skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gaza Sky Geeks looks like an excellent programme.

For European programmers who would like to help out with similar programmes, but perhaps not move to Gaza, be sure to check out Hack Your Future. It's currently located in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden (with I think more locations coming up), and it's teaching programming courses to refugees in those countries.

I'm sure all of them could use more volunteer teachers. Teaching a group of motivated individuals and giving them a real shot at properly being part of society is an incredibly satisfying experience.
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> I honestly think that there's something deeply damaged at the heart of the American psyche.

Why is it the #1 destination country for immigrants?
What would you recommend Israel do when Hamas's charter literally says that they what to destroy Israel and the Jews? Hamas is Gaza's elected party and letting them import weapons is very bad for Israeli civilians.
Israel withdrew its forces to the border, but still intervened often. It controls the population register, who and what gets in and out including essential medicines and people who need urgen medical care. As noted it restricts access to much of the farmland and fishing areas. It’s for these reasons that many consider Gaza to still be occupied territory.
> Wasn't that the bill the encouraged employers to only hire people without dependents, because more dependents = more benefits, which the bill does not adjust for at all?

Employers already have incentive to not hire people with dependents. The media criticizes tech companies for having a young male workforce all the time for this. They feel hungry young men without social attachment will work harder and longer for them and keep their health care costs low.

If an employer feels incentive to discriminate in favor of those without dependents because of this law, they likely already were.

Also this bill only applied to large employers, those with severe market power over labor and markets that really can afford to pay more and are in the best position to exploit welfare benefits.
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I see! My bad then :)
Japan has fooloshly bet on fuel cells. Not sure because they wanted to be "different" than Tesla like Nokia once thought with Windows Phone, or some other reason. They'll pay the price for that error big time. Toyota actually had one of the first EVs in recent times but they completely abandoned it for 15 years as the elctric RAV4 saw almost no improvement in all this time.
I imagine that's their availability SLO blown for the year
Is that silly? As an academic am I meant to be familiar with the number of dogs who frequent a particular park in a country I've never been to? As the reviewer of that paper what exactly are you suggesting, I accuse them of lying?

Academia is set up to tackle people who fabricate their results - the reputational damage would destroy most people's careers. But that mechanism is not some sort of fact-checking investigation by the peer reviewers.

Let me put the counter to you: That paper has been cited precisely 0 times according to publications website. In fact, the only references I can find to it are non-academic websites which generally trawl research for funny papers they can write jokey articles about. So what has this told us about Academia?
Because they lack a soul.
I do not know why you are raising issue with increasing the national min wage.

This bill charges large employers for welfare who keep employees pay low enough to qualify for benefits and therefore receive an indirect subsidy.
Hello-

Here are my observations:

1. In the summary section, I would like to see more "wins" and achievements mentioned. There are a lot of features about you, what are the benefits to employers in terms of past milestones? What can you walk in and change for the better on day #1?

2. The paragraphs in the job description are quite dense. Put yourself in the shoes of the hiring manager or recruiter facing a large pile of candidates (after initial filter by an automated applicant tracking system). Best to distill the history further into the "best of the best" and leave the balance for the first interview.

3. I would like to see dates aligned right which would make the titles more prominent.

4. This misspelling needs to be fixed--> "Continuos integration"

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Not because of the American psyche, because the US is better at marketing an idealized (and false) version of its culture to the world than other countries.

Nevertheless, the US is a country that considers guns an inalienable right, but not healthcare, education or a living wage. Most of the rest of the world would consider that a pathologically insane set of priorities.
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I am looking to sell my side project. It's a novel resume making web app written in django and templated with latex. Research work and a part-time job leave with very little time to maintain it.
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A bit late to the party, but this quote is striking in light of your comment:

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

― Andy Warhol
Similar thing happened to me. On two occasions, I logged into my Gmail but was shown someone else inbox. This was several years ago and there were lots of reports on the net about similar incidents which I annoyingly can't find now. Google would never admit it and instead claimed PEBKAC, but I believe they had a bug that affected their single-sign on system.
"it's unlikely you can convince them to pay" why not simply use some factoring service that charges you some minor % for never caring about missed payments again? There are multiple out there (I am EU based) that have APIs, a decent interface, etc.
Enigmail/p≡p: Current Release for Windows Is Faulty – Solution in Progress
Binary eXchange Language, and data coming back from SqlSatellite
They are not fully explicit about it, just talking about Bartok and MDIL as if invented for WP 8, but they are scattered all over Singularity documentation and papers, so it is quite obvious where they come from.
I don't know if the OP of this thread is part of the antizionism camp. I can only assert that he is an idiot (He looks at the map and cannot see the long border that is shared between Gaza and Egypt)

