skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A popular counterpoint in the R community is that in many data cleaning tasks, the bottleneck is human understanding / coding time, not comptutation time. In other words, we'd rather spend 1 hour writing up a script that runs in 10 minutes and needs to be run a handful of times at most, than spend 6 hours writing something that takes 10 seconds.

Edit: This of course goes hand-in-hand with the claim that it is easier/faster to write R scripts. If you're not familiar with it, the tidyr and dplyr packages in particular (part of the tidyverse) are fantastic in the verbs they provide for thinking about data cleaning.
I’m sure allowing this wouldn’t do much for their reputation as a company that wants to trade in China. Not everything has to be a forum for political speech, and trying to force everything into being one is just a deceptive way of trying to force your views onto others.
Zillow can't even get my original purchase price within 100% of reality despite it being public record. Also, it estimates my home value almost 40% off identical floorplans on my same street.
> I'm a postmodern neo-Marxist

I have never seen a self proclaimed postmodern neomarxist. You're the bogeyman for the alt light, an impossible oxymoron, the eternal devil.

I've heard lots about various liberals, but what does a self proclaimed postmodern neo-marxist believe?

Do you believe all society is power struggle, and that language is the primary means by which this fight is won? Do you see gender and race as the new classes in the marxist analysis? Do you think that all discourse is ultimately about power, and not the truth?

Seriously, I've heard many, many things about the postmodern neo-marxist, most of them self contradictory. I've never heard from a self proclaimed post modern neo-marxist. How would you describe yourself?
IANAL but games are not public accomodations/commercial facilities in terms of the ADA. There has been very strong law that restaurants are such a thing.

The act basically requires companies to make "readily achievable" changes. So if it would bankrupt the company then it is not required. However you can’t just sleep on the issue and pocket the profits for not putting in the effort.
Top Features of Angular 8
For the users of comercial software, no problem.

We always had shareware, freeware and public domain since ever.

For FOSS advocates, they might be in for a bitter surprise.
Just like Mini Metro, but real life...
Indeed. I used to use LR Classic on my Mac, but since the new LR got more and more features I switched to using my iPad almost exclusively. I don't think I used LR on my Mac in months.
I've traveled extensively, by motorbike, in the northern vietnam region bordering southern china. I started in the south of vietnam, which has pigs, dogs, cats, buffalo, chickens, ducks and everything else you can imagine just running around wild.

At some point as you travel north, you stop seeing pigs by the side of the road. You start to cross checkpoints where they spray your tires and places where they've put chemical (disinfectant) soaked hay on the roads that you're expected to drive over. You see signs everywhere warning people to spray things down.

The swine flu is real.
Blizzard is an international company with a ton of customers outside the US
Super cool, really fun!

Same github account has a neat missile visualization as well: https://nagix.github.io/nk-missile-tests/
Thanks for answering the other poster about where you're living. He shouldn't have accused you of being coerced or paid, but he was as polite as possible about it. Here on HN, we usually tell each other when we have some involvement with a topic we're discussing. For example if we own stock in a company we're discussing, or when we work for a company or its compititor. This helps us judge each other's comments.

Would you make a statement about whether you do or don't work for China (including through a shell company). I am not accusing you of anything, I'd just like to understand your comments better.
Live Coding: The New Composition API – Vue.js London – Jason Yu
> Do you object to “moving” or “forward”?

Forward.

> Whether you see the world progressing or regressing you might still agree that Stallman is not necessarily effective in the current climate.

This is an amoral (and depraved) approach to this topic. The issue of what constitutes an healthy culture takes precedence over whether an individual is "effective" in that culture. There are many ways to recognize this fact, the simplest being to recognize that humanity's most horrific monsters (Hitler, Stalin, Mao) were highly "effective" leaders in their respective monstrous cultures.
I've used the website photopea as an alternative to Photoshop, I find it much more similar and convenient than GIMP.
They used to think that economic freedom would be the trojan horse for social freedoms. Quite the opposite I see.
Lots of people were selling information about hiding Jews to Germans for money or for saving their lives.

Was that "pro-holocaust" or "pro-money"?

A lot of people were working as guards, maintenance personel, etc at death camps. Were they "pro-holocaust"?

In the end if you helped to make death camps work and had a choice to avoid doing so - you're at fault.
The freedom to oppress is no freedom at all
Now It’s a Snap to Donate Your Old Lego Bricks
'Creepy' is so much worse than 'abusive'....
Is ECC threatened by quantum c. or not?
Sadly even pressed CDs have been known to rot[0][1]. Albeit it's not I tend to hear about with audio CDs because (presumably because there are usually other ways to acquire copies) however it is something that worries a lot of retro gamers like myself. It means that many of the Mega CD, Saturn, etc games (for example) have a potential life expectency.

