skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bugs me about crap like this is that it ignores world history, makes these people feel good about doing nothing of consequence, and takes attention away from things that will actually help.

If you are going to help, actually do something that improves the lives of people. Maybe, you should really put some effort into beefing up the Computer Science programs in black high schools and colleges? You are Microsoft, and had a damn policy of only hiring people from certain schools for certain job areas. In 90, one of your damn reps told a classroom of students that they were only good for "help desk" positions because of the school they went to. I'm betting some all black colleges were not on the hire list for actual developer jobs.

Actually doing something useful is hard, this is just signalling how cool you are.
I guess I will take the opportunity to congratulate Marple and say (self promotion), that you have an open source alternative, that is equally able to deal with gigabytes of data and millions of points.

https://github.com/facontidavide/PlotJuggler
I'm not quite sure where this comment comes from - what I am saying has nothing to do with the names; I use the conventional names for the natural reasons. Perhaps you meant the potential ambiguity of terms?

I agree there are sometimes unfortunate consequences of transliterating mathematical terms (e.g. "field", "smooth", "increasing") this potential for confusion with a lay audience (cf the famous (true?) story of a senator objecting the funding of "complex" analysis - was this your reference?). However, the alternative is worse, and peppers any conversation with intractable jargon.
That's the current behaviour of updating the default branch in the settings of the GitHub Repository.
A lot of your points look suspect to me, could you link to some studies? While light surely ought to affect dopamine levels[0] isn't this in both senses secondary to - downstream from, the main melatonin/cortisol cycle driving our circadian rhythms? Your linked wiki article contains zero mentions of dopamine.

If 30 minute+ light-therapy made you manic so would working a field in summer, a hundred times over. Outside of drugs and illness there is little one can do to escape even short-term homeostasis. Nothing is linear and everything has feedback limiting it.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819153/#!po=50...
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The new record is “Rough and Rowdy Ways” and comes out on June 19th (note that this is a significant date).

Songs for the album: “Murder Most Foul”, “False Prothet”, and “I Contain Multitudes” were pre-released in the past month or so.
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"Reform" is a well known word in the US that translates to "do the very minimum necessary to shut most people up for a while". The fact that proponents of radical changes to policing have not come up with terms you like more should not be an indictment of their perspectives.
The biggest issue with this mindset is that attempting to deploy self-discipline at scale is a losing strategy, both on the individual project level (if they're large enough) and at the corporate level. That's why the most successful large projects always have a 'dictator' acting as the standard-bearer for quality.

Often it can be quite advantageous for individual instances, no doubt, but expecting humans to be disciplined en-masse without serious external oppression is a bit like expecting cats to neatly line up for treats.
that should be thought through.. for example, you couldn't/shouldn't mark a question as repeated, if it was marked as obsolete, even though the question per-se isn't obsolete, just maybe the "right" answer.
No, that's the point. Imagine accounts retweeting wide spectrum of moderate GOP news sites, with an occassional joke or wit.
It's one thing to offer a censorship tool, it's another to specifically suggest "unionize" as a word to censor.
Curious what prompted you to share alanwatts.org?

Alan Watts audio books on Audible seem to be subsets of these recordings. My favorite collection of Alan Watts talks is “Just So”.
like menubars, the toolbars give you the short cuts when you hover over them.
Yes it does after iPhone X, aka pointer validation in Apple speak.
>It helps when NASA is laying off everyone you need to hire, and they have no other choice of a place to work

Actually Musk has said in the past that they had a LOT of trouble hiring early on. They had goals of reusable rockets right around the start of the company, and most people in the industry didn't take them seriously.

Nobody wanted to work for the laughing stock of a company that dreamed of doing something that most thought was impossible (affordably reusing rocket stages).
Then I’m a bit surprised you don’t have more sympathy.
Meanwhile slavery still exists in Libya.

I don't mind renaming it but it feels like a token action without any real weight.
Without the rioting and looting, the protests may have accomplished nothing. Climate March and Women's March were way bigger but led to absolutely zilch.
I kinda feel like the screen lets it down a bit. Much of this appeals (M.2!), but I can't see myself ever buying a 720p device again.
Even the product photograph[1] on the website looks like a picture of a second hand laptop from a decade ago on Craigslist.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pinetab_KB...
I have answered >100 questions on SO because I like answering questions. I would answer significantly fewer if I was required to give the range of versions that my answer worked on, because I only know that it works in my environment. If I could give just one version, then others would have to keep asking if my answer was best practice on their version. I suppose listing at least one version it works on is better than the current setup, though.
Yes, there are legitimately people who believe the master-slave terminology trivializes American slavery. They are mostly in the U.S. and probably a minority of programmers but they exist.

