skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow, it's real. I had chickens as a kid growing up and I was told this. I tried it; never succeeded. The only thing I learned was that chickens don't like having their heads grabbed. I just assumed it was some rural urban-legend.
This is explained near the beginning of the article. Just five years ago... leather outpriced itself, forcing shoe and clothing designers to cut the material from their products. Combine that with the rise of athleisure and the growing popularity of “vegan clothing,” and one can see why demand hasn’t come back.
If you believe people can't get a little attached to "prodsys3" or whatever, then you underestimate the sentimentality of some of us. ;)

Of course, the other thing you can do is name server roles rather than specific hardware, so all of your servers are immortal, Ship-of-Theseus style.
I'll never understand why people expect a rate of return above inflation simply for holding in cash savings accounts. It's a fundamental concept of a market economy -- you need to take a risk in order to earn a risk premium!
Perhaps before building a swarm around the sun we should build one around the earth to gain fine grained control over the weather, and it even doesn't need to be in the orbit, but can be a swarm of sun heated air balloons.
This just moved "build henhouse" several steps up on my TODO list... Tempted to follow the spirit of this one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/a-ufo-chicken-spac...
It's not supposed to solve a problem. It's only purpose is to create them.
Let your flutter docs support live samples
I would say the south eastern part of china has been relatively recognizable borders for a long time.
Modern china is the result of Qing expansion around the 1650s. Take a look at the historical map by year - it's really amazing how quickly things changed at the turn of the century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqVzZnwnOk
Half-life is longer for uranium, but I would say they are just as radioactive, as they are in secular equilibrium and apart of the same decay chain [1]. They are just as "radioactive" in this configuration, as they go through the same number of decays. Their concentrations can change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain#/media/File:Decay_...
Only from your American war-obsessed fatalistic perspective does this happen.
From the pictures in the article his handwriting seems to have an uncanny valley effect to them where the letters are extremely uniform but still clearly handwritten. It kinda produces the same response as seeing Comic Sans if I'm completely honest.
Outreach groups work as a lobby; They're the ones who need to call organizers. They can't just cultivate a pool of speakers and then wait for conferences to call on them. They're the ones who need to reach to both parties and connect them.

Conferences publish a call for participation and wait for speakers to submit their application rather than the other way around.
Seamless Web Booking Flow for Uber
DaPy an easier data mining and management
Why is Windows search still so bad in 2019?
> If you are able to just use names and types to document your intentions, pitfalls etc ... then by all means, do just this

That's sort of the point. Step 1, your code should be self explanatory. When the natural interpretation a reasonable person would have from reading the code differs from reality: that's when you add Step 2: add comments to "fix" the gap between perception and reality. The less Step 2 is necessary the better.
Indeed, and I don't know why I'm surprised.
It's an important question. Unfortunately in the current climate it seems that even if they weren't, you'd be left pursuing some recourse only after the incident occurred where they would likely react in a very hostile nature if you start trying to do things like point out what they were doing is illegal.
You linked a paper written by three men.
It’s kind of amazing that SLiRP is still in use. Back in 1995, I was working tech support at an ISP and we used to kick people off of shell accounts all the time for using it to get a cheaper dialup connection. It was usually the MUDers (the bottom of the barrel of internet users in ‘95).
Well as much as I am a advocate for converting to a cooperative economy, I do understand that logic. Our corporate capitalism today relies heavily on monopoly like power especially with things like intellectual property and businesses like ISPs. If Comcast was forced to provide commodity access to its network as well as interconnects with other line providers, then the monopoly like power Comcast has over internet access would be dramatically reduced. More competition would enter the market and theoretically lower prices. Or if intellectual property law was significantly weakened then we would see more competition as well.
> It works for me!
If the VM is ran in a hypervisor, will this be able to break out of the hypervisor?
Show HN: devfolio: A clean and simple portfolio/resume template made with bulma
Or positioned another way, this is Yak Shaving:

Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

http://yak-shaving.urbanup.com/1164318
> I was born left-handed but my parents forced me to use the right hand to write letters (a common practice in Japan at the time).

One hassle that Western left-handed writers have to deal with is avoiding smudging their just-written characters as their hands advance to the right. As traditional Japanese is written top-down and right-left, I would have thought lefties were at an advantage in that regard.
And wildly dangerous. They are arguably more dangerous than riding a motorcycle.
How the Facebook Algorithm Works and How to Make It Work for You
What do you see as providing the majority of baseline load by 2060?
Learning to play a guitar, and some basic music theory. I wish I had started it earlier, but I guess it is never too late :)
Clicks are what publishers chase now, there is only so much time a modern reporter can research before they need to publish something. They have to weigh short term revenue vs. Pulitzer prize. An article or series of articles that truly brings enough positive attention to the defense industries largest project and the players involved might be considered, but can a team focus on that in the current click driven publishing space?
Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country (2017)
Bobcat Manor
From the example code it looks very much like it doesn’t compile to anything, but is in fact just JavaScript.

