skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just another devastated landscape of Europe, it's the single most naturally devastated landscape on the entire continent.

The National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík has a permanent exhibition on the subject that I highly recommend. Since colonization a little over a millennium ago most of the topsoil has been washed out to sea, wast swaths of the country that used to be fields or forests are now just bare rock.

Which isn't to say that a devastated landscape can't be pretty.
Agreed, they were a good price and I managed to stick mine through the washing machine a couple of times and still use it.
Purism Disables the Intel Management Engine on New Laptops
BTW, I took out that last paragraph, I was being a dick.

But I don't think there's a clear answer to the question, other than "they're pretty common".

My bet is that they're more common on the east coast than the west. As for specific industries, that I can't speak to, though companies with strong HR departments sometimes like titles since it makes salaries and promotions a lot easier to manage.
The problem probably lies with the pressures of business, if you can get away with writing inefficient software it means you can get away with hiring less skilled developers, paying them less than a competent developer, and compressing project timelines to the point where refactoring and optimisation just isn't a thing that happens.

Over in FOSS-land, Software tends to be a hell of a lot more efficient, without the pressures of a restrictive budget, the software developers tend to do their due diligence more often.
> As a result, Iceland is a case study in desertification, with little or no vegetation, though the problem is not heat or drought. About 40 percent of the country is desert, Dr. Halldorsson said. “But there’s plenty of rainfall — we call it ‘wet desert.’”

At first I thought it was an error to call an area that gets plenty of rain a desert. I thought desert was strictly defined by the amount of rainfall. But maybe that's not correct. The wikipedia article on desert states...

"Deserts can be classified by the amount of precipitation that falls, by the temperature that prevails, by the causes of desertification or by their geographical location." [1]

I wonder if there's a stricter definition used in a specific scientific context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert
Github pages with Jekyll brought me back into blogging after a decade long hiatus.
And yet when you need the car to move people or cargo from one place to another, then suddenly the driver becomes as fungible (sometimes even more) as the car itself.

I don't think there's really any moral justification for managers earning more than their subordinates. It's all power and scarcity at play. Managers get more because there is less of them and they are in position to ask for more.
You've got it a bit backwards, because instances don't connect and have no reason to connect except for following specific people. So you follow someone -> that creates a connection. Not the other way around.
Maybe there should be some sort of global chaga tax to fund birch reforestation. If a few bucks was added to every Amazon order or whatever then that would at least help out a bit.
Great post, thank you.

I have to admit that I've never had the guts to directly intercede in a situation like that, although fortunately I've not seen many where I'd have considered it (more down to my lack of social life than these things being rare). It can be very difficult, especially if you are a young man without much relationship experience. It feels presumptuous and rude to intervene in other people's lives when you aren't sure how bad the situation is and what their relationship is. As I mentioned in another comment society is so so bad at giving people any kind of framework about how to begin relationships. If there are other people around who are also not intervening then that tends to reinforce the idea that it must be normal, acceptable behaviour. Even when it isn't. Older men have an important role in setting an example here.

As you say, there are ways to try and help without direct confrontation. Get between the man and the woman to give her a chance to walk away. If you think something really bad is possible then stay in the room and don't leave them alone.

I read an article by a woman a while ago talking about how older men in her life had subtly intervened in these kinds of situations to help her out, and how she hadn't realised at first. I wish I could find it now.
"Some people don't like ticks on their lawn so they use pesticides"

"By that logic we should steralize the planet of all mamalian life, since rats carry some pretty bad disease."

Uhhh, what happened here...? I've heard some atrocious analogies before but this almost seems like a joke.
I didn't pay all that much attention to that particular bit of Uber scandal, but were they using that to actually interfere with Lyft drivers beyond watching coverage areas? If all they were doing was the equivalent of opening the app and seeing where cars were available, I'm actually less concerned about it.
That's all well and good, but github is blocked where I work.
I like it, too. Just wish mimx was in a better shape. I need rich text with images and links.
Equifax Breach Could End the U.S. Credit Score Industry
> This is interesting. Would you have questioned the numbers if they showed the inverse (ie designed emails have higher click rates)?

I think there are already answers to that, as we actually gradually came from that age where email were just plain text, to today's we have option to send HTML in emails.

> I don't think this is true at all. IMO test emails are /much/ more easy to read, because I can use a consistent font and layout for /all/ my emails instead of reading through every designers view.

Well, I think somebody should do a survey for that, about consistent font and layout, easy reading and also fatigue (It apply to driving[0], maybe it also apply to text reading).