But in this case, there's not even a slave branch.
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I think the author's must be rather busy. I haven't seen anything new since Fractal Brownian Motion from years ago.

I hope they are able to complete the rest of the chapters in the future.

I put this site on the same level as Real Time Rendering, my favourite rendering reference book.
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The call to action, section 5, is exceptional for an academic paper. I'm surprised the first suggestion doesn't already exist on S.O.

Honestly this is my biggest complaint with the web in general: immortal anti-information. Proposing analysis and strategies for combatting it on curated platforms is a great first step.

I think also implicit in this discussion is the role of the readers to vote with their mouses, so to speak. Without feedback from users, the mechanisms can't work effectively. Which is why I try to upvote as much as reasonable on HN and SO.
I see which posts of mine were downvoted, if that's what you mean. If someone downvotes I always revisit the post (also most of the time if someone upvotes actually, as I often find things to improve).
It is facing outage due to its popularity

https://androidrookies.com/counter-strike-1-6-in-a-browser-o...
Nodejs is faster than Python as a general rule, anyway. As I understand, Nodejs compiles Javascript, Python interprets Python code.

I do a lot of Django and Nodejs and Django is great to sketch an app out, but I've noticed rewriting endpoints in Nodejs directly accessing postgres gets much better performance.

Just my 2c
Per the paper, they are using an SO archive dump from 2017, which is ages ago in internet time, although admittingly the problems with SO comments extend even before that.

It looks like the latest archive dump (March 2020) is available in BigQuery, e.g.: https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=fh-bigquery&d=st...
Came here to ask the same. I actually have an interest in early music but I couldn't see anything on that page that seemed to be HN-worthy.
Thanks! This was also a good project to start learning & integrating Typescript into my JS projects so overall it’s been a great learning experience outside of enjoying him and getting peed on :)
Yes, dear downvoters, I too enjoy the live aspect of concerts where they don't just lip-sync to the studio versions of their music. And yes, he did play some of his hits in otherwise unrecognizable form. My point was it still wasn't enjoyable. He looked completely miserable: it was not entertaining. Musically it was not a quality product. It was exactly what Steven Stills told him when Dylan first played through the Blood on the Tracks album: He's a fine songwriter, but he's not a very good musician.
What do you mean? They have a Related Reading section. I searched "Check" on the page and nothing came.
> Going from NYC to Philadelphia by train cost me $300, when I returned it cost me $82 and was delayed by 4hrs.

Next time don't take Amtrack. Using NJ Transit from NY Penn to Trenton then transfer to SEPTA train into Philly will be < $30. The delays are unavoidable if something is broken.
Probably. See the “Seattle Police Officers Guild” which is definitely a union... police aren’t independent contractors, or craftspeople, etc.
And the link I referred to is in that article.
It is when corporations have embraced and monetized counterculture. As if they are part of us but if analyzed by psychologists corporation was an individual was denoted a psychopath, that is why motions like this make me cringe and die a little on inside a little.
Many RAW developers give you a choice of which de-bayering algorithm to use. Some are optimized for maximum detail retention. You can easily see the difference on a black-and-white resolution test target, which has perfect correlation between the R,G,B values.
I went straight to the code and didn’t read past the github link - but read through it now. That process described isn’t in the code..

One other thing I noticed is that this uses aiopg for the async db queries instead of asyncpg, which is more widely adopted and IMO much better.

I was hoping to re-run these benchmarks myself with asyncpg.

Looks like actually running the benchmarks would take a bunch of manual work. In fact I don’t see instructions for running these benchmarks to replicate your results.
put more time into rebuilding the communities in which you physically reside than into bikeshedding quick symbolic actions to numb your conscience.

donate the cash equivalent to the engineering hours required to make and test this name change to BLM instead, and get something of actual consequence done.

Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, “Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!” and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?
> I am always baffled when people expect a jukebox from artists of this caliber

Plenty of artists of his caliber perform shows with regular renditions of their hits. But some artists just do things differently.

And the argument goes both ways: I don't, personally, want a "unique" experience when I'm paying several hundred dollars to see an artists whose songs I love (particularly the way they were recorded). There shouldn't be anything baffling about that.
What racist connotations?
Newspeak, book burnings next Thursday. Can't have those idioms any more.

edit: not to mention 30 years of:

if branch in ['master', 'main'] ...
> just... why?

