skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does this seem to be disappearing from the HN front page? This blatant war propaganda was broadcast to millions of people, possibly after someone at ABC doctored the video. That's a big deal by itself. And if that's not enough for this to be relevant to our interests here, we only know about this because of tech companies like reddit and twitter that give a platform to some random person who can identify this BS within minutes. Decades ago ABC and others could have gotten away with this on every single one of their broadcasts.

Are people numb to this? Do we just not want to discuss it because we don't think we can be civil any more?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32678087225.html
OpenAI’s AI-powered robot learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed
This isn't strictly true. The final cPython release (2.7.18) is slated for April next year [0], and PyPy has no such plans to drop support [1].

I don't honestly think Python 2 is going anywhere for a while yet (judging from some of the commercial codebases I've seen at least). I sometimes wonder if this mess would have dragged on quite so long if there'd been better features in Python 3.

[0] - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#maintenance-releas...

[1] - https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-s...
Looks like it has already made the list: https://killedbygoogle.com/.

Makes me wary about buying any Google products as the lifespan of their products tend to be cut short (and of course privacy concerns).
If I got into HBS or Stanford GSB I would definitely go still. If you do it right (e.g. invest in building relationships with other students, professors, investors) the ROI is massive.
Could you please stop being a jerk on HN? You've done it a lot, it's dismaying, and we've had to ask you before.

Please review the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note that the first rule under Comments is "Be kind" and the second is "Don't be snarky".
My in-laws had a laika named Dog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika_(dog_breed)
I actually am thankful for folks who think living outside a major metro area is "mind-numbingly" boring. That means you'll stay in the city with all the other crazy people.

See, these low-effort insults work both ways!
Senior Software Architect
Emilio Health is creating the world’s 1st digitally- enabled child behavioral health & family support service. We are combining live clinical support with a robust digital experience to reinvent the experience for children needing behavioral health support, & the family members who support them.

Emilio Health is addressing one of the most pressing societal & economic problems in the U.S. 20% of all children have a diagnosable behavioral health issue, but only 20% of those children receive any form of treatment. Over 17M kids in the U.S. have mental health issues, making it more prevalent than pediatric cancer, diabetes, & AIDS combined. Mental health spending for children is currently $8.9B annually in the U.S.
We are looking for a Sr. Software Architect to help drive the technical vision for our business, write great code, & manage a team of engineers.
You are a smart, hardworking technologist who dreams of ways to use technology to make life better. You are tired of being a cog in someone else’s wheel & are ready to build something amazing from the ground up. You are an experienced developer & architect.
Your breadth of experience spans the full software stack, including Mobile. You are able to make technology decisions that ensure the details of “this release” are met while keeping in mind the strategic vision for the longer-term roadmap. You are flexible, used to a fast-paces environment.

Responsibilities:
• Work closely with other members of the senior leadership team to drive product direction
• Set the technical vision & connect the customer pain to the roadmap & specific technical actions required to meet market needs
• Design a scalable technical architecture that allows us to build software in an agile methodology.
• Hire, manage, & mentor members of the tech team, including contract & offshore resources
• Roll up your sleeves and write code to move the product roadmap forward.
Ruining the good name of Ruinerwold
Whatever, it's ridiculous I found years-old legitimate messages in there when I looked.
10 years - through MN road salt each winter - the proper torque won't get the bolt out.

That's what heat and impact are for.
I like allsides.com, too.
Tracing Builds in Concourse
What happens if someone shows up who didn't RSVP? Turn them away? Make them pay $2 at the door? Let them in for free? If the latter, then nobody will RSVP anymore and just show up.
Nah I think the tweet is gone, I can't see it from a browser.
(edit, weirdly I tried again and it worked. Definitely errored with a strange error the first time)
Ask HN: Best comfortable book reading chair?
I have been meaning to buy a comfortable book reading chair on which I can use to comfortably read books.

Do you have any recommendations? Things to keep in mind etc? Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
It is quite feasible to fake but expensive — tens of thousands of dollars — and you need to make a lot of friends at the gun range real fast.
Agreed. Mislabeling tapes is a tradition at TV news.

In the 90s, Germany's largest public TV station accidentally ran the previous year's New Year's Address by the Chancellor. These speeches have a tendency to be extremely bland, and according to lore nobody noticed the error until the very end when they mentioned the (wrong) year.
100k is about $5900 a month after taxes and modest 401k contribution.

Let's subtract some typical expenses (erring on the more expensive side)

$200 - water + electricity

$100 - high speed internet

$160 - decent wireless plan

$250 - employer subsidized health insurance

$150 - car insurance

$50 - netflix, spotify, hulu

$700 - groceries

$800 - go out to dinner twice a week (or some other activity)

$350 - car payment + gas

$1000 - savings

$1500 - median monthly mortgage payment in the USA.