And, I don't think plain-text email will be easy to read by natural. Yes, they can be made easy to read, but it doesn't mean they ARE easy to read.

A designed email can be made hard to read, and we call that poorly designed. On the other hand, they can be well-designed and easier to read than plain-text emails.

Boil down, the design of email (whether plain-text or HTML) must serve a purpose. The designer must know what they're doing and hold that purpose in their mind. Plain-text or HTML is a choice they need to made to better fulfill that purpose.

Simply saying one of them is better than the other is inaccurate.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17710719
But staples like water, air, and land (source of food, shelter location and materials) are not about production, they are about claims of ownership and creating tollbooths.
We have canvas and WebGL.

And just because it isn't there today, it doesn't mean it won't be there tomorrow.
Industry Executives Think a Bitcoin ETF Is on Its Way
It isn't ill defined. Ideally, and I would argue in most circumstances, wages are a strong approximation of the marginal revenue product, just as neoclassic theory states they should be.
uBlock Origin works very well for me. uBlock non-Origin is abandoned, you should probably switch if you're still using that.
26 year old male in Switzerland. Living on Sideprojects
"The aerospace giant [Boeing] has received more state and local subsidy dollars than any other corporation in America"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/17/t...
https://snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp

The bumblebee thing is a myth. The rest of your comment is defeatist.
Social networks came in with their own version of what a "feed" is and then Push started to rise.

So the old model of on-request feeds was probably on the downfall anyway.
I mean this in the kindest way possible: If you don’t know the answer to that question, you shouldn’t be shorting anything. Especially not at IPO.
>I understood I could follow people from other instances, but only if the instance was somehow connected to the other instance. [...] How do I pick an instance without ever running into the risk that interesting person X joins in the future and doesn't pick an instance disconnected from the group of instances I'm in?

In practice this is not a problem. You can pick any popular instance and it will work with everyone. All instances are connected with each other by default, instances are generally only explicitly "defederated" when they're havens for trolls, racists, etc. Besides, if you're trying to follow someone and the instance is defederated (something I've never run into, by the way), your admin is just a quick message away. Mastodon instances are small and the admins have a low workload, they're typically quite accessible.

>Basically I just use twitter for news: I follow some big names and organizations and just read from the firehose of news coming out. I probably have a lower than 1/10000 read to write ratio.

>Am I trying to use Mastodon like Twitter in a way it wasn't designed for?

The only reason this might be the "wrong" approach is the general lack of big name organizations posting news. Most instances are hostile to companies settling in - Mastodon is for people, not brands. That being said, brands could run their own instances and be federated with anyone who wants to follow them.

That aside, there's no wrong way to use Mastodon. Use it however you want.
One way it works better is that there are people, like me, who have noticed that humans who want to talk to me (as opposed to wanting to sell me something) don't send HTML email.

So on my private personal account (not the ones I use for important things like banks), all HTML email is filtered directly to /dev/null.

That's caught exactly one personal email I'm aware of in ~15 years (I forget exactly when I added that to procmail). It might have hit others, but it is a far better false-positive rate than any other individual test.
Yeah, the administration is not "liberal ivory tower academics". The administration tend to be conservative business folks forever at odds with the university's faculty.
Definitely looking forward to Twitter's 280 change to help me communicate better with people there (it was always the reason I preferred G+, for instance, over Twitter), but it would overall be preferred if more people just used Mastodon.
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Not necessarily the full story. I have set my preference to text email over html email in one client that I use. This is at least one example of a client making the decision before opening the email.
> People don't chase a promotion, work overhours or buy a lottery ticket in the hope of being able to obtain more food.

1/6 of the families in NYC are food-insecure. ( http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/foodpolicy/downloads/pdf/2016-Foo... )

I think you’re confusing your position of privilege for how everyone else lives. That’s a mistake.
How super are those pricey 'superfoods'?
Real-Time Stock Prices Are Easy
Automatic reporting tool? We don't have one of those. Your report probably went to /dev/null.

Hacker News isn't the right place for your bug report, though, please file a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/new
If you don't mind me asking, why is github blocked?
My 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck. It is rusting and makes a lot of noise when driving but it is the first car I paid for on my own. There are newer trucks with more bells and whistles but there is just something special about this truck.
> Except that this is not exactly true either. Some times it is, other times it isn't. Yet the salary relations never change.

