skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's nothing inherent that makes it produce messy code, but it also doesn't really promote good code either.

There's half a dozen different syntaxes for importing/exporting functions, creating functions, creating objects, etc., and it's all fair game. Then there's the asynchronous nature, so sometimes it's async/await, and sometimes it's promises, and sometimes it's callbacks, sometimes all happening in the same function.

And then on top of that there's all the front-end web frameworks which are like, totally un-opinionated, man, except for the parts where they're implicitly super opinionated.
Hmm, there's a closed source API that Quirk interacts with. Plus, we still retain ownership over the name and branding.
>so fast forward 2 yrs I have lost technical sharpness, so I cant be a programmer anymore

Do you really have such little faith in your ability to relearn things?
Important code needs to become stable so it can be improved instead of fighting constant degradation.

Churn kills important code, making it unfit for purpose.
Wind-down of stem-cell institute leaves a void
Auth0 | Senior Engineer, IAM Sessions | Remote | Full Time

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Sessions team! This team is responsible for building out the services and infrastructure which are needed to scale sessions and refresh tokens to the billions, where reliability and latency are key. The majority of authentication and authorization transactions running through Auth0 will depend on your code, giving you the opportunity to work as part of a core product team.

You will often work with other teams both within the Engineering organization and outside of it, in order to get a better understanding of customer needs and the impact of changes you perform.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/auth0/eeafe921-750e-4238-b1ae-7b0a57f4...
> I personally hate Make, it's burned me too many times. Now I use CMake, and I haven't been burned in years.

Could you elaborate on how you've been burned by make? Because my experience is the exact opposite of yours. I shudder to remember some of the cmake I've had to deal with.
The facts that (1) Paul Krugman is prone to immoderate statements and (2) he may have the biggest megaphone of any living economist are closely related. His voice stands out even among Nobel Prize winners. Right or wrong, if he were not given to exaggeration, alarmism, tribalism and ad hominem, it wouldn't.
My impression is batteries are more finicky, and things can go wrong more than other components.

Repair a 3rd party screen, the worse that go wrong is maybe your contrast and image quality is a smidge worse than original

But w/ all those reports of battery fires, explosions, or just duds, my suspicion is this is both more of a QC but also a "cover your ass" liability kind of move by Apple.
Have to laugh at all the Americans saying this is crazy or nonsensical when it's legal to carry guns in much of your country :-D

That aside, lest anyone think TV detector vans are all over the place, in my almost 40 years of living in the UK I've never seen or had interactions with one. They may as well be the Loch Ness monster for how mythical they are.
How I would redesign Netflix
I'm not sure there's anything new in this article. It sort of sounds like a rehash of one side's arguments as contrasted with Paul Krugman's rehash of his side's arguments. It's a long-standing debate.

But there are some entertaining quotations:

Any astute reader knows that personal attacks and innuendo mean the author has run out of ideas.

Following the last mystic oracle until he gets a judgment wrong, then casting him to the wolves, is not a good long-term strategy for identifying bubbles.

Krugman wants to be the Rush Limbaugh of the Left.

The case for free markets never was that markets are perfect. The case for free markets is that government control of markets, especially asset markets, has always been much worse.
I stopped following Paul Krugman on Twitter only because Twitter was constantly pushing anti-Paul-Krugman trending threads at me, most of which I couldn't find much affinity with.
On the CPU tooling side of things, I was planning to buy into another Intel CPU for my workstation for the same reasons- until I ran into some 50%+ performance cliffs in Zen 1. (I suspect Zen 2 addresses some of these.)

I'll still need to keep some Intels around for VTune and optimizing deeply for AMD is going to be a chore... But given how the market is moving, I don't think I can avoid making AMD the primary development focus.
Public TV stations must move to new frequencies because of FCC auction
Hi I'm an engineer on Actions, and a few months ago I probably would have said the same thing, but I've come around to it (and then some).

