skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is amazing to me that slums can even exist in a high cost of living city, where land is so expensive. You would have thought that given how scarce (expensive) the land is, it would be used most efficiently, with all buildings tending to be in top-notch condition and everywhere being fairly tidy and safe.

Basically, if you are the owner of a slum, it seems like it should make economic sense to sell the land to someone else as the value of the land would be higher than the value of the slum.

Why is the market not resulting in what I described?
There is Trees for Life in Scotland:

https://treesforlife.org.uk/

Edit: Most of the Scottish Highlands are a particularly bizarre landscape that people generally think of as natural but is really rather artificial as deer, lacking natural predators and being popular for hunting, tend to eat young trees.
Yeah that's utterly wrong, YouTube got popular because it was the best platform to upload any video and find and watch any video.
Then music got big on youtube.
Right now they are trying to go into movies, not sure how it will work out for them.
Is it, though? There have been fires in the arctic for weeks (month?) which haven't been put out. I'm sure firefighters try to put out forest fires asap when they're near human settlements but the world is a big place, and there presumably aren't enough firemen to put out every forest fire.

Before the 20th century, there were likely fewer campers setting trash on fire in the middle of a super dry forest. Or maybe not, come to think of it.
Very good point. I wonder if the recent outages on other well known services could be heavily influenced by a similar phenomenon.
If this holds water, it would be interesting to have an article or study around this issue. I certainly would be interested in reading it.
Not so difficult. I'm sure most people could plant 10 trees a month, given the motivation.

Trouble is, how are we going to get people motivated to do this?
Support for shell components landed in Mir
On the top right corner there's a dropdown for the language selection.
As alternative you can use this link: https://abusi-edilizi-opendata.dej611.now.sh/?lang=en
That's an idealistic way to look at it, considering the backdrop of human behavior.
>Do you believe that you can write secure code and applications?

Code? Sure, applications? Nope, they run on systems outside our control

>Do you think that the code you write is exempt of basic/common vulnerabilities?

Not the same question as above, yes.

>Where/how did you learn to?

We do cybersecurity training at work.

>Is there a process in your company to check for those vulnerabilities?

Penetration Testing.
Sure, it does not make sense to use 2 tons mass and 10 m2 for transportation of 80 kg and 0,25m2.
Electric does not change this inefficiency.
imho, this strengthens the OP’s use of the quote.

successful Tech founders are especially guilty of producing what they strive in vain to relieve.
Exactly, applications like Tinder or OkCupid are made to push you to spend money. Social websites like Facebook or Twitter show personalized ads or monetize your data.

If you're someone with difficulties to meet new people, you're an easy target.
Don't you think human evolve and modern human might evolve to not need or need less face to face connection anymore for physical and mental health.
> Instead of local completion (tab tab tab ;) do a global search, and narrow down interactively using fuzzy

It's great. I wouldn't work the old way anymore. The way I use it is wherever I am in emacs I just type the file name, then the matches are listed from all of my working directories, most recently used ones displayed first and I can quickly narrow down by typing any part of the path.

In practice, since I store the last 1000 files in the recent files list, the desired match is usually the first or at least in the top 3, if I work on the same group of files for a while.
Hmmm, it seems that the necessary client-side stuff is included in Android >=JB, and iOS >=12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanism#464X...

It's probably uncommon, but I wonder what happens if a T-mobile customer has an older 3G-capable device that doesn't support CLAT.
The seats in any car are better engineered and far more comfortable than the typical chair in an office, home, park, bus or train.

Never underestimate the value of a comfy seat.
> As a loner, I avoid this by making sure I walk 10,000 steps a day.

Can't recommend this enough, though you need to be in a "walkable" enough city. It's one of the best breaks you can take especially if you sit at a desk most of the day.