BUT antisemitism == antizionism as it simply design to strip Jews from their own homeland. Antizionism is not part of a global anti nationality movement that says "Let's abolish the 57 Islamic countries, the 21 Arab countries and this one Jewish state" its one and only goal is to deny from the Jews what many other have.
A look at the format of data coming back to SQL Server from the SqlSatellite.
Not a lot of the influence stuff is actually "bots", much of it is simply low-wage humans from another country. Or Facebook ads. And maintaining a large enough pool of burner accounts is hard work or costs money.
Japan Waves Goodbye to U.K. As `Gateway to Europe' Post-Brexit
No. By the time you get hired and you are appointed a set of things to automate, it's usually followed by a long line of deliberation and resource management and prioritizing that's determined on the higher up.

There is a thing called "process debt", in the same way as technical debt, that some things are done manually. This can be mundane routine work, that might be up to 80% easy to automate, but allows for oversight and flexibility and often works with systems that are not trivial to work with. Other times the manual process is just cheaper to maintain than it is to invest in a "good enough" automation. You can also follow this by looking at the practice of offshoring and the amount of automation invested into offshored service centers (who benefit most from these solutions via specialization and scaling).

So even if the company hires a goddamn genius, if you want to automate stuff without breaking existing flows, you need quite a few months of understanding of the environment and the real needs of the process (business wise as well), etc.

And that's why managers think it's a joke idea.

(And it also comes off as extremely arrogant, because it's essentially calling your coworkers stupid by saying "I'll see something that you haven't noticed in years!")
Great idea. I found Saka Key [0], an extension (Chrome and Firefox) for general re/binding of keyboard shortcuts, similar to the various vim extensions, but more general, though it has two vim variants amongst the binding templates. Seems well done. I've felt dissappointed by the other vim extensions. Maybe I'll be able to bind the ublock origin zapper.

[0] https://key.saka.io/
Might be worth a look at http://strlen.com/treesheets, which is a smaller, OSS, cross-platform swiss army knife based on wxWidgets.

On Android, NoteLynX Pro has some neat ideas, including an outliner item having multiple parents, http://astrodean.blogspot.com/?m=1 Mindscope on iOS also allows an item to be soft-linked into multiple trees/parents for display, with a navigation path back to the original context.

ConnectedText on Windows, DevonThink and Scrivener on macOS have partial overlap.

For mobile: could doogiePIM import OPML files with dedupe? Many existing mobile apps can export as OPML. Could serve as a one-way sync/import.

For archival resilience: will the database format be documented, or could SQLite or XML export be supported? It's tempting to consolidate data into one app for UX/power, but we all know the long term risks.

For mail import, might be worth confirming that MBX import works from https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/, a free (for individuals) German app that can archive email from many cloud services. Presumably doogiePIM stores email in a standard format.
They won't be. Transitional tech always fails because when people want to switch to a new paradigm product they wanted to to enjoy ALL all its benefits. That's why the "touch optimized" (read: not touch born) Symbian, BB OS and Windows have all failed, too.
Many of the security flaws of other companies are actually exposed by Google's Project Zero. The charitable view would be that they put more effort to fix bugs that they have found, the cynical take would be that they extend their own deadlines indefinitely. This would of course explain only some classes of bugs.

One story I do remember though was that the introduction of Google Buzz leaked your contact list to all of your contacts.
About 2 years after starting Basecamp DHH & his biz partner sold a minority stake to Jeff Bezos for "a few million dollars each".

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-day-i-became-a-millionaire-55...
What are the most innovative ideas for hospital marketing? – Marketing Cheetah
How can the diameter be larger than 2 * the speed of light * time ?
>I also love demoscene and am a former scener.

:D this is exactly what OP is about: you are a former scener?

