skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something poignant about the notion that a church, faced with "death", may find new life by welcoming the local community... which seems to me to be the raison d'etre for a church in the first place.
SketchUp used to be awesome, but the recent in-browser free version is janky... My partner (who's a Civil Engineer) uses SketchUp pro and swears by it - she used it to CAD up our apartments in the past to sort out furniture placement; made moving into them super easy :P
I had to read twice and go through the article to make sure of the amount.

IMO they'd deserve _way_ more than that. The precedent is scary.
You might try this collection of papers about DB technology.

http://www.redbook.io/

Fair warning: this is not for beginners. If you find the going too hard, start with a DB textbook.

Also, that site doesn't seem to include the papers themselves. But most of those papers are very famous, so if you search for the titles, you should find copies. Worst case, you might need to visit a university library.
This is somewhat tangential, but I really love how they published this research. This method has lots of interactive media visually explaining the result of their project. It was really easy to understand what they did, and fun to play around with the provided examples. I wish more research would end up online in a format like this!
For complicated reasons I was involved in a successful project to develop an open-source, Oracle-SQL-compatible, transactional-integrity-preserving, extensible database designed for in-memory performance in Java. In the process of this development "suddenly" the reasons for a whole bunch of performance and syntax oddities in databases like Oracle and PostgreSQL became very clear.

I was shocked to learn that was 15 years ago when I looked up the link to share, but if you are interested in the topic of "how to implement a database" it may be worth a look.

For what it is worth it was listed (not by me) on the C2 Wiki on the "Programs to Read" Page, where it was described as "[A] database written in Java with good unit tests and ShortMethods." [1]

Both statements are true, for a complete working example of a production database (it supported a commercial product for at least 10 years) it is actually a pretty accessible and well documented code-base.

The project is called AxionDB and can be found at [2].

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?ProgramsToRead
[2] http://axion.tigris.org/source/browse/axion/
Ironically, this is exactly the opposite path my family (my wife and three kids) have taken. We left a large evangelical church for a small progressive (UCC) church.
That's a misunderstanding. For each unity of a good, production costs go down, as do labor time. But because the goods are cheaper, more people may want to buy them, or people may want more of them, so the total labor time goes up.

That effect become known by the name of Jevon's paradox. If you want to, wikipedia has a large and well explained article. It has been spotted on practice enough times so that one should not question its existence. It's also the reason why software development salaries have kept increasing while the tooling allows for larger and larger productivity.

That said, it only happens some of the time, when demand has the correct properties.
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c) "yoloculture" (as I like to call it) greatly emphasis the self as the key virtue, hence the millennial and younger can't be bothered sacrificing "Sunday Funday" to attend an inconvenient service at 9 in the morning.

Simultaneously, The rock concert megachurches with cult of personality pastors and have Starbucks inside them with much later start times and emphasize a message of self empowerment with gospel-y sounding words, however, seem to be thriving.
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It appears the large denominational churches are closing while nondenominational churches are growing quickly. You can't put new wine in old wine-skins.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/september/how-ma...
Ask HN: Have you worked with a toxic colleague?
JIT compiler and runtime for a toy language, using Cranelift
Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It?
We don't need faith in God to have a community, only faith in one another. The premise that community cannot exist without a religious basis is a false one.
It’s actually $10k worth of tokens...
It appears that Microsoft has a different point of view:

https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/26/microsoft-to-u-s-military...
I hate-read this a few days ago to a group of friends. It's worth the read if only because of how it keeps getting progressively nuttier. They squander every marginal edge they might have for essentially nothing, over and over, including parent's money.

This is either fiction or crystalline proof that college is way, way too easy. It's not just a story of debt but a story of how they got into debt, got out, and learned nothing:

> Tom: We were in a good place. But then we did it all over again. We’re in exactly the same place now. That’s what bothers me the most.

How do they both have college degrees?
Amazon gives you a $20 discount to take ads on Kindle purchases. The possibility of having to pay $10 only if caught and fined seems like not at all a deterrent.
People who make their livelihood on the back of a sport don't really have any incentive to not be overly dramatic during the big game. Any promoter will want people's eyes on the game. Controversy does that. Carlson's draw offer did that, and so did all the criticism of it.

Not that I'm being cynical about it... nobody wants to be a champion that nobody remembers. Especially not in an age where computers consistently outplay humans.
That was my mistake when I first started. The manager didn't think it would take too long to finish a task. Well, the naive me, without even looking closely at the code, didn't think it would either.

But I realized the more I understood, the more dependencies needed to be changed. While it's still doable, things started to break and I ended up learning way more about the project than what was required to finish the task. In the end, it took me longer to finish it.

