skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you put an awning around the outside of the house? At least on the first floor? This is a common feature in Australian houses to keep the actual house shaded and cool.

Another interesting feature are houses that are built on brick pillars raised off the ground without a concrete slab. It’s amazing how even on a hot day they remain quite cool underneath and seem to cool off quicker at night. Many older wooden houses seem to be built this way.

I like to mentally toy with the idea of high rises or large apartment blocks having some kind of large retractable awnings on the sunny side of the buildings, or some kind of fake outside wall which can diffuse some of the suns light / heat.
My guess would also be that it’s small-ish for this kind of scanner.
There is indeed a problem that the article describes: book pirates with very little oversight selling books on Amazon and making a profit for both. A result of this practice is that people get substandard copies of books with typos.

The headline suggests that these typos are sinister ("newspeak"). If that were true, that would be an entirely different and also disturbing problem. I did not find any mention of these errors to be so.
You misunderstand me. You'll be able to afford the heart because your insurance will pay for it.

A few years from now, you might not be able to afford that new $5,000 battery you need to RUN your heart.

> Someone with this device will have so much medical monitoring the cost of a battery won't be noticed. A battery will cost less than a single Dr. visit probably.

The same could be said about people with insulin pumps, yet we see financial problems kill them.
They often already get help, and are the segment that help actually helps them. But it's the visibile chronic criminal homeless w/ drug and mental illness problems that make a city worse for everyone, including the invisible homeless.
In this particular case, it's been posted only three times this year, and the first two had only 2 or 3 points, meaning that hardly anyone saw them--I know I didn't. I wouldn't have learned about this if not for the repost.

I don't see anything wrong with reposting perennially useful stuff at reasonable intervals. Maybe twice in as many months is too much in general, but it seems to have worked out all right.
That would explain Star Trek teleportation between two teleporter stations - where the necessary hardware exists to reconstitute matter - but how did teleportation to/from random planet surfaces work? Why have teleporter suites in ships when they can apparently beam people directly from a planet’s surface to sick-bay, for example.
To the author's point, yes I remember the main themes/movements in the Steinbeck books I have read. I remember them for the Dostoevsky and Tolstoy I have read. I remember them for most good books I have read, even if the reading happened in high school, or 10+ years ago. Good books are almost like a lived-experience. Yes, they are not as "creative" as sketching, or writing an essay, but reading can also require creativity on the part of the reader.
An argument (in this sense) is a particular way of arriving at a conclusion. There could be different arguments for the same conclusion. This Freakonomics abortion thing seems to me an explanation. The 'conclusion' here is the reality of lower-than-expected crime rates - you don't argue for that; you try to explain it.

Your second paragraph is the most naked slippery-slope appeal to fear I've seen. Just repeating "just a pathway", "just a step" doesn't make it so. If the explanation is true, it's true. That some racist believes something or not doesn't affect its truth or falsity. I get a kind of claustrophobic communist-era vibe from your comment - that there is no truth, no reality, outside what the powers-that-be declare to be true. (I guess we call it 'political correctness' - there's no 'correct', only 'politically correct'.)
Hadoop vs. Relational Databases
Waffle fries, and pickle brine on the sandwiches. And they keep their restaurants clean. And frosted lemonade.
The concerns and criticism make too much sense; as much as I want to believe a comic/movie density power solution (like arc reactors) can work...

I think the criticisms would have gone over better if something more than the implicit: 'look for better ideas' proposal had been included as a path.

It's been over 30 years; is there anything else as an idea in the field of power generation? (Preferably something we could also use in space)
> Note that the data he used here is cherry picked from a 90's study that used the Big5 method, which has since been debunked for use in biological differentiation.

Can you expand on this please, cite some references or something?

Wikipedia echoes exactly what you claim Damore wrote:

> For example, women consistently report higher Neuroticism, Agreeableness, warmth (an extraversion facet) and openness to feelings, and men often report higher assertiveness (a facet of extraversion) and openness to ideas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...

(And the study cited is from 2001.)
> be the difference causing someone to lose a house, not get a job, not find legal help, be unaware of a disaster

All of these problems can be solved without the internet. Also, access to the internet does not absolutely solve these problems.
Assuming the project stands alone (I can't check right now), the author can release it however they want. The license governs how other people use it, not the author and copyright owner.
To me OOP is about using "templates" to create "objects", which map nicely to real world entities/concepts. So a class is like a function, but unlike a function it can do more than define an input to output mapping. It groups together multiple related functions and variables, and allows "objects" to exist and be interacted with. These "templates" can be hierarchical and/or have more than one "base template", combining all their "features". This type of thinking feels natural to model real world objects and tasks.

The above is my "layman's" understanding of OOP (I've never taken programming classes, but I have been using OOP extensively in the code I write to do my machine learning research).

