skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure your opinion is unpopular, but I have a hard time following your logic. Isn’t part of why a solid and curated framework makes perfect sense (and make you more productive) exactly that you don’t have to understand everything that’s going on?

I have a decent understanding of what lies beneath linq in C# for instance, but that’s because I’m curious by nature and not because I had to know it to utilise it. I mean, I guess you could argue that people should know what’s going on, but the truth is that 90% of software development doesn’t require you to, if you pick the right tools.

I think this is a primary reason node.js never really picked up. No one wants to spend time building and maintain the wheel when you can get a trusted entity to do it for you. You may find the part about node not picking up odd, but if I look at job-listings for my entire country there is almost zero postings for a node backend.
- The essay "Complicating the Narrative" which lists out ways in which we can address the growing divide between humans on different sides of a debate. Vital for journalism to regain it's trust and also vital in everyday life.

- JCIP "Java Concurrency In Practice" changed my mental model of programming.

- Practical Vim, this was my Eureka moment with vim

- Wait But Why, gave me a diverse perspective on a wide range of things
Looks like a third of the country has watched that video. The others were all on smoko.
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Fair point. But I looked on Reddit and couldn't find the kind of thing I'm talking about (r/bookclub chooses one book a month by vote, and r/ReadingGroup seems like an overwhelming sea of random posts). I think also the fact that it contains clubs for many different media is a bit of a handicap, since the book content gets swamped, and there's a searchability problem. (Reddit's UI isn't great at the best of times, anyway.) GR has a built-in audience of a wide range of readers, so they're better positioned to do this kind of thing.
> If you want to talk about this in terms of robots.txt, Google is thriving on the fact that other companies don't block their content in robots.txt, but at the same time Google blocks all of its content in its robots.txt.

It seems like you're stating this as though to cast some sort of moral aspersion. I don't get it. If other companies don't want Googlebot to scrape them they just have to say so. Most companies want Googlebot to scrape their content. Google doesn't want other people's scrapers to scrape Google's content. Nobody involved in any of this has done anything unreasonable or morally objectionable.
> I'm comfortable there is certainty.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/unanswered...
One story comes to mind, though it's not so much about productivity.

A friend in South Korea was running late to the office (I think it was Samsung?). He made it in by his start time and went into the office bathroom for a quick shave.

His direct superior happened to walk in. As the boss was washing his hands next to my friend, he said something like, "make sure you do a thorough job of shaving" (though obviously not as awkwardly).

Other Koreans who heard the story confirmed this probably meant: "I see what you're doing: get yourself in order this one time, and if I ever catch you shaving at work again you're toast".

(Note this was about 15 years ago, and I hear Samsung and most of the other Chaebol have mellowed out a great deal since then)
11,000 feet ~= 3350 meters

Also, did we need more evidence that climate change is real? The article has a paragraph about deniers ("people […] cynical about the impact of climate change") but somehow I don't think they will change their mind because there is a now a lake where there shouldn't be in the Alps.
That's not the case though, the networks are all bandwidth constrained and connecting a call consumes negligible bandwidth. I'm not a radio or network engineer, but I used to work with them supporting cellular network panning software so I'm familiar with some aspects of the technology.
Depending on your CPU, you might be able to use SATT: https://github.com/intel/satt
Might be worth noting that this is a private page from MIT alumni.

I saw the "mit.edu" next to the link and thought it was a study or official publication first.
This is very interesting. In my bubble I thought the trend was going away from full fledged batteries included frameworks and more towards “hand pick your few specific libraries” with Go, Java and what not.
Looking into the comments here, I guess I as wrong.

It’s refreshing to see a big company writing about Rails
Would be nice if they added a column with 'But if you really mean to express (what is in the first column), say ...
It also covers people who can't pay

We have a similar levy in the USA, except it's mostly paid by people that can pay for healthcare, so an aspirin costs $100 when administered by a hospital.

And since insurance companies are smart, they negotiate down those exorbitant rates to something more reasonable, so much of the burden lies on those stuck in the middle -- they don't have enough income to pay for health insurance, but have enough assets to pay for healthcare so they end up paying the exhorbitant rates because most people don't have time to rationally evaluate and price out their healthcare and choose the most cost effective provider, and even if they do have the time, the hospital can't tell you how much it's going to cost until the work is done and they bill you.

Even when you are insured and have a procedure done by a doctor that's covered by your healthcare plan, sometimes another provider (like an anesthesiologist) will do part of the procedure and you end up paying $10,000 or more out of pocket for his services.

