skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why I switched to Monzo. Their tech is so much better and is constantly being improved.

No reason not to switch really (unless you really, really need to deposit cash)
Many moons ago, my dad taught yoga as a hobby. One of my early memories as a 11 or 12 year old kid, was when I attended a class of his. The class would end with a "shavasana" (corpse posture), where you'd lie down and the instructor would slowly get you to relax.

I still remember my dad's voice as he asked you to imagine you're in an empty field, with a clear sky, nothing at all. Then imagine the "cosmic energy" entering your body through your head. Imagine the energy making its way down, slowly through the length of your body as it clears your thoughts and relaxes your muscles - first your face, then your neck, your shoulders, arms, and so on. As an observer, I'd notice that more than 90% of the class would be in a deep sleep before the end. And it was a big class with some 100-150 people in it.

Just interesting that this "military" technique is so similar (and familiar to me)!
> That being said the housing market looks to be at it's peak here so it's likely to drop in the next couple of years again.

The property market of renting and buying is in an expensive deadlock (relatively to local earnings) everywhere from Lisbon to Krakow, from Reykjavik to Barcelona. I wouldn't expect it to just "drop" by itself anywhere as too many significant entities are betting on it.
Two points about nearsightedness:

1. If it isn't a serious problem for you, don't fix it. You were initially meant to be a hunter-gatherer, not an office employee. Your eyes' resting focus point is about 6 meters away (~20ft, this is where "20/20 sight" comes from). If you need to spend the entire day looking at something that is 1 meter away, it's normal and expected for your eyes to readjust.

2. Don't blame it on yourself. It's mostly genes. Some people can spend 15 hours a day in front of a computer, and still see like hawks. For others, reading a book 30 minutes a day can be enough to cause severe nearsightedness.
Do higher temperatures even lead to less rainfall? Hot and very humid places seem to exist.

I just googled, wood starts burning at 451°F - I don't think global warming has lead to such temperatures yet.
> a stand against "rampant environmentalism"

That is like randomly beating people up as a stand against "rampant humanism".
I found it engaging, and a truly real world example of how what we do can impact others, provide us with insights we might not normally have, and can help us influence the world around us.
How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War
When discussing Haskell and theorems about its types it's common to simply ignore non-termination; if we don't ignore non-termination there's basically nothing we can say about Haskell programs at all.

Interested readers should check out Agda and Theorems for free!
I don't have kids myself but what always amazes me with my friends is the drama when the kids have to go to bed.

One friend doesn't force his kids (3 and 4) to go to bed at a specific time. They can stay awake and play (quietly) for as longs as they want. The only two catches are: they have to stay in their room and they have to get up for kindergarden in the morning. Boom! No more drama. They usually even ask for the light to be turned off after kissing them goodnight. I told other friends about it and they got the same results.
Banks treat IT systems as of no value, they outsource overseas, they seriously think any developer brain is the same as any other.

Banks treat development as just like call centers... they know they have to pay for warm bodies, any warm body will do.
PlayStation 2 repair services close in Japan
If bits benefit from centralization the atoms do even more so.
Rising Interest Rates in Argentina mark another critical case for Bitcoin
It supports Firefox, you just have to enable a component from your about:config.
I was reading up on this in relation to Sabadell and found: https://www.ft.com/content/c5157c1e-20ab-11e5-aa5a-398b2169c... - in 2015 newspapers were warning that this was "particularly risky".
Twilio's API and SDK references vary from practically non-existent to completely unusable. I often have to resort to reading their SDK code to figure out what methods to use.
I've never worked in software for banking however I have worked in a large TelCo in the UK.

The bosses up the top were so abstracted away from what developers were working on, even the MDs of tech departments were in the dark.
This was due to a thick barrier of (project, delivery, platform) managers between devs and execs.

I can remember one time a director of "innovation" came in for a surprise visit. Most of the managers had went out for a team lunch. So I was left with my other socially awkward colleagues babysitting this exec, along with the head of testing.

After about 5 minutes of showing the exec what we were actually working on, his eyes lit up, as though we had just discovered fire. In the end he was really happy and amazed on what we were working on.

All he had ever seen were some mockups and a video demo.
We also got a chance to mention some of our grievances.

About two weeks later, our team had magically had some "extra" budget to buy Macs and 24inch monitors.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422378
Force them? It always worked for me and my brothers!

Household chores, Pfft. In 2/3rds of the world kids as small as 10 even help with actual work in the fields, house, and so on, and the family wouldn't manage otherwise.
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Interesting read, up until this point.

