skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I even wonder if there isn't some sort of Pavlovian response,
whenever you listen to Andy Puddicombe voice, you want to
meditate

YES. I've wondered the same, it almost seems like a waste if that's not what they're going for because it's right there.

Understand that these meditation apps (Headspace/Calm) are
mostly VC funded , and they don't only want to teach you
something, their investors also want some hockey stick
curves. There is nothing wrong with that but it also explains
how some features are designed.

I don't know if that's completely fair. Both of these seem to really be trying to go after a model where businesses buy group subscriptions as an employee wellness perk. I think there's also untapped potential in trying to team with large healthcare providers because mental health is treated in the US in one of the most cost-ineffective ways, and it isn't even especially an effective way from a patient outcome standpoint either.

Anyways -- that's just all to say that achieving hockey stick growth in a B2B model should create better alignment and it shouldn't mean that they don't want to teach you something, I'm sure lots of people with good hearts are working there & want to do good for people/users.
Lots of places offer student licenses, but any barrier is indistinguishable from the company telling you they don't want you to have it.

The other frustrating thing is student licenses usually require some affiliation with a formal school as if that is the only way folks in the world are learning.
I think you might be referring to the later protests. Before the gov. "concessions", they shut down basically a quarter of Paris.

Even without using public transportation, you could try to walk from the Louvre to Etoile for instance and get blocked as soon as at Concorde by police barricades. We went to Chatelet/Les Halles during the whole thing, and you would see protesters preparing their masks, helmets etc. and planning their path to the main place to avoid hitting the main police blocks.
I know LGBTQ people who are free-speech absolutist and others who believe that anything that may offend or otherwise may be used negatively should be censored. I know LGB people who think that the TQ+ should be peeled off and needs to be its own thing. There is no uniformity among LGBTQ, the only commonality is the lack of being hetero.
The 1994 xv codebase still compiles and runs on modern Macs with XQuartz! https://twitter.com/jmcd/status/1143629189817470977?s=20
You're comparing apples to oranges. He's not a developer, he's an entrepreneur.
Also, when a shell startup goes bankrupt, the biggest creditors are the banks that they took the loans from.
By that point, the money which was loaned by the banks entered the financial system through executive's and investor's bank accounts (since they get huge bonuses and returns on their investments) and inflated away regular people's buying power (especially real estate markets).
This inflation is felt by everyone and it's like stealing.
For human level driving a human level understanding of these scene from purely visual information is quite good enough. The first problem, though, is that the human brain has far more processing power than any computer that can fit in a car and probably more than any single computer yet constructed (estimating even to a single order of magnitude is hard). We're also leveraging millions of years of evolution though I'm not entirely sure how much of a difference that makes given how different our ancestral environment was from driving a car.

The other thing is that we, ideally, want a computer to drive a car better than a human can. There's a lot to be gained from having precise rather than approximate notions or other objects' distances and speeds in terms of driving both safely and efficiently. Now, Tesla has also got that Radar which when fused with visual data will help somewhat but I'm not sure how far that can get them.
Sounds like the typical apocalyptic activist thinking where actually helping the problem /at all/ is a bad thing because it distracts from their grandiose vision and makes their crazed plan that even they can only see happening in severe conditions - often because it involves mass murder.

I have seen far too many examples of self declared communists saying things like a $20/hr minimum wage is bad thing because it distracts from overthrowing "the oppressor".
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Dude, I was an EXPERT in Autocad from 1992 on....

I was the fastest ever to complete the ACAD design challenge (3 - hour test, finished it in 33 minutes)

I was the only person to have ever completed the autocad design interview test at the first architectural firm I worked at.... (8 minutes)

I came is second in the US CAD Olympics (only second because I skimmed the notes and it also required me to draw a bolt and I didnt notice that req in the directions)

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I love autodesk --- but I hate their arrogance. They have lightened up a bit with 360 and such....

But I am rooting for Blender.

The amount of amazing talent around the world that will blow shit up is immense.

We will see some guy from freaking thailand or something just come out with something unbelievable.

I was asked to design a rendering factory in asia for lucas film some years ago... (I was the designer for the Lucas Presidio Complex's Data Center) -- their comment was "US 3D designers are over-paid pre-madonnas and complain too much"

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So, I hope blender kicks some fucking ass and that we see some amazing shit come out from a completely unknown person as of yet.
>I wonder what kind of anime-focused features will come to the next version of Blender as a result.

Work is currently being done on the LANPR branch as part of the GSoC. This branch is meant to replace the Freestyle system which is currently used for line rendering. [0]

Otherwise we already have the "Shader to RGB" node which is extremely useful to create NPR shaders.

