skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What GP is saying is Walmart aren't likely to start paying a worker fairly, they're more likely to just fire them and get someone even more desperate. Food stamps are awful but for now it's better than people going hungry. In the meantime there needs to be solutions, they're a temporary fix at best.
Account Kit is being deprecated
I can't be the only one who, after 9/11, had recurring nightmares about trying to evacuate from a building that had been hit by a plane? They have stopped some years ago, but lasted for quite a few years.

That said, the most dangerous thing is what society does to itself as a response to terrorism fears. Terrorism needs to be kept in perspective, as it's far from the biggest danger facing us.
Not as a consultant though, never a dull day/hour in the day.
> Everyone suffered. Everyone had to deal with Python2 versus Python3 bullshit. It's not just about migrating some codebase.

Updating software version is part of the job. Like creating tests, writing documentation, training newbies and dealing with customers. It's not hard just because we don't like to do it. Porting to Python 3 was not hard for most people. They just really, really didn't want to do it.

I get it. I didn't want to add that on my plate too. Like I didn't want to migrate from my Centos 7, I didn't want to move from mysql to postgres and I didn't want to learn the entire setup of Webpack. 3 times. But "suffering" is a big word that has no place for the vast majority of projects.
would you mind at least explaining what an "Orient Express argument" is? I don't have time to read fiction novels.
FWIW in California I don't believe it's possible for medical bills to go to collections or affect your credit. IANAL.
Couldn't agree more. My recent experiences with Rust and especially Elixir have set high standards.
Hows your Dutch sentence construction?
A history of automation: The rise of robots and AI
Determination of the Effects of Senna Tora Leaves Extract on the Blood Glucose
Ask HN: Do you know any API for grocery delivering services?
That is great. Love how smooth it looks.
Ask HN: Anyone using DO managed databases in production?
For those that are using Digital Ocean's managed database in production, what is your review of their services.

I previously tried Spaces and found a lot of things just didn't work properly compared to AWS S3. So I am a little hesitant to use them for production for databases. What's your review?
I wasn't referring to the US as a whole, but just instances where I've seen this happen. Most recently it was just in the past few weeks right here on HN that someone said crime had risen in Seattle and someone else said it had fallen, and it turned out the discrepancy was due to population adjustment.

But I'd expect there's a fair bit of the effect you're saying too.
Seriously. Since 2016 reddit has been slowly imploding, seems like 50% of all discussion is political these days. On r/bestof probably 30% of all comments reference trump.

For a non american not interested in american politics or your cold war in China, the whole site is becoming a useless pile of noise.
And for extra points explain the addition of “but” as a sentence final. Maybe it reverses the meaning of what proceeded it, maybe it is just a full stop.

“Nah yeah but.”
Did the Deus Ex series influence your design choices? I remember after playing Human Revolution, I was doing graphic design for a fitness supplement company, and I went on a sort of dystopian/tech UI tangent that fit really well with the product line. It was fun.

That text effect is super cool, as is the whole project, nice work!
Fixed! Thank you very much!
And I presume it would also apply to cloudflare’s captchas.
In my school in India, "That's a good question" means that the teacher knows the answer pretty well!
Great work! One bug I noticed is that text runs out of the panels as seen on your page. I suggest making them overflow: auto to make it scroll when necessary, also with the required padding/margin to keep everything tidy within the parameters so it's not kissing the edge of the panel if the characters happen to line up perfectly to fit the width of the panel.
How do you get to work before 7:30am with a child? Does daycare start that early?

I struggle to get my kids up, fed, clothed and in kidnergarten before 8:30 myself (which means I can be at work around 9).
Because no matter what you're working on, you won't get very far without eating, sleeping and at least once a decade putting in some maintenance work.
To never go autopilot mode.
Often used as a slight pejorative, especially if you can’t immediately recall old mate’s name.
Meanwhile the rest of the world has moved on to digital, encrypted communication.

