skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can really understand that… but I believe that such organizations will experience significantly more problems than just Python upgrades. (I work for one.)
Anyone is free to put up a paywall and deny access to people who don't pay.

But LinkedIn is apparently happy to let Googlebot and bingbot scrape public profiles. If they want to do that, they can't argue that their policy is to block bots who don't click on ads. Discriminating Googlebot from other visitors is probably a violation of Google policies, too. They can't have their cake and eat it at the same time.
It's nothing to hide, it needs to be hidden. I find the contradiction more annoying.

Sure I don't want my jogging data also being passed on, but they give a sense it's worse while doing the cliche of not using blue liquid because virtual signal something something.
With that, you'd need a client software on the computer, pairing etc. His receiver acts like a keyboard that just sends win+m when triggered. Neater, imho.
Calcium, not vitamin D.
Ask HN: I'm trying to find a paper about medieval spending on warfare
Hi Guys,

I'm trying to find an article about medieval european warfare spending. I kinda remember it being posted to HN (but the only thing I remember was that war accounted to sth along 90% of 'state' budget). I'm trying googling and duckduckgoing it but to no avail.

Anyone remembers this paper/article? or have some suggestions on better searching methods?
HAd to look for K-T boundary : Cretaceous–Tertiary (K-T) boundary :-)
It's uncomfortable for me as I have relatively big and slightly weirdly shaped ears. This in effect means that two hours is around the maximum I can wear headphones for.

If I take more frequent breaks I can stretch it to about 3 hours.

If we're losing the AC war, then it's normally the heat that does it.
Useless talk. If the Lisps were that powerful,every spec would end up with a Lisp implementation. We need better Lisps that make translation from spec to software easier. Lisp can improve. Lisp shall improve.
Did he check if call forwarding was activated?
Why focus on SUVs in particular? Cars in general don't belong in inner cities.
I got slammed in another thread for trying to elucidate this point, but the parallel is the "economic anxiety" narrative behind increase in right-wing nationalism in liberal western countries. HK is no different, but as a city state this animosity is expressed as nativism against the influx of rich mainland Chinese immigrants buying up real estate and changing local culture.

When HK accounted for 1/4 of Chinese GDP, it had an industrial and service sector that supported a comfortable middle class life. The joke was that even HK taxi drivers could support multiple secret families on the mainland. Then mainland manufacturing made HK Detroit. HK also had a vibrant media/culture scene that has diminished in softpower. So you have a generation of kids who are doomed to live at home in cramped apartments with very few economic prospects watching themselves be economically, culturally, politically eclipsed by mainland "locusts" [1]. The same way alt-right dog whistles about immigration politics when there's perceived privilege change in the social order. HK is not a woke place. See drama over HK/Singapore beef, treatment and valuation of foreign domestic workers according to ethnic hierarchy. HKers want suffrage and autonomy, it's all very nice to western ears, but implicit in that desire is to keep HK for HKers because when China sends their people they're not sending their best.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/article/991355/anger-mainland-visitors-...

>A row between Hongkongers and mainlanders is reaching boiling point after internet users raised more than HK$100,000 in less than a week to finance a full-page 'anti-locust' advertisement in a Chinese-language newspaper in the city.

...

>Mainlanders have already crossed our bottom line,' said Yung Jhon, who refused to disclose his real name. 'Why are mainland mothers flooding in to take up resources in public hospitals, getting our benefits and social welfare? Why do mainlanders ... refuse to follow our rules and order? We can't accept that.

This is not an isolated incident but popular sentiment that culminated from increasing mainland immigration to HK since handover. By law HK has to accept ~150 one-way permit holders from mainland per day under family reunification plan. That's 55k a year or ~1million mainland immigrants (in a city of 7 million) since handover. These mainland immigrants are disproportionately elderly and impoverished, "draining" HK social services. There's also extremely affluent mainlanders buying up property in HK, flaunting their wealth in shopping day trips. Spoiled, rich mainland Chinese kids whose parents were pig farmers a generation ago makes people's blood boil around the world. HK is no different.
My current favorite is Navi.

https://github.com/frontarm/navi
It's really sad the guardian doesn't quantify at all how contaminated the water is. This basically has no news value because of it. Is this a good idea? Is this a bad idea? No way to tell without any hard numbers.
This is a layman's understanding, corrections / contexts are welcome -> If radiation is non-ionizing, it doesn't hurt you to be exposed to it, even in high amounts.

X-Rays etc. are dangerous in high amounts because they ionize some of the chemical bonds in your cells, somewhat analagous to ripping apart your body on a molecular level.