The fact that most of my coworkers would write a hacky solution in a short time, it made me feel incompetent. Managers without a technical background don't look at code, they look at results. So how do you even do #1 when the "other devs" still work there and can get stuff done much quicker?
Canadian French is very different from France's, be it the accent, the idioms, the vocabulary.

As a native French speaker travelling in Montreal, I often found it easier to talk English with French speaking people, to my great shame.

I recall a simple transaction with a cashier in a supermarket, and having her repeat the simplest things (like "hello") a couple time because I had no idea what she was saying or if she even was speaking French, this was awfully embarrassing.

Although I agree, Parisians are asshole.
I decided to get myself a collapsible helmet after reading that someone I follow on Twitter nearly got into an accident. There are quite a few options regarding helmets [0] but only two really stand out, the Morpher [1] and the Plixi [2] - I purchased the Plixi because it’s the only collapsible helmet rated by Consumer Reports. I’m very happy with the helmet, especially after comparing it with a Morpher that my coworker has.

Footnotes:

0: https://helmets.org/folding.htm

1: https://www.morpherhelmet.com

2: https://www.overade.com/shop/en/plixi
You could ask if they'll turn it off.
I got into it by necessity when I moved into an apartment with these weird door latches that slid out and got lost really easily. I found Fusion 360 for free as a student, borrowed a caliper from my university's makerspace to get measurements, and learned how to sketch it up. It was super easy - the only hard part that took 5-6 iterations was getting the Ultimaker printer to print based on the measurements I had put into the CAD file.

Here's the file if anyone's interested: https://a360.co/2RiHZfK
And kill people:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/28/90-year-old-woma...
I am always Leary of companies that try to do too many things at once. If they are jumping into too many industries I reach around for the antitrust flyswat
Sure, and man are the easy wins satisfying. Fixing shitty data access methods/patterns is one of the easiest ways to get a "WOW!" out of a client or product owner if you're stuck in the low-visibility silo of backend dev[0]. I've just been repeatedly surprised over the years at how very, very many people are making real money, and consistently finding work, yet don't seem to know which way is up. And I don't mean greenhorns, though often they're given comical levels of responsibility (typically by the cash-strapped or cheapskates) resulting in some real messes, which has a similar effect to when an incompetent "lead architect" or an experienced team nonetheless without a clue between them is set loose, which is just as common.

I harbor no ill will toward these folks. Hell, selfishly, I'm glad there are so many. Having half an idea what you're doing is guilt-inducingly easy, pays amazingly well—especially after the confidence-boost and resulting swagger and negotiating attitude that comes with seeing this kind of thing over, and over, and over, for years on end—and it's disturbingly easy to be a or the "smart one" in the room when you're kind of a dummy, in fact.

[0] Dear backend devs: if you don't simply love backend work and/or if you aren't very well appreciated compensation-wise, and especially if you have long-term career aspirations that involve shifting more toward the biz/architect/management side for the extra social status and higher late-career pay (in most of the industry outside the huge West-coast tech companies, anyway), consider moving to more high-visibility pastures—though ideally not web frontend, as, incredibly, it's still a trash fire and comp is so-so, mostly. Unless you just like trash fires, which some people do.
The comment was refuting the claim, "where you need read access to all of the parents to access a child directory."
Officials: Inmates Ran $560K Online Dating Extortion Scheme
Care to elaborate? The congregation I grew up in did wonders in the community. The mission downtown helped the homeless gain work skills to get on their feet and the church was the primary institution organizing coat drives, food pantries, soup kitchens and helping to build homes. As with any culture, nationality or creed I think there are good and bad. A general comment like this does not contribute to a conversation and only serves to inflame.

For the record I haven't attended church in 8 years and don't necessarily plan to go back anytime soon. I don't consider myself atheist either, rather agnostic as some questions such as abiogenesis and the origin of the universe are too big to answer at the moment.
Fines are just a cost of business to corporations. We need to put people and prison and take control of the corporation, turning it over to the public.
> as students are graded on their studying skills, I feel like teachers should be graded every fews years on their teaching skills

If a teacher grades a student poorly, there can be repercussions. They have an incentive to grade fairly and accurately. The same isn't true of students, who can grade on feelings and grudges.

Teachers are also subject matter experts in the material being graded. Students aren't trained as educators, so why would they be any good at evaluating their teachers?

Student evaluations lack even the smallest part of the rigor that they should contain. They are practically worthless.
I think you're an outlier. Obviously I don't have a dataset, just my observation, but I've seen the "my father went to this church, so I'm going to go there too" die off. Now people will go to a larger church, especially younger people, because they can meet people their age. If you go to a small community church, you'll quickly find there might be one person your age, if at all, if you're in your 20s-30s.