The import and calling “jit`...` as a “tagged template literal” is just plain JavaScript.
I had to learn the hard way
I ended up with a domain purchased on Gandi.

A Hugo static website on Github.

Netlify hosting that Github repo.

It's really turnkey and zero maintenance, and free.

https://sergio.dev/posts/genserver-webcrawling-in-pure-elixi...
Good thing that theres plenty of other options on the scale between uncaring capitalist monster and no company at all.
Humorously, you can (probably) do all that with BlogSpot.
The zed disease has, unfortunately, spread.
Artist: Unknown – Identifying the artist behind an artwork (2018)
Globally optimal registration of noisy point clouds
The virtual economy of UO was killed by the time the beta test ended. We're talking about the NPC shopkeepers here, not the player owned vendors. The NPCs were supposed to follow things like supply/demand as well as having preferences as to what they wanted. Players got mad as they wanted to just be able to dump any old crap (typically bucketloads of skullcaps) to any old NPC.

The NPC shopkeepers also kept hours, would take breaks & walk around town, etc. That was another thing they wound up getting rid of quickly
It is my understanding that while git was unaffected, the source release tarballs were. Distro packages tend to prefer the source release tarballs to doing git checkouts.

I know that FreeBSD's webmin package was affected.
> Why are you still conflating O2 and CO2?

That should be obvious. Any evidence of amazon sequestering carbon is evidence of amazon liberating oxygen. If you cant bear that in mind you have been distracted by the artificial separation proposed here, between "a strong carbon sink" sinking carbon and the respiring of O2, they are very effectively both expressions of the same process.

> one of that authors of that paper, is the same "YADVINDER MALHI" who wrote this blog post

Correct and it puts into stark contrast the co-authors private blog advice that "the net contribution of the Amazon ECOSYSTEM (authors emphasis) to the world's oxygen is effectively zero". That misjudged statement which is even highlighted in the article now, is in plain contradiction to that paper he took part in, which is also about the Amazon ECOSYSTEM and the Amazon can not physically be "a strong carbon sink" and at the same time have zero contribution to the worlds atmospheric oxygen system.

The claim is wrong, and hangs only on the ambiguities of what "effectively zero" could be argued to mean that is in reality documented to be very far from zero indeed.

The Amazon has been known for decades as great "lung" of the planet, SINKING Carbon and RELEASING O2. Malhi has himself taken part in work which describes it "greatly" doing so. If its personal credentials you put faith in you could regard Sir David Attenboroughs describing it the same, for many years, in finished and award winning works, as opposed to a professors conversational web article.

Malhi's advisory 9% figure (that is then subsequently reduced to zero?!) is not even necessarily more final or uncontestable as the supposedly terrible global media outbreak of 20% reports. And since (even that work Mahli took part in reveals) that the amazon is recently in serious flux, such figures are technically speaking conditional.

The point of publicity figure is to be defensible and educate the fact that the Amazon has had and can have major effects on the atmospheres important constituents. That whether it is currently in equilibrium or a great carbon sink or grave carbon emitter - is a very grave matter because by its size and history it is capable of all those things.
I'm not sure this really addresses the point. macOS manages to have both user-configurability for keyboard shortcuts and consistency out of the box.

On macOS, you can also define consistent keyboard shortcuts universally and per-application. This is achieved via a very simple interface in System Preferences -> Keyboards -> Shortcuts. This will apply to all applications because they must all respect and populate the macOS menu bar, the mechanism through which keyboard shortcuts and processed and thus made modifiable. Easy, friendly, user-centric.

But on Linux? Good luck. Between all the various user interface libraries with their own mechanisms for defining and modifying keyboard shortcuts, not to mention those apps that hardcode the shortcuts in order to avoid the utter mess of the mixed desktop environments that so many users are forced to use in order to get certain jobs done.

In this sense, Linux is not a user-centric system because nobody who makes a distribution, even the better ones, gives a toss about the user; it's all about the developer's manifestos and freedoms long before it's ever about the user. The average user who just wants to work, not sit there slaving over a billion different and wildly inconsistent configuration file formats each in different locations, who just wants the damned Copy command to require the same two-finger salute in one program as another, is resolutely not the one being catered for.