“[As a cyclist], look at the head of the driver that is approaching or has stopped. The head of the driver will naturally stop and centre upon you if you have been seen.“

Please, please do not rely on this. Correlation is not causation, a driver’s head might face your direction for lots of reasons (focusing on something behind/in front of you, spacing out, looking at their phone, etc). Friends and family have been bitten by this ‘trick’ before, thankfully not with deadly consequences. When someone’s head is facing you, it does not mean they see you.

A little surprising to see this advice in an article that’s mostly about the eye being fallible.
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I used to read theories about what causes near-sightedness, whether it was spending too much time in the dark, or reading small text, or sitting too close to the TV (my parents' favourite theory), or whatever the pop theory of the day is. But the older I get, the more convinced that I've just had bad luck with the genetic lottery.

I don't think that environmental factors have as much of an effect as people think. Genetics and luck play the biggest part.

Indigenous populations (of most colonised countries) tend to have far lower rates of nearsightedness compared to Caucasians, despite living in the same environment. I think that maybe myopia was much more disadvantageous in Indigenous environments with an emphasis on hunting and traveling across wilderness than it was in Europe, with all its cities and roads. The ability to spot animals and landmarks from a long distance is much more important in areas with large open spaces, like the American Plains or Australia's interior, than it is in more densely forested and populated areas like Europe.
> Except this concept appears to be about making chores fun for kids

Not really, you extrapolated that. It's about getting them to do chores early. But real ones, and giving them some leeway even if they are not 'really' providing value yet.
Yeah, I've worked in a bank like that.

As long as you had a CS degree, no matter what uni, no matter the grades, your experience, and if you were breathing during the interview they would hire you.
Awesome!

Lima (mali-4xx) can already mostly render a Weston desktop: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/mesa/issues/59#note_6321 — I wonder how close Panfrost is to that?

// Not exactly graphics related, but does anyone know if it's possible to build a custom Coreboot with the TianoCore payload (or at least U-Boot) for the RK3399 Chromebooks and get display output in EFI? It seems like there is RK3399 display stuff mentioned in the Coreboot source…
> One of many things that I love about the TypeScript type system is that it gives so much power to the author. It is the most expressive industrial type system I know of, but it also makes it easy for the programmer to say "I can't prove that this is true, just trust me that it is".

I really wanted to like Typescript, but once you're thinking in HKT it's incredibly frustrating to have to manually translate a function into its flattened expansion (just like it's incredibly frustrating to use a type system without generics once you've used one that has generics). Every serious industrial language allows a programmer to say "I can't prove that this is true, just trust me that it is"; I suspect many people who struggle to start out in Haskell would do well to make a little more use of unsafeCoerce and unsafePerformIO (they would no doubt give themselves runtime errors, but sometimes the easiest way to understand why you had a type error is to run the code and see what the values are at runtime).

(I made a small hobby tool with ScalaJS and was amazed how easy it was, so I'll be advocating for that over Typescript).
Is this a US problem that's better in Europe, or is it a worldwide problem with Amazon? I've not heard much about it except via HN.
Provided that the guess is correct:

>A simple guess suggests the the problem is a signed 32-bit overflow as 2^31 is the number of seconds in 248 days multiplied by 100, i.e. a counter in hundredths of a second.

The question that comes to my (perverted) mind is what is the counter for, or more strictly why it needs an accuracy of 1/100th second?

If it is related to a "periodical" action (a time interval) it makes little sense to have that degree of precision, and on the other hand, if the precision is needed, why not calculate it from a base point?

I mean, if it is related to "boot" time, I presume that noone would ever use a counter, rather a log of some kind with a timestamp and calculate (properly) the time elapsed ...
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The two cases are totally compatible.

Obviously if they were force to move they'd go to a new fangled IT system, not adopt some old tried and true system (those are too tied to the banks that developed them).
World Economic Forum Study: AI's Impact on Finance [pdf]
I've got a Monzo account, which I'm a big fan of. However, Monzo have definitely had more outages and planned maintenance than the other online banking service I use, which is provided by a different UK bank. I'd consider that a reason not to make the jump.
Not all banks are the same. Which is why the likes of Revolut and N26 and all the new tech banks are disrupting the market. PDS2 (New EU legislation that mandates banks open their APIs) will likely dominate.

Other banks are paying for their tech sins with technical debt -- paying Cobol devs ludicrious money because there is no one else.

