skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the bookend to Western culture. The development signified a birth of culture in Europe after the Dark Ages. Now, the other bookend.

Sadly, innovation has moved to China. All the West has left are rent seeking companies likes Facebook, which are able to hide money and not pay taxes.
It was part of the talk in PyCon Ukraine 2018, which I took part. https://pyvideo.org/pycon-ukraine-2018/verification-of-concu... That's the video

Sorry it's on Russian and amount of steps was 33. Check 28:30
Terrible. So sad.
For those asking about why there isn't visible water being sprayed on the fire... There's no point. Any firefighting efforts are focused on preventing the spread of the fire to other structures (potentially other parts of the same structure)

As a rule of thumb, the water flow necessary to extinguish a burning structure is the volume of the structure (in feet) divided by 100. The resulting number is (in rough numbers) the amount of water you need, in gallons per minute. For a fire this size, you're looking at tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute. It's just not possible.
To preempt the conspiracy theorists showing up...

> Firefighters were rushing to try to contain a fire that has broken out at the cathedral, which police said began accidentally and was linked to building work at the site.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/notre-dame-fir...
This was me for most of my life. But it was cucumbers and pasta with butter (no sauce, no cheese). I took the radical step of my first cheese pizza at 23 while working a long shift at Domino's.

At 25, I took a long hike with a good friend. Afterwards, we stopped at a Thai restaurant, I ordered a garden salad. Halfway through, I looked at my friend's chicken basil and thought, "My aversion to new food is purely mental. I can do this." I took a bite of his chicken, it was the first meat I'd tried without it being coerced, I tried not to overthink it and found that I enjoyed it. I ordered the same dish for myself. Within a few months I was eating beef tongue, oysters, roasted ants, you name it.

I'm not sure if my parents would have been able to break me out of my pickiness. If I overthought what I was eating, I'd gag, and I think that was the original seed of the issue. That's an unpleasant and embarrassing experience, and I think it happened very early in my life, earlier than I can remember. So I believe I developed an aversion to trying new food, and the overthinking/gagging became a self-reinforcing cycle.

What seemed to work for me was the combination of being tired and truly hungry — not just "I want to eat" but "my body desperately needs sustenance" hungry — along with being hours from home and in a place where everything on the menu was foreign to me. I don't know if you can replicate this scenario with your 14 year old, and I don't know if it would have worked for me at 14. Maybe I was just ready for a change in my life. But being malnourished affected me negatively, and I wish I had resolved it at 14 when I was still developing, rather than 25 when it was too late.
This is the top hacker news..? :O

What is the relevance to HN, and doesn't the rest of the Internet media, cover this very good on their own?

A sad day for both HN and Notre Dame, in my book :/

Edit:
[I won't remove my bad comment, since there are several responses relevant to it, but I would like to apologise, for my typing before thinking (and even before re-reading the policy's I, myself are commenting on) - and lastly for the non-relevant nature, and over dramatisation, of this comment. I see all that I did wrong, and will try to make better choices in the future ;) Sincerely, tirrit.]
What do you mean by "reproductive strategies"?
When anything has a disagreeable explanation there becomes a strong presumption that it happened "all by itself". For example, the huge increase in crime in Sweden in recent years has also happened "all by itself".

"Part of the reason is that Sweden’s gang violence, long contained within low-income suburbs, has begun to spill out. In large cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms, and school administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. "[1]

Gang violence just spills like a liquid into different places "all by itself" and that's a reason why crime is rising.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/europe/sweden-crime...
I was a member of the class. After the settlement went through, I remember receiving a few large booklets in the mail from a law firm explaining the settlement and offering the opportunity to opt out.

After what seemed like a really long time - at least a year - I received a check for about $5000, which I had to pay taxes on, so it ended up being around $3000 net. I had left the company by that time, but still owned a substantial amount of stock, so I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up losing more from the negative impact on the stock price than I got in the settlement.

The people who really came out ahead in this were the lawyers, who took something like 25% of the settlement for themselves.
Textbooks with glossy, bright white paper are a pain to read under a library light. But they make images look great.
Chelsea must pay and 437m for Frenchman
Thanks!