Mobile phones continue to work during a disaster as long as the base station batteries hold out and that’s with cheap base stations serving very large amounts of idiot users using the cheapest of the cheap handsets limited by regulations. Why wouldn’t you be able to make this work indefinitely with a limited amount of trained users using selected, powerful expensive handsets.

In other words, a bunch of poor excuses made by coincidentally those same people who love to profess that privacy doesn’t matter as long as it’s someone else’s privacy.
Yes. You don't need groundbreaking never-seen-before tech for this. Scale is revolutionizing.
We're going to look back on this company and say to ourselves "why did we fund a company to sign rental agreements".

I jest, but WeWork is one of those strange entities that's greater than the sum of its parts. If the magic goes or the brand tarnishes a little, then the whole thing goes poof.
It's also a bit arrogent for a top executive to think a request for meeting/conversing with a top executive from a potential new employee in a subordinate role is a demonstration of arrogence. I don't suggest making it an absolute condition depending on the organization's size but for a job seeker wanting to evaluate the potential company just the reaction/responce to this question may serve as a useful litmus test
Well, it's a burning man after all, not a burnt man :).

Jokes aside, I like this characterization. Makes me think of other cases where a system is designed to be unstable and is then being carefully balanced at the edge of failure; see e.g. modern fighter jets.
Repeat Chorus.

I've heard it called the ladder of denialism, but it's more of a mouse wheel, they end up back at the first step sooner or later.
This is correct. "Old mate at the servo blew a plugga" - some guy at the gas station broke his flip flops
Ask HN: UI Design for Financial Trading
I work as a financial futures trader, and the main software I use for order management and viewing market data is being discontinued in favour of a new version.

The old software* has been around since the early 2000s, and is a Windows application written in c++. The newer one has a C++/Linux backend, but the UI is basde on Javascript/HTML5/Chromium.

Having tried the new software, the UI performance is appalling - it feels slugggish, much like playing a video game on an underpowered PC, so seeing a generally too low framerate, which at key points drops even lower. Is this likely to be due the technologies used? I don't know much about UI coding, but would've assumed that a C++ application would perform better than one based on Javascript and Chromium.

* https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/trading/xtrader-platform/

** https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/trading/tt-platform/
Yes, and that page says "There are many catchment areas high in the mountains that are capable of collecting liquid water, and some of these are now filled with snow and ice. As the climate gets warmer, it's probable that they will melt out and a new high lake will emerge."

Hence, new high lakes may be evidence of warming, which might be from climate change, or from volcanic heating, or changes in weather patterns causing more rain.

Some examples of new lakes:

"Imja Lake is forming by glacial melting and did not even exist in 1960."

"Ridonglabo Lake" is a classical moraine lake produced by climate warming. The glacier retreated from its terminal moraine, leaving a depression in which glacial meltwater could collect into a lake. We know this happened between 1925 and 1988 because we have two maps of the area from those years.

"Laguna Glaciar lake is a glacial lake near Sorata in Bolivia at 5,038 meters above sea level. The lake has gotten much larger during the last 50 years due to the warming climate in that area."

You wrote "How does this prove anything?"

Assuming you aren't asking the abstract question "What is proof?", it contributes support to the widely-held understanding that global warming is occurring.

Limited support, IMHO, when taken as a standalone data point, as local climate does not always reflect global climate.
And some believe that they will change everything by calling others as deniers/believers/progressives/Nazis/Whatever
In technical terms, the correct formula to use is E(max(CF,0)), not max(E(CF),0). In the words of the Merton model, equity in a limited liability company behaves like a call option on its assets/cash flow. In reality, these may follow a far more complex process than a geometric Brownian motion with drift as in the Merton model, but that only changes how you compute the expectation in the formula, not the formula itself.
> when mercurial shuts off the hg we'll even lose the source to some of them.

Are you perhaps thinking of when Atlassian removes the Mercurial repositories hosted on Bitbucket?

