skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like Google has some noble duty to launch or maintain their products if they don't want to.
> Techbros everywhere

My migraines and headaches from light sensitivity tell me you’re wrong
It has been mentioned before on topics like this one, but lots of people commenting in here are directly financially involved in this type of discussion (i.e. breaking up Google or FB), as in they're probably employees of those companies and as such their relatively big compensations depend on these companies' operations remaining pretty much the same.
YouTube vanced ftw
(other co-founder) Cool! Let us know how you like it compared to KST :) We focused a bit more on UX and interactiveness
New grads, take 5 minutes to write READMEs to all your public GitHub repos
That’s like asking why does Taylor Swift pay people to moderate her social media if many people like her.
Especially when Time Warner and the other conglomerates have been doing this shit for decades before anyone knew wtf Google was
Is this viable in the long term? Why can’t the major plastic manufacturers push you out of business thanks economies of scale and lower prices?
> He added that the “oversight” was likely “lack of context versus bad intent from anyone on the team.”

What?! You're presenting a Workplace Chat tool and you're writing the slides for the feature of blocking certain topics and you use "unionize" as an example. How the fuck can you lack context here? Is the people writing the talks not aware what the talks are about or what?

Then there is not just the options of "lack of context" vs "bad intent", there is also "simply stupid", "some people at Facebook don't like unions", "wrong target audience" and "unexpected push back on something we care about". Instead they argue in bad faith that there is just two reasons here.
Good guess! We do some cool subsampling (certainly on big files) to be able to show a lot of datapoints.
The problem with this approach is that you are limiting yourself to the narrative of a hive-mind. Although HN has done a better job of it then Reddit but it still exhibits the same problems a lot of time.
7th Wonder Duel, Kero are boardgames for 2 players.

Keyforge: card game with random but fixed decks.

Splendor, Azul, Century are also good to play with 2 players.
My apologies and I should have used a different word and my point is just to remind people that data is synced when signed in.

I had a feeling of a twist just because initially I found https://support.getpostman.com/hc/en-us/articles/203815791-W... which gave me impression that they do not collect payload under any circumstances.

I would hope that they add a clarification in that page because if I did not contact them then I would not have know about the sync feature and also would not have thought anything about GDPR issue. This is just a reminder note, not saying that Postman is hiding about it.
Running Geo Django on ElasticBeanstalk
A lot of industry + a major European airport + Alps keeping clouds stuck there.

For heating nost houses use gas (rom GAZPROM or North Africa as far as I remember), wooden pellets or wood
It looks likes this is a chromium/proton wrapper around a webapp.
Is that correct? The plot lib used seems very similar to plotly.

I'd be very curious to hear about some of the tech stack design choices.
I'd be also interested to understand who's your target user.
I used to work at Facebook, and it was always interesting to me to see just how many engineers were actively against - aghast, even - at the idea of unions.

Whenever it would come up on the internal boards the arguments were usually along the lines of:

* "People who don't deserve to be paid more will get more money under a union"

* "I'll be paid less under a union"

* "Unions will slow us down, and we'll become more bureaucratic"

* "Unions are corrupt, and only care about themselves"

It was always clear that there was a huge misconception about what unions are, and how they work, based on the depiction of unions in popular culture or the past. When you talked about unions, people would think about the Teamsters, the police unions, etc.

Myself and others would end up pointing out that yes, that's true of some blur collar unions, but that's not what we're talking about. Think about the Writers Guild, or SAG. Dwayne Johnson earned $90 million last year - he still pays his union dues. You'd struggle to find any writer who didn't think the Writers Guild had actively improved their working conditions.

Are the various Hollywood unions perfect? No, they're not. But I think you would really struggle to argue that working conditions would be better for those in the creative arts without them.

