skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How robust? Search for "timber framing", there are schools and builders who specialize in it. And of course thousands of hours of YouTube like with any craft.
I see this sentiment a lot around here and while I agree that C should be one of the first languages people learn, I don't think that it should be the first.

I started with Pascal in my first year CS course and then moved to C. Pascal with its clear structure (begin, end) but similar process to C was a good lead in, and I doubt going straight to C would have been anywhere near as helpful when learning programming from a base level of nothing.
Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired with iPhone
>value instanceof LokationsRessourceGruppe

I actually liked the implementation in this case. Felt a bit more interactive.
"Once people use this for their professional email address they may start to using it for their personal one too."

It's usually the other way around.
It’s always beneficial to have your money faster. No reason employer should get to hold on to it longer and get interest and liquidity. In the extreme case, at least you’re not working a whole month before finding out employer has no money to pay you. And while you may legally be entitled to it, who knows how long the legal system delivers it to you.
Mr Bean as Lois Lane and Superman in Man of Steel. (DeepFake)
Norway did not contribute all that much to carbon emissions directly. The electric grid historically been and still is hydro, and the country was never really industrialized in the first place.
While it does seem silly trying to model real world physics by approximating everything as basic shapes like spheres/cubes, it turns out that these approximations really are accurate enough for many applications.

You really can get a reasonable estimate of the drag on a cow in crossflow by approximating the cow as a cylinder.
Funny that the same can be said about the subject of the article.
I could, but clicking on ads usually happens on platforms providing heaps of societal value - sharing ideas, cherishing memories. Algo trading, on the other hand, literally rigs the markets. Money accrued by HF funds has to be sourced somewhere. Where do you think this is?
My understanding of Shou Sugi Ban is basically to create a charcoal layer on the wood, so its unclear to me how that would prevent it burning, as charcoal is designed to burn. At best I can see it increasing the ignition temperature.
What is special about this course? Why is it trending on HN?
doesnt seem to break on addition of a targetText "hash-param"
If you diversify enough then a tiny amount in Kodak, Enron, and Pets.com isn't going to hurt you. That whole HODLing thing isn't unique, Bitcoin is just a simulation
Eu's GDPR defines several rights and obligations, one of which is :

Personal data shall be [...] accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’);

OP could contact Facebook's Data Protection Officer, that they are required to have, and demand that his data is fixed. A complaint can also be filed to the relevant country's Data Protection Authority if needed (I've done it with some success).
Don't underestimate the wild pigs though!

Actually a great part of European biodiversity depends on the cultivation of the land. The natural state would be forests and swamps. Grazing leads to open lands with a multitude of grasses, other small plants, bushes, hedges and solitary huge trees, which support different insects and birds.

In Germany we have a biome type, Heide (seems to correspond to heath [0]), that was created by degrading the land by removing the good topsoil to fertilize fields (as opposed to field rotation which was used in the south), and which is now a valuable habitat for many species.

However, much of this also depends on a non-intensive cultivation, where less-than-ideal areas (rocky, too steep, too wet..) are left alone or only used occasionally (eg to cut the hedges). This kind of use is going down, which is ap problem.

Another thing that changed my mind in the last few years: Even the Amazon region, which in the West has this aura of untouched wilderness, was recently found to have been heavily populated and changed by humans in the past, eg to make the ground more fertile in some areas. The key is to work with the forest, not against it, and there is so much we can do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath
Thanks for sharing. It's something we are considering as well so the discussion will be invaluable to us.
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An interesting read, but I also returned here to remark that the argument "Moreover, this world is fallen, so it is by nature flawed. ... and that is not the image of the Creator." is invalid and does make me wonder if there are other, more subtle misconceptions sprinkled throughout.
A recent executive mandate declared the company a “meat-free” organization. When I interviewed McKelvey not long after the Summit, he had a very fuzzy time trying to explain the meaning of the “eight pillars” of its CultureOS and the relationships among them. But when he noticed that the P.R. representative happened to be carrying a single-use plastic water bottle, he admonished her to be mindful of her own consumption.

Wow.
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http://n-gate.com/ describes their hacker news weekly summaries as 'webshit weekly'. Read into that (along with all the other comments on this thread) what you will
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I understand. Will do. :-)
True true! There is a bit of a difference tho.

"Hot or Not" was used to compare two different people.

My inspiration for Facerank was to help me optimise my Tinder profile, lift by ELO score and get more matches (maybe a wife, lol). So here, people supposed to upload their own pics :)
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>...like Soylent into notoriety...

