skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you change the hyper focus on standardized testing and curriculum? That comes at the administrative or local/state/national political level, doesn't it?
As long as you don't overdo it, caffeine can help provide some oomph for the adrenals during short-term stress. When paired with the right nutritional support, such as better quality salt, real licorice and coconut oil, it's sustainable for fairly long periods and makes a real difference in your ability to rise to the occasion.
If it wasn't for Microsoft pumping millions into Apple around that time we very well may not be having the conversation now either.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/08/06/august-6-1997----...
Although 1/10 of its size Nazca lines[0] are pretty impressive too and they were made 2k years ago. Why couldn’t have this been made a lot far back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines
To be saving you first of all need to have some cash left over. In Germany you only net about 55-60% of your gross income and pay has generally not kept pace with inflation for many years. Moving within Germany doesn't make a big difference as rent is highest where pay is better.

Investment returns are also heavily taxed.
This is an interview with Deb Goodkin, who is the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation.
Everything in this story points to the heart of why I hate Twitter, and why it so often just leads to people dug in, further apart on an issue, and demonizing the other side.
Unfortunately evaluating regulations based on the cost to save a life would be considered heresy in certain circles. Not spending the entire GDP to save one more life is ideologically incompatible with a lot of people's beliefs.
You can include lots of things but then you’re getting into pretty subjective territory. There are advantages to nice walkable streets, for sure. But there are also advantages to being able to pull right up to your destination and park, instead of schlepping half a mile from a subway to hour final destination in heat, humidity, rain, etc. The study I cited above puts parking costs at 3-10 cents per vehicle mile, which still doesn’t being the driving subsidy near the transit subsidy.
I read Swanwicks "Vacuum Flowers", but didn't realise the Dyson colonies were named after a particular idea of Dysons.

I love the idea of a Dyson swarm. Just build some self-replicating factories on Mercury for building sun-orbiting PV arrays and our energy problems are solved for the next million years or so! Short-sighted argument against doing this at[1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/04/03/destroying-...
> I like the "human log" suggestion

What I do is I commit to Git every day and I enter a commit-comment
my point is that this article is trying to sell the potential of "weed stocks" (one of the most expensive google ad words) as being able to canibalize the entire informal market, like girl scout cookies (the actual cookie company) did with bake sales.

but you will never be able to use a blanket brand to something linked to vice as you can with bake sales... even though the beer market is very close. yet the article tries very hard to imply that bake sale equivalent of canabis is highly illegal and criminal and deserves full police crackdown, hence you should invest in canabis stock. ha.
This isn’t really true.

You can do: let ( + ) a b = ...

Just fine
Quit reading their words in your internal voice. You're the one attributing emotion to a statement with no emotionally-charged words.

We even had that story here on HN and yet nobody seems to have learned from it.
Nobody in that business was naïve. Employees did not "forget," if they were caught with their phone in the secure area, they were fired. I was told right up front that certain things were zero tolerance, and everybody knew what they were.

They took this very seriously.

Now when it comes to a deliberately bad actor, well, nothing is 100% perfect, but there were many other security things going on that I am not going to describe here, plus I know for a fact that there were security measures they did not disclose to me.

But let's face it: Somebody, somewhere, can train themselves to memorize a screen full of information. They could memorize something, go for a smoke break, and upload what they memorized. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The point I made, and am still making, is that some companies care enough to do everything reasonably possible to keep customer data secure, while other companies do not. The company I described here cares. I believe Apple cares too.

I suspect it will always be possible for someone to pull a small data heist, but extraordinarily difficult to set up a regular pipeline to exfiltrate data. The weak point is probably the digital systems. Most attackers would want everything, and the way to get everything is with a vulnerability.
The website is a study in how not to do a checkout process, even on simpler mom-n-pop WooCommerce sites.

- - - -

> TIP CUT C125

> Round

> English Point

> Taper

- - - -

> Belt length:

> * DO NOT USE YOUR PANTS SIZE *

> 25

> 26

> 27

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It's better if you:

1. Explain which options are recommended for what kind of customer, or which options go together better in a set.

2. Don't expect checkout customers to work in your leather belt shop.

What does C125 mean? Why is it prominent in the checkout?

If you're not meant to use your pants size, how about a sizing guide?
This is one of the reasons why QE failed. The fed assumed that stock yields (price to earning) are the primary reason why people invest into stock and by pumping money into the stock market the yields will go down and become less attractive. In reality investors were happy that their stocks appreciated even if it was completely disconnected from the economic fundamentals of the companies that the stocks are representing.
I see from another comment this is from my phone manufacture one plus, thanks to them for that.
The problem wasn't regulation, it was mismanagement. The complexity of building the plant simply overwhelmed the firms involved.

