skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the call center thing for a major bank during university.
It was brutal work. But I learned a lot about shameless selling which is pretty useful.
I loved "my" NeXT Cube when I was in my late college years. I've tried various flavors of GnuStep over the years and settled on Elementary for my Linux boxes largely because it is as "simple" as macOS, but the stark (almost brutalist) look of the NeXT and the way menus worked are something I miss.
Maybe backup to desktop and then Borg.

I wonder how efficient Borg would be with this setup.
Using the amber road would be quite a detour here, I imagine. That would mean that instead of crossing the channel and traveling through France and Italy, or circumnavigating the Iberian peninsula, you think it's more likely the tin traveled from Britain, across Scandinavia, then to the Baltics, and from there southwards across Eastern Europe?

Not that I have any knowledge of ancient trade routes, but to me having a trade route from Britain towards the northeast instead of southeast feels weird.
You are correct the essence of science is repeatable predictions. Sadly I don't think the majority demographic of HN was around to see all the other fear mongering that happened in decades past, so they just down-vote and move on, not thinking about what science actually entails. All of those real environmental issues where dealt with, in measured response and we survived. If we had listened to the extremists agendas we would have all started living in mud huts instead of taking lead out of gas and banning CFC's. There are real environmental disasters happening like the reef's dyeing near agricultural runoff and deforestation due to industrialization. These real issues get drowned out by this incessant fear mongering that cannot make an accurate prediction, because they try to conscript every disaster as being related to AGW, then the predictions go south when they try to support their claims. Fixing CO2 is not going to save the reefs, getting rid of nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from agricultural farming will. We know this for a fact, we have repeatable test that prove it conclusively. Fixing CO2 will not stop deforestation, the increase in CO2 has actually lead to a greener earth, controls on logging, returning to sane preventative burning policies and limiting growth into forest areas will.
That's numberwang?
Using the hyper-partisan guardian opinion piece as evidence of anything is laughable. It is quite clear that many here don't want to understand those that voted Leave. Instead they are quite happy to build a straw-man.
Sounds like he doesn't want his students to get lost on OOP concepts.
Thanks for clarifying. What used to take 4 days to set up a new server can now be done in <1hr. How often is that being taken advantage of? "Any time we need a new server" is determined by a policy determining whether to bolt onto additional servers or not. Curious about that policy..
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> and is now trying to apply the ancient tools

I wouldn't call Delphi ancient. It's not like they haven't been updating it. Delphi can target Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Linux. It's pretty good:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
> Even if we eliminated congestion though, with 30 people on a bus, average riders wait for 30 people to get on and 30 people to get off on their ride. The average person also has 30 people walk past them and possibly bump into them

This is too simple a model: not all stops are equally popular and especially it’s leaving out the time needed to stop and start again relative to the time it takes people to board, not to mention the limiting factor in many areas being traffic and signals.
I was scrolling the comments here to see if this was being discussed. It's my biggest takeaway from the article. We had a discussion many many years ago on HN (maybe more than one) and the feeling among the startup devs (not all, mind you, but the majority) was that such behavior was immoral. I think it came up once in a conversation about Steve Blanck (sp?) IIRC.

One thing I learned a few years back, however: If you're in a game and you're the only one playing by the rules, you're going to lose.
Yet, an anonymising proxy with added functionality is valuable to some people, believe it or not!

It’s like saying “google just wants to create the illusion that they are more than a glorified frontend for a big iterative eigenvector solver”.
I don’t really blame StackOverflow here. We are living in an age where there are exponentially more people attempting to program than their used to be, and with lots of different motivations. Many of those people just aren’t capable or interested in being experts. The problem as I see it isn’t that this situation exists, but that those workers still command such high salaries.

We aren’t nearly as close as you suggest do the level of code generation that would replace the bottom quarter of the labor pool even, but if that day ever comes I believe it will be really profitable for the top 20-30%.
Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to write out your thoughts (despite this item being flagged!)

If the leave campaign had been explicitly about moving to a Norway-style arrangement, for example, I'd have had much more sympathy for it, despite not wanting it personally. There's a reasoned argument that the main benefit of the EU is trade, although I would add that this view is complicated by the link between things like free movement of goods and free movement of people.

I would arge that, while there would indeed be lies and bullshit in another referendum, they wouldn't be the same ones because they'd at least have to be largely based on the concrete reality of the deal.

The person I really blame in all of this is that intellectual lightweight David Cameron. The referendum was mainly called to stop infighting in his party. It was done with no clear terms - i.e. what did Leave really mean? - which meant that people were able to argue past each other rather than engage on substantive points. His pantomime "renegotiation" before the referendum was utter crap, and the threats of "third world war" were completely overdone. (Although I do think it's worth remembering the role of the EU in the longest period of peace in Europe in history).

