skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shared this answer before on HN:

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I only learn when I have a project in mind that I want to do. No matter if it’s work on or around my house, creating an app or designing something like a logo or interior. Then I just start. Walk into a wall. Stop. Look for learning material or inspiration. Start over.

Reiterate. Learn more. Reiterate.

I’m not easily frustrated by failure, starting over or general lack of progress. If I have an interesting goal I just keep going. It might not be the most efficient way, but it’s how I learn best.

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There is no magic bullet. It's a combination of inspiration, motivation and perseverance. Example: I spent 1 year learning to built an app in Swift (together with a friend, one evening every two weeks), then we decided to ditch most of what we learned and start over in Flutter, knowing that it would take us another year and I just don't care. I'll get there eventually.
Linux on the Mainframe: Then and Now
Did I say that?
I'm wonder if sourcing and disposing batteries on a mass scale will be any better than burning fuel.
The interesting news here is that it's 20% faster than the XS. IIRC A-Series chips have a special optimization for an operation very frequently used by Javascript runtimes.

This unmatched performance may be a very good reason for them to switch to ARM, at least on their "browsing machine" Macbook Air.
Right. Without realizing the sheer number of people is the root cause of the problem all other climate and biodiversity conservation measures make no sense.
Which is orthogonal I think.

A lot of GDP growth is in box-moving, paper shuffling, services, sales and so on, which can be made with "less stuff" (e.g some even completely online).

OTOH, tons of industrial production for US companies, the dirty kind, has been moved to China and co.

Even if the US "manufacture's more units than ever" (and what those units are? If it manufactures more e.g. packaged food than ever, it wouldn't really be as polluting as manufacturing more cars or computers/mobiles, or several other kinds of products, than ever). I'd wager that the more pollutant and messy production has been moved to China / the developing world / etc.

The same way as most of the western "recycled" stuff just goes to the developing world to be pillages for parts and then dumped into landfills and rivers...
Wasn't the issue with incandescent lightbulbs more that they were (at least for a time) not as long lasting as their older counterparts, or that they'd generate less light? In that sense, people were more interested in a better product on a quality level than they were on the eco credentials of said product.

And that sort of thinking applies in a lot of other fields too, and often explains why products which are bad for privacy, not open source, centralised, walled gardens, seemingly poorly coded, etc do well. Because for most people, privacy is seen as less important than good UX/UI design and ease of use.

That's one of the big problems both the environmentalist and open source communities have to deal with; often their alternatives are (at the moment) worse for the average user/consumer, and they're not gonna sacrifice quality/ease of use/whatever over some philosophical message.
IBM Announces New and Improved 53-Qubit Quantum Computer
Thanks for answering, it's curious enough that I'm now looking into Thunderbird plugins to see if there's one to block (or try to) tracking pixels.
But that does depend on luck say 20 years ago you brought a council flat in London in Westminster or those ones next to blackfriars with a view of the Thames - yes you can.

Living centrally in Paris, London etc is not cheap.
I don't think email marketers think they encompass the entirety of the email industry, I was writing that article from the perspective of being an email marketer proposing something to my peers, ie others in the industry.
What is with this fetish of putting everything in systemd?

Soon it'll have an X-server and a word processor built in...
Have you ever clicked one of those? I've never been sure if that wouldn't have worsened the situation by giving feedback that this is an active mail address managed by somebody.
So how did war in Afghanistan start? Taliban apparently came to power via war a couple of years before US engagement.

Suppose that was a crime. Who punishes the criminals? Maybe that is exactly what the US sees itself doing?

Unfortunately to punish war criminals, usually you have to win against them in a war.
Facebook Teams Up with Ray-Ban on Smart Glasses
What about mandatory service announcements where you want to know if you reached clients before breaking them?
I use a blocker too, but the problem is if everyone starts blocking ads then the current free internet cannot be sustained as it is today. We'll have to move to a paid model, which won't be cheap if you choose to visit many sites, like today, and also the clearing entity will know about what sites you browse. It can't be anonymous, because in case of a dispute it has to be known who paid for what.
Good point, especially as to the homeowner, I think we can tweak the cases.

Though naturally the billionaire bribes an appraiser to undervalue all the new assets for tax purposes though, right? :)

Ok, half joking. More seriously I expect some large investment projects we could use have a value that will only materialize after significant work and capital are burned.

You buy a run down warehouse, the debt and building wash out, but you spend a ton of work turning it into the hip new place for aspiring restauranteurs... there's a gap before it's really obvious to the world what you're accomplishing. The debt for the building washes, but early expenses for clean up, refurbishing and advertising would look on paper like they're disappearing.

Maybe I should use a hypo like that instead.

The biggest problem is that ability to carry debt correlates with expected ability to pay in the future. If someone trusts you to borrow in a way where you immediately burn the money and spiral yourself way negative, however you manage to get there, odds are you are very well off or very convincing.