For me though, scratched discs affect me more than disc rot. It can be a lottery sometimes when buying retro games because you can't always be sure just how well looked after the disc was (even when you have pictures and the item is marked as tested/working).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

[1] https://blog.discogs.com/en/say-no-to-disc-rot-how-to-look-a...
IIRC the author doesn't believe black holes exist, so not surprised.
Advanced Threat Protection in Office 365 does this as well. It's a security feature that scans all linked files and attachments sent through Outlook.

A while back in my company we were deploying a client management tool (think TeamViewer but with more background management and software deployment capabilities). It needed to be very easy to install, so we just had a link to an EXE file that needed to be opened by our on-site IT departments. No extra steps were required.

Imagine our surprise when we suddenly saw machines popping up that were totally unfamiliar. These were machines connecting from a Microsoft IP, and all had random (but similarly formatted) usernames. They also provided random mouse inputs. We could even take control of these machines (!) but apparently they were short lived VMs that only existed for a few minutes before being recycled.

I contacted Microsoft support because at first we thought this may be a manual process (because of the mouse inputs and the user names), and we didn't want Microsoft employees seeing user data. Afterwards I also commented to the support person that someone may use these temporary machines as an attack vector (to use as an anonymous source, or in a DDoS attack), but the ticket was closed and if I recall correctly this was deemed "working as designed".
I had come across a few other than this earlier. Scam!
I think Blizzard wants to make a statement and being strict about politics have no place in their games... Honestly i would be surprised if any gaming company would allow that, independent if the Player is right or wrong.

With respect to Twitch placement, since when Twitch is a benchmark for number of Players in a game worldwide ? HS lost momentum because of the greedy economy of the game and because other games surged.

Another source for the subject: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/10/in-post-game-interview-hea...
"ID Squatting"
I don't know about that. Median netto salary is 2150 eur[1], people often pay 30% of their netto in rent = 1505 eur, health insurance is about 100 eur so you're left with 1405 eur "discretionary spending".

Average commute is 22.6km [2]. You need to go there and back again - 45 * 0.162 + 0.96 = 8.25 eur/day * 22 = 181.5. That's almost 13% of your money.

Or anecdote: my wife travels from Amsterdam to Utrecht. Seasonal train ticket is about 180 eur but there is another 200 eur she spends on bus and train of getting to and from train station. Compared to taking the car which costs like 150 eur in gas. It shouldn't be cheaper to take the car alone compared to public transport!

[1]
https://www.amsterdamtips.com/salaries-in-amsterdam-netherla...

[2]
https://www.iamexpat.nl/career/employment-news/more-half-emp...
Problem is that tabbed interfaces make window resizing harder.

Bring back MDIs (maybe)!
That's interesting. In Poland invoices also have to contain an auto-incrementing component (so you can't backdate something and slip it in, or post an invoice to a client but skip it when reporting taxes). However each company can design multiple "series" of invoices, for example per-client (e.g. 1/2019/MSFT, 1/2019/AAPL) or per type of services (1/2019/IT, 1/2019/Design) or office location (1/2019/CityA, 1/2019/CityB) or basically whatever. The year is optional, numbers could increment indefinitely, but it's convenient to reset the counter each year (or each month for large companies).
‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history
So, HN is officially a safe space? Strange, because I see all the time comments targeting (all) men or some particular ethnicities that aren’t moderated.
I already mentioned it, but there is the concept of relative risk. There is also the concept of reference classes. Because of the way I drive and the vehicle I use, I am much less likely to die than the average bay area driver. Also, the number of people who take BART each day is much lower than the number of people who drive each day.

There are so many better counterarguments you could have put forward. Please consider that you may be mistaken. I certainly have done so. I wish that public transportation were superior, but I've discovered (and experienced) that it's not the case… at least not in the bay area.
‘I didn’t think gaming could lead to compulsive gambling’
Who said anything about identical binaries? It's trivial to make two completely differently obfuscated binaries that do the same thing. If it were possible to determine behavior by static analysis, they wouldn't need to run it...
Yes, I did it earlier today and it was literally as simple as clicking the ‘macOS’ button under build targets.

That said, the app running out of the box needs a lot of work to feel like a proper macOS app.
Or you could see it as your OS breaking lots of software you depend on and then telling you tough luck.

As a user I only see "OS upgraded -> stuff broken". I'll blame the OS for that. All finger pointing and shoulda/coulda/woulda is not magically going to unbreak things,rolling back the upgrade will.
>Collapse is a property of every civilization we’ve studied

How would you define "civilization?" Because sure, every civilization has an expiration date, but for current computing technology to be lost requires a worldwide civilizational collapse. Current global civilization is a decentralized collection of many civilizations which have all shared and replicated the knowledge of computing.