There's also an add-on which can be used to deform a mesh based on greasepencil strokes, I assume 2D animators would love this. [1]

If you're interested in blender NPR news I highly recommend following the BNPR Show on youtube. [2]

[0]: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Yiming/GSoC2019/Updates

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nmEjum8kg

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ETYyzrTzM&list=PLSMetEtY22...
As always, I rely on OWID

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-UN?tab...

Go to interactive mode. India and USA are already on sub-replacement. China is way under. Africa is the main reason world’s population is still growing.
I think you may not realize this, but you've been brainwashed by western propaganda (I grew up in the west, but I've been exposed to many different countries, so I understand this better now). The idea that "freedom" is the freedom for society to be controlled by large corporations and the wealthy is not the only notion of freedom, and many prefer a technocratic / meritocratic society over a plutocratic one.

I think most Chinese people understand this, as well as a sizable fraction of literate/intelligent people in the west. Unfortunately many westerns, like you, just like to turn their brain off and believe whatever their TV tells them to believe.
Here dude, https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/update-on-the-twitter-arch..., it's cool. Your comically inflammatory tweet is stuck somewhere up the US Government.
> “It’s okay,” I tell them. “This is normal. I’m not dying—I’m Polish.”

I chuckled more then I should as an east-european myself. If it's hot I do sweat a LOT.
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I think I can rephrase my opinion for either the language or concept and still agree with it. I believe Haskell has continuously become more developer friendly and may some time reach some kind of friendliness and use case support threshold that allows for a wider adoption.

I recently started looking at Haskell a couple of weeks ago after years of hiatus. The IDE support have gone from almost none-existing and/or bug ridden to almost as good as Java and the new package manager has so far been pleasant to use. Although I'm using it for small side projects so it might not be fair comparison to my day work use case.
> You're comparing apples to oranges. He's not a developer, he's an entrepreneur.

True. But still depressing...
The title notwithstanding, this article is definitely aimed at Haskellers, or at least people who have more than rudimentary knowledge of Haskell and type systems.

Anyway, it's rather difficult to talk about advanced type systems in terms of languages that have no type system at all :)
Could you elaborate on the "fundamental, serious limitations" by any chance?
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Even with law enforcement, there is something called statute of limitations for most minor crimes.
Most modern roads are far more level than ones made in the past. Though that is because we can easily expend huge amounts of energy in heavy equipment to move said rock and dirt. In general more level roads have a much higher safety factor. Hills and curves tend to increase the accident rate because they require the driver to slow down and re-accelerate more often.
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What would you say is the "age of mammals"?
I paid net $22K for a new 2015 Nissan LEAF (after $10K in combined government incentives). You could have gotten the base model (with resistance heat only) for under $20K, but that’s a fairly poor choice for New England year ‘round usage.
Sorry if I sound too negative but I think carbon offsetting is the very quintessence of what one would call green washing. There is no way around changing our life styles. If you don't want to feel bad about flying, take a train.
Unaccountable censorship of expression by our main communication providers is incompatible with Democracy. Communication is often a natural monopoly, and you can't just "start a competitor" to Twitter and have the market fix the problem (see gab.ai).

If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need the right to appeal, public auditing, bright line rules, and due process rights.

It's not wrong for Twitter to have rules to protect the weak from the strong, and individuals from the mob, but it needs to be accountable and above board about all of it or it will make the problem far worse.

EDIT:

Just to provide an example, here are a few ways this notification could have been so much better.

1) List the specific rules violated. Link to the public process for rule review and adoption.

2) Link to ids and contact information for any human beings who made the decision.

3) Link to code and data sets for any algorithm behind the decision.

4) Provide and link to an appeal procedure instead of just a compliance procedure.

Imagine how much better that openness would be for Twitter's users. (While somewhat onerous for Twitter the company.)
If someone cant handle a verbal insult over the internet, I don't think they are fit for office
Exactly! though I used xclock. A former co-worker used to always have xeyes open on his desktop to easily find his cursor. Maybe I'm getting old...
Yes, but I imagine the OP included nuts in the list because of their protein and fat - you don't find much of either in fruit and veg, with a few exceptions (avocado, soy beans).
The problem with renewables is that we are not deploying enough of them. I don't see how you can say that we have nothing to show for the last 50 years.