Net worth might be like a horseshoe. The best off might be those both way at the high end and millions in the negatives.
Still below the national / global average. I see nothing newsworthy here, just a very sad story.
Deep Learning for Programmers (GPU, CPU) WIP Clojure Book 0.9.0
I think you’re conflating morally worse with practically worse. It’s not propaganda to note that certain countries attacking each other spell out graver consequences
Intel Ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs; VMware Among Early Partners
Uses open source libraries https://github.com/uncomplicate
>Enough humans who feel and fear their impending mortality are selfish and vindictive enough to obstruct change because they want to conserve whatever material comforts they have now and do not care about what happens to other people after they're dead.

Sent from my iPhone
This type of asshole marketing seems to become more and more popular. I saw ads for Amazon Video the other day on the floors of Dortmund, Germany.
Autumn 2019 Report to the Computer Conservation Society
If you have to untick boxes they're not in compliance with GDPR. If the button to not have tracking is gray and "accept all" is green, you're not in compliance. Many websites deliberately try to make it harder to opt-out, which is directly against the GDPR.
Depending on the platform used to send the email, it's trivial to change that pixel to any other image, ie a brand logo in the template.

On the whole, disabling images entirely is the only real defence against email tracking.
Just make it smaller? Ctrl + mouse wheel down or minus in chrome.
The easiest way is to disable them by default which is why Thunderbird defaults to not loading from senders not yet whitelisted, which thankfully most HTML email has the text on the email, it's those darn emails that have all the text in an image that I get suspicious of and delete (usually spam / probably malware). It would be nice to see plugins to block them for sure. I use Thunderbird for work, keep forgetting to use it for regular email. At least even webmail email services block pictures by default now, probably to prevent browser exploitation, never know when someone finds some rogue PNG exploit.
Why Start Blogging? things you need to know
I played with this exact pill bottle problem as Mark last year but had a different interest. It turns out the triangular numbers pop out of the same problem. Thanks, OEIS.

https://github.com/mnp/pill-bottle
Someone should correct me if I am wrong, but military training is mostly about obeying orders and desensitizing about what's going on the receiving end of your actions.

I have watched Restrepo on Netflix and found one thing interesting, that biggest thing soldiers have missed in their civilian lives is the adrenaline/joy rush of a shoot-out, no matter how dangerous it is. Paradoxically most of the interviewees are clearly suffering from some levels of PTSD, because probably you cannot be trained for when you see your friend's body/face to be blown apart.

It would be interesting to hear from someone in the military or someone with military psychology training knowledge, how this works. Seems that soldiers are fine with killing "the enemy", but seeing death of your friends gives you (understandably) PTSD.
Every single website seems to have a slightly different layout for the permission manager thing, even when the software for multiple websites is (in name) the same software developed by the same company. Why? Tricking the user into accepting something they wouldn't want to seems to be a major reason. It drives me nuts. If there was a single permission manager whose layout is controlled by the Firefox devs this wouldn't be a problem.
Maybe some lessons can be learned before whatever average makes it newsworthy to you...
Marketers, spammers and scammers are the same thing - sources of unsolicited e-mail, engaging with whom is not good for you. Eliminating marketers from the trio means only that much less messages to worry about.
Totally. Not sure though, why. 1.2em would have just been fine, but instead 24px (which is 1.5em) is too large.
It is successful at showing the root cause: people don't want to change.
The meta question suggested by this article:

When a product succeeds wildly (like Jira has) its creators make a ton of money. That's good. But what should they do with the money?

Is it smart to roll the money back into the product by adding new features? We all know the advantages of that approach. But it obviously causes feature bloat and complexity bloat, especially when backward compatibility is the prime directive. That's the curse of the customer base.

For most of the last generation we've been able to ride Moore's Law and the rest of the cost curve plunge. It simply didn't matter if each feature we dreamed up took more cycles / RAM / disk / network. We could count on the resources being there. That set us free to try to do more and more complex things. But Moore's law only helps indirectly with managing complexity. For hackers it makes possible stuff like "Show Definition..." in the IDE.

This complexity bloat afflicted Microsoft Windows back in the XP / Vista days. It afflicts what I'm working on now.

What else could successful product creators do with their money?

* Obviously, return some of it to their investors.

* Invest it in new complementary products.

* Use it to finance big organization-wide pushes to refactor to improve performance.

* Reduce prices and drive more widespread adoption.

The movie industry is an interesting model. They put together a team to make a movie, then disband it. When they have a big hit the participants with residuals rake it in. They then invest in more movies (some of them are atrocious sequels, but many are good new stuff.) Imagine if they did what we hackers do now. _The Graduate_ would be on version 17, and the guy would saying "I have one word for you, son: cloud computing" instead of "I have one word for you, son: plastics." The only reason anybody would buy a ticket would be tradition.