It's called "virtue signalling," I'm told.
Enter to rename gets me every time.
So what is the fair way to address the community refusal and consequent introduction of a set of functions that achieve a subset of the initial proposal?
I also found the $1 billion lawsuit (against a bunch, not just one spammer, I believe), and could also not find any sort of resolution - not in legal docs, news pages, or project honeypot itself.
I don't think it's because people are offended at the use of the word master, in this case. I think, that it's symbolic. By making a point of getting rid of the word master, you're showing that black lives matter.
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This is kind of like someone living during the Crusades yelling metallurgy is shiiiiit.
How does this relate to your statement that criticism of H1B is racist propaganda?
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I've said it before, and I predict it now again: a language that is named after valuable mineral chunks that are often/usually/predominately mined by slave labor in predominately non-white countries is better thinking about a rebrand.

Especially when it's basically ground zero for SJW activity in software development.
So the second stage will be large enough to lift off Mars independently?
Such rules come in at the state level and are usually pushed for by the large national unions to bully and push out local and regional small unions. Every major union from UAW to SEIU has been guilty of this.
> That said, this is slightly ridiculous.

Which makes it actively harmful: Anything you do which is even somewhat ridiculous can be seized upon by your political enemies and turned into ammunition against you. They can claim your whole movement is about the ridiculous thing, and use it to derail discussions: "Yes, yes, that point is good, but did you know they renamed something in a piece of software just because it vaguely reminded someone of slavery? Time to talk about that now!"
I grew up in a small city in Tennessee. I remember reading about a cop whose income topped out at $38k when he retired. I was making $45k in my 2nd job, in my 20s, only a few years out of college. Sure my job probably required more knowledge, but I'd argue his was more dangerous. I dunno .. there are a lot of trade-offs and it varies greatly per municipalities. Not all police departments in all cities and counties can be lumped together under the same metrics.
Maybe it's one of those things where a good union is good and a bad union is terrible.

It's easy to say how good a union could be, but will it actually be that good? What kinds of things can go wrong? What weird laws are in place and how could that complicate things?

The bottom line is that if I am happy already, a union is more risk than reward.
It could definitely be in an infinite loop if it's running a webgl context.

Many (including myself) have tied into window.requestAnimationFrame(...) recursively forever.

This lets the page breathe, but always call back into your main game loop to update the webgl render context/canvas.
Amazing experience there with kunker. So snappy. Thanks for sharing.
So those proposing having unions in the US need to explain why this implementation will suddenly work differently than all the others in the US.

Sure, I'll freely admit that unions have worked very well other places, but the US seems to blow it every darn time. Why would this time be different?
well you can track your down-votes, but is it fair to down-vote something that was right in 2007, but not right in 2020 anymore? Maybe a mechanism to lock old right answers, and open the question again, I'm not sure. That's probably an issue that the Stackoverflow team didn't think about back in the days..
Yes. I made other people rich.
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It's a bit of a paradox isn't it, if you really are emotionally triggered by people making a gesture to black developers, doesn't that suggest that developers are really easily emotionally triggered, and therefore making the gesture is actually important and therefore you shouldn't be triggered because it's not bending over backward to be politically correct it's actually tackling something that's a real issue?
Ask HN: What to Replace Access Database With?
If, for some reason best known the those that came before you, mission critical work was being managed via an Access Database, which itself was really just a front end for what appears to have started out as two massive excel tables, what would you migrate to?

The current database is just a file on network storage and there's about 50 people using it at the same time. It's getting really slow and is constantly needing to be compacted and repaired due to errors. In short a night are to manage. It needs to be replaced. None of the data is normalised and there's loads of duplication, so I personally think it will need to be a clean break rather than a migration. Any suggestions welcome.
Yup, the light theme advantage is due to it emitting more light than a dark theme at the same brightness setting.
A small symbolic thing is still worth doing, even if it doesn't directly improve the lives of people.
I agree that software has gotten overly complex for the benefit, and Kubernetes is a good example. But it will improve again.

You mentioned Ruby and Django... the popularity of those in the Aughts were a swing back towards simplicity from overly complex Enterprise Java. Remember?
Sorry mate, your master decided you don't have a privilege to post a content here and marked it as flagged.
I have several compact fluorescent bulbs each outputting 8,600 lumen. Since the bulbs measure about 10" long, the only fixture I found to work is suspend a bare socket and attach a giant paper lantern.