$200 - home insurance.

That still leaves 400 a month while also managing to save and invest in 401k. Seems like a decent salary and way of life. Not rich by any means, but certainly comfortable.

The median mortgage payment in the USA is about 1500, but let's call it 1800
What will it cost???
Let me guess, Wharton?
... are Proprietary (SketchUp) and FLOSS (FreeCAD) competitors in same market.
I thought it was implied by "state school" that I meant you should attend a school in your particular state. In-state tuition for UVa is half of that. Additionally it's easy VA to get guaranteed acceptance to a state school after two years of community college.
Looking at the front page now (and virtually any time), there's quite a few articles that are more of a business or a political bend than technical.

A quick search of "Oracle" from the homepage search (only in the last year, since your account isn't much older than that), shows most articles are non-technical in nature.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
If it's in the contract not a lot you can do ... https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-...
I'm a fan of Go's "go run". For example, you can do:

go run main.go

or:

go run ./cmd/server

When invoked this way, Go compiles your code behind the scenes, but you don't have to create a binary.

This means Go lends itself pretty well to ad-hoc scripting or writing small script-like tools.

Unfortunately, Go doesn't support shebang lines, but with gorun [1] you can:

#!/usr/bin/env gorun

package main

func main() {
println("Hello world!")
}

[1] https://github.com/erning/gorun
Same thing with electric guitars.

In the 60 and early 70ies, Made in Japan guitars, specially copies of Gibson and Fender guitars where not well regarded.

But they started to greatly improve, and by the late 70ies and 80ies they were equal if not better than their originals (specially Fender which was not well managed by CBS at the time).

In the copy department you still have brands like Burny/Fernandez or Tokai, and also brands that outgrew the simple copy business with genuine models such as Ibanez, Yamaha or Takamine (a few lawsuits may have helped them develop in that direction).
The governor is the primary responsible party for executing a court mandate, not the legislature. Is the governor republican?
What kind of "small town" are we talking about? Most "small town"s I think of don't have universities. Maybe a community college for the whole county.
Hi all - sorry, we're looking into it! Please email us at apply@ycombinator.com and we'll see what we can do.
> I have a really hard time believing someone else's fortune means that I cannot also be fortunate

I don’t. There is a limited amount of wealth in the economy at any given moment. There is also a limited amount of well-paying jobs, which can lead to social mobility, and there is also a limited amount of wealth for investing in new ventures. Since these things are finite, one person being 20x richer than you or me means they are sitting on money and taking opportunities that others cannot. Time and money are not infinite because Earth’s resources are not infinite.

And yes, Zach Dell alone being wealthy or taking a lucrative job does not substantively affect everyone’s wealth. He is just one person. But I hope you can realize that the author is employing a literary device known as an anecdote or an example to start off their piece in order to illustrate a larger issue, which is that the wealthy are able to get opportunities and more wealth just by virtue of what family they were born into. Whether this is a problem or not is up to you, but I think reducing the article to “overtones of jealously” and “mediocracy” is misleading, although in an unintentionally amusing way; the author is actually calling out the blatant “mediocracy” that is inherent to privilege in our so-called merit-based society. I think this is a valid issue to write about and discuss.
Not exactly. If you stick to EC2 or containers with general Linux for your servers, and RDS Postgres and Mysql for DBs, and similarly for other services, you supposedly would be able to move to another cloud without issue.

We thought we'd be okay.

But when AWS started getting too expensive and we began looking to migrate, we discovered that there was a lot of 'glue' in our stack using bits and pieces of AWS-specific services. A continuous integration was using S3 buckets and Lambda, a few clever devOps guys had found ways to create alarms with SNS and SQS.

So while 90% of it was just a matter of moving to general CentOS containers on another platform and spinning up new Postgres and MySql and Mongo instances, that 10% of AWS specific code still causes issues that had to be remedied.

If I were in charge of a large infrastructure on AWS, the first thing I'd do is absolutely lock down every service that wasn't explicitly whitelisted, and open them as needed. Not wait till half your operation depends on dozens of AWS services that, while make things easy initially, lock you in to their platform.
I recommend going with !sp or !s instead of !g, so you use Startpage.com. It is a search engine that uses Google as the back-end, but removes all trackers and logs.
Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4M
There are many examples where that's not true: places like the beautiful college town of madison, Houston, Chicago, etc.

