skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I've been looking at doing the opposite. I've been a RN (mostly ED) for several years. I mostly enjoy it, but it can be pretty stressful sometimes. I started going back to school at a local CC taking math and EE classes last summer when feeling pretty depressed and burned out (getting out and using a different part of my brain, throwing myself at something challenging that's not work has helped tremendously in that part). As far as any age bias, I definitely have not noticed any where I work - I have several co-workers in their 60's and there is no typical age of new hires.
Confused, so you say it's taking the worst approach but then you just list a bunch of difficulties with doing it better... what is the criticism here? When I read your first paragraph I expected you were going to explain how to do it better.
I plan to "man in the middle" the HTTP stream.
How do you avoid giving your mobile number to service providers on sign up (banks, paypal, uber etc)?
Lambda School Raises $30M to Expand Income-Sharing Tuition for Coding Students
Why do you consider a VR browser to be a gimmick? And why is this announcement not relevant to building a "good web browser"? They want to build a good web browser for VR, as well as mobile, desktop, and any other platforms which are relevant today and hopefully tomorrow. Perhaps you are only interested in the desktop version, but it's still probably in their best interests to develop browsers for other upcoming markets. Were you also upset that they spent valuable resources building an Android version?
They have a configurable out-of-the-box voicemail setup option.

No software or server running on my end. It’s all on theirs.

I originally set it up when my phone provider wanted to charge me several dollars per month for a less useful voicemail system, so I set up such a thing by telling my provider to forward unanswered calls to that other DID.
Paradoxically, tech has actually made DnD much more accessible to the masses.

When my friends and I first started playing 3.5 in middle school, we pooled our money for a single player's handbook (they were pricey back then!) and would constantly be passing it around any time anyone needed to do anything, which really slowed down the pace of the game and made it hard to get intimately familiar with the rules.

Eventually someone found a PDF dump of some books, and suddenly not only did we have access to useful stuff like the monster manual and DM guide, but we could search the text super quickly and get familiar with the rules at home, on our own time.

Now that we're adults who can actually afford the books, we don't need the PDFs - but we still benefit from using phone apps for dice rolling and spellbooks, and roll20 for combat.
That's great, but can't you use the subaudible tones as an additional blocking metric? Or even as an assessment metric to flag potential false negatives?
Want to play but don't know how to get started?

Try my guide! https://github.com/Miserlou/dnd-tldr
Oracle's Larry Ellison Has a $1B Stake in Tesla
So in my own experience, older colleagues can usually bring two things to the table regardless of relevant work experience: maturity and responsibility. This isn't always true (I've definitely had some older colleagues who are exceptions to this rule), but I think probably your average 40 something is more mature and more responsible than your average 20 something. More importantly, if someone went and did this degree in their 40s, I know they are doing it because they really want to follow the career path that the degree leads to, not because they chose this academic program at random at the age of 17 or 18 because they weren't sure what they wanted to do.
We need more keywords
Nobody ever seems to question what's in these burgers. Just focusing on taste is not good enough. Any independent research/investigation (besides Impossible Food's own marketing materials) on the healthiness of the ingredients? Even if the ingredients aren't inherently unhealthy on their own, if I'm just eating a bunch of filler without much nutrition compared to real meat, that's still a problem.
Embedding in other Android apps is not really what we expect in general by being embeddable. Servo for instance is easy to embed since you just need to provide it a GL context and feed it events. This is far from being the case with Gecko unfortunately. Chromium is pretty good also especially with the Ozone layer.
Show HN: Procedural image generator in C
I'd like to put my hobbies and fun things first, but, I'm a little afraid that my performance at work would suffer, because I'd have less energy when showing up to work, especially at the end of the day. I already often find it hard to remain productive after 3-4PM. I'm worried that if I got up earlier and worked on hobbies before going to work, I'd have even less productive energy to dedicate to my job, and my performance would slide a bit.
If alcohol were invented today, I don't think there's any way it would be legal in most nations. The only reason we tolerate it as a society is millennia of inertia.
Having grown up in Western Montana in the 80s and 90s on the edge of the national forest, we became very accustomed to having unmarked black helicopters flying low and slow over our land. Closest thing to nefarious was my brother & I taking shots at soda cans with the .22 rifle & 20 gauge shotgun.