Our system is broken in so many ways.
No, your ten rules aren’t simple and they won’t fix Reproducibility
Is it possible to see how much moved in some time period?
There actually is a built in tool to generate a sequence diagram. The language is designed with the idea that it should be possible to generate such a diagram for every program. The tool to generate diagram is currently part of the vscode extension for ballerina. It's documented here. https://v1-0.ballerina.io/learn/tools-ides/vscode-plugin/gra...
Dell XPS 13 developer edition, I've been using the 2018 model and haven't looked back.
AirBnB hosts have an incentive to NOT bend the truth and instead manage expectations in the listing. In the long term it's better to not have a guest at all than to have a guest give you even a 4 star review. AirBnB may delist you at 4.3 avg and you need 4.8 to be superhost, so you really only want satisfied guests.
Understanding Functors in JavaScript
Not sure if everybody would agree, but here's one chart I found: https://online.seu.edu/wp-content/uploads/795x400-Internatio...

> In high-context communication, a message cannot be understood without a great deal of background information. Asian, African, Arab, central European and Latin American cultures are generally considered to be high-context cultures.

https://online.seu.edu/articles/high-and-low-context-culture...
So do farmers engaged in Integrated Farming: only as a last resort, and if the economical threshold has been reached.

The difference is that there are no restrictions regarding the use of 1) synthetic pesticides 2) man-made fertilizers, 3) GMOs and 4) antibiotics.

So Integrated Farming is just like Organic Farming, but without the bullshit.
Have you checked out Sorbet?
Most of the times, the market is in the favour of developers because every company is looking for more developers all the time. It's only in specific cities, and specific companies, that developers don't have the upper hand. This lead to a culture of developers having no idea how unions work or even considering them because they got well paying jobs the moment they left college.
UPI overtakes debit card transactions in India
Ah, I understand. We do have users who prefer the stage model or hybrid DAG mixed with stages, but I get that that isn't your point of view. I do hope that after the next couple releases it becomes something more useful for you - your use case is important too.

Releasing early to get feedback on issues is important to us but we can do better communicating around what's an early preview vs. a mature feature. The maturity page that's linked to in this discussion is actually part of how we are trying to improve our communication around that. This is more at the stage and category level, but features have a maturity level as well and it's worth us reflecting on how that can be made more clear.
plus from what i’ve read so far, climate change « deniers » think humans have very little to do with climate and that recent warming is a natural phenomenon that started 14k years ago. Not that it doesn’t exists.
Thanks. Measuring mountains in the Alps in feet makes no sense at all.
I would very much hope so. These sites are a perversion of the idea of the Web, and only get away with it because fundamentals of the Web were created with friendly, cooperative users in mind - not with commercial users of today - so there's no enforcement of good behaviour.
The forks are only changes in the rules, the keys and the addresses are the same. So if you've got money that hasn't moved since the fork, then any transaction to that money is valid in all forks. Only if different forks accept different transactions to the same account does this stop working.

I haven't looked into how people avoid this, I suppose you could bully people by listening on the fastest chain for transactions and then rebroadcasting those to slower chains, in theory you have some chance of messing up their shit.
You get paid to transfer a billion. The internet alone is measured in hundreds a minute.

It’s rather moot as people and companies don’t keep a billion sitting in the same bank account.
No idea, they used different substrates than DMT or tryptophan, managed to pull off
morpholine arylation which is new, and the other reactions at much higher efficiency than previously achieved with solar activated reactions - trifluoromethylation, metalloredox and photooxidation were done too.

What they made that was medicinally useful was artemisinin, an antimalarial. In continuous photooxidation reaction.
It's not insane to think that a service provider would give a discounted rate to a firm they have continuously done business with over time, who spend a large amount of money, and consistently pay their bills in any other area of business, so at the face of it, it seems sensible. The orders of magnitude are terrifying however
There are several types of deniers. Some actually don't believe the raw data about temperature change, some don't believe humans are responsible.
Brain hack devices must be scrutinised, say top scientists
It looks like a decent WYSIWYG editor was one of the headline features of this 6.0 release. Its straight from Basecamp so you know its polished to the hilt.

https://trix-editor.org/

https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_text_overview.html
As a Romanian that worked a lot with US companies, I find this to be pretty spot-on: https://medium.com/octavians-thoughts/what-does-its-a-good-s...
Organic farming is primarily about producing organically (i.e. without synthetic means), rather than producing sustainably.
Communication is really the key problem here. I am looking for joining startups, but anything I found (for instance on angelist) sounds super boring. This is probably because people don't advertise their ideas in fear of getting them stolen. But ideas are the only things which attract me.

The solution would be to better advertise some ideas. It is a small path between saying nothing and saying everything.
I'm not in the US but there are probably even more online discount brokers operating in the US and Canada so maybe it's a tax efficiency thing?

Paying 1.5%-2% for FX conversion between two major currencies is very expensive unless the sums are small. The last time I converted currencies using a discount broker - including all costs I was charged less than .1% compared to the mid-market rate at the time.
While I agree with most of your points, nothing you said really highlights why python2 is better than python3.

