skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have much besides: Stay curious and never stop learning, don't put all in one language, don't hesitate to look around every once in a while (in terms of jobs), and try to keep making and maintaining friends.
In other words, it will be legally required for all banks to use Datomic.
Huh? SQLite is nearly 20 years old, and is only intended for small scale use.
Nowadays, we have a few. I am watching /r/longevity for news of relevant research, if you're interested.

> remaining lifespan

Not remaining, but lived through
Comparing Apple blocking apps might not be entirely accurate in this case because, the local law might require Zoom to supply data that identifies the attendees to CCP.

This could lead to the loss of lives and/or imprisonment. eg Chen Qiushi, a civilian reporting on the ground of Wuhan during the pandemic is currently still missing after 126 days with no clear reason other than having too much international attention
https://twitter.com/chenqiushi404/status/1271460191972634624...
Honestly, yes, to a point. If I hired someone and found out they lied about their age, I couldn't trust them again. If I were dating someone, I'd leave. I'd never trust the person again because the age is such a silly thing to lie about and I'd assume that their speech is riddled with other untruths.
I was there in Aug 2019 and I did hear them talking about mongo, There was a programme at the time to "refactor" their estate, a part of that they wanted to replace bunch of ad-hoc databases with clunky- or no data governance with one (or fewer) central places, which will be under Data IT control. The rationale was to reduce risk of data loss, leak or general business continuity issue in what was 6-12 month project.

The cost of architecting relational model that would be cover for 65 mini databases in a bank will be astronomical. It is far easier to setup no-SQL entry point that would auto-conform for whatever requirements upstream applications might have.

It is a technical win for Mongo, but I don't believe this is an attempt by HSBC to get up to speed with database trends. HSBC are removing internal audit strikes, nothing more than that.
The principle here is intellectual humility. Keep Chesterton's fence in mind. Take some time to listen and learn why things are they way they are before you disturb them. Consider your own expertise and its limitations. Assume competence good faith on the part of the original authors. Be willing to change your mind about that, but slowly.

That said, intuition and sensibility are your most important professional assets; you definitely want to nurture and listen to them. The feeling that code is "ugly" is often a signal that it hides surprising behaviors (bugs) or that changes involve more effort and risk than they should. Any software org you want to be part of does care about its ability to continue shipping working software. Protecting that capability is very much part of your job. Don't check in sloppy work. But let senior people take the heat on correcting others' sloppy work, at least until you learn what the attitudes about it are like.

Similarly, don't go having opinions about customer value or business strategy until you have a relationship with the product manager and an understanding of the context, intentions, and roadmap. When you do, they should be weakly held and gently expressed. Software engineering is your domain; there will be times when you know something that others don't and you have a duty to be firm about it. This will never be the case for business.
I am not a fan of this buzzword (and indeed buzzwords in general, the comment above was intending to make fun of HSBC IT for even failing at the buzzword game), but the notion of NewSQL was roughly to keep the relational model and consistency guarantees of traditional SQL databases, but also have horizontal scalability in line with NoSQL databases. DBs like VoltDB and Spanner come to mind as examples -- here are two relevant blog posts from those teams:

VoltDB: https://www.voltdb.com/blog/2016/09/nosql-vs-newsql-whats-di...

Spanner: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/from-nosql-to-new...
Most languages probably have an "interpretation of the sound laughter makes" and across the languages I know it's a fricative-vowel syllable repeated several times. That's about the level of similarity shown for 'huh?' across languages in the study.
Ah they might've changed it to combat bad actors, I haven't tried to use Discord without an account for a while now so sorry about outdated info
^ This. Julia also has amazing differential equation packages and features. It also has some interesting AI stuff too, although my work with that is limited. There are some cool Markov chain Monte Carlo packages too, that are updated relatively often. For more cohesive references, there are books on Julia via Packt Publishing.

While Python has its purposes, Julia is just a fun language to use.
This is probably some aspect of HSBCs computing needs, likely less than 2% of the data the store.
I tried reading Confessions of a Crap Artist, but had the exact same reaction as I did to The Transmigration of Timothy Archer... boredom. Couldn't finish it. I just didn't think it was good. I couldn't see what you saw in it. Someday maybe I'll give it another chance.
Why do they need a ticket system for account deletion? Won’t a normal delete button be good enough? They shouldn’t force their own internal process on to customers, they could easily have that button use the Discord API to create a ticket.
Author of the article here.

The thinking here was that work that reaches a cycle time that is higher than 85% of the other work we completed is probably worth some extra attention. Is the person working on it stuck? Is the problem so complex that it might be useful to sit down and have a look at it together?

We all felt it was a good motivator to work together on a regular basis. Or at least step up the amount of communication around that unit of work.
All languages tend to use shorter words for things that are more common.