I think the really sad thing in all of this is the culture war that it has provoked, which in my view is all to do with the nebulous idea of what "leave" meant. This leads to stupidities like a "Festival of Brexit", which celebrates something that almost half of voters explicitly voted against, and which will only deepen those fractures.

I'm English, but have studied and lived in Scotland for a number of years at different points, and it has a big place in my heart. I would have voted no in the independence referendum too, and I can't help but think there's only one way that is going to go now, sooner or later.
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Nothing esoteric, git trunk with feature branches that build, test and deploy in Gitlab CI to a-feature-name.our-company-name.local on k8s, notifies QA team that there's something to check, gets approved, merged to master and released automatically, functionally tested on canary prod deploy and then rolled out wider.
It was made here in India, Pesa literally means money
Do you have an example where the competitor website shows up first because the searched company hasn't bought the ad? Haven't seen that before.
New River Exposed in Israel
I believe if nothing else then it's the fact that there are more programmers meaning less hardcore people who just want to get shit done and move on
I can see the use-case and potential for ML in exfiltrating tables, but I'd be worried about the potential for decision-making mistakes in environments the author identifies, such as finance.

The example of TableNet using deep learning for table extraction on top of tesseract for OCR means two layers of ML, either of which could individually introduce pathologies without human oversight. It reminds me of the photocopier that changed numbers for you - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_m...

If an ML engine was trained to be able to do things like look for totals and sub-totals in numerical tables and flag errors in summation, then that would clearly add more value in parsing for moderation (the use-case described at the end). But that doesn't seem to be something that's yet... on the table.
> If you mean the lack of quotations,

No, lack of commas in output and broken filenames with spaces.
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In no way will TASBot ever be automated. It can require hours (and sometimes dozens of hours) to get a single game to sync on real hardware, and that’s if a cycle-accurate emulator was used. If not, it’s near impossible to playback a TAS.

Not to mention only a very small subset of SNES TASes are done on cycle-accurate emulators.
> It's about the logic, not so much about the syntax.

So... Why Delphi then? And yes, many people do have a habit of sticking to exactly the environment that they were taught in. Defaults matter.

> And the office comparison is not valid, knowing Office is for many a very valuable skill.

As I mentioned in the other half of that paragraph, yes, you can make an argument for Office being valuable because of its ubiquity.

But that's a circular argument. Office is ubiquitous because they managed to convince educators, and now that seems to have made it basically impossible to kill off.

Trying to bootstrap something similar for Delphi is inexcusable.
Yeah, they are, but why the hoops? I think they kinda have to justify that somewhere, someone bought the software for a non-neglible amount of money...
Best of 2019 Blogs, Part 1: Introducing Docker Kubernetes Service
In most cities you don’t even need to take a traffic lane: just the subsidized parking. Let people use garages or, better, take the bus and the entire area works better for everyone.
Doable does not mean fun or worth doing.

(There are other effective ways to exercise and keep healthy than running. Find one that you find fun.)
Netherlands also has an issue with it. The norms and standards have been made a bit less strict. It was forbidden to move dirt, sand etc around due to PFAS contamination.
Last time I visited a city with multiple competing bus companies, each had their own return tickets and annual passes that only work on their busses. I naively brought a return ticket for the green bus company from the train station, and when it came time to return that meant I couldn't get the black bus or the pink bus that came to the stop before the next green bus.

Needless to say, if each bus company runs two busses an hour, such a system changes a one-bus-every-ten-minutes route into a one-bus-every-thirty-minutes if two thirds of the busses won't accept your ticket.
A large chunk of that is simply differences in population sizes. The current US population is likely larger than the global population in 1,000 CE. Further, children used to make up a larger chunk of the population exaggerating the differences.

So, it was often possible to scale up production even more, but there where not enough customers to justify it.
Lockfiles protect you from someone who would publish a malware that replaces an existing version (lockfiles have hashes alongside the versions)
Wouldn't there be considerable slipstream from the trace atmosphere? Aft, slightly higher than the stations center of mass there should be a point were the slower angular speed of the minimally higher orbit would cancel out with the slipstream effect, until the next stationkeeping burn. I wonder how much it would start spinning from the uneven application of trace atmosphere in that time.

