skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect many companies use excel workbooks as "forms" with lots of data at the same cell in multiple workbooks.

Downstream data quality costs can be minimized with data normalized schema and data collection process controls like forms-based data validation.

There are established UI/UX design patterns for data validation of user-supplied data: accessible [web] forms with tab-ordered input fields and specific per-input feedback with accessible HTML5 and ARIA. IIUC, Firefox now supports PDF forms, too?

Why would we move from a spreadsheet to an actual database?

Data integrity:

Referential integrity (making sure that record keys actually point to something when creating, updating, or deleting),

Columnar datatypes (float, decimal, USD, complex fraction),

Access controls (auth(z): authentication and authorization),

Auditing (what was the value before and after that) and Disaster Recovery,

Organizationally-unified schema development and corresponding validation.

Repeatability / Reproducibility: can you replay the steps needed to build the whole sheet? What parameters were entered and how to we script that par so that we can easily assess the relations between the terms of the argument presented?
What's speculation in a guarantee? I thought that speculation is risky, therefore it can't be guaranteed.
Sure, I have never argued with that.

Meanwhile (since 2012) Trump happened, race unrest's, police brutality, corona handling fiasco, Google/FB/Amazon public image is going down, USA public depth has roughly doubled [1] and general perception of USA has changed (to the worse[2]), China is hiring, student depth is going trough the roof (and immigrants want to have children someday), no one believes in "war on terror" any more (talking about EU), Snowden, war on privacy,...

This graph is outdated, did you find some that is up to date? Also interesting one would be how many of those in 2012 survey stayed and where.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/187867/public-debt-of-th...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plumm...
Usually debt is the first thing to attack. Depending on the interest rate. I have been a fan of Dave Ramsey. He has helped a lot of people with this.
Believe me, I was surprised too. Very surprised. The stereotype of a famished author is pretty strong here :)

Thing is, without middle-men (distributors, bookshops), most of the revenue accrues to you directly. Long live e-commerce.
As far as I can tell, and I am not an expert, it has always boiled down to hardware/driver parity. Laptops ship with proprietary hardware and drivers that Windows can tap into to optimize battery life, things like turning off hard drives and stuff, but that a Linux doesn't have access to. Provided hardware/driver parity, a Linux environment should generally be more lightweight and last longer. Maybe that was your experience with the XPS; those guys also ship with Linux out of the box like you said, so the hardware should lend itself just as well to Linux distributions.
I've started seeing this quite a lot recently when working with beginners. Worst one recently was someone who had extreme difficulty understanding how to make different web pages using only HTML, but much more mild versions of this have been cropping up in frequently for me over the last year.
> We have certainly heard from some customers that agree that 'everything' is slow, but we've also heard from other customers saying they have no problems.

What do your metrics show? I instrument my web sites so I know how long every operation – server responses, front-end JS changes, etc. – takes and can guide my development accordingly. You have a much larger budget and could be answering this question with hard data.

I’ll second the “everything” responses. Request Tracker on 1990s hardware was considerably faster than Jira is today - and better for serious use, too.
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But then we'd be stuck with fossilized 90's era C++ stacks.
Sure.

Even a partial response from a vaccine suppresses the virus and (usually) reduces the risk of transmission. At the same time, it creates a window where the virus is under selective pressure to escape some of the immune response from the vaccine's effects. Individuals who have smaller/partial responses to the vaccine are more likely to have this happen.

That is all I'm saying, and I don't think it's really that controversial. I'm not trying to make a robust immunological argument. I don't think it's inevitable, but it's another reason to reduce transmission. We already have the UK variant, which many have suggested is better at immune escape due to perhaps evolving during a long infection in an immunocompromised individual.
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Ask HN: Get hired with a portfolio of coding projects?
Hello all,
I am working a retail job right now, but I would like to switch gears and land a coding job. I have built things with Python, Drupal, WordPress, HTML/CSS, and Bash. All of my programming knowledge at this point is self-taught. How difficult is it to get up to speed and produce a portfolio that will get me hired?
that's correct, I learned of the job status within the time of the various comments being posted. Originally I thought she was still employed based on the title, just like you. "Stories" based on tweets often evolve within several hours.
And yet on some of the big headline issues, those tail-end votes are split almost perfectly 50:50 along party lines.

Which leads people to think, correctly, that independent-minded critical thinking is not determining those votes.
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I feel like the question is wrong.

I used to run a profitable one-person online business. And I felt miserable every time I had to get up at night to fix server issues, or when I had to do customer support from my laptop while I was supposed to be on vacation instead.