The more commonly the thing comes up in conversation, the shorter the word tends to be.

Given how vast the pronunciations are (even in the examples they chose), I think they are creating an illusory correlation.
We are working with HSBC and have not heard about Mongo being a thing despite working on data with them. What location and department were you in if you don't mind saying?
Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows
FYI: Scrum.org changed its Scrum Guide in 2011 to use the term "Forecast" instead of "Commitment":

source:
https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
Fascinating. Are they intending to use this for core transactional workloads? How do they intend to deal with Mongo's (many) known consistency issues?
Migrating from One Cloud to Another Cloud Platform: How Challenging Is IT?
The chemical food additives industry has been around for a long time now - certainly since the times of our great-great-grandparents. The difference is that now we have both more variety, and much more rigorous testing.

There's a reason every country has an equivalent to the FDA that has to approve food additives. These agencies were not formed in advance - they were formed as a reaction to dangerous unregulated food additives, supplements, medicines, and so on. The FDA was formed in 1906. Michael Pollan saying that our grandparents only ate real food is an example of the golden age fallacy.
Because off by a factor of 4 is still far superior to having no idea whatsoever about what's getting built, when it might be done, and what's potentially slipping. I can't plan anything else very well if I have to wait for enough data to forecast, which itself might not even be accurate.
I live in China. It makes a very big difference.

"Angry mobs", as you put it, are just ordinary people freely expressing their opinions to companies that they choose to do business with. No company is forced to comply with the requests of an "angry mob". No government agency is going to punish a company that doesn't comply. Nobody is getting thrown in prison for something they said online.

Please, it does a disservice to those who are actually experiencing real oppression at the hands of an authoritarian government to make this comparison. Here is just one list of people who have been imprisoned in China largely for expressing themselves online: https://www.chinesepen.org/english/category/writers-in-priso...

Meanwhile, the "many conservatives" who you suggest have been censored in the west are still free to broadcast their content to anyone who wants to listen.
The word in French is generally written "hein"

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_(interjection)
If the flame-war detector is triggered, the mods get alerted and decide whether they're actually dealing with a flame war or not. No need to beg for upvotes.
There are quite a few independant developers in the iOS and macOS community who make a living selling apps. This is one of the points in the tweets. These people developing specifically for the platform are often the ones building the highest quality experiences as they're focused in one area and able to make use of all the OS level integrations and user experiences (think accessibility, gestures, spotlight search, siri integration). In short these developers are what make Apple products "Apple". The app store right now is hurting these people the most, if all we end up with is cross platform ports on each platform that behave the same then theres no reason to buy an iPhone in the first place since the experience would be the same anywhere else for far less money.
> I am able to reduce my daily meals to 2 by having a bulletproof coffee in the morning.

For whatever it's worth, two tablespoons of butter on your coffee is 204 kcal according to Wolfram Alpha. Even Bulletproof says things like "Bulletproof Coffee is breakfast" and "curbing your hunger with food that keeps you full for hours. Bulletproof Coffee checks those boxes." which I read as saying that they think of it as (liquid) food. https://www.bulletproof.com/recipes/bulletproof-diet-recipes...

You're replacing a potentially less structured breakfast (I eat different breakfasts every day) with a single standardised one. If you buy Bulletproof's analysis, you might be doing something ketogenic which might be beneficial in some way. But you're not skipping a meal. Though there is a blurb on that page that says something like "you're having a meal without breaking your fast because [arbitrary definition we made up on the spot]".

For whatever it's worth, I wouldn't take health advice from a product sold with an origin story of "the founder was dangerously overweight and at acute risk of stroke or heart attack at the age of 30, so the biohacker in them decided it would be smart to go on a difficult mountain trek in Nepal".
Those "White noise generators" make whispered conversations hard to hear...

Except you can design White noise which is pseudorandom rather than truly random, and then you can subtract the noise back out again...
This happens relatively frequently actually.

Guy buys an Apple Watch and gets notified of an arrhythmia, sees his doctor and he averts a potentially serious incident: https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/apple-watch-atria...
Rap in that era was made for white middleclass people, as it's they who could afford to buy the most CDs.
My point is that it can be done. That's all.

All the non-white friends that I have are way better seducers than me and are just as happy in their relationships. The vicinity of Amsterdam is pretty multicultural, so any open-minded person ends up with a good chunk of multicultural friends. Currently, I'd say that my friendships are 30% Dutch, 20% international (white) and 50% non-white. They're almost all male though.

My closest friend is non-white and when I met his extended family (all non-white as well), I could tell you that all family members were better seducers than me. That also includes for all the non-white people I have in my own extended family.

