skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's like you're saying volunteer work should never exist. You absolutely have employee-like duties at the volunteer soup kitchen and basically any volunteer outfit.

If someone really is just doing something to keep themselves busy and they are perfectly happy not being paid, then that seems like a fair deal to me. I've done that when my buddy started a bar at the beach. I would help him take orders while I sat down there and he got some intermittent help. What's the matter? Groveling for money changes the entire relationship into something that I do not want.

I think you have to make the case that there's some sort of exploitation going on. I could see how you'd make that argument regarding a 16yo "intern" who bought your bullshit that they are bussing your tables 18 hours a day for "work experience". But you lost me on your own example. Let's say, suggesting that a retired millionaire who voluntarily takes orders at a bar for four hours a day for fun is being exploited unless they're paid $2.15/hr like the other staff.
Python also can now be optionally typed, which the article discusses. More: http://mypy-lang.org/
Amazon's Fraudulent Practices to Sellers
I am an infidividual who has been selling products on Amazon for over ten years. I order products through a drop ship wholesaler. Our wholesale outlet is one of the msot respected in the country and purchases only from verified trademark holders for redistribution. Because of the numbers involved, the manufacturers might not know my name. However, I have an account in good standing with the wholesaler. I list my products on Amazon by means of a data feed directly from the wholesaler. Occasionally a manufacturer/trademark holder may grow concerned about counterfeit products offered on Amazon and submit blanket complaints about every retailer they see on Amazon whose name they do not recognize. When this happens I immediately contact the wholesaler to ask for a letter of verification and an introduction to the manufacturer/trademark holders as proof that I sell products sourced only from the trademark holder - not couterfeits. I also request and receive letters of verification from the manufacturer/trademark holder. Once these documents have been submitted Amazon stopped communicating with me.

After several weeks of sending automated e-mails Amazon suspended my account and held the funds for the sales I had already completed. When I requested the release of the funds, Amazon sent an automated e-mail saying Amazon will not release the funds, they will not provide the reason and will no longer communicate with me. The customer paid me, not Amazon,for the merchandidse I delivered. This money does not belong to Amazon. The maneuver of not transmitting to me the proceeds of my sales does not seem to be even legal. The use of robot e-mail replies on Amazon's part hints to mym mind at fraudulent intent.

I believe this process of (1) Accusing a seller of wrongdoing (2) Ignoring a seller's defense (3) Holding the seller's balance due presumably for be kept as Amazon's personal business property - this process is a generalized fraudulent scheme.
Russia will benefit greatly by global warming, it also relies on oil exports, also benefit vy weakening Europe with an inflow of climatic reffugees, has incredible incentives to actively make it happen.
> We must remember that Catalonia has already held two legal referendums, where the result has been a refusal of the Catalan people to leave Spain or Independence

That's not true, I think you are confusing Catalonia with Scotland.

Preciselly one of the main issues is that a part o Catalonian society (I would say a big one, from both sides, independentist and non independentists) wants a referndum, but Spain refuses to do it.
The story doesn't portray CIA in a positive light. It's more about Czechs, Hungarians and a spy adventure between them.
Thanks. I should have supplied cites, wasn't feeling up to it.

About three weeks ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218868

Citing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/us/california-wildfires-h...
> What I personally believe is that we should have proportional representation, and that mass tactical voting is an important step towards progressive candidates and progressive parties before we can reach a full PR system. Mass tactical voting applies pressure and encourages progressive behaviour.

> My contribution then, is towards fairer election systems.

if this is the case the site should allow you to select who you want to win, instead of being "UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES"
Yep, it says that Microsoft Spain has claim that they did not receive any request to take down the repo from the government. Also, the article claims that the journalist tried to contact Github and Microsoft USA but hasn't received a reply. And certainly I don't expect any quick response, they probably need to get the PR department to review any answer.
If it's at the mercy of the UN, I doubt it makes it through the general assembly in any form, let alone past the security council. The nature of foreign policy would just make too many countries suspicious of ulterior motives.
If we could somehow capture the methane that's escaping from the clathrates under the sea and in the permafrost, it would be a net gain in terms of global warming to burn it up in a rocket engine and convert it to CO2. Methane has much more than 2.75 times the warming potential as the same mass of CO2.
Howso?

Resources devoted to firefighting have increased by any possible measure.
One avocado a day helps lower 'bad' cholesterol
What do JSON comments look like?
Sure, biology might be profitable investment for those who know it well but I think the important part of the GP is that biology doesn't have the potential to "explode" in the fashion that chips exploded with Moore's law.

And the thing is that it's easy to imagine such potential, it's easy to imagine that discoveries will accumulate sufficiently in biology that the field passes from being about discovery to being about engineering, which discoveries can be pumped out easily instead of being hard-won, limited and preliminary. But biology has so much variation and complexity and ad-hocery "all the way down" that nothing is ever as straightforward as you'd want it, nearly everything is done by hand even today and for a reason.
> I've watched both sandbag good design because there was no percieved business value more than once.