We hackers should look at Jira carefully. Is its bloat what we're doing to OUR users?

We can certainly dish out the bloat and complexity. Can we take it? Jira makes us confront that.
talk / context: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/asg2019/relive/164

edit: I think the most important part of the talk was an answer to question about why .ssh/authorized_keys won't be possible with this scheme (42:00):

> this is about protecting your data from the system as much as possible, so that when you are not logged in it's really cut off

This looks like, among other things, an ecryptfs replacement.
So GDPR would solve some of the problems? That sounds great to me. It can also cut some borderline grey data companies.
I click it all the time when I feel I'm getting way too many emails. If I feel like it's not some malware spam at least but genuine marketing trying to sell me something. Every now and then I go back to all those "rewards programs" emails and unsubscribe to the least relevant ones to me.
GDPR wants to ensure that user privacy is protected. If you do that in your business, you don't need to show any cookie popups.

A honest cookie popup would ask "Do you want to be tracked for advertising purposes? yes/no", and any sane person would klick "no". No education needed at all, if the advertisement industry would play honest.

If the Web experience is ruined now, the Web advertisement industry needs to fix it.
> I don't think the GDPR solves much or anything, iff you want to play on the internet, almost … all of the time you'll have to click "I agree".

That in itself is a GDPR violation. If you care enough, report it. That said, this is not what happens “almost all of the time” at all. In my experience most websites are completely or partially usable when you disagree with being tracked. At worst (and also in violation of GDPR), the tracking dialog makes it intentionally difficult to refuse being tracked.
The European Processor Initiative's Ambitious Vision of the Future
My understanding is that Treasury took in an additional 80+ in cash against their stated goal of having 350B cash on hand (by quarter end I think). Obviously this is a very large draw of liquidity out of the system and is likely the single biggest reason for the squeeze.

Not quite 2/3 of collateral at the Fed operations has been treasuries the rest mortgage paper with a tiny amount of agencies.

The financial system/world runs on repo and it is troubling this is happening at all. My gut is Mnuchkin knew this would happen and is trying to force the Fed into backdoor easing through another round of QE before gradually releasing the cash back into the system by slightly lower than expected issuance of new debt.
Serve un-obstrusive first party ads. I have no problem with that. Otherwise, go and die.
The Mystery Behind Traveling with No Money
The money absolutely impacts the economy and the individual. If the fed were not providing this printed money to the banks, the banks would need to do some combination of the following to increase liquidity:

1) Increase interest rates to attract new deposits

2) Sell assets — such as foreclosed homes now in the banks possession

With house prices at all time highs and interest rates at all time lows, both 1&2 sound great to me and absolutely have a direct impact on me.
Asking if the person read the post adds nothing to your comment and is against HN guidelines.
Sounds like Eagle Eye, movie didn't do well but I thought it was a fun watch at least.
If it's from a legitimate company in American jurisdiction they are legally obligated to stop sending emails if you click unsubscribe. I suppose that piece of information has some nonzero value that you are giving up in exchange to not be contacted by that company.

If you filter just a single address that address can change. If you filter their domain you might lose legitimate correspondence.
Bill de Blasio wants to make public campaign financing a reality nationwide
True, but the "law abiding" corporations are the problem for my privacy, not spammers.
Reconstructing Denisovan Anatomy Using DNA Methylation Maps
But there is no reason for most websites to be compliant when they know that by default they will get what they want (blanket permission)...
This and only this is a valid, legal solution according to the GDPR.

Especially all the "by continuing to use our site, you'll agree to getting the shit tracked out of you"-messages are highly illegal, because the GDPR requires explicit consent.

Sadly there have been no big legal cases up till now. But the time will come.
I'm curious: why?
>It can't be anonymous, because in case of a dispute it has to be known who paid for what.

Idem with ads.
Maybe if the adds became less invasive/tracking fewer people would bother with ad blockers.
Right, there’s sort of a gentlemen’s agreement not to be consistent regarding the equation of subsidies and “unrecovered negative externalities”. That just means that if you have enough political power, you can ignore demands to be consistent. It doesn’t mean, as you seem to think, that there’s an actual substantive difference between:

a) “Letting polluters get away with not compensating victims of pollution is a subsidy.” vs

b) “Letting muggers get away with not compensating their victims is a subsidy.”
GDPR wants 0 tracking. That's wrong too, the internet can't work that way, even governments can't work that way. EU wants advertising to go back to the popup / animated gifs & flash / interstitial era to maximize clickthroughs in the off-chance one of them is actually interested in your ads. That's regression
So only the websites that are big enough to make deals with specific advertisers are allowed to make money on the internet?
I guess I must not be important enough or something because I don't recall the last time I got any marketing emails without sharing my email with a marketing person. The only marketing outside of "Rewards" programs that I get is marketing from the one conference I go to every year, and I get plenty of free swag from them, then I unsubscribe.
Have them click a link to acknowledge receipt.

