skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'll be ahead of a lot of your peers if you stay positive and don't gossip and don't do office "politicking"

This is important. I've worked with people who are constantly criticizing the company/other people, and while they are usually right, it undermines the morale of everyone else.
A drowning victim will instinctively push the rescuer under the water, so the rescuer must have a secure flotation device. It was (probably still is) taught to pull the rescue-e to land by having the victim facing away with your arm around their neck and under the armpit facing away. This is to keep them from drowning you.

This is also biblical - take the splitter out of your own eye before you take the splinter out of another's eye (paraphrasing).
We looked briefly at Zoho but the founder didn't trust the brand for whatever reason. Office365 seemed like too much a burden on IT to setup and configure everything properly.

Also, we're trying to move away from these “suite” type offerings that come with a ton of tools. We just want email and calendar.
How are you employed if you won't fix bugs. These types of devs are so annoying to be around. Crank out weird esoteric hard to read code using every weird meta feature / reflections / introspections they can. Then "hard pass" on fixing bugs as a waste of time.

You do realize most developers are asked to fix bugs anyways, regardless of any silly competition?

Their pitch to Organizations is that

1) They may be able to help you save money
2) They may make it more fun / easier to solve bugs.

Pitch to developers - they'll give you some perks for doing your job.

Note that I also think it's lame because I don't think code guru is that good and don't care about re"invent
Agreed. While the kernel developers can obviously do whatever they want in terms of in-house jokes, the claim that "this is just normal usage, Google it" is a bit ridiculous. They could have just said, "we know it's wrong, we just thought it's funny".

("Borken" is a city in Germany, that's my only association with it )
Half of the posts on that sub are neither from AOC nor "murders". Just another political spam subreddit outraging its way to the front page.
Still running you say? Hmm. I'm stuck in a hotel for a week with nothing but a Cherry Trail tablet. I think I know what I'm spending my weekend doing.
screenwriting
We do all of those, but they're all voluntary (as they should be), there are regular drives for all of these.
Claiming that Russia is the unilateral aggressor in 2014 is a crystal clear exposition of the naive "Russia bad" worldview that selectively omits crucial details.

If Ukraine had any semblance of "sovereignty" post-USSR, it was totally crushed by NATO's 2014 coup. Recognizing the unpredictable hybrid aggression of NATO, Russia decisively reinforced its long-standing strategic position on Crimea and the Black Sea. It was fundamentally a defensive, pragmatic reaction forced by NATO's aggression.

You can see similar narratives regarding the recent military escalation in the region. Ukraine unilaterally declared an intent to militarily invade Crimea, and Russia mobilized forces on the border as a reaction. Yet the Western media totally ignored the virtual declaration of war by Ukraine and painted Russia once again as the sole aggressor. Fortunately, Russia was able to deescalate the situation.

Yes, Ukraine as a sovereign nation is the aggrieved party. But the aggressor is NATO!
Not doing anything
FWIW, this is also how some organizations collected data from grow houses in the 2000s and early 2010s. Though they didn't broadcast SSIDs and wouldn't chat on the network unless they saw a specific sequence broadcast by the mobile station.
> But you need to check both calendars when making the appointment.

If one covers strictly work hours and the personal one is strictly for outside work hours, then no need to check both. Just check the applicable one.
I have a picture of a spraypainted message on the boarded up window of a Minneapolis business from last year

"actually defund the police"

What did the messenger mean by that?
I'm sorry, the idea that utilities are putting underrated contactors in power meters is fearmongering hogshit.

Cite a source or shut up.
I’ve been using taxact for 4 years, and have found it better than TurboTax. This year something seemed off — quality issues and I think they were pushing for more upgrades. More dark patterns maybe, or at least grey.

Did something happen? Did they change ownership? Any good alternatives to taxact?
Calling another virus infection flu isn't actually wrong anyways. The word has been used that way for centuries before we actually were able to identify the virus.
They called it a conspiracy theory
I don't agree. Responsibility lies with the doer in this case -- the person who types the dark pattern into the code. If my manager tells me to slap my coworker, she's only barely to blame for demanding something dangerous and unethical. I'm the asshole if I do it.

There's plenty of blame to go around. But at current, we really do have to do better as a community and refuse these requests far more often than we currently do.
I think you pay to get hands off garden.
But old people can self isolate. How are they at risk if they stay at home? Children might not be affected that much, but still spread it, and apparently much harder to keep inside 24/7. Playgrounds were as crowded as always. My neighbor told me that her daughter was one of five children from the entire class staying at home, for the remaining 20 kids, their parents got a written confirmation from their employers stating they're essential, and thus their children were eligible for "emergency care". Ridiculous.

I'm not entirely sure things would have dragged along so much had we just eliminated children as spreaders first.
I had to go the other way, learn to sleep on the side because of a spinal fracture since anything else was too painful. Never went back.