Tech companies have spent a long time cultivating an image of benevolence towards their employees, but ultimately they are not your friends. You need somebody to fight your corner. Hollywood found this out years ago with the studios - hopefully Silicon Valley will discover it too, however unlikely it seems.
This is reminiscent of how Facebook used to allow people to microtarget job and housing ads to people based on protected classes like race, age, and gender. They ended up reaching a settlement and being forced to change their filter criteria due to civil rights laws. So I wouldn't be so sure that "merely providing the tool" is necessarily an entirely legal action.
Rideshare service for light satellites to launch on Vega
Running Postgres as a build requirement in TeamCity build
The EU funds the Copernicus program, among others, which is managed by the ESA. But it's not the case that the EU provides 93% of ESA's total funding, it provides on the order of 20%[1].

You seem to be quoting the 93% number from the table on Wikpedia[2]. That's not 93% from the EU, it's an aggregate 93% from countries that also happen to be members of the EU.

1. https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_and_the_EU

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency
(other co-founder here) Thanks for the heads-up! Might be slightly overloaded at the moment
Leadership lessons I learned from video games
Minimal engagement with the crowd? Are you serious? I'm just gonna end this here. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Byee
I didn't think nor suggest it was a controversial viewpoint. Thanks for the link though, it's an opinion I'd admittedly never researched to see if anyone else had written up on.
How Good Engineering Culture Is in Your Software Team?
The biggest reason I started switching everything to Go is because of the IO / threading model.
Organizations are composed from many people doing independent decisions and forgetting about old decisions. There is nothing difficult about organization being inconsistent, the difficult leadership task is to make it consistent.

Inconsistency is natural state even when we ignore the fact that all humans are internally inconsistent - including mathematicians.
Blocking javascript prevents the bottom half of the article from being hidden. Ublock origin lets you disable JS on a per-site basis, if you're using that as your adblocker.
Clearly, they don't play online games with a chat lobby. They would have quickly learned that such features is useless, as it's easily bypassed:

- in novembre, we should cost them the electrons. Ionize!

- It's time we u_nionize

- un10n1z3 people !

- let's fetch the U:\N\I\O\N\I\Z\E file

- all go to http://unio.ni/ze

- so we should do the u-thingy

- what about talking to Mr Ulysse Nionize

- never too late to ｕｎᎥｏｎｉｚｅ

In fact, it actually creates a sense of community by fostering a culture, make the movement stronger, and give it more visibility.

I'm assuming on this one that FB employees know this, and are just giving idiots what they ask for.
Corporations are not effective and useless positions are not necessary eliminated.
A CFA WHO Started as a Head of Data Science: Interview with Kaggle Master ILIA
Probably the same reason Python is big in scientific computing. A lot of stuff has already been written for it. If scientists needed to bootstrap scientific computing from scratch, Python wouldn’t be any more established than Rust, Java, PHP, or VB6.
WordPress 5.4.2 Fixes Several XSS Vulnerabilities, Update Now
I think it's much easier to measure value of tech skills than most other skills. In the management and business areas you have to bet on how well people will perform and it's harder to put a finger on what will define success. Even people moving between similar environments might have difficulty adjusting. I personally believe that a lot of hiring is happening only on appearances alone. Since the people in middle management are often recruited like that, they also tend to overvalue skills of similar individuals. I'm seeing right now some "reassessments" happening due to the whole COVID thing. A lot of invaluable people are losing their jobs and yet no one is feeling any difference. It's just the market finally catching up to an overvalued good.
Uhh, that is quite wrong, lots of company's use racket, Haskell and even start new projects with Ocaml
Its my understanding that the main reason is because Rust doesn't use a Garbage Collector.
Can you give one example app which has a dark mode and no light one?
Fancy a Home-Made Paneer?
I wonder if the value of linked-in depends on where you live. I live in Norway and when I had linked-in I kept getting contacted by recruiters for totally uninteresting jobs. Often in England or Ireland.
Where to Outsource Software Development
Yah, understandable.