We also had low and slow flying Cessnas for fire spotting, and we were also in the flight line of retardant bombers flying south. So, summers were generally pretty noisy for us as far as aircraft noise goes. The Cessnas & retardant bombers were flying so low, slow & close to the house, you could read the tail numbers with your naked eye. The old bombers in particular really stuggled to gain altitude. We were about 20 miles from the airport, and about 1000 feet over the value floor, and they were seldom higher than straight out horizontal from our deck.

Don't need UAVs for forest fire detection - already have MODIS [0] (and other) satellite imagery for that. New fires are detected via infrared usually in less than 24 hours.

[0] https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/
Thank you for doing this. This is a great idea. If every company that used open source committed to supporting the projects they depend on with this kind of approach, it would solve a lot of the current sustainability problems. I look forward to several initiatives over the next few years to encourage this kind of behavior from all companies.
Exactly this. I get so sick of trying to track down where the solution to a basic issue is that should be documented in the readme only to find a string of github issues closed with no linking comment to where the actual solution is. Then I bounce back and forth between github, and jira and billion other things to just find out how to use something at a basic level. These days I don't even bother I just read the code.

This whole "not putting support" in github issues is kind of BS in my opinion. Whats wrong with the issues being cluttered up? It has a search functionality, and tags, Id rather have one source of truth.

If its basic then answer the question, put it in the readme, or link to another issue that has the question alread answered. Maintainers fail to realize that some people search for issues from a particular context and sometimes variations on the same question are useful when you are searching for something.
The dystopia we inhabit is different than the one that produced Soylent Green, to the point that the comparison is humorous and edgy.

The same cannot be said for We.
Why even try to make a profit? The company should be willing to offer this below market because the retention, productivity, satisfaction and other benefits to them would be incredible. I suppose having the critical mass of employees with daycare age children and sufficient facilities would be a limiting factor. Plus any negative aspects of liability etc.
The bail money isn't an essential part of the system either. Most other countries have radically different systems; in the U.K. it's unconditional and free for minor offenses with escalating conditions (and violence may result in no bail at all).

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/bail
Exactly: arbitrary rules backed by a significant advantage in the use of force.
Would be grateful if people could point me to more resources on procedural image generation, preferably something genetic/evolution based.
If you're not cooking, but are concerned about health, how are you eating that you somehow escape vegetables?

The thing is, "healthy" is often associated with freshly prepared foods. The non-cooking-yourself option for (hopefully) freshly prepared food would be reasonable usually sit-down restaurants, most of which offer plenty of vegetables because they're cheaper than the main course. And of course, delivery is an option.

(Obviously, "freshly prepared" as framed in opposition to pre-prepared with additives, handling, and ingredient selection focused more on the taste & texture surviving longer term delivery and storage.)
The FirefoxOS legacy is alive in KaiOS which has 50M+ users now and is growing. Indeed a very poor decision from Mozilla's leadership to kill the effort too soon.
And what is the answer if we're not talking about GDPR?
Yep, that's the old tables problem is it's up to the player to show their hands and some either don't care or don't want to reveal their startegy ... I think they even have RFID chips, it makes the game much more televisable
The article undersells the whole story.

The Open Gaming License of 3rd edition D&D was definitely open source inspired (despite my personal beefs with it) and kicked of a huge burst of new game developers, and that bubble collapsed right on the tails of the CCG collapse, which caused a big churn in the industry.

This led to a spike of online offerings, and the crowdsourcing era has meant that while the last 10 years is anything but safe for authors, for players it us as golden age.

