skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bring some discussion to my questions

Sure, I'll dive in with a few responses. I'm always tech forward, but never been a "small government" person, so that's my stance. I have a small toy quadcopter myself which because of the UK's 250g rule now, I'm annoyed I can't use freely.

But just because we use and understand these things doesn't really mean it's accepted. It's not that I'm playing devil's advocate, but on HN we do need to understand we don't live in a tech utopia and need to bring other people along with us, not force new tech on them.

> She called the drones creepy. Why are they creepy?

I don't find drones creepy myself, but you've got to remember these are still novel to most people. There's accepted rules about most vehicles (manned or unmanned, large and small) that are just not clear to a lot of people when it comes to drones. If you've even seen one flying in person at all.

If I'm not aware really of what they are, having an ALTA 8 or something come buzzing through the night sky is going to be creepy - this is a flying machine being operated by a random (potentially unlicensed, if they're flying at night and no one knew who it was) person. I don't see how that's not creepy to most people.

> Also you think it is a good use of public resources to drive around and identify people not committing crimes flying drones after the fact.

I know it'll get short shrift here, but yeah, I do. In this instance it transpired it wasn't illegal and probably completely fine, but if a number of people report seeing random stuff in the air that spooks them, I'd hope that someone at least goes and tries to find out what it was. Even just to work out and explain to people what it was.

Admittedly, it's not the best use of their time, but I don't see it as an invalid use of their time.

I don't believe you normalise people to drone usage simply by just flying them around.

> Otherwise it sounds like harassment for something they don’t like.

Diff'rent strokes, but if it's not bothering me, I'd have though having someone official tell someone complaining that actually it's all fine would be better?
Simulation of Fake Web Events
Sometimes we want to generate fake events to test our pipelines and dashboards. Random events don't do the job. So I built this Python package to generate semi-random fake web events.

https://pypi.org/project/fake-web-events/
Given how the Supreme Court decision on abortion has come under fire, I would argue that a lot of American citizens believe that Nevada should in fact be able to to hold a referendum on abortion...

About the EU, "The European Union is a unique economic and political union between 27 EU countries" [1] Who believes it's just a trade club? I'm born in France, grew up in France, and never thought of the EU as just a free trade zone. It's a weird belief to me, and obviously not one anchored in any kind of reality. But that might simply be because it hasn't been sold that way to French citizens, maybe Irish people were told otherwise?

But forget about the EU. When Apple setup its European headquarter in Ireland, it's to sell its goods in all of Europe, what we call the Single Market. The Single Market is not the EU. Apple could have set up its European headquarter in Iceland or Norway, countries that are outside of the EU, yet inside the Single Market. And the same European laws would still apply. These laws are not the rules of the EU, they are the rules of the trade club.

When you enter a member of the Single Market specifically with the purpose of selling to all the members of the club, you can't play dumb and claim you didn't know that the rules of the clubs applied to you.

If Ireland wants to leave the Single Market, it can do so freely. It could even leave the EU without leaving the Single Market if it so wishes, but the rules of the Single Market would then still apply. Trying to stay within the Single Market while ditching its rules is, as demonstrated very thoroughly by the UK, completely impossible.

[1] https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en#fro...
The pool & library or the community?
Neat, thanks very much.
Based on the given examples, it seems that a pre-requisite for a good picture is to have objects at very different distances to the viewer.
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If journalism dies, that's awful, but no reason to support the anti-journalism garbage that replaces it.

WaPo and NYT dishonest political activism is far far worse than BuzzFeed's entertainment listicles.
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I would disagree that having a lot of interest hurts the field. Where are you seeing “noise and low quality work”? For your sake, I hope you’re not reading random papers from unknown authors on arXiv in your spare time!

I think we’ve seen impressive contribution from people without PhDs. Chris Olah and Alec Radford come to mind first. (Note: I’m not implying that you disagree with that statement, just wanted to point some role models out to those without PhDs who want to contribute to the literature.)

High quality work comes from a tiny incisive fraction of the research community. Most published research, even from PhDs, isn’t worth reading. Easily accessible tutorials promoting Colab are not the problem!
Any Twitter client?
SNMP mainly. It collects installed apps (versions) hardware info, warranty info, and basically everything you could want or need to know and tons of stuff you probably don't even care about. It has an optional built in ticketing system (for helpdesk) and even a deployment service. I've set up tons of automation with it. Auto install virus scanner on systems, install VPN on laptops, script execution to change Windows USB power settings, and other little things. You can setup groups, filters, reports, search by systems running a specific version of software (and then deploy an update for those systems). It's basically an automated documentation tool with extras that enable a new person to jump in and be able to navigate the company's network to find computers and get to work without having to ask where everything is. But that also helps for the people who have been there for years to not have to go through and document things. Honestly the ability for it to trace through the network connections is probably the most game changing powerful feature. And you can even use it to execute backup scripts on network switches.

