skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To turn a piece of clothing inside out is "auf Links ziehen", which is hard to translate. I find "inside out" to be quite the intuitive metaphor.

The idea is that clothes have a "right" side (rechts) and a "left" side (links), and you pull it (ziehen) so that the left side is visible, i.e. on the outside.

Someone wrote that the terms left and right come from knitting where the right side is the flat side, and thus worn on the outside. Not sure whether that holds water.
When you click to download DokuWiki, MediaWiki, etc. you are downloading a folder that contains the application as well as an install.php script.

My steps work for all 5 of the wikis I tried before I settled on MediaWiki (though I don't necessarily recommend it to everyone). The install.php script might be in some subfolder, but the website instructions will tell you.

Neither DokuWiki nor MediaWiki (via sqlite) needed to have an external DB running, though some wikis do depend on MySQL.

It was just a quick summary to show how easy it is. e.g. PHP has an embedded server these days.
What have you done to deserve such torture?
Native german speaker here: In this context, I would read "umkehren" as "turn back / turn into the direction where you came from"
The Flexible Work Fallacy
For now, Thailand has successfully contained the virus.

Two decades ago, Laowattana was considered a fringe scientist by his peers. But the pandemic has been a bittersweet validation of his life’s work.

A little good news coming out in a sea of news about people dropping the ball and what not. Also, the part about designing robots in a culturally sensitive manner is fascinating.
True, but just by looking at the code it looked right. An autoformat tool would have made the mistake more visible. I wonder if popular linters would pick it up (not only the lack of braces as a rule, but the misleading indentation)
This might surprise you, but a huge amount of business logic is already stored in databases etc rather than in text based code repositories. There are lots of enterprises that have platforms (e.g. Salesforce) that allow you to build things without code.
On that note, I just finished a very interesting biography of Elizebeth Smith Friedman who is a total unsung hero and the founding mother of the science of cryptography. Her team with the Coast Guard cracked enigmas in parallel to Turing. The Woman Who Smashed Codes, by Jason Fagone.
> The cost of living in London eats up any salary benefit.

The cost of living in Dublin is not much different from London though.

> there is almost no benefit to living in London unless you're young or work in finance.

What is the benefit to living in Dublin?
Are you saying the electorate are somehow unable to cope with an idea being mentioned online? Ridiculous.
Oh dear, I can relate. We did Mongol Rally last year, 27'000 km total From Latvia to Mongolia and back. 2 months in an ancient soviet car (Lada 1200 from 1984).

We got proper stuck by a salt lake in Iran. A local tried to pull us out, only to get his car stuck as well. First tractor could get him out, but not us. Ended up getting a bigger tractor which essentially lifted us out.. Took about 4 hours in total.

Here's a pic:

https://i.imgur.com/yA92DZA.jpg
But UKIP split the vote. From memory, the combination of UKIP and Conservative total votes was > 50%.
That’s basically how JIS works, which is the layout that dominates the market later on, and what you’d find on most PCs. The keys has hiragana on them, and a special key is used to switch input type.
Color Conundrum (2019)
Of course they did. They stoke issues that already exist, they're not invented. Just like how the Russians have been stoking race-issues in the US for decades.

Are Antifa and BLM Russian plots to destabilise the US?
They certainly have that signature [0], that doesn't mean they aren't valid movements.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q
Nine Explanations of the Monty Hall Problem
Whoever expects a site to load in under 500 ms has only a vague idea about the real world, and probably never tried enabling connection throttling in developer tools.

3-4 sec TTI is to be expected from a fully static, server-rendered website delivered from an AWS CF edge through a realistic sloppy mobile connection.

Even at 5+ sec TTI you will probably have green PageSpeed with rating in the nineties if everything else is good.
Pomelo has a bit of a different ratio of rind to fruit than most grapefruit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomelo#/media/File:Citrus_gran...
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1484/
Interesting question. Love to learn more about this myself as well.
One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)[video]
I don't really understand your take-away except for a cynical "bah, nothing ever works so don't try." Or maybe it annoys you that you didn't see some trite platitudinal disclaimer in my post about how how life is all about trade-offs and what works for Bob might work for Alice.