High living costs are a self imposed problem: housing regulation and zoning.
I think it's semi-legitimate. It's legitimate to have accurate voter lists of course, but aggressively pushing people off is not really legit. Let me explain:

It so happens that active voter suppression is actively practiced by republicans, because we have their emails from people in state legislatures to researchers asking questions in two key areas: what forms of ID are minority voters not likely to have that 'our' voters do, so that we could block them for registering [0]. And the second thing is picking your voters, which used to be in both parties but today is pretty much also used by one party. Also doing things like cutting early voting and other extended voting which predominantly let people with low-wage jobs have time to vote on weekends. Another cool one, preventing kids from pre-registering, cause those kids are of course not so conservative [1].

Also we have conservative conferences including ALEC talking about how to suppress voters [2].

Today there is no question that republicans use these tactics to actively suppress votes and voter registration for people that are likely to vote against them. It's not in question, it's not just a few bad apples.

[0] https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-north-carolin...

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/north-carolina-wont-stop-s...

[2] https://www.mediamatters.org/american-legislative-exchange-c...
Interesting things happen on that page when you click on one of the sorts to see it in a bigger window, then you close it, then click it again. You can end up with multiple sorts running at the same time.
The IKEA Poäng has a pretty good reputation for being a low-cost comfy chair, though you'll want to try one out in person to see how well the lumbar curve works for you.
I like Robert Fisk, he is hell of a solid correspondent but on this case he is absolutely wrong.

The Douma gas attack has been investigated not only by the OPCW, but by organisations such as the UN, the Red Cross and pretty much all serious journalism from the BBC, NYTimes to The Times and Wall Street Journal. They all agree that the Syrian Governmant gassed its own people i Douma.

The consensus is overwhelming, the wiki page on the incident lists 119 sources. I obviously haven't checked all of them but most look credible to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douma_chemical_attack
Hetroflow
Ask HN: Any developers looking to form an agency?
Hi,

My name is Jay and I am a software dev at a FAANG company. In the next few months I have a lot of free time and would like to start a new project. Currently I am thinking about forming a development/consulting agency.

Feel free to ping me at ideavalid@icloud.com if you are interested in working on something together. Bonus points if :
- you already own a agency and need some help
- want to form an agency and already have some prospective clients

About me: 4 year work experience, generalist, from C#/Java over Front End/Javascript to Machine Learning/Computer Vision.
The counterargument to this is always what is the tool designed to do?

- Should the layperson be allowed to own weapons-grade plutonium?

- How about being able to buy and cultivate your own anthrax cultures?

- Why shouldn't I be able to spray DDT when it's super effective?

Sure, a screwdriver is design to screw, just as fentanyl is designed to kill pain, but in the hands of a bad actors they can cause different levels of harm.

I'm not saying Onionshare is good or bad, just that you need to step back at look at any tool and consider the net potential impact if bad actors are able to exploit it.
It does say select groups, so I imagine they're targeting groups that are really just companies trying to drive business using Meetup. But I don't think I'll hang around to find out. The group I run mostly switched to Facebook a couple of years ago. We still post events on Meetup, but all of the discussion takes place on FB. In fact the Meetup group has about 3000 members, and the FB group about 4000. So I don't think we'll lose much by ditching Meetup.
Collaboration problems faced by data teams
There's several places where only a small ditch separates the two countries.
When did it become the norm that bankrupted corporations continue operations pretty much as normal? I'm sure there's a lot of activity on the back end navigating bankruptcy law, but I remember when companies would go bankrupt and then promptly shut everything down.
Agreed, but let's not stop at a penny.
My bank only seems to allow 12 characters.

Why is that? What am I even supposed to do with 12 characters?
Discussed heavily on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17835760
120 range in KS, 15 year mortgage on a 2,600ft^2 house is $2k on the nose. Commute is 15 minutes. KS isn't all that bad folks :)
Agreed. Most of my time trying to adjust settings in Windows 10 is spent trying to locate the 'old' control panel dialogs. What's sad is that all their attempts at redesigns and tweaks have not resulted in something I want to use more.
I have to disagree about the hand tools. The most recent Craftsman tools I've seen have been pretty lousy, and Harbor Freight's tools have gotten pretty darn good, especially considering the price. I have some HF tools, and for a backyard/weekend mechanic, I would happily recommend them; I haven't had one break on me yet (unlike Craftsman).

HF's power tools, on the other hand, I'm not so sure about, but they do look like they've gotten better over the years.
There are numerous cost of living calculators[0] online, but they basically just tell you how much more or less you need to earn to maintain your standards if you move to another city (not neighborhood level). Still, they're interesting.

[0] Here's one: https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator
Something I've had a really hard time with is profiling bandwidth usage over time. I'm happy that I can look at individual messages and see their size, but I want to watch how the KB/s changes over monitored time.