It's enterprise and comes with that price tag, but the cost of it is covered by the labor hours it saves.
Not webscale /s
It sounds like you can be a family as long as your making money.
I don't want to be glib about this, but I will say that it takes a lot to stop a war once it starts, but starting it.. humans have not been known to be most rational actors[1].

1. https://www.history.com/news/6-wars-fought-for-ridiculous-re...
> a much nicer, modern geometric sans serif font

Which font was that?
I don't know. To be honest, having taught a lot of programming stuff, I don't think there is any one best approach to learning programming, and it's very hard to figure out what will be easy or hard for someone just learning. People also learn languages for different reasons--for many people, for example, the main reason they're learning is to get a job in the industry, and if that's the case learning Rust is not really a good idea regardless of any of that stuff, since there aren't that many Rust jobs compared to, say, Python or JavaScript jobs.
Ha, yes, that is annoying actually! Instead it adds a kind of arrow-shaped bullet point. I always wondered why.
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> They determined no illegal activities were conducted by flying a fleet of drones in a low-population rural area so...

And they determined that by investigating (which is what we're discussing here). I'm not arguing about it's legality, just that they determined its legality by investigating something reported by genuinely concerned people.
Keeping my fingers crossed for removal of OAuth and other complications accessing the API. I hate using libraries for this, all I want is a simple token-based REST API, something like Facebook and many others have had for years.
Fair enough. Thanks for posting this, btw!
You are correct! Somehow I did not see that detail. Good that they thought of this.
The affair you're talking about happened more than a decade ago, it was a major and pretty unique scandal in Germany, and the "expert" has been convicted not only to pay damages, but was also found to be guilty of malpractice. The state eventually offered the investigators to be re-hired.

There were no consequences for the "instigators" because, to my understanding, it couldn't be proven that there was criminal intent.

The events got plenty of media attention and high-ranking officials and judges denounced the actions of the agency.

No country is safe from corruption, but this story certainly doesn't support the notion of the country being corrupt, much less "insanely corrupt".
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
I know a bunch of companies doing that. Two of my best friends in good paying software jobs both have unpaid Fridays off indefinitely so that the company can lay fewer people off. It's just inconvenient for AirBnB to care about its employees.
Ask HN: How do you manage your front-ends on multiple platforms?
Most of the software engineering in my organization has been back-end work so far. However, there is a push to start providing front-ends on many platforms (on- and offline Android & iOS, and web, likely including features such as image and location capture). I am worried about the need for many different technologies in a small team.

How do you manage this in your team? Do you hire people with a variety of skills? Do you use toolkits like Flutter/React Native? Are you happy with the decisions you've made on this?
The generalization is not about the employees of the large consulting firms, but about the business practices in these companies and it is quite accurate.
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They have started doing just that, I believe. And waiting a bit seems like a good idea with solar, newer technology is more efficient, reliable and cheaper.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/saudis-...

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1615406/saudi-arabia
Hopefully they will be able to transition to a more sustainable economy based on development of manufacturing and export of higher quality goods. As others have noted, they have some of the best solar resource in the world, but that’s not as easily exported. More like farming than oil production. To take advantage of it, they’ll need local industry.

https://www.alternativeenergyhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/...
The search box:

1) Does not specify what we are searching for - location? Zip code? State? City? Type of food? You need to start typing and see what the autocomplete comes back with to know what to do.

2) Eats characters. I simply cannot type in it, because when it brings up the autocomplete list, it removes the last couple characters I type. The only way I could type in my city was to type one letter at a time, then wait for it to show something before typing another.

It is an idea with potential, but if you cannot even type in the searchbox, it is not ready for launch.
I got a bad headache last time I had the flu. I even had to take paracetamol.
Agreed that the downside is billing and their sales are asshole. I learned to be insensitive to pushy sales when negotiating for software, it's the same shit with half the suppliers. The tool is really great though and worth paying for.

