skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data visualization is something I'm interested in, but there are really very few positions that look only for that where I will live.

There are many Data Analyst positions, but I'm not sure whether I'd be able to do that because the field probably requires a good foundation in math, something I lack..

I was thinking of starting with a web stack, then progress to become a full stack dev, with the aim of creating and selling niche software for the fields I know some things about in the long run.

I find it really difficult to decide on a path, given all the possible routes and my interest in a lot of areas..
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So you should quit more often and you'll get better at it. Thats my kind of advice.

Quitting a job is like leaving a party. You probably didn't like everyone there. You probably avoided some people. That's where the Irish Goodbye shines. You get to leave without having to decide who to say goodbye to, and avoid long winded and shallow well wishes. As long as you aren't burning bridges, it actually benefits both sides in a lot of ways to just ghost on coworkers.
I’ve been happy with M-Disk DVDs for durable, disaster-proof, write-once backups. Gets a little pricey when you start talking about TB, but for family photos and important documents it more than meets my needs.
Bicycle and pedestrian traffic mesh rather well with each other, and both mesh well with public transit. I submit Copenhagen as an example, you should come visit sometime :-)

The problem with car traffic is that it only really meshes well with car traffic. Making it mesh with public transit requires a lot of parking, and cars take up way too much space on the streets compared to bikes, the density is way too low for the amount of people moved.

Modern commuter bikes are simple, reliable and low maintenance, usually with hub gears and sometimes with belt drives that don't need lubrication. Even chains can be kept running for years and years with no maintenance at all. And you can absolutely bike in your normal clothes, people do it every single day here, summer or winter.
In northern Europe where ground source heat pumps are increasingly popular, houses built with those typically heat via coils installed in the floors. As you say, with only lukewarm water radiators by the windows (the traditional solution for oil/wood/etc. heating) aren't enough.
Not the OP, but all things being equal, the lack of incessant notifications makes a huge difference to one's ability to stay focused and thus to one's productivity.
> The only thing I can't abandon is !gmaps

I was in the same boat with !gi but DDG image search is increasingly relevant, and is not infested by Pinterest results. DDG increasingly feels like home the way Google Search did years ago.
There is the filter bubble paradox - the stuff that we need to learn is what we have never encountered before, but the ML filters can only learn from our past opinions.
Also, here is a set of photos that show how Amsterdam changed http://sustainableamsterdam.com/2015/12/livable-cities-campa...
Can you elaborate please?
If merge gets supported than it could serve as an alternative for program development -- using tables to store function definitions, constants, etc. instead of using flat files.
> "insufficient number of white people"

That is unfair. This result is very different from a search like "USA inventors" which is semantically similar and it is an interesting discussion to have, why that is. I make no claims about what the results 'should' look like from a societal perspective.

And ultimately I agree with your criticism, it was too hasty on my part to claim google did this purposefully. Some of the ideas in the sibling threads offer very plausible alternative reasons which could have caused this difference.
>at worst you are also creating a much wider audience of sympathetic ears, mostly drawn from a public who doesn't like to be told what to think.

I very firmly believe that if it we're for the chorus of media outlets and public voices pushing the idea that anybody who didn't like Hillary, or who did like Trump, were all racist, sexist, deplorable... That Trump probably wouldn't have been elected.
We always did that in batches about 1k to 10k rows. Takes a while but at least doesn't hammer the DB.
I don't think he's looking to be celebrated, just accepted and treated fairly.
Anybody with enough money can connect to one or more IP transit providers ("the Internet backbone"). It will usually set you back a few thousand dollars per month.
That sounds like a right approach. Do you know about a place/website where I could find something like that?
He didn’t post the other user post again, but rather posted the original text from the writeup again.
That image is so nice! Do you have a video of you doing it from start to end? I would love to see that.

Great job!
Medical billing is a nightmare. I have HMO insurance (which means the process should be really streamlined - everything is in-house) and I once tried to figure out why certain rather simple bill item was billed certain cost. It took about three weeks, multiple calls and emails, and speaking to several people, to get to the stage where they said "this is probably because if it was classified as code X, though we can not give you rules why it is code X and not code Y, and there's no way to know upfront which it would be, we'll just send you the bill later and you pay whatever we say" and even then they couldn't answer why sometimes they billed certain percentage upfront and sometimes another, so that you end up getting different pre-payments and different bills for the same thing. This whole thing is an ungodly mess.
"literature doesn’t, can’t, have the influence it once did"

Well yes, since books or print in general aren't the culutally defining medium any more. Anyway, I think some people will get bored with TV & movies and will learn to find new interesting things you can do in literature. Movies are much too complex to create in order to be truly innovative. Too much money is involved. So, I don't think literature is dead, but there will be fewer readers, it will be more difficult for authors to make a living from writing literature alone and the number of professional critics will probably decline. On the other hand, literature as a mass media for everyone was, in a historical perspective, a rather young intervention anyway.
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So she agrees with her son that “This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore.”?

