skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure thing, but early in the day. That said we are a smaller team and very conscious about the scope and QA. I guess we take calculated risks to not work overtime into the weekend. Worked out so far quite well.
How can you take my literal fingerprint and trace it back to me as a person? Or even my name? There are tons of people with my name. It's still PII.

You do it by matching it up to other records with my fingerprint or name.
You need a better chalkboard and/or better chalk.

Nice Japanese chalk on a piece of slate sanded to the appropriate roughness is silky smooth.
Right, there isn't enough evidence provided to actually verify or judge any of these. In itself they are pretty useless anonymous claims.
You can do this just as easily as it was to make your original notes
Was also curious about this step. I assume they're not going to reveal the nitty gritty details for fear of botters coding around it, but I am curious as to how you can "make them use more CPU" while crawling a website
Acute pain is a symptom. Chronic pain is a disease.

Most chronic pain is not directly connected with a root cause. Spinal MRIs for example are poor predictors of spinal pain. It is an upmodulation of pain sensation in the peripheral nervous system/brain stem. It isn't mental and it isn't psychosomatic - it is very real. And you can't just ignore it - although there are techniques in pain psychology that help.

This is hopeful, but then so are Nerve Growth Factor drugs and it isn't looking too good for them at the moment. The second to last drug in trials failed the safety trial. At any moment we could learn the last drug failed as well, and then the entire group is DOA. Drug development is horrible to wait on, for people that badly need the drugs.

Animal trials work in humans what, 10% of the time? This is great research, but it won't be a treatment for at least a decade, if ever :(

Here's WebMD saying the same thing about what chronic pain is: https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/cause-chronic-pa...

"In many cases, however, the source of chronic pain can be a very complex and even mysterious issue to untangle. Although it may begin with an injury or illness, ongoing pain can develop a psychological dimension after the physical problem has healed. This fact alone makes pinning down a single course of treatment tricky, and it is why health care providers often find they have to try a number of different types of curative steps."

Psychological is wrong, there's nothing psychological about it - wrong part of the brain. The brain stem is not psychological, its neurological. Psychological techniques can help you cope, though.
So everybody were criticising Trump and demonising Bannon but it seems like their policies regarding bringing manufacturing back to the US are starting to have some impact.

Whether it is because of Tariffs or just the general attitude to the subject, whether it is because the "lefty" elite which is in practice very capitalist realised that there are many blue collar people who are really pissed off and didn't vote for their preferred candidate, it doesn't matter. The result is that we are starting to see a positive change.
Client-side Blazor is not production-ready with Asp.NET Core 3.0. It's coming in a later release and only server-side Blazor is launched today.

We've been using the server-side components for lots of internal apps. It's very fast and productive to work with, and a great option for internal/enterprise/LOB apps that don't have a lot of users and can handle an occasional reconnection/interruption.
The Fury of Words
OP can't even code. I agree hiring is expensive, but it can't possibly be as
costly as transferring OP to a technical role.
If the GDP grows faster than the debt, there's no need to ever pay it off.

Similarly, if you borrow money and invest it, and the investment pays more than the interest on the debt, there's no particular reason to ever pay back the debt.
hopefully not.
Most fridays are read-only, except for major bugs in production.

So, a friday deploy means our test-suite has failed us...
Microsoft Announces Partnership with Chevron to Accelerate Oil Extraction
”No single number will tell the whole story about a country's debt.”

I don’t think anybody is making that claim. Problem is: if you can only rank values that have a total order (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order), so if you want to rank countries, you have to simplify.

For the judgment of “how deep is a country in debt” it also seems desirable to have the property that splitting a country into equal parts yields smaller countries that are equally deep in debt.

If you want that, “debt” on its own doesn’t cut it. Debt/population and debt/GDP are two metrics that have that property. They also are simple, so do not seem doctored, which correcting for modeled/guessed at/hoped for future growth or correcting for the age distribution of the population, average fertility, etc. easily could.

”GDP today is not a perfect proxy for GDP in 10 years”

Again: I don’t think anybody is claiming ‘perfect’.
I love PG and rdbms in general, but certainly exist SO MANY things that could be improved with RDBMS.

1- RDBMS implement an imperfect view of the relational model. Is like to say Java is the only OO inplemented in the world.

2- SQL is the standard... and is not practical to say to eliminate it... BUT RDBMS are constrained for the subpar language SQL is. Modern additions are nice... but that is to say that postcript is a nice way to do apps.

Also, a much better language could expand the role of RDBMS.

This is not weird. I live this way when working in FoxPro:

- UI on fox lang.
- DB on fox lang.
- Reports on fox lang.
- Scripting on fox lang.
- Web on fox lang
- Triggers on fox lang
- OO on fox lang.