Shoulders are very flexible but also extremely weak and sensitive, they should rarely be used out of neutral position. I've taught martial arts for a long time and most issues I see with people's shoulders is due to (improper) overuse.

My point is that maybe the cause of the problem isn't in bed at all. My experience says that sleeping on the side makes everything easier, from breathing to offloading the spine.
German Bundestag voted on mandatory updates for smart devices [pdf]
Document Grounded Generation
Or better still, kill your own meter and have something ping out a reading thats 100 times less expensive.
I dream of cyber-moles.

Seriously. If you've ever watched utility crews installing or repairing underground fiber, and then had moles colonize your yard, there is only one logical conclusion: silly humans, you are doing it wrong.
Also, they are hard to separate concepts in practice.

You get stuff like this:

https://www.colorlines.com/articles/pseudoscience-black-wome...

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/575352051/least-desirable-how...

You could easily end up with a claim/thought process like this:

"They weren't fired because they are black. It was because they were ugly. And they were ugly because they are black. "

A bit tangental, but an interesting article nonetheless:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/dark-sk...
If you want to hold them to a higher standard, you have to pay them to a higher standard.

That logic works when dealing with fast food workers, not agents of state-sanctioned violence. Those standards should be high regardless.
That makes sense, and maybe I'm sweeping aside many places similar without thinking about them. In the Midwest I've always had good luck in the ground.
Your comment said I was posting misinformation and speculated the only reason I wasn’t deleted or flagged was moderator bias. That is an attack and hostile, especially when I’d already followed up showing my comment was not misinformation.
Unfortunately surprisingly poor in quality!

You can get much better results almost anywhere else.
Want to Get Trump Re-Elected? Dismantle the Police
1) Cave paintings may be related to religion. Hunting is fickle, you need to pray to the gods -- show them pictures of what you're after -- to get their help. Bread, baked from seeds gathered from plants, is more reliable; plants don't run away. So you don't need to paint any entreaties to the gods on how to help you get it.

2) Hunting, cave paintings and religion may have been related to one group of people, seed-gathering and baking to another. It may just not have occurred to the painters to include the activities and products of the gatherer side of the hunter-gatherer economy in their paintings.
To be fair, python way of handling versions is the worst and that even goes to the package maintainers. Especially what happened to python 2 -> python3. I don’t like the logic of no version specified = python 2. I have made the mistake of thinking i have the right python binary only to realize it gives syntax error for being python 2
It's a rule of thumb that roughly 10% of the NYPD receive 99% of the complaints and claims of excessive force. 90% of the NYPD is fine. The issue is that there is no meaningful oversight mechanism to correct the 9% that behave inappropriately sometimes, or the 1% that are serial offenders and are dangerous to the public. Other cops stay silent about it because there's nothing more dangerous to health and career than being a cop that rats out other cops. The civilian oversight board can't even look at records without the permission of the police.

Brief article about police complaints data:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2020/aug/04/new...

Example of the ineffective oversight:

https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-ca...
“Your problems are not as bad as these other people’s problems so they are not really problems”.

Lots to unpack, but that’s the statement every time someone mentioned someone else’s privilege.
This was oddly fun.. It inspired me to keep writing a stream of thought that I normally wouldn't do anything like:

hello, my name is sublime text, and I don't know what I'm doing. I have to keep typing to listen to this song I'm not sure I actually like.. But I have to at least get to the chorus, I guess. Paused for a few seconds there.. Guess I'll keep going. Still going. Well, this isn't so bad since I don't listen the radio anymore and hear this twice a day. Matter of fact I was thinking of going back and listening to some Sublime albums just a few days ago. Hope this doesn't send me on a full-day exploration of 90s music. Ok chorus has started, almost there, then I'll stop, I think. Ok, yep thats it done now :)
> Bioinformatics abuses data science at levels comparable to Google and Facebook.

To give people a sense of this, it is not unheard of for large scale bioinformatics platforms to set off alarms and/or zone-level capacity issues with the large cloud providers.
Why don't you like Basecamp? They seem like a really good company in lots of ways.

Hey itself is a bit lackluster though.
Win + R, control netconnections
This feels like that scene from Malcolm and the middle with Hal fixing the lightbulb.

They're making a game but first they have to build and launch a progress tracker website?
The most stressful decision your median NYPD officer faces every day is whether to double-park in the bike lane or in front of a fire hydrant while getting their Starbucks. An MTA bus driver makes 1000x more life-or-death decisions per shift.
That link is talking about one person from one part of a large, varied group of people. Don't see how that shows a consensus.
I don't really believe in Musk and Tesla, but I'm not a bear (I have no idea what direction retail investors will take it), and I respect Tesla for proving that lithium ion batteries are viable for powering cars. The rest of what Tesla does is over-promise, under-deliver, sloppy manufacturing, dangerous, experimental products, and a dream.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/china-s-dilemma-...
Whenever someone says they want to study anything relating to "misinformation", it's almost a guarantee they're looking to solve human problems with technical solutions.

