skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rewind about, jeeze, nearly 20 years for me. A dollar a day is pretty much what I narrowly avoided starvation on.

I got by on about $20/mo (in addition to free food). I would heat a solitary potato in a toaster oven for breakfast. Just the potato. After bumming a ride to high school, I would wait until lunch. I had Free Lunch (I was poor). That was usually a hamburger, a milk, and something resembling some kind of vegetable approximation. I would steal one additional hamburger and sell it for $0.50 or $0.75 (don't recall which) which was a deal to the other person. On the way home, I would stop by the store and turn that profit into a single can of Campbell's soup. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes, I could not get a hamburger to steal, so no dinner. Nothing on the weekend unless I could bum food at friend's houses (worked out more often than it probably should have). When I got to university, I could reliably get closer to $2/day and that meant that I could get a Jumbo Jack and two tacos for lunch. If I chose to not eat for a few days, I could get a Little Caesar's pizza.

There were periods of more food or less. Things got better over time. By my second year at university, my then-girlfriend-now-wife and I (and our small kid) were eating regularly. I think our budget was $30/week. I put on like 60lbs in two or three months. I had folks I barely knew tell me I was looking better. But man, I can recall just wanting enough liquidity to be able to afford a dang pizza. That lasted until well after getting my degree.
Are you suggesting Microsoft (and other OS vendors) should be obligated to document all of their APIs? What constitutes an API and how is it different than private functions?

Besides, they already provide documentation -to an extent- by providing symbol files.
16 statues had apparently been removed during the restoration, a few days ago, so those are still fine.
This is awesome - thanks for sharing your story, and that photo. I'm sure that the detailed studies performed by you and others will be invaluable going forward - both with remembering and healing, and eventually perhaps, rebuilding.
I’m assuming you mean personal data, such as family photos? I store onto a local NAS, with offsite DVD-R of the important stuff.

Personally I still like writable disks as one copy, you can’t (within reason) hack or accidentally delete something that’s offline in a safe most of the time.
Yes, that's the case. However there's also the 'merge this when the build successfully completes' that means you can push one button and walk away. They are also developing features around MRs that 'ripple' in this way, so that when you have several going the rest will continue rebasing+building until they either fail the build (due to changes that are no longer correct), can't be rebased (due to a need for conflict resolution), or finally merge successfully.
I went through a similar journey a while ago, except I haf a semi-practical result to get at.

I wanted to draw an fairly detailed energy-level diagram for a particular atom and I wanted the it done to scale -- except for certain fudges made for clarity.

The amount of repetitive calculation and not-quite-trivial logic meant it made sense to use a a programming language rather than a "simple" document format. I chose hand-written PostScript mostly for fun.

But PS actually quite a nice language for the task -- no worse than the various Python libraries which would have been my main alternative.
I doubt that $30/month figure is plausible for someone without high quality preparation and storage facilities and great discipline. But it seems like a pointless discussion to me; there is no place in the US you can't avail yourself of a SNAP card and an average of $126/person/month (www.cbpp.org figures.)

If a kid isn't being fed it isn't for lack of funds, it's some other dysfunction. I have no doubt such dysfunction is indeed prevalent, but correcting it would involve a direct intervention of the day to day behavior of individuals. And while it may be easy to hypothesize about such a world from the comfort of your $5000/month Seattle apartment, in the real world people -- including both the parents and the kids you have in mind -- don't want it, will resist it and so the whole thing becomes another shit show at the end of which you'll still have kids going hungry.
Most drive thru chains are using stopclocks to time how fast they get your food to you, from speaker to pull off..and it's not a reasonable metric.
I think I found out the reason everybody is going so crazy over this - a controversial figure from the wrong tribe apparently mentioned flying water tankers. Thus even neutral debate over the subject is wrongthink and has to be extinguished.

Why don't you step back for a moment and just admit that given the premises

-Firefighting airplanes can effectively spray in a way that doesn't harm trees

-Buildings are fine in extended substantial downpours

That it must follow

-Spraying a building with a plane in such a configuration would not collapse it

Otherwise you are the clueless one. This is absurd. At least you downvoters (who are ignoring the site guidelines) are letting me see some aesthetically pleasing upvote configurations again when it goes back up, so I appreciate it.
> They're giving away usually $5000.

They are now closer to 1000$ per show.

> That said, since HQ is phone based there's a good chance the viewers are more valuable to advertisers since they can collect more information than on broadcast television.

The viewers are also the players. Cash cows are what makes mobile games so profitable and theses cash cows only care about being the best, not about how much they spent to be. You can buy 3 lives on HQ for 10$, so essentially, some cash cows can be worth 10$ a day easily (at least 3$ per game).

HQ also is made AROUND ads and not ads break. They do have ads before the shows, but I'm pretty sure their real money maker is the bigger ads made into the quiz themselves.