Can't see traditional banks with this attitude of placing bodies in seats surviving long term.
Since the hole was in a Russian Soyuz capsule, it seems likely that Russia will react in some way. I don't think it's "Russia-hate" to hope that they'll take steps to prevent similar issues in the future.
I think Stripe offers a great product, but I still don’t think they have direct support for react-native, relying instead on a third-party library which isn’t very well documented, and only implements portions of the stripe API.
I think the very fact that this happens in Java - a deliberately simplistic language - is proof that it's not a problem with the language itself. If the language doesn't support particular constructs, all that means is that people will bikeshed over which pattern to use instead of which language construct.
Actually I use it in place of screen. I always thought of it as "a better screen"
PunyForth programming language for the ESP8266
Why is it better than LFE?
I've seen estimates which say that up to 90% of wildfires these days are started by humans. So who's starting all of those wildfires in British Columbia?
authority and boundaries are not at odds to a loving relationship with a minor.
Do you allow remote from Asia and can you share the URL of the company so I can have a look at the products you are working on.
I believe that using Frixion[1] pens you can erase the ink (more precisely, it becomes transparent) by applying heat to it.
This is usually done by rubbing the written area with the "eraser" at the top of the pen, but I think you can do a bulk erase (before reselling/donating the book, for example) by placing it in a microwave oven.

Anyone has done this/can provide feedback?

[1] https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c00520/
Deciphering the MSG controversy (2009)
No! we have folks as far as CET. We aren't ready to expand timezones coverage further than that right now though.
This was true before they launched their own payment processing.

They often had outages in late 2017 and earlier due to 3rd party reliability.

I haven't had an outage since the current accounts have been released.

No affiliation; just a user since Beta.
Not sure. I have seen people having two windows:
1. Vim
2. Terminal for compiling

I found it quite handy, then I discovered Emacs :-) We could stay on the subject for years I reckon.
And on the other hand you see things like https://cra.org/articles-addressing-shortage-of-cs-professor...

Just like there's a glut of wordpress plugin authors and a shortage of ML experts, different fields of academia have different levels of supply/demand.

Also, USPS really is not a prototypical example of free labor market: those salaries/pensions/benefits will be a lot smaller if/when usps privatizes...
They still get aggregate data that can be valuable. All the site visits that don't go through google search will still trigger a DNS lookup. Including geolocation.
The JSF is down to one engine, which if redlined, will down the whole fleet

Not to mention that for UK and Europe, pork-barrel politics means those engines can only be serviced by one country that is increasingly distancing itself from the rest of NATO. All F35s can be trivially rendered useless by denying them access to the single maintenance facility for their engine.
Is that after they left beta? I noticed quite a few outages, but that was while they still had the big beta disclaimer on things. I've not had any trouble since.
I agree. The article skims over the consistencies in the way data is recorded in the two tools. My experience is that Google Analytics is much more sophisticated, whereas tools which query server logs are more "as is".
Worked last night!
>Am I the only one who finds this appalling?

No, many people think things will last forever if they treat them as if that's the case.

Then, after they're gone, usually their kids throw out all their pristine books in the garbage, or sell them for $1 per box at a yard sale.
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Contrarianism [Kyle Yuan tweetstorm]
> Remember, lights are just as much about being seen as being able to see

I cannot emphasis this enough. It's terrible the amount of drivers who think "I can see fine, I don't need to put on my headlights". Whenever I'm driving on open roads (100 km/h areas) I'll always turn my headlights on. Like aeroplanes, I think that anything on the road should have lights on it for visibility.
The very early cooking memory for me is making mince pies. I'd cut out the shaped tops (a variety of christmas trees, stars, bells etc) whilst mum did the bases and filled them and I'd put the covers on and glaze them. Slightly later I'd get to roll the pastry as well.

Much like making our own pizzas (putting the toppings on) - you had entertained children whilst also being productive. I wouldn't have described this as "chores" though. (they came later)
I'm not against your view, but is the water actually 'wasted'? I think the water you used for rinsing the dishes is recycled in the water cleaning facility. I might be wrong of course, but this water has to go somewhere.
I really like the Lua reference manual. All on a single page (e.g. https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html), covers the complete syntax/semantic of the language, a few concepts as well as its Lua and C embedding APIs. All without bells and whistles. It surely helps that it's a relatively easy language. While I learned Lua, I basically never had to look anywhere else for information. I guess that's what a good documentation is supposed to aim for.
I do. I like to have a compact laptop directly under the centre of a larger monitor.

I touch type and want to keep everything symmetrical around a central point.

I avoid using mice or keyboards with numeric keypads because I try to reduce the amount of off one sided movements.

I try to drive everything from the keyboard and from the homerow if I can.

