skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I heartily agree in not forcing the child into a method, it very much matters when they learn to read. Reading is a tool more than a skill. Having the tool earlier is hugely valuable (provided they don't hate it as a consequence.)

A reading child can begin to write and type earlier. They can be exposed to complex computer use instead of simplified apps. They can use more advanced materials to learn other skills earlier. They can gain a ton of knowledge from the extra years of reading. And even if they cannot understand much at 4 (which of course depends on the kid), they can at 7 or 8 - being fluent readers by then gives them the advantage of consuming many extra books and richer ones.

There are also psychological components. Until school starts the parents have significant influence over 'cool' skills, important values, 'fun' things to do, etc. Schools rarely breed love of learning and peers often push away from it. Learning at 7 creates risks of it being perceived as less cool or being consumed by other activities and not catching. The time before school is hugely valuable imo. And reading earlier gives the parent another tool to teach by providing books.

It is true that the earlier you start the more time teaching takes. But this time isn't only teaching reading. It is excellent bonding time if you don't turn it into an authoritarian war zone. It teaches focus, overcoming obstacles, etc. On the whole, I think it at least holds its own with other activities parents spend time on with their toddlers. The bulk of the challenge is getting the kid on board. Buy-in and motivation matter far more than any specific method since without them the risk of the effort hurting the relationship or their love of learning is too high.

I used a method of my own making. It probably wasn't the most efficient, but it was always tuned to the kid. My oldest was fully decoding in late twos and reads a ton now in late sevens. He naturally memorized words and we added phonetics later. My youngest is decoding short words with basic sounds in the early threes. He is not a fan of memorizing, but took to phonics naturally.
Firefox private session can leak personal data
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Given that you can get from France to Algeria by land and there are extensive rail networks across all the connecting regions, including extensive rail networks in Algeria itself, built originally by the French, I would be amused to know how you came up with this conclusion.
Was really interested in reading this perspective, to be disappointed by a Medium paywall. A shame, as it seems like a contrarian point of view.
Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4
No. Don't go looking for reasons to use public key where the underlying design doesn't necessitate it.
When was the last time you took a train from Paris to New York?
It's just a personal preference, I guess, but I use an iMac + a gaming Windows 10 PC daily, and then a Linux laptop occasionally, and to me there is no comparison. The Mac and Linux systems are much preferable to Windows 10. I'm no fanboy, and generally dislike fanboyism in general. I have qualms with both Apple and Microsoft, and frustrations with Linux sometimes. But when the dust settles, I strongly prefer MacOS and Linux

I also think that Windows has worsened over time. Both 7 and 10 have their own pros and cons, but I feel 10 is just worse overall as an experience. There's so much unnecessary extra bloat (apps, UI, settings in two different places, annoying notifications) and weird UI mismatches. At least 7 felt mostly internally "consistent".
"traps" comment is attracting a lot of flak in comments here - easy to understand why, it gives the sense of being set up for failure.

I'd love to see OP expand on this point as I feel the wording distracts from the main point, which is a subtle test of someone's attention to detail and / or facility with written communication, both of which are important for remote work, where 'over-the-desk' clarifications are not available
Dan Pink’s TED talk on motivation speaks about this: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation/transcript?...

Human beings are complex, love doing interesting (to us) things, love being in the flow, love contributing to others and hate the feeling of being ordered around or obviously manipulated into something we don’t like.
> They likely compared the binnary64 with posit16 using the accumulator (aka quire).

Which I always find deceptiv because nothing stops us from using a quire with classical floating point arithmetic.

It is in fact a comparaison betwen a summation and a compensated summation : it is more precise because the algorithm is different not because of posits or floats.

They tell you that the quire is even faster than a traditional sum while being more precise but reading the associated reference reveals that it only hold with specific hardware which could also be used to use the quire with floats.

(and, arguably, I would love to know that every programmer is aware of a solid implementation of compensated/exact summation/dot-product and uses it when appropriate)
Will flights still be cheaper than trains?
> Hiring a remote team is not an easy task, but if you believe it’s for you, you will cope with it. Good luck!

The best I can hope for is "coping"? Doesn't sound so inspiring!
OIL+VCache: File abstraction for distributed systems
Seconded, awesome book about human tissue regeneration.