I love discovering urban nooks and crannies that I would miss if I took a car or train. The Apple Watch or any other tracker that can map your route etc. can help with that a lot.
Like I said, the 14 yo lives and originates in Europe. Cashdollar told so. Yet you fail to mention that and, despite the whole world knowing how explosive the political situation between the US (where YOU originate) and Iran is at the moment, you selective only mention Iran and no other country.

So yeah, factually correct maybe, but very biased by selective editing. That's textbook propaganda. If you don't see that you're part of it.
Ask HN: What is an easy skill to learn?
I've come to realise that it's easier to learn some skills over others (at least to a moderate level of ability). E.g. learning a language Vs learning to drive. Do you think there are there some skills that are easier, and quicker, to learn than others? What would they be?
Until the captains figure out that selling the fuel to the highest bidder is better than delivering the actual cargo.
I had one quick phone screening, then 2-3 hours on Skype, then they flew me over for a full day of interviews. the whole thing was less than a month.
> Old English Bryttisc "of or relating to (ancient) Britons," from Bryttas "natives of ancient Britain" (see Briton). Meaning "of or pertaining to Great Britain" is from c. 1600; the noun meaning "inhabitants of Great Britain" is from 1640s. British Empire is from c. 1600.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/British

Sounds like the article is 100% accurate.

Also, from Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain#Derivation_of_Gr... ):

> The term Great Britain was first used officially in 1474, in the instrument drawing up the proposal for a marriage between Cecily the daughter of Edward IV of England, and James the son of James III of Scotland, which described it as "this Nobill Isle, callit Gret Britanee". It was used again in 1604, when King James VI and I styled himself "King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland".

As to this:

> unless you mean to name the island they came from, but not their nationality and identity, but that seems a stretch

"British" has always been a designator for the people first. Like almost all old-world countries, Britain is named after the people who live there, not the other way around.
As someone who isn't a game developer but has dabbled, I think introducing the concept of the "game loop" as early as possible would definitely be beneficial.
This is seriously cool. Are you working on it alone?
> It’s at above 99% homozygotes.

Meanin 99% of people who have this allele (trait) have two set of the corresponding gene/genes.

Okay, but is lactose tolerance a dominant allele?
We elect politicians to make good decisions for us. The onus is not on everyone to make the right decision every time, but rather on their elected leaders to make the right decisions.
I think "bumbling" is a fair word to apply to a country that has ~20% of the population of the entire world, yet managed to avoid being a superpower for nearly the entire 20th century through idiotic self-inflicted wounds like the Cultural Revolution.

What policies do you regard as being intentionally instrumental to China's current success?
Oh and the other thing I didn't see anyone address is teaching "victims" the right Ju-Jitsu for dealing with (intentional) assholes / bullying - the mindset of don't let anyone make you a victim.

I had the "good fortune" of having an internship years ago with a tyrant. This person loved publicly shaming the interns, among a whole bunch of other toxic behaviour, continual needling etc. etc. Their life was a mess, marriage falling apart and alcoholic but beating up the interns was this person's way of boosting their ego up again. They were also a master of ducking and deflecting any possible blame.

Being on the receiving end of this for a year, I was so upset and frustrated that I vowed never to let it happen to me again.

After trying various strategies I found the most effective solution is very simple: get a group of people laugh at the asshole, ideally as a direct response to bullying from them in a group setting. Typically you only need to pull that off once and they will leave you alone from that point on - most bullys are cowards in the face of real resistance. Actually you don't even need to be funny - you just need to do something that can't missed by the group or the bully and creates awkwardness, e.g. a loud, slow clap in response to their comment then if they quiz you on it, you just say "Just giving you a round of applause"