As long as it isn't green. =]
Arguably English is the de-facto standard language for the Internet, commerce, etc. But there's a huge amount of speakers of other languages. Maybe this is obvious to others but I just had a realization that this may mean that English will inevitably evolve into... what word am I looking for... a creole? Lots and lots of borrowed words.
https://medium.com/@Edmund_Olotu/how-marek-zymslowski-lied-a... the man is a liar.
There’s around 10^25 atoms per cubic meter of air at sea level, so talking about a 10^5 density, a 10^20 reduction in density, is pushing the definition of “there”. (This also makes it closer to space, at 1 particle per cubic meter, than Earth atmosphere, by a dozen orders of magnitude.)

For reference, lead in drinking water is actionable at a 10^8 factor, but beyond that — say 10^12 — we largely talk about it not being there.

There’s basically no case we refer to something attenuated by twenty orders of magnitude as qualitatively the same.

Edit:

For fun, I looked up what it meant as energy differences — twenty orders of magnitude is the difference between you jumping and the total energy from the sun that strikes the face of the Earth each day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)
Thinking this law only affects Google and Facebook is the problem.

Google and Facebook can afford to build those content recognition systems and pay those royalties. Can your local non-profit photo sharing community? Can a new video hosting service that makes less money because it doesn't surveil its users?
Sure, but you can't know whether treatment will work ahead of time. You could have a decent half year if you do nothing, or you could have a decent 20 years if the treatment works.
They will have a problem with greylisting mail.
This could obviously have a substantial impact on challenger banks like Monzo (which I use and love). Not least because it would get around the regulatory challenges they face in the US.
I would have pointed you to their issue tracker, but all I can find is a horrible Confluence wiki. Kind of discouraging for potential contributors.

There is a mailing list though. At the very least they might add a 'why not (also) JMAP' bullet point to the website if you ask about it:

> […] join the COI developer mailing list by sending a mail to dev-join@coi-dev.org.

I would guess that they need IMAP to prevent the whole 'nobody uses it' problem.
Interesting how 1 lakh is written: 1,00,000
I want to be hopeful of this, but according to the article: "In the U.S., UBS is contesting charges from ... the financial crisis more than a decade ago."

That was 10 years ago, and and it's still being argued in court. I can very well see this being another delayed settlement that will drag on for another decade or more.
I would argue that every user wants E2E, they just don't know (enough) about it. E2E should be the default.
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For #2, you realize that the same problem applies, right?

Locals in poor areas will always prefer a few years of selling out to tourists to long term sustainability: kids need education now, you want to rainproof your house now or in essence: you want to better your life now.

For them, there is not a single incentive to follow your advice.
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In reality, those bridges work badly and hardly anyone uses them. I had to give up on my attempt at using Matrix as IRC client - it had questionable uptime and some channels even banned Matrix users due to frequent reconnects (on Freenode).

Hackint recently shut down their Matrix bridge due to how maintenance-intensive it was (and the fact that it logged all messages in its own database).

It's great in theory but impractical to use.
Game theory itself has been applied to trading ad Infinitum . Indeed short squeezes, liquidity traps, algos that hunt algos, are all a common feature and motivated by a study of the competition.

I’d venture to say that trading might just be the most competitive field in existence, with all the smart and cunning that goes with it.
You want to destroy Leon, Star Wars and Aliens?
I wonder what the difference between 'switch electric car to car free' and 'live carfree' is?

The effect over time or not using rentals/other people's cars maybe?
I'm working on a startup, GDPRvalet.io, currently in the phase of testing my assumptions.

Target audience is startup/scale-ups who need to comply with GDPR but don't have the money to hire lawyers (spoiler alert: in most cases you don't need any, certainly not in this phase of your company).

I'd like to ask you some questions to test my assumptions.

As a return favour I'd be happy to answer any questions about the practical implications of GDPR for your company – I've been working as a GDPR consultant for about 10 clients since 2017.
Oh wait, they will not. I can not find any reference to a working client implementation on their website.

Are they expecting others to write implementations?
https://outline.com/https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/we-tak...
This story about a woman giving birth in a cell at a Texas facility is pretty disturbing: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/07/10/premature-baby-born-at-d...

The guards just ignored her. The baby died. The story mentions other incidents in the same facility. There are several world class hospitals just down the street.

It did get shut down, but likely solely due to this incident involving a child. The prior incidents were well known, but didn't kill anyone other than prisoners.
I've ran a mattermost instance for several years now. Works pretty well, actually better as the years have gone by.
This is why I'm not a fan of mobile apps that force you to use your number. Sadly the most popular apps all the cool kids are using (your friends) are the most inconvenient in some regards. I wish Signal would let me use an email instead so I can use it from a tablet, but they insist on keeping my phone number instead. Signal made sense to use with phone numbers when they encrypted SMS but they no longer do messaging without data so it makes no sense to me.
Delta Chat is here, now, and has been for a while. It works on Android, Linux, MacOS and is being developed for iOS (limited function beta is available). There is no Windows client yet as far as I know. Delta chat has a simple and concise website which quickly comes to the point and does not try to upsell anything.

