skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kind of modernization proposed by the TFA seems reasonable to me, though. The author makes some interesting points on this subject - namely, that the actual roof structure is never visible to anyone but work crews, and that it's apparently something of a centuries-long standard practice to replace burnt cathedral roofs using contemporary materials and technology.

Even beyond that, there's a practical argument to be made: Why go to great expense to install another disaster waiting to happen, when you can instead spend a lot less money on a roof structure that will more reliably and safely preserve the main structure and its contents?
It's not just Indian Americans. It's other students of immigrants as well. My belief is that it's because their families instill education from a young age as a path to success and this is ingrained in the culture.

You don't see this nearly as often in the US. Instead, we look up to movie stars and sports figures.

When I was a kid, I won every classroom spelling bee I was in and would almost always make it to the school finals (but never the nationals). The majority of students didn't even try or care that much, so competition was really easy at the classroom level.
School for Poetic Computation
That's why it's fucked up to translate these studies into advice saying "don't compliment your kids intelligence".
I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them.

The equivalent here would be a "switch from YouTube to your own video hosting site in a few minutes." I mean sure, you could, and it probably wouldn't be that hard, but that's not the point.
I always like when people ignore the comment they are replying to...

If you want to restore the original style then we should remove the gargoyles, as mentioned, but also other elements that were added.

Even the spire was not a 'replica' as it was taller than the original.

There is no point seeking to restore "as it originally was" for an 800 years old building.

Certainly not using any lead anymore would be welcome. it's also debatable whether timber should be used at all as it's not even visible to anyone.

There's another very old building in Paris that was recently refurbished (collège des Bernardins). They remade the roof using steel and titanium tiles. It's lighter, does not burn, and will last centuries without any problem.
Wow I never heard of this and it looks awesome! Thanks for the share!
Would you mind trying out https://cashier.alensiljak.ml/ and provide feedback about how it works on Apple devices?
It is meant as a less-maintenance alternative to native apps and works offline if "added to desktop", which is a browser feature for Progressive-Web Applications.
The source is here - https://gitlab.com/alensiljak/cashier - if you wish to provide some feedback or have a look at the code.
Currently it can record transactions and export in ledger format. Perhaps more functionality is added if a need arises.
Poor management.

With poor being used in both senses.

Looking at the management salaries (the link is a bit outdated, but should give an overall idea) head of MNRR makes around 300k. That sounds a lot until we realize that a Google engineer makes about the same. A head of a small team in the bank makes about the same.

Your engineers, who (putting my hard hat on) in most cases could've been replaced with an automated system earn about the same if they're willing to do some overtime.

Do we want somebody earning less than a Google engineer fight tooth and close for taxpayers money? Do we want them to take risk for huge infrastructure projects? That all while being engaged in political battles about poor-people-diversity-community-unions? I don't see it happening.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/table-of-...
> Or how about having permission

Yes. How about having permission first?

When people talk about the ethics of deepfakes, they are talking about consent. What else do you think they're talking about?
Darpa Challenge: Underground War Robots
An individual running a forum from their basement has to follow the same rules that Google spends tens of thousands on lawyers fees to figure out.

It's very, very unlikely, though, that the individual running the forum in his basement has to navigate the same legal minefields as Google or Facebook.

Implying that he has the same legal expenses as companies, whoms whole business model relies on getting around the GDPR seems to me a bit of a strawman.
More good people, more smart people, but much less people overall.
I work as a detection engineer for a Security vendor and I'm going to go against the grain and say that there ARE tools you should run to monitor your linux infrastructure that are similar to AV but are NOT AV. I write detection's for these tools all day long for Linux systems and there's a BUNCH you can detect and alert on that's abnormal activity that should be investigated and having tools in place such as an EDR tool can make those investigations easier.

Looking at the original post - some of those would be monitoring the the bash history environment variables. This is commonly modified by threat actors as a defense evasion technique. (I see it a bunch with insider threats to)

There's a bunch of others - but having just that one alert trigger would have likely been enough to start an investigation and catch this malware should the protective controls others have recommended fail.

That said the tools to do the more necessary modern monitoring do typically require more maintenance and configuration and it's not typically a set and forget type of solution.

