skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those brochures are literally ads.
You are paying this much because of many reasons non of them is why the rest of the world does not pay its fair share.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08061...
It's IBM. They're retarded enough to think this will work.
It should support ChucK[1] for easy editing and prototyping, that would be a great integration!

[1] https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
Actually it was money changers not lenders. The temple in Jerusalem had its own currency separate from the local and Roman currencies and all purchases around the temple required its use. It was essentially a a mix of extortion and racketeering, where if the people wanted to fallow their religion and fulfil their religious obligations they had to buy sacrifices (sheep, oxen or doves depending) from the temple in temple money which had a horrible exchange rate. Technically the people could bring their own but if they did that it had to be inspected approved to be healthy clean etc, and if it didn't meet standards it could not be used as a sacrifice. However The temple would buy it off at a cut rate as it has obviously inferior...
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If I haven't explicitly told you I want your email, and you haven't confirmed that choice,and you send me email then you are spamming.

In the UK if I haven't bought anything from you and I haven't asked you to email me and you email me then you may be breaking the law.
Maybe check out the lasercube for a laser you can program
https://wickedlasers.com/cube
Please don't respond to a bad comment with a personal attack. That only makes this place even worse.

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As much as I see the fight against the global warming the most urgent and existential problem we are facing, it is important to do the right things to fight global warming. So, how much energy is used when creating a cloth bag? How does this compare to a single drive with a car to the groceries store? Is this anything that matters in comparison to driving, flying, heating, producing electricity?

Personally, I have a "consumption" of less than 1 cloth bag per year, I fear I commit worse sins to the climate than that during that year.
> Getting 1-2 extra emails isn't the end of the world: it's good enough for the company, you get off the list, they don't have to think about that unprofitable problem any further.

If I receive any further e-mails after unsubscribing, I mark them as spam. I don't think I'm the only one who does. That should be some incentive against sloppy unsubscribing mechanisms.
It's far more authoritarian to promote industries that spend outrageous sums on manipulating people into harming their own health, with incredibly expensive social and personal consequences.

It's absolutely and completely false to frame this as a government vs individual issue. It's actually corporate propaganda vs the individual.

No one who supports individual freedom has any business encouraging corporate propaganda, because it's the psychological equivalent of sugar - absolutely toxic to genuine free choice.

Big Tobacco has already discovered this strategy doesn't work in the long term. Big Pharma is catching up slowly. (Ask the Sacklers.)

Big Sugar is still lagging behind, but it's only a matter of time.
This is an increasingly popular narrative, but it isn't entirely true. The trams of the 1950s were not well loved by everyone because they were alternatively burning hot or frigid cold, they forced all manner of people to squeeze together or hang on the outside as shown in the pictures, and at that time the system had fallen into disrepair during the war and had such deferred maintenance that it was necessary to either rebuild or ditch the system altogether.

Being honest about the limitations of the system and its lack of strong popularity helps explain very much. At that time cars were still relatively new so that all the downsides of traffic and freeways were not yet understood. It is also worth noting that modern trams deliver a much more refined experience not only from their own improvements but also from the traffic signal control integration that many newer tram lines enjoy. That kind of system was not available for trams of the 1950s and so they were slower in traffic.
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Isn't this simply suppy-demand economics?

Have you ever seen a comment on HN to the effect of "yeah, if you are in the US and not already working for one of the big tech companies, at this point that just means you are not good enough to be working for them" (implying they should have been interviewing there as frequently as possible until they land in one of them, and also that every other software job falls well short in terms of compensation - implying some kind of additional stupidity on your part if you don't aspire to work for big tech).

Today it is IBM - tomorrow, it is going to be every other company whose coolness falls short of the big tech companies. I wonder what alternative IBM really had?
Hmm, fair enough. In either case, though, I suppose it's fair to conclude that the original statement I was responding to is correct about overall costs (i.e. it is not, in fact, clear)

FWIW though, I think it might still be the right decision to go paper over plastic because of the accidental risk. I can't really control all downstream uses of my plastic bag once it's in the bin.
It doesn't help.
Since the relative position to the sun changes pretty slowly, I imagine they would need to wait half a year to raise the current periapsis. I doubt this is a sail that allows to beat to "wind"-ward.
I used Perl for a bit but switched to Python because I was finding it harder to work out what some code I'd written a year or so ago did than to write it again, a problem I don't have with Python.
The same John Kennedy who lectured Zuckerberg? :/

It's really annoying. I want to be on his side and then this happens
It used to be that these categories had very different roles. Nowadays, NATO defines these categories based on size. Well, technically the water displaced by the hull. The main difference is in how many missiles a given category can carry and how much a ship of that size costs.