Can someone describe FP in a similar manner to someone like me? Because every couple of years I stumble upon another "intro to FP", and it just does not click for me. When exactly should I use it? How "monads" or "functors", or whatever else is important in FP, map to the real world, and real tasks? Maybe I just don't write the type of code that would benefit from it.
Reading about these apps, I am so glad I’m a married man, having found a great partner over a decade ago IRL. I’d stand zero chance today, where I’m in competition with thousands of men, over a handful of understandably choosy women. If I were suddenly to become single today I would not have the slightest clue what to do. My hat is off to you young men who have to deal with dating today.
The explanation is more simple:

1. Russia

2. Kazakhstan

Both charge Chinese trains many times more than their own rate. All those mind boggling subsidies basically translate into handing out free money to them for hauling air.

And even if they were to be billed fairly, both Russian and Kazakhstani railways are both living from bailout to bailout themselves as:

1. Rail infrastructure is falling apart without a single major upgrade since the collapse of the Union

2. Rail is a patently bottomless watering hole for the bureaucrats running it

3. Most of money on the rail is spent on maintenance of unprofitable, and deeply underused routes god knows where in order to solicit more bailout money

4. Everything on Russian rail is done in the most inefficient way possible, also in order to solicit more bailouts. It is 2019, and Russia still uses human signallers, wooden ties, and sand ballast. Even passenger cars are still heated with firewood.
Student files are not incompatible, but as soon as a student licensed copy touches a part or assembly, it becomes "tainted" (such that it says "student edition" in the corner or something). I worked at a university-based company where we had a bunch of student licenses and a couple pro licenses, and we had to be very careful about separating the files and making sure that the student edition never touched our professional files.
> Why then is it so easy to keep doing it?

Because there's a strong dopamine rush triggered by the thought of seeing those twitter feeds, and your brain is particularly starved for dopamine at the time (maybe you're tired, bored etc). That triggering is the result of the same activity reinforced hundreds of time, so a strong neuronal association has been made between twitter and the reward. Stop using twitter (or whatever maladaptive addictive behavior you'd want to eliminate) for a few months, and those associations will fade.

If you are engaged in a meaningful conversation for instance, you won't feel such a strong urge to check twitter.
I'm not his employer (luckily).
I get it, but I do think there's a difference between a billboard outside, or bright flashing adverts plastered over a city, vs a sponsor segment from a creator whose content I regularly consume in a video I explicitly choose to watch.
yeah, I was wondering how they compare because I'm hoping to buy it sometime later this year.

Mind giving a quick review so I know if I'm making the right choice? haha
> "attracting" homeless to the city, despite the fact that the data show this trope to be a fiction.

This is incorrect and I think it's constructive to address it.
People talk about numbers, but it's mostly just whatever justifies their bias. Where you draw a line AND when matters when talking about this, so I believe somewhere just under 40% are from outside Seattle. I measure that if you're not from King County (for at least 1 year) before you lost your home, you've moved to it (re: http://allhomekc.org/king-county-point-in-time-pit-count/). Either way, homeless people do not move away to cheaper locales, but are drawn toward the city center. This is primarily due to existing support networks, convenient mobility, drug availability, tolerance, and available disposable wealth. Seattle is not special in this regard, as this behavior is see in many metropolitan centers around the world. Does it matter? No. Where people come from isn't the issue as you can't really control for the conditions...what is WA gonna do, prevent global warming from sending climate refugees up the coast? Good luck Inslee.

I have observed how various cities have approached handling the homeless. I spent 5 years in Santa Cruz, CA and a decade in Santa Ana, CA where these same "issues" had been handled differently from Seattle. I'm not an expert, but I have an opinion, and I recognize that's all it is.

You know who doesn't have a homeless problem? Irvine, CA. If you have a car with a bunch of caked mud on it and some dents or a blown out window, you get status-profiled (they don't admit to it, and it's not racial, but it's demonstrable) and pulled over. The Irvine Company (a family who owns most of Irvine) leverages or ships undesirables from the city and it stays that way (mostly in Costa Mesa, Laguna, etc) same as Santa Cruz did in the 90s where they would drop repeat offenders on a train to Santa Clara. Luckily(?) when a few people ended up freezing to death in their cars and the streets (over a few winters) in Santa Cruz, it came out as an official public safety policy. Draconian measures work to a degree, it seems, but mostly moving people CONSISTENTLY works.

Mixing unrestricted support systems into metropolitan areas has been applied for over half a century. It sifts those who can be helped, out until you have those who cannot or will not be helped. As unpopular as it seems, I think that a city/county being allowed to export people to unincorporated areas if they break a city/county law and have no residence and aren't able to complete a work program, would solve homelessness in a more humane manner. If you don't want to participate in society, homestead the land or run your way back and start over. Either way, it doesn't fill more jail cells. Yes people may die, just as people die now, but without putting residents at risk.
This, exactly.