Michael Levin's lab is doing mindblowing stuff: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
Marriot has time travel technology? The breach happened before acquisition by Marriott. Their failure to discover it before and take sufficient action subsequently is what got them in trouble.
Also read: clear gifs / web beacons

You may see this in your email to track how many times you open newsletters and other items.
Also known by the public as "shortwave radio" (although only a part of the HF spectrum is used for commercial broadcasting, but HF and shortwave is essentially used interchangeably).
The Cassandra Metaphor
GDPR doesn't apply to companies still in the "Move fast, break things" phase.
And it works beautifully, I can certainly recommend it for things like this.
It seems like there will be no 69..
The idea isn't to prevent all air travel.
Thanks for the info!

I still don't fully understand _why_ they had to do this hack if they own the localhost server. They could just set CORS to be '*' and lax their CSP. Then they would be able to get data with JS.

For example this website can see any localserver on your network with open CORS since it appears they laxed their CSP.

http://http.jameshfisher.com/2019/05/26/i-can-see-your-local...
All interesting points, the reason I hate class clutter is especially because of debugging/understanding. I don't want to have to spend a long time building a mental hierarchy of classes and what they do just to figure why a link doesn't have the right URI. Essentially, people use classes to achieve magic code. Code that's very, very convenient when it works, but is monstrous to debug when it doesn't. Especially if the code isn't something you're familiar with.
The Stress of Making the Right Choice
Huw Edwards is Welsh, from a Welsh speaking family. English is his second language, so I wouldn't put too much stock in his accent being indicative of clipped RP.
Trains in France are State-owned and heavily indebted, so more money would just mean reducing some of that debt; even then, the amount of money expected to be taxed (~200 M€) is nothing compared to the national railway budget, which is around 30-40B €.
Why is it regressive?

You don't need to fly in western Europe, and anyway the charge increases for more expensive classes.

I'm not even sure that carbon taxes overall are regressive. Can't afford a car? Your transport is lower carbon. Drive a small car because you cant afford a large one? Your transport is lower carbon. Cant afford air con, cant afford heating, a new phone every year...

Yes there are edge cases, not being able to afford insulation, an energy efficient fridge or car or whatever but I would guess your average poor person has a lower carbon footprint than your average rich person.
Like, existing deals, you mean?
This will be great to use on the Librem 5 when it's released!
(https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/)
Taxes also exist to incentivize desired behavior.

See: Solar, EV tax credits
The question is about the "all the protections it can" part - what does that imply? Because "all the protections" can include user hostile (not just in terms of usability) misfeatures that give control to OS vendors in the name of security even though the real purpose is controlling what the users can do with their own devices (for a variety of reasons, with stuff like market segregation and forced obsolescence being among the more benign ones).
I'm also not optimistic, but I do expect that IBM leadership can understand a balance sheet. Red Hat has almost no IP, given the nature of open source development. They have a few billion in assets [0], tack on a few more for existing client relationships, brand recognition, and future revenues. $34B is a massive premium over that, so what is IBM buying? IBM's people and processes have failed to develop successful cloud strategy, and not for lack of trying. Red Hat's people and processes have succeeded, so presumably that's what they're paying all that money for. I'm hoping it's obvious to IBM that they shouldn't meddle and squander what they've bought.

[0]: https://investors.redhat.com/financial-information/financial...
Public statements are garbage and just sales pitches to reassure investors.
Unless Red Hat's deal legally mandated things stay a certain way in actual words written in a contract, then it's literally nothing and IBM can gut the place tomorrow if they wanted to.
This happens all the time with acquisitions. Most notable is TravisCI firing what, most of their senior staff 6 months after acquisition?
I think he's referring to union dues. One of the jobs of a union is to advocate for their workers. But that requires paying somebody to do it, preferably without having them on the corporate payroll (and thus subject to management's orders).
I think yelp is another site.
Let's not fool anyone here, europe is plagued with low cost airline companies, the vast majority of flights are for leisure. The alternative to slowly destroying the world for leisure related flights is to not travel.

I can buy TWO berlin<>mallorca round trips for the same price as a single taxi trip from berlin to the airport.

https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en#flt=/m/0156q./m/0jwz5.2...
And instead of a bible, we have evidence ;)
Not all software is "your service" that you can "take down" to install changes; there are cases in which there are multiple deployments with essentially independent and different configuration data that cannot be part of program code.

A popular example: the Git client, which stores layered configuration files for repositories, users and installations including, for instance, local file names (such as diff tools) and user identities.

Git also serves as an example of how the line between configuration files and data can be blurred: it's customary to put in Git repositories .gitignore and other similar additional configuration files because it's useful and the software only cares about their presence, not their management.
But.. they do, though. You can (and people do) make a very targeted ad, then query what users matched with it, and so on until you've sufficient data for your purposes. Plus you can use their public APIs to then match their ad data with the users public information. Facebook knows this, and does not prevent it (by hiding user identifiers for instance) because it's part of their strategy.
> There's no alternative to burning fuel by energy density on an airline, so why go after flights?