I dread having to go back to Prometheus because the company is too cheap to pay for proper tooling (datadog) and developers would rather write their own time series database for their resume.
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Look up JFK weather satellite speech.
Sure, or with C++ TBAA it can do that too, but those rules work differently from the kinds of guarantees that Rust's type system provides. The C equivalent is (sort of) restrict, but it's used very rarely--so no one has really worked out what its semantics would be like if it were used at the same scale it is in Rust, and there are a lot of bugs.
Historically the main problem with state control of oil hasn't so much been "a lack of accountability" as "The united states government and client states aggressively destabilize your country in order to facilitate access for private oil companies"
At least he resigned when he was caught.

Francisca Giffey, the Family Minister, never resigned when her doctor thesis was found plagiarized.

Also von der Leyen, former German Defense Minister and current European Commission leader didn't resign when she was found that she falsified her official CV.
What are "morals"?
Yours or mine or Joseph Stalin's?

In a moralistic ecosystem, you have a totalitarianism of the "morals" of whoever is in power.
I think you meant the sunken cost fallacy.
Product support ticket systems use twitter and other social media sites to respond to customer feedback, as well as track and escalate issues. When you tweet complaints about your service at Comcast, there's probably a ticket created that someone from their support staff picks up. I think there's a perception that the quicker responses that these tools facilitate can help prevent negative feedback from going viral and doing broader harm to the company.
Far from accurate. The price of solar power in the Middle East is record low, on the order of 1 cent per kilowatt-hour.
Well, that's an example that I'd consider specifically Bavarian, where CSU has been ruling for longer than the CCP has been ruling the PRC (no joke, if you ignore the wartime years the CCP already held power pre-PRC). On a national level things aren't looking quite as grim.
They would continue to be male, forever. "Female" is a sex, not merely a gender identity.

At birth, nobody is "assigning" genders to you, they are attempting to observe your sex from primary sex characteristics. If they see vulva, they are observing a female; if they see penis/scrotum, they are observing a male.

While there are edge cases, it is generally pretty simple.
I have to object on the lot of man hours. This was by far the easier thing to setup compared to all the competitors and the open source solution we have. Maybe a week or two to setup everything on all our hosts and capture all the metrics for systems and AWS and databases and custom metrics.
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Same with all social media, save for HN and light reddit use. In the process of de-googling my life as well.
Data science. We are generating ridiculous amount of data right now, most of them are kept somewhere in a data lake. Companies don't have a clue on how to process or analyze them. I think in 5-10 years, it'll be a tipping point where the companies finally put a lot more money into that space.
Here is an official simulator for France: https://mon-entreprise.fr/simulateurs/salaire-brut-net

It's not 100% accurate (the exact amounts depend on many variables) but gives a good idea. For example, a cost to the employer of USD 100k (87460€/year) gives a before-taxes salary of USD 70.5k, and a salary after all taxes of USD 47k.
Russia meddles as well, although they do it as competitors... Russia makes more money from oil and gas if the Middle East has “problems” with oil & gas production.
The "helped off the property" part always surprises me as a non-American. In Poland, unless you get fired for disciplinary reason (which would be reserved for conscious infractions against the company, e.g. sending confidential data to a competitor), you still work for two months at the company. This is the time in which you can look for another job, pass over your tasks to your other coworkers, release all the accounts, make sure the data is backed up where it should be etc.
Tried it, with limitted success. Maybe I should dive in deeper.
My personal theory on this is that it was an attack to stop Trumps' incessant tweeting to America. Inside access, leaving his account untouched, then all the screaming about how bad it could have been so we should never use direct, un-channeled, unfiltered communication by state leaders on social media.
Me: "In which browser?"
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense - I was thinking in terms of the ultimate client application being compromised, which isn't helped by refresh tokens, but hadn't considered that services along the way don't ever see those tokens.
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That's almost worse. The fact that SoftBank employees were willing to pile their own money into this fraud should tell you something about the due diligence they're doing when dealing with other people's money.
My experience visiting there disagrees. They have a large amount of land, but they also have sandstorms, along with sand being everywhere. In the long run, the maintenance should outweigh the benefits, unless they find a way to deal with this issue.
And that's not a freak one-time event

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elijah-mcclain-was-injected-ketamine-while-handcuffed-some-medical-experts-n1232697
Yeah I remember reading about this about 20 years ago. Take a look at what Germany did to water down co2 emissions rules, or the widespread environmental destruction within the EU carried out with the complicity of Brussels, then come back and continue the argument.
As a decade long researcher I can say that will never happen. My old boss had 100+ publications a year and was the highest paid in our department, almost ALL of them were either fake for nonsense science.