Brian Kernighan (of K&R fame): Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
Discussing politics at work is a huge liability. With the recent surge of outrage culture I’m not willing to put my job on the line to prove a point. I engage in discussion, but only online and anonymously.
It's a subtle thing for sure. Just because he prefaces it with "not to be an ass" doesn't justify being an ass.

Overall, it's still phrased in a demanding way.
KeyMouse is also fully programmable (including the mouse motion and scroll/trackball), and like the Ergodox, you can place each hand in whatever is the most comfortable position, but you don't have to move your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse.
It still seems strange that it's okay to be wrong sometimes, but not about a few very specific things.

Like, it's probably no biggy if people say totally false and indefensible things going the other way. I don't think that's a good sign.
We will remove the original icons in our next update.
what part of it was uncomfortable?
The idea of giving is good but it is very hard to substain it over time. Pleople want to give but not in a constant basis and eventually stop. A better model is to join a profit basses organization with a nonprofit and work together to give.
Starbucks charges very little additional for the largest size (50cents). It's so minor they they don't even print the price on the menu.
I genuinely don't get it. Sure, you want some of that VC money for your startup, so you start building in SV, where the exorbitant costs of living and doing business necessitate taking VC money to even stay afloat. Do investors really not invest in companies that don't start in the Valley? I have a hard time believing that, but to hear anybody from the Bay Area tell it, it seems to be the default.
> I feel open parsing files is misguided. Downright wrong if it profilerates into scripts, because suddenly simple scripts can't work on JSON, because opening JSON returns something different from a stream of lines.

Doesn't “open --raw” address that?

https://book.nushell.sh/en/loading_data#opening-in-raw-mode

Also, I suspect most simple scripts that want to work on JSON Will want to parse it, so the default makes them more easily able to work with it, not less.
My mom paid to re-insulate her attic a few years ago. I think she paid $3,000 (in a rural area), but says it's dropped the temperature in her house by 10F, and when I've visited in the summer I've noticed. It's a remarkable win.
I don't think most people are capable of being creative all the time, but the key is to find some creative pursuit you enjoy and make sure you make time to pursue it. If that means doing it on a schedule, so be it. (that's what it means for me)

I write fiction "for fun", and sometimes it feels like work, but if I gave it up I'd drink every night and binge every weekend because my job is totally devoid of meaning. Hanging out with my partner is the only other thing I really care about, and frankly we like drinking together a little bit too much.

By the way, any late career change suggestions for a software engineer who's got some money saved up and is sick of tech? Because, fuck.
> there are thousands of mostly far-right groups that are flooding google with garbage

Is there a citation for this? I see lots of far-left garbage on social media generally (by which I mean posts espousing violent revolution, racism, sexism, blank slatism, anarchism, and/or communism). I'm sure there are niches of far right racism, but it mostly seems like a niche problem (and given that the far right is largely a reaction to the far left, it stands to reason that we have an opportunity and obligation to kill both with the same stone).
A brand new shell, especially in Rust is a great thing to see and also how it tackles the problems that exist in other shells.

However, its interesting to see so many dependencies that are required to build it (73 crates last time I checked) and as shells have always been portable across many operating systems, I wonder how portable nushell would be since it wishes to replace my current shell.
OOP is the only way invented so far to deal with complex mutable state. Many practical problems have a lot of that.

OS kernels is one example. Right now, Windows task manager says there’re about 100k opened handles in my system. The state of an opened file handle is huge: user mode buffers, kernel mode structures, encryption, compression, effective permissions, file systems B-trees, flash memory state, and more. Without hiding all that state behind an API, the amount of complexity required to write a byte to a file would be overwhelming. On Linux it’s usually object_do_something(struct tObject *), on Windows it’s DoSomethingWithObject(HOBJECT), it’s 100% OOP, where objects are hiding their state behind methods.

GUI is another example. Whether it’s a web page, a rich text document in an editor, or a videogame, the state is very complicated. GUI frameworks don’t compute functions, they respond to events: from user, from OS, and from other parts of the program. All GUI frameworks are OOP, including web frontent ones, e.g. reactjs.org says “Build encapsulated components that manage their own state”, it’s a textbook definition of OOP.
I am suffering that at the moment in Oxfordshire. Just a bit of morning sun heats my bedroom up to 28 C. Totally insane.

Leaving the windows open barely helps.

My grandmas flat, in Southern spain, did not have AC. But thanks to big walls and external blinds you could live comfortably even during 40+ C Summer days.

External blinds are a killer feature both for heat and cold insulation.
Ask HN: Why can't I pay for Firefox?
Google's "jump the shark" post yesterday [0] puts into sharp relief the perilous state of the net and privacy generally. If nothing else, it reaffirmed my decision to delete Chrome and fully embrace Firefox - not just as a browser, but the only browser I use across desktop, laptop and phone.