Radio waves (including 5G!) do not ionize, which is is to say, they don't mess with any chemical bonds and thus are 'invisible' to your body in just about every way.
And to clarify, it's not always because of ill intent of the partner. Depending on preexisting issues and new conditions caused by a pregnancy, it's not uncommon to get an advice from doctor (or even a written advice from the hospital) to refrain from sexual activity. This makes the partner a much more interesting target for aforementioned sites.
It seems to be supervisable at this point, specifically for shorter responses. I was thinking if you're trying to AstroTurf or some other such form of maliciously using message boards/forums, rather than giving free reign you could present an operator with the prompting text and some arbitrary number of generated replies to choose from. Still entails some leg work but will likely yield more believable responses more frequently.

Sure this is only economical if at all when replying to shorter prompts, but that is likely going to be the majority on most forums and message boards.
And calling it deceiving and banning sites that displayed the ads in the same colors as the site. The ads must be clearly visible! yeah...
Study blames glyphosate for gluten intolerance and celiac disease epidemic
I was knocking a hole in a wall to install some windows that day.

I was told "some boys flew a plane into the twin towers"

I imagined American teens in a 2 seater Cessna.
The truth was unimaginable.
> cannot receive opt-out requests via https protocols

well, that's instilling confidence any data they have is secure and safe
Most companies using typescript don’t advertise for typescript developers and will simply look for JS decelopers, because the belief is that anyone should be able to transition from JS to TS so why limit your scope.
Koopera: Code review app for adding comments on notebook cells
A lot of companies have really poor performance review processes, read non-existent, this can be used to justify almost any firing.

In other words: Joe didn't get fired for raising Safety issues, he just happened to have a terrible performance review so he had to be fired.

Should the company have good performance review process then it's a bit more complicated but not by much:

1. Employee Raises Safety Issue

2. Fail Perf review # 1

3. Fail Perf review # 2

4. Get put on PIP

5. Fail to meet PIP objectives

6. Get Fired.

So, not immediate but can be done in 6 months or less. Not to mention the old trick of making the employees life impossible, etc ..
As geeks we've already developed the optimal handshake: SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK.
> "why git?"

Honestly? Because it's become accepted as the industry standard. People who need to make the decision without having knowledge about the topic just go with whatever everybody else is doing. In the past, that used to be whatever IBM was offering, then whatever Microsoft was offering. In that respect, git is a lot better. It's flexible enough to adapt to different kinds of workflows, at least.
How are you fond of this law? It's so obviously a pointless waste of money. As a fellow engineer who has worked with it I cant wait ffg or its repeal - and I see that coming.
JavaScript Objects from Zero to One
I know most HN readers look down upon the site, but I really like Zero Hedge's take on this.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-09/2-letters-20-billi...

> Super-voting stock – Zuck did that and it worked out in the end

> Accelerating losses – Look at all that revenue growth

> Zero possibility of profits – Hasn’t mattered for years

> Convoluted insider dealings on property leases – Property GPs always double dip somehow

> Sold the pronoun “WE” to the company – That man is a crook!!
What factor to consider for north east India travel packages
Can you give a more elaborative example like how to print the output of ls command? Not a half baked example.

BTW why is not there in the By Examples page?
For what it's worth, there are some UK parties, where if they got into power I suspect they would nationalise such a product/service for the betterment of everybody.
Do any scrapers actually pay attention to robots.txt?
The Scribe’s Oath for Testers – That’s a Bug
Yeah, I fail to see how the car being an SUV is a factor in the article. Would a smaller car have made a difference? It would have needed to be a lot lighter to be stopped by the traffic light. (the influence of mass being linear and that of speed being cubic)
WeWork to Shelve IPO?, The Vision Fund Wobbles
Small car or large car, both will do damage to people. Yes it’s harder to stop a large car, but a person or persons will not stop the travel of a small car either.

I’m not a fan of those monstrosities but I think banning them is a psychological overreaction to this incident.
Probably seen as "American" - you would be just as dead if a you where hit by a Audi Estate or A BMW Saloon.

Note that its the Chair of the Greens - bit tacky to be using a tragedy to argue for their anti car agenda.
It took maybe 10 seconds on my iPhone 6S.

Edit: Huh, based on other comments in this thread where it took more than a minute on iPhone X’s, this makes no sense. Uh, I only know what I saw...
If those transactions are larger than the wallets remaining funds that can’t happen. Aka wallet A moves coins to wallet B on the old chain and moves all it’s funds into wallet C in the new chain. In that case the A>B transaction is invalid on the new chain.
far easier sell to voters a ban on SUVs (a small minority of city dwellers) than on cars outright (a sizeable minority of city dwellers).

In Berlin, given public transport it would seem feasible to live without a car for the majority of people
SUVs are just a little bit worse on all measures.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect to get rid of all ic vehicles in the short term, but we can certainly focus on the worst offenders.
what an excellent writeup of why modern languages have something like 4 stringy types: bytes, unicode, os string, path string. you could go further if you want to talk to other computers.
Impressive. It's mostly nonsense but compared to regular r/SubredditSimulator/ it definitely looks a lot more conscious.
Germany was the country of the eatates(Kombi) since they were the cars of the working class family man, economical and practical.