Now that we're a team, I feel so much better about the whole thing, even though profit margins are slightly lower than before.
But making that 'patsy' the legal owner also increases the actual owner's risk profile. The Patsy has greater control and can redirect the money and is the legal 'owner' of the assets. That forces the non-legal owner to use someone they trust implicitly and someone closer to them generally, making them easier to tie back in a legal case.
What would you want this generator to look like? What's the input / output / limits?

Note, they do exist in some form depending on what you want.
> Facebook's entire raison d'etre from day 1 is to take as much data from as many sources as possible, then use the most powerful computers, programmed by the brightest minds, to use that data to maximise their profit

My impression was that on Day 1 it was really just to rate the attractiveness of the coeds at Harvard.
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Their Data Center version will still be available.[1] That's what we're currently on.

Data Center includes a few performance-related features like being able to run multiple frontends. I think we're running 4 instances right now. It's still really slow, even when nobody else is using it.

[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/server-vs-data-...
In what part of the formation process do you feel this report is to be made?

Let's say if I walked to the secretary of state in Wyoming and paid them cash to form a new entity, where is the Treasury report supposed to be done? Is there a notification somewhere?

Does the Federal Government even have a way of knowing when a new entity is created in all of the incorporated states and other semi-autonomous regions? Not all the states have free public databases.

Is this bill going to sanction the states until they give information automatically about newly formed and existing entities?

Does this apply to indigenous protectorates? Navajo nation has incorporation statutes, and literally any of other the 560+ tribes could as well.
Some cycle on and off but the ones on my building don't. A 50/50 on/off cycle is still going to keep the engine warm enough.

The truth is that modern engines/oils/batteries do very well in the cold. A battery heater is probably of more use than a block heater. But I like having the conventional outlets whenever I have to work on my car. A Tesla fast charging point cannot power my vacuum cleaner.
This. When information is suppressed, people fill in the gaps. Some people do it with wilder and wilder ideas, but there _is_ a gap, and those who think the information suppression is totally benign are naive, considering both historical precedent and the obvious question of, "what are they hiding that they don't want people to know about?" If it was benign, a government by the people and for the people would be transparent to the people. Lack of transparency hints that it is neither by nor for the benefit of the people.
Some people don't want to use it at all, and don't care for the situation that C-suite everywhere buys Atlassian's trash.

They don't want minor improvements to help it limp along, they want to vent and complain about it.

I think it's impossible that Atlassian evolves into a good product company, but it's entirely possible that my next CTO googled for opinions on the product, found a few discussions on HN with a combined 3,000 complaints about what a garbage fire it is, and went with Clubhouse.
As wrong as the original spirit and intent of these predictions are for 2019/2020, I’ll bet many will be common place by 2030 and most by 2040.
https://pageflows.com has been paying my bills for a couple of years now

To give you an idea of revenue, it’s about as much as I’d be getting paid as a junior-mid developer in London and requires a day or two of work a week unless I’m adding a new feature, redesigning etc.

https://screenjar.com is also making a small amount of revenue, but nothing meaningful yet.
Median sale price of houses sold has increased 2% from November 2019 to November 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPNHSUS

That's on par with historical annualized inflation rates.
Inflation rate is a measure of how much demand is exceeding supply. Generally central banks focus on inflation on consumer goods because consumer goods and services pay the wages of workers. If consumer inflation is low that means there is little demand for consumer goods and by extension there is little demand for workers.

The point harryh was trying to make is that if consumer inflation is high then you could trivially pay off a low interest mortgage because inflation is constantly reducing the effective principal of the mortgage.

In reality what we see is asset inflation and asset inflation is usually a sign of mild deflation because there is an overabundance of production capacity or labor and therefore consumer goods with no takers.
This is in the FAQ:

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I just noticed that when Jan 1 is Friday, like this year, then the actual Who Is Hiring day becomes Jan 4 not Jan 2. This shit's hard.
They are expressing their own opinion, and the comment clearly explains how they draw a parallel between Facebook and tobacco companies. Why do you need a link?

Also, while Facebook may not directly kill people, the hate speech that it helps proliferate does have real consequences for real people. One such instance was in the Muslim genocide in Myanmar. Since you appear to like links a lot, here is one for you:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/facebook-myanma...
Yes please!!
If you were only getting a single hour on a laptop, I’m almost certain your battery management settings weren’t configured correctly (brightness on max, etc)
How is this bill going to affect US entrepreneurs operating legitimate businesses incorporated in Delaware (or similar jurisdictions) who are just trying to protect their privacy?
Yes, force-directed layout doesn't consider number of crossings. dot is the only graphviz program that reduces crossings, and because of the level assignment constraint, even small graphs like K_4 or K_2,2 have crossings that could be avoided by just routing edges differently.

