skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Finally. It's really frustrating to see how heavily subsidized airlines, plane fuel and airports are and how big of a tax breaks they get when they come to a city.

I suppose the Airlines will just pass along any new taxes to the traveling consumer. I was always under the impression that airports in France were economic drivers of prosperity considering tourism makes up about 77 billion euro of economic impact to the GDP France.

Hope it works out for them...
Instead of just assuming, you can see that a lot of fossil teeth tend to look shockingly good.

How are anybody's teeth at 40 if they haven't visited a dentist? Brushing is a cause of receding gums, gum infection, tooth loss, and deep pockets around the gums. Modern sticky flours and sugars also do a number on your teeth, giving bacteria a wonderful place to live.

That being said, if you don't brush your teeth, food will find places in your mouth to sit and rot. Brush your teeth for everyone around you, not for your teeth.
Back when the Chicago Tribune thought it was Buzzfeed, I dont think they liked him.

"26 REASONS WHY ROSS PEROT DOESN`T DESERVE YOUR VOTE"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-10-08-920401...
When I was last through there one of the food service employees was ripping off change from foreign travelers. When reported to the airport their response was basically, "so, what?"
Just shake the shoe to spread the powdered boric acid. Doesn’t need to be precise, over time it will spread everywhere.
You can't really live "efficient" being poor.
Instead of the Touch Bar, I'd be happy if a new MBP had an ethernet port, usb ports, headphone ports, mini-display ports, an SD card slot, and a lock slot.

oh yeah, that's what my 2012 MBP has.
More "features will land", not necessarily extensions.
They have limited internal extensions API because several of their features were implemented with bundled extensions, but it doesn't talk about extensions/addons themselves.

And, yes, there's the "ad blocking" issue: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/96

What does it actually say?
The requirement is "Integrate/support for different adblock lists (see Focus)".

So you can have certain ad-block lists, but not the actual customization and not uBlock Origin.
People moan about a great many things but it doesn’t mean they’re right (hence Brexit, Trump, “Christian values”, racism/homophobia/etc, those who moan about computer security from a lazy ux perspective (eg “why can’t my password be the same as my user name?”).

I take much more stock in the opinions with those who actually have to work under those conditions and see those systems in use first hand.

I agree it’s not perfect and there are plenty of areas it can be improved but some of the comments on here are throwing out the baby water (as others have also pointed out). If you can afford private education then that’s also an option. But you’re still part of the same education system with the same flaws. You are just (hopefully) paying for better teachers (that isn’t always the case - more about that below). For all of its warts, public schools are still a far better option than homeschooling in the vast majority cases.

Its worth noting that I’ve provided IT services for a few private’s schools in my time and frankly some of them were worse than the public school
I went to! Both in terms of teaching staff and school equipment. It was a real eye opener for me because up until that point I was planning on sending my (then theoretical) kids to private school too.
...and simple dental work dates back to before recorded history, suggesting that cavities have always been a problem, even if they were probably much rarer before the mass use of refined sugar.
Glad I wasn't the only one who loved the convenience of that tiny machine. Guess there weren't enough of us though.
I completely agree -- why is new building constrained? Because those who currently own don't want things to change. In LA they just vetoed high density near train stations for exactly this reason.
How do you spec a fuse for out of spec usage? What's stopping me from connecting a strand of magnet wire between both sides?
Can I take Dark out for a spin?
I'd imagine for a client, most of the value of this bank is access to what I can only imagine to be the most fantastically exotic network it sits at the centre of
The obsessive dreamers behind a $17M miniature model of Canada
I suppose a better definition would be that sin taxes are meant to cut down on personal use, while pigovian are meant to offset external factors which the use of the product/service causes. Of course, each of these taxes are going to end up cutting down use, as it would lower demand due to a higher cost, but the idea is that a pigovian tax is successful even if the use doesn't go down significantly, as the tax proceeds would be reinvested in offsets from the negative activity. A sin tax could do this, but it doesn't always do this.
I'm curious, what code sins do you see committed in the name of DRY? I ask because in my org there's rarely even an attempt made to DRY anything, so I'm not really aware of how people screw it up.
It is us who collectively decide not to collectively incentivize more efficient lifestyles.
> I am a developer.

Ill bet you 99% of mac sales are NOT to developers.

Despite them arguably wanting to court developers to write swift programs, their hardware sales team doesnt seem to care about developer prosumers.
> If I'm the hiring manager, then I probably don't want to hire you for the 28 out of 30 jobs you're not interested in.

OP meant that even for the 2 interesting jobs, attention to detail might be lost to the information overload of job searching in general.

> Sure, you're selecting for perfectionists, but arguably that's better than hiring people who don't really care about your company.