Linux distributions are just as opinionated as Windows and macOS; DIY distros are utterly irrelevant to the vast majority of people, including the HN crowd who, just like the technically illiterate we sometimes hold our noses up to, also have lives to live.
The economy isn't zero sum. More spending means more good times for everyone.
Every time someone trots out that old analogy, I think of my uncle who has a small dairy farm in the U.S. midwest with over 50 head of cattle. He gave each one a name, and when one is sick, he cares for it until it is better if possible.
Linux Directory Size Tips
When I was in the seventh grade, a curmudgeonly teacher insisted all his students learn copperplate.

That made my handwriting worse - to the point that a couple of years later, at the same school, other teachers complained and I was sent to a remedial teacher to undo the damage inflicted by the earlier teacher who had wanted 'stylish'.
Looks like this was something that QEMU inherited when it took code from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp . Even after reading that page, I'm still not sure how it works; is it like a SOCKS proxy?
What do you mean? It should do that automatically.
U.S. Nuclear System Relies on Outdated Technology Such as Floppy Disks (2016)
What Is a Logo-Like Language?
Why do you feel that infinite growth is impossible? Seems like once we've used up all of Earth's resources we can just move along to Mars, then the outer planets, and so on.
I think that it would have been even funnier to say that 99% of developers and 99% of drivers are better than the median, but I only figured this thanks to your parent's comment.
While it doesn't seem very popular in Hacker News, I think WordPress [1] is an excellent platform for a blog. The community is terrific, there is a tremendous amount of documentation out there, and it is entirely customisable.

If you go with the managed hosting route, most companies handle security and updates for you, so you can focus on writing and leave everything technical to someone else.

I am working on one myself — and have a private beta running, if you are interested [2], —, but of the top of my head, some companies that will go above and beyond as far as WordPress is concerned, include Kinsta [3], Pantheon [4] and Presslabs [5]. The last one is based in Romania and open sourced a bunch of their stack, worth checking out.

[1] https://wordpress.org

[2] Just email me at help@madpony.co for information

[3] https://kinsta.com

[4] https://pantheon.io

[5] https://www.presslabs.com
Another static site generator that is gaining traction is Eleventy[1]. It's very small and simple, entirely build in js, supports most templating languages you already know and it's more flexible than GatbyJS.
For a more complete blogging solution, though, I'd recommend Ghost.[2].
If you're building a small blog just for fun you should definitely go static and scratch your hacker's itch.

[1]https://www.11ty.io
[2]https://ghost.org
A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)
Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
This is one of my favorite books. Do you know anything else like it?
What about Canadians, based on our close proximity and depending on the specific logistics, might you guys be subsidising us as well?
The Weaponization of History
Note that data usage on mobiles directly corresponds with energy usage.
> Kontlin/Scala/Clojure all have relatively easy Java-interop

I think that you need to separate out languages that are intended for bidirectional interop (Kotlin/Groovy) from those that provide excellent one-way interop (language uses Java APIs) but less optimal interop the other way (Java uses code written natively in language).

Groovy and Kotlin have great bidirectional interop while Clojure and Scala don't map over nearly as well.

> it smells like after a while non-Java projects could just become Java projects?

Almost never happens in my experience, Java is just too suboptimal compared to these other languages. Once I started using Groovy in a few places it quickly becomes the case that I wanted to use it absolutely everywhere I can - it's just too much better.

I do code it in a much more static style than is often used in Groovy more generally though (declaring types whenever it helps readability, etc). I also always want to define interfaces and key data structures in pure Java if there's no reason to have them written in a different language.
First, many C projects are libraries that are written for reuse in other programs. So "the codebase" is an arbitrary, unknowable thing. We don't have the ability to look at all the other code that will eventually coexist in the same process.

Second, code changes over time. Assuming you inspect 100 lines of code to ensure that they don't call strtok() ... do you sprinkle comments all over as a warning to future programmers not to add any calls to strtok()?

Finally, assuming we could evaluate all of the code in a program at once, it is impractical to build non-trivial programs that way. Instead, we rely on contracts. The idea is that if a caller conforms to its end of the contract, the callee will conform to its end. This allows us to reason about correctness of some code without reading all the other code in the universe and thinking through all the potential code paths. Any function using strtok() would be presenting a rather ugly contract clause "this function destroys strtok's static state". Even worse, such a clause would be contagious, infecting any client of that function, and so on.
Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door
I volunteer in the Danish national emergency service. A year ago we and Multiple other countries went to Sweden to help out with massive forest fires. I'm talking speeding for an hour in varying levels of smoke and not be half way through our area.
I've never experienced fires like that, mainly since we dont have forests like that, but it became pretty clear to me how much the low vegetation meant for the life of the fire. The fire could be burning slowly through the ground vegetation and everybody would pretty much ignore it. But if it hit bigger bushes and spread to the treetops all hell broke loose. Others trucks were written off as a loss and personnel airlifted away on that account.
As for a newer approach they stragedly cut down parts of the forest, both for wood production and to vary the age of the forest. This seemed to have great effect when trying to contain the fire.
why not? best kind of humor
Slirp was the equivalent of a userland, and user accessible version of SLIP. It allowed end users, to have IP equivalent connectivity if they had a shell account.