I think the meta is for "intellectual"/"mental" workers you have to pay someone enough that they focus on the task they need to work on rather than spending mental cycles on how to afford to pay for rent or food or vaccines/formula for baby.
I don't think the "should" plays any role here. In my opinion, paramedics, nurses and doctors should all earn shit ton of money; so should miners, and janitors, and garbage collectors, and other people doing dangerous and/or socially necessary jobs. And entertainers should earn way less than they do. But here we are.

Supervisors earn more because, through the way the job market works, they can ask for more. That's all there is to it.
Digital Diploma Debuts at MIT Using Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology
C++17 has std::optional

If you've ever used unstable software that crashes in a dozen different ways you can thank null pointers.

Modern C++ isn't about substituting references for pointers, it is about dealing with values and removing a level of indirection that pointers gives.

The old style of of using pointers everywhere frequently usually implies a lot of small heap allocations which is also a big performance problem. Both these things end up being huge detriments to speed and stability.
Ask HN: Wrote a Computer Graphics textbook. How do I maximize impact?
Long story short, I wrote a Computer Graphics textbook. It is based on materials I created over the course of 7 years teaching the subject at university level, a couple of lifetimes ago.

It doesn't teach how to use OpenGL, but how OpenGL works; using only a method to set the color of a pixel, it builds a raytracer and a rasterizer from scratch. Like the rest of my educational content[0][1], the emphasis is on being very accessible without compromising on depth or complexity.

What to do next is unclear, though. I want to maximize its impact and exposure (if I was a SV startup, my goal would be "every university student in the world uses this book"). I'm thinking of putting the whole text and the example source code (all Javascript) in GitHub, under some non-commercial license that encourages people to use it, share it and improve it.

Are there any other obvious options that I'm missing? I'm very far from the academic, publishing and education worlds.

[0]: http://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.html

[1]: http://gabrielgambetta.com/generic-search.html
https://github.com/rupa/z could also be interesting for you.
The most effective way into “official” Ubuntu is probably via Debian, although there's nothing stopping you from providing your own Ubuntu PPA.

If you want to get a ripgrep package into Debian then you’ll need to do the work to turn the sources into something that Debian can build automatically & find yourself a Debian developer who’ll act as a sponsor for your package and upload it to the Debian archive.

The Debian Mentors mailing list is probably a good place to start, although you could make a sponsor request directly via the bug tracking system if you wanted to:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_get_a_spon...
You may be interested in AJATT [0]. It recommends a method based on the Input Hypothesis by linguist Stephen Krashen, which basically says it's better to read and listen before writing and speaking, and that producing input too early can actually be harmful in the long run (picking up bad phonetic / structural habits).

In other words, find media you enjoy in your target language (books movies series music YouTube etc) and spend as much time as possible consuming that media.

The guy who wrote AJATT (All Japanese All The Time) had earphones playing Japanese audio 24 hours a day for almost 2 years. Along with learning the writing system, after 18 months of this method he aced a phone interview (got mistaken for a native speaker) and got a job at Sony. And he's pretty introverted / shy.

Might be worth checking out!

[0] http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/
Let's invite Canada to join the EU - they would be a great fit !
Ask HN: What can I do as a software eng to help global environmental problems?
There are lots of economic factors that make SF the most efficient place to open an office, cheap land and labor are not those reasons.

Yes, we're in agreement that China and Mexico have benefitted from our trade policies at the expense of millions of Americans losing their high paying union jobs where they had a stake in the value of production. Of course the financiers on Wall Street were happy to send those good jobs to desperate people in poorer countries. But maybe we could find a better balance between benefitting Wall Street and benefitting Main Street.
Also twitter keep trying new designs that weren't that useful.

I liked twitter even with the short comings. It's like a big irc room. But it's not going the right way it seems. Maybe people will migrate (happened beforeà)
ED looks cool, might use it on my upcoming project. Thanks for sharing
"Which isn't to say that a devastated landscape can't be pretty."

A bit like the Scottish Highlands - which are treeless largely because of the large numbers of deer maintained to support stalking (deer hunting) and because all their natural predators were killed centuries ago.

There are some folks trying to replant the old forests - e.g. https://treesforlife.org.uk/
CC0 is Creative Common 0 license. This API is a WordPress add-on that lets you give credit to the photographer for stock images.
I agree with the multiple possible interpretations. I conservatively chose the most controversial one and responded to that, which should cover all of them. :-)

RE compatibility: yes, something like that. But "change its defaults" is the easy part. I said more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15430770
I don't think that is a valid conclusion.

This is a pretty sophisticated attack requiring a lot of stuff to fall into place (such as being provisioned on the same machine as the target), and even though it is technically quite impressive I doubt it is a frequent enough occurrence that you could conclude that if you host on a shared machine you're going to get hacked sooner or later.

