skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The typical reply to your concern is that you have the freedom to initiate/manage your own instance. (Yes, there is also the possibility that you can join an instance and simply export your followers list, etc. But managing your own instance is far more resilient.) Now, as far as managing your own instance, admittedly, this requires skills, money, and time/attention...and if you lack any of those (or reasonably don't wish to invest time/attention), then managing your own instance isn't ideal for you - so I understand your dilemma. If, as you stated that preserving your identity (without having to re-create it often), is essential, there is no better solution to creating and managing your own instance. I do this myself; not because I care about re-creating my identity, but because i like to have control over the servers where i project myself, and also because I am admittedly a technologist and love to play with new software. It might be work - and it certainly is not free - but i do encourage you to at some point consider managing your own instance. Maybe play around a bit by first setting up a test instance with a fake/test identity for yourself, and connect with other users to test things out - for sure other users will definitely be willing to help. Then, you can determine if the investment (yes, in time ANd money) is worth hosting your own instance. Good luck!
The worst thing you can do on LinkedIn
If a housing provider has a policy of only advertising in targeted publications, that is an issue. Same goes if it only holds for a subset of their offering (e.g. only for 'jewish neighborhoods'). However, if there is a decent enough effort to also advertise in widely read publications, there doesn't seem to be an issue.

I would say, using targeted publications 'in addition' is not an issue, but using them as the 'main avenue' is an issue.
Give up trying to argue with them. Instead, try to make a difference by making blog posts, videos, podcasts, etc. about atheism. That way you feel you're doing your part to improve the world, and you avoid the conflict and drama of pointless debates.
I never understood this concept (always stuck me as 'woo') until I watched this video by award-winning environmental lawyer Thomas Linzey. I won't try to paraphrase since it would leave so much out.

https://www.linktv.org/shows/thomas-linzey-earth-at-risk-201...
This doesn't make a sense to me. Why not instead of a crane use a rope into a deep well with a shaft with a conveyor belt?
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You can easily drown in ankle-deep water. I almost did, last year, in a situation very similar to the one in the video and I've been swimming since I was a toddler and had my fins on that day.

Deceptively familiar situations where you think the sea looks safe when it's not, are the most dangerous, because you end up doing the totally wrong thing and exhausting yourself fighting the waves or putting yourself in mortal danger without realising it- until it's too late.

And just because people are laughing and playing in the sea a few meters away doesn't mean you're safe, either. People drown all the time in crowded swimming pools with dozens of people around them who are not, themselves, drowning.

Also, when there's a wave, the water is shallow for a while and then it's suddendly deep. And if the waves are a couple of meters high, it can be too deep. If you can't float at that point, you're toast.
Rivers can be amazingly old - far older, in some cases, than the mountains they cut through or the oceans into which they flow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_age

The idea that the Congo and the Amazon were once the same river before the Atlantic and the Andes existed is one of my favourites for a bit of geological sensawunda.
"Pun not intended" should definitely be among the top 10 most common lies, along with the likes of "I'm starting tomorrow", or "I'll pay you back" ;)
Or maybe one block per house. Solar raises it though the day, generates electricity at night as it lowers. No grid required.
Retailers don’t care if you waste your time, as long as it costs them nothing.
Yeah thats the problem they have been looking to solve for a couple years now, but for what its worth the https://github.com/golang/go/wiki has information on dep tooling. My experience is that most people don't read it. Any tutorial worth its salt will mention this as well. Go has made it possible to pull right from master on deps fairly easily so many new developers do that so they don't have to learn dependency management. Proper dependency management is a skill that must be learned in any language, and often separates an entry developer from a mid level one.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I was set to go into academia. I spent my entire grad school without any tech internships, and did research every summer. Months before my graduation, my ex-wife wanted a divorce, and one reason (out of many) was not seeing a future together as I will be in remote places(where most universities are), and she want to be in a big city.

Trying to save my marriage, I declined my postdoc offers and start to look for jobs in the industry in the big cities. It was difficult, as I haven't programmed for years. I applied to every major tech companies and financial companies. I asked for referrals from my friends. I got no responses from most of the companies. The only two responded was a company I worked for before entering grad school, and a company that was trying to double their engineering team. It was very demoralizing.

It was surely the darkest days of my life. I questioned my self-worth. Feeling that I am not someone to be desired both personally and professionally.