Countless millions of young people read. Many of them enjoy reading the classics and many enjoy reading contemporary stuff. Many also write.

Literature isn't dying any time soon, despite what one person's son's experience might suggest.
> Today the only drug I believe is fairly safe and has a much harder effect is Changa(dmt + Maoi)

Erm, sorry, but I'm really not sure the words 'safe' and 'maoi' should be in the same sentence there. There are a lot of precautions one needs to take to make sure you don't end up with severe hypertension and requiring a trip to an emergency room.

I think we should probably take the outcomes and evidence of the ongoing scientific research, for what is safe or not.
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My son was born in 2001 and only uses Facebook due to most communication routed through there from the Air Cadets he is a member of.

Otherwise he doesn't particularly like social media and usually turns off all notifications/largely ignores the "wittering on" occurring on those platforms.

He also does use Snapchat as there is a group of Air Cadets on that platform.

He also plays the odd video game so has a Discord account.

But he doesn't obsess over social media like perhaps a generation before his does. IMO that's a good thing.

In my late 40's, I too have a Facebook account, but largely ignore it bar having to use it to read the Air Cadet's parent group for important information I should know about. If it weren't for that, I'd be deleting my account there - have done so before.

Unfortunately I reconnected with quite a few friends and acquaintances, and have grown weary of the utter crap and banality a lot of them post on there - as time has worn on I find I have a lot less in common with a lot of these people than I thought I did, and the posting of twee political virtue signalling and rubbish or out of context memes only they get and find funny, has taken its toll. I need to go through the contacts list and perform a thorough 'cleansing', now that I think about it.
My kids started with the ipod touches and then on to the ipad when it came out. They got the mini a few years ago. They had touch screens since they were infants. I am a bit jaded with the technology. The experience is too removed from the real world and they miss out on interactions with both other humans and the surrounding environment to their detriment. We won't be updating their devices and I would make different choices a second time around. I think chromebooks and PCs are even more useless at that age but being less seductive I would hope kids get bored quickly and instead engage in social play or interacting with physical objects.
The story with aircon efficiency is the same as with heating in high latitudes.

Building with high volume, aspect ratio and thermal insulation are more efficient, but very few high rises are made like that: luxury high rises are made for people who can bang few hundred bucks per month on heating/cooling just to have panoramic windows, and cheapest high rises are made with a single consideration of maximising kilobucks per square metre.

Were building codes to enforce energy efficiency, builders of luxury high rises will scream murder.

What I calculated with my level of math, it is safe to say that proper insulation, reducing glazing to 30-40% of the facade, and proper central air conditioning will drop energy use of a 40 storey high rise by 30 to 40 percents.
If these questions were rhetorical, I think we're agreeing.

I will assume that they were not.

Do authors explicitly write subtext? Sure. In the same way that you can purposefully decide what your subconscious will focus on. But it wanders here and there. Over time, authors coalesce around a narrative to the universe that feels pleasing to them.

So there is only one subtext to a text? Not at all. Stephen King used to say that there was no subtext to any of his work. Of course there was -- but it was nothing he ever recognized, organized, or struggled with mentally (I assume).

If a subtext was intended by the author and never discovered by any reader, is it still a subtext? Sure. It very well can be. Authors that begin organizing their subconscious around a topic may purposefully add subtext. Nobody may ever catch it.

If a reader constructs a subtext that contradicts the intentions of the author, is it a subtext or a vision? It is a process of subconscious transferal. It's not a math problem. There's no correct subtext.

How do you define subtext? I don't think you can, at least in way people want it defined. I read somewhere once that fiction was actually more true than nonfiction. This, of course, sounded like idiocy to me as a programmer. But then I got it. It's true because we're sharing impressions of life in a way that can't be explicitly said. It's one thing to say "Local man escapes execution". It's another to read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

To clarify, if the questions were rhetorical, we're agreeing. That's because those are exactly the questions to ask as you begin to absorb the author's world. Is this the way they feel about the world in general, is it only in this situation? Is what I'm experiencing intentional? Do others experience these same insights? Does the author have a way of looking at things that nobody else does (or can see)? And so on..

There's no one answer to your questions for any one book/reader combination. Making the questions universal just makes it into nonsense.
What kind of tasks do you offer?
My personal rule of thumb is that if I look for a reference manual or an official website vanilla DDG is the way to go. If I'm looking for really fresh contents like news or latest QA !g gives better results.