Might make a fun public experiment, try getting "the internet" to voice their predictions, kind of like everybody was commenting on the color of the dress. In any case I fully expect a kit to eventually make it up there but I doubt that it will see any EVA.
To get a bailout they need to act as if it were important.
Industrial Automation: Rust and Spark: Software Reliability for Everyone
I don't think the majority demographic of HN was around to see all the other fear mongering that happened in decades past

I suspect you’re correct. I remember when I was a child the children in my village were not allowed to play outside for a while because our parents had seen or read scare stories about acid rain and thought we would be burned by it! But I don’t believe there was a single case in Wales of a child being dissolved... and it rains here every day!
During the run of the British archeology TV show "Time Team" they examined a couple of sites in Cornwall associated with tin. In each episode they discuss the far reaching international trade for tin from Cornwall during the bronze age including as far as to locations in Africa, so while adding to archaeological knowledge this find doesn't seem to be breaking new ground.
From what I've seen recently, Lego Ideas sets tend to have a lifetime of about 1-2 years, but can become harder to find later in the cycle as I think their production runs are a bit shorter. Regular models tend to be 1-3 years from what I've seen.

I believe if you have a Lego account and show some interest, maybe liking or adding to cart or something, they send you a notification when it's retiring. I've had a few "retiring soon" emails from them but I'm not sure exactly what triggered that.
All fun & games until your copy pasta code ends up dumping your DB in to the wrong hands.
> but it feels like "telemetry" is kind of brought up as a bogeyman.

It is a real problem, not a bogeyman, when it's actually turning itself back on when we turn it off.
Ummmm, should I be worried that I bookmarked this for "later" ?
Best of 2019 Blogs, Part 2: Building Your First Kubernetes Cluster On-Prem
I’ve never heard of cockroachdb, what are the advantages of it and why is it preferable to Postgres?
> Their model is to hire fresh people and burn them out.

When I was at Amazon, this was the feeling with some employees around me: The stack-ranking meant they were made to a rat-race every year.

I can't seem to recall who, but someone higher-up let it slip when quizzed about higher attrition rate (back in 2010s) that Amazon believed in evolution, and that that meant the slow would eventually give the way for the fast and new. Someone even quipped in an internal email-list that employees were about 8th most important resource to Amazon right after the 7th most important resource: The paper-clips.

Interestingly, and in my observation, the managers got more leeway than individual contributors in terms of evolving slowly. I've also seen rest and vest among managers, but rarely among the engineers. Strange power imbalances, if you ask me, existed and could be felt across every organization I worked for.
Which other languages besides php do you know well? I'm asking this because of your outlandish claim that php is fantastic.

Also the rest of your comment seems highly defensive. You seem to imply that people who agree with you must be senior, while people who disagree must be junior or even worse, something in between. It sounds like you have been bitten by discussion where facts against your conviction were presented, and you were unable to factor that into your views. Am I at all close or completely off the target?
Yes that is the idea, it just did not exist in 2003.
Yeah, I don't know much about the actual trade routes, I was more pointing out that 'stuff from northern Europe' made it to Israel / the Levant.

In any case, I don't think it's much more of a detour though, especially if we assume that it wasn't a specific journey, but a chain of multiple cultures interacting with each other. It doesn't seem implausible to me that tin went from Britain to Scandinavia then down the Amber Road, but I'm not a historian.
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Yes, I was making it basic, just describe the idea behind it.
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
It's understandably naive. As I commented in another thread, many many years ago there were discussions here on HN on doing just this. Most of us agreed it was immoral behavior. These guys are endorsing it.

The argument from the other side was: Yes, you are making some people angry. You're going to piss off 300 potential customers so you can learn enough to get 300,000. You're not taking money and if you protect their email addresses (don't sell them, etc.) then it's worth it because you can save a lot of money and time.
> But I do think its fair to say that the scale of Discord is 5x bigger while having 1/10th the employees and the last valuation round was at 2 billion versus slacks 12 billion valuation?

Slack has revenue, probably 100-1000x that of Discord. It's a real business and not burning VC/Tencent money, which is exactly why it (imo correctly) has a much higher valuation.
Toggling the country gives me completely different results, from language to eg specific wiki or amazon site if you use !w or !a.
It is not just about power outages, it is also about cloud services closing, having outages etc - as in this post. If you only have devices that will work locally, that becomes much less of a problem.
> why is all of this still needed ?

That's the million dollar question! It also vexes me that all of this is necessary. I hope like crazy that there will be a radically better approach in 5-10 years. I am not aware of solutions that truly abstract all these problems without creating 1) further, larger problems; and/or 2) severe vendor lock-in.
This estimate [0] puts it at 4,000 as of Jan 18.

It’s weird to not have government numbers that are actionable and we have to use models that range from 1-9.7k.

[0] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...
Simple eBay Profit and Fees Calculator for Chrome
New laptops (or hardware in general) need a while to get going in Linux, I've noticed.

My mom got herself a new laptop while she was here to visit me, I installed Ubuntu on it, Wi-Fi kept crashing. It wasn't really stable.

