skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I agree with that.

The BBC blog about their decision to use Nato (instead of NATO)[0] is from 2013, a month after their decision to make that change, and starts with:

> Barely a week goes by without at least one BBC News website reader asking why acronyms are in lower case: ‘it should be NASA, not Nasa.’

I disagree that this is a British thing generally, and rather it's a conscious stylistic choice made by the BBC. If it was a British thing generally, it holds that there wouldn't have been a need for the blog post at all.

I also don't think 7 years is enough time to bastardise a language (unless you're talking about a dialect, at which point it doesn't always take very long to literally destroy the meaning of words)

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7c...
Of course the biggest gain of ORMs is initial dev speed.

If you're going to stand up a business in a week or a month, Django ORM and its migrations are going to get you a pretty darn good solution without spending hours and hours thinking about your RDB design and handling many-to-many relationships "by hand".
And still going on...maybe shake that dust off, no?
Yeah, the wire between the two doesn't look that long. I wonder if it's a portable connector. From the bottom picture, it kind of looks like a headphone jack, but I'm doubting that's the case. I wish they'd have mentioned the connector type to see if there are alternative cables available.

As it is, it seems too short to comfortably have each half to my sides when laying down.
John Bell would like to have a word with you.
I think we’ll disagree, but I’m excited to see others use arbitration weaponization like this against other platforms when they unilaterally take action against users (free speech or otherwise). Cheap force multiplier.
> arbitration - intended to fuck over users

Arbitration is disadvantageous to users in the case of class actions.

In cases of individual grievance, it’s vastly cheaper to bring and settle claims in arbitration over courts. A lot of the conflicts-of-interest issues in arbitration, moreover, can be avoided with competent counsel. The same counsel one would require to get started in state or federal courts.
No video of someone using it, at speed? Seems a bit sketchy.
Quick summary: USA and EU emissions are down, China is up a bit, India is up a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_Ch...

EU emissions overall are down, but with large differences between countries. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/9779945/8-08...
You said:

>Please name some relevant countries who might be willing to bet their internal security that a hypothetical 5 year security promise from the US would definitely be operative after year 4

I deem Taiwan to be a "relevant country" due to their relevance to the technology industry.
It's sadder than that, because the latter two implies there were some evil mustache twirling decision makers in government who want to cause grief by raising tuition. Instead, it's a combination of good intentions gone awry: the government flooding the marketplace with money by offering student loans to nearly everyone, regardless of probability of payback; and the universities happily soaking that money up by spending increasing amounts of money on "student experience" and athletic programs, in a bid to attract students.
What makes a master isn’t success, but expecting failure
These musicians can just build their own compeeting video platform. At least they are very keen to present such an argument when discussing social media censorship.
If that happens it may have wider consequences.

ARM would become owned by an American company. It has to comply with American restrictions on dealing with China but that would make it essentially no different from any other American company, either legally or in fact.

So in the current context this would be bound to raise eyebrows in Beijing, and China could only react by doubling-down on developing domestic alternatives.
I should have said "as easily"
Comments upthread were concerned that your least-common-denominator, I-watch-the-news-so-I'll-know-what-to-say, effort-free regurgitation of status quo platitudes has received upvotes on HN. This concern was deepened for parent comment once an actual conversation started and you had nothing to say in support of the proposition you had stated with such vehemence. If you're not going to expend the effort to think about a topic, please also save the effort required to post about the topic.
I would love to use environment variables, like this:

KUBE_APISERVER_ADDR=https://foo.com KUBE_CERT_FILE=/tmp/cert KUBE_NAMESPACE=bar kubectl get po

This way, I can export them into my environment with my .bash_profile instead of having to persist state just to perform cluster ops
Hey, there is nothing to fix(apart from some typos which I can't edit anymore).

This is real and happened exactly as I wrote. At that point in time I've been that fast. I can be that fast today (the 40km/h I mean) even on a vintage bike with only 3 geared wheel hub, though it takes more effort, and not for more than a few minutes. On very good days I could hold 55 to 60km/h for maybe 30 minutes without headwind on flat grounds, and peaked 70+ for 1 to 2 minutes also.

There was a sports club called RSC(Radsport Club) Sturmvogel(stormbird) at the time, which trained in the forest where I rode too. I've always been faster than anyone of them, and generally one of the fastest of maybe a hand full of unidentified bicycling objects at the time there.

One tends to notice the faces, frames, routes and times when doing it as intensive as I did.

Let's just say I've been mostly unimpressed with Tour de France when it ran on the TV at the times?

Because I did it alone, without fanfare, much less expensive bicycles, no formal training, no car bringing a spare bike if mine had a problem, and...oh err yes....no doping at all!

K?