It's like you're about to tell me that exercising doesn't pay off because it's hard to stick with a strategy. "Heh, let's see if he's still doing pushups in a year."

You don't seem to realize you're just describing literally all systems. How organized is everyone's filesystem and ~/Documents folder? It's pure chaos with the only sweet release being that you might not carry it over when you upgrade computers and get to start from scratch.

Will I be maintaining my localhost wiki in a year? I don't know. But it's worth a shot. After two days it's already 1000x organized than even my best efforts so far.

Is it for everyone? Nothing is for everyone.

But your comment seems to suggest that you think the alternative to <organization strategy> is organized data which obviously isn't the case.

What you will realize is that there is no perfect one-size-fits-all strategy. All you can do is try things and see if they work for you, and see if you stick with them years later.

So, for today, I recommend trying some localhost wiki options in your battle against chaos. If it doesn't work for you, so what?
Your problem is with the article?

So you have a problem with the fact that after an official UK investigation found deep and troubling Russian interference, newspapers decided to report it?
The age of blunt diplomacy? Twitter can be used to escalate global conflict
It's actually even more useless than that. The wording has to be taken entirely literally: in the last few days it was discovered that PHE was reporting a COVID death as anyone who ever tested positive and who has subsequently died. Not of COVID. Not even with COVID. Someone who has ever had it, and then died any time later for any reason at all.

Under this definition COVID-19 is a terminal disease from which nobody ever recovers. If it hadn't been noticed, the English death toll would eventually have matched the case count.

Matt Hancock was apparently furious when he found out, now a review of PHE has been triggered as they've been serving the UK with bogus stats for months. Notethe coviddata site says PHE wasn't even deduplicating tests until 2nd July. So "case count" before then was also misleading. 30,000 positive cases vanished overnight and that assumes they did the deduplication correctly, but the government is so bad at data handling that at this point it's unclear if any stats can be trusted.

This stuff is really important and it's clear a lot of people on HN are in denial about it, because each time it gets brought up a torrent of downvotes follows. The COVID stats are wrong. They're not even just useless, they're actively misleading. They lead to beliefs like this one:

In the UK, we were loosing 1100 people a day entirely through covid

which is not true and has never been true. It's a belief based on assuming the stats are measuring what actually matters/what people want to know. In reality the stats are measuring what's easy to measure. It leads to huge over-reaction to what is in reality an extremely mild virus.
I’m always torn on this one.
I value low taxes and freedom, and personal responsibility.

However it wasn’t until mid 20s when I started feeling weird after drinking soda that I started realizing it was damaging my body.

It was many years laterthat I realized diet drinks were also bad.

Information is out there, but people are amazing at ignoring it.

I talk to kids all the time about sugar addiction. They understand it. They also have zero sled control around it.

Things for them fall into the category of “this specific Brand of food/drink is good/bad”

Other part is I grew up with food pyramid.

Being taught by government that carbs were good helped re-enforced a lot of poor choices. Was a slow realization over mangy years that growers were using government to pump out bad information.
Can we start being honest about it then? "The Russians are doing it, and we need to stop them, because we should be the only ones doing it". That's honest. "The Russians are meddling with the divine nature of democratic elections" is fake and shit.

And can we go back to not pretending that there's nationalism and national interests and just ignore the twitter mobs that form when it's suggested? It's obviously true, it's strongly hinted at in these kinds of things, it's evoked in Covid-19 responses, but it must not be said. It's not just not helpful, I believe that having things that are obviously actively done but forbidden to talk about is harmful to everybody's psyche.
[Reposting an old comment, with some minor changes]

How many hours per week?

Python with the turtle package looks like a nice starting point. I didn't use it, but I programmed in Logo when I was young. Some link found in Google https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/draw-square-and-rectangle-in-t...