My advisor, who was really kind and understanding and I'm forever grateful to, used his connection to get me interviews I'm sure I could not possibly gotten if I applied directly. In fact, I can't even apply directly, because some of the positions were not advertised. Finally, one of the places gave me an offer, and that is what I took, and I have been working there since.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning Julia?
Julia have just released v1.0, and I would like to try it out! (https://julialang.org/)

Usually I use Python for scientific computing, and find it good for machine learning, and I know some R/Stan which I find better for Bayesian statistics. I'm hoping Julia will be the best of both, but the homepage doesn't have great resources for getting started - any recommendations?
I'd put money on their 90% figure being theoretical. 95% efficiency for a motor and a generator with no other losses is at the edge of possibility.
Consider you want to share the passwords to your bank accounts with your family after you die.

You take a list of those passwords, and encrypt it using SSSS with 4 of 7 keys needed to decrypt.

You then share these 7 keys with your 7 relatives.

After your death, they get together and unlock your passwords.
That's not true, witness many deals for movie plots, where people simply pitch an idea and outline, and collect, sometimes big, money.

Of course the movie does actually have to be made, and well, to succeed, but the idea for it is valuable in itself, so long as it is actually an original and interesting idea.

A cynic might suggest that VCs spread the "ideas are worthless" meme for their own benefit.

Or perhaps they only ever really encounter the "uber, for doughnuts" type pitches which indeed generally have little value.
If you were to study this for corporate standardized careers, how would you go about getting data?

I can't think of a reliable, detailed, readily available source of info like that. Maybe LinkedIn for profiles that explicitly state education years (HS and B.S. to estimate age) and then somehow filter through and classify job titles?

Several issues not including users who state themselves "Founder", "CEO", for MLM schemes. Maybe you could cut the population down to users who have had software titles.
If you really care about changing their views, then you would need extraordinary amount of patience and an arsenal of different tactics. You are fighting against years long indoctrination. Much of it from the formative years and much of it from people they trust and hold dear, like parents and grandparents. If you are expecting to make a five minute argument to change someone's deep seated ideology, you are mistaken. Regardless of how logical and factually accurate you might think you are.

Depending on your social circle, you might come across a few people who are really open minded and with your arguments might be able to plant seeds of change. That's probably all the power you really have.
I’ve been keeping my eye on the Surface too

You won’t regret Surface, fantastic hardware and W10 is not nearly as bad as the haters say, esp. with WSL now. I’m a switcher from MBP myself and I am very happy with the decision.
Note that other publishers are also liable under these laws. By that I mean papers, craigslist, etc.

This is a specific law targeting specific advertisements. For many other kinds of advertising, facebook is still free from liability. The reason housing advertisements get special treatment is that housing is both a neccesity, and housing trends have a very strong effect on society.
One night in a bout of frustration with my then-current job, I started searching message boards for names of products/companies in my field of side-project interest (mobile development).

I then Emailed several of these places my resume, and within a half-hour I heard back from one of them. I guess you could say the rest is history.

(At the same time, I also ended up in the application process with Amazon. However, I probably flunked their tech phone screen on account of not being able to cough up minesweeper-relates algorithms off the top of my head.)

One thing I really liked about the company that responded to me was that they actually treated me as an individual, with existing projects worthy of interview discussion, rather than just another faceless resume in a pile.
How do they determine what's a housing ad?

By doing it.

Facebook loves to try to play both sides, and claim to paying customers that it absolutely has the ability to do a thing, while turning round and saying to regulators that it is only a poor helpless social-media network utterly lacking in the ability to do such things.

If even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the capabilities Facebook claims in its materials for advertisers are genuine, it can figure out which ads are housing ads.
I’ve never had trouble motivating people to do this.

How?

By hiring people in the first place who are mature enough to recognize that their job isn’t just writing code, it’s helping the company grow.

And hiring people who aren’t just motivated to succeed for themselves, but who are community-minded and want to improve things for the people around them and make the team as a whole better.

And by being consistent with messaging about this. If you need someone to take two hours per day this week for onboarding, make sure projects are scheduled and incentives aligned in such a way that a) you can confidently make onboarding their top priority for the week so it’s OK if other projects slip as a result, and b) the timeline for those other projects takes into account that the developer will be short 10 hours (not to mention almost certainly constantly interrupted and unable to achieve flow) this week.
How to fix “operating system not found” error
Urbit, which to my best understanding is just another ICO scam.
Stripe suspends payments to BitChute
My droid48 (running an HP48 ROM) gives me 25.000000576
Apple Store in Amsterdam evacuated after iPad exploded
It may depend on the model; this guy got a lot of mileage out of his Clevo-made laptop:

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2017/07/openbsd-and-modern-laptop...
Here is the full list of papers with links to preprints for the papers presented at SIGGRAPH 2018:

http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2018.html
People use Twitter to write long blog posts because of one simple fact: the presence of people to read your writing is more valuable than any possibible combination of typesetting, CSS, and noninvasive ad placement.
Yes, do watch the video. Everytime there is a wave, they all float up, because the wave makes the water so deep they can't stand anymore. And as to the woman herself, she's clearly unable to keep herself afloat- everytime a wave crashes on top of her, she goes under.