This means I'm the worst seducer of all the non-white people I know within my vicinity which basically includes 1.5 families and a few friends. Most of them are better looking than me (it's not that hard), shorter and more socially capable. They all get better results.

And yet, the rhetoric that the winner gets all and therefore you get nothing is simply not true. If you want to work for it, then the winner gets all and you get what you want despite not being the winner.

I've approached over 10000 women. My success rate in attracting them is about 0.1%. I'm more than content with that. People that don't have success and haven't at least done 1000 approaches, they haven't put in the work. It's brutal, for me it was. So a shit ton of motivation is needed.

I've seen a few cases (white only) who did put in the work. All of them had really low intelligence, frankly speaking and I have the suspicion that they required some professional help with that.
Euh... moi si.
Is that really true? I've not seen them say so, and it's never come up when I've discussed it with them. I'll have to ask ... thanks for the information/suggestion.

If people want to keep the item but don't want to give me the votes, feel free to downvote one of my comments. I don't care about the karma, I wanted to see the discussion develop and evolve.
Like Santa Claus, things add up.
Surprised no one has mentioned gynantonix
Keeping a file untracked is never what I want. Either it goes in the repo or it goes in .gitignore. My gitignores are usually comprehensive, and when they're not I'll catch it in my self-review of the PR.
Sure, in many careers grad school/phd will help. Not in coding though - in coding, there's nothing grad school can teach you that you can't learn on your own. There are high school graduates who are absolutely top coders.
Ask: So many negative stuff about zoom
I think the during these past few months the only company with so many negative stuff coming out is zoom. Actually I knew about zoom because of news about their security issue.

Yet they are dominant with this old and mundane tech of vanilla video/VoIP.

They are so lucky to get this position in the market. Yet

They are really far from being awesome.
Thank you for that. If only such a standard of writing were more common!
Same, that was the only reason I bought a PlayStation.
Well, if one assumes finiteness all of these paradoxes go away and this discussion is not about anything anymore. I studied physics and am quite attached to infinities. That one constrains oneself to a finite state system mostly does not mean that one is not allowed to look out of the window towards the stars and marvel at infinity anymore.
So far I've seen no rules stating that world records should be taking place on earth gravity. Maybe this is my chance to take some weightlifting records.
Wealth Inequality in America (2012)
As others here have said, any is as good as the other. That said, the short story "Jeeves Takes Charge" in the collection "Carry On, Jeeves" is where it all begins with Bertie and Jeeves. If you're looking for a beginning, this would be it.
Phew, lucky we skipped that one
The WhatsApp API is not as open as Telegram's, you have to apply and pay and so on AFAIK. IDK about signal but feels even more nichey than Telegram. I want to focus on doing one channel well than then expand to others
This was in London HSBC HQ, Equities
Also, a few thousand randomly (or not) selected is not in any way good when the target audience is more than a few million
It has little to do with the Hilbert Hotel. It is sufficient to decompose the original ball into 5 (!) pieces:

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Banach-TarskiParadox.html

It is an existence proof that relies on the Axiom of Choice, of course there is no algorithm to actually construct those pieces.

This is one of the reasons that people distinguish between ZFC and ZF (Zermelo-Fraenkel with and without AC).

ZFC is not regarded as sound by some because of these Paradoxes.
StavrosK has made a list of non-shit games for Android and iOS the other day. I'm grateful for it, because it's otherwise hard to find these games among the sea of garbage both appstores are.

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
Account deletion isn't a very glamorous project and isn't something you can put on your list of yearly accomplishments for a raise. This probably rolled downhill until customer service asked the front end team to put up a static webpage with some crude instructions. I've seen worse, but rarely.
You can view the server, but you can't write anything, and you can't use reactions, so you will actually need an account to open a ticket.
Modern software engineer is in most cases just a bricklayer - he just realises a vision of the business (product owner and his boss etc.). So, in your example, it's not the software engineer who increased retention rates, but rather the manager who thought of writing such improvement, and hired an engineer who then implemented it.

In other words, the implementation is seen as a trivial part of the process, while figuring out what exactly to implement is seen as the core of the value creation.
Dang has said so many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
One of the traps that the CCP like to employ is to compare their own policies to other countries.

The key difference is that most of the comparisons are towards democratic countries with judicial independence which makes the whole thing irrelevant. Following laws in New Zealand which could be changed if the people there find the laws unjust.
How do you evaluate that? (Assuming you don't work for Slack).
> You’re on shaky ground there.

Would you accept prison or murder as counter-argument to this or other opinions of yours? If not, you prefer free speech.

> The US isn’t the moral beacon it was billed to be.