Or did you enjoy being part of the demoscene on your thursday nights?
So lets get this straight - the single variable that explains the situation of millions of people happens to be a subjective opinion of the moral failings of people you've never met. Nice!
There's another solution to this question (or maybe the same one in different words). I believe something similar, but I still do things - why do I do things? Why write this message?

The question seems like a show-stopper.

Then again, the trees I can see outside my window don't believe pointing their leaves at the sun matters or bears meaning, nor do the planets consider turning in their orbits. Nevertheless, they continue to do these things!

What is the difference between me, and these other systems? Why do I need to Ultimately Matter to live?
I worked on a project in the early 90's that was written mostly in PostScript (NeWS) and Common Lisp - two languages that have rather more in common than you might think!

Edit: Wasn't so much just PostScript environment but the NeWS/HyperNeWS environment that made that graphical programming rather good fun...
I don't think you're being fair with your comparisons to DO when it comes to price. The f1 micro $5/month Google servers are SO much worse.

Those "always free" f1 micros have 600mb of RAM, do not have SSDs and according to some tests[0] you only get 20% of 1 vCPU. There's also some pretty severe write limitations.

That's a really big difference vs DO's 1gb of RAM, SSD and 100% of 1 vCPU. The performance difference alone with SSD vs no-SSD is massive, especially on a database and while most web apps aren't CPU bound, 20% of 1 vCPU is bound to run into problems beyond a simple hello world that you set up in your example.

Also what happens if your app doesn't even fit in that 600mb? On DO you could get a 600mb app + 100mb OS + 150mb DB + whatever else running on that $5/month server since it has 1gb of ram.

In a real world application I wouldn't be surprised if that cluster performs way worse than a single DO server in the $5/month range. In some cases your app wouldn't even be able to run.

[0]: https://www.opsdash.com/blog/google-cloud-f1-micro.html
It's not just that they were published with "implausible "results. It's three things:

1. That they were published with obviously impossible results (inspecting the genitals of 10,000 dogs while asking owners about their sexuality).

2. It's where they were published. e.g. In the #1 "best" feminist journal Hypatia.

3. It's the evil in the messages they got published. They got a 3000-word except of Mein Kampf published, by rewording it in the language of intersectional theory. They got published recommending that "privileged" students be physically chained and silenced during class. They got published by proposing men be trained like animals. (This is not the same as learning about human behavior by studying dogs; it is to suggest that it's okay to treat people like dogs if they're born a certain way).

All this demonstrates a field of study that is not just soft in terms of intellectual rigor ("implausible"), but is willing to casually support reprehensible policy ideas if they're framed within a specific neo-Marxist belief system and targeted at men or white people.

Bear in mind that many of the people producing the papers in these fields receive public funds at public institutions. They project an image of being neutral scholars to justify those funds. What this hoax has done is given evidence that they are not neutral scholars. They are moralizers, activists, revolutionaries working to target a specific group of people, and are not very concerned about the rigor of the intellectual pathways they use to get there.

A group of people dedicated to a process are called scientists. A group of people dedicated to a conclusion is called a religion or an ideology. Social scientists claim to be the former. But the hoax papers demonstrated that, at least with some regularity and even in the highest journals, the social sciences act like the latter.
The only solution for the Gaza-Israel crisis is mutual destruction.
Why is this a warning and not an error?
Are there situations in which you would want to return the address of a local variable?
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If the World Was Created by a Programmer [Commic]
I'm confused. Are you saying the CTO and lead developer overvalue your skills or that they too think others overvalue your skills (as in they don't think as highly of your skills)?
Isn't it mostly chance that people discover their niche? In light of that, the people who happen to never find theirs are just lost.
Well firstly, I don't why you're putting "academic" in quotation marks, it would be a wild assertion to try and claim these are anything other than academic journals.

The problem with this article is that what it's methodology tests whether it's possible to get low quality papers into certain academic journals, but it's stated theory and conclusion are that academic journals are deliberately publishing bad science to push an agenda that this article calls "Grievance Studies".

The bad guys here are the random authors who have designed a bad experiment, deliberately set out to undermine academic institutions, and then rather than presenting real evidence have written a political hit piece.
And still no flags representing indigenous populations from around the world.
I had fun participating in the google codejam using factor, and in 2012 I wasn't the only one !
https://www.go-hero.net/jam/12/languages/Factor

Too bad that google codejam limited the available languages starting from 2018..