A tracking pixel hit only means that that the email was received and loaded in some email client, not that it was read (in detail, or at all), understood, or acted on.
There are ways to make AdBlockers work with Safari 13. It is a question of someone taking the effort to adhere to the new design enforced by Apple for Safari extensions.

I switched to AdGuard from uBlock Origin.
I don't care. If the web becomes largely paywalled as a result I'll just stop visiting those sites and stick to the still free ones. Or there's other things to do with one's time, if you cast your mind back 10 or so years before everyone became glued to their phones.
Why would you want to rely on a thoroughly unreliable mechanism primarily used by marketers for a case where it's actually important for the user that you know you reached them? Maybe just ask them instead, record responses, and deal with people who don't respond (and with autoresponders).
Only for the US market, outside of that there are lots of mail providers which are instead used. GMail addresses are a scarcity in Europe.
Moreover, a lack of tracking pixel hit doesn't mean the e-mail wasn't loaded, much less that it wasn't read, understood or acted on.
> if everyone starts blocking ads then the current free internet cannot be sustained as it is today

True, but you could also say same about state of advertisement on TV. I think this problem is quite far away, as most people don't use them. Also major players are/will be actively throwing obstacles for average Joe to install ad blocker.

Also consider impact of platforms like patreon, et al. A lot of small time one-person content creators are being supported mainly by it. So there are quite few people who are willing to support quality stuff (disproving idea that people are trained to get everything on the internet for free and ads are only way to make living).
Sure… but that is always true when it comes to law. I just don't see how that makes the situation worse for the people?

I don't want to be tracked by marketing emails without consent (or, more realistically, ever, because please). If you want to do it anyway, from here on out you have to violate the law.

If you had no trouble with doing that before (being a filthy spammer/scammer), you still won't. If you do, then you will stop tracking me. Hooray.
Mostly just me being lazy and writing the stylesheet for my 1440p screen at home, I've done very little optimisation for other screens/devices.
Thunderbird blocks images per default. I never bother to load them.
Did local newspapers have a problem "making deals with specific advertisers"? I mean, if that's the business you're in, better get on it, right?
Surely more than a couple of hours
> It has lead to compulsory acceptance

I have a simple heuristic: if there is a big overlay preventing me from looking at the content, I just disable javascript altogether for the site. Most of the time this result in a clean experience with just the text I was interested in in the first place. If it breaks the article I close the tab.
GTD Gmail: Inbox Zero and Optimized Email Workflow
I didn't know this first but spent awhile after installed Safari 13 and noticed uBO wasn't there anymore and spent time searching for alternative options and valuating those mentioned in the post but decided I'll go with FF and only use Safari with some websites those I'm working with them.
This is how at least local businesses do here now, I don't have problem with marketing emails from them. You actually have to check the input, not accidentally forget.
I don't want to overanalyze this, but there is a small dark upward bump between the breasts which makes the white stuff look like a bra or bikini top to me.

Note also how there is black below it as it wraps around to the back. If all that black space were her right arm, it would have a bump in the middle, and she would hold it in a very awkward position with the hand wrapping around to her back below her left arm. Seems less likely to me.
You could also rent it to someone other than yourself, pay your taxes on that income and use the profit to pay for a cheaper accomodation.

That does mean you can't use your own home as a safety for when you're old and poor, but that doesn't necessarily make the tax bad. It just means you have to change strategies and invest your money productively. In practice I'd expect the number of people who suddenly find themselves unable to afford even just the tax on what they'd have to pay to rent their own property to be quite small.
Ahh, this is nice. I work in an office with a number of economists (energy economics consulting firm), but I’m basically the only python user. Feel like this could be useful in bridging some gaps for the folks who only use SAS and got their PhDs cobbling together whatever code (VB, FOTRAN, etc.) got their models to run back in the day.

I’ve written so much documentation on Confluence where it would have been easier to just send a pdf like this :/
> How do you make it better?

How about asking? What about some live chat to gather information?

We have found this to be highly valuable for our shop(s). It automatically pops up after 30 seconds on a product page, on other pages the badge is always present. Lot of good chats, lots of "I'm looking for XY"-feedback that helped us improve.
Making your code public -- this works.

I open-source all my code by default, and giving it to the world in good quality is a big motivator to do it well.

It also builds you a nice portfolio which is useful outside of "work for yourself".
We don’t need to imagine. There’s a number of good articles featuring interviews with drone operators asking this exact question.

It’s as bleak and distressing as you can imagine. Here’s a couple to get you started:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/life-as-a-dron...

https://dronecenter.bard.edu/burdens-war-crews-drone-aircraf...