Regarding the bird on my shoulder, it was safe there as long as it could claw into my shirt. They (the swifts) don't like to stand on their thin legs, they prefer to hang from some wall more. So it either sat there, hanging back and down my back somewhat while I've been bend forward like you do on a racing bicycle, or in front of me somewhere around my neck, always looking around to all sides.

I don't know how to put this exactly, but when you spend so much time with them while they grow up you know them, not completely, but you can tell when they feel good.

And I'm telling you it had fun as in visibly enjoing it while I did that downhilling.

Really.

edit: OFC I had fun also, because speed is what I need!
The low number of participants is to be expected. The Journal is Frontiers in Physiology.
I find myself wondering exactly how many different ways there are to center things in CSS.
What about a stable salary?

In all seriousness, I agree with you. However, I think some degrees are borderline "hobby-tier" - They're cool, but not very useful outside of personal enjoyment.
William Alsup is a name that seems to come up frequently in tech litigation, and I'm rarely disappointed with his opinions.

He was the one who learned Java in order judge to Google v. Oracle case better.

Fun fact: his middle name is Haskell.
Obama actually did win the Nobel peace prize...
Exactly! If they really believe that their ads product is in the best interest of their users, they can convince them to opt in.

The subtext here is that they know it’s not and many users will opt out.
Remotely working: All remote or all office. Hybrids are problematic
This is a problem that is both solved again and again, but also all the available solutions are bad.

In my experience what happens is:

1. you start with a "ship logs from X to Y" product

2. you add more sources and more destinations, making it more of a central router. you add config options for specifying your sources and dests.

3. since the way you checkpoint or consume or pull or push certain sources or dests doesn't generalize, you end up buffering internally to present a unified "I have recieved / sent this message successfuly" concept to your inputs and outputs.

4. you want to do some basic transforms on the logs as you go. you implement "filters" or "transforms" or "steps" and make them configurable. your config now describes a graph of sources -> filters -> dests

5. your filters need to be more flexible. you add generic filters whose behaviour is mostly controlled by their config options. your configs grow more complicated as you use multiple layers of differently-configured filters

6. you have a bad turing complete programming language embedded in your config file. getting simple tasks done is possible, getting complex tasks done becomes an awful, inefficient and unreadable mess.

My solution to this cycle has been to just write simple hard-coded applications that can only do the job I need them to do. If they need a different configuration later I edit the source. I'm writing my transforms in a real programming language and I avoid the additional complexity of abstractions. Of course, that comes with its own costs but I consider it well worth it.
"To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.” - Schopenhauer
To be fair Facebook bought many of their successful products.
Why do you think ARM is undervalued? While I agree, that considering the value of the ARM Arch brought to the mobile world, it may seem undervalued when you compare it to the insane valuation of some BS software companies, their business model of licensing IP doesn't allow them to make mega money. Apple and others have a perpetual licenses even.

Sure, if they want to, they could change the licensing model to bleed their customers dry and increase share price but that would just work temporary as everyone would then accelerate the movement to RISC-V.

ARM(the company, not the Arch) has peaked and will probably just stagnate for the foreseeable future.
So at some point it runs out or keeps posting the same old ones over and over again?
True, I believe it does lead to a well rounded individual to study the arts and humanities, but with the cost of a college degree, the ROI on those courses ($900 per course) is not worth the investment.

applied STEM will pay off for the investment. I still take college courses online after my Masters in CS. I really enjoy learning about humanities and arts at a cheaper CC during my free time.
Why do you think the US has any obligation or right to deal with others situation? It's not like the US is a Idol (anymore) for most other nations.
Legally they won't be going away. My point is that if having arbitration clauses is more expensive and disruptive than not, it will deter companies from using them.
What was your big achievement this week?
Top bar/Threads

Source: Discovered it last week after using HN for years (5?7?)
FireEye has provided their own evidence[1]. BBC has strong editorial guidelines for dealing with evidence from third-parties[2]. You, however, have provided nothing but conjecture and redirection.

Can you substantiate your claim? If not, it’s fair to classify your comments as obvious attempts to gaslight HN’s readers.

1: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/Gh...
2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/accurac...
I see that STEM chauvinism is still alive and well on Hacker News.

Believe it or not, there are some skills you can pick up studying the humanities that will set you apart from your CS major peers. Being able to write and communicate clearly, for example, is pretty much a super power in most tech jobs.
I hope that we see more situations like this. Providers need to stop moralizing IMHO and it would be nice to see this severely affect their bottom line or even put Patreon out of business.
> It depends where you are in the world.

Exactly this. We operate in Eastern Europe with local clients, offering on-prem SaaS. If I added all my clients' servers on datadog it would very easily eat through our profit margins.