We spent a ton of time working through the syntax changes in HCL, YAML, and other languages. What we found was that while HCL and other languages are amazing for expressing pure configuration, software development lifecycle and continuous integration workflows are a blend of configuration and pseudo-scripting, and we were only able to come up with a clean syntax for this in YAML.

For example, although HCL supports heredocs, we felt that they suffered from readability problems versus multi-line strings in YAML when you're just trying to read through a workflow file and see what it does.

There are many, many other reasons we felt that YAML was actually the right choice, and I'm optimistic others will come around to it in the same way I have.
Why devops, if everything can be deved? If the dev experience is good enough, do anyone needs ops?
I'm confused, are you talking about this, a paper published in 2013 by the government of Singapore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_White_Paper

That research you're talking about (with fresh eyes) concluded they needed more immigrants, not fewer.

I just don't understand what point you're trying to make. Singapore's immigration laws are in what way relevant to the US? It's an "island city state" according to Wikipedia, not really at all comparable, but if one wanted to make a comparison, the government of Singapore suggested opening its own borders further, which supports what I was saying.

Did you think I was advocating for a more closed border?
You need a TV licence if you watch or record TV as it's broadcasted (or shortly afterwards) or if you use iPlayer.
You need a licence if you receive live tv as it's broadcast, or if you watch BBC iPlayer (a video on demand "catch up" service).

You don't need a licence if you don't watch live tv as it's broadcast.
> I would have left long ago if flagging had continued to be used to kill topics.

This is still prevalent. The mods are simply resistant to this. I don't even think it's necessarily a bad thing, but HN is hardly exempt from being an echo chamber—it's just one I enjoy, and one that seems to pride itself on being vaguely more open minded (to serious discussion) than the average community.
This reminds me of the great first novel of Russian author Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra. The protagonist joins the Soviet space program (fully automated moon exploration!) and

[spoilers ahead]

learns that the full automation is physical labor by cosmonauts at every stage of the process. No spoilers about the end, it's even better.
In the US no one cares if you buy a TV and set up some rabbit ears or whatever you want with it, especially not the government
For context, the original article [1] was in September of 2009, a year after the financial crisis hit its climax. The period was also a period where "salt water economics" and "fresh water economics" had their peak conflicts (after many decades of a peaceful truce).

The different view points are not exactly amicable because they quickly devolve into ideological fights.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.htm...
Shallow craters on Moon and Mercury may hide thick slabs of water ice
So far no one has done it. Quirk's got a closed source api that it interacts with, which makes it a bit trickier to straight rip off. Plus, we own the brand, which is a pretty big reason why people try Quirk in the first place.
Hopefully Gitlab will learn that a bullet list of features can only take them so far. If (probably when) Github matches their feature set, the most stable product automatically wins. ("breadth over depth" as a strategy assumes a false dichotomy)
Subtitle: the comeback of stone age ape man...:-)
Einzelgänger – Philosophy Channel on YouTube
Not really, no. One of the basic tenets of the EU single market is free movement of goods and people. Schengen agreement just removes border controls. UK has the freedom to stop any non-EU citizen from entering as it pleases but so does every other EU country, including the Schengen ones.
An insight into how Shaka VC invests in African startups
This is broken for me in both Firefox for Android and Chrome for Windows. Any ideas what might be up?
But you have to opt out of watching all live tv for your method to work.
"Those who do not move do not notice their chains."

In other words: People who think HN moderation is all fine and dandy only believe so because they've never had the audacity to post an unpopular fact or opinion.
I found the post interesting from a product-management angle.

The decision to fuse the two components (SCM and CI/CD) must have been quite a leap of faith. Wasn't aware of this.
You want to look at the total growth at the end of the period and then calculate the annual average growth as the base of the exponent.
An ultra-stable gold-coordinated protein cage displaying reversible assembly
Yes. One of the most wearying things about the modern web is having to always tailor your comments and arguments to whatever atmosphere is going on at the moment, particularly when you're forced to constantly use analogies to get around reactionary biases.