I could write a lot more on this, and much of it would be easy to misinterpret in today's PC culture so I won't but, in essence: don't fall into a victim mindset - stand up for yourself.
Hmm, how is it actually regulated? So, e.g. if I am going to my friends and carrying a bottle of wine altogether with pocket knife bundled with a corkscrew to be sure I will be able to open it, then I am in a grey zone or even illegal?
Yes that's a good point. I also have a dotfiles repo and I actually go one step further in that most things are organised into Ansible roles, for my laptop locally and for remote machines if necessary. But as the other responses have suggested it's also to include times when using a dotfiles approach isn't possible or desired. Also, not that it's a day job thing for me, but it's handy being more portable across the Unices. I am especially interested in both NetBSD and OpenBSD (and most of my work colleagues develop on macOS). Some "newer" tools might of course be readily available in the base packages or ports but being able to use the defaults in Linux and other Unices is good. Of course there is still the different flag issue due to GNUisms vs everything else but then when you factor in a cloud virtual machine with might be running a different distro to you locally or container images that you may only use interactively, I think it ends up being easier and simpler to learn the defaults rather than having to deal with different package systems or manual compilation. Again this is how I work and is my opinion, nothing against these tools or the people using them.
You mean disruption like: "park" a large number of trailers in cities, containing small office rooms, small apartments, hotel rooms, rows of lockers...whatever. Then rent out those and undercut other market participants which actually need to pay for the buildings and properties in which they operate, while you just "park" your relatively-cheap custom trailers in areas where this is free of charge.
I would take the train, but it's vastly more expensive than flying, almost always. It takes more time, but that's often not a problem; the price is. I mean it's literally 3-10x more expensive to go by train. With the added loss of time, I cannot see many people doing that.

Also when you take business flights, and the company paying for it (I am a freelancer so the companies pay me to fly directly) would be not amused if I add on CO2 there. So I have to do that personally to fly for business?
Why do you believe that the optimal point for a business is maintaining the employees on the edge of quitting? What are the pros and cons of doing this?
KLM is doing good things. For customers in Belgium, you can get a free train ticket from Brussels and Antwerp to Schiphol Airport. That way you don't need a connecting flight.

https://www.klm.com/travel/nl_en/plan_and_book/ticket_inform...
All the better to try to tackle the problem early on.
They are all Romans, anyway.
Pakistan completed a billion tree plantation project in 2017 [1]. This is currently being followed up with a 5 year 10 billion tree plantation project, at an annual cost of 7.5 billion PKR (~47 million USD) [2]. Planting 989bn trees for the other 200 countries should not be too difficult.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Tree_Tsunami

[2] http://www.radio.gov.pk/04-07-2019/pms-vision-of-clean-green...
Recently, there was a HN post about how volunteering was found to be the best overall solution for depression in young adults. I'm not particularly depressed, but I do live in a foreign country that, while incredibly friendly to expats, is notoriously difficult to make friends in. I started volunteering at a local organization that teaches refugees how to code, and I just have to say that it's been incredibly rewarding already. I've only been to two of their events but the sense of community that you get there is really overwhelming.

The funny thing about this is the work isn't very different from what I'd be doing on a day to day. Code reviews and a little bit of teaching. It's not that I feel I'm doing an especially large amount of good, I think my day-job definitely outpaces the volunteering in terms of net good done in the world. But there is something about community that's incredibly powerful.
They've stuffed up my billing every month for 12 months now. I've told them numerous times and they still can't fix whatever problem they have.

I'm glad other people are having more luck with them.
nuclear obviously, the most effective and green way to produce energy
That link goes to Mosfilm movies. There where a dozen or so other studios, and some of them have their archives up as well.

For example,

- Lenfilm: https://www.youtube.com/user/LenfilmVideo

- Odessa Film Studio: https://www.youtube.com/user/OdessAnimationStudio
Denmark is somewhat more extreme in that regard because people often retain their friendships from primary school or kindergarten so social circles are very difficult to enter for latecomers e.g. if you have moved cities within the country or came from abroad.

Of course, not universally true but it is pretty common and the woman in the article does mention moving cities.
For a horror screenplay
I can easily come close to 50 times that in a month (a given being that not all the seeds I throw around become real trees, so let's say it's 5 times). Doing so on a piece of land that won't get it's trees cut in short order is however next to impossible.
I ran a very affordable car share platform for years. One gentleman used it at night to study in.