Very interesting instrument, I love the expressiveness of the ribbon pitch controller! I was thinking about adding an inertial unit to create a pitch "vibrato" effect, which can really liven up a digital instrument.
It's not usually on fire.
How to Find Your True Self – The Art of Self-Observation
But if you were to present handwriting as evidence in court, if the veracity of the evidence were in question, you would need to present an expert whose job it is to explain the methodology behind the analysis.
Rain also doesn't put out major fires by itself.
York Minster suffered a massive fire after a lightning strike, but was restored: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-2...
> Although there was no immediate evidence of a connection, France has seen a number of attacks on Catholic churches in the past year, including arson and vandalism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pariss-notre-cat...

https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-fra...
My apologies, I have corrected the mistake!
I second this. I'm a dev contractor and get paid in ether (preferred). It's instant and no bs wire fees.
> After being involved in projects where we had to put out some fires

And what's the reason for not using water (or other) to put out the fire? I'm genuinely curious
> pay people by the value they bring to the company

That's a fun game. Most people can argue endlessly about who is responsible for what and then you get to disclose where the money (and how much) is actually coming in. It necessarily constrains the management to a whole new slew of in-fighting and disclosure control. Never gonna happen.
In the news they said that firefighters are entering the building to save as much art as possible before spraying water.

(The news networks are pretty much as clueless to the situation as everyone else, so take with a grain of salt)

Edit: They are now spraying the stone structures.
> you're looking at tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute

That's only like six fire engines, looking up the stats. (But I don't know anything about fire fighting.)
CNN's now reporting that water cannons are being aimed at the central fire.
Not really, at least in my experience.
The re-binding really isn't the same as the jquery way. React reuses the same event handlers, how it's implemented is another story and not really important anyway.
The other issue is the fact that in the old way it's implicit that there's a mix of server and client side rendering. Say you have a grid of data that was rendered server-side. Then you update a row, which posts to an api endpoint and you get a reponse that represents your new row. At this point there's only a couple of ways this could be done:

1. you get a json object which you pass to a javascript function which re-renders the row's html and re-binds all interactive elements.
2. You get server rendered html from the server, which then leaves you to call a js function to re-bind all interactive elements.

some classic problems with this approach:
1. some rows data may depend on the data of other rows... now you have to sync client and server side state! (huge problem).
2. Remember that initial server-side view? guess what, all interactive elements had to be bound to the javascript handlers initially. Now you need code to initialize the view which is different to the one you use to do the partial updates.
3. Yes, I dind't even mention that we could send server rendered html full of inlined handlers as in "onClick=myClickHandler()". Because this leads to problem #2 right away.

I'm not saying React and friends are perfect, but it does solve all of this, at least IMHO.
Men, we need to talk about women in engineering
To pay contractors I use Square payroll. Pays out to ACH bank accounts (US only) and handles sending 1099's. $5 per contractor per month.

For full time employees look at using Gusto (https://gusto.com/r/MqwBf/?utm_source=reflink). Note: That's a promo link, we each get $100 Amazon gift card when you sign up and run a payroll.
Calif Voters Keep Accidentally Joining George Wallace’s Zombie Party (2018)
Flying water tankers could do it, but they must act fast

(Edit: All these armchair quarterbacks think they know better than the president's team of social media advisers and vetters, they have no idea what goes into that kind of operation and shouldn't question the president based on spur of the moment analysis. You don't think professionals would have already considered all these points before still going forward with the tanker recommendation at the presidential level through the official communication channel?)
Whatever man, someone posted it, it got upvoted.
just fyi the comment about morningstar being a communist rag is a joke

from wikipedia:
"Morningstar, Inc. is a global financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded by Joe Mansueto in 1984 and provides a wide array of investment research and investment management services."
That’s terrible. I hope nobody is hurt
There's a difference between a copy and an original. And a huge difference between a hand-carved statue and a CNC-carved one.
Comments here are rather negative yet service is growing very rapidly so there is a disconnect. I would encourage you to try service and develop own perspective.
It was never OK but was settled long ago and compared to the many, many other forms of injustice in the world that are ongoing and more severe, why focus on this one? Even if you limit your scope to tech companies, there are more important things.
aleteia seems to just be a catholic media:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleteia

seems like it's an almost official catholic source
The Black Hole `Photo’: What Are We Looking At?
To be sure, always wait for proof before acting. But pattern recognition is a thing.

Although there was no evidence of a connection, France has seen a number of
attacks on Catholic churches in the past year, including arson and vandalism.

Paris’s Church of St. Suplice was set on fire after midday mass last month. No
one was injured Police are investigating, but firefighters attributed the blaze
to arson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pariss-notre-cat...
Is overworking a real issue in the dev community?-Chinese Coders' GitHub Protest
That's a safe bet. And slightly related some of the coolest 3D Model kits ever, are made for the cathedral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwEFCBLrdk

Its going to feel a little bit different building one of these now.
I was born in 1991. I learned to write cursive in school, but I can't comfortably read it. Whenever I get a card from an older relative I've got to slowly puzzle over some of the words. Apart from the odd instructor who wrote on the board in cursive, these occasional personal notes are my only practice. These days most people default to what used to be called "printing" so it's rarely a big deal.