>our debt keeps increasing

Public and private debt are separate things. Public debt has generally seen a continuous march upwards. Private debt has been peaky, with no upward trend. Debts are fine when the debt is incurred for a purpose that has a sufficient return on investment. Public debts of sovereign currency issuers can always be repaid, and the yields on those bonds are whatever the currency issuer decides. And further debts shouldn't be judged as nonviable just because of the quantity of existing debt. Rather, the question at each point should be whether the investment is a good one.

> Soil is in a weird zombie state kept alive by oil

Soil is renewable, and can be made even with simple techniques. The terra preta soil of the Amazon rainforest was largely human-made, and thus the Amazon itself is largely a human construct. Creating it didn't require any oil.

>there is no fertile soil for the acceptance of limitation

Malthusian thinking has often been the default, and one of the most popular modes of thinking since the Enlightenment. The mid 20th century was full of best-selling Malthusian books by the Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, M. King Hubbert, and EF Schumacher. The entire fields of biology and ecology have been predicated on Malthusianism. Darwin was explicitly inspired by Malthus.

It has been to the great surprise of the intelligensia of each successive generation that there hasn't been mass starvation. We've been able to do more and more, with less and less. Any serious type of collapse hypothesis needs to factor in the history of losing bets on that side of the argument, and internalize why their predictions were wrong. It wasn't just luck every time.
> If it makes sense with electricity then there is no logical reason not to try the same strategy with gasoline, food and shelter.

Those aren't natural monopolies.
Denmark as well. It is so audit can see that there is an item missing between item #54 and #56.

It's not bullet proof, but it does help auditors.
Result is very similar, which is all that matters. In a way it's even worse, because they pretend to be a free country and shit (while doing repression even more violently than chinese or russian governements). China at least is not pretending that.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments/flamebait to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Esports used to be entirely privately-run one-off events where authoritarianism like this wasn't possible. This new era of centralized esports hasn't really paid off for anyone but Riot and even they readily admit that their esports department loses money.
Perl is way better at that sort of task.
Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
I sort of stumbled onto a consultancy job two years ago in cryptocurrency that's sadly just come to an end... going back into an office full time feels like a step back at this point.

I also don't really want to be anywhere near cryptocurrency for a while... and to make matters worse I live halfway around the world from my home in a country that doesn't speak English - I'm a reliable remote worker but I know that's going to put people off, how to alleviate concerns here?

I'm planning to fly home tomorrow, I rented somewhere for a month and I'm already printing business cards and trying to get myself out there on local subreddits. Perhaps other social media too?

Anything I've missed? How can I advertise myself out there? I absolutely kick ass on cloud migration and architecture (and while I know they're not everything, had the certifications to prove it).

Sysadmin stuff, troubleshooting and cloud work was my thing for a decade but I'm trying to catch up with two years worth of developments as well - I can also code but it's mostly hobby stuff.
Back in the days of modems I worked at a company that was selling video games over the internet. The owner was a former IBM middle manager that thought she knew a lot more about technology then she actually did - not uncommon. One day she decides that she wants the game downloads to work one byte at a time so that people could be absolutely sure they received them and could not complain they had been cut off and didn’t receive the complete file (Was very common for people to download the games then dispute the transaction with the credit card company, they got to keep the game and we always lost the dispute). We tried to explain that sending the file a byte at a time, depending on the protocols involved, would turn a one megabyte file into a 93 megabyte transmission that would take more then a day to complete as each byte was transmitted and acknowledged but she could not be swayed. So instead we made the system call for each byte and thanked god for John Nagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm
Nobody is talking about not allowing Facebook to use encryption. In fact, they are explicitly allowed to use it but encouraged not to make it the default setting. Also, privacy must not be confused with free speech. Free speech rights center on public speech, because "private speech" is not amenable to censure. Surveillance and prosecution of of private communication is neither a violation of privacy nor free speech, but rather an issue of authoritarian legislation.

Encryption has absolutely nothing to do with free speech as long as you are in a jurisdiction with an actual right to free speech. If you aren't, well, good luck convincing those authorities.

Also, a right to free speech does not entail a protection from all consequences of such speech, only from those consequences a government can dish out.
I wish I could afford to live close to work, but being in the vicinity of Salesforce Tower is pretty goddamn expensive.
This is pretty nice. Are there providers that can provide transit data publicly for other cities as well.
There's other cognitive issues here. I find reading from the screen difficult, CRT, LED, OLED, but I'm fine given e-ink. Any web pages with text more than a paragraph or so is sent to an e-reader for me, otherwise I just cannot comprehend the content. I can cope with snippets.
Does it mean that no matter the size of the key file, only the 32 bits of its CRC32 is being utilized?
I really cannot understand this kind of behavior coming from a smart, adult person.

Crying over a badge number? Doesn't it reveal a deeply troubled personality?

