skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Idli – Generate db create statement for CSV
For one, it is "Der Freitag" (The Friday), not "Die Freitag" newspaper. But does it matter in this Stalinist show trial knock-off?
Fair enough. I guess I should add then that this was my experience at 42°N.
There was a period of time where FreeBSD performed much better under load (particularly under a high network load). Unfortunately as a side effect you get a lot of people quoting "FreeBSD performs better than Linux" without context or under what scenarios.
Craig Murray is a former career diplomat and UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who got railroaded out of the foreign service for having the temerity to note that Uzbek leader Islam Karimov was (literally) boiling his opponents to death. If this is an agenda, I support it.

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

Also: https://archive.is/20061012215514/http://www.craigmurray.co....
My Little Pony and /Pol/
Well, no. Assange did not accuse himself of rape and then push out a media narrative about it over successive months. "They" (in this case, Swedish and other legal authorities and various news agencies did). And though the question of his level of guilt in those cases remains somewhat ambiguous as far as I know, the now dropped rape cases have the whiff of political smear to them.

Regardless of Assange's merits or failures as an activist or human being, the current conditions he's being subjected to absolutely do indicate a man being made an example of for politically motivated reasons and in violation of basic legal guarantees. That is something that's far more dangerous than anything he himself is likely to be convicted of.
You believe that Assange is both a rapist and a right wing zealot? There is no evidence to support either claim.
Yep, we have a backup supply. That said if there's no running water for a prolonged period we are eventually going to start having other problems. Fwiw I don't think that is an anticipated outcome even of a global covid-19 pandemic.
> but it's a bit hard to believe that we're hard-wired for one over the other.

How is this harder to believe than the huge amount of other human characteristics that are directly affected or even effected by the genes?
Ask HN: How to Run API Mashups
Hi HN,

i'm searching for infrastructure where i can run some API mash-ups without too much dev-ops hassle.

As a freelancer i log my time spent on projects using Clockify[1]. I also use web based finance management software for billing clients.
As both offer a RESTful JSON API, with a few lines of code it's easy to extract time spent on a project from the clockify API and create a draft invoice in the finance software.

I'd like to run this and similar "API-Mashups" automatically every month or on demand (e.g. upon a webhook request), but for all sort of reasons, not on my local machine.

Some solutions i've looked at:
Zappier[2] could offer what i'm looking for, especially their logging of tasks run is interesting but they do not support all features of the API and some easy to program logic only comes with plans that would be too expensive for me.

AWS Lambda should be able to do what i'm looking for but setting it up appears to require quite a bit of knowledge i don't want to spend the time on acquiring.

Netlify Functions[3] would absolutely cover what i'm looking for (taking the admin and setup requirements out of AWS, setting up env. vars for API secrets) but piggy-backing the deploy process of a website for the above task seems wrong.

RunKit[4] offers a nice prototype playground to create such a mash-up, allows for setting up API Secrets and using their endpoint functionality could allow for the on-demand triggering. Yet running something like a "once-a-month" cronjob there also seems wrong.

I would appreciate any suggestions on running "simple" API ETL tasks.

[1] https://clockify.me
[2] https://zapier.com/home
[3] https://functions.netlify.com
[4] https://runkit.com/home
Yes. At least in Python 2. "<>" was an alternative spelling of "!=".
The web site locks out mobile clients. Is this an acceptable practice in 2020?
<> is gone in python 3
Show HN: Sprouted – Intimately know your users
Hi HN!

I'm Erik, founder of Sprouted (https://sprouted.app). We make it easy for startups and growing companies to intimately know their users & customers.

Our API can be used to populate Sprouted with user data and user events.

Examples of user events that may lead to striking up a conversation are plan upgrades, discovery of new features, abandonment, inviting co-workers, and customer support questions. These conversations lead to better understanding the customer's needs which results in a better product and less churn.

Once in Sprouted, each user is represented as a timeline of events. Every event can be used as a trigger to start a conversation via email.

Sprouted is half API, half user interface. Its API is out in the open, down to `curl` examples right in the UI to make it easy for developers to start integrating with Sprouted. The user interface is fast and nimble.

Concerning privacy and the understandable hesitation to share your customer data with Sprouted: we offer a unique way of dealing with this. You can encrypt the user's name on your server before sending it to the Sprouted API. You don't give the key to us, but instead you enter this key in the Sprouted browser extension which performs client-side decryption of customer data on every page change.

I got the idea for Sprouted after mentoring dozens of startups who could not afford expensive user management solutions nor wanted to send plaintext customer info to databases they don't own.

Please let me know if you have questions or feedback!

Thanks!
There have been significant cutbacks in the criminal justice system in England and Wales over the last decade or so - ironically by the party of "law and order".