For example, if the current discussion is circle-jerking about how oppressed men/women/blacks/whites are, you end up having to frame any defense or problem relating to the disfavored group in terms of the favored group just to avoid getting downvoted to oblivion. You can never argue on principle, you have to put it in terms of what/who people like at the moment. If you don't, you get labeled as a member of or "on the team" of the disfavored group and summarily dismissed.
You might be replying to the wrong comment; I never mentioned "backlash". Less popular, less relevant, less trusted, yes.
To look in your open window, even with a telescope? I don't think that is considered illegal.
Hi, GitHub Actions product manager here.

Thanks for your interest in GitHub Actions.
You can set a property `continue-on-error: true` for each step and the runner will ignore a failed result and continue the workflow. For more details on workflow configuration please see https://help.github.com/en/articles/workflow-syntax-for-gith...

Workflow runs can be triggered via a `repository_dispatch` event with a custom payload. Using this model you could create a tool to allow for manual triggering. However, we do expect to provide a more integrated experience for triggering manual runs with custom inputs.

More capabilities for actions to post artifacts and reports as part of our experience is absolutely on our radar.

We are working to bring as many new users into the beta as quickly as we can and we look forward to your feedback.
Page 22 lists fatalities, including when commuting to work and contractors.
Taoism – The Philosophy of Flow
What happens if you have too many interests? There is too much to learn... it seems overwhelming
Krugman has been rallying for economic populism, particularly rust belt populism for ages. He's been skeptical of free trade and deeply sympathetic to the plight of displaced rust belt workers. [1]

To his credit, Krugman has focused on pragmatic things like worker retraining, education, etc., but he also has called for tariffs [2].

Trump attempts to be seen as someone who adopts Reagan style deregulation and tax reduction, but in reality he has grown government spending and the budget deficit tremendously in his short time in office, and has created massive corporate welfare to many industries as well as steep taxes (in the form of tariffs) on firms that import goods from China, not to mention his threats of antitrust actions against tech [3].

Combined with the additional reductions in economic freedom that his trade deal adjustments with Canada and Mexico have wrought, he's ushered in tremendous bureaucratic overhead to oversee the process of making what are essentially superficial changes (yet which require tons of work by lawyers, etc. so that firms can comply). In general, a great deal of work and oversight for virtually no substantive benefit.

All this is pretty much exactly what Krugman has been calling for his entire career as a populist economist/columnist [4].

All of the below articles are Krugman making arguments that came later to be adopted by Trump as part of his rise to power. Note that Krugman's essays since Trump took office are blatantly partisan and largely nitpick Trump's execution of his ideas.

1. Krugman on the importance of the Rust Belt: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/a-tale-of-two-r...

2. Krugman calls for 25% across the board tariffs on Chinese goods: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/opinion/15krugman.html?sr...

3. Krugman on breaking up Amazon: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/opinion/paul-krugman-amaz...

4. Krugman on the failings of NAFTA https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/10/opinion/in-america-nafta-...
>Freedom is never won forever. Every generation has to fight to keep it back.

This reminds me of the Daniel Kahn song 'Freedom is a Verb'. Great listen that argues exactly this.
Yep. Obviously this is anecdotal and limited to my own social circles, but I live in the Bay Area, and almost everyone (90%+) I know in San Francisco does not own a car. The ones that do own cars only use them if they need to get out of the city (within the city they bike/scooter/walk/Uber/Lyft/transit).

When I did the math, if I lived in the city it would be cheaper to use rideshare everywhere and rent cars when needed, than to own a car.
Hasn't Reddit been issuing shadow bans for the last decade? I think shadow banning people is really shitty.

In Reddit's case, they shadowbanned me immediately after I bought Reddit gold, and an unpaid, unaffiliated subreddit moderator let me know that my account was snowbanned.