Factor is a very impressive engineering accomplishment, the standard library has so many useful algorithms and data structures implemented, and almost all of it with very clean APIs and documentation.
I'm looking for a new language to write server code in. I have been using Node for years but I want something that compiles to machine code and is statically typed.

I've been looking at Go and I like that it is simple, has opinionated, official tooling, compiles very quickly for multiple platforms, is popular enough to have a decent library ecosystem, and I really like the idea of goroutines.

What language would you suggest would be better? Nim sounds cool but it's too new. It's not stable and has a small ecosystem.
Then you are mistaken. The Sokal paper was published in a fairly obscure journal ("Social Text") where submissions were not even peer reviewed.
Me too. I would like the logo and the boot messages in a window.
I like it when big sites like this go down. Makes me not worry so much about when my sites go down for a few minutes - at least it won't affect millions of people
I don’t think it’s immoral, but I do think being unproductive is fairly boring. I mean, I’m in bed with the flu, and I’m extremely bored shuffling through social media. I can’t for the life of me imagine why you’d rather spend time on Facebook than working on something, assuming you have an interesting job.

If I’m engaged with something productive, it’ll make 8 hours feel like 4, if I’m trolling social media it’ll make 4 hours feel like 8.

Most people aren’t productive for 8 hours a day though, I think 4 is probably the low average, but not by much.
ah yeah sorry I'd forgotten I mentioned it before.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Evolutionary Scientists
Smalltalk and Eiffel collections.

Long before STL was a thing in C++.

Stepanov started STL original design in Ada, before switching to C++. Recent Ada standards have adopted collection classes as well.
The border with Egypt is walled. The wall also extends underground to prevent smuggling.

The Gaza strip cannot be accessed by air or sea either.
You can't conduct an experiment to establish why gravity happens. This experiment is like someone dropping a tennis ball and a bowling ball from the tower of pisa and then writing a conclusion that gravity has a liberal bias against bowling balls because it slows them down to the same speed as a tennis ball.
I think it's good to separate the problems.

1. Lack of rigor. This just means poor quality papers get published.

2. Ideological pre-conclusion. This means the field is dominated by a moralistic ideology, instead of being about neutral truth-seeking as it claims. This means that papers which conform to the ideology's pre-conclusions get published, while those that contradict do not, with insufficient regard to rigor in either case. It also means scientists/students with non-conforming beliefs are purged from the field as a whole, again, regardless of actual ability.

These are related problems but not exactly the same. Number 1 doesn't imply number 2, but number 2 requires number 1. The hoax attempts to demonstrate both.
5 unexpected ways raising the minimum wage helps workers
In the past I've had similar success with Cloud 66.
Star Wars: Russian bots and trolls behind Last Jedi abuse, study finds
I really think this kubernetes is complex meme needs to die.

I mean, sure, kubernetes _is_ complex. But it's complex in the way that using Rails is more complex than pure Ruby. It's fine when you're playing, or you have a weird subset of problems where you don't care if someone runs or not, but as soon as you deal with the problems of HA, DR, live deployments, secret management, sharing servers, working in a team, etc then if you're solving these issues with ansible and terraform, you're probably just inventing something as complex, and worse, bespoke to your problem.

At the end of the day, once you've learned to use kube, it's probably no worse than any other configuration as code based system, and the question is which of us should be learning it and when, and which of us should just be using higher levels of abstractions like gitlabs autodevops.

Now, indeed, if you're just hacking and you have no need for a CI and CD pipeline, or reproducibility, etc, then sure, it's probably not the time to learn a hosting framework, but once you do know it, you're free to make an informed opinion on your problem.

Personally, I sell kube a lot, but I tend to work for orgs that have several development teams and several apps, and bringing them to a platform seems like a good idea. The question is, should I also put a startup on GKE, or should I do something bespoke where they can't hire another contractor to take over as easily? Personally, I'd go GKE.
I would not recommend Docker Swarm, it's way too simplistic and my feeling is that it lags so much behind k8s that it might get discontinued. I've done Ansible, Docker Swarm, custom scripts and nothing is as clean as using standard K8S components + it gives you a good skill on your resume.
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to 3 scientists who harnessed ‘power of evolution’