OP presented a probable negative bias towards “eventual” workers (I believe I'm somewhat in that category), which you contrast with careless people. These two characteristics are only partially linked and you might want to optimize both, at the cost of effort and time during hiring.
Yeah, but that's still two gestures instead of one.
I'm sure scientists could find a way to use this data. What I'd call pseudoscience is people online sharing photos of clouds and then stocking on water and food. You are right that it is scientific, but it's dangerous to make claims like this.
Fine for state and house/state elections, but doesn't work for presidential elections. Splitting the EC below a strict majority of EVs sends the election to the House.
lockpickinglawyer is also a great channel
I'm not an expert at all, but from what I've read about the C standard and how compilers interpret it, it seems dangerous to implement things like this (constant time integer multiplication) as C macros.

It should probably be done in (inline) assembly, to avoid the compiler optimizing away the extra "pointless" bits for instance. Just because a favorite compiler doesn't do it today, doesn't mean it's safe.

I'm sure the actual authors of code like this have analyzed the resulting code and know more than I do about the safety of the operations involved, but I didn't see that covered in the article.
Adding pv to a tar|ssh pipeline is simpler than just passing -P to rsync? I must disagree.
You can tax fuel burned inside european airspace instead of fuel at rest once arrived at the airport.

Also :

>EU countries can end the decades-long exemption and tax kerosene on flights between them, according to legal experts. This could either be done at EU level through a series of bilateral agreements or by agreement between individual countries, the independent legal analysis for green NGO federation Transport & Environment (T&E) finds. The old argument that foreign carriers’ operating within the EU – de facto a small number of flights – can’t be taxed can be overcome by introducing a de minimis threshold below which fuel burn would not be taxed.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/taxing-avi...
The border between Morocco and Algeria is closed. So, even with that tunnel, travel from Europe to Algeria would only be possible by air or ferry.
Keep in mind that this report has come about with zero peer reviewing (I think it's a little strange it's been published by the ARRL to be honest), and another thing that is missing is that it needs to be correlated with solar activity, operator activity, local noise, and even thunderstorm activity, among other influences, before one can validate a change in HF propagation is a precursor to earthquakes.
I can go to BestBuy and get a 1TB SSD for $140. Is there any reason to pay $200 more for the MacBook Pros with bigger SSDs, rather that buying the drive separately?
Study: Removing children's tonsils and adenoids increases risk for 28 diseases
This is, as I understand it, the goal. I mentioned this in a different comment, but getting companies to think of unsecured consumer data as a liability is absolutely key to getting them to take privacy seriously. Companies need to consciously decide if the risk of accruing this data is worth the downside. Pre-gdpr there was functionally no downside at all.
This is common in Amateur Radio where several folks pool resources to run repeaters which are often too expensive or complicated for just one person to run and manage.
I simply ordered one with the official power supply(at £8 it's cheaper than literally any branded USB-C charger) and would never even know there was an issue if not for the articles here.
La cy ten

Also out of order packets and drops.
The last time we listened to the lawman he was an idiot who compromised user safety. I can just imagine a world where I have to use Dual EC DPRG or follow requirements to rotate passwords. Obviously I, and most software engineers, were smart enough to not do these things but when you’ll send us to jail for not doing the mandated thing, people will do the mandated thing even if they know better.
I'm not complaining about the drag. I'm complaining that I have to tap once to open the slider and then drag it. Whereas it was easier just to have two buttons, one for increment, and one for decrement, that I could just tap or hold down.
They chose to use a standard so yes it's a problem that they didn't follow it. It's pretty cut & dry here.

Fortunately in this case it fails to 0V so it's not a dangerous or damaging failure, but still the spec literally hands you a schematic. Is it that hard to just copy it? Why did they even try to be clever and use their own design in the first place just to save a single 5.1k ohm resistor?
What is "syncing search engines"?
I feel the Touch Bar is the only fault with the MacBooks at this point. Get the F1-F12 buttons back and it's all good.
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Yeah but 99% of Apple hardware sales are dependent on Mac developers.
I hope I got you to look at a map. Maps are great. As a prize for admitting how bad you are at geography, here's a political map in Waterman's butterfly projection. - https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/waterman-butterfly/full.png
Sure. People still write code you know.

And all their Macs work for development. I wrote about 100K lines of C++ on one of those tiny MacBooks, both at my office desk and all around the world. MacBook Air is OK, but that tiny MacBook was so light I couldn't even tell if it was in my bag without checking.
Agree, I'd like to see more about traps.

I've seen some, in job descriptions, that basically say, "When applying, make sure to tell us why you love [some topic related to the job]".

When trying to hire, it's always a torrent of unqualified candidates and hunting for qualified candidates. No filter is 100% perfect; but broad filters against someone who didn't take 10 minutes to read the job description carefully is useful.
Good points. Just another tax that will be passed straight down to the consumer. Wonder why no wage growth for 10+ years? Will do nothing for the enviroment. "Better not go on that holiday because of the enviroment "
We did make a statement mostly to that effect on the dev-platform list back in April: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...