Getting Reddit to reverse the ban took sending a message to an admin and waiting a few weeks.

This shadow ban, the continuing degredation of old.reddit.com (its showing incorrect URLs now), and people getting pissed off at me when I suggest breaking up their wall of text into paragraphs (replying "this is just Facebook!" or similar) have pushed me away.

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't want to interact with people who can't be bothered to put in a modicum of effort to comply with subreddit stanfards and rules. Sadly, Reddit has chosen to tailor itself to adopt this demographic over the last few years :c
Pointer-based model for state reduction in momentum space
>Question: who does a policy of "no political discussion" most favour?

How about people who are sick of the silly ass and mostly irrelevant toxic political bullshit lizard men and their PR firms use to drum up electoral turnout? I'm here for the 1337 h4x0rz, not what some blue haired SRE ops ding dong or buzzcut f35 engineer thinks about Todays Issues as defined on TV.

Anyway, hats off to sctb and dang, who do a great job despite the wanking that is allowed on here.
we are looking at an iceberg
there is more to it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

i know this is about optical side channeling, and tempest is a US effort, but there is a method that was developed and when you can tune in to the synching signal of a TV, CRT, or even an LCD, you can translate the reflected light and reveal much more than presence of a device, You Can Actually Watch what The Suspect Is Watching!

A suffieciently motivated attacker with easily fabbed equipment and patience of a ham radio Dx er kinda guy, will know a lot more than presence and use of a "TV" display
Also submitted (with bbc.co.uk URL) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646540.
No particular change in laws, the corporations just got better at exploiting loopholes.

For example by hiring contractors in place of employees.
1) How will migration to new iOS devices work if the thoughts are only stored locally?

2) I popped the app open when I found it, but haven't used it yet. One thought I had then, I'll share here: if it doesn't have a mode similar to the Lotus Bud app, it might be nice to have something like that. Basically, you can set up the Lotus Bud app to check in randomly during the day (window of time, and frequency are both configurable) and invite you to "clear" for a moment. Quirk could ask if there's a thought stream you'l like to address.
Having a status page in the phone that tells you which parts are original and which are aftermarket is very helpful when you buy a used phone or fix your own in a shop. You could easily see if you're getting an original battery or screen.

Of course you should be allowed to fix your own phone in any shop and with any parts but this should be obvious in the phone to discourage fraud.
Once you’re in the beta, you’ll be able to get started by picking from a varying list of templates. In the meantime, those templates are actually hosted here: https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows. Depending on what you’re interested in setting up, this page might be helpful in getting started. https://help.github.com/en/categories/automating-your-workfl...
Agreed, the spirit of Apple under Mr. Cook is vastly different then when his predecessor was directing--no, recreating--the company. Part of it, I realize, the innovation curve tends to flatten over time. If you can't make your numbers with innovative and powerful new ideas, at least capture the margin with vendor lock-in. For a good percentage of Apple customers, that may just be fine.
When comparing countries, as I said, the basis of comparison is almost invariably PPP GDP per capita, not nominal GDP per capita.
Ripping Out Node.js – Building SaaS with Python and Django #30
] "humane arguments are dismissed as emotional or irrational. Logic, applied narrowly, is used to justify broad moral positions."

Those two points can't be construed any other way than as anti-intellectual. They were cheap shots, and the author should have known they were a cheap shots.

That those points are somewhat incongruous with the subsequent assertion and surrounding piece doesn't mean they're any less anti-intellectual.

] "The most admired arguments are made with data, but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data tend to be ancillary concerns."

And indeed, I'd say that prefacing the immediately above (defensible) with the prior claims (indefensible) is the reason this entire comment thread exists.

The author could have made a much stronger argument about poor citation and fact checking, but they instead chose to include what feels like knee-jerk humanities logic horror, substantially muddying their point.
Ever seen the flickering light of a television behind someone's curtains?