They can be easily profitable based on all that.
Wow, just this morning I picked up the first half of The Book of the New Sun as my intro to his work.
There's a marvelous documentary about the failure of this movie: Lost in La Mancha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_La_Mancha

BTW, I've ready the book other day. It is really fantastic.
Apologies, I wasn't using 'antique' in a quantitative fashion, simply trying to convey that it was aged and dry.
With that said, I was referring specifically to the carpentry in the roof itself, which dates before the spire itself.

The smell of the roof space was incredible - deep, wooden and wise.
May you elaborate?
Have you tried supplements and multi vitamins? If he won't eat maybe he'll drink it or swallow a pill?
There are still some 12th century wooden churches in Norway that still have most of the original wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stave_church#Old_stave_churche...
I quote, our President's tweet:

""Truly weird Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky reminds me of a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain. He was terrible at DEBATE!"" & another:

"".@FrankLuntz is a low class slob who came to my office looking for consulting work and I had zero interest. Now he picks anti-Trump panels!"" - who do you think vetted these? Which professionals?

The obvious and sad truth is; Trump watches TV, and randomly reacts real time on twitter with his own words. You can figure out what he is working (and NOT working on) by simply looking at what TV shows, channels, and people-on-TV he refers to as he continues to tweet throughout the day.
My kids eat “cheese” pizza because I said it had no cheese in it.
I'm surprised that managers are actually being held to account in Germany now. There initially was quite a bit of resistance to doing so; the government seemed eager to believe the obviously bogus claim that it was just a few rogue engineers perpetrating this crime.

This cheating literally cost thousands of lives, so I'd say some time in prison is perfectly fair. Fines are useless because it is not the executives who pay.
So it wasn't the rogue engineers after all? Colour me surprised!

(https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/volkswagen-...)
Yeah, now that the fire is progressing into the "decay" phase (as it has burned through most of its fuel) there is less risk of spread to other exposures, so it makes sense to start shifting fire streams towards areas of active fire.
How Hong Kong is home to the crazy rich and the mega poor
>...ignore the device and continue on your way without it (seriously, can nobody navigate without these devices any more?)...

I can, and I'm sure most people can reasonably get around without on if they're familiar with the area. Towns and cities with a grid layouts and numbered roads means that most people can probably find an address if they get a cross, but most of the US is not laid out in that manner. It's doubly frustrating when you hit a neighborhood called Winding Oaks, and every road is Winding Oaks Trail, Winding Oaks Lane, Winding Oaks Circle, Winding Oaks Road, etc.

However, no, I probably cannot get to a location if it's in an area without a grid layout that I'm unfamiliar with. I could probably get reasonably close if I reviewed the directions beforehand, but with turn-by-turn navigation, there's a good chance that I will not have done so with detail.
I was a member of the class and got a settlement. It's been quite some time so I don't recall the details exactly, but I think the settlement was divided through some combination of the amount of time you were employed through the time period in question, and maybe base salary or title? I would have been in the maximum bracket for time but probably pretty low in the salary/title spectrum as software engineers go. I think the amount I got was just under $7k.

FWIW, I didn't feel particularly underpaid at the time, given that I was making way more than I'd ever had at any other point in my life, although I was relatively junior then and didn't have a good grip on the market. It ended up just being a bonus for essentially no effort on my part. I don't hold any major personal antipathy towards any part of the process.
Here's a detailed model of its entrance archway. Other models this detailed exist for some of the other parts as well.

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/portail-notre-dame-de-paris-...
That's much more volume at once in any one area and much closer to the subject (so less time to dissipate) than any of the actual flying water tanker videos that have been posted.
The Declaration of Independence isn’t just a historical artifact; it’s an expression of ideas and beliefs that Americans have always fought and died for.

Notre Dame is...was...a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral in a postmodern secular country, desecrated rather than revered by the revolutionaries who built modern France.
> So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame

> Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be

> used to put it out. Must act quickly!

From what I understand about fires, a lot of damage also comes from the act of putting them out. If it doesn't have fire damage it will probably have water damage. Also, I imagine the stone may not appreciate rapid cooling.

> The Paris prosecutor's office said it has opened an

> inquiry into the incident.

[Pure speculation]: One of the first thoughts that came to mind is that this is deliberate. Specifically regarding the Yellow Vests protests that are still very much ongoing, despite reduced media attention [1]. Perhaps this was in anticipation of the debate results [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-13/yellow-ve...

[2] https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/04/13/emmanuel-macron-...
This one of them. Apparently it’s been replicated a couple times.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a6eb/0fba1aa656d7f4f9617c7d...
Wood, if properly taken care of and kept dry, will last basically forever. I’d imagine they do that in Japan because of humidity or so.
I guess they are counting the Arch, but not the great pyramids, as a building?
>That would work, unless any of the bad guys is smarter than you and realises that they can use this metadata to... log into my account and read my email.