> Still it is often not worth to roll your own

I tried hard not to, but at at the end, after spending 1 week trying to setup netdata and failed, I decided not to spend another week trying to setup grafana/influx/prometheus (lot's of docs to go through), and just have some bash scripts send metrics on a $10 digital ocean node service that sends me emails/sms when something "looks bad" (eg. high cpu temperature, stopped docker containers, etc).

I gave up on aggregated logging for the time being, since I can just ssh on each server and check journal and docker logs if I need to (as long as the hard drives don't crash).
Children don't need to 'learn to code'.
I dunno, it feels like an impossible task to create a youtube competitor. Even harder than creating Google's search engine competitor. The storage and bandwidth costs are so big that it can deter most rich companies except maybe a few like Apple or Amazon.

Maybe if nation states can work together, they can take on Google. But then, when have we ever heard of nation states working together on the internet taking on tech giants for the benefit of their citizens? Didn't Europe try it with the search engine and fail miserably?
Apple seems to be against use of nvidia GPUs in their products - would they potentially abandon using ARM if it comes under nvidia ownership?
Amtrak does this.
Could hopefully get Google to invest millions in RISC-v
When you say you're buying a product or result, you're still paying for the production indirectly.
Will somebody please think of the children errrr no i mean small businesses!!
Google is now making it easier to find Black-owned businesses
Snowpack 2.7 Released
Startup Failure Rate: Ultimate Report
And higher ed is arguably bad at what its supposed be good at - a delivery mechanism of relevant knowledge. If you have ever interviewed a fresh grad who didn't study "Cracking the Coding Interview" or did not have a few "side projects" under their belt, then you know what I am talking about.[3] The internet is the most effective information distribution delivery and it's much cheaper, no wonder the value of college is in question.

I don't think it's true. Colleges and education in general are teaching people. But it's more like drinking from a firehose.

But nobody cares about effort to retain what you drank from said firehose, so 90% to maybe 99% of it basically disappears into ether, unless you're in a profession that actually makes use of what you're taught.
> Majoring in "Eastern Gender Studies" will likely waste 4 years of your life.

I took a bunch of art history courses that focused mostly on Asia while double majoring in STEM fields.

I'm a scientist, not a designer, but I do manage a team that includes designers. I often have to weigh in on certain design choices, and getting those choices right is often make/break for the project. The tools and skills I developed in art history courses are super helpful. As a manager or either people or product, these "soft" fields that intersect with anthro start providing a lot of value.

A good friend double-majored in music and has a similar opinion.

So, I would not recommend majoring exclusivity in an obscure humanity. But attending university without taking some upper-division humanities courses is probable a mistake.

Oh, and ignoring intro-level humanities courses is an even bigger mistake. SWEs who are weak coders can often be mentored. SWEs who can't write or communicate well are pretty much a lost cause.
High School education was considered an actual achievement perhaps 70 years ago. Not everyone graduated. But we noticed that people who graduated high school did better, on average. So we decided to encourage people to graduate high school. Partially by force, partially by lowering standards. Now, practically everyone graduates high school, so a high school diploma is useless as a signal of quality. And so, we plan to do the same to the Bachelor's degree, except that we aren't making that free at the point of education.
I wonder if it would be possible for a consortium of companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google to swoop in and outbid Nvidia? All of them rely on customization agreements with ARM and Nvidia, being a chip maker, would be competition. And a consortium like that would allow the consortium members to keep their changes to themselves so whatever Qualcomm and Microsoft are doing with the SQ1 or Apple with their Silicon stuff wouldn't have to be shared will all consortium members -- or a competing chip maker like Nvidia.
Now there are online degrees from good brick-and-mortar schools that do not mention they are online.

Georgia Techs OMSA, OMSCS,
UT Austin Masters in DS, CS online.
Any site with a binding arbitration clause is vulnerable to the same sort of attack.

California shouldn’t have ~ banned class action lawsuits.
If grounding matters for body chemistry, it should matter for non-body chemistry, and there should be an effect that can be shown on the bench. But normal electrochemistry does nothing with a single, non-reactive electrical contact.

(Two electrodes, sure. Or things like sacrificial anodes.)
Many people google topics to find news articles. That traffic may be worth $1B to Google.
Patreon would have been fine if they hadn't cancelled a comedian for having political views that they don't like. Pretty much every comedian has said things that others find offensive.

