skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see even down there they use modern low-tech ski touring bindings. Never understood why people would take big heavy ones (apart from price, but basic Dynafit low tech ones that guys have are actually among the best and widely used in Europe).

Have been on Kosciuszko but it was cca May, reminded me of some lower mountain ranges back home in central Europe. Met a guy finishing his 2 week hike up there, in fierce winds and clouds, very nice encounter.

It looked like they get their share of snow up there, but these pictures bring much more - never thought you can actually die in avalanche in Australia! Couldn't find any victims by quick googling so hopefully noone yet.

Good to remind me to start packing for the weekend snow camping in similar conditions, forecasts say up to 60cm of fresh snow so better be careful.
Yup. Cheerfully supporting those "unwilling to work".
This guide reads like a /r/homeserver post without the rack, and lack a introduction to fun stuff on /r/selfhosted
Each and every MoF is suggesting real estate value tax in Poland. Sooner or later they will get what they want.

In Italy Berlusconi abolished this tax I think but it works in other EU countries.

It ain't such a bad way of taxation. At the right rate it stimulates the economy - instead of being
frozen in real estate excess capital (peoples savings) moves into more productive parts of economy.
Sorry link is in Polish.

https://ksiegowosc.infor.pl/podatki/podatki-osobiste/podatek...
I'd still lean towards Iceland, Switzerland or Romania, although I'm still not sure if I should trust any EU country over this topics.
wprq: So which phone does a concerned person buy?
> If the end goal of humanity is to be a bunch of loners who only interact with and through machines we're on good tracks.

Someone who doesn’t like customer service interactions isn’t necessarily a loner with no human contact in his/her life. The person may be a keen member of clubs, meet people through social networks and then transition to IRL meetups, etc. The difference is that there, people bond over a shared interest, they feel something in common. In a customer-service interaction, there is no common bond, just a transaction, and so the interaction is not cherished human contact.

From the shop clerk’s side, it is extremely common to hear complaints about the effort involved in feigning politeness, smiling, etc. Why are you so shocked if some customers feel the same way?

> When you move to a tech hot spot to milk the sweet sweet IT money

Not everyone on HN is employed in tech.
That supposes "supporters" have disposable income, and don't support a candidate in other ways like donating time, or canvassing.
In Wisconsin we have zero corporate taxes, so they tried to explain the Foxconn "tax incentives" to us as a "negative income tax" for corporations.

Just saying that there may be some branding problems with that in the critical states. (And by critical, I mean the states that aren't going to just vote liberal or conservative anyway. Basically just a handful of states in the upper midwest. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, maybe Ohio and Iowa.)
Same situation here. I'm working on my side project, which is modern macOS, and it totally hook me to accomplish it at the beginning. And then the rest 20% is actually harder than I thought, and I eventually drop it out
I don't get it, I never had to do any leetcode to find positions and receive offers. Why are people recommending this like it's gospel?
As a traveler, I care about the trip, not the time nor the distance. If I take this trip, what's my probability of dying if I fly it versus drive it.

Airplane travel have fixed segments (takeoff and landing, ascent, descent) and variable segments (the coasting phase that varies by distance traveled). Car travel is only the variable segment. Hard to compare apples to oranges.
OMG, it's not just me. It's super frustrating on mobile. On certain threads, I'll literally spend 5 minutes just trying to find the new content.
I did the same thing when my kids were born (similar age difference), and it took approximately 4-5 years for me to burnout. I took for granted that my time was a limited resource, and left very little for myself (for rest, relaxation, and just plain enjoyment).

I got to a point that I couldn't bring myself to even open a computer after I got home from work ... and while I recovered to an extent (I've had a number of successful (IMO) side projects, and even did some startups since), I haven't quite felt that drive to spend my off-time doing more work. My daughter just turned 18 yesterday, and I'm looking forward to when my son is off to college in ~4 years; side-projects, here I come!
Students File Class Action over College Admissions Bribery Case
check out https://sqwok.im, it's a new real-time discussion site not targeted at gamers, in beta
Ooops.

Posted on the wrong thread.

It was meant to go here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19382542
Paywalled; thought HN didn't permit these links?
You'd love Karma to Burn then, example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGD45SK08o
Matrix is really nice. I hope that some of the TUI clients improve a bit, though. I absolutely loved the weechat plugin made in lua, but it'd often take several tries to connect. One day I couldn't connect at all, and there hasn't been github activity lately. It was the only client I found that let me actually reorder rooms and people manually. I really hate the constantly changing order that I can't seem to configure in Riot. Gomuks lacks a lot of good keybinds and stuff that weechat did right by default for being weechat. The emacs package matrix-client.el is alright but tricky to get going due to using quelpa, which none of my other stuff uses. I also have only used it graphically in emacs, so not sure how it is in non-graphical emacs. These little disappointments in the clients make me still prefer irc for a lot of things, but easily sharing images and such on matrix is pretty nice.
Following in the Footsteps of Calculators: Qalculate
Not necessarily. If you think of resources as something we all own as citizens - like air, water, broadcast frequencies, patent offices, etc - then it's quite reasonable for Americans, as the owners of these resources that businesses profit from, to charge rent for the use of those resources.