Who billed it thusly? In my books, the US or other nations don't determine the value of free speech, their respect for free speech determines their value.
I have not worked on this project, so I don't have details. Mongo is in a nutshell to replace a database trader setup under their desk and that grew quite important. There is nothing pretty about that. I'm quite sure they will have issues and workarounds for years to come :(
iVerify Added for Security for iPhone and iPad Users
New Fonts on macOS Catalina
I can't handle dark mode. If letters are bright they burn into my eyes and follow my gaze. I use black on solarized background color for years after I dropped the white on black and it feels much better.
You're right, I hadn't seen that. I'll remove my comment.

Thanks for the information ... today I learned.
Right now house arrest and ankle monitors are the used for this. Doesn't apply equally to everyone though...

The solutions are always easier said than done. This is an institutional and societal problem and one that other western societies managed to work around. Of course taking them as a model is considered insulting so here we are.
Well depending on the tonal formalization of it at least how I would pronounce it would probably be very similar to huh just a non-guttural version of it that may have evolved because the language itself is non-guttural.

The question really is if a non-English or any second language speaker of your language understand “huh” as in not the word but the grunt, my bet would be yes.
Do they not have a local Chinese subsidiary that hires their employees there?
Author of the article here.

Unit of work is explicitly vague because it refers to the units you are using in your project, be it user story, requirement, epic, bug etc.

You do not need to know the size of each unit. In fact the method I describe acknowledges that there is variance in the size of each unit.

Some people advocate "same sizing" units of work. I have always thought that was a weird idea because it would imply making small units bigger. How would you make the unit that describes changing the color on a button the same size as integrating with an API? You can't even if you would have perfect knowledge of the amount of work required.
Browserflow Sneak Preview
Painless REST Interactions with React-Redux
This was a nice read, but I felt cheated when I realised that it wasn't a real transcript from 1990 with funny pictures from 2020. I'm more interested in the history of what people were actually saying in 1990 than fiction about what they could have said.
Distribution of malicious JAR appended to MSI files signed by third parties
I would collect data and push events to a new system, not migrate 65 relational databases to a single nosql database.
> Don't watch the fry & laurie series, im sure they're funny, but they cannot be better than the books

The early seasons are fine (but not as good as the books).

In later seasons, however, they decided to "improve" the stories by adding over-the-top stuff that would never have appeared in the books. E.g., at the end of one episode, Bertie and Jeeves literally jump overboard from a cruise liner to escape Honoria Glossop et al.: they arrive back in England eight months later, sun-burnt and bearded.
In JavaScript you should use Number.EPSILON rather than 1e-5
Yes, but sometimes you just want to code up a formula from a book.
Save $50k a year for 20 years, and then ride on the massive bull run that the US stock market has been in the past 10 years.

Alternatively, save $100k a year and just realize more moderate stock growth.
This. even the most flawed highschool level proof of gravity is still probaly correct.
This of course(!) sounds as if like it'll like be quite good.

But. I am more interested in the inevitable corollarial follow-up:

An Thorough & Ignominious Probing Investigation Into The Problematic Presentation Of Pseudo-Intellectual Wankery On Hacker News
Incredible -- was this under-the-desk database fairly recent or quite a while ago? I'd love to hear the story if you or someone else familiar with it is willing to share.
Some UK banks (at least Monzo, Bo, Mettle and Starling) have fairly sound data models for their ledgers and implement stuff like PSD2 fairly effectively. Presumably over time legacy banks will either catch up or incur the regulator's ire
This is why I'm so glad the GDPR exists. They list their email address in the privacy policy so a quick email should suffice.

Obviously you can raise complaints if they do not delete your information as the GDPR does not mandate or expect the individual to have to agree to another parties privacy policy to exercise your rights.

You also have rights to access et al and whilst unlikely it's possible failure to act within this law might cause issues later down the line.
That's some 'let them eat cake' type mess.
You can, I run 1.6 in Parallels VM, FPS is very good.
Tidb, cockroachdb maybe?
Subscriptions only make sense for apps which you are using on a regular basis and where you would expect frequent updates or a regular service provided by the app developer. I am not willing to pay regular subscriptions for an app, which I might not use for a longer period of time. With upgrade pricing, you can decide whether you want new features/maintenance, or just keep continue to use the old application. Which is especially important with respect to your data. With a subscription model you might effectively loose access to your data once the subscription runs out. With the paid upgrade model, you retain access to your data, even if you don't regularly use your app.

It is another problem of the Apple universe, that applications often stops working some time after no update, because Apple keeps breaking old applications. This is one reason which locks me out of Catalina.
Zoom says it is a US company, and the account it banned was a US account. Imagine if everyone did that. China doesn’t get to make their laws for our companies to enforce for us. We have our own laws. Freedom of speech would be dead otherwise.

Zoom needs to own up to being a Chinese company or stop bowing to the CCP, at least outside of China.