Oh look: "Rally has the potential to help address societal problems we could not solve before."

No, I don't think it does. Especially when the first thing you tout is a study on "misinformation about COVID".

The fact that American's are locked in a bitter political cold war with each other is not a technological problem, and does not have a technological solution.

It's like trying to help a couples on the brink of divorce by updating their phones with new firmware, and changing how Facebook's algorithm works. The reason the couple is threatening divorce is 1% what happens ON their phones, and 99% what happens off their phones.

We have to break away from this stupid idea that if only we studied what was happening on Twitter and Facebook we could fix our problems.
Fair points. I'm unsure how to protect retail more without handicapping those who know what they're doing. Taking away exposure opportunity from retail isn't going to help, but neither does encouraging gambling (although that's what investments are, educated gambles). Musk is exploiting an edge case, but I'm unsure if I can blame him for it based on how it's turned out.

Don't invest (or gamble) what you can't afford to lose on high risk investments. Index funds are your friend.
> Mozilla strikes me as an organisation with too many resources for its own good. They keep pursuing these random side gigs with limited unifying theme other than an excuse to spend money.

Why does this appear to be "random" to you? What is your definition of "random"?

Have you tried "putting on a Mozilla hat" and thinking about their priorities and goals? If you do, I think you'll likely see some connections. After you do this for a few minutes, I'm interested if perhaps you can see another point of view.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_abolition_movement_in...

In minneapolis, defund and abolish were used interchangeably, and 9nof 13 city councillors did sign on to abolishment.

Since the community backlash, they have largely given up on abolishment and stuck with defunding as if it means something different now than it did a year ago.
> The only reason I could see him firing someone because of appearance is where it matters. For instance, if you let yourself go and you're in a high visibility role where it could be argued that it affects your job performance (e.g. actress, cocktail waitress)

You think that an ugly person can't bring you cocktails just as competently as a pretty one? Job performance indeed.
sorry i should have been more clear, my comment was referring to factory farming specifically. i agree that small scale farming can be done in a more humane, ethical way. unfortunately, it does not scale to meet global food demand.
Ask HN: Do you self-host? why?
My first foray into self-hosting more seriously was when I wanted to stop paying for Dropbox and set up Syncthing with one location being on an always-on server. From there I got interested in controlling more of my own data and not relying on external services as much: started using self-hosted Matrix, Matrix bridges to other services, nginx, Pi-Hole, miniflux (RSS), Wallabag (like Pocket), ... now finally need to get to automated backups to the server from all my computers too.

What about you? Do you self-host and why?
I think if you just ask the question "should this task be done by a person with a loaded gun" about everything done by the police and put the "no"s in one pile and "yes"s in another you can start getting a good idea of the scope of the problem.

The goal should be to get to a process where the person with the loaded gun is not doing tasks in the "no" pile.

I don't care if the person doing those tasks is called a police officer or not as long as they don't have guns.
Most likely you have a jammed nerve in there somewhere, switching sleeping position isn't going to solve the problem.

I would suggest finding a good chiropractor and describing the problem.
I've found writing tests against these endpoints to be pretty easy - I populate the associated database table with one record more than the default page size and then run a test that retrieves the full result and checks that the expected records are present. No need to run tests that generate 100MB responses every time - though I will do a few manual tests of large responses to check that RAM usage is as-expected.

Here's my test in Datasette for the streaming CSV response - I already have a table with 1001 items in it setup for another test: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/0.57.1/tests/test_c...
Planet Money has done an excellent episode on this - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/epis.... While I broadly agree with this, I would say that scalpers can actually provide a service of exchanging money for time and convenience. For example, you may have a free or cheap concert that sells out extremely quickly, but with scalpers, those with lots of money can always get a ticket. Much of the economy is built on the similar concept of arbitrage, where someone buys something cheaply and sells it for a markup to those who lack the ability or knowledge to get it from the seller's source.

That said, scalpers in particular seem to cause a whole lot more harm than good in general. As the above podcast addresses, it's a very difficult problem to solve systemically if you are intentionally undervaluing your goods.
see my response to another comment. I think Nimporter is for bringing Nim code into Python, basically by making calls from one language to another. I'm talking about a Python to Nim transpiler, so that the functionality of Python is brought into the performance and under the control of Nim.

Tell me if I'm wrong.
Just like ESPN highlight reels raise the visibility of athletes. Bread and circus alive and well.
In that cast, they'd have to either

* Fix all bugs in old version, or

* Ship known buggy code

Neither seems great. Better to just have archival versions with a "here be dragons" warning.
The thing that I find so frustrating about this is that I agree with like 80-90% of what this person is arguing for, but it seems ridiculous to me to present this as "abolish the police", and to think that if we did all the things proposed, we could abolish the police.