Well beyond d&d (though there too) there is a wealth of options and better support and community than ever, between publishers and players, and amongst players. Tabletop games continue, as do video chat based games and play by post forums. All while the old school games, MOOs and MUSHes thrive. Different playstyles are supported, the communities are getting better about tolerance, and the Satanic Panic is not part of mainstream culture anymore.
The abstract mentions an example app but I couldn't find a link to try it.
I also wake at anywhere from 4 to 7, but in reality IMHO, that's still the middle of the night, not the morning. Morning is when it's light.
I was hoping it's catching with kids,
but just adults..
> All the RPG market needed was one publisher with good production values and broad distribution to . Wizards was happy to oblige...

I think you can make a very good case that D&D 4e in 2008 was where they decided to “discard a big chunk of its worst, thorniest rules”, and that the big innovation in 5e, released in 2014, was less about discarding thorny rules and more about reconnecting the streamlined rules with the fiction, in a way to preserve (mostly) the mechanical streamlining of 4e while reconnecting with the feel of earlier versions (not just one of those, but supporting the different appeal of multiple of them.) Changes like swapping encounter and daily powers for powers recharging with a short or long rest aren't a big deal mechanically, but they are a shift from pure metagame balance to something that is better tied to actions in the in-game milieu.
Fall of the iCurtain: Apple Brings iTunes to Samsung Smart TVs
The two topics displayed in the screenshot are actually languages (CSS and SCSS), so we could just filter trending by language then? I never got the appeal of topics that much, and this screenshot seems to confirm that in practice topics are a bit redundant. Should tag my "CSS" project with "CSS"? Isn't that a bit pointless?
"The most important component of evolution is death. Or, said another way, it’s easier to create a new organism than to change an existing one. Most organisms are highly resistant to change, but when they die it becomes possible for new and improved organisms to take their place.

This rule applies to social structures such as corporations as well as biological organisms: very few companies are capable of making significant changes in their culture or business model, so it is good for companies eventually to go out of business, thereby opening space for better companies in the future."

— John Ousterhout, Stanford professor
What makes you think most people don't need to learn or innovate constantly and why is HN in particular an exception?
Digital board games are superior in almost every way except face to face player interaction. For games with a high level of complexity, the analog version is always terrible. Forgetting to move a bit when the game state changes is always a sore point. Unfortunately, these games are generally more challenging to port to digital as well.

For more casual games, I prefer to play in person with a beer in hand.

(PS My day job is running a game store. If anyone needs a recommendation on a board game, let me know.)
Its almost like we outsourced our civic duties to hired guns
> 4. Dentist

That profession historically is also toward the top of suicide lists.
Not in the urine sense, but as in "a wee problem" it's got strong British (mostly Scots, really) overtones for me.
It's interesting that you think that. I think many people would agree, and yet...

When we take a photo of somebody, we're instantly recording a number of decisions they made that day. In a certain sense a photo is a record both of the time the subject spent in grooming and selecting clothing and also every activity that individual has participated in since then which might muss hair or clothing.

By recording a person's image a photographer also records their recent diet and fitness level, their emotions, their posture and current action. It's a massive amount of data.

All these very personal things are recorded too fast for the subject to do anything about them. They're already dressed, already groomed, they already ate a donut every morning for the past five years. Some people hate photographs for this reason. It pins a person to the wall and forces them to see themself from outside.

By contrast, recording a voice -- assuming the subject is aware of the device -- puts the content of the memory completely in the hands of the subject.

From the moment a person knows that an audio record is being made only aspects of that person which will be fixed for posterity are sounds the person chooses to make. There is utter freedom in this. It even takes a significant amount of time for the recording to get anything usable.

One can hide from a microphone by remaining silent. There's no practical way to hide from a camera except to flee, and even then the photographer will have pictures of one running away.