Mercurial isn't going anywhere or shutting down anything; it's open-source software with some very large users and committed developers.

(The majority of engineers at Facebook all work in one enormous Mercurial repo. Facebook naturally employs a few people to work full-time on Mercurial, and I don't think they're the only ones.)

Atlassian's decision about Bitbucket is regrettable. Especially regrettable is to actually delete repos for so many open-source projects that may not have active maintainers (rather than keep them online but read-only.) To my mind it marks a stain on their reputation that should make anyone think twice about relying on Atlassian for years to come.

But you should be able to avoid losing the source to any of your own dependencies. Between now and May 2020, go through all your dependencies and make sure you make your own clone of all the source repos.
Cycles aren't regular, so just adding an event every 27th day in your calendar, won't be of much use to a lot of women.

These apps can get quite good at predicting irregular cycles.

Some apps will give users warnings of the type "PMS starts tomorrow, expect moodswings", or "expect extreme tiredness" and for people who are heavily affected by their period, this can be a big help in controlling their feelings or just understand their well-being.
I could say the same about the adoration Musk gets from the Western masses. A man who is born with a silver spoon in one's mouth has carefully crafted this image of him being a life-saving genius. Claims to be working 24/7 on his projects while reality shows he is tweeting most of the time, with as highlight calling someone a pedophile. Vanity projects like a flamethrower and reinventing a metro system but worse. Exploiting his workers. But the masses think he is personally going to live on Mars to save humanity.
Alternatively, slice it before freezing, and chuck it in the toaster to defrost.
Taylor Swift threatened to sue Microsoft over its racist chatbot Tay
Interesting about the resolution, since that was 1/60th the number of pixels as the NES. The Lynx did have a 16 bit graphics chip though.

The Epyx guys claim that Sega lifted their design for the Game Gear some time after their pitch. I think this meant the look and feel of the system-- both the horizontal orientation and idea of using a color display. According to Epyx, Sega still got it wrong and produced a crappy design in comparison. To be fair, the Lynx was a far more capable system.
Plus the family members of passengers whose last conversations with their loved ones ended with some variation of, "we're going to try and rush the cockpit, I have to go".

Not only that, but the conspiracy involves the military trying to convince everyone that they were completely unprepared. "We didn't shoot down an airliner, even though that's what anybody with sense would have done in that situation, because our fighters didn't have missiles" doesn't sound like a cover story that inspires trust.
plane full of civilians you mean? plane full of politicians crashed over russian territory in 2010.
Ask yourself a question, what would happen if allies shot every deserter and dereliction of duty offender?

The death count will go into hundreds of thousands, a far from small part of the whole allied force.

Soviets, on other hands, possibly executed close to a million of own troops, including generals, but it did not stop the extreme desertion rates.
"hit a building that would have little loss of life vs passenger count"

You seem to imply that if the plane hits a building all the passengers survive?
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Is this some kind of snowflake joke I don't get? These are cartoons. Jesus, have become so sensitive to everything?

(forgive me in advance, but I don't understand what the problem is... a man massaging a woman would have been better? a man massaging a man? a woman massaging a woman? two robots perhaps? what would not make people more comfortable?)
"loo" means toilet. We laugh when people talk about going to "the bathroom". "Oh aye, going to have a bath in the middle of dinner are you? Seems odd timing!" [snort, chuckle, hold bellies laughing at our bottomless wit]

Even then only the poshest people talking about going to the loo. I've been in pubs where somebody has loudly proclaimed that they were "going for a dump, I'll be a while" and I have lost count of the number of conversations I've been party to in public about pissing, shitting, wanking (masturbation), or shagging (having sex), that would definitely not be welcome in American settings. Also, we say cunt a lot. Like, a lot.
To be fair, that one YouTube video (I’m assuming you’re talking about the one with Musk) demonstrated an astronomical and wide-reaching lack of critical thinking skills. Saying such ridiculous things with such confidence like he did in that video would ruin my opinion of anyone.
Every successful project is going to get hate from somebody; if anything else, those who don't like some of the choices of said new successful project will be worried to be forced into them, and some will react finding any possible reason to stop the momentum.
They are not being "targeted". If you'd read the article, they're being investigated for using anti-competitive tactics from a position as a monopoly - but you think they should be given a pass because outwardly they project a liberal image?