Now bigger churches do singles groups, etc. Zapping youth away from smaller churches effectively makes them unable to grow in the future, and their demographic target begins to die off or drop out. Church is very social, so the less people that go to the church that you know, the less likely you are to stick to it. It's very easy for a larger church to begin killing off smaller ones. It takes time, I believe this non-denominational /big church trend started 10 or so years ago...and is probably just now having a very noticeable statistical impact.

Obviously, this could be regional as well, and we can't dismiss that people have become less religious in the traditional sense.
Adorable. My best to you both.
Formerly known as Permanant Indian Territory becuase it was the worst land in America.
Perhaps Carlson was just being generous to his opponent then. Surely a nefarious deed.
I am super excited about this work and network dissection. The idea of causal units or finding neurons that correlate to objects in an image will have huge impact on image manipulation tasks. I am excited to try this to control GANS on how they generate images.
I agree. Otherwise the biggest capitalists who claim to love competition just s'damn much wouldn't have created a cabal to keep salaries down.
"Unflattening"[1] is hands-down the best example of this kind of juxtaposition and interleaving of text and image I've ever seen. The fact that it uses these paired media simultaneously to demonstrate and explore the topic of how they relate, is uniquely satisfying to my mind. Highest possible recommendation.

>"The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge."

1. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674744431
no but i’ve written one
When looking at google play store I will only look for non-free apps.

Using the 'follow the money' idea, if the app maker can get income from selling it they are LESS likely to try to make money by mugging you for data. It's not 100% but it helps.
Have you tried applying for remote jobs?
In my experience uni was a place of memorizing endless lists of pointless rules. Better reserve an hour a day just combing pdfs and the website working out which font to use or if the marker prefers camel case or snake case. Just focusing on learning won't get you anywhere because you can lose almost all of your marks because you missed a few of the formatting rules in the complex 40 page spec sheet for a python game of hangman or maybe you didn't comment every single line.
Sorry if it is not clear, I was referring to html files returned by servers when user visits old-fashioned server-rendered web pages (non-SPA pages) like `/page1` or `/page2`.

How do you version urls like those?

Something like `/page1?t=201811292359`? That seems ugly to the users.
Yes, Ethiopia does not work. It is bad because I am often in Ethiopia. Never been to Iran but want to.

Won't work in Cuba or North Korea too I am sure.
Mozart or bust.
It's important to note that Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations [0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-ar.... Even with this decline, the US remains a Christian nation. The special flavor of Christianity in the US is quite adaptive, so I have little doubt that the faith itself will endure.
That's a completely useless metric.

200 bytes can easily contain name, adress, phone number, occupation, age and list of interests for one person.
It _is_ a competitive market in many places but the market _isn't_ functioning as it should because of dysfunctional relationships with unions and tenure.

Unions? Really? Not administrators and profit institutions cutting college teachers' salaries to the bone, creating a situation adjunct professors literally starve to death in the process. No, unions. And tenure is your other complaint? The job guarantee that no longer applies to most college teachers today. Why not complain that the average teach still is able to sleep at night and has roof over their head?

Okay then.

Unions have their flaws but it was that way well before the current disastrous regime.

And sure, teaching is competitive market because even with all the horrors, lots of people want to teach because it's something to believe in, in this horrible and the bureaucracy, that unions are at best a junior partner in, do make it hard.
There are also hats with D3O material. [1] I wear one downhill skiing [2] but it is probably less suited for scooters or bikes, especially in warmer months.

1: https://www.d3o.com/

2: The alternative to not wearing this protection is none at all. I don't downhill ski much these days but didn't wear a helmet when no one did and am not about to start now.
most really are that bad. try this on for size: look at your own code from 4 years ago.
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Hopefully those safety concerns will force cities to accommodate electric scooters as part of their transportation infrastructure, leading to proper lanes, safety inspections and docking stations, instead of banning them nilly-willy.

The current urban infrastructure in America are build for automobiles, specifically cars, with bikes being an afterthought. The mass adoption of electric scooters will eventually cause a wake-up call for city planners, and will hopefully put the brakes on car culture.
Shall we compare this to car injuries/fatalities?

Wouldn't it be great if there was suitable lanes without potholes that weren't 'shared' with cars (cars don't share).

Injuries are to be expected, some users will ride stupidly, and unfortunate things happen. Add thousands of scooter each having 10 rides a day, of course injuries will rise.
There was a bit of discussion here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18516970
For my wedding I tried to not have any technology on me for photos. I always feared having a great photo like that one - but then it can look "dated" with an iPhone 6 in it.