Isn't it a little weird, then, that it's socially acceptable to take a picture of anybody you know at just about any time? Not undressed, of course, not in any intimate setting, but out in the world the most we're required to say is "aw, come on, smile, I'm taking a picture".

When was the last time you asked somebody close to you for permission to take a picture? How often have people asked you instead of taking out a camera and giving you instructions on posing?

Certainly, almost no parent thinks to ask a child if they mind the parent taking a picture or a video.

I kinda think this might be one of the healthiest ways to record your child's thoughts in times of developing identity.
The savior who fell to earth [Thoughts on Carlos Ghosn by his speechwriter]
Two of the photos in the article are of kids playing D&D, and there's mention of it in the text itself. Kids like D&D.
Would you really want a default comparison where a == b does not imply a - b == 0?
It's normal now, it wasn't normal 20 years ago when Amazon started here. They also had free shipping from the start, also very rare back then.
Apple had installed the entire networking code from UNIX under appletalk. But Steve personally fired the head of Apple networking. Then he fired the next engineering manager too, until he got one who wouldn't keep trying to expose the full tcp/ip capability that they had built into the Apple kernel. So the initial capability was appletalk with low cost chips, but their tech guys quickly realized that they needed more. There is a lot of unpublished history - a lot of it completely illegal in order to build the fortunes of the tech leaders (and not just Apple, Microsoft, and SCO.)
What’s wrong with the statement is that it is ‘entirely subjective,’ like your own views – it is no less arbitrary to include only humans on your list of animals deserving of empathy. Such an ethical rule cannot accommodate the proposition that some kinds of harm to animals (eg. needlessly torturing mammals) are unacceptable and some kinds of harm to humans (eg. self-defence, euthanasia, abortion) are acceptable.
I could think you could look at the end of Prohibition as a similar case study. Is there still illegal alcohol? For sure. But, it is far less profitable and far less violent than it was during Prohibition.

That said, I'm fine with legalizing marijuana. Not so much so with the likes of cocaine, meth or heroine. Soft drugs, sure, hard drugs, keep a leash on it.
Are you thinking a traditional franchise (like a gym) or a platform that independent landlords can list their co-working spacaces on (i.e. Airbnb for coworking spaces)?

They both seem like less risky and more traditional tech plays than WeWork's current business model.
I think there's a general misuse of terms like AI, Machine Learning, Data science and Data engineer. ML is the new "Big Data"
Holy dumb!
What if we turn it into something a little more analogous, and I loan you $100, and you use that $100, and I never asked for it back, but 12 years later go "actually you know what, never mind about paying me back", that's not $100 you now have. That's $100 you had 12 years ago. But we also need to make sure to keep the analogy in the same ball park, not the same county, so when we're talking $100, the tax on that isn't going to bankrupt you and it's a bad analogy. Let's up that by a factor of 500 instead: when we're talking a full student loan, if I say "actually, keep it", I literally just bankrupted you for kicks, and you should have had some kind of legal protection that prevented me from ruining your life on a whim.
This is funny:

"The valuation of the round was still being agreed between the two sides, with one person saying that it would be split with $1bn at the existing $20bn level and the remaining cash at the $42bn valuation from the previously announced fundraising."

So, $2bn at a $31bn valuation is what is being done.
Well that's fantastic news, and I'm glad to hear it. I expect we will more or less beat cancer someday, and heart disease too. Probably long after I'm gone, but I'm happy for future generations that will no longer have to fear this scourge. (Assuming we don't wipe ourselves out some other way first.)
It remains unlooted so far. It needs a layer of opaque billing, routinely bankrupting its customers, and profit extraction to match the healthcare industry.
Could you say relax again for me please?
Gtk2 is the most mature one, Qt4 follows next (and AFAIK you can build it for Qt5 too but never tried it myself) and Gtk3 is in very early stages. Gtk1 might still work too, but the only distro i know that ships Gtk1 is Slackware.