(Also, you're definitely not fucked with more than 100k LOC of Python, if the devs know what they're doing. Unit/regression/integration tests, type hinting, and a modular design goes a very long way)
And there’s the nub, elsewhere in the world we don’t have that, and we don’t typically have bank fees - on the contrary the banks pay us.
> I suppose the lesson I'm taking away is to not buy into a counter-reaction immediately. It's obvious in hindsight: SCMP is owned by Alibaba after all.

Let's not be so dismissive of SCMP either. They're accurately reporting what an Alibaba spokesman said about Ma. The objection doesn't seem to be about the parts where the NYT says that he "planned to step down" and "Mr. Ma will remain on Alibaba's board of directors and continue to mentor the company's management", which is accurate, but the other parts where they call it "retirement." Evidently he thinks that his plans for the future should still be considered active involvement with the company.
Yes, and Apple is at a competitive advantage when they charge a fee to Spotify.

Look Apple has already been convicted of violating the Sherman act, with what they did with e-books. This behavior is not all that different.
This article contains wild claims without backing them up or referencing any science at all. It references another article, an instagram post, and an interview. Mestre is apparently a climber, not a scientist. Greg Porter, the author, is a freelance copyrighter and pop culture commentator.

This trend of "make it sound dead serious and catastrophic" is having the opposite effect that people like Greg are probably intending -- it's turning people off of what actually is a serious (albeit not this serious) issue.
Catch my unpopular opinion:
Climate will change and there is NOTHING we can do to stop it. Nothing. No amount of extra taxation will change anything.
There are several lakes higher.

https://www.thoughtco.com/highest-lakes-in-the-world-4169915

How does this prove anything?
That's exactly what is happening through the review system. I find AirBnB reviews to be much more reliable than say Amazon or other easily gamed places. You can and should shame bad hosts and bad guests. You can't see the review text until after both wrote a review so there is no fear of revenge.
Regulations is what made proverbialbunny lose the money; it would probably not have happened had BTC-e been allowed to continue the alleged criminal activities. Of course, that might be worse for the rest of society.
Python 3's Unicode handling is uniquely bad. I haven't heard of any other language where you can obtain magic strings that crash the program if you try to print them:

% python3.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.argv[1])" "$(echo -e '\xff')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcff' in position 0: surrogates not allowed
Well, if we put it this way, the same could be said of Rails 6. I understand their plans of course, and that's why I expressed it as wish.

Regarding MariaDB or PostgreSQL, can you enumerate/detail the app you've seen switching? Is it the, say, 1/2% area of all the projects? 5%?

Probably, in the low one-digit percentage, there are switches toward anything. I'm somewhat skeptical any non-trivial projects undertaking this kind of change. GitLab (to mention a large one) didn't really switch, as they were supporting both.
I‘d like to know the source of your numbers. For reasons I buy Ultrasonic gel quite regularly, and it costs me about 1€ per litre, delivered to my doorstep. If you use it for its intended purpose, I highly doubt that you use more than 0.10€ worth of gel.
Wikpedia: Fallacies of Distributed Computing
https://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collectio...
Steve Schoger Design Tips
Yes, it does cause confusion and can cause people to create an architecture that is too fragmented, resulting in a higher than necessary overhead in support for all those tiny services. I suspect a lot of people who don't like microservices are suffering from this problem.

Some people's definitions of microservices are that they are separated business domain, with each development team focusing on their business processes. Therefore they can reflect reflect Conway's law. Those teams develop autonomous services which communicate with the services of other teams (e.g. the invoicing team build services to interact with the sales team).

In smaller companies a single team, or indeed each team in a larger company, can have multiple microservices, but there are some qualities that would be needed to truly fit the microservice definitions.

If you haven't read Martin Fowler's article on Microservices then it's a good start: https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
There's a side bar on that which asks "How big is a microservice?"

Of course Sam Newman is also a great resource for microservice principles: https://vimeo.com/131632250
In my part of the US, I can overhear loads of PII by just tuning my VHF transceiver to various public safety frequencies. I hear drivers license numbers, medical info, all sorts. I hesitate to think that there’s a better alternative though. I’m terrified that the UK is moving to LTE rather than the current trunked radio. The amount of damage caused by comms failing in a major emergency (or even just dead zones) massively outweighs the risk of a little data loss at present. If there are more reliable communication methods that preserve privacy, then we should be using them, but I’m not sure they exist at the moment.

edit: to be fair, it should be possible to encrypt some of the traffic, but things should fail open, not closed, or people will die.
> It's cheaper for the taxpayer to supplement a low wage than to provide for someone with no wage.