Options I'd recommend:

LimaCharlie - https://limacharlie.io - Cloud based EDR tool, it has a cost, but is not expensive ($1 per endpoint monitored, supports all Linux flavors). It's a lot easier to deploy and manage, but you'll have to write your own rules. This though will also allow you to remotely look at all processes/pull files off of a machine remotely/isolate hosts on the network etc

There are a bunch of other EDR tools out there like Carbon Black or CrowdStrikes/FireEye's tooling, but they run a high premium ($20-40 per end point, and typically only support Ubuntu or Redhat or both)

Wazuh - https://wazuh.com/ - It's a better maintained fork of OSSEC that makes mass deployments easier/has more default rules etc. It'll give you FIM/Notify you of insecure configurations etc - This one will require the most work to setup

Security Onion - https://securityonion.net/ - this one is probably a little overkill, but modern versions include Wazuh (as seen above) as well as OSQuery/Network IDS's (which are it's core feature)
KaiOS gets closer to 1% mobile OS global market share
One very striking thing I've heard from a friend who went to a gifted school was that it let them have a "normal" childhood. Rather than being "the smart kids", they were just normal in their environment.
It doesn't really matter at this point since the underlying problem is absolute loyalty to a particular cause or person.
I think Bitcoin pushes a lot of people's buttons because it was so new, exotic and difficult to understand that it really challenged a lot of people who consider themselves smart. I know I didn't "get it" right off the bat but I couldn't shake the feeling that the fact that I didn't understand it was a signal that something special was going on. So I kept pushing forwards. I read the whitepaper and thought, this seems cool but I still don't get it, something must be here. So I read more books (Mastering Bitcoin by O'Reilly is amazing). Finally I got it, understood the potential and realized just how amazing these concepts were. Unfortunately at that point the price had already risen to the point where I couldn't just buy hundreds of these things. I bought a few and now that looks like a freaking amazing investment.

During this story arc, I also witnessed a growing dissent against Bitcoin. A lot of it came from the media and tech adjacent people but not technologists themselves. Initial complaints were more or less ad hominems (money for filthy nerds), as the currency went up in value, the story morphed conveniently to an ecological one as the rebuttal for that requires deeper knowledge of crypto and an acknowledgement of the energy consumption used to secure regular money.

Now you get on HN and it's just hated. Passionate hate. I figure it's a mix of people that could have understood it and didn't until it was too late, people who still don't understand it, and people who don't like it due to the constant barrage of negative media coverage.
My understanding was that those horrible insecticides were the primary thing that worked. The link you posted mentions about draining breeding sites, but seems to be saying that DDT application was the biggest component: "It consisted primarily of DDT application to the interior surfaces of rural homes or entire premises in counties where malaria was reported to have been prevalent in recent years."
China's creating ‘unreliable entities list' of foreign companies and people
They are often spartan in terms of decor, but lavish in terms of space.

Take DC's metro as an example. The stations are mostly raw concrete, but they are massive. The underground stations are cavernous vaults with sprawling mezzanines.

The decor undoubtedly adds a bit to the cost, but it is nothing close to the cost of excavating two or three times as much space.
I am distrustful of "undercover" investigations in general now, mainly due to the activities of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. It's very, very easy to cut a "bad guy edit," especially when people don't know they're the subject of an interview.

> In one instance, the undercover moderator asks the advice of his colleague regarding a video that shows two underage girls, one of them being beaten by the other. “Unless it has a condemning caption, it’s a delete,” says the colleague, referring to the text accompanying the video.

> In other words, if the caption were promoting the violence or poking fun, it would come down. But in this case, since the caption condemns the fighting, the moderator is told to leave it up with a “mark as disturbing” warning.

This seems like a reasonable balance to strike. Context is extremely important; a video of Nazis marching down an American street can mean two very different things depending on who is posting it, and why.

> [Early Facebook investor Roger] McNamee describes how the platform’s business model actually relies on extreme content, as it keeps users on the platform longer, feeding them more ads and increasing revenue. “This is essentially the crack cocaine of their product. It’s the really extreme, really dangerous form of content that attracts the most highly engaged people on the platform,” he says.

This gets to a more salient underlying issue; Facebook, and pretty much every other app on your phone, makes money from your attention, and they're designed to be addictive. This is true with Facebook notifications, Reddit karma, games ... the art and science of triggering compulsive behavior has been weaponized by advertisers and is being used against us.