So what do you think happens if you're in chest-high water with waves taller than your height, exhausted and unable to swim to shore, or keep afloat, as she is?
According to Richard Bulliet's History of the World lectures (available online), four-wheeled wagons are globally less common than wheelbarrows or two-wheeled carts because:
(a) extra wheels add considerable weight and friction
(b) wagons have a larger turn radius (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_wheel_(transportation)#T...)

TFA answers the question "why a wheelbarrow and not a two-wheeled cart": "Compared to a two-wheeled cart or a four-wheeled wagon, a wheelbarrow was much cheaper to build because wheel construction was a labour-intensive job. Although the wheelbarrow required a road, a very narrow path (about as wide as the wheel) sufficed, and it could be bumpy."
I hate recruiters. The jobs I've directly applied for/been hired onto have almost always been orders of magnitude better than positions I've obtained via a staffing company.

Fuck recruiters.
Not to be confused with https://freshjobs.ch which is a good place to find tech jobs in Switzerland
This is why there are so many harebrained energy ideas - because people suggest ideas like this that sound vaguely plausible but when you spend a few seconds thinking about how much energy you'd get you realise it is pointless or just an idiotic version of an existing idea (hydro in your case).

Same for all the energy from pedestrians/cars ideas, solar roadways, etc.
The cannons are still there, they're down the street from my house.

The general who was then in charge of Maastricht was much despised by the locals because of his decision then to be loyal to the Dutch king. So when his remains were ordered to be moved when a new road was build (decades later), the workers who were supposed to do it didn't, and a lamp post was built on his grave. They're redoing that area now and the new park that is being built there, will have an old lamp post in a weird spot as a reminder of this historical quirk.

(Very OT but I find it such a cool story that I thought I had to share :) )
FreshJobs.io is also listing jobs from Switzerland :)
I've recently started working with wave and tidal energy projects.

From what I've been told, the magic isn't in the generators (almost every project I'm working on is just using a standard industrial motor as a generator) but in the smart regenerative drives which both supply and harvest power from them. Harvesting power from industrial processes to keep costs down seems like it's a very common thing to do, so these drives are available off the shelf, and are designed to plug into a variety of existing motors.
Not by default. After posting a comment supportive of denying the possibility of buying a house based on race and then making up rationalizations for why it's okay. Do you really believe in all of the hundreds of comments from various commentors that not one person here could actually really really in fact be racist?

Thinking about it, people who disagree with me by thinking that it is okay to deny housing based on race is by definition racist, no? The fact is clearly spelled out in law.

I'm not even saying someone disagrees with me. Where do you see that? I stated that there is casual racism in this thread.

I understand there is confusion in the law regarding targeting specifically. But stand back and take a look at the bigger picture of what the technology we create could allow. Like other real self proclaimed proud racists who would only use the service without understanding how it works.

It's not that it's targeting. It's not allowing those your not targeting to be part of the open market.

If you are something, someone calling it out is not an attack or bigotry. Sometimes the truth hurts.
No because that is stupid.
Seems right, but borders on being tautological.
You don't. They have a right to their zealotry as you have a right to your beliefs. I also don't get why you want to reason with crazy? You must be very young and ideological or enjoy arguments. As you get older you realise the best way forward is to leave people to their beliefs as long as they don't impede yours. If they _are_ impeding your beliefs then you have a problem -- either avoid the conflict or stand your ground -- it has to be done on a case-by-case basis though, there's no blanket answer.
Java "packages" are namespaces, Java "modules" are modules, and Maven/Ivy "modules" are packages.
in any scientific article, if you reverse the causation in the title and it makes more sense, the author probably made an error.

As a wise professor sitting in the audience said to the lecturer: "Normally we put the dependent variable on the Y axis".
Looks interesting. How compatible with jquery is it? You say a subset, but is that an exact subset that would pass tests for those methods? Either way, well done!
FTA : Deep Convolutional Priors for Indoor Scene Synthesis.

Anybody think of a huge improvement to NetHack, DwarFortress and other generated worlds ?
The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human rights ( same sex marriage, race equality, etc ) and political issues ( north korea, iran, etc ).

If you equate celebrity with making it rain in clubs, then I guess carter is "un-celebrity". But the guy has been the most visible ex-president in media. Think that makes him the most celebrity ex-president in history.
This language is over the top. It elicits the coherency of what I’d describe as a full-time partial orgasm and nothing more.