No need to be so rude and disrespectful.

Obviously there needs to be a password reset mechanism. That mechanism can absolutely be designed in a way that does not involve the helpdesk operator having access to the password or the account.
I was slightly a dick because I didn't want anyone to offer - believe all of these statements or don't.
Will they check the stability of the airframe design? I ask because I read that the software was created to compensate for using dangerous forward weight placement to accommodate oversized engines without undertaking the expense of designing a new airframe. If that were true, it would indicate to me that Boeing knew in advance that they were selling a dangerous aircraft. I can't imagine that software tweaks would suffice to make it fit for human flight in that case.
this is essentially what transferwise does imho.
like, really short:

The real world is complex. It's not all like software or taking multiple choice exams. Again the devil is in the details. Pay really close attention to the map legend. It looks like there's nearly 200 feet of distance from the closest water shown on that map and the nearest side of the cathedral. I really doubt that all fire trucks carry 200 feet of hard suction hose, or have pumps designed to draft through 200 feet of hard hose.

"The NFPA 1901, Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus – Requires pumpers to carry:
15 feet of large soft sleeve hose or 20 feet of hard suction hose"

http://tkolb.net/tra_sch/FireHose/HoseBasics.html
I don't think it's the same exact issue since a key feature of railroads is the use of land, which can't be replicated endlessly with very low marginal costs.
All you’ve done is make it clear that you have never run a business.
Your irony might have been a little too subtle.
Not (Wov), but (VW)... (Edit:) Today I learned the stock symbol of Volkswagen.
Design Systems Dot Com
I think compared to the war on drugs, this would be incredibly effective.

Social media is all about network effects - the more your friends are on social media, the more you want (/need) to be on it to keep up with them.

Putting up a barrier won't stop _everyone_ from accessing the sites, but I feel like it will easily stop _enough_ that the network effect deteriorates and so it's not worth circumventing anyways.
Ah I see, never mind then; and in that case I do agree with your comment.
It's true: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11178449872934871...
Maybe a little bit of that too.
The truth, however, is that a senior developer is $140,000 and a junior developer is $80,000, and that same junior developer will be $100,000 in two years. (This is assuming salaries in one market.) That junior developer will take 3-4x the time to handle the same task as a senior engineer, and will take some of the senior engineer's time to guide the solution, provide feedback, and mentor.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't hire junior developers - in fact, it's our duty as an industry to hire and mentor. However, it is with open eyes knowing that junior developers are not cost efficient in many areas for the first year.

But we go back to the original statement: "With all due respect, if hiring an entry level dev is a loss for your business then perhaps don't hire them? A dev should be a net gain regardless of skill level."

If you have $320,000, and can have 3 junior developers or two senior developers with the same budget, the 3 junior developers will be a net loss for the first year. They can be productive, but you have to compare on budget.

___

But I find that as a bizarre set of work that you call out.

* Refactor work is often the largest need from senior developers. Learning how to refactor safely is a separate skill that is not a skill junior developers have without instruction and feedback.

* My senior developers write tests as they develop. If there is test debt, it means sitting down with a copy of Michael Feathers and that is definitely not an introductory text. Trying to write tests for code that wasn't written with unit tests in mind requires a set of skills that many senior developers don't have, much less junior developers.

* I'm curious what processes you see that junior developers can improve.

* Researching tasks can be something useful, but what are these tasks that aren't done while a senior developer needs a break?

* Low hanging fruit bugs are likely the most obvious thing for junior developers, but a highly cohesive team that is writing tests has fewer bugs that are low hanging fruit.

* What systems can a junior developer blueprint? A senior developer understands patterns and quickly solves the problem.
These companies have offices all over the world, including China and India.
> Well it all depends what the requests are, doesn’t it.

Oh, there are all sorts of them.

From simple feature requests (like being able to distinguish fetch/xmlhttprequest) and bug reports (like that it considers requests to subdomains third-party) to something more complicated.

The problem is that regardless of what's requested/reported, there is no reaction.

> I’m sure some have requested the ability to run javascript, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to add that to the api.

Desktop Safari allows extensions to run javascript, why would anyone want to make it a part of the content blocking API.
I mean sure, but a common issue with conspiracies is they become so pervasive in social media, like top comments on hacker news, and then draw in the not-so-conspiracy-minded in.

That’s what I’m trying to preempt.
I predict that, before we see the end of this decade, Poe's Law will have been renamed in honor of its most prodigious patron.
I think there could be great utility for a dapp like this, if it was architected differently under more generalized assumptions.
I wish there was something like uMatrix for Safari but using content blockers. Would really scratch an itch for me.
The concepts behind Photosynth are alive and well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry
How did it cost thousands of lives?
K uses traditional ASCII characters and is usually bundled with kdb+ for speedy timeseries analysis.