If we want to bring back cursive, there needs to be more of an acknowledgement that reading and writing are different things, and need to be practiced differently. When I was learning Morse code, it was understood that sending and receiving are different skills (e.g. I can send at 25 WPM but can only copy at about 12 WPM). The same doesn't seem to be true about cursive education.
Could be a spark from a welder, a worker on the roof taking a smoke break, an electrical fault, who knows. There's any number of possible ignition sources and there's a lot of wood in that structure.
I don't know. Ask an expert or do some research yourself.
Because most times when it rains, it's also not on fire.
This is horrible. I wonder what on the scaffold started the fire. Even a cigarette could have done this..?
Curious if antibiotic use can be linked to detrimental effect on teeth by proxy, in parallel with autoimmune conditions.
...in theory. In reality, corporations use loopholes to defer taxes as much as possible while taking more state and federal subsidies.
High performance nudity detection in rust
Assassin's Creed Unity? Sorta kinda?
Because. It. Is. Rain.
i'm wondering whether adnauseum is safe from this, or rather if it's possibly not safe e.g. with certain lists enabled...
Well, the roof just collapsed, so I guess pick your battles. Wait for the fire to collapse it or try to save it with water.
They could also drop fire retardant on it, the foam isn't that heavy.

Hopefully they already evacuated everyone.

The news streams just started showing water being put on it, looks like the smoke is dying down, hopefully they can save it!
All I can say is "fuck...."

I'm truly heartbroken
I don't know what the resolution was, but it looks like art historian Andrew Tallon has done laser scans of several dozen historic buildings, including Notre Dame:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150622-andrew-ta...
The foam that they drop from the tankers isn't as destructive as you make it seem. Living in Southern California my house was been hit by one and while you get coated in a red foam its not going to kill you.
Paris Is almost completely a copy of Rome so...
It sounds like someone who made enough money to have their empathy towards others seriously diluted.
Is this a US only question? Are you mixing up employees/contractors with onsite local? Employees don't invoice you; contractors do.

UK employer here. For payment, I can't think of any way of paying any employees other than via direct bank transfer. I haven't used a cheque (check in the US) for years, and certainly never for paying employees in the last 20 years.

Regular international contractors are paid via Transferwise; irregular contractors are usually paid through PayPal.
>>What is the relevance to HN....

The up-voters know the relevance. Might have something to do with 900 year old history, surviving every freaking thing possible during that time, only to be burned during the most peaceful and prosperous time ...maybe ever? Victor Hugo? A lot of history has happened there, like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Napoleon_I or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#Events_in_...
The Morning Paper by Adrian Colyer is fantastic.

https://blog.acolyer.org/
https://blog.acolyer.org/tag/algorithms-and-data-structures/

I'll have to check out that YouTube channel you linked.
>The problem is that you can’t necessarily trust filter maintainers to be completely honest.

I agree with that, and it's not a strong security model. But my original point is that the author is using a bad faith argument by describing a feature they dislike as an exploit. It's in spec for what the original authors intended. Just like running an executable program is potentially risky, but a design of the system.
I'm following the french live coverage. Apparently the chief architect confirmed that no workers were present on the building at that time.
Why would a customer support person need access to people's email without even seeking the customer's password ?
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Those are very specialized vehicles you're looking up. A typical pump on a fire engine will move 1.5-2k GPM.

Even if you had that pumping capacity on site, there's no way the municipal water supply could deliver that much water.
Much like how bunker-buster nukes allowed for penetrating nuclear bunkers to stop that from happening (being able to "push the button" and hide away), the militaries of the world will most definitely create something that will restore Mutually Assured Destruction in that scenario.
I know there is an app to work around pay gated articles like this. Can someone remind me of it's name?
I was able to go through a short period when I did 7-8 hours of productive work, but I also lost 15 pounds. I would just work until I was too hungry to think and only eat then. It definitely wasn't sustainable long term.

I think it's a mistake to force people to stay in the office and work for this long. Even if it isn't 100% productive work hours, it still deprives them of opportunities to do other things with their lives such as family, hobbies and fitness activities.

It's as if he doesn't realize he's doing tangible harm to thousands of lives.

I also find it strange that someone that is currently retired at the early age of 54 can demand that other people (earning salaries) work 996. If working is so great and virtuous then why did Jack Ma retire early?
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Flying water tankers are a terrible idea in urban environments.
The rate is different.

Lots of water at once versus less spread over a long time.
> Gusto comes to mind but I've never used it so I don't know what they're like.

I can't comment on what they are like from the administrative side, but from an employee perspective, I loved Gusto.
I never understand why people bring up accountants or taxes when talking about cryptocurrencies. Seriously, you negotiate with your employer an hourly rate, you get paid that hourly rate and is what you should report.