When she grows up, she can abandon syntax, and use all the parenthesis she saved while she was young.

Also, don't underestimate Excel. It's very powerful and you can do a lot of interesting things. For example, I like recursive defined sequences, like A2=(1+A1)/2, A3=(1+A2)/2, A3=(1+A2)/2, ... ?
I mean if I could look at myself sitting in my own garden it would be unimaginably awesome.
So UK voted leave because of Russian interference.
US got Trump because of Russian interference.

In other words, stuff that happens we don't accept can't possibly be because we are out of touch with public sentiment?

When something happens we agree with, Russian interference must have stopped then?
That's circular logic.
Show HN: Webflow to Email Integration
> And having a large home + garden is better than being locked into a tiny apartment with everything closed

You'd think living on this island, I'd know someone with a big home and garden in Dublin. But, anyone I know that does, doesn't live in Dublin.
It seems like a good model, but probably because it helps you see things from a new angle.

That is, the benefit is not focusing on (not (not A)) instead of A -- with the right choice of A you can flip those, but rather when everyone is thinking about A, see if a double inversion offers new solutions. My 2c
I think it was due to org-mode, which has its share of bugs and glitches. Either way Emacs refused to evaluate a function because I had a commented out line with a closing parentheses in it, and would only accept it after I deleted that line.
Amazing alliterations always achieve admiration.
I don't think it was Electron or even anything based on Chromium - I could be wrong, my memory is fuzzy. But I think they said it was a custom implementation that predated Electron. Don't quote me on that though. Obviously someone that actually works there would know best.

Another financial firm I interviewed at - Tradeweb, also had something similar. Custom implementation, not Electron, but in their case, yes Chromium.
Dotbare: Manage Dotfiles Easily and Interactively
Why would someone who cannot even think why Russia might want to interfere in the UK’s politics, even comment and reveal their ignorance to the world.

I mean, you aren’t even saying they did/did not interfere. You’re saying that you cannot even imagine why Russia would care about the UK.
"... a tool bosnianbill and I made."
This was even more amazing to me http://oskarstalberg.com/game/planet/planet.html
I hate it, because it’s either:

A) not a law, but a principle

B) a tautology (formally the essence is “All non-trivial abstractions are non-trivial”)

(Let alone the weaselly “to some degree“)
> zrythm.org/RU not found

Automagic redirect wasn't such a good idea here.
anyone else just getting a blank page here?
I think they're using Gtk but they're basically using it just as a canvas to draw their own widgets.
Is Covid-19 Spiking Burnout Rates Among Technologists?
The theories, the implementations, or both?
Actually we need at least one article on how deep UK secret services have been meedling in United States elections. Any more "dossiers" for us from ex-MI6, dear Beeb?

There will be no war with near peer powers since the 'guvners' in City of London likely do no wish to glow in the dark. All these games are to extract even more concessions from the subject classes and play binary political games for plebe entertainment.
Please change the URL by adding "https://"
I'd like to see a truly flexible code display system that treats things as a matrix.

As the author describes, you have a number of possible concepts we might like to visually denote:

- Language constructs (ie, traditional syntax highlighting)
- Parentheses/bracket pairs
- Context highlighting
- etc etc etc.

The author considers a single "information channel", text color.

There are other possible, largely orthogonal, information channels.

- Text background color
- Font weight (light/bold/regular)
- Font face
- Font italic / upright
- Font underlines (single, double, dashed, bold, squiggle, etc)
- Font underline color?
- Perhaps font effects (shadow, blur, etc)
- The editor gutter (Sublime and others expose this)
- Hover state (ie, tooltips)

I'd like a text display system that lets me mix and match inputs and outputs, matrix style. Perhaps I'd like to use font weights to denote one concept, and underlines for another.

