skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how police are portrayed in many older American children's books. I don't know whether it was actually that way, though, or just aspirational?
I remember reading about Marc de Groot (author of this software) in Douglas Rushkoff's Cyberia. Unfortunately he passed away in 2004.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/DE-GROOT-Marc-2732584.ph...
Bloomberg on why farmers can’t work in information technology
No no, fractals are not gimmicks. Theres a beauty in mathematical relationship that can be greatly appreciated and taken in. On the other hand this is stats of existing work remixed. Looks pretty but hasn’t got a lot of value. Yes, could be printed on canvas if that helps. Could eventually finds its way in IKEA because it does look pretty and does have some ornamental value. Question is, would anyone hold onto any particular piece for 100 years or more?
[..] Bloomberg on why farmers can’t work in information technology

MB: “I can teach anyone how to be a farmer 1 dig a hole 2 put a seed in 3 put dirt on top 4 add water 5 up comes the corn”

The skill 4information technology is completely different you need more grey matter[..]
Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
For my travel site side hustle (beatthatflight.com.au/), I find and publish cheap flights for Australians. Sounds simple, but even if say, someone gave me the flights each day, there's posting the, sometimes to deals sites, as well as then editing it and posting it on my site, and out to social media, and then to specific mailing lists on mailchimp, depending on the source city of the deal, or type of post.

A LOT of that becomes tedious. Mailchimp can auto post to FB/twitter/instagram etc, but even converting the blog post into mailchimp emails gets tiring, as you need to choose a feature photo, the specific mailing list etc.

I'm a selenium guy, so have built some scripts to minimise some of it, but the rush each time of finding a deal still pains me when I think of the tedium ahead of publishing it.

Ideally, my goal would be to submit [to][from][when] to a script and the whole process would be automatic. I can see that selenium could do it, but my goodness, it'd be slow and potentially flaky all via the web UI for those sites.

I'd love suggestions, examples of automation you've done, and tools used?
I ordered food, but that's cheating so I decided to go to the restaurant and order it. But that's cheating, so I decided to cook a meal. But that's cheating, because I didn't make the pasta myself. 3 hours later and a bunch of mess in the kitchen, I made pasta. It ain't pretty shaped but it'd do. No, wait! That's cheating because I didn't make the knife, pot, cutting board, fork, stove from scratch! Consider what happens to a soul which always cheats!
I quit my contracting job in Mtn. View, CA due to the virus
I don't have it but everyone was sick there, I have bought a month's supply of food and masks just in case the shit hits the fan here in Silicon Valley. VP of Engineer gave me a bunch of shit and said "it isn't working out" when I didn't come in for a month.

Looking for remote work (part-time/contract) if anyone is interested in helping a guy out: https://profullstack.com
Those games are explicitly designed and marketed as collections of minigames though, whereas Spore seemed to be presented as if it was supposed to be a more cohesive experience.
What a bullshit title! If this is true....
This is exactly the way that the broader society changes beliefs on individuals, I think the danger is that individuals can now create their own subcultures which are more significant (to them) than the dominant culture. At some point you don't need to talk to anyone outside of your subculture.

One example is subreddits: over time they start to develop a subculture and the mechanics of downvoting and upvoting means that people with more moderate beliefs can end up leaving after awhile, leaving the subreddit to become more and more polarized over time.

This makes it hard to have these types of empathetic conversations.
Same here, though I've been chugging along for 34 years. Used to write all kinds of software to try out new languages/ideas, but that all changed once I went down the rabbit hole of designing my own language. Since then, I've mostly been trying out different host languages, features and implementation techniques. I figure once I get to a point where the language is good enough, I'll go back to writing all kinds of software but in my own language. It really doesn't matter that much, the journey is the goal, you do whatever it takes to stay motivated and keep learning.

https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
Ramanujan also claimed 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12.

How does that work? Who can explain this to me?
What do you mean by "lockers for umbrellas"? Are you talking about public spaces or restaurants? Maybe I just haven't seen them, but I'm really not sure what you are referring to.

An umbrella may be 500 yen, but not getting wet when it's raining is priceless :) So, getting an umbrella stolen while you are in a store has a much higher cost than 500 yen.
Maybe not to that level, but also an impressive clone - of Katamari Damacy:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=katamari_christmassy
"You get the behavior you reward. This is what Google rewards." From what I have heard, I think you're right. Promotions and kudos flow from launching new products & services, but not in maintaining them.
I know that for piston engine aircraft, it is critical that the engine be properly warmed up before takeoff. Otherwise, the engine would likely stall shortly after liftoff, leading inevitably to a crash. This is a common cause of accidents.

I don't know specifically about jet engines, but as the engine is designed to run while hot, and metal expands when hot, I'd be quite surprised if it wasn't necessary to warm them up before full power, too.