The EU gets 55% of electricity from nuclear + renewables.

https://www.dw.com/image/42390018_401.png

Germany is playing on hard mode by shutting down it's nuclear power plants and the added renewables far exceed what little capacity they have shutdown so far.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...
smart phones existed back then. they aren't as good but it was possible to access the internet using a phone . The iphone launched in jan 2007
I'm with you, I have no idea what Devops does kernel development.
Add a way to use webauthn without JavaScript (issue #1255)
What kind of detachment are you referring to? React JSX has a few quirks but it maps pretty straightforwardly to DOM elements and HTML.
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rsyring 7 hours ago [-]

As best I can tell, our process is not typical. But it's also not fundamentally a bad thing. It obviously doesn't interest you and I'm sure there are others who wouldn't apply for the same reason.
But, there are others out there who appreciate a more thorough approach and might view the process you described as inadequate.

Path of least resistance my friend, path if least resistance.
It seems like the simplest approach for Twitter to make would be to remove specific posts, rather than accounts, for tweets made over a year ago (say). It's not fair to hold someone to account for the actions of a very different person, even if they happen to be a continuation of that person.

(Edit: And to be clear, I would have been a-okay with Twitter having banned the user at the time, for the content in question!)
This idea that "saving face" is uniquely central to Asian cultures is complete nonsense. It's a common metaphor in Asian languages, that's it -- the desire to avoid embarrassment is an absolutely universal human trait.
A practical one. Your principles may not be conducive to creating wealth and if wealth is your goal you should adjust them.
They have a fixed position radar which sees the distances and radial speeds of objects in a cone extending in front of the car. Because it can't tell you which direction an object is in they have to filter out objects that are radially stationary so as not to be triggered by things on the side of the road, overhead signs, etc. At least until these objects are close enough that the cone's width doesn't exceed the width of the car by much. Now, it's very useful when dealing with other moving cars which probably aren't hanging in the air above your direction of travel. But it doesn't help with everything.
In northern Eurasia, the most common color for carrots used to be yellow (like some parsnip varieties today), and the local-language name for them still sometimes contains the word "yellow" even though today people buy the same orange carrots as elsewhere.
Not really a ban, more like a temporary lockout. A ban means no appeal, no hope of ever getting the account restored. Twitter is very strict though
Train service is pretty high up in the Maslow's hierarchy of social needs is the thing. It really is a nice extra if a region can provide it for its people – but it usually doesn't come before reasonable health care across the board.
2.8 already has the vastly more useful version of grease pencil, and the demo the foundation commissioned was amazing. I love how seamlessly they mix the 3D in with the direct illustration. It shows what skilled animators can do with a tool like Blender.

https://youtu.be/pKmSdY56VtY
I have. Now it's your turn to read it more slowly. At the end, he deviates from talking about his own personal experience and colours his narrative with talking points that are one-sided, leaving you with no understanding of why the police are doing what they are doing.

I understand that he wanted to bring the story to a conclusion, and that he wasn't there for long, but why should he leave it to a fill-in-the-gaps exercise when it comes to the police?
On this subject, my go-to quote comes from C.S. Lewis

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Not that I wouldn't agree in some ways with Pegg. But, as with Adorno, I'm not going to throw the Jazz out with the bathwater.
Doesn't that contradict itself? Increased storage capacity delaying the transition to renewables?

When storage at scale is the hard part and electric car batteries can power a house for a few days? Not to mention that the transportation sector is a part of the grid fundamentally. Even if it interferes with one metric it is still better overall which makes the complaint seem like it misses the point.
Bear in mind that the 60k/month figure is turnover. Not profit. He employes 8 people, has to pay for inventory and packaging, postal, logistics, accounting and whatnot.

Also, judging from the archive.org records it's a 4 year old business. It's not an overnight success.
I... am a programmer. And I'm terrible at naming too, usually. It was just a light-hearted comment.
Reading the first package: I really need this.
Reading the second package: Wow this is amazing, but slightly implausible.
Reading the third package: Ah fuck.
The charts on the page directly contradict the headline.

In the renewable energy case emissions are miniscule, and in fact only come about because the chart assumes large emissions during manufacture - a lot of the processes involved in producing an EV could be done with renewable energy, and would be if we instituted a carbon tax or otherwise forced the issue.
Do you know if their projects are audited by independent 3rd party?
Honest question: is the source of the problem the hateful intent of the message, or the use of "bad words"? My reading on culture these days is that one can usually get away with spouting horrendous, hateful ideas so long as they do so without using a short list of offensive words.

If the truly are trying to scrub hate from their platform, I applaud their effort, but they'll never succeed. Hate is too hard to define and so subtle you can't actually remove it all.