The private owners of Walmart extract profit, but refuse to provide their workers with a wage they can survive (!!!) on. The point of social welfare programs is to help those in need, not to help profitable businesses make even more profits.
It works pretty well here in the uk in each major town you get specialist hospitals with a number of general ones that don’t have the specific equipment specialists need.

It does mean you sometimes have to travel further but it works out better for everyone, even for you as the specialist care is within one “centre of excellence” (whether it is excellent is a different point but they could potentially be)
I think it will be really interesting to see if Alibaba significantly changes after Ma. In silicon valley you absolutely have the cult of the founder - Apple would be nothing without Steve Jobs, Facebook would be nothing without Zuck, everything Bezos touches turns to gold.

People around here seem to have a very low impression of Ma (apparently based on one youtube video), but I can imagine running a huge e-commerce empire in China is non-trivial. I could imagine the personal management of relations with the senior Chinese politicians could be make or break for a Chinese company in a way that US companies simply don't face.
> Not only could it display in color, but it also supported scaling and rotation effects.

IIRC the Lynx was designed at a time (1986-87) when this was feasible for portable systems but not for consoles, because of its low resolution (160 x 102 - the height seems strange until you realize that it gives you almost exactly 16 * 1024 pixels).

> Sega also ended up lifting a lot of the Lynx's design for the Game Gear after the Handy was pitched to them by Epyx.

The external design, maybe, but the internals of the two machines are very different. The Game Gear uses a Z80 to the Lynx's 6502 and has tile-based graphics where the Lynx uses a bitmapped display. The Game Gear is essentially a portable Sega Master System - a console that predates the design of the Lynx.

> There is also an amusing story about how Epyx's pitch to Nintendo of Japan went terribly wrong, though I can't find it now.

It's here: https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/hardware/atari-lynx/

“We were the first non-Nintendo people to learn of the existence of the Nintendo Game Boy,” Needle says, recoiling even at the memory. “We were crushed. Joe was infuriated. The Nintendo boss left the room and we just sat there, wondering what to do next.”
2017 is a lot more recent than 2008 (Py 3.0).
And some believe that they will be dead by the time it becomes a problem.
the @whale_alert twitter handle is what most people keep an eye on
Scraping the very bottom of the outrage barrel. Oops I said bottom!

It worked though, the NIPS organisers rolled over straight away. Just what you want in people who might need to make an ethical stand over abuse of their work.
What I've learned writing and maintaining tests
This unfortunately seems to be rather common (at least in the US), John Oliver did an episode on it a short while ago. It has a lot to do with the history of the medical field as opposed to modern Mal-intent. For example a lot of testing was done on men and then that data was taken and also used for women. If you search for "John Oliver medical bias" you'll find the video.
Well, what does this "prove"? That the climate isn't 100% static? That snow melts? You can cherry pick data to support whatever conclusion you want. Clickbait.
I don't have a technical explanation for how call misrouting can happen except to observe that the endpoints are entirely reliant on the network to get this right, they don't even tell each other "Hi I'm X trying to call Y" and "Hi I'm Y answering a call from X".

On Strowger electro-mechanical exchanges one of the nice features is that a random piece of the exchange handles each dialed call. This means the human intuitive approach of "Huh, that didn't work, I'll hang up and try again" actually had a pretty good chance of success if the problem is an electrical fault or something rather than you wrote the number down incorrectly.

I did have a morning once where every call I received was for a business in a Welsh village (I live in England) and the callers were as confused as I was that they'd reached a personal mobile phone instead. The problem resolved itself before it made me annoyed rather than confused.
I am a Dutch person outsourcing as well.

I normally ask for a probability to complete by a certain date. That works well enough.
""" It seems that, unless we change our ways, moving to Africa is the only option. Egypt will be lost, but the rest of the nation will remain mostly unaffected. """

¿When did Africa became a nation? Last time I checked it was a continent.
As a European, I assume the page is presenting a stereotype and not the (more nuanced) truth. Personally, I've experienced problems communicating with US folks that reflect this stereotype, but at least in Tech/Science, I assume (and hope) people are somewhat more straight-forward in their communications.
At some point the race to the bottom to exploit workers has to stop.
People should probably check the pictures of the water on your cited webpage before they take this as some kind of evidence. The lakes listed seem like mostly geothermally heated, or no longer existing.
It’s exactly what I find so great about Ember (beyond just preferring a true templating language for front ends)

React bringing the “same way of thinking” in the front end industry may be true now, but it definitely was not the case for many years. I saw three or four react projects and they were architected very differently, with different routing, different state patterns, different approaches to updating backend state, different build systems, etc.
Obligatory reading: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Looming_Tower

Important name in this event in Ali Soufan.

The amount of conspiracy theories here are surprising.