If I really have to use a mouse, moving my right hand a few centimetres to use a trackpad is, for me, much more ergonomic than a larger movement to reach past a numeric keypad for a mouse.
The author speaks in stepwise, risk management terms rather than "if green then go" rules. This is just another piece of information that can help you reduce risk and make better judgements as a cyclist on the road, but by no means a hard rule (don't think the author meant to imply that it is)
I rather need technique for wake up in two mintues (two quaters will be fine, too).
It's actually mandatory in most (if not all?) of the EU. You must have your headlights on at all times.
Same in Portugal (for all banks, as we have a single ATM network owned by all of them).
I love Frixion pens and use them every day when writing notes, and annotating drafts. They're also great for writing under a document camera when teaching. Although I wish there was an intermediate thickness between the thin ball-points and the really fat felt-tips.

That said, I wouldn't use Frixion pens to write in books that I wasn't prepared to write in using normal pens. The ink doesn't completely disappear. The color also comes back (to some extent) if you put the paper in a freezer.
Which developers ?

2K seems to have been enough for the Apollo mission to go to the moon and back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Memor...
I really like the Requests quickstart docs: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/
Sounds suspiciously like a technique I saw on Sesame Street as a toddler. I'm 42 now and I still use it.

In the episode, Big Bird (I think) would say goodnight to each of his body parts...so "Goodnight toes, goodnight foot, goodnight leg, goodnight knees" and so on.

I think what ends up happening as you say goodnight to each body part, you subconsciously "relax" them, so to speak. And by the time you get to your upper torso...you're pretty much drowsy enough to nod off.
I think every company cares about its customer loyalty, and damaging the trust in your brand might leave you with the customers who use you only because you are the cheapest. This would quickly make your brand worthless.
I'll strictly speak about Google. (and assume that you are a regular internet user, who has gmail, and doens't go to great lengths to mask their activities)

If they wanted to be really invasive, they could get a lot. Not saying that they are doing it, but they can

1) Birthday - on every birthday, there are a bunch of random sites where you have an account that send you congratulations.

2) How old - beyond patterning (which can get you within a fairly narrow range), I am sure that most people have received or sent an email which states their date of birth - whether in the text, or as part of a form

3) Job changes - in any european country, you get your employment contract via both mail and email. (and btw...this means they have your salary too)

4) College you went to - if you already had gmail while at university, they have you. if you got it afterwards, they probably saw the "alumnus" emails

5) Relationship status - this is arguably trickier. There's no "hard" proof. I think FB has the edge here, though not as large as it used to be (I remember that 10 years ago everyone had their status on FB. now it's almost no one, but it's irrelevant, because they can look at your photos, and whether you mention "gf/bf/wife" etc.

6) Running - again, FB have the edge in determining how much/where etc. But google know you are running, because they have your emails from the apps to which you subscribed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHvm1J9HVLo

"How to turn your words - that are currently seen as trash - into gold"
His first Treasury Committee appearance earlier in the year was very telling, in completely in denial about the extent of the problems, or issues/fears of their customers without even a hint of apology - I moved my banking elsewhere.
Paper books aren't sacred. They were when they were rare, and handwritten by scribes, and stored in archives like the Library of Alexandria to which scholars made pilgrimage, but now books are mass produced like any other media, and much of them are also backed up to software as well, so the medium is in a way irrelevant. You could burn books by the millions today and society would lose nothing of value, so long as we can print millions more, or still have an internet.
So where did it say that a Russian did it? The only reference is to a 'specialist'. You're putting up a straw man so that you can push it down. You sound like you're from that well-known trolling group btw.
OpenMetrics and the future of the prometheus exposition format
I dont really have any. All context I can provide is that someone told me to go look at that expensive frameworks sourcecode and search for a suicide.mp3.

All it contains is a loud scream I think, and the framework provider pretends the file is not there
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There was a lot of debate about this when daylight running lights where made mandatory on all new motorcycles in the EU.

Most of it was on the lines of if every vehicle had lights on you would no longer stand out, you are just another light which is also harder to judge distance in the mirror. Where as if yo have lights on but cars don't you are more likely to stand out for thr fact there's less motorcycles so not as many lights to blend in to the background.

In the AU everyone genrally has full beams on regardless, horrible experince driving at night.
Nikon has a nice lens simulator that helps in understanding lenses and sensor formats - https://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/simulator/
If it was reported there should be records.
I don't think that's necessarily inevitable. None of the British carriers was sunk during the Falklands war, despite the Argentines having diesel subs and exocet missiles.
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Plants turn their leaves throughout the day to fully face the sun. It seems they can't afford to be less efficient.
Not that it's likely to change anyone's mind, but I do recommend The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist by Gordon K. Durnil (Indiana Univ., 1995).[0]

As I recall, one of the core arguments was the equivalence of abusing a child, and poisoning them by polluting the environment. So if one is evil, why not the other?

0) https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gordon-k-durnil/t...
Whatever you do, do it in a reproducible way
How to use constraints with Docker Swarm
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