We suspected his claims of it being a comfortable place to get work done didn't fit with renting it from say midnight to 5 but upon an "investigation" we saw books and papers on the dash, the dome lights on, you know, deep study.

Still think it's kinda strange... He was middle aged and married. My theory was he had a snoring wife at home and was taking night school or something.

There was another gentleman who would book the cars at night and also go nowhere for hours. Upon investigating him he was listening to fiction books on tape... Relaxing with the seat back and enjoying the novel. Rented around the same time almost every evening.
No they merely get ousted and punished.
Super simple idea on how transportation should work:

https://youtu.be/zpkmGV9a6V0

https://youtu.be/GlBOqM99q5g

If we could change between cars, buses, trains, boats at speed; do we need plains? No stops and full speed all the way.

(Will try to make more complexed models and visualize between boats, buses, trains.. But the main idea is the same)
But wouldn't measuring something also alter the outcome? Ie. Observer Effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
slight-OT: Yes, it is. Which is frustrating in itself. In general, I've developed a strategy:

Me: "So, what should the program do when XYZ occurs?"

Marketing: "Uhm... Dunno, haven't thought about it. I'd decide by, you know, gut instinct. We haven't thought about that yet."

Me: implements a virtual coin-flip using Random.Next()

Once you've done that, it's easier.
I don't think MAC is the default [1]:

the following operating systems use IPv6 privacy extensions BY DEFAULT:

All versions of Windows after Windows XP
All versions of Mac OS X from 10.7 onward
All versions of iOS since iOS 4.3
All versions of Android since 4.0 (ICS)
Some versions of Linux (and for others it can be easily configured)

For routers, then I have no way to tell. But I would be surprised if stateless addressing wasn't the default on the vast majority of retail routers.

[1] https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2014/12/ipv6-privacy-ad...
It doesn't account for the full difference in price, but air travel is still widely unfairly subsidised compared to trains.

For example, jet fuel is not taxed for international flights, whereas diesel for international trains (almost the same actual fuel) is taxed.

Airports also enjoy very favourable planning and tax treatment.
Especially iconic is the “The Irony of Fate”[1], which is still traditionally watched on New Years each year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate
yeah right, and 1 month old infants too.
Make it mandatory (and pay) for schools to ensure that each secondary school or higher kid plants 10 trees a year. The motivation multiplier on the rest of society from this policy will take care of the rest.
What it is pussyfooting around is that there is not that drastic of a drop in fertility rates of muslims.

I guess it shouldn't be hard to conceive where Islamic parties start having a major voice in elections because of demographics.
>isn't how easy it is to write good code, but how hard it is to write bad code

In many languages they make it harder to write bad code but they do so at the expense of delivering functionality quickly. There's a clear trade off there - one which is often very project dependent (some projects primarily need to develop functionality quickly; others prioritize stability).

The problem of slowing down development becomes particularly pronounced when developing something where the biggest risk isn't building the thing wrong, but building the wrong thing. It's extremely expensive to use a very strict language if you're developing code where requirements are highly in flux and cannot be discerned up front.

Ideally general purpose languages should enable a smooth transition from coding up a prototype/MVP all the way to production-hardened, spotlessly clean code.

I like rust a lot but I would only use it to write very low level code where the requirements are cast in stone and speed and stability is of the utmost importance. It's a lovely language but it's very slow to build stuff in, and in almost all cases it should be used to rewrite something existing rather than to build it anew.
When we are currently losing (deforestation) 18 million acres of forest per year!
Ah, so by 18 interviews you also meant e.g. 8 interviews during a full day? For some reason I thought it was spaced out, like you had 18 calls :D
No, the problem is those trees need to stay alive and grow and not be burned for the carbon capture actually work out.
> Without these numbers it's hard to support your premise.

