skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you taking it so personal, it's just business. Let it go.
Truly first world problems.
Review process of AI conferences deeply biased and flawed
Python is a bad example. Cython and pypy are very widely used. IronPython, Jython, etc. also exist. Go is a better example, but even Go has a gcc backend, although it is rarely used in production as I understand.
For some uses (if accuracy is more important than speed), ICEWS is available as periodic dumps on Dataverse. They use CAMEO for event encoding which - if imperfect - at least is used elsewhere.

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...
MinGW still has downsides, like using the ancient version of the C runtime, with missing features and bugs. There are also ABI issues between MinGW and VC++ - more so if you're doing C++, but even in C, stuff like FILE* or locales is not interoperable.
Important to note that their findings are of hospitalized patients. Even back in April, nearly all admitted patients were being tested.
Why would anyone touch such a toxic piece of software?
I’d be curious to see this compared to people hospitalized on ventilators for other diseases. You’re not in good shape at that point and I’d expect all kinds of problems.
Some interesting real estate in Nigeria
Just don't understand why real estate is so expensive in Nigeria
It does not instill confidence, for sure. 1 word commit messages, and even they have some typos, also "yeah".
Right now, country codes (ISO 3316 Alpha-2) converted from FIPS. In the future, anything that needs to be converted to ISO.
He is taking the example of a bank transfer to show how bank are efficient and bitcoin is inefficient... Well is France BTC transfer are much faster than traditional bank transfer, and we are not talking about international bank transfer that could take up to a week, and require 5 or 6 banks and institutions to work together (and you have to trust each of those institution), and the cost will be mush higher than an (already expensive) BTC transaction...

But Bitcoin is not really a currency used for everyday life transaction, it is more like digital gold. As such it is doing well !

He is saying we can trust bank, and as such crypto and DeFi have no use. Some people feel otherwise, for 4 different points.

1) Some bank do fail... Icelandic's bank are a big example in Europe. 2008 is another example... People did lost some money there, despite massive state intervention.

2) Government can go and take part of the money you have in your bank account. Cyprus (part of the EU, not a random third world dictatorship) is an example of it

3) Government and central bank choose the monetary policy, which has a direct impact on the value the money you get into your bank account

4) Bank "use" your money in your account the way they want, not the way you want. You have a very little say in the current banks.

BTC do consume a lot of energy... But there are other ways to do transaction with a much lower environmental impact (eg lightening network) and most other leading blockchain are using or moving toward much much much more energy efficient protocol.

BTC is pseudonymous, but you can use other network to do anonymous transaction if needed
While I like do...end for symmetry, most of the time the end will have the same indentation as whatever opened it, and everything in between will be one indentation ahead (especially if you're using an automatic formatter), so I can follow easily without reading the content. And whatever opened it will also explicitly tell the context (if it's a method definition, if/else, for...).

In the end my code ends up like python but with an extra end, which, while adding a possibly unnecessary line of code it at least makes it trivial to copy and paste something into the repl (or other part of the code) without worrying about indentation.
> deem them as legal tender.

That's .. not going to happen, unless one of the "central bank cryptocurrencies" goes live.
Essentially, you just need a simple mapping system to the actual data. Have labels point to a map that points to the correct data.

Probably an oversight or a low priority bug for the Gmail team.

Could also be something complicated in the underlying infrastructure that makes it difficult but I see no reason why it couldn't be abstracted and managed in the frontend as part of localization. Its always easier to talk about things and handwave without understanding problems that may cause with other underlying architecture.
That is decentralized crypto trading: send money in PayPal to a person, and he promises to give you Bitcoin in exchange. In that case there's no way for PayPal to know if sending Bitcoin took place or not.

If Paypal verifies both transactions (Bitcoin and fiat), this problem goes away, and all KYC laws are followed.
Also interested in any CDN that has decent server-side analytics. It seems like it wouldn't be hard to at least make an attempt to exclude bot requests from the results -- filtering out the main AWS-owned (and other cloud providers) CIDRs alone would go a long way I'm sure
Are these videos not recorded? I opened the link but saw nothing?
"in" actually happens to mean more or less the same in German :-)

Of course, it's not quite grammatical without the determiner, making it "in dem Papierkorb" which contracts to "im Papierkorb", but then you could say that about English as well, still we don't write "in:the bin", so "in:Papierkorb" should be OK.

If you want a challenge, there are languages that prefer postpositions ("Trash:in"?) or case suffixes ("Trashin"?) or even circumfixes ("iTrashn"??) – and some case suffixes may happen to be formally equal to the nominative for certain words (so "Trash" could be ambiguous between "in:Trash" and "Trash"). Happy localising.
The problem with GPL is, that it doesn't only require you to hand over any modifications to the GPL code - this would be easily to do, but to any code in a product built containing GPL code. And that is where the problems usually start.