I would use Dyalog APL or J over K in many cases. K is also really expensive (kdb+)...I'm not sure about Shakti (the K inventor formed a new company and left the first one).
Wov is the ticker symbol.
That makes more sense than what I read into it, apologies for that (and glad to hear that since I've had similar discussions). Thanks for clarifying.
> There initially was quite a bit of resistance to doing so

I don't know why this impression is so widespread. The prosecutor's office started investigations immediately, there have been quite a few raids in offices and private homes over all this time, yet, online commenters always claim that Germany wouldn't prosecute (or would not prosecute managers).
The situation won’t change until perpetrators are charged in the country they’re looting fish stocks from, jailed for a significant amount of time, and their vessels seized and broken down for scrap.
He was referring to the stock name.
Excess diesel exhaust particles, multiplied by liters of fuel flowing through the cars over the years. (Edit:) The cars were allowed to emit a certain amount of dangerous substances, causing X amounts of deaths per year. Instead they in reality emitted a larger amount, and caused X + Y deaths per year.

So VW traded Y number of deaths for extra marketshare and profit.
You know, this was really quite the disproportionate reply that in no way answered the poster's question, but I have to say that this line takes the cake.

> You'd rather the country be run by shady Blackwater types protected by ultimate state secrecy than have to deal with state diplomacy as its always been?

Secrecy has always been a part of state diplomacy. What world do you love in that this is not the case?
This strategy does not work with all children.
...wood
I wouldn’t. And Paris shouldn’t hire me to be a firefighter.
Storage.

Even at 2am on a still night the UK uses a gargantuan amount of power and we haven't solved the "How do we manage that with renewables?" problem.
> How would you elect someone to get that done when every issue is tied to a hundred other issues in the same candidate and basically none of them will have any meaningful progress made during their term?

Elect an idiot like Trump who leaks secrets to foreign governments at the drop of a hat?
Social media doesn't seem like a good way to follow live events. It values being first, and being shocking, over being accurate.

As much as rolling news has its issues, live television news from a reputable network is better.
2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Yeah, technical content is performing better and better on Medium. Look at the same stats for towards data science, hacker noon, etc..!
exactly! lol.
I read somewhere that you are not thinking consciously about the problem, but the unconscious is. I do it quite a but, walk away, get lunch and come back and viola! you have the solution!
There are reports of people gathering around the site and singing. It was more than simply an old catholic building for the population.
Here's a 1200-yr old wooden church: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensted_Church

Protected from fungus (rot) and insects, wood can last indefinitely. How to achieve that, of course, varies widely.
It's extrapolation based on the effects of that type of pollution and the amount of pollution.

It's not wrong but it's not telling the whole truth either. More rigorous metrics like YPLL would be better. A 20yo that drops dead is different from an elderly person that dies of lung issues a few years before cancer would have got them and more meaningful metrics attempt to capture this. "Deaths" is just a number and it doesn't tell you much. Age adjusted metrics don't make for bolt headlines or effective emotional appeals so it's understandable why nobody uses them.
Go does not have exceptions.
Non-scientific alarmism belongs on Reddit. Or bring a study/some math.
Good point. I infer that any cascade impact from i29e will be felt in lower orbits.
I cannot imagine how you feel right now. I've only been inside once two years ago, and I am devastated to see this structure burn.

Can you perhaps comment on what restoration work may have caused this?
With AMP, the fact MS Edge is joining the chromium ranks ensuring more and more sites are Chrome only, all the "oops" stuff. Google is worse than MS ever was
US Diplomat Offers a Word of Caution to the United States on Latin America
> It looks increasingly likely that many western countries will soon be taking a Chinese-style approach towards the internet.

Could you elaborate on why you'd think this?

I mean, that's a pretty significant prediction, and if it's about a near-term happening based on current observations, that'd be good information to be aware of.
So there are freedoms of speech that are limited to the press? A collection of individuals in a corporation has more rights to speech than an individual alone?

Thank you for making that distinction, and based on the interpretation of "a programme service" you may well be correct.

I wonder whether this brings up a separate issue, as the post I responded to was rather rightly questioning how you can have limited rights to free speech and supposedly have a free press. If that is indeed a compatible notion, it seems worrying in a different way.
Excellent piece. It's positively shocking to see in such minute detail just how quickly, easily, and completely the entire executive branch was able to normalize such obviously illegal and inhumane acts.
Important to be aware that this is an opinion piece.
From what I remember of the article, the pyramids would be right up there, but they're subject to wearing of the exposed stone. (Also, as another analysis I came across mentioned, they'd be buried by the desert sands.) The combination of stainless steel with reinforced concrete makes a big difference.