Battleships only exist as mothballed reserves. A battleship was one of the largest ships in the fleet with massive guns and super thick armor. It was meant to fight in the major fleet vs. fleet battles. The name stems form "line of battle ship", because these ships were typically arrayed in a line starting back in the late middle ages. When WW2 showed that airplanes and missiles had made big guns and armor redundant, battleships were relegated to being giant anti-air plattforms that escorted the aircraft carriers. No one built any new ones since then, though "missile battleships" were studied for a while.

A massive step down in size are cruisers, who used to be ships that operated independently form the fleet. There are very few of those around nowadays and they tend to be the core of a fleet instead of cruising alone. You will often see them armed with hundreds of anti-ship missiles nowadays.

The next step down are destroyers, which are still fleet escorts (mostly against aircraft, hence Air Warfare Destroyer) in the major navies and have also taken up the role of going on independent operations. This is because smaller navies tend to not have any destroyers or bigger ships, so sending one destroyer armed with say 64 missiles can be sufficient. A destroyer used to be a relatively small ship that had the job of defending the fleet against other small ships like torpedoboats or submarines. The name stems from "torpedoboat destroyer".

The next smaller categories is frigates. These are the most numerous and are the workhorses of modern navies. They do convoy escort, but also defend bigger fleets from submarines. Many navies also send them on independent missions. They will tend to have 16 or 32 missiles, but won't typically have the big anti air radar a destroyer would. "Frigate" was the name used for sailing ships that couldn't stand in the line of battle. I.e. in say 1750 there would be only two categories: line'o'battleships and frigates.

Those categories are the major ocean-going combat ships. There are lots of smaller ships below that and a lot of support ships, too.
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I'd like to get some further sources. Below is what Wikipedia has to say about Danish credit scoring[1] (emphasis mine) I know there are databases the store your information if you have defaulted your loans, but that is (to me) very different thing to actual credit scoring, which obviously any entity in credit business is and should be doing. I would be very keen to know (some of) the companies that sell actual credit scores of individual people in (mainland) Europe, and possibly shoot a GDPR request at them.

The Wikipedia snippet:

The credit scoring is widely used in Denmark by the banks and a number of private companies within telco and others. The credit scoring is split in two:

Private: The probability of defaulting
Businesses: The probability of bankruptcy

For privates, the credit scoring is always made by the creditor. For businesses it is either made by the creditor or by a third party.

There are a few companies who have specialized in developing credit scorecards in Denmark:

Experian (generic rating for business)
Bisnode (generic rating for business)

The credit scorecards in Denmark are mainly based on information provided by the applicant and publicly available data. It is very restricted by legislation compared to its neighbouring countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score#Denmark
Honestly, if you ask just about anyone in the community you'll find the general agreement is that PrEP does result in the decreased use of condoms, so it's not surprising that there is a general increase of other STDs.

But as more people start using PrEP and get tested regularly due to the general requirements, it is possible that STD rates will decline, but we're probably a few years away from seeing that in the statistics.
I can't see much discussion of the nature of these plants and seems to miss some interesting stuff (unless I missed it), so here's my recollection from reading around.

The 'trees' were club mosses, not trees. Moss as in moss in the usual sense, except got big. One common sort was lepidodendron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidodendron). Note the distinct scale pattern on the trunks.

Absolutely fascinatingly to me, the descendents of these may still exist as quillwort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoetes).
Thanks for the critique. I'll consider how to discharge some of the unnecessarily loaded parts - it wasn't my intention to push emotional buttons here, though it's hard to avoid doing that by accident given that I have strongly negative emotions to the topic I've covered.

However:

> Riddling your text with things like how advertising "infects", "destroys", "corrupts", is "industrial scale abuse" and so on, is loaded language that's not conducive to debate.

I used those terms not because of their emotional implications, but because I believe they are accurate in terms of actual mechanics. When some aspect of our daily lives, which used to work perfectly well without ads, start to accumulate them until the point they no longer can exist without them, I feel the terms "infection" and "corruption" are apt.
If the difference between amateurs and professionals was whether they were paid or not; the article’s statements would be wholly nonsensical
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I think what makes people weird in an undesirable sense is when they wish to set themselves apart from others. Creating a maternity home for the exclusive selection of women to produce your own children is disturbing.