Never ceases to amaze me how you "liberal" americans can support a megacorp in this manner while simultaneously thinking of yourselves as being on the left...
No. I dong no
He's using the term cashflow in the wrong way. You can have positive cashflow as long as investors are investing in your company, but that doesn't mean your business is going anywhere or that you make a profit.
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg should take a hint like this
Growth hacks: coffee with an experienced engineer you don’t know
The only mature visual programming language I am aware of, DRAKON, has been used quite successfully : ttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
I am interested in your opinion on an idea.

What do you think it would have happened if python 3 included a python 2 interpreter (as a command line flag or even a library) so that everyone could switch to python 3.

I understand they where almost incompatible as runtimes so it would have doubled size but it would make easier to propagate the diffusion of python 3.

Do you think a project such as Bladders would have been still possible had this happened?
Yes, the original Lynx is massive, I have a held one myself.

I have also held the Lynx 2, which is a much smaller system that's around the size of the Game Gear. Though even the Game Gear seems massive by today's standards.
As a non American, I sometimes just enjoy deliberately messing a bit with Americans when they utter these expressions, by doing it over the top.

Someone meeting me for some boring work related thingie: "Hi! How are you doing?"

Me: "Super awesome, thanks so much for asking! Super excited to meet you and discuss this!".

They probably think I'm crazy and/or are not sure what to make of it, so it's fun to see the puzzled looks, but I'm also just being nice.
your FE seems to be broken. Seems like amplitude library is not included ?
How to build a voice assistant with open source Rasa and Mozilla tools
Hippocratic oath meet capitalism
Seems inspired by https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/what-british-people-say-v... - a guide I have known to help marriages between people from opposite sides of the Atlantic.
> Is it worth the headache of upgrading to 6.0?

Always. At the very least simply because the headaches that accompany those upgrade paths will be significantly bigger once you skip a version or two and finally want to jump to 7.0 or 8.0. Instead upgrade while it's relatively painless.
Slashdot was absolutely essential that day, seemingly the only site that was up
Ah, cool! Then I agree, more example services showing code + diagram side by side would be great.
>One of the great mysteries of the world is how Americans think they are so straightforward and direct and honest... and then they ask a German if their butt looks big in these pants, and burst into tears on hearing the answer.

Or how they ask a friend/relative/acquaintance "How have you been" and expect just a fake generic "fine" or similar, not the actual story of how you were, as told in several (at least European I know of) countries...
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If you check out the rest of his page (main page, CV), it seems he's an Israeli.
How to Prepare for Your Next Senior Developer Interview
Company is https://exponea.com/, you can see the tool in the backround on our landing-page :-)

But I can't really show you, these days we have quite involved procurement setup aimed at large corporations. As far as I understand, the language/editor itself is bespoke, tailor made to the specific kinds of marketing flows you are able to automate with our platform.
Can anybody explain to me why would anybody try to make their alt-coin ASIC-resistant? They claim it is do decrease centralization but like parent says it just makes 51% attack possible with cloud computing and 0 investment in hardware or logistics.
If that's your concern, you can learn how the internals of rails (or django) work. Not being forced to do that doesn't mean you can't do it regardless :)
Personally, the one service I really liked that Google killed off for good was Deja News. Ever since they bought it, they brought more and more user hostile patterns until they turned it into Google Groups where you can't search old stuff anymore at all.
Alongside the excellent recommendations for GoRails in the other comments, also look into the host's other Rails projects: Jumpstart Pro [0] as a template and Hatchbox for easy deployment. This corner of the Rails ecosystem is really nice, positive, and easy.