This was in the days when people had dial-in accounts to a shell, and wanted to use Mosaic web browser on their machines.
Volkswagen Unveils All-Electric Buggy
I like this just for the fact of having people in Congress that aren’t either Democrat or Republican.
> If you were really concerned about people misunderstanding the article, you would not make up claims and attribute them to the author. Instead you would quote the relevant parts of the article to demonstrate what is actually being said.

What on Earth are you referring to?

> The author in no way claims that the Amazon is in equilibrium

Yes he does. As I already explained to you, the author asserts that the O2 produced by the Amazon rainforest ecosystem is equal to the amount of O2 consumed by the Amazon rainforest ecosystem -- that is a perfect example of what it means to be in equilibrium. He literally says it in big bold letters:

> the net contribution of the Amazon ECOSYSTEM (not just the plants alone) to the world's oxygen is effectively zero.

Did he use the word equilibrium? No. Did he describe an equilibrium? Yes!

I am done arguing with you on this point -- it has truly devolved into semantics and has become unnecessarily inflammatory. At this point all I can do is refer you to a dictionary.

> Fear mongering about a non-issue with made up facts only serves to provide ammunition to anti-science skeptics.

Fear mongering? Now you've truly lost me. If asserting that forests net sequester carbon and produce O2 makes me a fear monger, then I'm guilty as charged...
Cities Should Think About Trees as Public Health Infrastructure
Python offers a nice Logo-like environment using "import turtle".

https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
Bikers wear leather for abrasion protection in the event of an accident. Its heft also means it doesn't flap at high speed, particularly if tight fitting as recommended (again, in case of an accident). But it doesn't stretch, so it's not easy to wear more layers underneath.

For protection against the elements, technical clothing with fancy fibres are a better option - way more waterproof, and can work with a heated vest if it gets very cold. Not as good in a long slide though.
Anyone reading this who finds themselves in this situation- Quit that job and find a new one. There are too many opportunities in this industry to spend your time in a situation like this. Especially if you find yourself regularly working weekends and it's for someone else... not even your own startup.
Are there neurological explanations about why this happens? Does this also happen to other animals?
Kudzu Tree?
That's not a good take for a few reasons:

- apps can use other ad networks than Google, and blocking network access would bring them more profit (higher app cost / more push for in-app spend)

- they can create separate categories for ad traffic and general network traffic

- having ads as a system element and limiting network access would allow them to cut off other ad networks to some extent, bringing more profit (although that's opening the doors to more talks about monopoly)
This looks like a great idea, and good work in implementing it and developing clear documentation.

There is a huge downside though, this ORM doesn't implement any of the real-time features which makes Firestore so appealing in the first place. Snapshot changes is one of the best things about Firestore, allowing realtime database updates to appear on the client. By not using this feature this becomes indistinguishable from any other database backend...

There's also a major limitation without using Batched transactions. As Firestore limits you to 500 updates per request, which comes up pretty fast in a lot of systems.

Sorry to be so critical, genuinely like the efforts made, just thought I'd mention why those features are important.
Besides the radiation, uranium is very toxic.
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Shoulders are full of glass and other debris that makes them an intense hazard to ride in. That's why they're the shoulder, not a lane.

In plenty of the areas mentioned (Issaquah, Renton, etc.) there isn't much of a shoulder to speak of. When I take a longer loop around Lake Washington+Sammamish, here's one of the roads I go down:

https://goo.gl/maps/t9bsNVpJGvFP2sa27
You are thinking just the running system.
The decisions behind why, the quirks of the software, how that all fits together, and the knowledge of why you should do certain things (like monitoring, experiments and whatnot) is important.

Good luck documenting all that. Good luck making that document discoverable and readable.
I would say that ORM, as presented by ActiveRecord and similar approaches, is an anti-pattern. Serviceable in simple circumstances, though.

Such ORMs pretend that data are objects in OOP sense, with internal mutable state stored in their fields. This leads to endless bugs with dirty vs clean state, complicated and bug-prone logic in `.save` methods, hard to debug performance problems with transparent lazy-loading of related objects, and inevitable performance loss on hydration / dehydration of all fields. (I saw and fought this all in practice.)

Better approaches, such as the one available in SQL Alchemy, do not hide the relational nature of the data. They allow to `select` arbitrary tuples, and, most importantly, to build queries from composable, reusable parts.

ORM is not the best interface to an RDBMS. But a good, ergonomic interface to an RDBMS is a very important and useful thing.
I believe there is a thing where sharks get turned over and stop moving.