Perhaps I'd like to use standard text-color choice for language constructs ala traditional syntax highlighting, and text background color for "context" or "semantic" highlighting (where each variable gets a unique color within its scope)

It would most certainly be able to create some real visual nightmares with this level of control, but applied judiciously, it could be very valuable.
Maybe you’d enjoy software consulting work under a firm with good engineering management. You get to touch many different tools and tech depending on project.
It's just tedious virtue signalling, rather than a contribution to the thread. We all know he did things that are considered abhorrent when viewed against the current, moral zeitgeist.
> Competitive tax framework

I genuinely hope we can get rid of VAT once we leave the EU as it won't be mandated anymore, but that's wishful thinking on my part. We're probably too dependent on it now. :(
At least for me, the fact that it is purely licensed under the AGPL and that the copyright is owned by multiple people makes me far more comfortable with using it. It's a guarantee that the project will remain open source so I don't have to worry about suddenly being in a situation where I have to migrate away because the company or person decided that they don't want to have this be free and open source software anymore.

I guess, to a certain extent, that's because I'm an individual, not a company, and one that tends to open source pretty much everything they write. This is the same licensing that I use for pretty much all my projects (AGPL with no CLA).
The Problem with Solano County's Rail Plan
I feel your pain. Probably well past 'fixing' now, but a 'type' could be passed in with the payload, even if it's not exposed as the URL itself, no?
That’s kind of the point, Russia has weaponised public sentiment through manipulation and misinformation.
"Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law"
What is the proof for that? The article specifies none... Not even hard evidence.
The problem with the EPL is that if your software is a derivative work of EPL licensed software, the EPL applies your software, including the obligation to provide access to the source of your software to the entities to which it is distributed. Determining if a work is a derivative work in software is far from straightforward. The EPL FAQ for instance points out that this might be an issue when using software that generates code.
I'd never thought of Charlie Munger as a pomo, but here we are?
Next thing you know the POTUS will be engaging in a supplementary play of meaning which defies semantic reduction?
More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901635
Jacobi was a mathematician and his "Umkehrfunktion" is in english "Inverse function".

It also seems the common english translation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=invert+always+invert

To be fair though:

While his Wikipedia entry has the sentence:

> He is said to have told his students that when looking for a research topic, one should 'Invert, always invert' ('man muss immer umkehren'), reflecting his belief that inverting known results can open up new fields for research, for example inverting elliptical integrals and focusing on the nature of elliptic and theta functions.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Jacob_Jacobi#Scien...

The attributed source for that, a paper from 1916, differs in the translation:

https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1916-23-01/S0002-9904-1916...

> The great mathematician Jacobi is said to have
inculcated upon his students the dictum: Man muss immer
umkehren. One must always seek a converse, turn a thought
the other end to.
Hitler was a terrible author.

Are you seriously trying to compare the achievements of Hitler and Churchill in a morally neutral context?
Presentation: The Technical Evolution of Mailinator.com
Install and Run Azure CLI on Mac – Easy Guide
I don't think that scenario would even be possible. Shareholders would seek an injunction. They have to maximise shareholder value, and such a decision clearly wouldn't be doing so.
For related chat; #zrythm #lad #lau #lv2 and #jack on freenode.
Unfortunately most of what we know of human psychology is really just what we know of university student psychology.
Isn't this super battery intensive?
Except in places that charge a tax and $0.05-0.10 can deposit.
Databases can usually be exported as, and rebuilt from, some kind of plain text format - be it CSVs, JSON, DDL+DML scripts.

Of course it's less efficient than using the vendor's native dumps. But it's still important that the option exists, because it means that, in a worst case scenario, you can unfuck your data with text-based tools ranging from notepad to enterprise distributed buzzword ETL.
The Philippines is a former US colony and inherited many things from them, including liberal gun laws.
WA Health information was published for months by teenage 'script kiddie'
It was a sarcastic comment.
> We’re considering either splitting up our cron jobs into multiple servers, or setting up a new system using a modern tool like Kubernetes.