AFAIK Gtk2 is the preferred one for shipping since it is still widely available and you can simply give a binary (Lazarus uses a rather old version of the Gtk2 API by design so that it is compatible with almost every Gtk2 distro out there, including some that are a few years old). Qt4 and Qt5 require an intermediate shared library that provides a C API and Pascal bindings for it and in addition Qt4 is removed from some distros.
Thanks for Zappa!
A list of ingredients from the company's website:

Water, Textured Wheat Protein, Coconut Oil, Potato Protein, Natural Flavors, 2% or less of: Leghemoglobin (Soy), Yeast Extract, Salt, Konjac Gum, Xanthan Gum, Soy Protein Isolate, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Thiamin (Vitamin B1), Zinc, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12.

source: https://impossiblefoods.com/faq

Seems like a regular old veggie burger, with some more slightly exotic additives. I had not heard of Leghemoglobin, which appears to be some sort of hemoglobin-like protein found in legume plant roots.
> There is one aspect where I think digital board games are superior

D&D is not a board game, though a grid and figures of some kind are a useful play aid for combat; and for that part, there are virtual tabletop (VTT) systems (and digital character sheets, both integrated with VTTs and independent of them.)
As far as I can think of, the number of retailers with significant worldwide operations is very small. Costco and Walmart both have about 20% of their operations outside of North America. Uniqlo is 40% Japan, 30% PRC, 30% elsewhere. No real others come to mind.
Maybe we should also add data types to every language that can convert exactly between inches, feet, miles and every other non-base-10 unit?

The argument "we want to look at base-10 in the end so it should be the internal representation" is really weak and ignores basically every other practical aspect.
The most productive I've ever been on side projects was when I had an hour long commute via public transport. It was a solid hour with few options for other activities and very little distractions. The ride home was a second hour but I was usually burnt out by then.
Samsung phone users get a shock: They can't delete Facebook
If anyone is curious, I run a Pathfinder (D&D fork) campaign in the Santa Rosa, CA area.

https://www.meetup.com/Sonomacountyrpg/events/pvhbpqyzcbrb/
The UK has Co-operative funerals : https://www.co-operativefuneralcare.co.uk/
If anyone wants to mess around with a PDP-11 simulator, you can get it up and running with Docker in 1 command.

Details are at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/run-the-first-edition-of-unix...
Not only Dungeons and Dragons, board games are making huge waves around the world. As a game store owner, I have observed a huge growth in tabletop games, including board games. So it's probably not a coincidence that the most highly rated board game (at least according to Board Game Geek) is an RPG based board game. At the time of its kickstarter, I think it raised the most money as well.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven

Speaking of kickstarter, I believe some of its most funded ideas were board games.
Anybody can register a .eu domain. There are many companies that operate across EU borders in different countries, and use .eu domains to advertise their pan-European targeting.
There is one aspect where I think digital board games are superior: you don't have to spend time setting up, putting away, or resetting the game.

Back in the 80's, a group of friends and I played Car Wars post apocalyptic vehicular combat game. (Think Mad Max from the 1st movie. We had the "Sunday Drivers" unmounted add-on.) We spent most of the weekend setting up, and got through 2 minutes of game time.
Why People in Cities Walk Fast (2012)
...you would have to consume impossible amounts for the smallest of effects

Further, phytoestrogens actually benefit humans

Maybe I'm not parsing things well, but these 2 statements seem contradictory.
Imagine the person smart enough to substitute each of those things with something freely available. Just imagine.
Amazing how focal length affect shape of the face
My Facebook usage IS zero. I deleted my account as the first meaningful act of the new year. Go figure.
No we don't, it's a terrible law that unnecessarily burdens business and just makes it even harder to run a business. We don't need any more legal hoops to jump through; it's not the users data, it's our data about the user. The notion that data about you belongs to you is frankly absurd, just because the EU hopped on the crazy train doesn't mean the rest of the planet should follow them.