The way you receive your salary at the end of the day (bank transfer or crypto) is completely decoupled from this. In the same way you don't need to tell the taxman what bank did you use to receive your wage, you don't need to tell what cryptocurrency you used (if you don't convert instantly to fiat when receiving it, that will mean you will have more taxable events later, but this is another subject).
Why is your experience, which you are clearly already primed to perceive in the matter that fits your preconceived conclusions, worth anything?
At least if it is put out with water it wouldn't be burned beyond recognition and maybe could be restored.
It's directly beside a river.
The person was quoting Trump. He tweeted that this morning.
Yes, and i lost my karma quicker than I can say, don't take it personal ;P But I guess emotions go wild with these things. I off course mean no offence, and hope they can save as much as possible within firefighter safety.

Though I would think it was outside the HN posting guidelines.
From the limited shots I've seen, it all looks like exposure protection (trying to slow the spread)
If only there was a river nearby...
(for context) https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11178449872934871...
a couple at Charles de Gaulle on standby could have been there in minutes
Rain doesn't fall all at once like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZkV64GJihA
If you limited your diet to rice, beans, oats, and lentils bought in bulk you can probably get close.
Transfer of liability? There are candid emails between Steve jobs and Schmidt about the topic.

Edit: They made a minor settlement and there was a lawsuit that got a tiny amount of press.

http://time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chilling-response-after-get...

Edit 2: there was not even a slap on the wrist legally speaking:

"The proposed settlement, which if accepted by the court will be in effect for five years, prohibits the companies from engaging in anticompetitive no solicitation agreements. "
Notre Dame is more than twice as old, and presumably contains cultural artifacts vastly more culturally important. There will be a Notre Dame again, and it will look the same to casual visitors, but it won't be fine.
Serfdom
The rain falls over an extended period of time, not all at once as one glob. Only several drops are hitting you at any given instant in the rain, so you are only subjected to minuscule amounts of force at any given instant.

The difference would be like standing in the shower for 40 minutes, versus being hit my an entire tub full of water going at the same speed all at once.

I remember during the Khan Academy controversy a few years back, an educator commented on reddit about the difficulty in teaching some kids about rates. Some kids just don't get rates. They think of speed as something like "a feeling of intensity." They just don't have an abstract, generalized understanding of "N things per unit time."

Think about that for a moment. Think about all of the potential for miscommunication.
If your employees are developers, and they don't comply with basic security precautions, they are not very good developers. Either way, if they get compromised, it's not the employer's problem.
We hire a number of folks both as traditional contractors as well as freelancers. Here's some thoughts based on my experience:

1) Are they an employee or a contractor? You mention "employees" but talk about them invoicing you. If they are requesting payment via invoice then it sounds like a contractor. It's very important that you define this relationship early on. There are different rules for both (health insurance, paid time off, taxes owed and by who) that are handled very differently. You might have seen a lot in the press about Uber / Lyft etc handling their drivers as contractors and a lot of these reasons are the reason why. So if you're deeming them as contractors (1099s) then make sure you have a contract that makes this explicit. You can find good templates from places like Upcounsel[1], but make sure you have a lawyer take a look.

2) I spoke with the founders of Deel[2] (YC W19) just last week. Their value proposition is that they'll handle the contracts, paperwork and payments (according to your payment schedule) for a small fee (I think $10/m/contractor). This seems like a very good value prop if you hire more than 1 or 2, and one I'm looking into.

3) If you have only a few contractors, then creating a standard contract and making payments to them on submission of their invoice and time sheet (if hourly) is pretty simple. I request our contractors only send invoices monthly to limit the admin for me, and then I pay them via Transferwise (they have a USD-USD beta program that I'm not sure is open to all), because it has cheaper fees than our bank.

4) Assuming you're using a fully fledged accounting/ payroll service or otherwise, then lots of these do have a contractor payment part. The payment part isn't the difficult part, the real benefit of these systems is handling the paperwork with the government for you. We use a full PEO called JustWorks[3] which is awesome - you tell them you have a contractor, you're paying them outside JustWorks and they'll handle all the year end 1099 forms etc.

5) Freelancers. We hire many freelancers to do work for us via Upwork. It's a great tool to get things done, and will do all payments/contracts/compliance for you, for cheap. The downside is the freelancer pays pretty hefty fees, which go down over time [4]. We pay $25/m for all our freelancers paid through the system (30+ freelancers), so it works really well for us.

Happy to answer any other questions you may have!

[1] https://www.upcounsel.com/free-legal-documents
[2] https://www.letsdeel.com/
[3] https://justworks.com/features
[4] https://www.upwork.com/i/how-it-works/freelancer/