As some examples of things I agree with: I think prison should be used much more rarely. It is a terrible thing to imprison someone, and should only be done if someone is an immediate danger to others. Otherwise other punishments should be used. We should also dramatically improve conditions in prisons. But there will still be prisons.

I think crime would greatly go down if there was less inequality and more investment in marginalized groups of people, and if systems that oppress people like policing were fixed. But I think there will ~always be crime, and always be police.

I think the latter involves things that would be largely popular with people. The former is a tougher sell, but I think things are slowly moving in that direction. I'm not convinced calling these proposals "abolishing the police" is actually helping that cause.
Gamedev! Last year I tried Godot and really liked what I was learning but felt like something was missing from the community or product, I wasn't really sure what. I tried Game Maker Studio 2 this year and was fascinated with how easier it was to create a prototype real quick. So I might stick with GMS2 for now.

I hope that I can meet an artist some day and participate in a game jam.
> Are you really so arrogant to think that other people are too lazy and stupid to think of your brilliant idea and that you are simply more intelligent than everybody else? Do you really think people haven't been trying?

I find it hard to believe I'm reading this sentiment on HN. Do you realize nearly any disruptive idea has do the "arrogant" thing you are speaking off.

Big companies go out of business all the time, industry disappear or wane all the time, big companies/industries with lots of smart people do stupid stuff on the regular. Characterizing the desire to do something other than status quo as "arrogance" is just the bottom of the barrel. I'm glad Semmelweis didn't think the way you do.
> Isn't the Covid rate in kids exceptionally low?

No. The rate for ages 5-17 was actually slightly higher than that of adults 18-49, which was higher than the rate for 50-64, which was higher than the rate for 65+.

What was much lower for kids was the severity of their illness. For every 100k kids that got it, about 600 were hospitalized. For 18-49 it was about 2400. For 50-64, 7200. For 65+, 21000.

See the CDC data on the page mulvya linked in a parallel comment.
I'm a fan of elongated skulls
I was referring to David Kipping: http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~dkipping/index.html

:)
Was looking for a Gmail alternative, several months ago, and had to pick between these two.

I went with Fastmail and am very happy.

Tons of aliases that are easy to use, the UX is actually _much better_ than Gmail.
Does Zoominfo get the browser to autofill a bunch of fields that are obscured from the user? Interesting...
Outside of tech circles, I hear a lot of stuff like "ooh, a bunch of rich techies whining about how tough their jobs are, oooh...". There needs to be a counter to this: life can be challenging for everyone. Just because people don't yell at you or you don't lift heavy logs for a living doesn't mean that your "cushy desk job" isn't hard. It's OK to be feeling these symptoms while sitting at a desk.
Protonmail is Swiss, not AU. Fastmail is Australian.
You keep jumping to singular examples when I just explained yes, you can find extreme outliers, but you are ignoring the large majority of people and their intent. And you keep pointing to op eds and sensationalized news stories OF COURSE those will find the extremes and put them on a pedestal.

Look a little deeper and actually go to an event or talk to some real people and you find out what real people believe, I promise you the phrase doesn't mean no police anymore for most people in most places. YES it's a massive movement with outliers.. the two things can and do exist at the same time, lumping them all together or saying it's an even distribution is either intellectually lazy or dishonest
I think you can view money not as the end goal, but as the means to accomplish your goal. If I have a goal to help people become educated, I use business as a way to organize resources (including people) to accomplish the goal. Money is necessary to make that happen. Even for open-source projects, money is necessary.

I respectfully disagree with Milton Friedman's oft-quoted line, that the purpose of a business is to maximize value for its shareholders, at least if we set value = money.
I'm not really a fan of that model either, but for what it's worth, Ryan Levick, one of the presenters, has some good learning material on Youtube that's long form. https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanLevicksVideos/videos
I would say VW AG is leading the charge among the germans, especially considering the volume of cars the group sells as a whole. The ID.4, the Buzz, the Audi E-tron lineup and the Porsche Taycan, just to start. VW group also has a long history of racing hybrid vehicles, and I'm looking forward to seeing more and more racing classes move to hybrids. But i digress.

Agreed that MB is the laggard and that Tesla quality is poor.
Can you give more context? Like file name, directory, what other files are there, timestamp, ...

Being UTF-8 valid could be to make it copy-paste-able, but doesn't mean you can decode it in any meaningful way. Imagine it was base64 and you decode it, the resulting binary blob would leave you with the same problem.
I wouldn't say I know history of this area better than all Europeans, but definitely better than the vast majority. I wouldn't confuse Nesher the town with Nesher the factory, for instance, since having lived not far from the latter I know it's not anywhere near Ramle.