Without that iPhone, that photo could be from anytime 1950-2020!
The more I hear about these scooters the more that I hope that they never come to Chicago.
It's sort of like gimbal lock: when a particular social movement becomes so pervasive and powerful the mechanisms of government become dangerously aligned and you lose the ability of the political system to perform an important function, namely defend itself and minorities from the tyranny of the majority. Remember, part of the design of separation of powers is that institutions must retain the ability and motivation to compete for power. If the motivation is gone the ability becomes at risk--either by atrophy or by one institution making power grabs that go unchallenged by others institutions or by the people. Discord is, to an extent, a feature, not a bug.

Hugo Chavez was a nationalist that was popularly and fairly elected multiple times until, eventually, the elections weren't actually fair anymore and the institutions of government were irreparably corrupt.

Nationalist movements aren't the only the way this can naturally occur, but it's perhaps the most common in the past two centuries.
My university explicitly rewards TAs with high reviews. I swear I’ve walked in on people handing out assignment solutions.
Yes, page 2, second paragraph
> I wonder why so many people have this car hate?

Cars are one of the least space-efficient transportation option imaginable. In an urban environment, space comes at a premium. At the same time, car infrastructure is quite heavily subsidized. Finally, there is a very large car lobby that absolutely abhors the idea of spending a dime on anything that's not cars such that talking about mass transit is equated with a war on cars. (And quite frankly, you sound much closer to that end of the spectrum).

> When there is no congestion you get fast point-to-point transportation at any time.

Following on the above point I made about space-inefficiency... it's impossible to allocate enough space in cities to prevent such congestion. And tunnels don't help because it means you have a vertical circulation problem, which is a problem that we struggle to solve with conventional mass transit systems already, and it's even harder with cars.

Ultimately, the reason why people like me are so against Loop is because we see it as Musk doing to car owners what Trump does to coal miners: sympathize with their plight, blame it on completely the wrong thing, and then peddle fantasies that he'll be able to make it better.
Car manufacturing is actually a great example of that, with Elon Musk saying "Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake." Manufacturing and "pick and place" are ongoing areas of research - for now, humans are unrivaled in them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/13/elon-musk-admits-humans-are-...
But they seem to have dramatically lowered the bar for highly paid workers to stay in the country. That 1 year PR eligibility is technically open to just about anyone earning over ~$100k. I know people who went over with nothing but a Bachelors, a few years in tech, and zero Japanese, but keeping their high incomes meant they could at least apply after only a year. I don't know how easy they would actually get it, so you may be right.

Even with the work visas themselves, I know someone at a small R&D company in a small city desperate for people, earning kinda low. He got a 1 year visa, then after a decent raise, a 3 year visa. I make more money in a big city, and got 5 years right off the bat, with poor Japanese. PR eligibility once it expires. I still hear about English teachers bouncing between 1 year visas after 10+ years in the country and near fluency.

I think a lot of what you hear about Japan comes from the English teacher side of things. Those guys are a dime a dozen, and have to hustle a lot. But there is a sense that Japan is desperate for skilled workers, and is trying to attract more of them. I've mentioned working in software to old dudes in bars and been instantly treated like an anticipated special guest, and told how good my opportunities are, that I should find a local girl and stay etc. Even if they'd rather not have foreigners in general, they are kinda rolling out the red carpet for a selection of them. All over the place companies advertise in English, promote their foreign working styles, and offer overseas relocation. They'll never be seen as Japanese, but welcomed to stay as if the country depends on them, which it just might
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> Brogan, 63, eased on the brakes as her scooter gained speed -- only to discover they didn't work.

I feel like this should be addressed by safety codes. Providing scooters with brakes that don't work is completely nuts.
Taller, black side is the front - the camera is in that taller end.
Wow! Great timing...Getting married in a couple of days and here 's our website

https://mamamami.wedding
How is this #2 on Hacker News? There's literally nothing here about how to actually build a database (yet?)

Instead, there's just a key-value store implemented on top of a javascript hashmap and a filesystem.
I had the same expirience of 'How do I use a website?' vs Website Has Information just over two years ago for mine.

Unless it's the first hit on Google, or all over people's preferred social media... They're as clueless as ever.
With adaptive, are you referring to being able to pretend to care about unborn children but not actually caring about them after birth?
Israel unveils 9,000-year-old mask from the West Bank
The Red Hat BZ is "Access Denied", so can't see if it's fixed in RHEL & CentOS yet:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1648482

:(
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