It got picked up by a handful of news outlets, but there's just a lot of news these days, so it's easy to miss things.
FWIW, there are quite a few things that haven't been added to the API, most importantly the ability to accept key events from pages where our content script isn't running.

In fact, very little has been added that has made our life easier (the main one being the search API) since we first started developing Tridactyl. Features have actually been taken away from us - notably the ability to operate on PDFs.

Not to detract from your point, though - most of the API was already there and fine in September 2017.
I don't want to touch and then slide. I want to touch or hold once and either increment or decrement those properties. That was possible with the old keys. Now I have to tap and then perform an action, even though my touchbar has plenty of real-estate.
'People complain about Electron a lot, but the primary complaint just seems to be that its bloated – carrying an entire browser engine along with something small. But like, all of our computers are already bloated, and there’s at least a 40% chance that right now I am bloated, and it doesn’t mean you should love me any less, and I think the above points I’ve raised override the lack of svelt-ness of the program. People don’t care that an application is a streamlined 3MB or a big round 200MB boy – they care that it works for them and it makes them feel good about using it.'

I think this is true in some cases, but the sorts of folk who run rsync may be more interested in performant hardware that can run on older machines than average. Then again, they'd probably opt for sticking to the command-line tool. Still a very cool project!
Perhaps without duties to investors or depositors they aren't hung up on rules and risk mitigations, specifically a banker being able to make decisions based only on their own judgement.
His name is John Lupton. It looks like he's still doing research in this area. Very interesting stuff.

Edit: here's a link to some info about his work:
http://www.physik.uni-regensburg.de/forschung/lupton/lupton/...
Proportional is different from ranked choice.

Ranked choice means you give your #1, #2, #3 pick etc. Then if your #1 loses, your vote goes to your #2. It prevents these "A vote for [minority candidate] is a vote for [enemy candidate]" situations.

Proportional means each party can elect a number of representatives proportional to the number of votes the party got.

They both empower third party candidates, but in a different way.
This.

My only qualm with Skimfeed is that its sorta spartan about secondary data. For example I love how serializer.io has article read time estimations.
They've made no commitment to extensions, but clearly are targeting this new replacement browser for version 69 in a few months.

What they haven't done is given a clear statement. Nothing about if their replacement is going to drop extension support. But every response from Mozilla has been a sidestep and that I cannot overlook.
Right now, we're in private alpha. If you have a product or service that you want to build, fill out https://darklang.com/subscribe and our CEO Ellen will get back to you to discuss and schedule an onboarding. We're not doing tire kicking yet though :)
You say "no" but that is the second option the GP was talking about.
Perfect is the enemy of better.
The fascinating bromance between Steve Jobs and Ross Perot

https://www.cake.co/conversations/DwwvjtB/the-fascinating-br...

is a fun read.
... due to the prevalence of volcanoes.
I hope so, I've heard otherwise. I was personally a filthy kid, so I'm not talking about me.
There is this project that used an RNN to generate cards' text:

https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/custo...

I think towards the end of the thread the initiator of the thread and some of the people in the impromptu community that formed around him started discussing how to generate illustrations and even did it to some extent.
It seems like regulators could just tax planes based on how much fuel they leave with, regardless of the source?
I would say a surface pro would be more useful. Or dev edition xps 13 if I were to choose.

Surface pro with the surface pen is a killer feature for note taking.
> Given that you can get from France to Algeria by land.

The border between Morocco and Algeria is closed, and Libya has been off-limits to ordinary travelers for some years now. So, no, there is no overland travel to Algeria, only plane or ferry.
You're using US statistics for some reason. Yes, Americans fly a lot. They have to visit family in a giant country with terrible rail travel options. That's why "the holidays" are far and away the busiest travel months in the US. Those trips aren't for whatever yuppie experiences you seem to look down on, but mostly to visit mom and dad.

I'd like to know how many air miles are used globally for business versus leisure. But the larger point is that business travel is mostly pointless. You can attend a meeting remotely. You can't hug your mother remotely, or sit on the beaches of Tulum remotely.
I'm a big fan of this. Probably 90% of the time the tldr summary has my use-case covered.
Same here. For that price, anything else I could get would probably turn out to be a half-broken counterfeit garbage that might burn my house down. I'm considering buying an additional charger from them just to have a spare for my other USB-C devices.
Benchmark performance analysis of accuracy and speed on AVR platforms would indeed be very interesting and an actual, possible, immediate implementation scenario...
Do people use Hackintoshes on other laptops or is that still an exercise in frustration? The main reason at this point I still use MBP's (apart from employers buying them) is macOS.
You can use this bash one-liner to enumerate all same-calendar-years of 2019 between 1900 and 2100.