Apple's pro-privacy stance is laudable, but questionable in its permanence - it's more strategy credit [1] than structurally embedded principle.

Mozilla might not be perfect but they're the closest to a organisation where privacy stands a chance of being a meaningful commitment rather than disingenuous propaganda or convenient byproduct of monetisation strategy.

And yet: Firefox is free, and Google remains a major funding source.

Whilst I can donate to the Mozilla foundation [2] (and have) I can't imagine it's a path many will easily find.

Which makes me wonder: why doesn't Mozilla offered a paid Firefox subscription option? Not suggesting it's mandatory, or that it has to offer premium features. Equally realistic about the percentage of users who would actually pay.

Google's funding is around $300M pa [3]. That's 10M users paying $30pa. That's a lot of people, but the internet's a big place. The wikimedia foundation has so far managed to function on donations.

So: why wouldn't Mozilla offer the option? Would you pay?

[0] https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/building-a-more-private-web/

[1] https://stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit/

[2] https://donate.mozilla.org/

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-deal-with-yahoo-and-makes-google-the-default-in-firefox-again/
For one Powershell isn't libre as in freedom am I right.
Paying Google Contributor wouldn’t stop them from tracking you.

People want to be able to opt out of Google entirely, and that product didn’t do it.
Am I right to assume that the difference between the Track 127 and the ChairTrack 127 is just that the ChairTrack has the mounting bracket set included?
At some point the bay area will have to become a 1 giant city, instead of a bunch of little nimbism towns.

Soon, we'll all live in Bay City!
Deadly superbug outbreak in humans linked to antibiotic spike in cows
Oof, I will say, that particularly kurzgesagt video was pretty bad. I do think kurzgesagt is generally much better than that though.
I don't know about this Atlantic Publication. But God forbid anyone offends them because their opiniobs sound important.
I read this and still don’t understand what is the issue behind the drama. If you don’t want to support it, then don’t; if someone stole your public domain work, contact the EFF or more realistically just understand it’s cost of doing business.

We all get tired at some point and move on, you don’t owe anyone anything. And thanks for the library!
Oh, here's the complaint for easy reading:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8owdaynxoRWxTckjmQRLTwD1CP...
> Break of gauge: Any of the current routes require gauge changes between 5' and 4'8.5".

You'd think that with Chinese money, the former Soviet Union countries in the way would be happy to dual-gauge their track.
I think this is all missing the real issue by a mile: greater density would change the city. Those who don't want that have enough power to stop it. Prices start dropping the day after tech companies realize there are other cities that would love to have them.
If you find that annoying then maybe, just maybe you have a small idea how annoyed the author is from people literally abusing his work beyond the scope it was offered and causing all sorts of grief and abuse from people demanding support for a product that he never sold and never even scoped as supported.

Whilst many are great users, who use as intended, just reading his post in full outlines just some of the instances and issues that have caused what was a passion and a hobby project to become a source of abuse and mental anguish. Nobody should have to endure that, more so when they did nothing wrong.
This seems like it could potentially be an awesome tool for data cleaning/munging in the terminal.

Really interested to see where this goes..
It's more stuff for more money. Anyone who eats there more than once can figure out which size they like.
I love functional programming, but I hate bash. I'm conflicted.
We work with the local ISP's and small Wifi operators. After installation families provide their subscriber codes and we set automatic transactions to those codes.

Yes we also provide devices which are funded either by individuals (via online donations) or corporate sponsors

First, we wanted donors to choose a student (according to their profiles) but this led to many challenges including the one you mentioned. So now donors can see profiles of every student waiting but they usually donate to the platform. We don't have one time donations. only monthly donations.

But still, we are at the MVP stage and figuring out what the right models could be.
IANAL, but fundamentally I view licenses as grants of rights to non-copyright holders. As the (I think) sole copyright holder on the WiringPi code, the author is morally, if not legally (again, IANAL) entitled to do whatever the hell they want, irrespective of any licenses the code has been released under.
My comment was more about his intelligence than his size.
What’s forcing you to even respond, let alone provide support?
> One thing I haven’t seen people talking about much is how profound and impact Apple Pay is for direct online retail.

I'd love to use Apple Pay, but neither of the credit cards I use for online shopping (Capital One for CAD purchases, Home Trust for non-CAD) support it.
The meaning of "last straw" is that each issue on its own is just a small hinderance, but at some point the sum becomes too great, and one of those small hinderances just happens to be the last straw.
I'd say you can't write good enough code in any language. The most high-profile, extensively tested C networking code still has security vulnerabilities, for example--the best C code isn't good enough. And broadly speaking, I'd say good code meets deadlines, but I guess that's a bit of semantics on my part.