Riffing on the article title: Simple Does Not Mean Deficient.

“Star had many fewer commands than today’s systems, and it didn’t do it by having fewer functions. It just had fewer commands.” — Dave Smith at The Final Demonstration of the Xerox ‘Star’ Computer (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw text: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201... )
> To answer your conspiratory rhetorical question: Yes it would.

The accusatory tone of your response only reinforces my concern. It doesn't even require a "conspiracy" as you gibingly added. If a scientist considering publishing findings counter to consensus expects to be met with this kind of reaction from their peers, and shouts of "denier" at large, that's all it takes to put a finger on the scale to bias what gets published.
Map of the rebound areas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PGR_Paulson2007_Rate_of_L...

Mainly Canada and Fennoscandia.
And this is true for many other launch providers; most foreign launch providers in particular. But it does make competing for commercial satellites really hard for those firms. ULA basically gave up on commercial launch.

We'll have national firms emulating Starship within 5-10 years.
One piece[1] on the meaning of "clickbait" described it as follows:

>When we talk about clickbait internally, we tend to focus on the idea of under-delivering on a misleading headline. The risk that a reader will feel she has been duped into clicking.

To your point, it also says:

>Others often seem to be using "clickbait" as a free-floating term of derision. There are many reasons one might dislike an article but calling it clickbait has become an all-purpose way of expressing that disapproval.

So which of those best describes this BuzzFeed article?

I don't think the headline is misleading, but BuzzFeed definitely under-delivered by not mentioning the contaminant. They showed their hand by not even acknowledging that they are missing that important detail.

Honestly, it's shameful. It's like they have so little respect for their readers that they think their readers won't notice that the most important detail in this story -- mentioned in the headline, no less -- is missing.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/13/8033937/clickbait-explained
Errr, sorry for asking, but what exactly in this story is boosting the CIA? This is a story about the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence and the Hungarian military intelligence network a decade before the CIA existed. No American of any kind makes an appearance.
> donate to Uganda children.

Does it count if I donate to a different group that supports Uganda children, but still use vim?

In any case, I applaud the vim devs for promoting this.
it doesn't work like that. you should try it for yourself
I believe Elon came up with similar figures during his Powerwall presentation, along with how small of an area it would be to provide the batteries to complement the solar panels.
Interesting. So it’s fairly inexpensive to get one if you just want to gather data for a short period and get insights about the patterns.

Can you order them over the counter in Canada?

Edit: yes, you can: https://libre.myfreestyle.ca/

$97 CAD for a new sensor, not bad. That’s about $73 USD
"But it never amounts to anything close to a debate about what language I should use."

So if your task was to deliver let's say commercial grade FFT library ( substitute with any other long computationally extensive process ) for consumption by others you would write it in Python?
Whether it’s 10 years, 20 years or 30. I don’t think it makes much difference after 10 in terms of the level of relevant expertise you’d expect. Particularly when you factor in staff leaving, getting promoted, etc and new engineers joining. Where Linux differs isn’t it’s age but rather it’s development model being decentralised. FreeBSD might be a more comparable example given the context you’re describing.
Correct, typo. We were specifically testing the radiated and conducted (through its charging cable) emissions from the cellphone's processors, display, etc, and needed the radios off in a reverberation chamber.
Hong Kong and Catalonia are completely different stories, you know that, but still we like to draw the attention to Hong Kong and find similarities where there are none.

They closed other sources such as websites, and VPS hosting mirrors. You cannot simply "close" WhatsApp or Telegram or SMS, that is not how it works, unless you just cut the service for everybody, or go down the rabbit hole of chasing hundreds if ad-hoc groups.

Still, the real victims here are the 50%+ of Spaniards who want to remain being Spaniards. In my opinion, while there are people who want to continue being part of Spain, the government is doing right protecting the law and shutting the secessionists down.
How China is using QR codes
Plenty, although "come true" depends on your definition, since the predictions are all very conservative, and the observations have tended to be worse than the predictions.

For example, the observations of the recent decline in sea ice are significantly worse than the models predict. [1]

Also, current data show the oceans are warming about 40% faster than predicted. [2]

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=35

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oceans-are-warmin...
Magnum Engine 2019.10 Released
I would love to see civil disobedience at a corporate level. That level of bravery is so rare and so necessary.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that "minority groups" is listed as a persona and that it's also associated with compatible traits, behaviors, and values?
A Tesla Powerwall 2 can hold 13.5 kWh of energy.

In the US, the lowest average home consumes around 17 kWh of electricity a day; the highest uses 42. This usage does not correlate with the hose usage, meaning that most of the power is consumed when the sun is low in the sky or during the night - putting the majority of the load on the Tesla Powerwall.