I can strongly recommend the book by the Secret Barrister:

https://thesecretbarrister.com/
Since Brexit and because of it, the UK is becoming part of the US empire; it's a dominion and as such, it will obey US injunctions in that case and any other.
For me, proper handling and distinction of Unicode vs. binary data was a game changer. I don't know if that's related to my first language being non-English, but I remember it being really important to me and a strong reason why I made the switch years ago.
Mandating 100% carbon scrubbers on power stations should be the first step. Let’s stop putting it into the air first
Good to see both software architects and architecture architects run into same issues with legacy stuff.
Yes he's being made an example of. He brazenly broke the (unwritten) rules and this is an educational beatdown[1].

It will end badly for Assange, because two of the "three cases where the EBD may be dangerous" (see linked article) apply. Whether Assange is 'in the right' or not, #1 will still apply to him.

[1] https://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2013/03/cofv10-education...
I've had a dig around the BBC News website and despite Italy being the lead story, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51638095, quarantine and control of population movement doesn't get any 'column inches' - all they do say is borders aren't closing.

I'd guess the UK government have told them not to report quarantine in order to keep the UK population calmer.
In the us the tech industry attrition rates Ive seen are around 15% per annum. Varies slightly based on company/year/market/location etc. 20% is “bad” and 10% would be surprisingly “good.”
What are Docker containers really? How are they different from VMs?
Show HN: Mmap.it – A personal knowledge base built for accessibility
>I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best. Countries without authoritarian governments likely don't have the means to effectively quarantine major cities and shut down massive portions of their economy immediately without major problems arising. Given a couple weeks, sure, but by then it will be too late.

I don't buy this argument at all. After various failures in handling the early phases outbreak, the authoritarian measures introduced at the later stages meant to contain the outbreak may have increased the infection and death toll in the areas that are quarantined, especially with the type of quarantine that China introduced. As the transmission of the virus is via vectors such as sewage and ventilation, forcing millions of people to stay at home in densely populated cities may actually increase the chance on infection within these communities.

I see lots of people attacking Japan's handling of the cruise ship quarantine, but these same people hardly bat an eyelid when China locks millions of people into their high-rise tower blocks which are as dense.

It may have prevented further transmission outside of Hubei, but are they not able to achieve the same by securing the borders of the region as opposed to locking in the local population?
The difference between function add and operator plus are solely in the resulting parsing tree. Chaining pluses together is the same as adding arguments to add. Proving correctness of operators and stuff is just not something I do when I write python code.
> If thats right or wrong is anyones guess

You're fucking joking right?

Something about "cruel and unusual punishment", which is present in both English and American law. Furthermore, there's this little document called the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights', which has stuff to say on this matter too, and has been signed by both the US and England.
I would call that 'portable', personally.
There was an explosion at a virology lab in Koltsovo in September last year. There were no reported infections as a result and no apparent cases of Coronavirus or anything like it in the area or any established link with Wuhan, but apparently actual evidence isn't required for some people to come to all sorts of conclusions.
Nope, but the video doesn't mention how they acquired the key either, they just demonstrate how it opens.
I'll be honest and say that I didn't read very far into the article either and just skimmed it while listening to the video.
Here in Belgium it's almost impossible to find masks as well, except if you want to pay 70+ EUR https://i.imgur.com/dGd56Ng.png I suspect Asian customers have been plundering online EU shops for a while.

Having said that, I don't think it's the responsibility of the WHO to distribute masks to health professionals like your partner.
How to Build a Kodi Raspberry Pi Media Center
>Woolwich Crown Court

".. if a single day at Woolwich Crown Court does not convince you the existence of liberal democracy is now a lie, then your mind must be very closed indeed."
Not sure what to make of this but I can see the synergies.
Weird, techcrunch.com is serving an expired SSL certificate.

$ openssl s_client -showcerts -servername techcrunch.com -connect techcrunch.com:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = Virginia, L = Sterling, O = Oath Inc., OU = SecOps, CN = techcrunch.com
verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
notAfter=Feb 26 12:00:00 2020 GMT
You're not alone. That said, I highly recommend reading and referencing "High Performance Browser Networking" by Ilya Grigorik^1, it's accessible, detailed, accurate, and useful in the extreme.

1 https://hpbn.co/
I suspect also that since we can't possibly remember everything that happens to us, we preferentially remember events that have some kind of significance. Sounds reasonable.

I used to have warts on my hands and feet when I was a kid. It wasn't bad, only one on a finger and two in a benign spot on my feet. But they were very persistent for many years. I never saw a faith healer, but they still fell off on their own one day, never to return again. I had actually completely forgotten about that until I read your message, likely because it held no significance for me. The coincidence of faith healer + warts falling off appears more significant that warts falling off with no apparent instigator.
What's the benefit of tmux when one doesn't work remote and already has a better tilling-wm?
No, far cheaper products became available.
Cancelled or postponed? By now they must have already spent a huge amount of infrastructure. And why outright cancel? _why_ can't you "just do it in October"?
> I would definitely mention integer division as a massive change in py3 too.