It sounds like they have moved some stuff around recently too, because you can no longer disable sync: https://support.getpostman.com/hc/en-us/articles/203492852-H...

So I guess the story here is: if you use postman for anything sensitive don't use an account as well, as the sync feature can no longer be disabled.

It's also worth pointing out that AFAICT Insomnia's equivalent feature may be more secure though I haven't dug into it: it sounds like all that data is encrypted by the client and not recoverable by the Insomnia team if you lose your password.
This is a beta version, the goal of the trial is to gather feedback and find interested parties. Pricing and pricing model is not set in stone yet and will depend on what we see is feasible. Feel free to contact us in private to discuss more in detail! :)
Twitter takes down China-linked accounts spreading disinformation on HK, COVID19
For me VNC feels more sluggish than RDP. I can tolerate working with RDP to a server over Wi-Fi over a DSL line. VNC between two computers on my home network (client on Wifi and server on wire) feels laggy. If I connect the client to a wire, it's tolerable.
The Plaza Accord was instigated by the US. But that was the 1980s; these days, when a safe-haven country attempts to keep Francs from appreciating (which should be under our control) due to sabre-rattling by China and the US (not under our control), we get placed under the double secret probation.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-franc-climbs-after-us-add...
(why is the US treasury telling us what to do? We've attempted to adjust against EUR, so if you all don't like USD/CHF why don't you all work the USD lever instead?)
Try a Delicious Mac&Mince
>there were a number of classmates whom could not grasp

Sorry, pet peeve. It's "who". "Classmates" are the ones doing "could not grasp" instead of "could not grasp" being done to them.
http://archive.is/NMvL7
I think it's because Sundar lacks strategic vision and/or lacks the courage to disturb the power structure/struggle below him. He's a Ballmer.
Well, there is no country that would ever allow money to move in or out "no questions asked". Why do you think there are a lot of terms like AML, or KYC floating about in the finance sector?

Also, international payments are a pain in the first place. I'm based in London currently contracting for a Singaporean firm, and they've still yet to be able to make the payment due to IBAN, SWIFT code issues. And you'd think that London and Singapore both being global financial centers, it would be easy right?

But yeah, I take your point its really bad having too much restrictions on moving money out of China, although I do think they are trying to change those policies.
> seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate

I'm sorry, what?

I use them all the time. F5 for refreshing all kinds of stuff, or for setting breakpoints in my IDE. F7, F8, F9 for controlling the debugger, other combinations for building/running. F12 for opening developer tools in the browser. Some programs still use F1 for help. F2 in Windows explorer for renaming things. And so on and so forth.

I can't stand keyboards without function keys, or where you have to press Fn to activate them.
Possibly, but in true Dunning/Kruger fashion, I believe that I am immune to that. And I have proof: I like Electron :-D
I'm endlessly surprised that unions are collectively as bad at PR as their image suggests.
> the pound was THE major global currency about 100 years ago

And before that, up until 200 years ago, it was the Spanish Dollar ("piece of eight"), which dominated South-American and Central-American trade and was informally accepted in Northern colonies too.
That would be awesome feature.

You can copy directory path from explorer, paste it into open/save dialog and it'll navigate there. But your suggestion is much easier and intuitive to use.

Actually Explorer and open/save dialogs have some kind of recently used (or most used) directories. But they always contain some junk for me. Listing currently opened directories there could help without need to rework UI.
Humans have a maximum lifespan of 125 years
It's trying to say that you don't need a lot of time to do this.

I literally skimmed the article while drinking a coffee.
Another only child here. Solitaire, a Game Boy, and later Minesweeper, Hearts, and Freecell were some of my single-player entertainment. It never occurred to me to play a board game by myself; major props to your young imagination!
When thread-local and request-local aren't the same thing...
Sorry for offtopic, but I'd like to share a tip I can't imagine living without. You can type cmd in explorer address bar and it'll open cmd in that directory (probably works with any other program in your %PATH%). Also you can type `explorer .` in cmd to open explorer in the current directory.
yes ... I feel like everyone is stuck in a local minima (or maxima, depending on your optimisation direction!) of using matplotlib which is "good enough" but not very good. So there isn't great momentum to improve it, but nobody really likes it. My favorite plotting syntax is that exposed in BeakerX [1], but that's less common than everything else put together.

