skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those things are even remotely comparable to eating meat. Meat is the easiest way to have a balanced diet in terms of nutrition. When you increase the price then people will simply pay more. Besides, VAT and other such taxes are only around 20%. You need far more than that. Look at the Yellow Vests if you want to see what happens when prices go too high. We even have instances of political parties being voted out because they increased alcohol taxes too much. What do you think would happen with meat?
this would a slam dunk if you could sponsor projects or organizations besides just developers. if that happened, this would destroy patreon and paypal in the donation space for OSS projects.
This is so wird, I just want one to support the weirdness A new game every week? Presumably subscription-based - which I'm less wild about.
It’s why we can’t have good things. Someone will abuse the privilege.

Just earlier we had a post about people pulling the emergency brakes on NYC subway cars. For decades it was fine. Suddenly people are causing some chaos.

That’s about it. People will exploit weaknesses and we all lose.
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Great feature! Something to consider for the feature which would allow us to donate more is:
1) Sponsor a project rather an individual developer
2) Sponsor a specific issue/bug
Microsoft has really become "less evil" in the last couple of years.
I'd say so, I've not used anything other than VLC for the last 5+ years on Linux and Windows and don't remember that it failed to play anything, even the stuff customers threw at us.
Sure. You have twenty-eight governments, each with multiple ministers. A mix of socialists, liberals, christian democrats and fascists. None of them value markets and low taxes (the difference between liberals and socialists is that the latter like red). They somehow trust each other to keep their conspiracy secret. Oh, and half the European Parliament is part of the plot as well.

At the same time, they have serious problems agreeing on tax reform. Because somehow, their interests are only aligned when it comes to secretly taxing Google.

Please take off your tinfoil hat. When the EU properly taxes Google, it will do so openly.
Two people well known to me who both spent their careers in aircraft maintenance told me after the Ethiopian crash that nearly all airlines, including US carriers, buy fake parts -- ones that are not approved by the original manufacturer.

Obviously, I can't cite a source, but I wonder how long before that scandal hits the news.
The “97% consensus” number is based on surveys of scientists in general, not just climate scientists. Including scientists when they agree with a position, but not when they disagree (because they aren’t real climate experts) is a very strange debate tactic.
> What specifically is unfair about a culture that I experience as “where what works for you; we care what you can do not what you wear.”

But they do care! If you wear a suit they'll think you're not technical like them. A big part of Google culture originally (when it was unusual) was wearing hoodies and jeans rather than chinos and shirts. If you didn't fit in with that you made yourself look like an outsider.

And the unfair bit is that it's not written down anywhere. You just have to implicitly know it. If you don't have family or friends in the industry you won't know it, they won't tell you, and so you won't fit in.

I've seen tech people scoff at people in suits, and look down at them. Have you never seen that?
If you're not taking medication like adderal or ritalin, or you can't be bothered to receive a diagnosis, try caffeine and perhaps look into nootropics. I haven't taken medication since I graduated school and could decide for myself, but the caffeine and nootropics work really well. You might need music or some sort of background noise that won't distract you. Simple checklists can help you move through daily tasks. You also need to be interested in whatever you're doing to help you focus. If your job doesn't interest you, it will be rough.

I think there are a few varieties of attention deficit, I don't know anything about being physically hyperactive, just the inattentive part.
I mostly agree with the sentiment about smart watches, but I like my watch to be a bit more featureful than this.

Recently my Casio F-91W died and I replaced it with a somewhat more expensive but functionally simple analogue watch. I'm kind of regretting not just getting another F-91W, as I really miss its backlight and date display. I now find myself reaching for my phone when I want a time / date check and treating the watch mostly as a fashion accessory.
Going to the Arc de Triomphe is like going to Regent Street/Oxford circus in my opinion.

It's good for 5 minutes, or to see it once in your life, but it's one of the worst place to appreciate Paris / London.
it was sarcasm meant to indicate that aside from the difficulty of doing this handcuffed there are also a few other things that would normally be considered unusual for a suicide.
List of available letters for programming languages: H, U, V, W, Y

Tenatively available:
G - because of G-code and Go, I - because of Io, L - because of LLL, N - because of Nu, O - because of Oz

edit: formatting
Now couple that with infinite bash command history and you never have to type out any command more than once.

Search for eternal bash history and set it up once. I can point out its usefulness more.
What does "same stock" mean in this case?
It simply isn't true that we're completely ignorant on these questions. We know an awful lot about the chemistry of all the known elements and it's pretty clear water and Carbon are by far the best candidates for supporting complex, rich chemistries across a wide range of environmental conditions.

It's not that alternative life chemistries are necessarily impossible, but equally it's plausible that they might well be non-viable above a very primitive level at best. They would have many orders of magnitude fewer options available to them for biochemical resources, pathways and molecular geometries to take advantage of. Chemically speaking, not all elements are created equal.