Ever seen an app that can identify what song is playing?
The arguments for gitlab are that they are open source and that self-hosting isn't an afterthought.

We need more of both.
Buy as You View
Could be skip levels in there if the organization is extremely hierarchical.
I just want to point out that Keynesian economics, which apparently have been discredited, is literally what Donald Trump and the Republican Party, which were apparently anti-Keynesian economics are practicing. So if Krugman got it wrong, he got it wrong in a way that convinced everyone in the US political spectrum that it was the right thing to do.

Further, Krugman was very clear thst it was important for the government to spend heavily in a recession, when government spending wouldn’t crowd out private spending, and specially st the time (and even now) the US has a vast requirement for infrastructure maintenance, which thanks to the crash could have been gotten done on the cheap. It wasn’t an unconditional endorsement of government spending.

I didn’t read too much further into this article, because I was heavily involved in this particular aspect of the response to the financial crisis due to a project in class, and was well aware of what different commentators, including Krugman were saying, and this article mischaracterises the part that I do remember.
That is a very inspiring perspective on how work aids in dealing with life. I hope you do find work that provides challenging and meaningful problems for you to solve. You deserve it.
Show HN: HTML Email Templates for Startups
'Gods of the Upper Air' Traces the Birth of Cultural Anthropology
bug in cursor rendering: https://imgur.com/a/imGJCRC
(chrome 75.0.3770.142, ubuntu 16.04)
According to Wikipedia, Sichuanese shares <50% of its vocabulary with Beijing Mandarin. That is significantly further apart than French or Spanish to Italian. (Disclaimer: I know very little about the relation between Sichuanese and Beijing Mandarin, and would be happy to see better explained quantitative comparisons.)

Maybe you are underestimating how close Romance languages are.

In any event, I think everyone would agree that Sichuanese is much closer to Beijing Mandarin than other Chinese languages (like Xiang, Wu, Hakka, Min, etc. etc.).
I think the simpler observation is that it's a Japanese breed name, so they pick a name that fits that. If you look at many of the other breeds, the most common name is clearly a riff on the breed:

Boxer -> Tyson

(Chocolate) labrador -> Hershey

Blue heeler -> Blue

Jack Russell terrier -> Jack

Chihuahua -> lots of Mexican names

King Charles spaniel -> Charlie

Pug -> Pugsly

Dachshund (weiner dog) -> Nathan (brand of hot dogs)

Boston terrier -> Buster (guessing this is because it's similar-sounding)
I suppose because that's a niche dialect, an experiment if you will, not the anointed successor.
I agree with your original assessment and support this move from Apple. I am glad there is a mechanism for determining whether work done on a device I might purchase (such as a used iPhone) was done by Apple certified technicians. I do not think Apple should spend time or money attempting to certify or measure every battery that a person could put in the phone.

This is a pro-consumer move, because it gives the consumer more information about the state of a product. They can ignore it if they want, it doesn’t impact the operation of the device.
Sexual Offences Act 2003, S67 and S68: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67
> Have to laugh at all the Americans saying this is crazy or nonsensical when it's legal to carry guns in much of your country :-D

Not making the connection here, care to elaborate?
> "If you live in the UK and own a TV you must pay the BBC whether you want the BBC or not!"

This isn't true.
Please don't do regional flamewar, or any flamewar, on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Brave is all open source. Why did you think otherwise?
I need to validate an input string from the user to ensure it's a 32 character hex (I'm validating it's a NAA format 6 WWN) and regex is just the easy, fast and efficient to do this. It's not a complicated regex and is quite readable to anyone with basic regex knowledge, why is this wrong?
Half of NCI Cancer Center Directors Collect Industry Payments
The little circle guys are hilarious. I really like how instructional the landing page is, with a sort of old-world informational ad copy style instead of just a bunch of flashy screenshots.

Taking it for a spin, and wishing you the best!
Companies are allowed to fire you for things that are not illegal.