Yes, you can set NDim, https://graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html#d:dim
I'm not sure why we said up to 10. It's hard to see even in 8 dimensional space!

In terms of drawing graphs of the U.S. states or data like that, it should be possible to, say, create a point at the centroid of every region, then connect the adjacent regions to form a mesh, then feed the mesh to neato with some options to relax the layout but retain the mesh. This is what the overlap removal algorithm does anyway. See https://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/GH10.pdf, at least the figures.

There's plenty of recent work that improves on some of the graphviz algorithms. It's a pity that without a convenient way to incorporate such inventions in a larger system, it tends to languish and not have as much impact or isn't easily available to people that could use it. Nocaj/Ortmann/Brandes work on untangling hairballs is another example: http://jgaa.info/accepted/recent/NocajOrtmannBrandes.pdf We even have this prototyped in a directory somewhere but it would be more work to merge it into the release.
That was long time ago, most people using VMware also use ESXi, and mainframes use type 1 as well.

Just those using Virtual Box for free not.
Except the example they use is climate change... some people claim that all the scientists are in on a conspiracy and that climate change isn't real.

You can't respond to this by saying "fine, we will each believe what we want and won't force anything on each other", because if climate change is real, we HAVE to take collective action to stop it.

This is the case for a lot of conspiracy theories... Covid, climate change, etc. There exist real problems in the world that requires everyone to take action. We can't just throw up our hands and do nothing just because some people refuse to believe reality.
Input design file like sketch, with annotations or an interactive url like framer, then export production ready (for the most part) the html, css, and javascript. What is the closest you know of?
Someone receiving $1260/month in disability income (and no other income) would also be eligible for the US's government healthcare system, Medicaid.
A lot of companies don't care if you have x years of experience. They hire based on what they think is talent, and then train them. Even for senior-level positions, they may only care that the person is senior, not necessarily, "has x years in language x".

To be sure, there are companies that do care about domain experience - and I personally value it as well. But that experience often carries a price that some companies will jump through hoops in order to avoid paying. I've seen that first hand, unfortunately.
Things can’t go into the test suite if they don’t know what causes it
The economy is supposed to serve people. Older people are people.

A better question would be to ask if people overall are better off when order people die sooner… but that kind of question is always morally very difficult to answer.
Another feature of the universe is that the truth can never actually be discerned.

At any point in time a new observation can be found that actually invalidates a previous hypothesis. Every single hypothesis ever made by mankind has the potential to be invalidated this way and therefore no hypothesis has ever been proven to be definitively true. Thus nothing can be proved to be true in science and by extension nothing can be proved to be true in reality as we know it.

The scientific method is based on two axiomatic foundations which we can only assume to be true: Logic and Probability. When you apply these axioms to an arena with an unverifiable amount of entities/primitives the result is a universe where nothing can be proven.
This: it's transparent and embarrassing when someone uses hyperbole to misrepresent and discredit someone else's opinion. Yet it's one of the most common forms of "debate" on the internet.

I've found it's probably a futile exercise trying to have a productive discussion with someone who is set in their ways online. I have had much more success in person, because there is more mutual respect, which breeds open-mindedness, even when it challenges a worldview.

Disclaimer: I haven't personally seen any compelling arguments for any of the conspiracies he listed save one, though I doubt anyone would phrase their opinions the way the original poster did.
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If you’re being rate limited, try emailing the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com and they might be able to help you.
> "Boycott products made by all-white teams/orgs." (paraphrased)

What does this solve, exactly?

But it's cute that she thinks she has a leg to stand on, what with her employer being so heavily "diverse." Github looks really progressive, for sure-- they have a remote, multinational workforce.

It's a shame that workforce isn't paid evenly. One's value should not diminish based on what geopolitical borders they happen to reside within.

"We're providing opportunities to ___." No, you're outsourcing to southeast Asians and homeless Europeans and paying them less than others to do the same job. I hear the same nonsense pitched to interns to get them to work for free. It's exploitation. If an employee provides consistent remote labor to a company, their pay should not be adjusted to their coordinates or "inexperience."

It's almost like they think some people are worth less than others and should be exploited based on arbitrary features.