:facepalm: beanstalkd can handle a pretty massive amount of jobs before you need to start worrying about scale. I love the huge jump from simple to complex.
Wow, what a long comment.

I think this is another perfect example of brexiteer mentality.

In the original comment you made a simply, wrong claim. I disproved it with a fact including a citation.

This apparently is "dismissing discussion" while your random uncited claims are "opening discussion". But if all were doing is spewing crap, doesn't that harm actual discussion? Isn't that exactly the sort of fact free, reality rejecting, cultism that I claimed originally? You're sort of making my point for me.

So what happens next, maybe there is a point here with some content?

>Which is great if it worked, but the reality is that a small nation like Iceland can whack out a better trade deal with China and the US than the EU can in less time, it doesn't leave much confidence.

OK, so you're saying we can get a better deal without the EU? That isn't what you said before so you're changing position, but maybe there is something in that.

So what is so great about Icelands deal with China vs the EU one? No comment on that. I suspect that's because that would involve facts and details and involve some comparison of the UK (a larger service economy) and Iceland (a tiny economy that mainly exports fish and aluminium).

Then its on to the fishing trade deal on fisheries. Which wasn't part of our EU membership, and isn't a trade deal. This is a bad deal and you do give reasons: it allowed to much fishing damaging fisheries and it didn't allow enough fishing destroying British towns. You're ability to have these contradictions in the same paragraph is further evidence that you've left reality. You believe we can get a "better deal", but that deal would have to increase and decrease fishing at the same time. Great. You've also missed that the fisheries deal was negotiated not to be perfect, but to better than the free for all previously imposed. Or that the multiple UK governments have repeatedly refused to reopen the matter or to use any of the protection permitted under the deal.

This is the whole brexit case in a microcosm: you're unhappy about something that isn't the EUs fault, you don't have a solution because there isn't one, so we have to leave the EU, because you want the people who setup the system you don't like to have less oversight from Brussels.

Also, FYI, Greenland isn't a nation, its part of Denmark and (for trade purposes) the EU. Again, facts bro!
Ask HN: Is working at ThoughtWorks a good opportunity?
Hello HN!
I got an invite to a phone interview at ThoughtWorks next week and I wonder if that's a good opportunity or not.

From what I perceive, they have a reputation in outstanding practices and an interesting choice of tech stacks. Also, they do consultancy, so the tasks are never the same (I wasn't able to work on the same product for more than two years in the past).

So, the setting I imagine from the limited info I have, would be perfect for me. Could you provide some more info, such as insights as an employee or customer of TW?

What is the general (int'l) tech industry perception of TW alumni?

What are the career perspective in such a consultancy?

Two concerns about TW rose:

- First, did the sale to private equity firm have a significant impact? Is TW still reputable in what and how they do it?

- Second, I read that "social justice" would take a third of their interview process. I certainly respect what they do, but I would consider myself a bit more on the conservative side. For example, I believe that helping people in need is an act of decency (and I am engaged in non-profits for that reason), but I doubt that this kind of compassionate behavior should be "enforced" on "the rich" by the government, also I do believe that equality of opportunity should be top priority for a society, but economical equality ("redistribution of wealth") should not be the desired outcome. Would their left-leaning culture accept such views?

Thanks for your input!
Customizing pandoc to generate beautiful pdf and ePub from markdown
Well, you don't have to open the link in a new tab.
What about supporting tabular datasets?
This is amazing. Thank you Robert.
There is no reason not to store the text as a canonical representation alongside an alternative AST representation. A valid AST can always be rendered as valid source code and valid source code can always be parsed back into an AST.

So if the AST format changes incompatibly, you simply need to let the compiler regenerate it from the source code.
Not sure what your comment intends to say. I also have no idea what you mean with 3) A shortcut.

Of course an Electron app or a website are similar to what I describe because it all uses web technologies for the ui frontend, which always means some kind of browser. You could even argue if an electron app is just some kind of website.

But again.. not sure what you are getting at and if you tried to answer my question.