[1] https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx
my bet is a combination of high barriers to entry and the disincentivisation of bad behavior.

on hackernews, the first one comes as a side effect of the general topic and the relatively high level of discussion and entries, and maybe also of the fact that it's text-only.

the second one comes via the threat of downvotes, or, more generally speaking, the possibility of negative feedback.
Related and kind of interesting, the original File Manager was open sourced and recompiled for modern Windows.

https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
This!

Also health reasons have the advantage that it is seen as somewhat rude to ask for details.

The other unspecific reason that is used similarly is "familiy issues"

While i can understand why someone would use this "excuse" i see it as a generally bad thing because it fosters that "health" and "familiy" issues are seen as excuses and not always taken seriously.

The fact that we are discussing that here kind of proofs this point.
Don't ever, ever, ever, ever... NEVER go to Reddit.

I'm losing more neurons than I am patience these days.
Again a static default plot library? I would love to see some libraries with higher level visualizations like parallel coordinates, star coordinates and so on. I know, they require interaction, but hey ... why not spending time on this and not again a default plot library? Bar plot stays a bar plot, doesn't matter if you plot it with mpl or seaborn or whatever.
“Fixing” the Debt Problem
> You must be joking, or else work with very low caliber people.

They're only low caliber people when it comes to writing. Otherwise they're exceptional engineers. The company historically and currently is a market leader. We're not talking about a small shop.

> I don’t consider people for positions who cannot write well

And this is exactly what I'm talking about. If you're in a setting that values it, and set up filters for it, then of course writing is important. If you're in my company where it isn't valued, then not only is it not important, it has little benefit. No point in writing well if people aren't going to read it.

> Really, can you take a poorly written engineering spec or RFP seriously?

In the case of my company, yes - if you want to keep your job. Unless it's inscrutable, I can't go to my manager and refuse to work on something because the spec is poorly written. He'll immediately tell me to go contact the author and sort it out. Occasionally the author will be nice enough to fix the spec and release a new document. But it's hit and miss. The reason many don't fix the formal spec in these cases? Their managers don't value it.

Specs are for major efforts. At the intermediate level: "What the heck is a spec? We just communicate requirements via PPT."

(No, I'm not kidding).
Japan broadcaster NHK under fire over flawed video on anti-racism movement
I've found green on black easiest on the eyes, like the original computer monitors. I set up my eBook reader that way. The green is fairly dark (I read before bed at night).
There is no way to make them happy. Pepsi clearly didn't have $32B. The only conclusion you can make from this situation is that these people clearly didn't want to be happy.
I would love to have a good e-paper laptop for coding, reading and communicating. I actually consider today (and even 5-yr-old) e-paper displays perfectly usable for all real tasks except watching video and playing realtime games. Compilers and editors (and web pages) should change to avoid unnecessary output and require less screen updates though (this would actually be great anyway - whatever kind of screen I have I prefer unnecessary presentation dynamicity to be avoided).
Computing hardware: The cost of training machines is becoming a problem
I live less than half an hour’s journey away but seemingly most of the people on my neighborhood facebook pages believe Fox News’ reporting more than their own neighbors photographs and videos. They refuse to even drive over there to see what is going on, so certain they are that they are right.
There was widespread violence and damage of public space. That you were outplayed by the police in exercising your little tantrum, it has no bearing on a discussion about police using video technology effectively to make policing safer and making finding culprits more reliable.
Declarative Query Languages Are the Iraq War of Computer Science
People are extremely good at justifying their own actions in any shape and form. Reminds me ex's mother,who was a hard core church goer and was undeclaring profits from her company. When asked why would she do such thing,her excuse was that the taxes are way too high( the country was within top 20 countries in the world when it comes to taxes). Another thing is that usually these things don't happen all at once but rather gradually. The same is observable in companies,where corruption start from tiny things and evolve over time.
To sell them $1 per page?
The essay "Political Aspects of of Full Employment" [1] outlines the vested interests of industry leaders in playing up the danger of deficits and increased public investment. As a noneconomist, I too would be interested in hearing some reasons why the idea was abandoned until MMT brought it into the mainstream once again.

