skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the UK's regulatory relationship with the rest of Europe fundamentally changes in a little over eight hours, it's hardly unreasonable for a UK news source to be extremely explicit about this, given the common shorthand of using the term "Europe" to refer to a mishmash of the EU/EEA/EFTA.
There's a different thing going on in corporate culture. Corporations can't feel shame, since they aren't alive.

There's a certain amoral one-upmanship in corporate culture that's seemingly immune from any sort of shame defense.

For example, someone inside Wells Fargo suggested that they could simply open new bank accounts for existing customers without telling them. If this were an individual moneychanger, they would be shamed by society for being dishonest.

Even if individual employees can be shamed (and the best executives have long disabled that emotional response), the corporation can just replace those employees.
On the contrary, I like Murphy and cannot stand ESL. It probably boils down to what statistical camp you are more comfortable in.
If you have valid reasons to make the move from Excel to Python, why not consider Julia? Environment is easier to manage (Pkg.add), the language "looks like Python and walks like C", math-friendly style possible, just-ahead-of-time compilation resulting in high performance (enough to not need native code implementations), interactive development (Jupyter was named for Julia-Python-R after all), @memoize may be enough for you and Pluto gives you reactive notebooks.

Bonus - tools are also emerging to make stand alone distributables.

Disclaimer: I neither work for nor am I affiliated with Julialang. I just use it.
If you are conducting illegal flights you will not register a drone, in fact you would probably consider the drone disposable.
Distributed: Jack Dorsey and Matt Mullenweg
Ask HN: Practical guides of different industries for modelling data
This has always been a pet peeve of mine. Every time I had to model the database for a business I'm not familiar with I ended up wasting dozens of hours reading wikipedia and scattered blogs to get to know it, only to just scratch the surface and having to guess most of it. Sometimes I find an open source project related to the industry and that gets me going, but it's often particular to some country and lacks generality.

"But isn't it the way it's supposed to be?" you ask me. Well, kinda of. I do think to model the data for any given business you should study it a bit first. But the way I'm doing it isn't optimal at all.

If you're wondering what I mean by that I have a simple, often overlooked example: geographical addresses. If you're just addressing your own country, it's usually straightforward enough. But if you're addressing several countries oh oh. My go to reference is the Google Places API and their address components[1].

So my question is: is there a place where we gather data modelling guides for different industries? Like introduction to their workflow, so you understand how entities relate to one another and how to best split the data, and a glossary to name the fields appropriately? I know businesses work differently around the world but I also often find that the core idea and consequently its data stays largely the same.

Other industries I had to work with in the past are:

- Postal and courier services
- Multi-level marketing model
- Tourism
- HR, recruiting and selection

For all of these I had to scramble with hundreds of Google searches to understand just enough so I could provide a decent data model. I just wish I had a guide for it.

Thanks and happy new year.

1. https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/supported_types#table2
„Empower women and lower living standards at the same time” - hilariously said :)

But seriously - an increase in living standards can go hand in hand with carbon reduction. It’s a matter of proper tech and policies.
Banking with DeFi Primitives
> JACK: The only reason I’m in this space, in technology, is because I benefited so deeply from open source early on. I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, Missouri and was active in the BBS community and when the BBSs finally got access to the internet through Washington University, it just opened the door to so much.
Yes, the "newspaper of record" is such a joke - just as laughable as Cuomo receiving an Emmy. Bunch of self-dealing slimebags.

Group-think and blind zealotry have gotten so bad there, even the few pieces of actual journalism they put out are tainted with it. Hard to trust anything they say when you know how many lies they've pushed in bad faith.
I tested it a few months ago hosted on my desktop (Ryzen 2600 6 core CPU, 16gb of RAM) with my entire photo library of around 100k photos - or about 60gb of data, and the performance was better than I expected. The ML image classification stuff it does took a few hours for sure, I left it go overnight, but then in the morning the ability to filter for specific classifications or jump to a specific date was pretty much as fast as you'd expect it to be (almost instant). This was using the default SQLite config.

The one thing I wished was that the ML Classification stuff it did was better - because it was nowhere near as good as what Google does with Photos, and nowhere near as useful for that reason. I still deeply miss Google Photos.

For context, my setup is pretty old fashioned these days. I plug my phone in, and use Shotwell to import the photos into my local photo library. Duplicati does a backup of all my photos once a week to Backblaze. Photoprism reads from my local copy and allows me to effectively browse my photos at home.
Trade-in programs are scams even when they work as expected. You can get twice as much money selling your old device directly on Craigslist.
Well why would you when you can just export it to a video and have it accessible to mobile users as well? Most devices even have hardware acceleration for h264 video, so its a nicer experience too.
Sure, but they get mixed altogether.
0.5% is around a pound for a lot of people.. should be ok, isnt it?
My problem is more with understanding, not necessarily with liking or disliking either book.
You say that having private keys on servers is bad, and you say that using SSH agent forwarding "is the devil."