This... has a 'modern' website and not much more. The site starts with a page-filling image of a happy woman in an urban environment, she's clearly exited over something the lighted slab in her hand presents her. The thing sorely missing from the site is the download link and the link to the source repository where all those dreams are made true. It does contain one interesting piece of information though:

> COI for Developers

COI is the only ecosystem that provides openness, a strong messaging basis AND overcomes the network effect.
With COI you don’t need to develop, host and maintain your own communication servers. Thanks to Delta Chat Core, as a client developer you do not even need to deal with IMAP directly.

Thanks to Delta Chat core... in other words, this is based on Delta Chat. According to one of the project founders they are cooperating with Delta Chat to ensure interoperability [1].

[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/chat_over_imap/ - "...We cooperate with Delta Chat open source project to bundle efforts and ensure interoperability. ..."
Oh, I know, I know. I crashed with my motorcycle and had a concussion on my milt. Didn't think about it first but realized how bad it was, after doctors wouldn't let me go after four days in hospital.

There is lots of scary stuff out there, I'm aware of that. Maybe it's also about the "actio = reactio" thing in my head. Crash = you may die or be severly injured. Overweight might lead to strokes, ok. I can grasp all of those concepts and understand them.

But cancer can just come out of nowhere and it could kill you, although you did nothing wrong.
That was my first reaction. And when they watch a video, it looks like the notch removes like 1cm of screen width. Which means that the videos gets scaled down a lot from what it could look like if they placed the notch differently.

Watching videos, reading ebooks or browsing websites on a large screen is the first use I can think of for this screen.
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In São Paulo, Brazil (the best-paying city in Br) it goes more or less like this:

All of these are monthly salaries:

A good jr developer salary: R$4500 +- R$1500 (today, ~US$1200 +- US$400)

A good middle-level developer salary: R$7500 +- R$1500 (today, ~US$1900 +- US$400)

A good senior developer salary: R$12000 +- R$2500 (today, ~US$3200 +- US$700)

A good tech leader developer salary: R$18000 +- R$3500 (today, ~US$4800 +- US$900)

The highest salary for pure software development that I heard is R$30000 (today, ~U$12000). More than that only for CTO-like roles at big companies.

In terms of ease to get a job, it is ridiculously easy. A struggling startup fired 10 developers and let the market know that they were open to offers. In one week all of them were already working at another company. All of them and already working (not just receiving an offer). We get LinkedIn messages from recruiters all the time. The more senior ones get around 3 to 5 messages a day from recruiters. A little bit harder for juniors, but still easy enough compared to other professions.

The quality of work varies a lot. I like a lot my current work and company, but this one is hard to generalize.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding or don't have a good enough grasp of this, but, in what circumstance would you need to parse gigabytes? I've only seen it be used in config files, so...
Aquinas and the Welfare State (2014)
Interestingly in France "scooter" refers to this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sc...

And this

http://pics.hifi-tower.co.uk/L/1321_nmain_01.jpg

is called a "trottinette" (the verb "trotter" from which it is derived implies their is no motor, you only use your foot, or in other words you "trot").

Funny to see how etymology and the history of technology are intertwinned. As to why we french "decided" to use two separate words instead of only one can be explained by the most saliebt semiotic trait they differ from each other, namely /motorized/ vs /non-motorized/: this trait is the most pertinent when it comes to distinguishing between social practises, i.e. /for children/ vs /for adults/, /indoor/ vs /outdoor/, etc ...
Very true, but have you tried just reaching out to someone via email on Matrix in practice? I tried with Riot and am not able to do that. Maybe just a bug, but if you want the real Matrix experience, you need a Matrix account. Don't get me wrong, I do love Matrix, but I also love XMPP - both not spectacular successes so far. AFAIK, the French Matrix version is even locked down and does not federate across the network.
Btw are you from Belgium? There's a Flemish joke in your user name.
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The Europeans killed off most large animals like Aurochs and Bison, and a few predators including Tigers, Lions. They also killed off most of the forests.

When I was in southern Germany I did notice how cultivated the land was. There were a few patches of trees but they didn’t look like old growth forests. Even the hills were cultivated into farmland.

Costa Rica is a good example of developing a country who wants to keep their natural resources in tact. 25% of their land are national parks.