Drag racing engines will often be warmed up using some sort of electric blanket.

Even for your car, it's a bad idea to floor it while the engine is cold.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg requests government rules on 'harmful speech'
Storing conversations is introducing a massive security hole. One single person in a group can compromise every message from every user.

Secure messages shouldn’t persist and if they do they aren’t secure. Being able to export, upload, and restore an entire conversation history is the opposite of secure.

There is no point in using a secure messaging system if your entire conversation history can be downloaded the minute a single person in your group loses physical security on their device. Just use FB Messenger.
When you are Google, you have millions in funding, almost unlimited engineering ressources, political connections and many good reasons why a project would be successful (journalists, audience, users, accounts, etc)

Once you transfer the responsibilities; all of the support that kept the project stay afloat disappears.
It's not sustainable anymore, there is much limited growth, all the business model for exploiting data for advertising cannot exist anymore, etc.

Well, it's dead you know.
Products often die when transferred to another organisation. They never say that they will die in the announcement.

See https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

It's entirely reasonable for people to assume this is basically Google shutting down the free WiFi service but with extra steps.
Here's a Numberphile video on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
...it's a new feature.

The features and capabilities on the old device are completely unaffected.

How is adding a new feature to other devices making an old device obsolete?
Depends if the project continues to use google branding or has a “built by google” tagged on to it in order to mislead customers that it is still somehow maintained by them.
Very good inputs, but these may not help with languages like Latin which aren't actively spoken or used in present day communication.
I might stretch it further that it can’t even care because the machine does not have the capability to care.
I suppose Boeing could just cancel the whole 737 series and file for Chapter 11.
GameSnacks are Google’s new HTML5 games designed for bad internet connections
when this happened?
i am just testing
You're suggesting that people in your workplace are infected with coronavirus? What reason do you have to think that?
It reminds me of this nightmare that was making the rounds a while back: https://sea.mashable.com/culture/3430/people-cant-figure-out...
Likewise. Stumbled upon a copy of Cyberia as a 15 year old and it made a huge impression.
Spore was an amazing experiment. It was a terrible game, but I'm glad they tried it.
By the way, here's a scientific study (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health) showing a correlation between IQ and political ideology: https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/images/Kana...

It's a legitimate study, so I hope you have no distress over it.
Co-author here - nice to see this discussed and happy to answer questions
The serious ones who stick around doing the same thing for a lifetime do eventually find some meaningful essence however abstract that is. But there is indeed a lot of deception in the art world since it is a non quantifiable subject the story does add some value
Thank you so much. Can you please the elaborate the entire procedure so that I can achieve the same in my application.
I call these “waiter questions” and only once I became a manager, discovered how poorly they invite feedback. And as with, “how’s the meal?”, it is basically an invitation to lie, unless there is something so totally egregious that it probably should’ve been raised by interrupt not polling.

My 1:1s became much more fruitful with directed, goal-seeking questions, or even a retro format.

As others have touched on, frequency matters. Monthly contact isn’t just a little bit distant, it’s enough time for serious issues to fester.

Newbie managers would be wise to recognise that they are Brian Epstein, not John Lennon. Enable the talent, don’t boss it,
>#17: No patents
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>Having documented prior art related to the patent (e.g. in your source code repository or as dated documents in Google Docs or similar) is likely to be as good a defense as having filed a patent at some point.

Has a git repo, privately held and without third-party attestation e.g. github, ever been successfully cited as evidence of prior art? Timestamps could be faked, so you'd have to point to the work history, which would be gibberish to a patent judge and jury.
Actually I am looking to count logged in users say for example in a chat room.
It is only familiar because it was trained on familiar work.
Many of us are uncomfortable with both on principle. It's not like most commenters here welcome NSA surveillance with open arms. If anything, a long standing culture of doing it here in the west normalizes it for all developing countries, who don't want to be at a disadvantage.
Another possibility is that the legal landscape was more hostile than Google anticipated and they essentially got squeezed out.
QA is fucking boring but teaches you how to become a better developer. If you are fresh out of bootcamp you are probably not qualified for QA, tbh. I would suggest a job which allows you to switch between tasks; some team leading/mentoring, some QA, some bugfixing legacy enterprise software, some sysadmin, some new development, etc.
That would be intersting
My sister lost this wallet for a week and report to the police, then she got it back before we return home.
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Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out
I started with selenium and still use it when I have to but try to just make http requests and parse responses directly whenever possible. Probably my favorite travel-related script was one that watched for an opening at a hard to book hotel and snatched it up when it became available.
Really? Huh. I thought confidence interval mattered which is proportional to sample size, e.g. bigger is always better.

So more samples is worse for a study like this?