The unsatisfying answers from the Web are generally, "Use Wireshark." I don't think I should need to drop down to that layer.
Can you explain why? If any voter is found to have voted twice (even by accident), then that voter will be disenfranchised. So -- as happened to me -- if a state mails your ballot to an old address and someone votes there (even inadvertently), the states may decide to void both ballots (even the valid one cast by you) to prevent double voting. This means it's incredibly important to get rid of old registrations and keep things up to date. Of course, care should be taken to ensure valid voters can vote, too. But, I mean, it looks like that's what happened here. At no point were the 235,000 voters identified banned from voting. The process seem to have worked as it should, and the valid voter registrations are preserved, while the old ones are being removed. Isn't that an example of things working?
What are the things VMS did the best? How it compares to linux nowadays?

What is behind OpenVMS project - nostalgia or some pragmatic reasons?
More specifically, Rust doesn't have inheritance of data. It uses composition and can simulate inheritance of interfaces. That suffices for Rust programs, but gets awkward quickly with some classic OOP-heavy design patterns.

Despite superficially similar angle bracket syntax, C++ templates and Rust generics are very different and incompatible in all but most trivial cases. D templates can get closer.

Rust also lacks many C++-isms: there are no copy/move constructors, no custom code can run on assignment, operator overloading is more conservative, there's no life before main(). Error handling, iterators, and strings are done differently.

Even if C++ could magically work in Rust, it'd be weird. OTOH D feels much like a rewrite of C++.
I never actually read the whole story behind this. To me, it looks like the original author of leftpad was in the right - radically changing a package can break someone's build. Maybe he went a bit too far with his next action, but if NPM don't care about its end-users enough to ensure packages remain relatively stable (within the limited control they have), why should an individual contributor?
I'm very interested to know why this port is taking so long. Few human resources? Not a priority? Lots of assembly code?
And the little "new" in front of it. I actually preferred the curly braces version and would have loved for them improve it instead of creating a replacement.

And well, I'd expect them to get it right eventually. It is at least their third evolution of that feature... there was a System.Tuple as well. Wonder if they ever come out and officially deprecate their earlier attempts.
It's definitely possible for Debian to package unofficial releases out of the upstream VCS. You can sometimes tell that's what happened because it'll have something like ~git20191005.f8ab33 in the Debian package's version number.

In this particular case, the Debian maintainer seems to prefer to wait for upstream to release an official Python3-supporting version of Calibre though: https://github.com/norbusan/calibre-debian/blob/master/debia...

It's basically up to the maintainer either way. The freeze for the next Debian release is at least months away (no date set yet), so it's not too urgent, and waiting for upstream is still reasonable at this point.
> For example we would likely never see VoLTE interoperability.

In the US at least we will have to get there eventually. The major US carriers are all killing 2G and 3G in the early 2020s[1] and due to FCC 911 requirements (you basically have to be able to call 911 if you can connect a phone to a network), not to mention basic voice roaming support, that means all VoLTE phones will have to (eventually) support VoLTE on any network.

[1] https://www.multitech.com/documents/publications/marketing-g...
What serendipity! I was looking at this page last night, looking forward to 2020. Also happy to hear there are at least a few VMS fans here.
Gah, I didn't think that this is how I'd be outed :)

DDG actually says that they track queries, just no identifying data to them.
TV news stations will almost never pay for just anybody's footage. At the very least, they will work with locals that have some track record.

They might sometimes take youtube footage, foreign broadcasts, or material provided to them by parties to the conflict. But those tend to carry prominent labels and aren't paid for.
Notice they don't say that AWS has completely migrated off Oracle. There was plenty of Oracle there 5 years ago, including at the core of some of the most popular services. (There was also a significant migration effort underway then as well, mostly to DynamoDB.)
This is a legitimate concern, but the way to combat isn't to silently hide messages behind unfamiliar UI. For a contrast, consider email junk filters, which generally serve a similar purpose but are accessible enough to easily scan through in case of legitimate messages being lost.
If you're looking for the best ROI where there are the highest SE salaries per living cost, check out: https://skilldime.com/blog/see-which-cities-pay-the-highest-...

There's many places that have great ROIs but Palo Alto isn't one of them: they're dead last.
> the motives are suspect.

Um, no they're not. Simply wanting to maintain a clean record is a personality difference that it is unreasonable to get suspicious over given the varying personalities of the various secretaries of state (the one who ultimately decides such policies).
> Ah, so we are still acting like Republicans aren't the legacy bearers of Jim Crow.

Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws (0). I see no evidence that Republicans have enacted any laws that systematically discriminate against black people, in fact Trump has tried to reform the criminal justice system (1). He pardoned Jack Johnson posthumously, and has been handing out pardons like candy to wrongfully accused blacks.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/3100-inmate...