The fact that some people's compulsive behavior is triggered by fake videos of Nancy Pelosi doesn't matter to Facebook. There is no political angle there, only financial.
Being smart does not guarantee material success and job/food security.

This is something I finally started comings to terms with at 39. I was one of these kids who was falling asleep in class, pissed the teacher by doing so, had to do a personal exam mid-term and I completed it with A grades everywhere. People envied me for grokking everything easily and being seemingly genius with zero effort.

...Until I went to university and had to work after.

Not gonna repeat the article because it nailed a lot of things exactly right but again, realising that intellect does not strongly correlate with material gain is a mind-blowing revelation I wish I was taught much earlier in my life.
What’s the Data cap? I bought a Vodafone sim in Europe and it was €20 for 1GB. There were people outside complaining they turned their phone on and hit the data cap within a couple minutes. The 1GB barely lasted a day using google maps to find my way around and that was after I turned off a lot of apps like email and such.
Yeah, I kind of assumed that the answer would be to solve your problems with office 365 or something similar and then move onto actually producing yourself.
A smartphone, or any device really, only has information that you feed it. Compartmentize. Different devices for different things combined with pseudo-anonymity. It is very hard to do this and a razor-thin no-mistake margin is always there.
Honestly I really appreciate tools like this exist but I'll probably keep using Medium out of laziness. I don't want to have to worry about maintaining my own blog and I'm cheap so I don't really want to pay for hosted Ghost/Wordpress since I'm not trying to make money off of my infrequent dumb blog posts. The cheapest Ghost plan is $29/mo :(
I know GPUs aren't necessarily faster than CPUs, but they are more parallel. The article's graphics didn't work in my browser so I haven't looked at the results other than the rendered images, but there's no arbitrary precision in the linked code. It's an attempt to speed up the rendering using threads, when the GPU would be faster.

I found this version [0] that uses perturbation theory to get deep zoom on the GPU. I haven't seen it before and haven't looked into it, but it seems neat.

[0] https://github.com/munrocket/deep-fractal
Because being smart and $1.50 will get you $1.50 worth of coffee.
Not only more valuable but more in control of his growth, a growth to a full potential
Just a bit of warning: Software Engineering in Aerospace is NOT fun. You're basically in a supporting role to the hardware and system engineers designing the spacecraft. It's pure drudgery... process to the point of absurdity, specs and tasks being spoon fed to you with little room for creativity and/or problem solving, etc.

The pay, benefits, and level of respect on the job reflect all of that.

If you really want to work in space, I'd go and get a MS (or higher) in aerospace engineering or space systems engineering and work at the systems level.

I got out of aerospace and am much happier for it.
I would disagree with the article. I think the 'laziness' comes from a more well tuned intuition for value. Smart people don't make money because they're smart. Sometimes all smart people want to do is indulge in things that don't necessarily bring value to anyone. However, if you have a knack for seeing the value in something (or a lack of value) I think you'll be more likely to succeed. If you think about it, since grades don't come from a linear expulsion of effort, aiming to get high grades when you don't know what you're ROI is going to be does sound dumb.
Why does it have to be a trade-off? Something like WriteFreely gives you both your own blog and (via the Fediverse) an audience.

Don't want to run your own? Then pay for a Write.as account to have Matt run it for you.
And make it look like the Temple of Time from the Zelda series?
I can't help to wonder myself how they though that releasing in the nature a creature able to synthesize venom of funnel-web spider was a good idea. Is astonishing.

Are this organisations, supposedly full of smart people, so hierarchical that nobody could point to the obvious elephant in the room? Even a child could see it coming.
> My personal solution would be to keep kids in the normal classes, but allow them to opt-in to more challenging course work if they feel they are not being challenged (with the ability to take a step back if they need it).

I'm not sure this is a great idea, at least not without changes to the normal curriculum itself.

I recall middle school math as an extremely frustrating experience. I always grasped the concepts and problem solving techniques very quickly, but it still took a long time to do the work. stuff like dividing polynomials by other polynomials takes a long time to do on paper no matter how well you understand it. no matter how interesting the extra work was, I would never have signed up for it on top of the tedium I was already subjected to from the normal curriculum.
>The kind of modernization proposed by the TFA seems reasonable to me, though.