1) dislike of government interference in the problem of employment as such

2) dislike of the direction of government spending (public investment and subsidizing consumption)

3) dislike of the social and political changes resulting from the maintenance of full employment.

[1] https://mronline.org/2010/05/22/political-aspects-of-full-em...
There's Microsoft Onenote and Google's Keep Notes.

You can screenshot and share to the app or copy ¬» paste » append notes/ comments
Very close, it uses Electron! Front-end is written in ReactJs. The plot library is react-vis currently, but we're replacing that soon. All the zoom/pan logic we implemented ourselves. Backend is a completely separate process.
We've chosen for this architecture as it gives us the flexibility to easily change from desktop product to a web/server product, if we feel like that would be a better fit :)
Target users can be very broad and is something we are still figuring out, but at the moment we see that engineers that have to deal with data from tests or simulations are a good fit for Marple.
> Cantor's function shows there are functions that are not the integrals of their derivatives.

That's because Cantor's function does not have a derivative that's defined everywhere. Of course a function without derivative is not the integral of that non-existent derivative.

If most people think that increasing/monotone functions must have positive derivatives, they're apparently forgetting about non-differentiable functions.
> Dissatisfaction with growing wealth disparity at the time was a fundamental trend that could not have been "nipped in the bud".

Well, this was the whole idea of "Fabian" socialism, named after Fabius the Delayer: bring in reforms now, otherwise revolution will happen outside your control. A big part of the foundation of the UK Labour party.

It seems to me that the BLM movement is just such a "big bang" against a slow increase in racism and very long term failure to resolve problems in Americna policing.
> Part of the problem the USSR faced at implosion was that its major export, oil

In 2019, 52% of Russia's exports were oil/fuel, and 96% for Venezuela.

Gotta wonder what their leaders do all day, besides crank the spigot.

The problem that the USA has with Iran is that they don't want a theocracy with a nuclear bomb, yet Iran ia a regional industrial power, unlike other Middle Eastern countries.

http://www.worldstopexports.com/russias-top-10-exports/

https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/exports
In Verizon's specific case it would be a government granted monopoly either way. Between infrastructure easements to wireless spectrum to state laws banning municipal competition, that industry is government granted through and through.
If China wants Chinese voices on Twitter, it could unblock Twitter. One way Twitter identified coordinated campaigns linked to Beijing was by looking at accounts signing on to Twitter from IP addresses within China that were not blocked by the Great Firewall.
Not really. Also it goes faster.
Yes, as I noted:

> Just need to make sure that white and black aren't matched to random hue values.

Colors with too small saturation can just be excluded from the search, since gray/white/black go with anything.
It is not that simple. There's a continuum from writing a compiler to coding DestroyBaghdad. Usually people draw the line at "Is this tool primary purpose evil?".

This tool is in a (darkish-)gray area IMHO. I don't think that employer blocking "fuck" or racial slurs is necessarily evil but it's not that good either.

Automatic filters are pretty bad at doing their job, so filtering is a lame approach to solving anything.
Just to be clear, I wasn't saying it's not unethical. Just not illegal.
You could make this same argument for any sufficiently mature architecture, but the reality is that there's always something new around the corner. I can't imagine the processor in an eventual ARM-based Mac Pro will look much like the one in the first ARM-based MacBook, you know?
According to the GDPR, they cannot be.