It is still very early but there are projects working on electric flight.
I'd definitely like to know more about the project.

Why did your friend choose to send data over SMS? Why was AT&T upset at his project?
I disagree strongly. I saw time over time what happens to the team when even just a single (new) coworker starts to act hostile, ruins the general mood or just doesn't click with the way the rest of the team interacts... and it can really distrupt the collaboration effort in a deep but hard to notice way.
Benefits of TypeScript with React, Structuring React Apps and Next.js 9 (WoR#63)
Regardless of the origin, it was a clearly a protest that resonated with a significant part of society.

I find it hard to compare with a tax that will mostly affect people flying abroad for tourism and expenses-paid business travelers.
It's just a colorful name.

A sin tax is nothing more than an opinionated Pigouvian tax.
Your Google blurb is:
"This site uses cookies, if you continue browsing you consent to the use of these cookies. For more information see our Cookie Policy. Got it!".

It might be worth switching that for a description of your website.

Seems like an interesting startup, though!
Working with those "whom [you] wouldn't invite for coffee" ... I think you may have an incomplete take on the charitable view of that statement. I don't think it is inherently toxic. I view it as working with those you can have a pleasant interaction with. A cohesive workforce, especially in a smaller group, is a boon to productivity and enjoyment. If you have to spend the majority of your day interacting with someone who you couldn't even get through a casual sit down with, that sounds like hell.
ICO Set to Fine Marriott International £99m for 2018 Data Breach
In the readme I see:

The following are runtime requirements:
gjs (>= 1.52)
webkit2gtk

So my guess is that it's just using webkit for the html rendering.
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"Sin Taxes" are not meant to literally tax sins but to tax behaviours with negative consequences that where the price is ultimately bourne by society. For example, the cost of second hand smoke is bourne by others, and when they get sick, many times by taxpayers. The cost of alcohol is partly bourne by a variety of parties.

"Sin Taxes" are not meant to discourage literal sins but to discourage such activities with external costs. Many argue sugar should also be added to the list of "sins" though of course it is not Biblically a sin.
A common misconception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tIdzNlExrw
Yes the World Does Need a LinkedIn for Women
America’s Cars Are Heavily Subsidized, Dangerous, and Mandatory
The GlaswegAsians, the early migrants who helped shape the city
It's the first time I hear that, and that would be quite surprising since farmers do not pay taxes on the diesel they use.
Democratizing Data Analysis with Google BigQuery
That's a totally valid point, and perhaps I am too optimistic. I do think that a company with the right values could do that properly, but most don't, including best ones I have worked for.
>Except that trains don't have the same possible destinations

I do not know of a commercial airport without a train station. There do however appear to be plenty of rail stations that do not have airports.

>you can't (easily) take a train to a destination outside EU.

Britain is about to test this theory. But also, that is nonsense. Passenger trains leave and enter the EU all the time.
> Red Hat is a huge cornerstone

Indeed since in another thread recently, folks pointed out that RH had taken over core functions, such as systemd, pulseaudio, dbus, gnome, wayland, significant share of kernel, etc.
Another piracy incentive for people who prefer the original over the typically low-effort translation. Even applies when the original is in a third language, the English translation tends to be higher quality (for a multitude of reasons).

Guess it's another instance of "why we can't have nice things".
README mentions a dependency on webkit2gtk, probably only for the ebook rendering but it's not far from electron in that case.
Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
LAPD pioneered predicting crime with data, but many police don’t think it works
Show HN:[BETA] Chatbot for sending physical poscards from whatsapp
The best time is the summer; the hotter the better. These sheep can go for weeks without water when it's cool. When it's hot, they need to come to water every 3 days or so. So, when it's hot, we set up shop near the watering holes and wait.
Guidelines for low-level cryptography software
> they’re regressive

Nothing a cheque can’t solve.

And by taxing carbon, you get the added benefit of reducing some other tax, like the regressive nature of income taxes (ie: taxing people that have to work because they didn’t inherit/afford capital assets)
I am shocked firefox still has such gaping privacy holes:

It's just one of many:
https://samy.pl/evercookie/

In the old discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231039) it was revealed that some parties were sued and settled for $500,000. Relatedly British Airways was just fined £183m. That's a beginning.
I took a plane from Lisbon to Paris for 35 euros last week. That feels incredibly cheap to me, especially compared to high-speed train. I routinely pay twice as much to get not even half as far by TGV. Making train more competitive by taxing planes more might not be a terrible idea. I say might because I can't pretend to even begin to understand all the implications of this tax but hopefully whoever came up with it did...
Last i checked the mediterranean was still there.
Its not a religious thing just a turn of phrase, Sin taxes are typically high taxes on unhealthy things to discourage their use.
I don't know its origin but its common in the UK.
This will happen naturally during the negotation and interview process and it will look a lot more like "real work" than any trap, trick or quiz. Are they effectively writing emails as you have your back and forth? Do they ask good clarifying questions? What do they do with their contract once it's sent to them?