Here are some of the more offensive bits but you really have to click on the link to get full effect.

“...strategic audience targeting and ads optimized for higher intent...”

“...specific lookalike audience...”

“...filtered out less qualified leads...”

“...key employers...

“...people with interests in real estate...”

“...lookalike audiences consisting of people who are similar to its clients...”
Do they rely on github or on git? But it hardly matters. Github is an centralized interface to git, but the repos themselves are not centralized.
I get you, but rhetorical power is just another form of power. Carter maximizes the power of his truths by eschewing wealth and direct organizational power.
> And files are just too big for the small pieces of data we want to point at.

Files can be any size you want. Why does the author say this?
Do you believe information asymmetry benefits the less informed party in a transaction?
It was a collaborative effort.
I was just thinking about doing something like this, and now that you have mentioned it I will definitely try this out.
That's just absurd. Maybe people with underlying psychological issues are somehow damaged by Facebook, but in my experience the majority of users (at the very least the people I know who use it) just see it as a convenient way to keep up with what friends are up to and share interesting jokes/memes, it's certainly not destroying their mental health.

If someone suffers when they see other people doing well, because their self-worth is based on comparing themselves to others, that's a character flaw. It's going to keep making their lives miserable until they learn to address it, without or without Facebook around. People blaming Facebook seems like a classic case of addressing the symptoms not the disease; some people are so unwilling to make any effort to grow and better themselves that they'll do whatever they can to find an external source of blame for the effects of their unhealthy thinking patterns. It's so much easier to think "Facebook is evil" than to think "It's not healthy for me to judge myself in comparisons to others, I should work to learn to be happy at their success".
> My 2015 Macbook is being used daily by a friend and is still in perfect shape.

This is the issue that Apple is solving: if your laptop still works, Apple can't milk you for more money.
As someone who has programmed a number of languages and currently mostly programs either Ruby or Go I have to say I would greatly prefer a Rubygems/bundler type system to the one Go seems to be heading for.
We worked on a concept based on this idea a couple of years ago, at the highest of DAOs and Smart Contracts hype.

There is already the possibility to create environmental protection non-profits for a specific area. In France, and other countries, it gives you the right to participate in lawsuit and even collect reparation for ecological prejudice (https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/er.... You can't however sue on behalf of the river's endangered interests. Giving legal personnality doesn't necessarily change the law as the article implies but change the way the law works.

Our concept was to add 'economic personnality'. Natural resources such as a river would have a cryptoasset account collectively managed by donors. "Gardeners" are local people hired by this collective to execute maintenance tasks, or lawsuits, while this board of donors oversee the management of the founds. Compared to a local non-profit, you gain easy internationalisation of donors and more transparency on funds allocation, potentially avoiding corruption.

The key is in the governance rules. As pointed in the article, it is extremely difficult to represent fairly and combine populations' interests and environment protection at the local, national and worldwide levels.

A visual demo can be seen here http://forest.lesusineslouise.com/
I’m sorry to hear of your severe predicament.

Things were quite grim for me too and I suspect my life might have been at risk had I continued on the destructive path.

But I was able to correct and turn things around - though the recovery has taken as long as 10 years (depending on when you start measuring from) and is still in progress.

But I know my life is not in danger anymore and I’ve had a long enough period of things steadily getting better that I can be confident of that continuing.

I’m quite confident your stress contributed to your health issues; I’ve extensively researched the mind-body link, and that’s been the key to my recovery.

You can contact me (email in bio) if you’d like any pointers.

Regardless, best wishes in your journey.
A bit OT but regular swimming has done wonders for my back pains. It developed my abs / lumbar belt as well as back and shoulder muscles. The swimming movements (crawl / backstroke) also tend to stretch and generally unkink muscles and vertebrae. When I stretch after swimming, I literally feel my spine popping back into place (I.e., swimming relaxes the relevant muscles enough that I can undo the damages of a sedentary job and carrying a toddler in my arms every day). I don’t know if this would help directly with neck pains but it would definitely improve posture, so probably an indirect positive effect.
I've once copied a service that took me a weekend to code. Then it took me six months to get a paying customer.
This type of method for partial fraction decomposition is commonly taught at A-level Maths (typical end of high school exams in England, Wales & Northern Ireland)

Can anyone explain why it works to use x=1, even though the fraction is undefined at x=1?

Presumably an explanation would involve continuity and limits.
Both the code and data for the project is available at https://github.com/invinst
The Iranians were likely eager to have the crisis end as well...they gained nothing while becoming a global pariah. They probably also understood that if they were to end the crisis by killing the hostages, Reagan would have authorized the use of nuclear weapons on Tehran.