The reality is, not everyone agrees what the reality is and especially a company which takes licenses serious will be very careful to check, whether using GPL code is possible in a project.

And no, we don't need another license, there are plenty of licenses available which resolve the issues. Be it the permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, ...) or GPL with linking exceptions.
Dask is a great alternative for distributed computing as well: https://github.com/dask/dask

IMO, Spark is better for some tasks and Dask is better for others.
Implementation of Symbol Table Using BinarySearch in Ruby and JavaScript
I think FFs loss of market share of course has been affected by advertising, but mainly by their own mistakes. I don't think the similarities to Chrome (which were not really so great for a long time) were the main driver.

I tried to hold onto FF for as long as possible for ideological reasons, and then for some years when I couldn't justify it because of just terrible performance, I used Chromium. They had a much, much better plugin market / platform for a long time and that too was a larger part of the draw that differentiated them. I switched back to FF as soon as I heard they had dealt with most of their speed issues in an update but, extremely reluctantly, I have been considering whether they are any better than Chromium at this point with the privacy / ad shenanigans that really seem to insist on reappearing in different ways with great consistency lately. The recent monetization debacle has frankly been disheartening.

So the main points for me are that they failed on speed (which drove most people I know who switched to Chrome) and now on culture/honesty.
If a tree falls in a forest with no-one around, does it make a sound?

While the list of techniques here look like excellent ways to uncover unknown unknowns, be sure that it's actually valuable for you to resolve these issues.

In almost all cases the goal isn't to create perfect software, it's to create effective software - and sometimes the ROI on these unusual cases doesn't stack up (or doesn't stack up _yet_).
the wording "can be faster" tells that this is the upper bound. ie. it is generally about the same, while it can be 15% faster or slower than the ip4 average. sample sizes are most likely somewhat different aswell .
The response to covid has been pathetic in a lot of countries.

The secret sauce in places like Vietnam (lower income, high population, effective response to the virus) isn't going to turn out to be immunity, it's going to turn out to be effective government and cooperation among the citizenry.
Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition
I like ProtonMail's fine, but I think Google's is slightly better. That being said, there is no way I'm going back to gmail.
> Possibly for what HN calls "middlebrow dismissal" - wandering in and dismissing the article with blindingly obvious issues ("probably caused by the sedatives, immobilization" etc) as if professional medical researchers wouldn't have thought of them. They plainly need a clear-eyed HN reader on staff to help them.

That term is very apt. I found this blog post about it, which I think really hits the nail on the head, too:

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...

> Paul Graham, News.YC’s moderator emeritus, says that “The defining quality of the middlebrow dismissal is that it’s a cache dump of the writer’s prejudices…” This probably explains why they’re so common. It’s natural to see any news story as confirmation of your existing prejudices—but it’s easy to read confirmation where it’s not there. So it’s easy to see Groupon or Zynga as a “failure” for being worth merely a couple billion dollars when they were once worth ten billion plus apiece. (You could get pretty rich failing like that a few times.)

> But the real driver is not just that it’s easy to misread a story as confirming your beliefs. It’s that the alternative is to read a story and realize you were wrong. And since a middlebrow dismissal is a dismissal of something, it’s generally a dismissal of something that disagrees with the reader’s bias.
yeah, no... ORMs are A LOT more than just mashing strings together to perform a query.

they are there to take care of all of the crap that you don't want or need to worry about. for instance, parametrizing string against sql injections, handling transactions properly, concatenating joins, proper pagination and sql syntax discrepancies to name a few. and let's not to forget to mention things that go BEYOND the database interactions that are built on top of the ORM like data validations, custom properties, callbacks and so on.

there are way more benefits to using an ORM than not using one. a good ORM (like ActiveRecord) will let you break out of it and write raw sql when you need the perform boost while preventing yourself from shooting yourself in the foot.

* i've written and contributed to a couple of ORMs in my lifetime
Fair enough. I should have been more specific. My intent is that it is people of working age. This needs to also account for status of school and retirement. However, we should be able to get trivial numbers for these from SS and college reporting to get an fairly accurate number.
Avy completes successful test flight with first Dutch solar drone
Funny you should ask that - after reading the above release info, I went down a rabbit hole looking at the m68k release and seeing if there was more Amiga info - I found a short youtube of a guy booting NetBSD on his Amiga, but nothing major beyond that. Looks like you need a full 68k CPU (not an EC version) and a lot of ram - which most stock Amigas don't have. I'd love to give it a go tho - I've got the hardware.
> People fix the issue.