As far as I can tell, Epstein was so rich he paid the foremost scientists to attend dinner so he can troll them. Or worse, he actually believed in what he says, but only his closest associates can vouch for him.
Please do not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. That's exactly what we don't want here.

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Einstein got a Bachelors in 1900, a PhD in 1905 and was a lecturer at Bern by 1908, he held a series of prestigious positions over the following 20 years. After he emmigrated to America in '30s he worked at Princeton. I don't know how anyone could assert that Einstein wasn't a professional physicist.
> "They just got convinced by what was going on overseas, what the Americans were doing ... It was the wrong decision. I think we’ve always regretted that."

That final line struck a bit of a nerve. It always feels like Australia just sits around waiting to see what America's stance is on <political thing> and then try to follow suit.

Notable examples: immigration, data privacy, climate change, extensive privatisation in recent years.

(Notable counter-examples: gun control, healthcare)

I'm interested to know if this is just my own biased perception based on media and news exposure though.
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Paper bags?
Such a great news to read in the morning. It’s good to hear this is happening in the UK.

I personally use a couple of bigger foldable plastic boxes and some cotton bags for good measure.

The boxes can carry up to 25kg each, easily fit in a car, and I always have one of them, with some cotton bags, in the car. I had these boxes for 3 years or so. Haven’t used plastic bags in years!
> That's a good advice unless "being yourself" sucks. "Be yourself" is non-advice

That's not objective though, "you suck" is entirely subjective, it also depends on context and, in the end, if someone you work with thinks you suck, just talk to them.

> Some aspects of yourself aren't really working in some environments

So change environment, because sooner or later they will show up.

And if you repress them, they will show up amplified.
Is that what happened? Makes sense. Back in 1999-ish I was a software programmer for a regional ISP. We served the San Francisco-San Jose-Monterey-San Luis Obispo areas. We did dial-up, DSL, ISDN, T-1, 3, OC, wireless (certain areas). We also had a data center and offered a lot of so-called “cloud” services, before it was a buzzword. We did a lot of cool things. But after I left it seemed like the company died when the big ISPs took over.
In one of the states in India, they banned plastic. But in a few months, the ban is in-effective. I really think to charge a small price for buying plastics is a better way than to ban
That's a gross misunderstanding of what the study actually shows: https://twitter.com/arthurhcyip/status/1115749675762581504
Shouldn't matter if it punches through so long as it maintains contact, as it should have significantly lower resistance than your body?
Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'
Not sure the comparison to race is either fitting or appropriate here. Becoming more old undoubtedly has a negative effect on performance/productivity at some point, I don’t think the same can ever be said for becoming more black.
No ability to update the firmware manually of Netgear cable modems
Long ago I used to joke that perl is write-only... was that harsh or realistic?

(I still believe it - too clever constructions which feel smart at the time you come up with them :)
It's hard to imagine nowadays for many people, but ignorant, uninformed opinions like the one you just typed were quite rare before the internet; now they're commonplace. You're not supposed to make up stuff to defend your country, nor to parrot some crap someone else said without thinking about it. You're supposed to think about stuff and make at least a little effort to determine whether something is true, or whether someone is putting you on. It would have taken you moments to discovered the answer in this case.
I was also recently surprised when I made a service call for one of our lenovos and the replies to it came from an ibm.com address.
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I made something similar when I was in uni and had to catch a bus to get back home, but with my Pebble and a C application: next bus was one button press away and another press was all was needed to start a carefully calibrated double alarm for "start packing" and "leave" times
I believe the point is that developers don't have a say in whether some 3rd party lib gets added. Some PM gets a lunch with a vendor, they are being sold on the miraculous technology that will totally disrupt everything and that's that.
Won't all drugs targeted at microbes fail eventually? Surely they create a strong selective pressure which favours the resistant strains.

The wider and more frequently the drug is used the faster this process occurs?
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Drunk people decide it's a good idea to get in their car, drive way over the speed limit and kill people all the fucking time and no one bats an eye. They happen simply so often that we have gone to view this as natural part of everyday life. A ten-liner in the local newspaper.

Murders like you described, however, are rare (and tend to be more brutal, which in today's outrage economy means more eyeballs and more ad revenue) so they're often on national or international news.