$ printf '%d\n' {1900..2100} | while read year; do printf "$year %s\n" $(cal $year | sed 1d | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1) ; done | grep "$(cal 2019 | sed 1d | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs
1901 1907 1918 1929 1935 1946 1957 1963 1974 1985 1991 2002 2013 2019 2030 2041 2047 2058 2069 2075 2086 2097
Thanks for the update. It's been a long time since I've seen this brought up here.
You can plug a 5 amp rated extension cord into a residential plug on a 15A breaker and the breaker won’t protect you from overloading the cable with 15A. So yes, those sorts of light duty cables have their own fuse to prevent this.

But I really would not trust all the no-name vendors flooding the market with shitty USB cables to include correct safety measures in all of their cables, so requiring cables to specifically request higher power levels seems like a better precaution to rely on in this case.
Harvest Reaper – automated time tracking for Google Cal and Harvest
Yeah, timespec (or time_interval) is a proper way to go, but it is quite a pain to work with -- you need a library even if you just want to subtract the numbers.

On the other hand, floating-point time is pretty common in scripting languages -- for example Python has time.time(); ruby has Time.now.to_f. It is not perfect, but great for smaller scripts: fool proof (except for the precision loss), roundtrips via any serialization format, and easy to understand. And no timezone problems at all!
Basically, over-engineering.

One example, sometimes DRY'ing up things that just happen to use the same logic now, but don't existentially/necessarily use the same logic. When they stop using the same logic, you add extra 'magic flags', or you've got to undo the architecture.

Sandi Metz says "prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction
". https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti... She also writes about how devs are reluctant to change existing abstractions (for both rational and irrational reasons), making the wrong abstraction even more expensive.

Which isn't to say that lots of duplication all over the place is a good sign either, obviously not.
A pittance of a tax won't reduce carbon emissions. Depending on where it goes, it might maybe make other means of transportation a bit nicer.

To actively reduce carbon emissions, you'd have to actually make the cost of a short flight much more expensive.

Also, since not all flights can be replaced with lower emission travels (long, intercontinental flights), you'd have to tax them out to the point that people simply stop coming to Europe.

You might maybe get a half of a percentage of global CO2 emissions cut that way. Maybe. In either case, the current growth rate of emissions far eclipses that, so it is at best virtue signalling. At worst, you are punishing poor people for being too poor to afford the high rates, while at the same time bringing in less tax revenue because only a few rich people are flying.
Using ML to derive news sentiment for stocks
I was responding to someone advocating proportional as better than RCV with my opinions about proportional voting.
Probably don't want to advertise using Zoom right now LOL
I've responded above.
> if drastic shifts in disposable consumerism don’t occur soon.

Now the question is how to achieve the drastic shift. The popular opinion is that we need to vote in the right politicians and the change should come from the top. I used to think this way for a long time. I've changed my opinion recently. Think about any significant societal change in the last century or so. Women suffrage, civil rights movement, anti-war movement, gay rights. None of these changes have come from the top. None were initiated by the parliament. They all started as a popular rebellion, direct action and civil disobedience.
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Meanwhile Ms is doing a lot to cater to developers needs with WSL2 and a new terminal coming out. That will close most of the usability gap it had to MacOS.
This 5% is released by a small minority of people. What is interesting is not how much flying consumes, but how much of one's emissions is generated by flying.
I believe rsync can do two of your doesn't do list:

> And then it doesn't give you a good progress bar

rsync --progress

> let you resume interrupted operations

rsync --partial

...or enable both at the same time with rsync -P

(These features only available on samba.org's original rsync, and not OpenBSD openrsync[1], but I don't think openrsync has seen a widespread use yet, as it's still pretty new)

[1]: https://www.openrsync.org
Automation's effects on optimal job transitions and reskilling
Couldn't upvote more, but Trump did succeed at show business. Have to give him that. Every platform is a stage for him.
Mizar Language and Proof Assistant
Plenty of people lived past 40, people always include infant mortality in life expectancy statistics and it skews people's image of how long people who became adults lived.
My gf worked for Coursera for a while so I tried some of their courses. The big win for me was that every one I tried included a full transcript. So my use model was to simply read the transcripts and if I didn't understand something I clicked on the text which would jump to that point in the video.

But in general for the stuff I want to learn I prefer to read a book, which is harder to find for really recent stuff like this.
For those of you who've remapped Caps Lock as Escape, what do you do when you need to type a long string of capital letters? Do you have some other key combination mapped to caps lock, or do you just hold shift the whole time?
A consumer does not solder USB connectors together with magnet wire.

Power plug compatibility which relies on software for fire safety is a bad idea.
Locked behind a paywall for me.
Great maybe theyll deliver the 8gb model while theyre at it
A different source with the same news: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/ibm-closes-its-34-billion-ac... .