Or am I just too naive and Jobs actually understood the importance of being first?
Hopefully other city centres built before the advent of the automobile will follow suit. Edinburgh (Scotland), I’m looking at you ...
I think one problem with that approach is that blindness isn’t binary. Many registered blind people are partially sighted and use screen readers and other assistive tech to supplement low vision.

Another concern: as someone working on a large web development team, I think that maintaining a separate “non-visual” site would entrench a two-tier approach to quality and completeness (noticing and fixing issues, adding new features, etc). If you treat them as two separate applications they will inevitably diverge over time, despite best intentions. You might even end up with slightly different URL structures on each site, making it impossible for a blind user to find the corresponding audio version of a certain URL they found on social media, for example.
But yet elsewhere in the world they can build multi-storey CLT buildings

https://www.theb1m.com/video/top-5-the-world-s-tallest-timbe...
> Anecdotally, I find that the people who are loudest about Apple's misdeeds (both real and assumed) are often people who've never even used an Apple product.

And those who are loudest about animal abuse in factory farming, don't eat meat.
Adobe is not a nice company. In my country subscriptions can never last more than a year, after that you get the right to cancel every month. I took me 25 min and speaking to many Indian help-desk engineers in English before I could cancel my account. For me that was not a problem but many dutch people don't even speak English.
VPs are technically not executives. In a corporate structure, the Board of Directors and the their reports (CEO, Presidents, etc) are the ones actually making decisions and managing the company overall.

For example, the CEO of PG&E before 2019 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha_Williams .

Here are the PG&E filings to the SEC:
http://investor.pgecorp.com/financials/annual-reports-and-pr...

2017: http://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_financials/2017/annu...

2018:
http://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_financials/2017/annu...

2019:
http://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_financials/2019/05/2...

Ultimately, if something in a company goes wrong, the buck needs to stop at the CEO and if not CEO, the board of directors. In the end I guess only we shareholders are to blame.

For lower performance between 2016 and 2018, the CEO got a raises each year (snippet from 2019 page 81):

Name and
Principal Position:
Geisha J. Williams(a)
Chief Executive Officer
and President, PG&E
Corporation

year salary bonus stock award total
2018 1,079,167 0 6,400,078 1,600,003 0 40,341 170,253 9,289,842
2017 991,667 0 6,500,168 0 0 996,810 108,575 8,597,220
2016 695,833 0 2,250,072 0 610,594 519,983 87,748 4,164,230

Check PG&E's stock performance between those years - the compensation does not match reality. I'm saying that these listed officers shouldn't be getting the compensation they are getting as it's not reflective of the health of the business they're running.
It would still have been flamebait and against the site guidelines, but it wouldn't have been a slur.
> The reason her questions and were met with summary punishment was due to the fact that the moral crusaders she was attempting to engage with do not tolerate ideological noncompliance.

> If you get crusaders like this in your org, you should consider it an existential threat.

Completely agree. This destructive behavior alone should be reason enough to reject these people, regardless of the merits of their cause. Nobody should be excluded for questioning some rules or debating some definitions or whatever.

I won't delete my account but I will refrain from contributing to the site in the future.
The Forbidden City: inside the abandoned Soviet camp of Wünsdorf (2017)
No. It isn't possible for any large open internet forum to be a 'safe space', not that I know what that means.
But plywood is made out of veneer sheets that have been turned on a giant lathe. There is only a very thin layer of fibers running one way, you can't really see growth rings in a layer of ply. CLT layers can be at 2" thick or more, with a very definite grain structure and growth rings.

Which makes me wonder how CLT is supposed to behave with wood movement when atmospheric moisture changes. Is it made from a species of softwood with very little movement? Or is the adhesive supposed to be strong enough to withstand the stress under movement? Or has the wood been treated with some industrial process to reduce the movement? All of the above?

Cross laminated timber goes against everything I know about wood movement as a woodworker. But the only exposure I've had to this stuff was beating 6 inch thick (3 layers) CLT pieces with an axe for firewood. I'm really curious how this stuff can work.
This is the rule in question

> Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of the player’s prize total to $0 USD, in addition to other remedies which may be provided for under the Handbook and Blizzard’s Website Terms.

The rule is not "political speech is not allowed" it's "don't make us look bad."

Choosing to ban this player is absolutely picking a side, and it's not with the good guys.
Not available in Canada. Oh well.
Because, among many other reasons, game developers work 60 and 80 hour workweeks, and have to deliver a project that takes 3 years in 6 months.
Eh, it's pretty much a given that a company won't tolerate using their games as platforms for politics or propaganda. I consider this no better than annoying spam and I'm happy they did it. I don't want to see it if I'm playing their games. I didn't sign up for that, so get it out. I don't care if it's politics that I support or not.
Very brave @blitzchungHS hope your message is heard.
I'm also sad they removed such as nostalgic feature but since years Apple is trying to remove it or at least make it less prominent. I guess its just a sign of times and how usability and trends change over the years. :(