Take Sulphur for example. It's far more reactive than carbon, so chemically unstable in many more environmental conditions. It generally only forms linear chains, rather than the complex branching structures of carbon. It also bonds with far fewer other elements in ways that are likely to be chemically useful. If you have carbon available, Sulphur is a very poor substitute. It's high reactivity might make it a passable alternative to Oxygen though.
Did GitHub just activate this without confirmation or notification? I'm suddenly receiving PR's on my repo's from dependabot without ever activating this tool.

Edit: looks like they defaulted to enable "Automated security fixes" on the Security > Alerts tab.
Not even digital controls could really replace analog controls. While as impressive as the Pubg controllers (essentially a gamepad with a dock) are I'm still amazed there is still no "the one mobile analog input" device is out yet.
> The rest of the article can be viewed on our partner’s website, grape Japan at ”Once-In-A-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported In Japan“ (https://grapee.jp/en/114838)

Why don't link the complete article instead of the japan-forward one?
I feel the same way about desktop OSs, and OSs in general really, these days. I mean, no disrespect to the author of this one because it's an impressive amount of work, but it's yet another unix. Unix is freaking ancient and even its developers went on to do it better in Plan9, but everyone keeps copying unix and its archaic paradigms. Well, except the l4 people, who seem content to keep their work completely academic.

I have a different conception of what a desktop OS should be than you seem to, though. I want one that embraces simplicity. It should elicit a resounding "meh" because it doesn't do anything particularly impressive and is just a really good execution of already existing ideas.
Same at Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY). There's even a guide with a map:

https://www.sydneyairport.com.au/corporate/sustainability/co...
Atlassian Bamboo 6.9 released. Bamboo YAML Specs version 2.0, complete reworked
> Perhaps even more surprising than the long intervals at which they flower is the fact that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, [...]

What?

I thought bamboo is a fast growing thing, and it's easy to grow bamboo. Just stick it into the soil in the right conditions and it'll sprout roots and grow. (It can even be grown from seeds.)
Microsoft is gonna centralize the sh*t out of the eco-system. Let's see how it goes this time.
That's fine and all. I'm not really involved in that side of things (consuming/producing open source libraries) and I think that side of open source is working fine, albeit it could be better (like most things).

What I'm mainly thinking about, is the running infrastructure. The live servers that are serving requests and providing a service to open source developers.

Some of these services are just nice to have.

Others are services we 100% depend on to get anything done nowadays.

The npm Inc registry is a good example. Imagine that the registry disappears tomorrow. Probably most JS developers would struggle until a alternative becomes clear and most people migrate there.

But just having the risk of having for-profit companies run these pieces of critical open source infrastructure, is a big risk for me as a open source developer.

This open source infrastructure is what I'm scared about, because we basically have no good solutions yet, for running open source infrastructure.
I know what the SO question said, but this hilights the problem with natural language: it isn't an unreasonable answer to "how do i undo a commit" and is infact a top result for that very search string in ddg and Google for me.

> Yes, and StackOverflow answers also warned of that scenario.

So the answer isn't git reset, but git reset + a whole lot more natural language, even for the more narrow question asked.

> In my comment, "cryptic" doesn't mean the syntax doesn't have its own internal logic that makes sense once one "groks it". It's just non-intuitive for someone who has a goal in their head but the only know plain English for describing that goal.

Isn't the true of anything? Everything has their own jargon to express precisely what they mean. Would you tell machinist they're being cryptic if they told you to make a bolt-hole pattern? Is an accountant cryptic if they talk about something being a liability and not an asset? A ham if they ask for fsk31 and to call them on 6m? Complex things require precise language to talk about precisely. That isn't being cryptic, it's a feature of natural language that it becomes more ridgid and precise with a specialized vocabulary when things require it.
You have to compare at the same scale though:

Paris: https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.85615,2.3306852,14z / https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.862458,2.3322563,12.75z

London: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5160429,-0.1466301,14z / https://www.google.fr/maps/@51.5184651,-0.1436204,12.75z

The parks in London just look larger and fewer, not very evenly distributed, to me.
did UML not work out? why not?
I have a number of them--mostly giveaways (including a Patagonia one which is better-made than most of my others). I wear them all the time in cooler months. Either as a layering option or standalone if I'm just a bit too cold--as is often the case either around my house or in an unevenly heated office or other indoor facility.

It's less bulky than putting on a sweater or big fleece and is much easier to pack.
Obama should have never intervened to stop the FTC from suing Google on antitrust issues in the U.S. either. Google has only gotten much more brazen after that to the point that many people no longer believe the company's "don't be evil" propaganda, which I believe has served Google very well initially. Google started ruining its own image through its recent actions and it will only make government actions against the company that much more likely to succeed now. Google used to have a lot of "soft power" on these issues, and it's been rapidly declining over the past few years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/technology/ftc-staff-prep...
This is due almost fully to immigration [0]. In the IQ study, immigrants were excluded. So no, that hypothesis does not make sense.