Seems counter-intuitive, but I'm not a stats guy.
You're completely right, I was mistaken. Was thinking of other Reddit client's I've tried. It's been a long time since I purchased the full edition so my memory is a bit hazy. Sorry about that.
The number of engine cycles would be the same. The only difference is that the pilots would wait to start the turbines until nearly ready to take off, and then shut down the turbines immediately after landing.
Microsoft had a brilliant one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroogled

Time to bring it back I say.
I'm completely mistaken here, Apollo has no ads. One-time fee is for other features.
12 years ago most folks had little webpages they cobbled together from snippets and ugly widget generators. It worked well enough.

I've spent most of this week figuring out how best generate device specific thumbnails for my blog.
I think they way they see it is they are a company of scale. Scale is what they are good at (if anything). So they shutdown lots of small successes to try and focus on the huge wins.. things like youtube, gmail, google docs, etc. things millions of people use.
Oh cool we're doing prescriptivism, check this out:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad

Now apologize.
Notice that you had to add "in the woods" to make it clear that ditching is negative here.
Shout out to Korea. On separate occasions I lost my cell phone and wallet - got them all back the next day.
You're right, it is just to paywall pro features. I was mistaken. Mixed it up with other Reddit clients.
One of planes that prompted this regulation was their own Boeing 747-100 (TWA 800). They should adapt to the new wiring requirement when the regulation went in effect in 2009.
What about this is something that's too complicated to retrofit? Why would they even need to tear into existing wiring harnesses to fix this? Just run another wire through the new pathway isolated from everything else and decommission the old circuit by cutting the ends of the wire and slapping a heat shrink cap over them. Sure, fix the harness on new planes but is there really too much red tape to come up with a safe retrofit plan that doesn't involve messing with the existing harness?
> They want Outlook and Word and Excel

I’ve mentioned that we don’t use Word, (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?) and the dominant word processor used in South Korea had a port to Linux that is fully featured and has a very high compatibility since 2008.
I use IFTTT with a project of mine[0] to track hotel and flight prices in a spreadsheet and get suggestions on places to go.

[0]: https://monitoro.xyz
A slightly longer answer is that we looked into a number of possible reasons and it's not clear there's an easy answer. Lots of differences between the two setups, and every time we come up with an possible answer like "oh, it's the reduced network API latency" we come up with a counter like "but html2wt is also faster and it does barely any network requests". Casual investigation raises more questions than answers. So we've looked into it but don't yet have an answer that we fully believe.
The South African government would have to be capable of managing some kind of project competently, which they demonstrate they are not able to do on a regular basis.
Do you admit this statement is wrong?

With large ranges, even if you exclude a power of 10 in the upper bound, it does not change the 11.11% chance of each digit being the first digit.

The empirical test is cherrypicked also.

If you don’t admit this then there is really no point to continue.
You write well, your musings there were enjoyable to read.

All of the Old Testament is interpretive metaphor, so the original Fall story can work equally well as both prophecy and prologue.

The Fall deals with loss of innocence and the acceptance of consequences, which is a parable that has the remarkable flexibility to work at any level. Every decade for the last 100 years, we could safely say that civilisation as a whole was less innocent than the decade before it, in that we were more aware of ourselves and our impact on each other and the environment. With each generation of awareness we are imbued with more responsibility to take care of ourselves and our world, but we don't do it because those that pushed the innocence-lost envelope are also the ones emotionally capable of externalising the costs of doing so.

The thing about civilisation is that we can't really envisage an END to it - we can easily imagine ourselves amongst the stars, continuing to lose innocence the further we go... I often wonder if it's possible to progress AT ALL without our cancerous approach stomping a steel heeled boot on our environment and on other people.

Is progress possible without suffering? That's a question for bigger minds than mine, i think. I need an economist, a sociologist, and a philosopher, stat!
IFTTT is already a SaaS, not sure exactly what you mean.
> Fixing the wiring issue would mean fixing it on every single 737 in service, not just the 737 MAX.

No it wouldn't as 737 was certified before the new regulation. It is in the article:

> That earlier 737 NG model didn’t have to meet the current wiring-separation standards because they came into force long after that jet was certified.

Just like with cars - you can drive a car from 70ties without airbags or crumple zones but you cannot buy a new car without airbags as it won't be able to pass the latest regulations.

Imo in this case the main issue is not the safety (seeing how the older planes aren't falling out of the sky) but setting a precedent where the certification authority has missed an issue which is not according to regulation - do the manufacturer gets a free pass or it is their responsibility to make the item according to regulation in the first place and it doesn't matter if it was missed during the certification process.
Pokeshells get angry if there are poke eggs near them and will attack your dupes. Other than that, all critters are peaceful.
silicon valley: “fail fast”

also silicon valley: “google shuts down too many things”
Your comment only makes sense if we assume your security requirements match everyone else’s under all circumstances.