Wait. But they didn't. They simply took the site offline. Is that really fixing it?
IAI Harop – Loitering Munition
NextGen Biomed trial brings Covid-19 breath test nearer
Yeah, AFAIK the donations all go to other causes. I could not find anything in writing regarding this on their site but this was explained to me on their IRC channel.
What You Think, What I Think
A top 10 list is not an good measure, because it's vulnerable to something like "splitting the vote". E.g. how Muhammad is the most popular baby name in the UK, despite Arabs not dominating UK society: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muhammed-rea...
Tesla: ‘butt robot’ in jeans to test Model 3 seats (2019)
> a setup for making media, documents, etc available on my network

Sure its gonna do that. Major difference to Synology is it has a pretty case and usable out-of-the-box software, while here you've got to be comfortable with some Linux stuff.

If you have a separate backup for the things that cannot be easily replaced (movies, music can just be re-downloaded), than I don't see the need to worry too much about redundancy or ECC RAM or ZFS etc.
We know there's stuff there, but we don't necessarily know what all of it does. In this case the tissue in question was probably thought to be part of a known larger structure, but now it turns out it has a distinct function. Slices aren't going to tell you that.
Unless you're hiring like crazy, it's never going to be and stay perfect, but hopefully with fixing whatever issues each time you stay relatively on top of it, and it's never too much work.
لیست حضور و غیاب کلاسهاي ترجمه و مفاهیم قرآن کریم سطح یک
Completely agree. Knowing and understanding SQL and query optimization is necessary because ORM is not magic.
Same. I was worried that the lack of Gmail's search (which is fantastic) would bother me, but so far it hasn't. ProtonMail still searches message metadata just fine and that seems to have been enough for me so far.
The Macintosh Design Team. The Making of Macintosh (Byte 1984)
I don't know what to say except: apologies. It is on there, and you can drag the map around horizontally, though that feature isn't very apparent currently.
We can only speculate, but my suspicion is that they simply felt a bit ashamed. Telling a person they have been breaking the law for years, especially if they have a personal need to feel professional, can easily send them into panic mode. Removing the site and any record of it gives them a way to put it behind them.
The Verge article references more than the one study. I was referring to the Danish study, which I heard about on this planet money episode: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...

> A 2011 study by the U.K. government found a person would have to reuse a cotton tote bag 131 times before it was better for climate change than using a plastic grocery bag once. The Danish government recently did a study that took into account environmental impacts beyond simply greenhouse gas emissions, including water use, damage to ecosystems and air pollution. These factors make cloth bags even worse. They estimate you would have to use an organic cotton bag 20,000 times more than a plastic grocery bag to make using it better for the environment.

It would appear I was misremembering somewhat, but I think my point (and the GP's that I was referring to in my earlier comment) still stands: These decisions are often about tradeoffs. Sometimes things can be green on one axis, and not so green on another.
You actually just helped me diagnose a really annoying bug I've been having lately. When I wake up my Mac from sleep mode the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive for a up to a few minutes in some extreme cases, sometimes I even have to hard reboot. I found online that it was related to VPNs trying to restore their connection but I could never find the link between the keyboard and the VPN.

It was also compounded by the VPN setting I use to disable all traffic until it successfully reconnects. Meaning whether my computer works or not is dependent on my VPN providers reliability.

Now that I know Apple thinks I need an internet connection to wake up my laptop securely I'm quite pissed by this. Brand new $4k laptop is a paperweight if my VPN can't connect.
I don't like SQLite because of this: https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html

> The type affinity of a column is the recommended type for data stored in that column. The important idea here is that the type is recommended, not required. Any column can still store any type of data.

I simply don't want weird rows (that violate the _expressly declared_ type of a SQL table) to be merrily allowed into persistent storage.
Experience working with a 600 TB ElasticSearch cluster
Ohhh, written in Prolog at the National Institute for Mental Health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NI...
That's not true! You can get involved as an individual contributor and become a part of the web standards community. There's even a contribution guide: https://wpc.guide/
"all but"
I love the eye tracking. Even without having any issues with my hands, I'd like to have quick mouse movements without having to take a hand off of the key board. Zooming in to have more precision is clever.

It seems the current generation systems aren't working for Linux yet, but that gives me hope to have a way to work with it at some point in the future.
If anyone is interested in the actual press release from Paypal:

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2020-10-21-PayPal-Launches-...
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of VPC Interface Endpoints
What does that have to do with the efficiency of electric motors? They don't magically get more efficient if you power them with a wind turbine.
It could also be that back in April not all patients that should have been hospitalised were indeed hospitalised (for lack of beds/doctors), presumably the threshold for "you should be admitted into the hospital" was higher in April compared to lets say July or August. As such, a lower "hospitalisation threshold" for July or August (compared to April) should have indeed caused a lower death-rate.
What Even Is Friction, Anyway?
Thanks for compiling that list. I have had a quick look and downloaded it for a longer look.