How could people like her succeed if not for the completely broken system? The broken system is the way it is because it benefits the people in power, so thats not going to change.
How does dexamethasone help Covid-19 patients?
Are you sure you want to start excluding and limiting this field? Part of the higher salaries is hype not necessarily value. That brings in the crowd who download change a parameter or two. They are not making world-wide breakthroughs but through that simple act they understand how things work better and can make more informed decisions around this topic.

Any company who hires based on a simple hello world might be the company that doesn't even know why they want ml but follow the trend. This person might be the best candidate because they can think about ml on a slighly deeper level than the company and can help bridge that first step. They probably know the buzzwords, what's hot that's important to marketing.
Typical entry level roles start at around £32k.

Senior individual contributor roles (so not factoring in team lead roles) go to as high as £90k but around £70k is more typical of the average senior frontend developer.
It's not whataboutism when you are comparing two things. Jed is suggesting one company culture is superior to another. The fact that it doesn't solve a problem that the other also doesn't solve is non-sequitor in such a discussion.
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Yay, maybe the West can stop invading countries and propping up dictators once there's no valuable natural resources there. I just read that back, and I really wish I was kidding.
Exactly. I always tell the people I work that we are a team and not a family. Your family wont kick you out if you become lazy. Yor family wont judge you if show drunk or late to work. I will. As a team, we want the best for each other within the game we are playing. But extending that to a "family" analogy is BSing people. I've had to fire around 5 people in my career as a manager. And I can guarantee you I care less for that people than for cousins I seldom see.
See

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

According to this source ,

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sctb

are moderators(also they replied to my email),so i can say that they are putting great effort in running hn.
Scheuer is my personal pet peeve. His last act was to create road traffic regulations, except he made some procedural errors, so 16 states have to roll them back and implement them again once it has been properly voted on the law. All that after evaporating 500.000.000 € in a pissing contest everyone knew he was going to lose.

The guy is corrupt and comically incompetent, but he just seems invincible. Why is he still in office? My theory is, that it has something to do with his dialect and his overall slightly idiotic appeareance. Though not on the same level as Trump or Boris Johnson, still that seems to give him some sort of protection, because people do not expect anything from him in the first place.

But then again, like OP correctly said: Europes leader has a corruption scandal at home, deleted evidence, the whole thing, but just keeps doing her thing.
First time I hear about "post-commit" reviews... That sounds like a very bad idea to wait until after the code has been committed to master before reviewing it.

It is perfectly possible, and can be automated to commit code to a branch for code review then only once it is approved can it be merged onto master.

We do that using Gerrit:

Dev. work on something on their own branch. Once ready they push to Gerrit for code review, a branch is automatically created off master.

Once it is approved, gerrit will merge that temporary branch to master.

This ensures that only approved code ends up on the master branch as arguably it should be.
I haven't experienced nosecone on a 747, but have done the Concorde. My partner at the time (1996) worked for BA, and they were struggling to fill the seats for most trips. You probably know, but the BA service was 100 seats, and entirely first class.

The trip was LHR to JFK.

Pricing was ludicrous -- I think around AUD $600 (one way). This would have been 10% of list. The joys of ID90.

I have a handful of recollections. Most of the seats were empty. I could not stand fully upright in the aisle (I'm 188cm, or ~ 6'2"). Breakfast was delicious, and it was five courses. The whole flight was very noisy. At cruising altitude I was sure I was seeing curvature of the planet (I concede this may have been wishful thinking, or an artefact of the windows).

It was about four hours, and you really did land before you took off, on that particular leg.

At the time - young & holidaying - this wasn't as big a deal as it would have been in more recent years, when work obligations transformed travel from enchantingly wondrous, to onerous obligation.
Somewhat related to your points, I found that a lie-flat bed is highly beneficial for long haul flights, such as US <-> Asia, especially as you get older and your body can't take the punishment of sitting in economy for 13 hours. I would lose a day upon landing when flying economy from being too exhausted and needing to crash, which was greatly mitigated by getting a good sleep lying down. Lie-flat beds are available in business class, so it's much less cost prohibitive.
AirBNB guests typically don't contribute to the community.
> He sold his shares hours(!) before being signed on as minister

This is normal procedure. There is a rather short timeframe between appointment and becoming a minister. Of course did he sold it only after he know it would be a problem.

> How you can mistake this obvious corruption for incompetence is beyond me.

He had no benefits personally, so it's not corruption.

This is just a nice story you tell the kids to give them a scapegoat, ignoring the historical context. This happend 1982, when Internet did not even exist yet. And fiber at the time wasn't really great as today. Copper probably was indeed the better solution, consicdering that survived the decades, where fiber from that time has already become useless long ago.