Norway has been able to (due to oil revenues) avoid the (non-imported) increased inequality that has affected most other western countries over the last decades.

[0] https://www.faktisk.no/faktasjekker/ZoD/innvandring-er-den-k...
I would absolutely sponsor issue's. It'd be a great way to lure people into a longer term sponsorship.
I don't quite know what you mean by "offer". It doesn't matter what they offer/offered at IPO, we should be looking at their capital table, and their company bylaws, that determine what types of shares they have and who has how many and of what kind.

It's quite common that the founders have special shares and only common stock is put up on the market at IPO time. (And early stage investors usually got preferred stock, but they usually exit at IPO time.)
What is a chat client that supports SSO through Google?
What is a chat client that supports SSO through Google, and does very little? Slack does way, way, way too much for us.
Same clone.
Rust has Redox (desktop focused) and TockOS (embedded).

I happen to (wishfullly) think the next major OS will have capability-based permissions at the core level, a model a bit like Mobile permissions but composable. Good thing that Google's Fuschia is based on capabilities. It's in C++ though.
You're implying this huge incentive is money.

The EU is not short on money, and its existence and effectiveness do not hinge on how much money it "makes".

Google is pretty big, but not that big if compared to 27 sovereign countries and their combined GDPs.

The biggest problem the EU has is credibility with its populations. Taking on online privacy for their citizens was a huge win. It made a lot of people aware that the EU can be more than boring fish-quota and agricultural subsidies.

The chance of Google getting away with paying a fine every now and then is pretty much non-existent.
If your business is based on fraud, malware and emotional manipulation, you don't get to complain about extortion.
No, I tried Xorg but on the Zero is was a no-hoper, and I must say that the lack of persistent display was a major bugbear to me. However, I kept reminding myself that this was a bare-bones machine that I could take anywhere, so as long as there's a display I can plug into, it works for me. So now I run everything text/character. I did a follow-up at https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Tr... in which I added an e-Ink display, for status rather than a terminal. All good fun, and still under 2Gb...
What happens if building more housing doesn’t work?
Probably not - I don't believe ARM is supported. See https://www.reddit.com/r/SublimeText/comments/9p7xxd/can_sub...
> Do you have information about the grieving process being easier if you don't view?

I never claimed that - you've imagined that - so why would I have information on it?
What kind of security measures do they afford, to prevent targeting by addicts?
Optional Dependencies Don’t Work
The point is that the device with 2KB RAM is a single-purpose embedded controller, and the device with 4MB RAM used to be a full-blown universal desktop daily productivity machine.
Great case of Dogfooding. Contribute here: https://liberapay.com/LiberapayOrg/
Don't forget the Pixel Slate, which I own. It is Pixelbook for people that prefer the tablet form factor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/a1rltn/why_i_chos...

I hope Pixel Slate 2 comes with LTE.
It is revolting how terribly arrogant your comment is, really.

They don't have a "wrong way of looking at things" simply because it is not your way. And your way is by no means the way.
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I remember articles in “Scholastic” and the “Weekly Reader” when I was in elementary school (1980s) that said at the time scientists were worried about a 1°-2°C increase in temperature over a 50-100 year period. I’m sure that’s the same information Exxon had in the ‘70s.

Nowadays the predictions are much higher, because scientists started asking “if the oceans get warmer, what changes will that cause, and how will those changes affect the temperature?” In 1970, Exxon wasn’t suppressing research on whether warmer oceans mean more water vapor in the air, more carbon dioxide outgassing from the oceans, etc. They were only asking “should we really make drastic changes to head off a 1°-2°C temperature change that may not happen for a century? Is there a reason to believe that nothing will change in that time to make the prediction irrelevant?”
Growing and flowering are two different things.

As the article mentions, some types of bamboo will flower only once every 100 odd years. When they do, they pollenate each-other and grow fruits and die.

In some parts of the world rats will feasts on these fruits, and rodent populations will explode, contributing to the "Bad Omen".