When selecting light, I pay attention to the temperature of the light (I like 5000K for daylight) and the Color Rendering Index (CRI) which is a measure of the quality of light. Technically you can make "white" with only 3 wavelengths, however the broader the spectrum of light (many wavelengths), the better it shows on reflected surfaces. It's not highly relevant to the topic of eye strain with screens but it's a nice touch that makes the area more comfortable.

Recently, I started exploring LED lights and there are some really good options appearing on the market. I tested some spot lights with a CRI of 92 which look even better than halogens. So when it comes time for me to replace my CFLs, I might end up with a better option.
I don't think it's necessarily based on misconceptions about what unions are, but also their own experience and from what they hear from people they know. We've already seen in this thread very different personal experiences with unions, often based on where they are. e.g. folks in Europe seems to have mostly positive interactions, where as folks in the US negative.

I personally don't want an union in my work place. It's not because I've watched too many movies, but because I've worked at unionized environments before and they are absolutely terrible for me. All the usual symptoms often talked about were there.

Maybe there are good unionized workplaces out there (Hollywood has been frequently pointed to as an example), but I've never experienced them. Out of my interactions with unions, they've been 100% negative, hence my views on unions. Until some of these underlying issues are resolved, I think we'll always have this very mixed to negative view of unionizing.
The problem is that developers and teachers are not assembly line workers, and any performance measurement metric you come up with will be optimized for with poor results.

Grade teachers on their students' test scores? Okay, now you have teachers spending inordinate amounts of time on overfitting the curriculum to the local standardized testing requirements and less time actually ensuring their students are educated.

Grade developers on their lines of code or number of features shipped? Be prepared for needlessly verbose code and buggy garbage shipped out to meet the metric.

Throw these objective criterion out the window in favor of a more judgment-based approach? Be prepared for lawsuits when the mistake is eventually made.
Unless their financial calculus led them to conclude that they needed to buy exactly that much stock of their company as they received as stock compensation, they should be selling and redistributing as they see fit.
Haha I do have lamps, at least, though it's not quite the same as getting actual daylight. I'm now using a bunch of Hue bulbs to try to emulate real light a bit better. Even still, I prefer dark themes for most things. I'm not really talking white-text-on-black though, I usually use https://draculatheme.com
It requires all of those things because users want a doorbell that will easily connect to WiFi and a nice phone app, that includes not only movement alerts but also a miniature social network. And the startup making the doorbell wanted to make a quick proof of concept to get funding and then build organically using a flock of less expensive younger developers.

Alternatively, a company could invest money into writing something that looks beautiful to software developers that you could SSH into. The architecture would be sound because several gray-beared devs would talk about the relative merits of different approaches. It could offer so much more functionality if the user is willing to acquire minimal knowledge of Linux. The only problem is that the only people interested in it would be other software developers.

We're building stuff for people, not other geeks. Businesses invest in software as a means to an end, and if the backend is ugly but accomplishes that end, then it's successful.
I would say this is spot on from what I've heard. When emotions are this high ( look at the cops faces when they are exposed ) there's nothing but muscle memory.

I took a class on active shooter scenarios where they focused on that "be careful how you train" aspect with the illustration that a police officer ( no idea where ) once responded to a call where an armed man pointed a pistol right at the cop close range. The cop quickly disarmed the man, but then returned the firearm to the man, whereupon the man shot him dead.

In drilling the technique he used to disarm the man, police would practice in pairs, taking turns disarming each other from the draw. This meant that two officers would stand facing each other, pistols in holsters. One officer would draw, the other would disarm, hold the weapon pointed at the first officer for a beat, then return it to the first officer in order to draw his or her own weapon.

Then when you start to hear about corrections departments sending officers for crowd control... the animal instincts and things these guys are trained for is so volatile.
I'm aware of all the complications with getting a precise number, I'm more just wondering if there's been a rough - or even anecdotal - improvement in outcomes for people who do end up in the hospital
> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed

That's... currently the case?

> red highlight for comments > x years

I don't find age has a 1:1 correlation with it being outdated. If some advice doesn't make sense to me, I'd look at the dates of this and other answers, because most often there will be newer answers (lower voted because they haven't existed as long / aren't seen as much) and/or comments added to the answer indicating how to do it in python3 or whatever the new thing is.

Sometimes posts from 2009 help me, sometimes posts from 2018 are outdated. Maybe this could work if a time limit is configured per tag, but even then, I expect it wouldn't be very helpful.
Ah okay, thanks for helping me learn :)