Actually getting someone in the door requires a lot of work on both sides of the table. It's a perfect and natural way to vet what it's like to work with someone.
I don't understand Mozilla's position regarding extensions. First, they released a new desktop version with way less extension support, gimping the largest reason I use FF for - vimperator and it's successors.

Now they are going to kill extensions in Android FF, which will kill the only non-ideological reason my family is using it - for the adblocking extensions.
Your name makes this incredibly amusing. Thankfully the US is more than just California and rail is functioning on the opposite side of the country. It's a shame that things can't be done but this is the system "working".
> note that inflation is actually a tax on wealth

I thought so as well, initially. But it only taxes a very specific form of wealth... money. As such this tax probably disproportionally affects those unable to transfer their wealth into other forms. Probably once again mostly the poor. Still a valuable tool, but not the great solution I once thought it to be.
This completely depend on your hair type and skin type. Some of us end up with limp oily clumps of hair if we don't wash it every 1-2 days.
It's really strange how little detail they're providing here. How are other UK businesses looking at this supposed to know what level of security is expected of them?
Sad to see the 12” go. It’s the portable that makes sense to me, saving a lot of weight and shaving almost too much power for that goal. Meanwhile the air just seems like a 13” not-pro.
This is even crazier, because a webpage could load the iframe or img tag lazily, long after the page has been opened and is in the background because the user left the tab open, and the user would have no way of knowing which page is responsible for opening Zoom.

Furthermore, in Chrome, the webpage can set a timeout which brings the browser window back into focus. So for example, if Zoom usually takes about 1 second to open, then the browser could set the timeout for 1100ms, so that zoom is only visible to the user for a split second before it's backgrounded with their camera enabled. Either of the following will bring Chrome back to the foreground:

setTimeout( function() { alert("Hi") }, 1100)

setTimeout( function() { var win = window.open("https://www.google.com", '_blank'); win.focus(); window.close() }, 1100)

The latter is a little less of an alert to the user that something has happened, since it could be used to reload the current page without the offending image or iframe tag, which would look to the user like the page just randomly reloaded itself.
Ask why they lied to the EU when they said they couldn't merge WhatsApp's data with Facebook's data.

When they knew they could.
It's quite an established term and not just used by Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_tax
> I'd really recommend you take another look at Mutt

I think I will do that.

> Notifications can be configured to do pretty much whatever you want (by invoking a command when new mail arrives)

My understanding was that was pretty trivial to have going using notify-send and aplay

https://neomutt.org/feature/new-mail

> Multi-account support works well (currently have it hooked up to my personal and work accounts simultaneously)

Admittedly when I looked at it was pre neomutt days, I seem to remember there being a special sidebar patch that upstream refused to use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPiQuWbF57M Mutt Wizard Published on Apr 25, 2019

In that video he demonstrates a loose script that he's developed https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard, it might be a good way for me to dip my feet in it and learn about all the components.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvc-pHjbhdE he did a video on calcurse too..

Sorry for the gaudy 4chan-style meme stuff. That's not my thing either but the videos are very succinct and he seems to be a good speaker.

> Developed by a community

Yes, this important to me and more likely to make me help out.

> The visual component of HTML mail is irrelevant 99% of the time. A reasonable textual interpretation can be generated by piping the message through `w3m --dump`, a process which can happen automatically inside mutt when viewing those messages with no action required on your part. If you absolutely must see the formatted message with images and such, this is only a keystroke away.

Very true, most of the email i receive is plain text, sometimes its not, but with minimal formatting. Theoretically it should be possible to view these HTML emails in Firefox should it not?

> There's a lot of initial configuration to do, granted, but you only need to do it once. Then you stick your mutt directory up on github or similar, and never need to do it again. Setting up a new or different machine is a clone away.

This.... the main reason I like plaintext configs.
>ensure its security, just like they would do with any other asset.

This motivation is asinine. Record leaks don't do anything to harm the original records and it's not like Marriott's secret sauce is a list of customer records. Companies don't protect assets from things that don't cause the assets harm.

Personal data does not have value to the company in that regard. It's a liability more than an asset.