Don't know what changed in the last decade but they're a rare sight these days, everyone seems to only want SUVs of all sizes instead which are less practical and less economical than estates.

Heck, even Volvo's famous practical boxy estates are nearly vanished and replaced with its more expensive SUVs.

What happened to European drivers? Maybe it's the perceived "better safety".
World models are called 'schemas' in psychology. There is lots of evidence that people process information by fitting it into schemas.

There is an interesting tension between 'assimilating' information (taking in information that easily fits into your schema) and the need for 'accommodation' (acquiring new information that requires completely re-arranging your schema).

There is a high cost to assimilation, which explains why people will often dig in when faced with facts that require accommodation.
The Six Senses of Software Engineering
> You can see this in pictures of other downed or bombed planes, such as the one shot down over Ukraine.

There is a solid chance the person you reply to is also an MH17 truther. It's a package deal.
Here's a pretty long article detailing some of Google's recent history and culture clashes:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...

Google the company shifted towards being purely profit oriented long ago, but google the employees didn't see it that way, and resisted quite a lot, until recently.
There may be sound environmental reasons for restricting SUVs in city centres, but all types of motor vehicles are just as capable of harming pedestrians if misused, driven carelessly, or the driver suffers a medical event. This could just have easily been a garbage truck, delivery van, taxi, or private car and the result would have been the same.

The solution that will really improve safety is advanced AEB (autonomous emergency braking) which can detect pedestrians and cyclists, lane departure, etc and automatically apply the brakes to prevent a collision or reduce its severity.
Cars are more designed to have the front crumple, and that makes the influence much less, because less kinetic energy is conserved in the collision.
What the article doesn't mention: the "SUV" was a Porsche Macan, a compact SUV that's smaller than most german station wagons and about the size of an average family van.
They just say 'Porsche SUV', and most people think it's the more common Porsche Cayenne.
> currently only Google Chrome is supported

Stop of doing this !
It's been 10+ years, they're just being a matter of fact.
I think the point is more that a Rails style framework does not exist in Node. There are a few projects that have attempted to be like Rails, but none that appear to have succeeded in any real way.

In the Ruby ecosystem, Rails will get you very far. In Python, Django will do the same. PHP –> Laravel. Scala –> Play.

JS does not have an equivalent, and the community seems to actively dislike the approach. That's fine, a monolithic framework approach isn't always the best option, but in the Node ecosystem it's not even an option on the table.
Keybase
How do the log in at
Keybase!
Dao De Jing of LaoTzu
What's often overlooked by the people working in tech is how mobile phones positively impacted the lives of older people.

"The Mobile Phone Generation by Fred Wilson

...

But maybe the most amazing thing, to me anyway, is that my mom has pretty much stopped using her land line phone. She tells everyone to call her on her mobile phone. For a generation that arrived on planet earth around the same time as the rotary telephone to be abandoning the landline phone in favor of a mobile phone is really something to see.

If you think about it, though, it makes all the sense in the world. As you find it harder to do things that you used to take for granted, having your own personal computer on you or near you, that allows you to talk to your friends and family, via audio or text, see what everyone is up to, and get someone to come pick you up and take you to Church, the doctor, the store, or anywhere else, is really incredibly useful.
"

https://avc.com/2019/05/the-mobile-phone-generation/
I think at this point it would be surprising if there was GOOD news about We! It just seems to be one thing after another.
Tangential, but does anyone else find techcrunch UX absolutely dreadful on desktop?
Hey, thanks for commenting.

1. Body text has the contrast ratio of 7.52 under WCAG 2.0 standards (https://contrast-ratio.com/#%234a5568-on-white) which is within the optimal range for legibility. On paper, the text is 100% black. On the screen, that can be too much, so I used grays. Labels are lighter because I wanted to treat them as supporting text, not main.

2. This is primarily for the Web. So, HTML/CSS. I didn’t know about LaTeX before, interesting.

3. It’s free, and you can modify it, maintain it, etc. The only restriction is that you can’t use it for commercial purposes (e.g., page builder). More info here https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume#license
I understood that not to be the case, for the article author, at least.
The 40% Rule
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I'm honestly tired of the personal anecdotes in scientific articles. I don't want to have to scan 3 paragraphs through before I get the gist of the article.
>This could just have easily been a garbage truck, delivery van, taxi, or private car and the result would have been the same.