This is how the Alaska Permanent Fund works. The oil underneath Alaska is considered the property of all Alaskans, both current and future. The state charges a substantial fee for its extraction, and redistributes it to all Alaskan citizens every year (about $1k-2k). And it's in a trust, so it will still be there for Alaskans even when the oil runs out.

I'm quite okay with my government charging a fee for the use of scarce common resources, and cutting me a check.
Is Tahoe LAFS a viable solution for people without sysadmin skills?
You might be surprised how in-demand you turn out to be once you start applying for jobs.

With this: "I've been coding for a long time, shipping real products to real customers", you're already ahead of many job applicants. Plenty of startups or established companies are looking for people with that kind of experience.

Your self-esteem and self-belief has likely taken a hit as you've spent a long time feeling like a failure.

I know the feeling well; it happened to me, and it took quite a while to work my way out of it.

The best thing to do is to be kind to yourself and take it easy for a while. You're not a failure. The thing you worked on didn't work out but that's fine, there are plenty of super-talented, capable people whose companies didn't work out through no fault of their own.

Take it gently work-wise; perhaps try to find some small contracts with small teams that you can work on in part-time, remote engagements.

But if you get yourself on a path where you're delivering projects and getting positive feedback from the people you're working with, slowly but surely things will turn around and before you know it you could be in a very good place.

Good luck to you. Feel free to reach out if you want more personalised advice (email in profile).
>Well, it turns out that Google randomly groups some of these messages in a single thread

Yeah you are right, I remember when they implemented that "random grouping" to confuse their users and make email unreadable.

In other news, they group messages with the same subject into a single thread (or rather, how the subject changes when someone clicks reply like adding re:). So when someone replies, it stays in the same thread. It's clear as day that there are messages below because they are showing. There's a number next to the email thread you clicked on with how many replies there are.

>I completely believe that most users will not read any email in the thread beyond the first one, because there's absolutely no indication there's more stuff to read.

So.. you do realize just how many years people have been using gmail, right? And you believe that most users are missing basically every email that is a reply? I mean.. how does your mind work dude?
I would like to see that data. Some nations has even laws where only women can be human traffic victims, which likely has an impact on human traffickers. I could easily imagine that the price they demand is thus higher for girls and women, which then get interpreted as higher value by researchers.
posted it based on what GP posted about binary trees.
Problem with that is all about ordering. Verbally ordering is very efficient and the bartender can track you down if you move or try not to pay, and can remember your face and tab. Not easy or reliable for a robot, and a human will be able to take advantage of it. Humans can also take advantage of automated checkout machines in stores, but the trust isn't there in a bar yet.

There are alternatives like ordering on a tablet, but would get convoluted and awkward fast.
>> We, as beings, are irrelevent: just hosts for a game that is being played at a different level.

Careful there, you'll bring out a whole cadre of people dragging you over the coals with that sort of opinion. They'll call you "godless" or something else, which translates to "I can't debate your opinion, so neener-neener".
> When talking about privacy these articles should at least mention Signal. I hope they will use their recent funding [2] to polish their apps and increase the speed of innovation.

I keep repeating this often, but Signal is not a user friendly platform for average users. It is good for ephemeral chats and conversations that one wouldn't care about later. Signal actively blocks chats from being backed up (and restored) on iOS. So if you switch to a new device, you'd have to start afresh without any chat histories and also join all the groups once again. The fact that this issue was opened a long time ago on GitHub and responded to by saying it's a security issue to allow backups shows what audience Signal is focusing on (investigative journalists, dissidents and activists who use burner devices and don't need any traces of chats to linger around).

Telegram, on the other hand (even with the not-end-to-end-encrypted default), makes for easy moves between devices (supporting chat syncing across OSes and devices) and to newer devices, with every chat showing information shared as links, photos, etc., and very easy to get back to. Of course, since the chats are not stored encrypted on its servers, search is also blazingly fast.