Fusion reactors would be even more complex. I think they're well beyond a practical upper bound for complexity of practical energy sources.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...
Germans would be richer if they spent and earned more instead of saving and earning less to export more. Germany's current account imbalance threatens eurozone stability and lower rates in Germany are the solution.
>This was more in context that Germany is underpaying its employees

Yep, at least in tech, German salaries are stupidly close to Eastern Europe now. All this because in EE the free market kicked in and did it's thing, forcing employers to compete for talent while German companies artificially cap salaries to fixed grids while complaining there's a talent shortage and pushing for immigration instead of wage increases.
REMB (actually the correct name would be GCC) is the de-facto rate control and bandwith congestion estimation algorithm that's used by WebRTC (I have some short notes with links to the algorithms that were proposed, in [0]), and it's a technology that for all practical effects has been kind of abandoned since 2014.

So it's only natural that it should be possible to greatly improve upon what we're using today. I'm glad to see advances in this field, because it's sad that video calls are still a hugely worse experience compared with good old phone calls...

[0]: https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/knowledge/conge...
But that is exactly what the second speaker did. The organizers refused.
Yeah light rail's scale east-west is a bit wider than that.[0] But it seems like the area might be served well by east-west bus routes instead? I mean, whatever, I don't care. If this is the most cost effective way to get people to transit, I'm all for it. It seems to have a convenience aspect that bus lines certainly don't have.

[0]: http://soundtransit3.org/map#map
Also they’re hugely polluting.
That doesn't work, I'm not sure it ever did. Yeah if something says full grain then it's full grain, but if you want corrected grain calf no grading system can help you. Corrected grain calf is what most people wanting a leather jacket that doesn't look like a biker or a statement piece will be thinking about.
There is something heart warming about people making personal sacrifices to promote divirsity.

"Here, take back some of the money you were using to pay for our travel and use it to bring in some female speakers" said the male speakers.
Ask HN: What travel sites do you use for research, planning, booking?
As a motorcyclist who just came in the door from a 300+ mi. day, the two most interesting leather goods makers for jackets are Vanson Leathers and Schott NYC. U.S made, and last forever. Both do custom work as well. Lewis Leathers in the UK is the other big brand, with Roland Sands Design on more trendy end of the spectrum.

For boots, I can recommend Gasonlina, who do made to measure motorcycle boots, and I've a pair of their "shortcut" boots for years.

If there is a drop in leather prices, it's an excellent opportunity to get custom clothing and gear made. Wish prices were down when I got my Vanson.
Ridership is up, but is traffic down?

It doesn't matter how many people are using this service. What matters is which people are using it. Cities are realizing that most new transit schemes aren't getting people out of their cars. They are leeching people away from other forms of mass transit. Getting someone out of a bus and into a van is not a win.

What is needed is an actual competitor to the private car, something that can truly replace it. The buses in my area stop at 11pm, and the nearest passenger train is a hundred km away. Until that changes, if want to keep my job, I need to keep driving my car. Offering me a shuttle between my door and the bus stop means literally nothing if there is no bus to get.
Isn't Cloud-Computing something that should make it unnecessary to name individual computers?
I think you may be misunderstanding what I'm referring to as "RF" in my comment. In the specific case of old consoles (and VCRs and other equiptment, though this isn't really relevant), there is a built-in or external "RF modulator" which takes the video (composite in this case) & audio signals and modulates them such that they appear as a TV station on channel 3/4 (typically). This is an additional signal conversion from the unmixed and not-modulated-with-a-carrier-frequency signal that is composite + audio, and tends to have additional losses when restoring it to the RGB/YCbCr signal that we actually care about vs going from plain composite to that representation.

The "almost RF" you're referring to here is a different end of things, the end dealt with by domesday, etc, which is the analog signal stored to the medium in question (whether tape, laserdisc, or something else). Using that signal is, as I think we agree, a very reasonable choice for constructing reasonable archival copies.
When I'm in that sort of space I just write down really trivial things in my "Today List". I've been sick for a few weeks so my tasks have been: "have a shower", "make a coffee", "take a nap". I don't know if it would help with more severe cases but it at least lets me feel like I'm moving along. You probably completed a few distinct tasks you could write down.
Germany has enormous borrowing capacity especially in a recession. Governments are not households.
Thanks! Fixed it
They can put their money to work in the stock markets.
There is definitely some science in economy, psychology, history, etc. The science of social engineering.
If you can travel to Argentina, there's another world for leather products there.