And all that still with clean separation of logic and components.

3- RDBMS were made by a certain mindset and use case of the 80s. Still so good that can be valid today, but it could get extended. JSON support is just a tiny example of that.

4- Why you can't do "SELECT .. FROM index"? Why you need to create a table to get an index or FTS? Is weird limitation.

The relational model is fine too for KV stores.

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"Relational database" is a database made on top of the relational MODEL. You could get MANY IMPLEMENTATIONS of that with different use cases. Similar how the functional MODEL and the OO MODEL is not frozen with a single language... that is not that good for app development.

With a better lang, you could eliminate massive ORMs in a nice way!

P.D: Remember, this IS NOT teory. Is proven. This is how was with the dbase family of langs!
Dominion... of Australia? I quoted Harman Meyerhoff, an independent American dairy farmer.

If the goal is to solve a problem, when hearing different opinions and life experiences a better instinct to have is empathy -- calling people shills won't get you anywhere.
Why the U.K. Travel Giant Thomas Cook Collapsed
So, because there is no permanent evidence of the harm, is the reporter "evil"? ("Evil" is your term.)
No, it's not. This is exactly how I used mine. They weren't hard to write at all because they were just direct notes. It wouldn't run as a program but I didn't need/want it to, I'd just 'edit' the program again to see my notes.
The 'Tesla model's as it were. Sell high end sports cars to enthusiasts first and use that to fund further development. Next a luxury sedan, where profit margins are higher, before moving down to the cutthroat economy market (a step that Telsa is still yet to fully realize since the promised cheap Tesla is still unavailable). It seems to have worked for Tesla.
Did you try running Emacs? Apparently the console version of Emacs has code to merge edits together so as be usable on slow high-latency connections (like in the 80's and early 90's I guess). In terms of refresh rate E-ink displays have similar characteristics so should be interesting to try!
If you're ever lucky enough to need a lawyer for a situation like this, one of the first things they'll need is for you to report this to the company – it's very, very, difficult to argue negligence or retaliation if the company never heard about it in the first place
Non-programmable calculators were fine - computers were not. A programmable calculator is basically a computer. In a computer you could store data that they couldn't access (encryption, even if it's very basic). Could be a list of gambling debts, escape plans, or other horrors. Most prison rules are "written in blood", so to speak.
How to build your own Hedge Fund strategy with risk parity portfolios
It was investigated and there was no harm?
Squirrels Speak Bird
> Our bot detection breaks down into four large components:

> - Identification of well known legitimate bots;

What about non-well-known legitimate bots? If I run my own web crawler, am I at risk of falling into the tarpit (and having my IP address reported)?
> Your manager thought you were overreacting, given whatever proof / accusations you provided. Just because he / she did not agree with it, does not mean they are evil.

In a company the size of google, managers aren't the people that should have an opinion on this matter. What that manager said, assuming this document is valid, is absolutely terrible. Heck, if some manager in my hypothetical company told someone that their report of sexual harassment is an "overreaction" that person wouldn't be manager for long.
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There was not that sort of investment in South Korea, and of course in Vietnam the opposite happened since the communists won the war there.
Generally, I think artisanal soapmakers buy lye flakes rather than making it from ash. Fundamentally, you need lye, water, and fat (or oil). Usually I think vegetable oils are used, rather than animal fat.
Nim 1.0
No, I don't think reporting is evil. I quoted the word evil because the article mentioned sarcastically Google's motto. I think raising these issues is important, but saying things like: “It’s been infuriating to watch Google make statements about the alleged things the company does to fight and prevent discrimination and retaliation" is wrong when the company is clearly trying to address them.
Maybe it's JavaScript?
If only there was some way that employees could create their own organization that can act as an alternative resources to the companies HR department that puts the employees interests ahead if the companies.
It's nice to see Alpine on the list of supported operating systems. The image mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/runtime:3.0.0-alpine3.9 is 86.7MB.
Environmental degradation always has a civil rights dimension.

You think the folks that make money off treating the earth like shit want to live in the filth they create?
Yes. At a normal crappy company, this isn't news. But at a company you hold to a higher standard (for whatever reason - perhaps its PR, perhaps because they are leaders, perhaps because they are rich enough to be challenged to be better), it's news.
I guess I was hoping the WASM/IL trimming would be more aggressive. My comparison isn't very scientific, I'm mostly comparing things like https://fsbolero.io/TodoMVC/ which is done with Blazor vs https://yew-todomvc.netlify.com/ which is done with Yew. The former is nearly 6MB in total, the latter is 135KB.
You still are sending packets over your router, to your ISP, out into the internet, and to the destination server. You leave fingerprints everywhere (browser, os, resolution, fonts, enabled features, cookies, etc.) Forever cookies, DNS cookies. The list goes on.