Guess it's logical because even if the search algorithm of DDG is pretty neat, they can't compete yet with Google army of crawlers that probably use every idle computing power of their massive cloud.
Apple’s self driving Lexus SUV is like watching a toddler drive. It does odd things and you just know it’ll take longer than normal. I just started expecting the worst when dealing with it, and that strategy has been working well so far.
> They say that with MDMA, only your first experience is magic. I've used it approx 10 times, and can attest to that.

My first time was fairly meh, but one of the last times I took it, after a multi-year break, was pretty magical.
I guess this is based on the Accept-Language header of your browser (which you can control), not guessed from your IP (which is a terrible thing to do): since my OS is in English even though I'm in France, I get to have the English wikipedia with !w and use !wfr for local stuff. In fact I did not know about the behaviour you describe because of that.
Check Tour of C++, 2nd edition is updated for C++20.
Stanford universiry manages a tool called Protege (cf protege.stanford.edu). It is now fully RDF/OWL, I presume. But in the last decade, there was a dedicated version for FRAMES. (I Think this link is still valid: https://protege.stanford.edu/download/protege/3.4/installany...)
I definitely would.

Hell, these days I find myself dreaming of AR contact lenses, so I could peruse some discreet computing in situations where I'm otherwise unoccupied, but the social context demands me not fiddling with a phone.
My advice? Don't do bots. Someday and somehow, Instagram may develop such things that will detect those kind of features and activity. You could hire someone on this on a cheap price. Plus, it will be a fair trade to everyone and you can engage to your prospective client more efficiently
Try tooling around on an old bike in street clothes – but at VO₂ max. Easy way to make the bike short-race jersey-energy drink-clipin shoes feel very out of place...
This is true. However it is better in one big way - you at least know whether or not it will return an error at all.
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I buy, rip, and give away the disc.
> A lot of Americans also think it's too dangerous. It's an obstacle to getting more people on bikes.

Well, in the Netherlands it was supposedly the reason for demands for safer infrastructure, which in turn led to people starting to cycle more.

> Google Maps gives different routes for bikes and cars.

It does the same in the Netherlands, but I guess that's for a different reason: often roads are one-way only for cars, and bidirectional for cyclists.
MVP's and rapid prototyping are my specialities. Where do you think one can find people looking to develop rapid prototypes? Projects that are meant to be a proof of concept and then discarded
It should, but since the mods appear to be in one geo, HN goes unmoderated half of the time.
Go back to a decade ago (with today's knowledge of how social media would transform and grow, to make things fair), and imagine you were able to program yourself. Over the next decade how many hours would you allocate to 'waste time on social media'? How many hours did you actually spend doing that? I think there's hardly a person that's satisfied with the amount of time they spend on these outlets, yet actually stopping can be very difficult. It requires immense self discipline, an ability to realize where and how time can be more effectively spent, as well as a big picture view to even realize there's an issue to begin with.
> Generally when you hear about people being hospitalised or dying after taking ecstasy, it's due to the other shit in the pills.

Sometimes that's the case. This is one set of problems.

At the moment in the UK though, one of the major problems is massively dosed pills. 250-300mg+ in a single tablet. At these doses people get into danger.
Exactly what I was thinking the last time I was on Netflix, which was a couple of weeks ago at this point and spent a good 40 minutes realizing that Netflix had now become the "vast wasteland".

With delivery platforms all now funding their own content, the streaming entertainment landscape starts to look ... exactly like the old TV networks. Just the names have changed - replace 'ABC', 'NBC', 'CBS' with 'Netflix', 'HBO', 'Amazon'. It convergent evolution, and all of the things that drove the dreck that was on broadcast TV in the old days are there to drive it now, only with even better and realtime ratings data and targeted ads.
True if we are speaking about C++11 and earlier.

With C++14 onwards, it is a matter of developers actually making use of static_assert, constexpr if and enable_if.

Not as comfortable as just using concepts, but they get the job done.
Yes, it is called the Omega Paw. We've been using it for almost 2 years and quite happy with it. It is also much cheaper than the robotic ones.

Cleaning process is just rolling the whole thing 180 degrees and rolling it back. The clumps and poop will drop in the drawer, ready for disposal. Literally 15 seconds task.
The article does address this, it still has to check the DB for NULLs after you're done. Less downtime, but for huge tables it does take a significant amount of time.
This is a rather flat article that doesn't go into the whole thing properly. And it has a rather anti drugs hint to it, if anyone wants to know some more about drugs from users/expert, who have a normal constructive conversation, i'd recommend this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8WDZIhs3M
No, ghosting a job is a terrible idea. If two parties invested any amount of time into a relationship, be an adult and own up to your responsibility to end it in a way that gives closure and respects the other person. A job is not a party, a job is a big commitment with a lot of value exchanged both ways.