[0] https://jumpstartrails.com/
[1] https://www.hatchbox.io/
This is such a weird thing isn't it.

It's like this in the UK too, every conversation starts with "How are you?"
"Fine, how are you?"
"Fine."

It's always the same, pretty much. It's daft, it's just like a ritual that everyone is happy to partake in.

No one is actually asking you how you are, it's just a noise that both parties have agreed to start each conversation with. No actual information gets exchanged. You could easily replace those phrases with nonsense and as long as both parties are aware of the nonsense and what the nonsensical response is expected the it would work just as well.

Person 1: "Hippopatumus soup triage?"
Person 2: "Triangle, Hippopatumus soup triage?"
Person 1: "Triangle."

It's so strange.
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An argument about Slovik's case that was not mentioned: were the judges on the court martial themselves afraid of getting court martialed for being lenient.

I only read a single account in a publication from sixties, allegedly from one of those judges who was the career barrister, and it was allegedly a confession written in his last will.
I'm an Australian citizen and know that every day evil things are done in the name of my government. People are beaten in police cells and detention centers, important policy and budget decisions are made out of self interest, not for the public good.

Very few people may be truly intentionally evil, but we are flawed, greedy and lazy. I have every reason to believe that this is universal. I don't believe that the inherent nature of westerners or Chinese people is any different.

I also know the democracy is not the wonderful perfect mechanism we like to imagine, it is an arena, in which the contest is heavily weighted towards government and the powerful. People who fight in this arena against power are brave and rare. Most of us, in China or the west do not do this.

I admire the Hong Kong protesters, not because I see them as representing the west against the east, but because I believe they are individuals bravely standing together against power. I have stood in more modest protests, before lines of Australian and American police, and I know how scared I was and how limited my own bravery was.

Nationalists who embrace government propaganda without thought are frightening whether they are Australian, American or Chinese nationalists.

Knowing these things, I believe any argument that presents the Hong Kong protests as a conflict between east and west, regardless of whether they take a pro-western or pro-Beijing stance, is using a grain of truth to tell a dishonest story. But it's a story that will continue to be told because seems to be something we all enjoy about hearing a story in which the the most generous, idealistic view of ourselves or our group is contrasted against the most negative achievable portrait of the other group.

So I am not surprised to hear, that mixed into the Hong Know protests is an offensive caricatures of mainlanders. If it were not true, it would be the perhaps the first conflict in human history to rise above petty unproductive insults
Very hard for people to complain about scale when the post's coming direct from GitHub!
I started trying to figure out different ways to do this because I was watching a 12 hour playthrough of Deus Ex Human Revolution on youtube. Took about 5 days until I realized I could do everything I wanted with clip-path.

Really hope we get a sequel to Mankind Divided some August, too many loose ends!

Thank you! :D
Same feeling with the founder. It's pity to see Wunderlist go. Transferring all the details from one todo app to another can be very annoying, not to mention the extra efforts to get used with a new app. Glad to find TickTick! The data transfer is super easy. It's kind of an all-in-one toolkit, while still remains clear and simple to use. Not sure if I would switch back to Wunderlist even if they purchase it back ;) https://ticktick.com/
This is the effect of lobbying (call it legalized corruption). Insurance shouldn’t be that expensive that even middle class can’t pay for it and a hospital shouldn’t be allowed to charge arbitrary sums for this. It’s clearly possible since many countries successfully pull this off.

But in countries that are “for corporations, by corporations” regular people can’t lobby their way into getting what they want or need. Only the wants and needs of a certain few that pay for their laws are considered.
Surely the action is "if you display stuff in public you can't segment the public".

You're not obliged to have public access.

Is there perhaps a factor here of users having an expectation that their profile is publicly accessible; so companies hosting that profile shouldn't be able to choose _secretly_ "who" can access it?