Some GDELT methodology is extolled here:

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-our-global-world-in-...
You can call them low priority bugs all you want, but Gmail has been around for over a decade and I'm betting their team employs at least 50 developers... Surely one of them could fix it?
The fact there are spaces in it might cause problems, but I somehow doubt that the native French speakers this would be targeted at are going to have much difficulty typing accented letters in the right place.
I'm genuinely curious and a yes/no answer would be sufficient: is your post intended to be a parody?
"Small and independent companies such as Mozilla thrive by innovating, disrupting and providing users with industry leading features and services in areas like search."

>disrupting

"drastically alter or destroy the structure of."

Every single tech pitch, article, blog, shart of tech thought includes disrupting of the status quo or competition. So this should be right up your alley no Mozilla, or is it not as fun being on the disrupted side?
As a developer who also has cubital tunnel syndrome, having keyboards that places commonly use modifier keys [0] on your thumbs, such as Kinesis advantage or Ergodox, helps reducing the fatigue and symptoms immensely.

[0] it is called Emacs pinkies for a reason, and yes, my CTS is totally emacs’s fault as well.
I'm quite liking https://getgrav.org. With the admin plugin it's a neat combo of flat file and actual CMS.
It's evidence that their policy is not to suppress conservatives, because conservative content is very obviously flourishing on their network.
Laughable confirmation bias.
I am not familiar with Plaid.com specifically but SaaStarter only supports Stripe as a payment provider so far.
> As this is attracting some downvotes, how about some citations

Crypto is one of the few topics on HN that has an extremely aggressive following. The followers may not be that numerous, but they'll downvote (and fast, too) on an emotional basis, rather than a rational one, and will thus even downvote simple facts when they displease them.

(not referring to my own posts on crypto, which are at least somewhat opiniated.)
There is no perfect solution here.

No one is suggesting that there is, but there are definitely better solutions than what GMail is doing.
Funnily it renamed the „folders“, technically labels, in IMAP. So I am using imapfilter to sort emails and had to change Trash -> Bin in my rules when I switched the GMail Interface Language.
In Canada, we have laws that penalize our companies for not having "accurate" French translations. At my company, I notice this makes the managers very concerned, so they don't take any chances on translations.

We also get a lot of "french language warriors" who call our call centers and complain about ANY mistake they can find. One that pops up frequently is if we use the incorrect punctuation mark (" as opposed to « and » for French), which happens a lot if a naïve marketing manager is copying and pasting text without regard for the format.
That version is also obviously wrong. It is possible for individual people to more correctly analyze the value of an asset than the stock market. People who looked carefully into the mortgages underlying mortgage-backed securities during the housing bubble (e.g., Michael Burry) are a good example of this. They clearly were not right "by accident" - they were right because they carefully analyzed the underlying assets, at a time when most people were not doing so.

In order to make the EMH plausible, you have to restrict it so much that it's essentially meaningless: something on the order of, "If you take the ensemble of market players, they do not beat the market on average." But it's clear that individual market players do often better understand the value of particular assets than the market, and not just because they're lucky, but because they just do better analysis than the crowd does.
As I read this and started to see the politics rise up, I was reminded of a similar set of arguments and regs around electronic road toll collection. The US govt has mandated (the MAP-21 act of 2012) thst we move to a single standard so a sunpass from FL will work just like an EZpass from NY. Wired did a nice summary a few years ago on the lack of progress (https://www.wired.com/story/national-tolling-system/)
Ah. I was never even aware of the slang definition here: "prison slang a rapist or child molester; a sexual offender" Thank you for the knowledge!

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/nonce

(I see that it is primarily a UK term)
I love war stories around tools: all the lessons learned and tweaks needed. At scale, it's never, ever as simple as "just use X".
W3C Launches Initiative to Improve the Web for Merchants
https://www.x1.com/2013/11/18/dr-michael-levitt-world-famous...

"""A computer-savvy scientist, Dr. Levitt relies on a Macintosh laptop with VMWare virtualization running a Windows OS, where he stores 200 gigabytes of data, including 40 gigabytes of over 300,000 emails, and of course relies on X1 to make sense of it all"""

Michael had other interesting anecdotes for me, like when he advised Sergey Brin to charge for Google search (Sergey was taking some course of his when launching Google).
Same with localized functions in eg Excel or Google Spreadsheets. I've grown so accustomed to the English terms it hard to remember or guess my local variants.
We have advanced incredibly far in both treatment of CAD and ulcers. And in CAD, still making tremendous improvements within the last ten years. You don’t really know what you’re talking about at all, citing a TV show.