This is not likely to be the case.
The space stage was pretty fun, although you may as well go play any of the better dedicated 4x or space exploration games out there.
I don't use Zapier because of money. I use IFTTT to:

* Keep a spreadsheet of my written tweets.

* Keep a spreadsheet of my liked tweets.

* Used to download Instagram photos liked by me, but Instagram API broke it.

* Keep a text file of my hn, reddit comments, in two separate files.
Not a cap, but a resistor-shaped fuse for controller bus power line.

I’m guessing there’s something in the DC’s design that cause spikes on said line that fry it, like that archaic main power switch.
holy shit that is some old school php.
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But when I was working daily via a DaaS platform, it's not a great experience for software development. Input latency is high enough to be noticed, the virtual desktop can not put under load (e.g. using a IDE for C++ other than Source Insight). My company had to switch back to desktop PC for most developers.
Pseudo-code I think is like "sketching" an algorithm. It doesn't have to be precise it just needs to produce a "picture", the big ideas, that give us the characteristics of the algorithm being described.

Thus pseudo-code makes it easier to understand an algorithm. It should be intuitive, like a picture, so it is trivial to understand what it depicts.

I've often wondered why algorithms are described in pseudo-code and not in any actual programming language. The above is my best answer so far to that question.
and to parse the responses (Assuming they're HTML page sources, not json/xml) - you using scrapy or something else?
typo, should be complex
Here’s an Xoogler talking about how he was given his own hiring packet to review (without knowing it was his) and rejected it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=r8RxkpUvxK0&t...
Google needs all the good PR it can get, these days. I'd be willing to pour money into ventures like this if I was in their position, too.
Oversimplification: There Are Hidden Risks Inside Quick and Easy Solutions
Small companies grow their market share. Big companies grow their market.
Sometimes I see a car where the lights on the rear of the car are wired incorrectly, and I can't understand how this could possibly happen. For example, backup lights (white/clear) are wired the same as the brake lights. The car didn't come out of the factory like that, so at some point someone must have "fixed" it and the result is that some lights come on at the wrong time. I'm amazed someone can look at that and say "yup, my work here is done"
This might come off as somewhat pessimistic but I actually think Japan is one of the worst implementers of Kaizen anywhere. Japanese are famously conservative in how they work, with employees largely avoiding taking on any responsibility and spreading out tasks and checks. The end result being no-one really stands out, but also that no-one is ever really singularly "at fault" as every decision and check is daisy-chained.

It's horribly inefficient but exactly what a lot of people want in their jobs here. Kaizen is an example of executives and people who occupy the top of the chain mostly just pontificating and getting high off their own airs and mostly empty words with no internal policies or actions behind it imo. Most famous example in the Japan expat community of this would be somewhere like Uniqlo or Rakuten - horrible places to work with CEOs who like to roleplay as the next Steve Jobs.

I love this country, but these articles foreigners write without ever actually having worked in real Japanese companies with mostly Japanese natives always come off as a bit naive to me.
If they can't retrofit it in a way that's safe, then to the scrapyard it goes.

All they did was ensure their fix gets even more scrutiny and to require additional proof that it's safe.
public: not interested in adopting a product that likely will disappear when I start to depend on it
Oh but dude! They need the analytics to tell them how you're using the app. So they can see how you're touching the screen. What things you pause on. What notifications you might be getting meanwhile. What other apps are on your phone. Ya know. To get to know ya better. ;)
I am not sure that this reading between the lines is an acknowledgement. Since Huawei is a Chinese company and the native language is not English I am unsure that terms that have one implication in English have the same implication in mandarin.
In the spirit of the effort, might as well complete the value stream and just hang a big display. Very cool project tho'
I just commented on something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345215

Disclaimer, it’s a project of mine, but if the websites you’re watching are compatible that will save you some hassle trying to extract data.

Use a lot of google sheets as well, it’s super helpful to make sense and use of the data you scrape.

You can check it out here [0], and feel free to ask if you need something.

[0]: https://monitoro.xyz
If they can't rewire it to standard without screwing up the insulation, then I guess they get to redo all the insulation as well. All their excuse is going to do is cost them even more money and time.
I am of the opinion that many people who want to learn a language don't have any real reason to learn a second language other than to say they know two languages.

Unless you have extended family or somehow became smitten with a foreign country, I am almost certain this is the case. So any attempts are really halfhearted and very little progress is made because the commitment is so large.

This is why, if I ever get around to learning a second language, it will be Esperanto. It takes an order of magnitude of less time to learn and gives you the accomplishment of knowing another language. (Plus uniformity in language is cool.)