His premise is that "anybody could learn coding if they tried", whereby "tried" I assumed applies to only the people who passed those two rounds of self-selection you describe.
I am on BT openreach. What is A&A?

I get patchy v6 connectivity. v4 is stable.
Your certificate is expired.
That's not exactly ideal for "early warning".
Gigatron TTL Microcomputer
A dedicated bicycle lane next to a busy multiple-lane road is often better than a service road because it's (hopefully) properly maintained, not strewn with bits of broken cars and doesn't stop suddenly at each junction. I would ride in such a service road if the alternative was a freeway but only as the lesser of two evils.

There's also the problem of busy junctions within settlements that are designed around cars. This is another example of where alternative bicycle-centric lanes and signalling are much better suited than the regular road.
This is just complete passive aggressiveness... just tell them to piss off (or some variation thereof), no need to do all this weird sarcastic stuff
I do something like this with my own car (not a rental). I live in a very hot climate and don't have AC, so my home office is essentially useless in the summer. Recently I bought a Tesla Model 3, and I'll just take my laptop out to the car, sit in the passenger seat and select "Keep climate on" from my phone. I never felt comfortable doing this with an ICE car due to engine vibration, noise and stink.

Sometimes I break up my work day by going to Starbucks and working there, but if I can't find a seat, I can just bring my drink back to my car. It's not ideal--there's no table--but it's not bad.
Afaik it's not a free train ticket, KLM cooperates with Thalys (high-speed trains) and part of the price for your flight ticket covers the train. It's still a nice and good option!
True. But isn't this also accomplished when pairing JSON with JSON Schema?
The loss of time is minimal for small distances (< 500km) as you don't have check-in and don't have to travel to the airport first.

For longer distance flights: Wake up at 07:00, take the train to the airport at 08:00, take the 10:30 flight from Schiphol to Barcelona and get out of the airport at 15:00. Take a taxi to the city center and arrive at 15:30. Or take the 08:00 train, sit back, relax and get off right in the center of the city at 20:00. You have may lost a couple of hours but you could sit down and read a book the entire time. Luggage is easier. Nobody groping you or giving you troubles about fluids. And good food in the trains too.

Ever better: Night trains. Take the 21:00 train. Fall asleep. Wake up at 09:00 having passed two countries.
There is a case for burying charcoal,

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/407754/the-case-for-buryi...
Show HN: Lego Minifigures Detection with Nvidia Jetson Nano
This is wishful thinking. Bullies may be victim of their own insecurities, but they're not that easy to change.

Would you hire someone who you know is an open racist, just because he can be converted?
Now show how to build enough reactors in the next twenty years to completely replace fossil fuels. If your strategy doesn't show at least 75% CO2 reduction by 2030 you've likely missed the 1.5° goal.

Building reactors takes a long time. We probably first need to ramp up the industries that manufacture pressure vessels. The forging presses able to produce pressure vessels for modern reactors can manufacture maybe half a dozen a year, and there aren't too many of these massive presses around. You can of course argue that we build a different kind of reactor that doesn't require pressure vessels, but then you need additional time for R&D and proving the design in practice. Don't forget that we also need to train the engineers that staff the new power stations. Nuclear engineering is not a terribly popular major right now.

Wind and solar on the other hand are well suited to reducing our CO2 output starting today. Building a wind turbine doesn't take ten years.
My experience of going to high-end casinos, mostly in London, is that:

- Many players were plainly cheating in some way, by marking cards and sometimes colluding with the dealer, but the casino didn't appear to mind because they were cheating in an ineffective way and still losing money to the house edge.

- (Related: you would just be banned if you won an amount of money that showed you were beating the house edge: see also the Phil Ivey lawsuit)

- Some players were gambling large sums of money generally on games with a small house edge, and looked bored like they were there to do a job. I assume from their behaviour they were laundering money.