You are being tracked at the very least as an abstract person. If any of the above fingerprints are linked to a real identity (logging in just once even, or posting your email on a forum) then you are now being tracked even logged out.

If you use Tor and log into services it has no benefits. Tor, the browser and other distributions, will still leave fingerprints but they will no longer be unique and match only you but everyone using tor.

Tor, the protocol, will hide that you are the one receiving or sending packets.

"why Tor would be any better than simply browsing in incognito mode"

Incognito mode does nothing to hide packets or source/destination you are communicating to. Your ISP could literally pull up all non-https sites you visited along with their content, assignable to you, airstrike, as a person. Tor would block this.
Nothing. There's not a single operation that you learn between grades 7 and 12 that requires anything more than a scientific, non-graphic calculator to perform.
I'm all for scrutinizing everybody who sits in that chair, but forget the candidates? If you're concerned about the state of our financial situation, I don't see how you can't be scared of these people. It makes me hope they really are just making promises they can't begin to keep.
> BTW: Why do you think BookKeeper is better than Kafka for this purpose? :-)

One of the reasons is that your storage is not tied to ingest. With Kafka, your broker sits where the data sits. That has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are that it's really difficult to do unlimited history topics / partitions in Kafka edit for significant volume topics. You can have only so much storage and only so many disks attached to your machine. It's not possible to add volumes at runtime. I could be wrong but I think Kafka still requires a broker restart after adding volumes to the server properties.

With BookKeeper, you just add nodes with more storage. BookKeeper tracks who was the owner of that partition at the time of write. It's possible to spread partitions across multiple machines.
Link to more info?
Improving videoconferencing audio quality for remote workers
I Went Vegan Keto. Here's What Happened to My Body
Many of these sound like they come from junior members disillusioned with how things work.

Things like my manager didn't listen to me so I feel belittled. I have the second most experience so he should have. The company then moved me to a different team and I wasn't second in command so I lost my leadership.

Doesn't the manager pick the team? If you don't support his vision and want to use a different approach being moved to a different team may be the best solution. What does this person want Google to do?
Talk to the manager and tell them to listen to change the approach and listen to this team member because they have different ideas and they need to feel heard.

Google can't get involved at that level and start second guessing technical details just because someone needs to be heard. They will judge the manager by the project's overall goals.

The problem is google is giving too much freedom to employees who are use to a little bit more handholding and structured interactions.
Yes, that's the specific model I was thinking of and which I use most often these days. It's really great for its price range. Only feature I miss on it is being able to do simple macro programming which I had in a $12 compact Casio scientific from around 1988 that was my favorite calculator.
> I am sitting here as I write this looking at my wife and cant for the life of me fathom doing such a ghastly act to her or even a woman that I don't know.

Not trying to 1-up you but I can't imagine how anyone could do this to anyone.

Edit: to those curious what happened to the husband. 30 to 70-year sentence (age 52 at the time), died in prison. https://www.vnews.com/Man-Convicted-of-Maiming-Vermont-Woman...
What about the Natural Numbers? [video]
0) The obvious troll in the username.
The stereotype that African American's can't swim isn't a failing on the parent's part. They were actively banned from public swimming pools, especially in the southern US. If your parents didn't grow up swimming, they're less likely to take you. Even today Black people in the south face discrimination at public / private pools.
And if you read the Background section, you'll see that this list is the result of a process where the USTR asked for exclusion requests, and companies had to provide the codes of the specific products they want excluded.

"Under the June 24 notice, requests for exclusion had to identify the product subject to the request in terms of the physical characteristics that distinguish the product from other products within the relevant 8-digit subheading covered by the $200 billion action. Requestors also had to provide the 10-digit subheading of the HTSUS most applicable to the particular product requested for exclusion, and could submit information on the ability of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to administer the requested exclusion."

So... it's not exactly a surprise if the list reads like it was compiled for the benefit of individual companies. Because... it was.
I work in government which is pretty modern but there are users who still use Ie 11.

It looks like IE11 doesn't have full support for flex box or css garden..is that correct?
mid-six figures is $500k?? Are you factoring in salaries to get to that number or merely AWS spend? I'd love to see a spreadsheet with this analysis.
Google Sends Advertising Dollars to Fake News Sites
You and Jesus are assholes. May you suffer as I do and learn the value of suffering first hand.
That's the thing. The two are indistinguishable, unless you give people with strong technical skills veto power on projects. If you don't work in such an environment, the only reason you haven't ran into a dangerous, idiot manager, is luck.