You'd need at least two Powerwalls to avoid a significant change in lifestyle, plus ~5kW of solar cells to fill those batteries every day (not accounting for cloudy days).

And a change in lifestyle may not even be practical, since most housing constructed in the last few decades was built with the assumption that AC and electric heating are available.

https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/how-many-solar-panels-do-i...

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3
It's funny to me that even in an XML shining example of purpose you've got non-semantic "<div>" there likely because, "just float where I want, dammit!"

Just imagining a JSON that starts with

"dummy": "don't remove this or the API will mis-align this across two structs!!!"
I'm not entirely sure what people want them to do. A year ago, people were calling for PG&E to be shut down (then where would you get your power from?), and there was strong pressure to hold them liable. They got the message, and they're doing the one thing thing can do with only a ~year of notice: cutting off power when and where it's risky.

Until more lines are buried, there's more maintenance around them in these areas, or PG&E is released of liability, this is what happens.
Wouldn't this be basically the "scarring the sky" thing that the matrix used as a symbol of a desperate, foolish attempt to avoid the consequences for our mistakes? lol
The funniest thing is there is implicit discussion of a remedy other than New York users being banned from activities that qualify as work.
First usable application of capacitive digitiser on the smartphone was done by HTC. Even before Touch, they tried to make WinMo operable without a stylus.

A big part of Iphone 1 UI was a direct copy of HTC designs.
You know what I'll like to see, maybe I'll build it when I get the bandwidth. A system that let's you mass publish across many places at once.

You can publish to github, bitbucket, gitlabs, netlify, neocities, heroku, reddit, HN, youtube, blogger, facebook etc, like 100 different places.

Then any govt that wants to orders a take down, has to reach out to all those places, but the main thing of course is that most of these places shouldn't be in US, some should be in EU, Russia, China.

The idea being that bureaucracy will get in the way of taking some down.
Yes, it's more work. But I've been doing this for years, and on average, it really just takes a couple of hours a month of my personal time (monitoring, intrusion detection, etc., are all automated, so most of my time is spent just eyeballing logs to make sure nothing was missed).

My approach is certainly not for everyone, but it's the best solution for me.
Can't speak for downvoters, but the issue isn't the content, it's the abuse of the system. Perhaps they should stick the commentary regarding the political content in an open source project to a single issue, keep it civil and on topic, and don't spam across various issues.
Veeva raised $4M in VC to build CRM for life sciences and currently has a $21B market cap. It's one of the 15 or so best exits of the last decade.

I agree that comparing biology today to transistors in the 1950s might seem hubristic. But even if you don't buy that, I would bet on the notion that there are pretty massive opportunities at the intersection of tech and bio.

I work in Boston and there's tremendous activity in the life science space, as traditionally defined. Doesn't seem crazy to believe that market could support many billion-dollar companies that build picks and shovels.
Veterans looking for answers as new data shows rise in cancers over 20 years
It's not the beginning of the end. Retirement is not a death sentence. Lots of folks go on to do some of the best work of their lives... not that Guido hasn't already done plenty of that.

I’m sure he’s going to take a break from the chaos of being at a unicorn in SF and the departure from BDFL, spend some time in the woods reading books and getting ready for the next thing. He’s got plenty of cash (presumably) so hopefully finances are not a source of concern. Then the itch will come and hopefully he will be poised to scratch it.

I’m sure we’ll see more from him!
Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
Interesting!

One would think, also, that there may be a similar opportunity at some point to recycle old phones as offline devices and get similar offline Wikipedia functionality using something like Aard.

https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
It's because you chose a haiku. It needs to at least be a Sonnet.
There's a whole generation of programming language creators born in the early to mid 1950s. In no particular order: Guido van Rossum (Python), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), James Gosling (Java), Rob Pike (Go), Larry Wall (Perl), Walter Bright (D).

Makes me wonder what kind of secret club they have going on..

Enjoy the retirement, Guido!
Not as broad as the range given in the summary at the top of the link, which says 10^12 to 10^28 FLOPS. The lower end (5e10 operations per Joule) is worse than existing hardware: Google’s first generation TPUs were reported as 40 W for 92 TOPS (8-bit) = 2.3e12 o/J, and Apple’s “Neutral Engine” cores are similar (I can’t find specific values for power use, but that was 5 TOPS (8-bit) and therefore plausibly between 1 and 10 watts).
It doesn't, this paper takes into account a wide error range in their analysis.
While reading the article, I found myself just playing with the top bar. This is a decently common pattern that I always find distracting.
You seem to be talking about the meanings of some Spanish words, but the disagreement is about the meanings of words in English, which is not the same language as Spanish. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397278.
What a tremendously uneducated comment. Freedom of expression has not being limited in Spain in any way or form, not at all. The apk was removed because a judge (not politics, not the police) confirmed that the app was used to organize violent manifestations. And GitHub had to legally comply with the warrant. No action is being taken to stop manifestations, only to stop the organization of violence.