How, exactly, do you expect people to do things like use git or pivot from Server A to Server B over SSH?
How much money and how do we contribute?
Highly unlikely given the distances involved. This would be the equivalent of a disease found in bats native to northern Ohio somehow breaking out down the road from the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, with no other cities or towns showing traces of breakouts prior.
I wonder if it would be feasible to produce Zeppelin drones to transport hydrogen - sounds like a tried and tested tech :)
That's really interesting. I've been working on a JupyterHub / JupyterLab / Python based product for the insurance industry - choosing this for all the reasons you've cited. Would be really interested if there are any points you can share e.g are you using Kubernetes and if so how have you found it?
I love me some China!
No new highways is lucky for all of us. Not maintaining the infrastructure you have is a problem, though.
Former Flash game developers tweet what Flash meant to them
You need carbon to reduce the iron ore to iron. Coal to heat and melt the iron. And carbon to harden the iron to steel. If I understand it correctly the innovation here is that step 1 is done using hydrogen, presumably the heating is done with (green) electricity, and the last step does not bind the carbon to oxygen, so they are carbon emissions free, not carbon free.
European nations and the US got a 100+ year head start over those places on the overall project of industrialization. It's profoundly unjust for us to outsource our production to them for the cheap labour and lax environmental standards and then simultaneously pin the blame on them for climate change and emissions.

Even if the current state of affairs has the West not producing the bulk of global carbon emissions, there's a solid argument to be made the West still has a responsibility to pioneer technologies that can ultimately be transferred to the planet's largest polluters.
It’s infuriating when the word does not exist in the other language, so you search and search and end up just constructing something with several words.

Does not even need to be a complex word: cheap for example does not have a word in french, you need “pas cher” (not expensive) or “bon marche” (~good deal)
There’s so much salt about this Cal-exit phenomenon.

Tech industry diversifying location-wise is a good thing for everybody from a governance/regulation perspective.
It’s also a sign of the industry maturing further.
If you think having a power means you cannot use it corruptly, than I see why you've gone so long without recognizing Trump's corruption. It's pretty clear from your responses that your are blinded by partisanship, so I won't argue with you on the point.
AWS makes the same claim with FIFO SQS, and maybe I’m getting it wrong, but these claims 1) have a lot of caveats and 2) only work inside the boundaries of the messaging system.

There’s a note in the next paragraph about how systems manage to say that if you pass in the same message ID / token for X minutes they won’t be duplicated, and my ensuring FIFO there’s a side effect of not giving out the next message until the current one is acknowledged.

This leads to a situation where there’s a guarantee of exactly once acknowledgement, but not necessarily exactly-once processing or delivery. Given that the semantics of at-most-once and at-least-once apply to processing and delivery, I personally don’t think the goalposts should move on exactly once.

Systems claiming exactly-once lull developers into not planning for multiple deliveries on the subscriber, or the need to do multiple publishes, both of which can still happen.
Even in the face of network partitions?
Likewise, we could ask why Netflix reinvented the wheel, when they could have used the state of the art zeromq library.
Reading this is like talking to that one friend who has something negative to say about every movie, TV show and musician you like. Even when their criticisms are valid, the relentlessness of their cynicism is obnoxious.
Thanks, you gave more information than is being publicly disseminated. I'd like to see CDC publications on the long term bounds cited. Random people on the Internet is not compelling. Also, mRNA vaccines have been ongoing for years. We need better communication on why now other than we're really smart, now, and the gov. spent billions. If that is all it took we'd have cured cancer long ago.
In context, they mean native installation and app management instead of teaching users how to "install" a PWA.
Are you complaining about some shitty Wikipedia article because an Uber article uses the same term "Real-time"? How is that related?
I followed the same path, how amazing was TypeScript Beta when it looked like you had to go back to ES3/5 after AS3? I almost became a gardener.
The „fresh” air we have outside now (415 ppm) was „indoor well ventillated” two centuries ago, when outside air was 250ppm.

Our generation never experienced real fresh air - we don’t know how it smells or feels.
> "I would be very cautious," about these findings, said Dr. George Rutherford, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, who was also not a part of the study. The results "have to be confirmed with different antibody tests," that look for the prevalence of antibodies that target other parts of the coronavirus.

> His previous experience has shown that such antibody tests for the coronavirus' RBD can create a lot of false positives, Rutherford told Live Science. And because this is "such an unexpected finding," it should be confirmed with other antibody tests such as those that look for antibodies against another one of the coronavirus' proteins, an outer coat called a "nucleocapsid," which is also unique to the novel coronavirus, he said.