No. Don't fall for this. This is the siren song that leads you down the dark path to Penn Station.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your...

Meanwhile Microsoft is building a distributed system on top of Bitcoin to help people get rid of passwords and take ownership of their data and identity.

The protocol is blockchain agnostic, the only requirement is a public blockhain, they're using Bitcoin because it's the most secure one.

They've calculated that when batching transactions they could give an globally verifiable identity to every person on the planet using only a tiny fraction of Bitcoin's 2MB~ every 10 minutes blockspace. The users of the system would have no clue that they're using Bitcoin, they would download an app that just works.

If public Blockchains end up being massively adopted it's going to through Layer 2 protocols like Microsoft DID or the Lightning Network that barely touch the actual blockchain layer because blockchains don't scale.
Don't use Hadoop – your data isn't that big (2013)
The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts...

There was a large audience. Medium have introduced a paywall that you could dismiss with a click, but now they've started enforcing that paywall and stopping you reading more than a couple of articles a month. The audience who have chosen not to pay will fall away precipitously over the next few weeks to the point where people are going so see no traffic on their posts at all.

Authors need to choose to either support Medium or leave for a different platform now. The glut of 'how-to-leave-Medium' posts are a response to that.
I wonder how would it be possible to teach young children to not value "being smart" and make that stick as they grown into rebel teenagers, deception is certainly not the way to go, as they will obviously notice it over time. Telling them "it doesn't matter" I don't think that's sticky enough, probably just being upfront and saying to them the reasons behind it, why it doesn't matter
Totally, but that's what syndication is all about. The best is to have the original content on your own blog and then to cross post it to Medium, with the canonical link linking back to your blog. That way, if/when Medium is replaced by another platform, you don't loose your content and your have already build some SEO for your blog.
How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions
Smaller cities present issues in Germany (and Europe as a whole) for a multitude of reasons, for example healthcare[0], reliable bandwidth, older populations[1], etc.

Choosing a small city with a train station, however, can dramatically improve your access to most of these things as the trains typically imply population, which typically begets services such as internet, pharmacies, etc.

So honestly my first recommendation is filtering small cities by that.

0: https://www.thelocal.de/20181221/germans-turn-to-medibus-as-...

1: https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/politics/divided-nation-g...
Because it does more harm than good in the long term
Are they though? It's hard to say someone is good at acting if they are put into roles where they basically play themselves. And moreover, what better way to act like someone else literally being someone else? Film studios are already keen to paste virtual masks on their actors.

In any case, somebody wants this.
Let's ask short order cooks if they are fulfilled by their work environments. They'll probably complain about coworkers, the hours, and say their feet hurt.

That's not to say teachers don't have the feelings they might have, but it's a pretty privileged position to be in to expect your work to fulfill you in some deep way.
For terminal based things I've been using `asciinema`. There are various options to play/render such recordings, such as to an interactive SVG. SVGs are lot smaller than GIFs in file size, and are even scalable.

See one of my projects for example:
https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend#ffsend-wip
Bit-sliced indexing is the clever magic here. This post goes very deep on it https://www.pilosa.com/blog/range-encoded-bitmaps/

But really, you use one bitmap for each binary bit of an integer, and it turns out you can generate arbitrary range queries on your dataset by doing various combinations of boolean operations on those bitmaps.
LOL, nobody considers Gibraltar as Spain.

Source: I was born somewhere some consider is Spain and some not.
Picky point:

> Let’s just say that for our purposes we can think of complex numbers existing on a line perpindicular to our regular number line. If you take a piece of graph paper and mark a line from left to right, and then another line that crosses that line at 90 degrees, from top to bottom, you can imagine that the horizontal line represents the real number line, and the vertical line represents the complex number line.

The vertical line is the imaginary number line. 2 is as much a complex number as 3i is (2 + 0i vs 0 + 3i).
Big problems mean big projects, big risks, big staffing plans, big costs, and smaller margins. If you can bear the cost of sales, ten $10mm projects beat a single $100mm in my experience.
I also recommend mailing the website owners who uses ReCaptcha about why it's a nuisance and stating that you and many others won't be using the site anytime soon.
But not permanently crippled.
Problem so far has been that unity dev tools where windows only while Linux would still be a target.