To be fair, you can get that in Python 2 too:

from __future__ import division
Finland is a country with a pretty dang good social safety net. They even have things like Government Subsidized recording studios.

The stipulations for receiving aid are fairly light, so I think the viewpoint may be that if you aren't receiving assistance, you aren't willing to play by the simple rules they have.

Of course, this is someone from the US speaking, and basing this on my conversations with people from Finland from 10-20 years ago...
git backed personal wiki sites exist, though I don't know what they generally use. e.g. TiddlyWiki
Can't you mitigate this completely by working towards being acquired by your platform vendor?
Fear unfortunately tends to lead people to praise authoritarians because identifying with them a gives a greater (if illusory) sense of control over the situation.
Would you say a 61yo male is significantly more likely to die than a 30yo male?

Because that's the age where the actuarial table is 7x worse for a man than at 30.

A couple hundred thousand dead here, another hundred thousand dead there, and soon we're talking about big numbers.
I'm in Shizuoka, only about an hour "south" on the bullet train, and I have the same experience here. People don't seem any more proactive about this than they are already for the flu (many wear masks already at this time of year to avoid flu and allergies while there are still plenty who do not).

There's a bit of "anxious hesitation" in the air, but apparently not enough (yet?) to warrant more direct prevention...
Fox news tells me it's all a hoax, who to believe?
There could be some explanation which part of the static PNG is relevant. Like a an arrow pointing to the bar with some text "Look here". Not everyone knows terminals and shells well enough.
It doesn't save in BMP format?
I was unable to do this for any recent purchase. Calibre could strip DRM only from very old books, like 7-10 years old.
The PEP [1] addresses this:

Few people would be able to guess what it means the first time they see it, or think of it as the "obvious way" to merge two dicts

[...]

{d1, d2} ignores the types of the mappings and always returns a dict. type(d1)({d1, d2}) fails for dict subclasses such as defaultdict that have an incompatible __init__ method.

Though I'm not personally convinced that + would be more obvious or that dict subtypes are merged often enough for this to matter.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/#d1-d2
Skin deep: How scientists are studying expression
Why have you been downvoted? You are correct. This extradition hearing, and the alleged mistreatment of Mr. Assange, is taking place in London under British authorities.
Ferrous sulphate seeding also produces kelp mats much more reflective of light than water is.
The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York
> Not only do you not know how to parse this without further knowledge, you also can't pronouce it in a meaningful way...

Therein often lies the problem, if you mentally cannot translate the symbols into meaningful concepts it's hard or impossible to work with them. For example, there are primitive tribes who's language only has words for the amounts of one, two and three. All amounts above that are simply referred to as 'many', no matter if it's four or a hundred. These people cannot (or at least not easily) be thought basic mathematics because they probably can mentally picture 2+2=4 being different from 2+3=5.

So if you can find words for these symbols or make up words for your own for that matter and are able to read this expression in these words it will be a lot easier to parse and understand, maybe even intuitively.

edit: another example in the Python domain for me would be list and dict comprehensions. When I first encountered them in other people's code I had a hard time understanding what they did. Searching for them was also hard, since I could only describe them (ie: loop within square brackets) and not name them. Finally when I found their name in an reply on SO I was able to search directly for the concepts and find meaningful answers on how to apply them in certain cases.
I'm not talking about currently running solid-fuel reactors that burn only 0.3% of their fuel. I'm talking about 4th gen liquid fuel reactors that manage to burn 99.7% of their fuels (bonus: can burn the waste fuels old reactors leave behind), are walk-away safe and the wastes they do leave have a half-life of hundreds of years instead of millions.

DAC that you can feed power into and that way stream more CO2 into sequestration solutions is mostly a solved issue at scale [1]. Sequestration is also a solved issue [2].

[1] https://carbonengineering.com/
[2] https://climeworks.shop/how-it-works/
As bockris said, you can stand up minikube locally. Or if you download Docker for Desktop, they now have the option of a built-in local K8's.

Kubernetes shouldn't necessarily be a 'target'. You can write any app, and if you make it deployable via a Docker container via a Docker image (a Dockerfile; plenty of info on that on the web), then it should be deployable to K8's.
The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The rape accusations were credible, he just refused to answer to them. That doesn’t mean they were invalid in the first place, it just means they’ll never be proven in a court of law.
A quick search using Google news in the UK shows that all the main broadsheets and many of the tabloids have Assange related stories over the past several days at least. I don’t think it’s fair to characterise the media as disinterested.
You’re not wrong, but you have a bit of a dismal look at it. Sports, like other forms of entertainment, are a sign of culture, and culture is the touchstone of a good workforce. Just like it’s important to take short breaks in the office, even small amounts of entertainment is important to keep us happy and focused. Large events, such as the Olympics and Oscars, give a pattern to the years, something to talk about and look forward to. They provide cohesion and fraternity. The Olympics staying up isn’t a higher priority than health, but it’s a mighty sign of things going wrong when they’re not being hosted.