> Still, "it's not totally outside the realm of possibility," that the virus circulated in Italy earlier than thought. because there is a lot of travel back and forth between China and Italy, especially northern Italy, he said. But considering the earliest COVID-19 case in Wuhan was reported to be in November, "it really gives me pause to say let's really make sure we got this right before we try and explain it," Rutherford said. [0]

[0] https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-circulating-italy-ea...
I do not like non-competes, but I don’t think they put companies who use them above the market.

In a multi-turn game, company A which uses non-competes would have to offer something else in exchange to be preferred (or equal) to company B which does not. Employees who then accept whatever that was are indeed bound by it when they want to consider moving to companies B, C, or D, but I see all of those as market actions.

If some employees take jobs without thinking about their future position, I’m not convinced that’s a widespread market failure. I’ve asked about and read IP and non-compete clauses at every role I’ve ever taken before accepting the position. Only once has it affected my choice; several times I had to negotiate redlines in the documents (which went smoothly as both sides were being reasonable).
Seeing a few comments below, I'm seeing reactions to perhaps two different 'shames'. It feels like we may have shame for some aspect of ourselves or our inherent condition (someone wrote about people 'shaming' him for being bald??), but there's also shame for your actions.

Experiencing shame for some aspect of your existence or something beyond your control (appearance, etc) seems a bit odd, but obviously has an impact on people.

Experiencing shame for your actions - these are generally under your control, and seems more reasonable.
I'd never thought of that. It would be technically feasible in Canada, but I'm not confident that a recipient or the postal service would recognize it as a complete address.
This is huge.

My fiancee and I can't marry until her youngest, currently 15, is out of college because my income would wreck her financial aid.

Because as currently written if we marry I'm somehow supposed to pay for college for someone not my kid.
I think I can safely say that I disagree with both of those claims (speaking as someone who's no fan of capitalism).

Unless by "get rid" you mean "completely eradicate", which is not feasible under any system.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is the entry point to the series: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mXSdikcUuo0
It's not the magnitude of the measurement, it's that if the airplane is descending at 1 degree when you measure, you'll get around 1% less weight than your actual mass. If the airplane is descending at 90 degrees, you weigh nothing.
A good product is defined as much by what it does not include as what it does.
Published by bbc. Isn’t it ironic...
Demo works fine for me.
I find this view to be somewhat whitewashed, at best.

There are multiple obvious, and meaningful, barriers. The effects of carbon dioxide production are not simply a collection of linear relationships. One tonne of CO2 today doesn't have just as much impact as one tonne of CO2 last year.

There are points at which ocean acidity levels become incompatible with certain forms of life. There are limits to carbon sinks. There are points at which positive feedback loops become active.

All of these things - and more - mean that there are very marked differences in the impact of the first coal fire and a steel plant (for a topical example) even after you normalize for the amount of carbon dioxide produced.

Presenting current and modern carbon dioxide production as simply a continuation of the first coal fire is at a minimum ridiculous.
Revealed Satoshi Nakamoto a single person?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this setup can’t render non-transparent volumes, at least when the occluding surface is darker.

The transparent volumes it renders do look great, and seem to make sense for medical/mechanical problem-solving and Disney rides.
What Is Life? (2019)
For sure, it's not a comforting thought! It simply explains why the world has not yet* fallen to total ruin.
O’Reilly books unlimited subscription. Always have something substantial to read instead of linkbait
Yes I use Excel DNA, it just doesn't have the same flexibility that I can email anyone a spreadsheet file containing both code and data.
It’s been an age since I’ve worked with IBM MQ and there are dials upon dials when setting up MQ based systems but it doesn’t off exactly once in the face of broker failure in most of its HA configurations and it uses deduplication at the protocol level to prevent duplicates.

When people say “exactly once” is impossible they really mean in the face of failure at the queue level.
Not sure I follow.

Does “boomer” not mean “person born between 1946 and 1964”?

Does it just mean ”old” now?
Yes, it's pretty clear from context it should be "consistent".
I also know of it as an Instagram-type experience, and it's quite good at that, too. From my limited usage, I don't think it could replace Google Photos, though.
Hide posts about certifications in your LinkedIn newsfeed (Chrome extension)
I do on my Chromebook, which indicates that I probably would on desktop if it were an option.
> The low-risk category, which accounts for the majority of hobbyist drones, will be managed through the CE mark, which is a process for products sold in Europe to ensure they meet health, safety and environmental standards.

How does this work for home-made drones? You wouldn't have a CE mark.
My wins – 2020 (A year in review)
As I have observed my Texan elder family during this time, "rule of law" has really been "rules if i like them". The facade began to vanish once a black man moved into the White House.
There is only so much you can do to protect the electorate from themselves...
Were you genuinely confused by the title, or are you just pretending to be and actually you understood it just fine?