It also benefits you, more than you know.
This is not really true. Several things look quite a lot like MDMA, and one of the problems with Ecstasy tablets in Europe at the moment is that they contain too much MDMA for a single dose.

Always test your drugs people, and start low.
Actually Java adopted those ideas from 90's C++ code style.
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This isn't just restricted to US. It has become very common even in a country like India for doctors and hospital owners to invite their doctor buddies for 'second opinions' and looking at non-issues and then billing the patients 'consulting fees'.

There is also a huge industry built along the lines of phony testing.

The term used for that think is called 'basin test', basically samples are flushed down the basin and made up numbers are put in reports. You can put in what you like as the doctors know the patient is healthy.
Blocks are taken as part of the blockchain once there is consensus amongst the nodes that it is valid, so the consensus algorithm (as well as the POW algorithm) are integral parts of what makes a blockchain a blockchain
For the majority of consumers, cloud backup makes more sense than tape backup -- few people have the discipline to stick to a safe backup regimen.
According to your link 32% of all defendants are held on bail, I would call that "a very large percentage". It would be interesting to see what proportion of the total incarcerated population those held on bail made up too. It's also worth pointing out that that data stops at 2004 and shows the amount held on bail increased ~15% in 14 years, from the "media sources" I've read it has apparently not stopped going up in the most recent 14 years either.
LTO has to rewind in certain circumstances. The file listing can be browsed without having to seek, but the accessing the content, writing or erasing cannot. Still somewhat unlikely it was LTO, but probably not due to the rewinding.
This seems typical of many built-in searches. It's halfway how things are indexed but also how things are presented: one of the worst offenders is ruby's documentation, where it's extremely cumbersome to get the latest version of a given item[0]. And that's a trivial search query.

[0]: https://ruby-doc.com/search.html?q=Array
It's still not as clear as just splitting across lines, plus in most tools you need to explicitly indicate you want to highlight word diffs.

But more abstractly speaking: are chained calls, from the POV of a human that didn't write it, or wrote it two months ago, more readable than a number of statements on multiple lines?
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Litter Robot is by far the best automatic literbox ive used.
Maybe I have, I'm not sure. Whatever I did to stop my inbox being flooded with emails from Facebook, I did almost a decade ago and I haven't touched it since.
Indeed. But the last version of SQLightning is using SQLite 3.7. It would be useful to have an updated version. I was going to update it but then I decided to implement LiteTree in another way, using pages instead of rows. This is because our customers at Blocko/Aergo prefer higher performance over small storage.
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My Dutch law teacher explained it to me this way: "If you are in an airplane, with your bike, then parachute down to a highway and get hit by a car. The car might have a chance to not be liable, but probably still will be."

The reasoning behind this is, whatever accident happens, one of the two people involved is protected by a ton of glass and steel, one is out in the open. The one that is protected inherently has to bear more responsibility.
> One thing though is that our geography works well with biking.

Yeah, that one. Your country is ridiculously flat with highest peak of around 300m above see level.

On the other hand, there are a lot of raining days in Netherlands! I was very surprised that Dutch don't care too much about weather, they ride on sunny days same as on rainy days.
Hmm. I was hoping there was a way I could do so online.

Mumbles something about equal opportunity open access and the bourgeois
This is a totally ridiculous article.

> That is why everyone he knows microdoses, saving the longer-acting drugs like Ecstasy for the rare occasions when they want to party and relax.

I presume that "microdoses" means LSD, but who knows. MDMA is not per se longer-acting than LSD or Psilocybe spp.
I think that's it. I invested years of my life into building that product (that I owned exactly zero of). It felt weird giving it up to someone else, I had a lot of pride in the code I wrote.
I'm quite sure the post was tongue-in-cheek. The point was basically that Dutch weather isn't great, disguised as a complain of propaganda.
Hey lets add a compactor to the bottom and create and patent a competitor!
I think it would rather help if there was two buttons; "watched" and "hide". Both remove the item permanently from the visible catalog for you, "watched" adds it to a profile-private list of things you have watched.

This would help me to quickly sort out if I would consider watching something and I could reduce my watching list to the things I'm actually currently watching instead of abusing it for "might watch at some point".

If I have watched something I don't want it to be recommended to be and if I don't like something I don't want to see it again.
Sadly, probably none.

On that note, I think my comment was at 2 before; it's at 0 as of this reply. Heh.
Those are not the wide ones like in the picture though - almost nobody owns those.