Plus, y’know, a lot of problems have been solved, so these kind of events provide jobs and boost local and global economies.
The US placed tight restrictions on people who'd recently visited China entering the country. Other countries did not. Testing regimes elsewhere have been focused on visitors from China and people who've been in direct contact with them.
Early Impressions of Go from a Rust Programmer
A Vision of AI for Joyful Education
The judge has basically said this is a politically motivated extradition, and the court is fine with that. I hope that this get appealed to a higher court and it's not left to this hostile judge.
I believe it's been improved in later versions, as they've focused in these use cases, and there might even be deterministic particles now, but I'm not sure, because I've been out of the VFX market for quite a while.
There is a way:

$ EDITOR=your_favorite_editor qmv
Polynomial regression – what it is and how it differs from simple regression
From one of the comments:

"With ads, you can make between 2 to 6 USD per 1000 visits on your webpage. So with 3 millions of visits, I can make between 6 to 18 000 USD a month, it depends on a month and an ad provider (I have been testing several of them lately)."
Angular for Beginners with Fundamental Operations
Specially since apparently on the USA, going to the hospital to take even test for the virus is costing thousands of dollars. I am afraid that a lot of people there will try to "ride it" as they do other health problems for the lack of money.
Welcome to egocentric society, leave your sanity by the door it's every man for himself fromhereon!

Praise the homeless people for they are the most productive members of society! You think you are productive? hah! The homeless are working day and night! Their shift never ends! They produce more value than the rest of us combined!

How it works? I doubt you really want to know.

With a bucket, a sheet of plastic and some straw I can build a fabulous house. Without the bucket and the plastic it would take a bit more time. Give me a pile of bricks, some mortar, bit of wood and some roof tiles and ill build a house that looks from the outside exactly the same as any house build by a construction company. It wont take me 6 months. In the 14th century the roof tiles became mandatory because straw is a fire hazard if you cramp houses really really close together.

I'm getting to the point, wait for it...

There is plenty of space to build plenty of houses, it takes a bit of effort but it won't have to cost an insane amount of resources. We can plant the trees 20 years in advance if we kept our sanity.

While all that sounds like a lovely idea and it would certainly work in a loving and caring society - that is not what we have! It's a terrible idea!

The housing ponzi needs an artificial shortage. Its 30 k worth of bricks and labor and 500 000 market value. We need for this to go UP NOT DOWN. We have a lot riding on this housing ponzi! You are not seriously expecting me to get a job and work for my money - are you?

If anyone was to create a surplus in places to live it would do terrible things to our investments! It would harm the economy and the economy is more important than anyone in this neoliberal storm of poop.

Imagine how bad things would be if we didn't have a surplus in demand, if we didn't have plenty of homeless people, plenty of permanent guests sleeping on sofa's, plenty of hard working people living in tiny houses they can't afford!

Purchase power of minimum wage is racing down, people are expected to work flexible hours and rent is going up faster than you can say cul-de-sac.

Praise the homeless for no one works harder to keep the productive members of society down. We should all shake their hand and thank them for their contribution. Without them non of this would be possible.
He wants us to think "Murray is a conspiracy theorist with a wacko following†, so I will take this blog post with a pinch of salt."

Of course Murray could be speaking truth in this blog post, but it's nonetheless worth finding a different source of the truth, to avoid promoting Murray.

†that's true - look back at his response to the Skripal poisoning for an example.
Last week I did some napkin math on numbers published and came out with a 2.5% death rate. I assume gathering statistics globally can be difficult since each jurisdiction may count/report numbers differently and have different detection methods.

Watching the (US) news this morning, they reminded that elderly and people with heart disease, diabetes, poor lung function, etc. are a lot more susceptible. I think I heard the normal flu death rate is still higher, would be interesting to see actual numbers on that although I'm not concerned enough to research.
That judge does not exactly come across as impartial in this description. I'm not a lawyer, but it does look like a mistrial of some sort.

Whatever you think of Julian Assange, he deserves a fair trial, and this doesn't sound like he's getting one.
Nope, he did offer to answer to them, repeatedly:

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

This article details more than I could ever have wanted to know about the entire situation. It is an excellent 10,000 ft view.
Headphones for Mowing
A new operator is just a letter/word you haven't learned yet. The only things wrong with operators is that non-Asian speakers don't like learning new letters and search engines refuse to index them.