The chances of being hacked through some simpler and more direct vector are a lot larger.
Has nobody made a kind of autocorrect that just adds accents and such? Of course you’d sometimes have to fix them yourself, but my experience so far learning French on an iPad (coming from English and not wanting to learn a new keyboard too) has been that this ought to be a reasonable approach.
Unless one the instances has explicitly blocked the other one, you can follow anyone on any other instance. As soon as you do, your instance contacts the other instance and subscribes to that users posts for you.
This is a real weird strawman you've set up for yourself.

> It's funny how so many Liberal minded types are overrunning Iceland

No they aren't.

> how beautiful and stark the landscape is, when in reality they don't realize they are admiring just another devastated landscape of Europe.

It can be both.

> Europeans heavily have as they laud the beauty and natural state of Europe

Beauty yes, "natural state" no.

> In reality Europe is a landscaped stripped of snakes, barren of bears and wolves and deer and other fauna, while the forests and meadows are all artificial and man made.

Literally everyone knows this.
This represents everything I hate about email marketing. You’d honestly consider wasting 99 people's time, and possibly engaging 1 person, as a 'good' result? The bar for email marketing is set so low, it might as well not exist. Email was a free, effective communication mechanism that we’ve all but ruined. At least a return to plain text might rescue it to some extent, but I fear it’s already too late.
My abuse of my prescription Adderall. I'll take one and stay up all night and take another in the morning (when I'm supposed to take it) and keep on going. It's terrible for me but it is hard to stop. In fact it just gets worse and then I end up short on my months supply which leads to me falling asleep at my desk.
PainlessMesh – A painless way to setup a mesh with ESP8266 and ESP32 devices
BeagleWire: Fully Open ICE40 FPGA BeagleBone Cape
When I think computer science, I think things like the lambda calculus, invented before programming languages. Richard Hamming's work on information theory.

In the distributed systems world we have Lamport's work on vector clocks and Paxos, the CAP theorem by Brewer, the Domino paper from Amazon.

In other spaces we have the machine learning and neural networks, blockchain...

These are computer science, and they're certainly implemented with programming languages, but they were conceived (and often proved) independently of any implementation.
Travel, take some time off and enjoy life (for a while). It will help you put things in perspective and maybe get clear about what you want to do next.

I quit my job last year and backpacked 2 months around Europe and it was a very richful experience.
If you liked this essay, you might also like the book by Marcel Berger, Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Higher Geometry.

A quote from the cover:
"The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built "above" the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs"
Yes, in the US, graduate students usually do some amount of work, either as teachers or researchers. Particularly if they are on track for a PhD and expect to take more than 2 years to finish their studies.

In the US, higher education usually progresses:
* 4 years for a Bachelors (BA/BS)
* 2-3+ years for a Masters (MA/MS) or professional degree (medicine, law, etc)
* 3+ years for a PhD.
Stitch fix has filed for an IPO
Isn't firewalld just a front-end for iptables?
Ummm... it’s for Firefox... no?
are the offenders not listed as link for a reason? I just saw TUI and i wonder if thats TUI.com for example.

Also great idea! May also make a Twitter bot to blame them (maybe try to use meta tags to @ them even, when availble)

This practice really sucks, and is just yet another reason to enforce Adblockers on users.

Edit:// Oh btw, what about coinerra.com and other related services?
Indeed the little ice age of the middle ages is what made Greenland uninhabitable.

Birch is a pioneer species, they produce millions of seeds a year, they chased the retreating ice cap as melted northwards in Europe.

It would appear they need to be planted out, perhaps they need soil to take. Otherwhise it should be a fairly simple case of just broadcasting billions of birch seeds over Iceland.
Show HN: Action Recorder – No Coding Alternate to GTM
Kindly don't parrot white supremacist propaganda. My most terrible presumption is that you DO actually understand what you're doing, but I'm pointing it out and giving you the benefit of the doubt, in case you're just ESR's unwitting fool, not acting as his flying monkey, parroting his propaganda here on purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_monkeys_(psychology)

https://pro.psychcentral.com/recovery-expert/2016/07/the-nar...

http://flyingmonkeysdenied.com/
It isn't super clear in the article, but I now use bfs & fzf for replacing cd.

https://github.com/bag-man/dotfiles/blob/master/bashrc#L73

Lets you change directory with alt+c, although I have tweaked it so you always search from your root folder. Which isn't for everyone. Otherwise fzf alt+c doesn't let you go back up directories which gets frustrating.