One deficiency with Telegram is that the end-to-end encrypted chats ("secret chats") are tied to phones and can't be initiated from other devices or seen from other devices. Those also don't carry over to a new device. There is no technical reason for this, because Wire (which in my opinion is a better alternative to Signal and easier to sell others on) handles end-to-end encryption with syncing across devices.
Procrastinating here at 95% completion of my side project. Can't wait enough for it to get over at the same time dreading the fact that the end result will be never as good as it was in my mind.
React Global State Container
Seconding the Riot.im/Matrix recommendation. It checks all the right boxes: federated, multiple FOSS clients, multiple FOSS servers, no phone/email requirement, etc.
Krita is such a great example of a successful cross-platform app using KDE frameworks[1] and Qt

[1] https://kde.org/products/frameworks/
Whatsapp doesn't operate as a standalone client either.
A lot of ancient statues, not only Egyptian, have broken noses. Henry Fielding has a joke about it in A Journey From This World to the Next. The narrator, as is customary, pays his first visit in the next world to the disorder that killed him. Seeing the statues of famous victims, he imagines them antiques, but learns that, no, they are quite recent.
Digging Through Someones Past Using Osint
People are exasperated with bad actors being allowed to set the common trust on fire with gasoline. For example, if this story were about a smaller dev they would probably be prosecuted for credit card fraud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823. Fines so far have not caused that to stop, so now the mob is asking for blood. Try to take it as an indicator of how desperate and frustrated people are, rather than a fetish.
That's some peak HN nonsense right there.

Anyone can write code that compiles and does what they want with a bit of "can do attitude". Not everyone can write decent code that is maintainable.
It works fine for cars too as long as everyone has equal disregard! See: Southeast Asia.
> Benchmarking is error prone, and so are language statistics.

… and so is just saying stuff :-)
Not any more costly than their bet on diesel
Looking at code in Linux contributed by Googlers I don't see how what Facebook has made is better "by far". In my opinion it isn't better at all but that's just me.
How you prepare to find a job depends on where you are, but a lot of employers consider X years of real-world job experience to be an adequate substitute for a CS degree for the purposes of hiring. Don't worry about not having a degree; you have an autodidact entrepreneur's diploma. You delayed the expected failure of your business by six whole years instead of cratering after the first.

You'll probably have to finish your degree if you want future promotions, though. If my presumptions are correct, you were close to finishing?
I have a Gmail nightmare story from a couple of years ago.

The company I work for was sending confirmation emails doing everything properly: separate IP range mx boxes, warmed up, DMARC, SPF, DKIM, all the bells and whistles. Nothing else was allowed to go through them.

Suddenly people weren't getting those confirmation letters. It turned out that soon after Gmail introduced the "Promotions" tab, a silent, new feature was added: anything from noreply@ was put in there.

We tried going through the official channels - once we got to the end of the tunnel, it told us "we'll get back to you in 2 weeks". That's when we started digging into internal google connections across the company, and thank god, we found someone who know someone, and in was sorted within a couple of hours. (It might have helped that the company spends a lot of money on google ads.)

Gmail is lovely.
Read up on attachment theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory
Discord has a wonderful client in my experience.

Sure people will rush to say the IRC clients of old opened in .02 nanoseconds after you thought about checking your channels, but that's not useful compared to the fact Discord out of the box has more functionality than an IRC client could ever hope to provide, and looks pleasing to the eye while doing that.
If you consider compression to be 'representing information in a way that you can recover with some processing (from less information)', then any programmatic definition of Pi is an enormous compression of the value.
Id rather save the human's job. Fuck robocoffee. Automation = help the rich remove labor costs.
Jan from ArangoDB here. Can't disclose anything yet but feel free to join the webinar of our co-founder Claudius. He will share details about our future plans in only 2 weeks https://www.arangodb.com/arangodb-events/why-native-multi-mo...
Retire from capitalism and join a gift economy. We're starting to build one and are currently coordinating via Facebook while we find a better fitting platform. We're literally days into this. https://m.facebook.com/groups/416107742551498?multi_permalin...

Would you be interested in helping build a platform where people help each other meet needs through giving?
>> Animals also take care of their young, they often mourn those who died.

Many animals also eat their young. Taking care of their young is just as ingrained in their evolved behavior as eating them.

Otherwise, I agreed with the rest of your post. The whole "do <x> organism 'love'" concept is a bit of a mind bender as usual.
This! Leaving a decimal here .
A vending machine for baguettes in SF beat a bakery in our blind taste test
You could just make a shared object module that is versioned and have all the microservices use those objects to communicate. Or you could implement avro schemas. Many ways around this issue.
It seems more likely that the Chinese market will be the important rule setter when it comes to cars. They push electric adoption heavily.
SpaceX and the Changing Aesthetics of Spaceflight
You mean this week when they took out most of our their cloud and public products for a few hours? /s
When I read this title I imagined a person getting out a chest of D&D dice. Change my mind.
> McDonalds etc, whose laser focus on margins proved the business case for counter staff and killed off most of the Automats

McDonalds is returning to vending machines - not for the burger manufacturing, but for the order generation and payment:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/06/07/mc...
>A better alternative would be a project that allows someone to choose a username and be done with it! Like HN!