Very high quality.
the code produced

I would argue that to any experienced software person, in the context of a project the code means "code and documentation" (containing domain knowledge, implementation history and intent inexorably bound together as one unit). Whereas, the quoted phrase suggests a dichotomous perception.
Most HN people aren't chemists of any sorts by trade or profession, and don't understand that it's not the radiation but other chemical effects of uranium compounds found in water that causes the real problem. They're all toxic to kidneys, for starters. They're also toxic to the intestinal tract and skeleton.

Every time I go out mining for uranium minerals, I wear full PPE. Trying to do chelation for uranium isn't as simple (or as cheap) as say lead, because calcium DTPA can actually allow for easier absorption into the bones. Been there, done that. Not fun.
That's very nice, but "Tech" sometimes means an industry now, not the technology itself. Same for software. There is software the code, and Software the industry. Nobody invented a new word, but we have to understand what we're talking about in context.
It’s very patriarchal, the men still control the event. They used their power to end the event when there are probably many people, women included, who would have liked it to continue so they could attend. But no, daddy event organizer knows best, make sure to follow him and listen to what he says!
Relatedly, anyone know of anybody working on genetically modifying trees to create human-habitats on earth? It’s a fun and crazy concept, but perhaps it’s still far too technically difficult to approach with current tools.

Imagine planting many acres of genetically-modified trees and coming back in forty years to the primary structures of thousands of beautiful forest homes :P
For the record, that's a different Dyson. Not to say it won’t trigger the thought though!
Oh, that's a good point. It might be sourced from crell's post: "According to them, they had only a single woman submit a session proposal this year...", which was from conversations with the organizers, so potentially nonverifiable.

You could probably check Mark's other claim more easily: "...the line-up last year was almost all male as well, just one woman out of 39 speakers."
Seattle has crap for actual bike infrastructure. We dropped some lines at random on a map with no connections, and especially no east-west routes. It's getting better but man if the Burke is still basically the only east-west MUP in the city.

Here's the graph: http://seattlecitygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/inde...

Note that only the red/orangey color (MUPs) and bold blue lines (protected cycle lanes) count; the rest are just paint on roads.

Neighborhood greenway = tons of speed bumps, nominally cars should depart after a block or two; otherwise ordinary residential road.

Sharrow = just a road.

Non-protected Bike lane = debris-filled shoulder, or worse, parked car door zone.
Then the journal could help you notice the problem and take action sooner.

I've had a lot of stress at work. Here's how I dealt with it:

I was once working for a boss who was really infuriating to deal with. To prevent myself from exploding at him, I would take a break, step outside in the beautiful sunlight, put in my earbuds, turn on some good music, and run. I channeled my frustration into exercise. I'd especially make a habit of doing this just before I ate lunch, which would stimulate muscle growth and make me happier and healthier. Somehow that stressful job got me into great shape.

I was once working at a place where all the policies were dysfunctional and things were constantly on fire. I dealt with this by pulling out my phone and using the Headspace app to think about nothing for a moment and calm myself down. When I got back to the work, I'd put on some "focus" music (music for programming, studying, etc) that would help me maintain my calm mood when implementing the fixes. I learned to distance myself from the problem and get people to talk to each other to work it out instead of having proxy arguments on other peoples' behalf.

I've had some pretty bad sleep problems as well. I got into the habit of playing videogames late at night, which really destroyed my sleep. It's really hard to sleep right after staring at bright screens and experiencing intense action. Now I have F.Lux or Night Shift enabled on all my machines and I avoid playing console games at night without wearing yellow safety glasses. Also, I've started adding concentrated lake water to my drinking water since a magnesium deficiency can make it difficult to sleep.

For depression, perhaps learn about Taoism?

If you really can't cope with the job, quit. It'll be even more stressful to try to find a new job while you're already working one. You can search for a new job using TripleByte, which saves a lot of time since you just have to do one coding test instead of 20.

Hope this helps. Good luck.
> As a woman I find it pretty damn objectifying for someone to withdraw from a conference because it has no female speakers.

Good thing that's not why they are withdrawing from the conference. Specifically, they are pulling out because the conference wasn't even wiling to work with them to find a more diverse speaker lineup. If nothing came out of that, then they would have gone. But the conference didn't even do that.

> Why should anyone care about anything other than php in a php conference?

Then PHPCE wouldn't have been for you, along with all the other tech conferences I've attended, as they generally had talks that weren't strictly PHP.
Leeching people from busses into trains seems good, though?
I wonder, if Sci-Hub might integrate this data in their search engine.
Others have addressed the mechanical points of this argument. I'm going to talk about the moral points:

Why spend, when you save for "bad times" or your kids' future?