The article is from the UK, where 'Europe' colloquially means the rest of the continent distinct from the UK. Actually so does just 'continent' and 'continental' on its own. This isn't an ignorance thing, or a Brexit thing, it's been this way as long as I've been around, long before anyone was seriously suggesting we leave.
I haven't been in a library for a long time, but in 90s I never had this issue. We had a "card" where librarian would stamp the date. Books had a paper on the back where they would stamp the issue date and return date.

It was trivial to know when you had to return a book. Is this done differently in Germany?

I like the app but I believe people won't buy/subscribe to an app that helps you only if you forget to return a book in time. Most people will believe they will return it in time and won't invest in this type of "insurance".

Libraries might be more interesting customers but they have little reason to reduce late fee bills as it is extra income to them. You could/should look whether university/free libraries are interested.

Hope you enjoy working on it.
Share your thoughts on the new proposed crypto rules directly with the U.S.
to varying extents. I still see restaurants maxing out their 25% capacity for indoor dining every friday/saturday night.
I love what Wondery puts out particularly in the history segment. Tides of History, American History Tellers, LBJs War, Business Wars, I’m sure there are others I’m missing. Wondery was a staple in my morning commute when that existed. I wonder if new normal will put any downward pressure on podcasts.
+1 I can fully agree its so salty i cant read it
I was amazed when I repeatedly saw how an incredibly shameless guy in my college days not only got what he wanted but was also liked. He would say the most shameless things that would embarrass people while in their presence. For example - he would announce in the whole class who hadn't taken a shower in a week or who wasn't wearing underwear today (he would sometimes have this kind of information because we all used to live in the dorm.) Yet all the girls used to like him. Once I asked a girl why she liked him knowing that he says embarrassing and shameless things and makes jokes at people's expense. Her response was "what he says makes me laugh."

P.S - I had nothing against the guy personally. He rarely made jokes at my expense - he didn't have enough jokeworthy material on me.
It's not fair that he lived to age 80 and died of natural causes. For a small fraction of criminals, life in prison is not a sufficient punishment, and the death penalty is warranted.
Ye, "Poor connection stability".

I don't see TCP/HTTP as a reliable protocol over unreliable networks. I mean they are sending hearbeats over HTTP. It is silly.
Which is kind of strange since the language maintains backward compatibility to version 1.0.
I'm not trying to make this political, but with all the migration to Texas it will be interesting to see if it remains a strongly Republican state in the future.

I live in Georgia and I can see the demographics changing quite a lot.
Errect a signpost with a discouraging message.
Ask HN: Is the form to request your Facebook user data broken for you?
Hey,

I just tried accessing my data from Facebook. I don't have an account and I even accessed it from a browser I never used before (e.g. had to accept cookie policy). This is the form I'm talking about:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/180237885820953

What I do is, I check:

- "Data Access"

- "I don’t have a Facebook account and I want to access my data"

Then I enter my data and click send. But unfortunately, I get greeted with a dialogue saying:

"An error occurred while processing this request. Please try again later."

Only when I try submitting the page a couple of times: reloads etc., I get the same error message but suddenly a reCAPTCHA is shown, that when completed allows me to send my request.

Can anyone reproduce this? Please let me know so that I can send a bug report to Facebook. Thanks!
I remember being 14 years old and listening to books on CD, while playing flash games for hours. Good times. I remember thinking that I wasn't wasting my time because I was listening to a book. I'm not sure that's true.
Sad that flash is dead now, but considering how much malware was probably delivered to me via flash, it's probably better that we're moving on.
50% more transmissable is worse than 50% deadlier
I'm trying to imagine a physical product that is worth transporting on an interstellar level, rather than locally manufactured. It seems to me that the only thing that would ever be exchanged between solar systems, would be information.
In UK, Europe is always used in colloquial speech to mean mainland Europe.
I'm curious - how would you describe the qualitative differences in code structure that results?

Are there ways in which Nim nudges you to structure your code in better ways than you would in Python? Are there footguns?
Cry me a river, life expectancy was about 40 years two centuries ago, so CO2 levels are obviously not that much of a health issue nowadays.
From the rest of the blog post it seems enough to buy a single M1 machine with 8+ GB of RAM, so my estimate is that it should be a bit over $1k for a basic Mac Mini + shipping + Apple Care.
Just like with stolen cars, sometimes something is left behind that traces back to the last user.
I didn’t claim I bought an equivalent vehicle. I bought a vehicle which just “works”. And I avoided all the Tesla build quality issues.

I have a gas car / hybrid for the 100mile+ road trips we take once every 60 days.

And I have an EV for the daily driver. Nissan Leaf has more than enough range (for daily driving) cost 6-7k, insurance is $20/month, and I’ve yet to have any maintenance issues.
We'll there we have it: we lived in a world with good tooling for creative works but a bad runtime, and we replaced the runtime without replacing the authoring tools. I think that's a shame.