If i had to be hit by a vehicle i would rather get hit by mini than hit by a bin truck, i don't know about you?
The people that drive Audi's and BMWs generally drive like complete assholes in my experience. Porsche Cayenne drivers are the worst offenders.
What if you have a large family, and need a large vehicle? This seems like a narrow and potentially discriminatory thing to do.
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> an SUV drove into a sidewalk

As usual, this us worded as "the car did it", also known as the "absent driver" style. More examples here https://twitter.com/absentdriver
The Air Traffic Controllers of 9/11
Last time I looked for work, I made a nice CV in PDF and I put it on a custom website with a simple URL I could say over the phone.

People still asked for it to be emailed in DOC format.

Let's just say I experimented with the then current version of Word to see what would happen if I renamed that PDF to a DOC extension.
Link to the paper mentioned at the beginning of this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/#idm140...
Just ban all personal cars from city centers, replace every 5 banned cars with 1 electric taxi and make it free for people with a public transportation subscription.

Boom, every single "cars in city" problems solved. I'm sure that even with 100% state subsidised taxi rides it would still be a net positive if you consider costs of health, pollution, accidents, insurances, &c.
Maybe he calls it "WeToMe"?
This really struck a nerve with me as a board gamer. There's a renaissance in board gaming at the moment, where new publications have tripled from about 1,000 a year to 3,000. Old, collectible games are increasing in value, and there are now speculators who invest in kickstarters to get possession of soon-to-be rare expansions that will shoot up in value once the game comes to market.

There's a growing buzz in the gaming community about all of this. People, myself included, are worried about the fact that we own dozens of games that we may likely never play, but we had to buy them because of fear of missing out (FOMO). Many people are refusing to buy some games altogether because they recognize that they are completionists who will have to obsessively-compulsively track down every hard-to-find discontinued expansion.

There are forums now discussion coping mechanisms for managing the compulsion to buy new games (no one feels like they are playing too many board games, just buying too many). Some people keep a ratio of games owned to games played and won't allow themselves to buy new games unless they've played at least 80% of the games in their collection. Others give themselves board game allowances, where they are allowed to purchase one or two games a month. It's really fascinating to watch, and I keep wondering how far this can go before the bubble bursts.
That's funny. It's an allegory for the hirer / hiree intelligence ratio.
Creating IDW Interpolation Function from Scratch in Python
most people here can't seem to view the apple and the trees.

The US is the only country in the world where you get healthcare through your employer.
This did not happen naturally. It was mandated by government after WW.

Second, all treatment here is expensive:
- there is a lack of supply (hospitals require approval from nearby hospitals before opening. Imagine... McD's needing approval from Burger King be4 opening across the street!)
- there is no legal a-la carte offering. (no such thing as catastrophic insurance can be sold. So you must buy everything... or nothing)
- there is a floor on pricing (medicare, medicaid)
- there are no legal substitutes (doctors all must be ferraris, you cannot have Toyota nurses or unlicensed doctors doing treatment)
- there is a huge barrier to entry (doctor must undergo many years of training and expensive education)

I could go on, but every single distortion we have today in healthcare can be directly traced to some kind of government action. So now we have a corrupt system which was carved out by government.. for corporations.

Should the current system die ? Absolutely.

For single payer ?? The government is what got us to where we are today. What confidence you have in that they will do better on the evidence presented above ??
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You may have answered your own question.
> The law is a bit muddy. But you could argue that apps, which gather health data and apply some kind of algorithm to it that helps you understand your body in a better way, fall under the coming Medical Device Regulation.

I would certainly hope they do fall under that regulation. Otherwise, I can certainly see a few developers manipulating their algorithms for health apps in a way to change people's behaviors in order to reinforce some belief the app developer may have.
It's known as phatic communication. It's not nonsense or noise: it conveys a wealth of information.

It (re-)establishes the relationship between two parties (and to observing parties). You can tell if two people are strangers, friends, or enemies by how they do this ritual.

It signals intention on part of the initiator and receptiveness on part of the responder. If "Hey, how are you?" gets a cold and abrupt "I'm fine." without a reciprocating question, then it's a pretty strong signal that the other party isn't open to further or prolonged conversation.

It's also like a shibboleth. How someone interacts in the ritual can signal how well socialized s/he is and whether s/he's an in-group or out-group member. If you ask someone you don't know very well "How are you?" and s/he immediately begin telling you about the rash on his/her belly and how s/he hate the traffic and the weather, then that might tip you off that s/he doesn't understand your society's social protocols and therefore is either a social misfit or an outsider.
This does not explain why celiac would run in families or why it would only affect some family members. My grandfather, both my brothers and I, and my son have it. But many many other family members are perfectly fine. Presumably being exposed to similar amounts of glyphosate.
This is somewhat a logical reaction, when realizing that a smaller car would have reduced the fatalities.
In this regard I believe there is going to be an inflection point in the adoption of autonomous driving. As soon as autonomous driving is becoming safer than the worst human drivers, there should logically be calls following to ban "non-computer-assisted human driving", especially within densely populated cities.
Similar of how gas stoves without flame failing device have been banned.