For some reason, in most firms, the c-suite isn't super keen on delegating that power.
Almost anything you were competent in would let you write and deploy and endpoint in half an hour (particularly in the early stages of app development), so I'm not sure that this is positive for serverless.
One way is to use a special very slow TCP handler. Imagine a TCP stack that only lets through one 10 byte packet every 10 seconds. This wastes a connection slot on target machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)
Serve the suspected bots a page with Javascript that computes a proof of work, submits it, and gets the real page in return.

Steamspy.com seems to trigger one of these basically every time when loaded with a fresh cookie.
What makes your crawler legitimate?
> I'd argue that it's paid for content - whether it's ads or partisan coverage, lobbyists, paid shills, or astroturfed pressure groups all managed by professional manipulators...

I think it's that, and the average people who don't realize what they're digesting and who think it's organic. Perhaps I'm being nostalgic, but I don't remember another time when so many average people had over-inflated notions regarding the power and reach of their thoughts.

Not that they didn't have strong opinions, but I don't remember anyone outside of nutjobs believing that those opinions should, by default, carry so much weight. Now your average, middle aged Facebook addict thinks that they're on a mission from God.
"neglecting our infrastructure for at least a decade now" honestly struck my American funny bone. But I can understand that being frustrating from a German perspective, and I mean that respectfully. :)
It might not save you from downvotes, but, you're absolutely right. Internally, the reaction was the same - people were happy to participate in the walk out, but when leaders tried creating into a referendum on their individual careers, they way overplayed their hand and tried harder than they did for the original walkout. People read the charges, smelled BS, and didn't participate.

Somewhat offtopic, but a heuristic that I've slowly learned is when people complain about promotion or org shuffles. Google is full of extremely type A people who stop getting signal of success the minute they walk in the door, and "it's been 4 years and no promotion or increase in responsibility!" is absolutely normal, and I've seen people stripped of 10+ person teams regularly and not as a punishment.
Ask HN: Anyone know a good tool for browsing test results in a central place?
Hi all,

A while ago I found a very nice service that would allow me to upload results of unit test suites, coverage reports, visual snapshots etc all under one roof.

I've been googling like a mad man trying to find it again, but I can't. The name was something like "testresults.com", but that's obviously not the one.

Does anyone know the service, or something similar?
If you crawl sites without a distinctive user-agent; do not obey robots.txt; crawl at an unnecessarily high rate, I _will_ ban you, regardless of your intent.
Fair enough. Perhaps a process needs to be in place in which no matter what the accusation is, it needs to go through a proper HR process. Having said that, if a manager should have no opinion on a sexual harassment accusation, then the accuser should have gone directly to HR.
Sure, but that's a best practice in every language. Saying "this language makes you do the thing you swear you're doing anyway" doesn't sound like a practical difference.

The second-order effect of "everyone has to do what you're claiming you do" is meaningful, yes. But it's really hard to convince programmers there's value there. Look how many people still say C is a fine language, you just have to not mess up. And not rely on any library that messes up. It's really tough to market the thing everyone should be doing anyway as a feature, even when the difference between "should do" and "is required to do" is huge in practice.
I'm not saying don't investigate. Its been ten years for me, and I'm still investigating. But the numbers are clear: usually there is no clear cause except a poorly understood change in the nervous system. The answer for most people is, "I don't know," with the current sophistication of medicine. You can't try harder and find the answer because there is no answer at this time for most people.
The ecosystem is what drove me away from C# (as well as not wanting to do enterprise work). I started dabbling with Ruby and Node and the sheer number of free third party libraries blew my mind. C# simply didn't compare.
Blazor client-side works by using the Mono runtime which is compiled and run as WASM. Your application is still delivered as standard DLLs and interpreted by that runtime.

They're working on making the runtime smaller and faster to start still a lag since your code has to be parsed and interpreted everytime, although the DLLs are pretty small already and easily compressed.
This is essentially Savon de Marseille. Some still swear by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille_soap
It may be legal to apply for asylum but it is still a misdemeanor to enter the US without proper authorization. How these two things may interact is up for debate, but there is plenty of legal precedent that these "gotchas" are intentional.

Arguably if the migrants are not stopping to apply at a port of entry then they broke the law.
This is correct. I did not use DI before moving to Core and that was probably the toughest. Once learned, DI is great.

MVC 5 to Core should be a pretty easy transition if you know DI.
I'm curious if this changes how we think about how EM waves affect dna? My understanding before was that we defined ionizing radiation as radiation that could break that hydrogen bond.
This is cool! It's like a wiki, but there's no structure imposed and everything's ephemeral. Would be interesting to see what happens over time.

Some feedback for the author: it might be interesting to add a "I'm feeling lucky"-type feature, kind of like StumbleUpon. Or some other fun discovery technique.
see also: https://nim-lang.org/araq/v1.html