If you're going to proselytize about making the world a more equitable place through reverse racism, try not to stand on a soapbox literally built from exploitation of a foreign workforce.
Writing endless books and articles about how you’re engaging in wrongthink by questioning official narratives isn’t the solution, never has been, and never will be. For as many words that are written about the rise of conspiracy theories, I haven’t read a single one that tries to explain their appeal and origin in a neutral way, without having a condescending tone throughout. At some point you have to ask yourself: is your goal to actually persuade people, or is it to make them feel stupid?

To me it seems like a basic failing of psychology. If you want to stop people believing in fringe theories, then understand how they arrived at their position, engage them on their own terms, and acknowledge that (usually) there is a kernel of (often metaphorical) truth at the center, even if it’s been warped beyond recognition into a bizarre conspiracy theory.
As an aside, my droid TV better recommend The Expanse or I’m going Butlerian Jihad on it.
It’s a big disinformation network that among other things, fueled ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
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Or conversely, some might actually be thankful in the long run for being forced to bite the bullet and to find an alternative which raises productivity/efficiency and as a byproduct, usually a happier work environment.
I feel like I'm being bullied and nitpicked but you're speaking politely so I'm confused.
I would really like to know how you connected the monitor. I’m looking at a Bridgestone titan ridge controller to connect an Nvidia card to a Pro Display XDR - is that the route you took?
The difference is that they had actual evidence that was falsifiable.
A second guy is also doing this. CVEs have a reference to third party advisories such as
https://github.com/koharin/koharin2/blob/main/CVE-2020-35185

This repository does no longer exists.
I so want to move to a standalone smartwatch and not have to carry a phone. I need nfc payment with a bank supporting the whatever (Google Pay or something), GPS with a maps app, LTE with support for whatsapp and calls + sms and bluetooth for wireless buds for calls. Don't even need music. Maybe I could even skip NFC payment by having a slot to insert a cut contactless credit card although I like the extra security of having to unlock the device to use Google Pay. I only wish Android smartwatches supported whatsapp voice message sending and weren't so slow to the point of being unusable
I can imagine that you have built some sort of strong followers community to promote your books? I mean how do readers find your books?
That photo with the icelandic horses - how did you pull that off with a QVGA-resolution thermal camera + stitching? Animals tend to move...
Ah, so using evil commercial OSes is part of that so called ethos?
Not who you are respondin to but some thoughts

1. Don't be Slack / Teams :)

What I mean by this is if you support it, support it correctly rather than "markdown as keyboard shortcuts" that some products do where if you make the simplest of editing changes, your "markdown" isn't recognized.

2. Devs want to consistently use Markdown across their entire suite

At my last job, we were switching to Azure DevOps. They support Markdown in the developer workflow (PRs) but rich-text-only for Tasks (to be non-dev friendly?).

At my current job, I'm involved in developer productivity and have been interviewing people to collect input for where we want to take development. We currently use Phabricator which uses Remarkup. This is a source of frustration because its not quite the markdown they use everywhere else.

From these, I'm thinking Markdown Pages would be the top choice since it allows developer-only interactions and marketing-only interactions to stay within what they are comfortable with,
I’m not sure how you think they work or how they are currently being used if you’re under the impression that statement is an inaccurate description of reality.
Love the beautifully haunting perspective.
I'm the author of both "Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap" and "Why OpenStreetMap is in serious trouble".

I think the issue of a mobile application is an interesting one, and on its own is not an issue, but combined with other issues, it is.

My favorite OSM based map app was Mapzen Mobile.

The reason I think Mapzen Mobile worked better than other apps was that it generally understood the ways in which users use OSM data, which largely ties into the critiques I and others have around OSM's geolocation services. They're very Euro-centric- even in comparison to how a North American uses the same services.

But as long as map apps aren't good, then users will be forced to use proprietary maps, which feeds back into itself.

We have some amazing opportunities- more now than ever, but the OSMF needs to put conscious effort into direction, making (ie funding and overseeing development) over mechanisms to allow for regular people to have OSM as easily and as well as Google Maps.

This is no small feat, but I think that such a design could be designed- especially if it combined not only the existing mapping technologies for data (ie vector maps across the wire) but also localization of geolocation in a manner that mimiced the way geolocation data itself is crowdsourced- making it easy to build more relevant results from search and display the information people want quickly and easily.

But like the author, I am disheartened and have my doubts that the OSMF would take on such an ambitious task. I wish very much that they would!