> Just stick it into the soil in the right conditions

When all the bamboo decides to flower and die at the same time, what exactly are you planning to stick in the ground?
London has over three times the green space of Paris.

http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/of-public-green-...
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In an enterprise-y environment, it's not always possible to keep upgrading to the latest. So assuming someone creates a project based on f-strings, that would be python 3.6+ only. Whereas using string.format will work across entire python 3+. Is that worth the upgrade- I'm not convinced.
Until the newer way comes along and then there's n+1 ways.
I have purchased and returned Surface devices countless times. As much as I'm fond of the new Microsoft they need to make Windows smooth and reliable.
You can actually use JSON files in place of HCL: https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/syntax-json.html

main.tf.json
I live in Germany now And this seems to be more true here. That’s probably part of the reason Rocket Internet can be successful. Americans don’t seem to care about it nearly as much in my experience.
Well, one drone made a lot of financial damage in UK not so long ago, you don't need a lot of money to do a lot of damage, which is terrible.
SCADA systems running public utilities plugged directly into winxp machines that are on the internet is something I have seen in person for 5 different organizations.

the CFAA and foreign states not wanting to start a war is seemingly the only thing stopping massive grid failure.
Do you know if there is a free trial for pinboard.in? It seems that you can't try it out without providing your credit card information, which is a UX no-go for me.
You know, I am personally much more comfortable with using emacs as an extremely configurable text editor. As time passes, I want less and less to create ad-hock lisp scripts and to debug my editing commands.
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Sounds like that's plenty to cover wages of £60k ($80k USD) gross, which is double the median graduate salary in the UK. I guess compared to what people earn in SV it's pocket change?
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If you ignore taxes, I find that the German market is paying slightly better than the UK. Also, if Brexit does happen, the pound will go down even further, tipping the scales in favor of Germany even more. UK was amazing for contracting before the 20% GBP dip right after Brexit referendum.
Bamboo blossom is a super interesting botanical fact, and a regular front-pager on Reddits "Today I learned"

> For example, devastating consequences occur when the Melocanna bambusoides population flowers and fruits once every 30–35 years[6] around the Bay of Bengal. The death of the bamboo plants following their fruiting means the local people lose their building material, and the large increase in bamboo fruit leads to a rapid increase in rodent populations. As the number of rodents increases, they consume all available food, including grain fields and stored food, sometimes leading to famine.[7] These rats can also carry dangerous diseases, such as typhus, typhoid, and bubonic plague, which can reach epidemic proportions as the rodents increase in number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_blossom#Impact
Bamboo species are amazing. I grow Bambusa oldhamii - useful for food (shoots) and timber. It's a clumping variety, so quite easy to control, and tolerant (if not particularly happy) of dry, wet, heat, and cold.

But my clones are taken from a variety that flowered in the 90's, IIRC, so there's some confidence they won't all flower (and immediately die) for another ~70 years.

The variety they're talking about here is a mild running type (most runners are very rampant, and not recommended unless you've got containment systems in place).

Thailand famously had a big flowering event in the late 1980's that killed off vast tracts of plantations.
Yeah if I saw someone wandering around in a suit at Apple I'd assume it was a hardware vendor who somehow broke free from his handlers and was snooping for secrets.

Those were pretty much the only people you'd see hanging around in suits.
Netflix has a great service of showing where the account was logged-in from. Spotify would benefit from the same.
I visited Paris last year and had a lovely time. I think I'll definitely want to go back to visit this. It look s splendid
> AI regulation needs to be global to be effective. [...] not accept cheap signaling being sold as a solution to real problems.

Amazon making a pledge not to work on facial recognition does not seem like cheap signaling to me! Cheap signaling would be Google's "AI Ethics Board" staffed with people unlikely to make trouble while Google continues to work on AI. A pledge not to work on technology is an expensive signal!

Ideally, sure, to stop something everyone agrees not to do it. But history is stuffed full of examples where one company could have made a difference. Imagine if IBM refused to work with the Nazis or if Dow Chemical refused to sell agent orange to the US.

It is impossible to solve anything "forever." Facial recognition will be developed, but how long that takes and how well the world can grapple with the consequences matters!
So what's the API look like?

You said you don't want to make users deal with flow control and hardware details.. does that imply a userspace bypass library which does that stuff for us? Does it look posixy?
Because echo-ing into a file will make a file with 1 byte in it: a single newline character.
The project was already dead. But now the maintainer[s] found time to complain about how evil RH simply opted to provide a py3 compatible replacement and provide it as dstat.
They can but clearly that isn't the case.
Well what I'd like to do is establish a stack of budgets against a project, e.g. Kickstarter Goals.

$500 p/m = all hosting and domain costs paid for

$750 p/m = we'll use some paid service that makes the service better in some way

$1k p/m = we'll reward contributors $250 p/m distributed across those who contributed to PRs but exact distribution determined by repo admins

And then to have a budget associated to the lowest one being the means for the project to survive... with a running total on that one, showing deficits (because I do have to still cover raw costs and those end up on my credit card the months I fall short, so future months should help recoup that).

In this way, it would be extremely clear what funds a project needs to survive and how donations and support makes a difference.

NB: My projects do fine... we get enough support to be viable. But damn it would be great to not manage it all manually, it's a chore I'd like to give up so I can code more.
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