If they just want to remove bad words, why not use literal black-text censoring in situations like this, like TV has done for years? Give this user the option of preserving their moronic comment, hate and all, without the bad words that I'm sure advertisers are asking to be removed.
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Counter-example: https://smaccmpilot.org/software/index.html

Also, a Haskell DSL for automotive control systems: http://tomahawkins.org/
Does that justify toxic behavior?
..it surely precludes the environmental measure of not having a car.
Twitter would not have banned the author for that tweet 9 years ago.
There may be some dubious/shady aspects of this enterprise or at least the way it's been presented. I just look at it as an eye-opener. With the view of challenging my thinking about where I am now, where I want to be and what paths might be available to get me there. For instance, e-commerce hadn't come to me as an option. Looking at this account makes me at the very least think about whether or not it is worth pursuing. It could be a different product, market, etc. It may well be that it wouldn't work for me. But the exploration of the basic idea is worth my while.
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Funnily enough, in law enforcement there is similar concept, in US it's called statute of limitations.
Agreed.

Consider using the term "low-carbon energy" in place of "renewable energy". We want to promote the right stuff. Biofuel is considered renewable but is high carbon. Nuclear fusion would be low carbon but not considered renewable. The difference matters hugely for future energy policy.
Sounds like a conflict of interest. If someone gets sued for rape, the jury doesn't get filled with rape victims.
> I'm the GP commenter, so not the person you replied to, but some random areas where I think the US certainly exceeds some/many European countries include air quality and quality of specialty healthcare.

Choosing (small) areas and some samples doesn't make a lot of sense, though. Comparing a small city with a county hospital to some rural area and saying "see, there are areas here were medical services are much closer" is obvious and somewhat useless. You'll want to compare the average or median accessibility, not tiny sub-samples.
You can absolutely use lidar pointclouds for object detection. It can be hard with low resolution lidar in a cluttered environment, though.
> Plants ... who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche.

Ironically one of such plants is Cyperus Rotundus, very useful in times of famine. Perhaps we are living in hyperopic age, where the obsession with economies of scale and controlled environments makes the immediate localized complexity into a high entropy nuisance worthy of destruction.
How? The roads are at capacity in many places. We're not going to build 300% more road area to put cars on.
They have?
Twitter could, of course, have just given a warning. But I also don't see any problem treating the tweet as if it were current. The age of the tweet does not change whether it is acceptable or not, does it?
> whereas laziness lets you use bottom

in principle, only if you can prove you don't use the result. there's nothing wrong with not calculating a value that doesn't exist.
This sounds like a misunderstanding to me. “JSX/Babel/webpack” aren’t any more required for React than for Vue. Here’s how to use React without them: https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html

Just drop it as a script on the page.

Ironically, my understanding is that it’s Vue that requires a compiler for even basic component support. If you don’t use webpack or similar tools with Vue, as far as I know, you can’t declare an idiomatic reusable Vue component.

With React, whether you use Babel/JSX/Webpack or not, components are always available. They’re the whole point.

I think it’s fair to say that Vue is initially more familiar to and easier to get started with for folks who are more comfortable with HTML. React is more JS-centric. Even though in the end they render the same DOM elements.
Would you recommend an app like Calm or Headspace to get started with meditation?
> Incentivise retrofitting of electric transmissions to cars with internal combustion engines

What would that do to help? Modern transmissions are fairly efficient (basically anything with a lockup torque converter is now very good and any manual or computer controlled manual transmission is excellent in terms of efficiency). I can’t see what an electronic transmission on an ICE engine would do that would possibly pay back.
How do you justify ever changing anything with that attitude?

This change made parsing more lenient which is generally considered fine [1] and made the software actually follow the spec, since it specifies object entries are unordered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
can't delete. Ugh.
I would say it happens commonly enough that one must constantly keep one's eye out. For example at my local H.E.B. I see this all the time.

64oz Store brand half and half: $3.50 (avg range $3.25-3.68)

32oz Store brand half and half: $1.50 (avg range $1.25-1.68)

Um, wat?
‘Ordinary’ men and women don’t want to become politicians for many reasons, but because “it’s assumed to be OK to insult them” isn’t on that list.

You can insult anyone, for any reason—and people do all the time, regardless whether the person is a politician or not, a public figure or not, etc..

Sure, morally it might be unjust to insult a politician, or anyone for that matter. Yet the cool part about the United States is: it’s OK!

Although being a politician, and secondarily a public figure, makes the insults as public as the praises so much so that you, the observer, are more aware of them as a result, doesn’t mean that the same thing wouldn’t happen to anyone else.