Like Riot!
Environmental Impact of Aviation
The output of science is human knowledge, the printouts is only the transport layer. For conveying results, the fact is that making graphs with sliders is usually not worth the effort: you can always make a static figure that tells the same story, and usually with much less effort spent on making sure your sliders don't show anything distracting.

You seem to object simply on the basis that an existing system is old, do you also find it objectionable that some typefaces we use can be traced back thousands of years?
The main benefit of Y-M-D, is that no-one uses Y-D-M, and the 'Y' component is easily recognisable. So if you use Y-M-D, then everyone knows it's Y-M-D and there is no ambiguity.
He's not in the executive branch at all.
You should certainly be able to use ArangoDB as a replacement for Cassandra or Neo4j.

Check out the SQL / AQL comparison page to get a quick overview:
https://www.arangodb.com/why-arangodb/sql-aql-comparison/
Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community
We can celebrate Pi day every month at 3 14:15:92.65359.
I'd never heard of Arango before seeing this post, but the main selling point seems to be:

"A native multi-model database from the ground up, supporting key/value, document and graph models. You can model your data in a very flexible way."

Which actually seems like it could actually justify having its own query language. The built in search is also a nice touch.
Regarding the question on the query language, AQL is fully declarative. In this respect it is like SQL. However, there are a few differences between AQL and SQL:
* SQL is an all-purpose database management and querying language. It is very complex and heavy-weight as it has to solve a lot of different problems, e.g. data definition, data retrieval and manipulation, stored procedures etc. AQL is much more lightweight, as its purpose is querying and manipulating database data. Any data definition or database administration commands are not part of AQL, but can be achieved using other, dedicated commands/APIs.
* for data retrieval and manipulation, the functionality of SQL and AQL do overlap a lot, but they use different keywords for the similar things. Still simple SQL queries can be converted to AQL easily and vice versa. There are some specialized parts of AQL, such as graph traversals and shortest path queries, for which may be no direct equivalent in SQL.

AQL is versioned along with the database core, as sometimes features are added to AQL which the database core must also support and vice versa. However, during further development of AQL and the database core, one of the major goals is to keep it always downwards-compatible, meaning that existing AQL queries are expected to work and behave identically in newer versions of the database (but ideally run faster or are better optimized there).
If you don't care about cookies then this[1] works great. It nuked that popover for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
That's not a very good use of "literally", because searching through encrypted messages will certainly be slower, and on mobile devices, this will have a bigger impact on responsiveness and battery life. That is a big downside on mobile (not desktop). Create similar chats that are long (like tens of thousands of messages) on different apps and compare Telegram's search speed with others'.
Did you read the update on Go 1.9? It is on par, I tried the benchmark on my machine why not try it yourself instead of downvoting?
As it happens, nshepperd ran his finetuning GPT-2-small on our IRC channel. I'd tried it before with char-RNN back in 2015 or so, and I have to say, GPT-2-small trained way faster and better than my IRC char-RNN did.

The samples also looked a lot better than OP's. I assume that's because he ran it for more like a day on a few hundred MB of chat logs.
I think that's the point they are trying to make; that doing this with GCP is super boring and easy.
I wonder if one could run it on a ClusterHAT.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/cluster-hat
I listened to him talk a little bit on Joe Rogan's podcast, and it seemed to him that the UBI/Freedom Dividend is his plan explicitly because stuff like retraining these fifty year old guys who have been truck drivers or coal miners their entire lives to become computer programmers or something is really unrealistic. I guess it would be more possible to retrain the younger people that populate retail, but really I think retail is viewed as just something people do to put themselves through college or during highschool rather than a life-long career like truck driving. That's not to say there aren't people in retail who aren't going to get screwed by automation, but that's sort of the appeal of UBI, it's something that applies to everyone versus having to try and justify to someone that you deserve help for your specific circumstances.
I'm not sure the hypothesis stands up to scrutiny (apart from being based solely off of conjecture, that is).

In the article, they link to the MOMA exhibit captioned "Yuny and his wife" [0], which depicts a male with a smashed-off nose seated next to, presumably, his wife with her nose very much intact.

If robbers smashed the noses off of statues so their likenesses would not live in the afterlife to seek revenge, why would only one of the two people depicted in the same carving have their nose smashed off?

[0]: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/unknown-egyptian-yuny-and-his-...
I would rather their focus was on citizens rights first but there's some merit to that.
You can still put a web client with persistent chat history in front of IRC. TheLounge is one example [1] [2] and Convos is another. [3] [4]

[1] - https://thelounge.chat/

[2] - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

[3] - https://convos.by/

[4] - https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos
A Nasa Journey to the Moon May Need to Find Another Rocket or Two
Are there any retraining programs that have more than a 50% success rate? Has retraining ever been a realistic option for job loss? Seems more likely the next generation would make up for the lost jobs on paper
I never said it did, but I don't use Facebook properties to begin with.