By spending you keep companies in business where your kids will be able to work in the future. We often see a moral version of this argument framed as "buy local" or "buy American|German|Whatever"

Why spend, when you want to reduce your footprint on this planet?

Often lower impact choices cost more. By deliberately spending more money on lower footprint choices you are helping the planet. Good examples of this include high-efficiency appliances, extra house insulation, sustainable food sources etc etc.
> Should we have quotas for all these?

Nobody proposed a quota. The idea is to improve outreach so that you get a wider range of high quality submissions to pick from.

> the solution you're proposing is not workable as there are infinite amount of marginalised groups, unfortunately.

Clearly, there are not a infinite number of marginalize groups.

> :( picking one (eg. women) won't result in a fairer society.

It would. The society would not be perfectly fair but it would be fairer.

That doesn't even have to be about fairness. There is knowledge and experience that is going underutilized because it is held by groups of developers that are underrepresented
in these conferences.
This is the difference between the science and not-science. The former allows predicting future, the latter doesn't.
New Artificial intelligence can now see like a human
>they keep emulators and implementation for the Switch pro controller out of the app store.

True but macOS also has OpenEmu which is great.
> There is something unsettling in men refusing to attend an event because not enough women wanted to be there

That's not why they aren't attending. They aren't attending because the conference wasn't willing to put in any effort to try.
You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
When you buy a ski pass at US ski areas you sign a huge disclaimer of liability. It's hard to imagine doing that for this kind of in-city infrastructure. Also, falling on snow is a bit different than pavement. :-)
Except they were willing to help with that. They were willing to help and contribute financially.
Why not add a new parameter, --nushell, to any too that supports the 2-dimensional format? These tools would just be stored in nushell's config file and the shell would silently add --nutshell to any command it ran that was registered to support it.
The idea is that to increase the number of girls in the beginning of the pipeline, they need to see a path ahead, see role models and not feel weird about their career choice. This needs to be done in many parts of the pipeline at once.
That's an interesting question. The head of Ryanair used to talk about how air travel was sometimes lower carbon than the equivalent train journey (Ryanair flies to the smaller airports, and highspeed rail is far from zero carbon). There is certainly a tipping point where the train clearly wins, but there are also a great many areas where the slower and more direct bus service is probably best. This is doubly true in places like Vancouver that have been using electric buses for literally decades.
> Optimizing for non-sex factors, you would expect the selected lineup to more or less match the proportions of notable men and women in the space. If that holds true, then the issue is much further up the line in this case

Except that is not the case. There are disproportionately more male speakers than there are male PHP developers.

> Do we cancel future events solely on this premise? Seems like a terrible idea to me.

The events were not directly canceled due to a lack of diversity, but due to a complete lack of effort to solicit a diverse range of submissions.

The organizers have committed to making an effort in future years.
Let's not forget civil forfeiture in the USA: It's legal to store your cash in a mattress, and it's also legal for law enforcement to seize that cash because its very existence seems suspicious
Not sure if there’s a name for this, but my favourite example is settling on UTC as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#E...
Developer mode lets you boot another OS, but leaves you open to accidentally wiping your drive if you hit the wrong button on boot. Replacing the firmware is a good idea, you do need to remove the write protect screw, but that really makes sense for some note of physical security.
Technically it is a vacuum tree (at least initially).
"This attitude might seem childish but harmless at first glance, but is actually a real problem with real consequences. Young Android users, in particular, increasingly feel left out within their group of iPhone-using friends because of this green bubble phenomenon."

Who seriously want to be friend with such iPhone-using person? In this sense, I would be proud to be left out.
Manufacture of a smartphone creates as much CO2 as ten years of use (2018)
It's so hard to read literary criticism with its deluge of questionable logic in every sentence. Whatever Russian word appears in the subtitle and was translated as "literary", how am I supposed to know how the semantics/implications compare between (then) Russian and (then) English? Obviously that is to miss the point of the essay. But my point is I never found out what the point of the essay was because literary criticism is such torture to read.
Sorry for my lack of clarity. I believe that the ratios should align for sure, and I believe that if they don't, that due diligence wasn't done, potentially with some direct or indirect form of prejudice (which cannot be discerned without knowing the details of how recruitment efforts took place). I also don't mean to derail the importance of human rights or equality on any particular playing field, I literally just meant that tech is what people are going there to discuss and learn about. While human rights and reflecting community proportions is certainly a part of it, I highly doubt that the intent of any tech conference is to primarily give keynotes on human rights.