The Patreon arbitration is the beginning of the revolt against cancel culture and the censorship of conservative voices on various platforms.
Hey John, how about you try it yourself? For the right mindset, I've been told that it is very fun and addictive :)

Thanks for the questions, let me elaborate:

- I didn't have time to prepare privacy policy, but we'll indeed make one and post it. You're right, we should have it.
- There is no tracking. Never will be. We'll blog about why we're for 100% anonymity of the candidates in more detail, but for now: We don't collect names. We don't require valid emails to enroll in the demo. We don't use tracking cookies. We don't send HTML emails with tracking pixels, and we don't use any 3rd party service. We use cookies to authenticate you, and that's it. Javascript, social media buttons, or trackers or analytics of any sort on our pages are considered a bug. What we don't have, is a proper explicit privacy policy explaining all that.
- We're a European company.
- That's how Namecheap sets it up -- curious, why do you think it is a bad thing?
Please, so Covid-19 will become the next excuse in the spirit of “but think of the children!”
Is it heavy enough to keep strong weeds like Himalayan blackberry down? I would think they can break through a layer of mulch made of this (as opposed to wood chips).
Similar UI, but really different UX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2019_United_States_ai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
>One consequence of GPT-3 is that I am now highly sceptical of the human provenance of any HN comment on an article about GPT-3

This likely isn't a bad thing. As more and more generative models come out it's likely that a majority of web based discourse will be bots. This is already a major issue on Twitter and being able to pick out real comments will probably be an important skill going forward.
Yes; the claim was that targeted ads are important because they let small businesses survive. That seems exactly like arguing that the ends (help small businesses) justifies the means (targeted ads, with the prerequisite tracking).
OMG. When will someone make a free Pinboard clone and that's enough
The "defense" Industry?
> the US is (rightfully) sick of playing world police

That is not a reasonable description of the current situation unless you think that the guy whose party commands a thunderous minority but wins (both the Presidency and the Senate) due to electoral bugs gets to say what we, as Americans, are and are not "sick of".
I'm always careful of buying electronics $50+ on Amazon. The quality control is terrible so you could end up buying fake junk.
I guess I just see those “‘harmful’ opinions and information” as the tip of the iceberg. There’s a whole invisible economy around these sites and info. Follow the money.
It's almost like Google's product owners have no idea how to build and maintain comprehensive products. If people aren't using a feature, figure out why and can it if it's not being used because of a lack of interest instead of said feature being poorly implemented or maintained.

Does Google talk to anyone outside of their engineering bro culture?
| Shouldn’t the musicians be the ones how decide how much they want for their music?

They can decide how much they want. Not how much they get. Isn't it the same as with any service or product?

The problem is too complex to be solved by just reducing the labels cut. The price of records is driven down by a combination of piracy, overwhelming offer and the existence of streaming platforms.
...not available.
Isn’t that the point of this thread?
Can you expand on this? I'm a minority with no degree and I'm curious about your perspective.
Well, the entire theory of this paper seems to revolve around the reference[0] that asks "Can Electrons Act as Antioxidants?" Since Oxidation[1] is the loss of an electron from an atom/ion/molecule, it seems like the entire premise doesn't make sense, or I have a severe misunderstanding of what is being discussed. Are we claiming that the free electrons are somehow preventing atoms from losing electrons, and that impacts muscle recovery?

[0] https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/acm.2007.7048

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant
At majority level no, because they control their shares. You can get the majority owner to sell. You can use social means to try to convince them to vote your way. You can get the bank to make bad terms on their financial activity. You can change the law. But in the end they have the power.

Note that some of the above list might include illegal /immoral acts. Depending on what you do you might find success.
> $10 in USA for a dev is nothing, but might be a huge deal for a dev in another country

Not to mention that, USD 10 is a variable amount of money. Today, USD 10 is 25% more expensive than it was last year (and a couple of months ago, it was almost 50% more expensive than it was last year). And there's also the hassle of paying in a foreign currency (and not having common payment methods like boleto bancário available), and the annoying tendency of transactions from another country being blocked as suspicious by the credit card provider.
Jamendo has been around for a lot of years
We give everyone in the U.S. high school education and we don't make the claims you make above.

We used too. A high school education meant something to my grandparents.
I'm kind of wishing this trend will push investment in something open like RISC V. Up and coming countries should definitely be thinking - if US targets China today, it could be them next.
How to get direct clients?

Id love to go C2C but finding clients seems really hard.
Awkward timing for me. I recently bought an Ergodox EZ and the main problem I have with it is that many of the thumbpad keys are too far away to comfortably use. I never thought of myself as having Trump-like tiny hands before but this keyboard looks perfect.
Live shows and concerts are likely to be very limited or nonexistent in many countries for the next year. Only the most dedicated fans are willing to pay for a live stream.
What to Expect from Board Members
> In cases of individual grievance, it’s vastly cheaper to bring and settle claims in arbitration over courts.

Cheaper, sure. You get less out of it, though.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/03/google-wo...

"Arbitration produces clear winners and losers. Employees win less frequently and receive lower damages in arbitration than in litigation. Employers win more frequently, especially if they use the same arbitrators repeatedly. That’s hardly surprising, given that the employers typically choose the arbitrators."