Due to an unfortunate chain of events, her laptop spent another half a year with me, before she came back over to pick it up. I wiped it clean, reinstalled Ubuntu again, and now everything was working fine.

This was maybe a year or two ago.
In Sweden we have many protections against this in theory, but the fact that people are willing to take shit means it's not very effective.

A person I met who is in the video game industry talked about something that happened at one of the companies he did consulting for. A poor guy at that place completely burned himself out and had to be hospitalized to recover. A month after this guy was burned out, a 23 year old was doing the exact same tasks, with the exact same workload and the same impossible deadlines. Sure, video game development with their crunch time is extreme but it's still very scary that something like this is even legal.
Because of OKRs. Management is setting it so that no-one can reach the objectives. Then there is some speech that OKRs are not really meant to be completed fully but they will still hold it against you if it's not 100%
What an insult to those of us who are happy with IRC. There really is no accounting for taste, it would seem.
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> In 2018 a draft report from an office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the risk level for exposure to the chemicals should be up to 10 times lower than the 70 PPT threshold the EPA recommends. The White House and the EPA had tried to stop the report from being published.
It seems too low tech to be useful for any project of any complexity. Existing HTML template frameworks do a lot of things like character and syntax aware data escaping (and avoiding double-escaping), template caching, plugins, code generation, tag extension, filters, etc.

Other than being slightly more concise and appearing more functional, I don't see the benefit of this over something like Twig or Smarty. At some point you're going to wind up re implementing features that already exist in a framework anyway.
It just works is not what I would call writing into possible closed channels or eventual deadlocks accessing shared data.
That's not really Boeing or the airlines call.
If the relevant certification authorities refuse to certify it, then it isn't going to fly no matter how much Boeing or the airlines want it too.

It is going to be interesting to see how it goes. That it has taken this long to fix, points to it being, at a minimum a lot harder to fix that first suspected, and it might even be unfixable given the laws and regulation around airtravel.
Definitely a tradeoff - I'm biased towards working in teams of only 2-3 people. Larger teams would probably benefit much more from more structure and process.
There are two things being confused here.

I was thinking about OpenSearch custom search engines (being deprecated apparently as another comment notes, these appear on desktop as icons under the search input field "This time search with" and similarly in Android as icons above the on-screen keyboard. These definitely don't sync.

The other thing are bookmarks with the "keyword" property set. These do indeed sync, like other bookmarks.
"The United States has among the cleanest air and drinking water on Earth."
My apologies. Smileys are sometimes used to show sarcasm, and it wasn't clear here.
If you like Delphi, you'll like Lazarus.

However, in my personal opinion, Pascal has not really kept up with the sort of creature comforts that nowadays even C++ affords the programmer. The IDE (Delphi or Lazarus) also don't provide the kind of help Eclipse gives you when using Java, even though Pascal may feel as verbose sometimes.
The U.N. should declare an emergency to curb the spreading of the coronavirus(they are still talking over this like wtf!). Neighboring countries have amped up screenings of flyers from China.
I have nothing to do with Delphi. But I miss the time when users were in control of their data, and you could still use your computer normally offline.
Convert a GraphQL schema to a TypeScript definition
If you check their git repository, it smells like there's an iOS app cooking.
Glad to hear! Part of the reason I put all of this out there is to offer a different point of view that has worked for me and others I've worked with, and to stimulate debate and fact-based (or at least experience-based) interactions regarding backend lore, instead of pining for best practices that often are under-scrutinized.
Tweaking a 1900 black and white photo with Deep Learning
ditch jewtube already
I think there's actually an argument for teaching students in something that isn't widely used/usable, as this (a) gives them the fundamentals but (b) essentially forces them to learn other more useful languages on their own.

As someone who had to use Eiffel, of all things, in college, I may be biased in this :)
Shiori regularly is broken for me these days. Not filling any fields. I’ve almost given up on it. I thought it was because it wasn’t updated. Not that it might just be me.
I think the reason these ideas never took off (exception of rdf) is that they were too focused on specs and not enough on systems implementing them.
Because antitrust legislation in US is a rusting tool on the shelf.
If teletypes seem clunky and primitive, remember this is still miles ahead of the previous computer programming interface: punch cards. TTYs allowed real-time interactive use of the computer. Even if only one line at a time.
> What encryption? Last I checked, there was no E2E group encryption

You of all should know better than to conflate the general concept of encryption with the very nice special case that is end-to-end encryption!

> and 1:1 E2E is disabled by default.

It is not disabled in any way. It just isn't default.

There are really enough real reasons to criticize Telegram, absolutely no reason to 1. redefine words to have narrower definitions 2. Write outright misinformation.

I respect you a whole lot but your somewhat sloppy handling of facts detract a whole lot from the overall image.