cars usually stay on the road for 10-15 years so consumers with the annual fee will pay out more in the long run.

After working with Toyota in their multimedia and head unit design facility, I can see why car companies would switch from a set price of $300 to a yearly fee. It used to be that you just included a FM radio and a CD player and the driver was good to go. Now, these head units need updates every month. These updates mostly include compatibility with the latest IOS/Android, latest phone hardware, newer versions of Pandora/Spotify/iHeartRadio because people wanted to "thumbs up" their songs, newer versions of the HU OS because these new music app versions broke the old OS, newer maps and less embarrassingly-bad voice recognition. Behind these map updates, there's some tester with an H1B Visa getting paid a salary to drive around in a Sienna to take photos of discrepancies between the map and the actual road. Once you see this, it's easy to understand the switch to an annual fee. However, the largest cost comes from trying to connect to the latest phones to use their 3G/4G.

If Tesla wasn't hemorrhaging out money, I'd also wish Tesla had a cheaper car. But Tesla unsustainably lost $702 million last quarter and they need to make enough of a profit to pay back all of their debt and invest in building our future; otherwise they'll go bankrupt. The list of successful car company startups is short. As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla. Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is idiocy squared. Tesla's end goal is to make an affordable sports car, just as the Ford Model T was an affordable car for the masses that brought Ford from 9% market share to 61% market share. They just can't bring the costs down yet while they are hemorrhaging so much money.

Further reading:
1) https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j...
2) https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
Wistia's Chris Savage talks lessons from raising $17.3M in debt
Apathy is the greatest evil.
In terms of using it as a currency that’s orthogonal to investment returns. A low cost, highly scalable, easy to use, system could still be created. But it would need to have some advantages for users over existing systems. Further, any technical solution would need to compete with just using an existing currency as the internal token.

That’s a hard problem. Irreversible transactions look nice for the merchant, but as legal organizations can be taken to court that’s mostly valuable for scammers etc. Anonymity is a prized feature, but brings the legal hammer down as governments will actively fight such systems.

PS: Crypto investment is an obvious pyramid scheme mathematically as it does not generate profits internationally. Further it makes no difference to adoption if you buy or don’t buy a given coin. It can only move them from later investors to early investors.
I've seen other specific types of mites used to control them. 'Phytoseiulus persimilism' is a type of mite used to control 'two-spotted spider mites', which can feast on crops. The question is whether there's a species that would feast on the mites infesting beehives.
I don't agree with the translation (see sibling), but also don't understand the point. There isn't a single word for this in English either (It's .. two words) and while we're at it: English is a lot of German(ic) with a big chunk of French. Who copied whom for hurt feelings/verletzte Gefuehle is something I can't say.

But .. why derive any sort of meaning from the fact that there's not a one word term for this?
There are libraries that let you define runtime schema objects which you can invoke to validate incoming data — and they also let you extract static types from those schemas so you don’t have to write things twice:

https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts
https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes
If it's that easy to blackmail cities I need to take up hacking...
This reads like a high school essay composed of random factoids about Germany and its history. Eloquent but border line incoherent.
"Types are useless because they don't version my wire protocol!" is a wholly specious argument. There are a variety of RPC protocols that address versioning in a variety of ways; this isn't a typechecker responsibility. You can generate Typescript interfaces from protobufs if you fancy.

Typescript makes sure that all your code agrees with the protocol definition you have chosen. That alone is immensely valuable.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14516/amd-16-core-ryzen-9-395...

Announced and priced at $749.
>Germans couldn’t even begin to imagine why being brutally honest would hurt someone in the first place! If the truth hurts you, isn’t that more your fault than the truth’s?

What? This is simply not true at all, germans aren't emotionless robots, of course they don't go out of their way and hurt the feelings of other people.

Kept reading after that statement and regretted it.
Interview with Raman Founder and CTO of Cryptojobslist
This is simply the consequence of a thinly traded asset whose value does not have any real world dividends to anchor it.

If the hoarders and traders disappeared, the volatility would be due to other more inexplicable market mechanics.
Ironically, one of the easier ways TypeScript has been able to work quickly is by skipping the type inference Flow does. It’s a trade off. The Flow team was advised that this approach would have performance problems early on in the project, and opted to focus on type system features first and perf second.
Sounds like they were trying to emulate the early days of FB some people pine for where you had to have a .edu email address to sign up. I know a few friend were hopeful that Google+ meant they would no longer see posts from their racist uncle or gullible aunt. Start out with that same kind of exclusivity and hopefully it builds this exclusive mystique so when you open it up to everybody you get a flood. Perhaps the big difference they didn't factor in is FB did this when relatively few people were on social media so they couldn't help but grow whereas Google+ needed to recognize they were trying to enter an already saturated market.
> I'm not convinced that "memory vulnerabilities" are more than a small part of correctness.

This is not at all the point.

So maybe your IP stack has a bug, but at least you won't have a remotely exploitable vulnerability. At least 3/4rd of all CVEs are due to memory safety. Its 2019, why does this need pointing out.
You'd be surprised. Here's a cool visualization from a bike share in Boston. It's from 2015, and it's grown a bit since then:

https://twitter.com/ridebluebikes/status/634459070200680449

As others have stated, it's not about renting vs. owning a bike, but it's about having the bike option when/where you need it.
I normally use one of the two options:
- Say somewhere famous that is very near, like a train station
- Say the exact address, like "Shibuya ku, icchome no ..." then they will say something that means "address", you confirm and just repeat it as they type in the GPS.
That's a very interesting question. Have you already been researching some solutions? And if so, which resources did you use?

I'd say the most important aspects could be:
- Available fresh water

- Population density

- Job availability

- Pollution (water / air / ground)

- Political stability

- Common spoken languages

This could make a nice base for a webapp where you can figure out where to go for the next big migration :)

Some websites I found so far

- http://datasets.wri.org (datasets on many earthly aspects :))

- http://www.aneki.com/freshwater_countries.html (biggest bodies of fresh water)

- http://flood.firetree.net/ (water levels)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_ren...

- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/most-po...
400y ($3.68 USD) for the first 1km and then 80y ($0.74 USD)/400m after that.
I use this all of the time. I love the trackpad workflow. Now—if you are using an external keyboard and don't have the magic trackpad, then it's a larger PITA.

I have bound those commands to keys as well. So in my case I can swap workspaces by using CTRL+<arrow> and get that same view with CTRL+UP (but then still have to switch to mouse to select. I bought the apple trackpad recently because I prefer it that much—being able to do this actions one-handed. That said I'm also testing an ergonomic mouse so I lose some of that again—as I'm sure some of the case is for a lot of people. Hence all these other workarounds.
Is the amount of code in unsafe blocks really a good metric for safety?
Speaking of wave, Google wave too. Really excellent idea, but if you couldn't collaborate with anyone but yourself (because of invites), you aren't really "collaborating" and all the benefits of wave are lost.
I see the word "deserve" constantly in marketing and in people's justifications for the things they buy, and it drives me insane. A transaction is giving something up in exchange for something else. What someone thinks they "deserve" has absolutely no effect on whether a purchase makes your life better or worse.