Wild boars scare me much more than black bears.
In order to bring about... what? In order to punish them for their environmental destruction? If you want sustainably made phones, etc, you're going to need to pay more money, wherever it's made, I bet even China is capable of environmentally friendly manufacturing, it's just that no one will buy those products because the alternative (the products made using the current system) will be so much cheaper.

It's not just China, btw, there are pig farms in the USA with open sewage pools. But, cheaper meat!
Stage Migration, otherwise known as, "The Will Roger's Phenomenon," is an important consideration.

Derived from a joke, "When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states."

When we move members of one set (undiagnosed) into another (diagnosed) it changes the values of both. In other words, if we diagnose people earlier, the entire diagnosed set appears to be living longer.

See this classic for more information: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198506203122504
> S&P 500 re-balances every quarter and stocks are constantly being swapped out

The “rebalancing” is just adding/removing stocks following the rules and turnover is pretty low.
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let me fix that for you:

if you want to reduce emissions stop consuming
50k and 300k are peanuts to these people, who have been pocketing millions each year in salaries and bonuses.

Jail time would be the only real punishment. They take very calculated and rewarding risks. If they don't get caught they walk away with many millions. If they get caught they walk away with many millions minus a few k.

Technically this is a "sure bet".
You can also run your own mail servers, even non-technical people could do that with for example https://thehelm.com/. Haven't tried it out myself, though.
Yep, I havn't touched the web interface for years. I am wondering if those people are doing the same on their smartphone lol
> For what they want to study, it doesn't matter if they model the human as a sphere or as a real-life model with limbs and so on. It won't affect the grand picture.

The exact claim is that such modeling, eg, fails to find avalanche dangers that truly exist in the world of skiers moving their body on physical skies, due to their shifting and localized weight, which is missing in the spherical skier model. Your post does nothing to address this.

The simplifications you call out are all cases of decreased accuracy in exchange for easier computations: that is, for less accurate results that are “good enough”. But the intersection of many such simplified models may fail to accurately model reality.
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English is undoubtedly already creole. See the "Anglish" movement for an idea of what English would be like if it were true to its roots.

It is a mix of Anglo-Saxon, German, Latin, French, and Dutch. On top of these fundamental contributions, it borrowed quite a few words from the four corners of the earth as the British empire spread to those four corners and contracted again.
> What I would like is for Linux to have a stable API for drivers, so out-of-tree drivers could work on every release without DKMS or crap like that. Windows could do it, so it's definitely not a "technical requirement".

Quit the rage and just stick to Windows then. I'm using NVIDIA card and don't want to have this supposedly "stable API" which would leave me at the mercy of their whimsy. NVIDIA as a company deserves much more shame than the middle finger which Linus gave them. And there's no politics here, it's simply their business decision not to support Linux, not the other way around. Once you make an exception for one company you ought to do this for everyone else, it's not how that works in the Kernel community. So yeah it is a "technical requirement", technically it is how drivers get their stable implementation there.
Requiring a phone number still reduces fraud a lot.
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I am happy with those and other facets of my life. I just really struggle with the shorter daylight hours during winter, maybe because I grew up in a different latitude to where I live now.
This info is a bit stale - it's true we had stability problems in Freenode until July 2018 (exasperated by their spam issues), but since then it's been pretty stable and the reconnects are considerably rarer than freenode netsplits. It's not perfect, but many people use it fine as a casual IRC client. There are over 24,000 active users using the Freenode bridge in the last month, for instance, so I'm unsure that 'hardly anyone uses them'...

The Hackint story is a different one; the bridge itself is not maintenance intensive at all. But it is true that the default Matrix server implementation is resource & relatively admin heavy; we're working on that currently. Meanwhile we're also fixing the data retention behaviour - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc176... etc.
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China is fastracking to being a developed nation faster than anyone before, and missing out many of the developed world's mistakes. They'll have poisonous air for a shorter time than the US or Europe did. They'll have the least obsolete infrastructure of anyone. Making stuff in China isn't necessarily disastrous.

Making huge amounts of overly cheap shite that doesn't last, or do the job properly is especially disastrous as it encourages waste.

Shipping huge amounts of stuff around the globe is disastrous.

Making stuff in places that don't yet have mature and tight environmental protections is disastrous. (Probably a significant reason it moved there in the first place)

I'd pay more for a MBP or another Thinkpad made in Greenock (where IBM used to make them), or anywhere in the EU. I'm in a minority so small it may as well not exist in wanting locally made stuff. For most stuff, I try not to buy at all, but I can rarely choose local any more.
Why is this downvoted? Because it violates Postel's law, one of the cornerstones of the technology running the internet:

"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"
An old eBay account of mine is in the same zombie state because it's wanting to use an old phone number that I no longer control to "verify" me.