What's also a part of the difference in media attention: when I drive drunk, veer off course and run over someone, it can and will be excused as "driver lost control due to high speed and alcohol" (=frame-able as if it were an accident), but when I stab someone while high on meth, one cannot frame it as "accident". Stabbing someone is intentional, no matter if on drugs or not, and that makes for a massive difference in perception.
Consider this: Perl codebase is reaching perfection and no longer needs releases. After this, we get eternal Perl ;)
I would also add "promote the most important message to the first sentence/paragraph". Rewriting the first example:

Hello all,

Please check and revise the priority of Redmine issue (#455) that I have created.

I noticed that there are many logs for blabla the last few days and I don't think that it is normal.
I believe the problem is the updated version of gem blabla.

Feel free to change its priority in case blabla.

Thanks,
Lazarus
"and rate of rate of increase negative"

Are you a politician? Because that's a very round about way of putting it. :P

If the rate of increase is negative, there is an actual absolute decline. Is that want you were meaning to say?
Sweden just added it like 2 weeks ago. More to come hopefully.
Thank you for posting that article - I've never read it before. There's many things John Q says in the article that resonate strongly with me.

I've never viewed my attempts at conlanging as anything more than self-indulgent art. I found the passage where John outed himself as a 'conlanger' to his work colleagues hilarious:

> “People at work now held me in some sort of state of half awe, because this guy obviously has more going on in his head than being a manager at this dopey state agency, and half in contempt, because I’ve now proved myself to be beyond whatever state of geekery they might have previously thought about me,” Quijada said. “‘You’re a what? A con man?’ ‘No, boss, a conlanger.’”

I've learned over time not to be ashamed of my hobby - in fact I'm happier to reveal to people that I invent languages than I am to admit to my other hobby: writing poetry.

It was my desire (need) to share my work with those few people who might be interested in it that first drove me to teach myself how to code up websites - so in a way my weird hobby has had a positive effect on my life: web development and coding became a new passion that has kept me out of trouble for 2 decades now, and has been my profession for the past 5 years.

Now I'm itching to redevelop my old conlang/conworld website - I haven't done much with it for 10 years; looking at the code that drives it today ... it makes me cringe with embarrassment!

http://www.rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/index.php
How about you have a shred of respect for the people whose sacred land it is and whose understanding defines what's acceptable use? Rather than being a selfish, arrogant colonialist.
> So just...don't send it? I don't see why having done prior work to compose it means that you have to send it.

So just heavily modify sendmail/qmail/whatever to maintain a list of email addresses for which it shouldn't send it?

Not associated with the grandparent, but the software likely composes and immediately "sends" the email, at which point it's going to be in MTA queue that's completely oblivious to the fact some email addresses have been unsubscribed since they entered the queue.

Overall, what you're suggesting sounds somewhat unreasonable. Once the email is "sent" (actually, added to MTA queue!), he might have no control whatsoever what the MTA does.

If you throw a stone, stopping it mid-air can be... hard. Perhaps it's doable. But is it a reasonable expectation?
I earn money for working in Clojure. And I feel it provide a huge advantage.

I do Haskell in my spare time too. Once you’re used to FP, going back to imperative languages feel like a terrible regression.
The "proxy technology" sounds more like Opera: it's not simply compressing the existing stream, it does things like aggressively recompress your images at lower quality or even size. HTTP/2 will deliver your 2MB hero image using 2MB of data. A compressing proxy will deliver a slightly uglier 100kb version.

Oh, and save a lot of data by never downloading the ads.
Never trust a politician. They will always let you down.
I have found Rust to be a nice middle-ground for this. Sure, the borrow checker takes some getting used to, but it features an ML-style type system (though I still miss some extensions to Haskell's type system available in GHC), rock-solid tooling, and a comprehensive well-documented standard library. The high quality of third-party crates also surprised me. Whether the C-like syntax is sane is debatable though.
Me too. This is exactly the area where something like Markdown should have flourished.

At worst it looks like plain text with a few _ and * characters sprinkled around, it has beautiful clean HTML output and some terminals support italic and bold fonts; win/win/win.

Pity that boat has long since sailed.
Not a lot of people know there are some great utilities for emulating low/intermittent bandwidth and slow CPU on chrome
Currently Opera, because of inertia and laziness. Originally I started using it for the free VPN and internet hipsteryness of using a less popular browser (much as I'd like to pretend otherwise, the latter is something my brain finds very appealing). I have a proper VPN setup now, but I've procrastinated switching to Firefox because of the general inconvenience associated with any browser switch and the need to for a minor rewrite on a browser extension I wrote/use.
This is a great insight. Very actionable for any cooking, home improvement etc type shows
Please don't take HN threads into dismal ideological flamewar. Look at what a wreck we got below.

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