In case you want to also made the uneducated point that the violence is necessary, I want to remind you that the fact that people manifest doesn't automatically mean there exist oppression from the state, as in this case, there is none.
The Yin
You don't need significant whitespace to get rid of nested braces - see every language with a pascal-like syntax.
As if that's not complicated enough, throw in the 10% CA sales tax versus 7% in Iowa. And property tax. Prop 13, Prop 8(?), et. al., can make a considerable difference, as I understand it. Props or not, the total is likely to be higher just because housing is much more expensive in CA. 20% of 200,000 is a lot less than 10% of 1MM.

But in the end, as a WA resident who has given serious consideration to moving to CA and has done this math a few different ways, my gut has a hard time believing Iowa's overall tax burden is comparable to California's. Regardless, maybe it's true or maybe it's not, but is an extra $10,000 in taxes what's really keeping you from picking up and moving? I posit that for most on HN, no, it's a lot of other factors like housing and traffic.

But to the topic at hand, others have pointed out that PG&E is financed by rate payers, not taxes. And CA has some pretty high electric rates. So why are the forests catching on fire?
Subreddit moderators are controlled by those who control the subreddit, not by Reddit itself (with, IIRC, a few exception where the moderators are Reddit employees).
Regarding forest [mis]management--

If you're interested in learning more about this subject, the 7 episode Wildfire[0] podcast digs into forest habitats and chronicles our historical and present day management of them.

[0] https://www.rei.com/blog/podcasts/wildfire-episode-one-trapp...
Sorry, I did not quote properly. I was replying to this specific part:

> The author is customising Ubuntu to behave like macOS, so naturally it will take longer. I have the opposite problem where I've spent hours in total configuring macOS to be more Linux-like and it's keyboard controls are still not quite "right", CLI isn't quite "right", etc.

I could've summed it up as follows: reviews like these are in-depth but specific, while generic out of box experience applies to all but lacks for power users.

As an example, macOS does not come by default with a package manager, it nowadays has Zsh as default shell, and does not ship with Python anymore.
Every year, the slur "conspiracy theorist" become less & less plausible, and more & more likely a meme inserted by conspirators.

Vegas is what flipped me.
There's more to "cost" then price. Your scheme adds several orders of magnitude in complexity and points of failure.
Mapping from string to number. Probably BigInteger for Java, whatever other standard integer for other languages.
You're making an emotional argument while the parent comment wants to see actual data devoid of emotion. Emotion can be a great persuasive tactic to convince people there is a problem, but it doesn't do much to actually solve the problem.
The rise has been 3 mm a year (1/8 inch) since 1990 or about 4 inches.

http://sealevel.colorado.edu/

This has been averaging millions of measurements of satellite altimeter over oceans. That is considered more accurate than tidal gauges which are subject to local changes such subsidence near river mouths.

The 3 mm is a combination of land glacier melt and water thermal expansions. I have heard talks all over the map as to which factor is more dominant.

So 4-5 mm a year in the near future is not too off.
Technically, tsx / jsx is just a macro to convert an xml-like syntax to plain javascript objects... Neither xml nor json.

Inline functions and classes dont exist in either, JSX doesnt have to deal with xml's namespaces, and you dont need to construct an entire document- fragments are defined in functions at as granular a level as you like.

I do agree personally that I prefer tsx over the other alternatives, just pointing out that it is a pretty nice step up over something like flex or xaml.
Tsk tsk. The sycophants on HN don't like when you criticize Facebook.
Go Package for UUIDs Based on RFC 4122 Time-Based UUID
Financial Independence Forum Episode 5 about Income Investing
The protests were violent riots not supported by any political party or entity, Catalan or not. As you can see violence stopped like one week ago, and everything back to normal. For example, you can see here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkgW7Bab1J8) violence blocked the university, so other Catalan students cant go to classes that day. Catalan society is not related to the protest. It is like seeing an Antifa video from US and think there is a political revolution.

Your friends probably didn't tell you, that ordinary justice condemns the political leaders, not because organizing a referendum, but for public funds misappropriation, corruption and refuse to follow the law. Something reasonable, since on other countries and 99% of history when you revolt, either you win or you will get your head off. The trial was public, documented and fair. Probably an exemplary for the future on how to deal when a corrupt government wants to take over.

You also need to go back a few years and read what happened on the previous referendum, that they were legal because they were organized following the rules and because this is a democracy. If you don't like the rules you have a political parliament and elections to change the laws. Thats fine.
It would be more clear for everyone to call it Microsoft Github at all times.