skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why people are travelling more to ski (ironically, making the snow worse). It’s insurance for your holiday. Now people aren’t looking for just nice snow, we’re hunting higher elevations as we know it’s colder.

I actually probably wouldn’t bother with a < 1400m Ski resort anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere this year.
I wonder why it closed. It does seem a shame.
This seems a little like saying a disastrous hurricane spoiled your golf outing.
> And how difficult it is to identify a civilian plane vs a weapon?

if there is such a way, then your enemy planes can just as easily masquerade as a civilian craft and evade the missile!
Why assume he wasn't paid? I find it hard to believe that such a well-organised plan would hinge on being able to browbeat a lowly employee instead of rewarding him handsomely. A $15m operation could spare, say, a hundred thousand (a small fortune in Turkey).
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Anecdotal experience:

(dynamic) functional programming enables very 'easy' succinct abstractions through combing out concretions and composing functions out of a general tool-set. Think code-reuse in the small.

With some discipline you naturally end up with a very data-oriented codebase, where the specificity of your application/library ends up in your data-structures.

Now these data-structures are really just plain data, without specific behavior attached to them, so they embody the (maybe almost) declarative part of your program/system. The next step would be to polish them to make them more human readable.

An additional feature of Lisps is their homoiconicity and macros. These come into play when plain data-structures are not the right fit anymore. Typically you want to handle some user/client defined behavior. You can now transform the syntax of the language itself to clean up your API to reduce boilerplate and increase readability.

In a sense you have now programmed your own DSL.
> that news is important is also a "need" created by advertising, so that, .... they can show more ads :).

You don't consider the news to be an essential part of a democracy?

I've said enough about why I believe advertising is a net positive, so I'm not gonna retread that part.

But question the value of "the 5th estate" to society? That's a whole other level.
Do you support X or support Y is not really what was being talked about, the question is from a starting point of X existing do you support it moving to Y (instead of remaining X).

Moving from a proprietary to a shared/common system is an obvious move forward.
This is very good news unless you bought a Chrome app (say, a game), and you won't be able to use it anymore.
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That's completely false.

A politician's long term translates to how much they can steal or mess up before they retire.

My long term is 5-10 years, I don't share any of their concerns and I don't even care what their concerns are.
You might be looking for the section "Pairing can be exhausting".
Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browser execution engines
(let [intermediary-val (first-fn val)
result (second-fn intermediary-val)])

Or as one of the parents said

(-> val first-fn second-fn)
They certainly can try, but major vendor will resist. Kazakhstan government has tried this method[1]. They sure can try sneaky ways, but any imported laptop connecting to hotel Wi-Fi could reveal it.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/08/21/protecting-our-...
This really strikes me as analogous to a blame-the-programmer situation, when what is really needed is a process improvement or change.
Cool!

Sorting by release time would be nice to see new stuff.
> being pretty liberal for an islamic country

For some unpredictable value of “pretty liberal” perhaps?

For instance, sex out of wedlock or cohabitation are illegal, including for tourists.

”If you holiday in the emirate unmarried and you come to the attention of the authorities ... if it’s then discovered you’re sharing a room and a bed you can be jailed and then deported.”
In-browser coding env for block based games like snake or tetris
Thank you for the appreciation!

Why let the tool block you when you can use the time more productively? So we thought. ;)
>As someone who believes in climate change, and grew up playing in the snow - what on earth are you talking about? Where is this magical place where it used to be snowy all winter long and is now averaging 50-60 degrees with snow now being a rare occasion?

I agree. In the Northeast part of the US we still get really cold and snowy winters. But almost year after year our summers are getting hotter. And the seasons in between those are getting shorter.
I see this post attracted 2 kinds of people, those concerned with climate change (and those denying it), and skiers/holidayers.

Yeah using snow cannons to keep climate change affected ski resorts open is borderline genius. /s
End-user / consumer behaviour changes will have only a fractional impact on climate change; what is necessary is for large scale policy changes.

Which by the way are already happening; all over the world, governments are slowly adjusting emission rights, energy companies are transitioning to renewables and closing coal plants, car companies are required to only sell low emissions cars, and billions of trees are being planted all over the world.

It's already happening at a huge scale but all you're thinking of is small changes that you yourself could reasonably do that, in the end, have a negligible impact on a global challenge.
I've been there! I definitely felt the same 4-5 years ago after 15 years as a software developer. I then changed to a support engineer position on a product for software developers (i.e. Travis CI). And it was amazing! All I was doing all day was troubleshooting/debugging customer issues. Given my background as a dev, I could dive into the codebase when needed and also look at the logs and metrics to understand what was happening. I also had the chance to code some tools to help deliver a better support experience (e.g. Slack bots, admin dashboard). This is definitely my new calling and I'm currently looking for a new position on a similar product after a rewarding 4+ years at Travis. Hope this helps!
LOL. It is not the nextgen version of GL. It is a tool that would let you make your own OpenGL. It is way too low level and takes insane amount of work comparatively to OpenGL/DirectX. Sure big engine developers would love it. Smaller guys like myself: not so much.
I'm still "waiting" for ads that are actually relevant for me, and not just based on something I randomly watched a few days ago.
> Or you could if you manually added some common tag to every single data type like interface.

This is how you emulate them, I took it for granted and neglected to explicitly mention this is a moderately popular convention in TypeScript (those are the tags I referred to). fp-ts for example uses it all over the place.

With this the end result is essentially the same with compile-time type-safety for everything, and compiled down to an untyped binary or an untyped JS blob.
Well, in this case, your decisions define "healthier". In fact, it's up to you whether you study the daily snow bulletin and decide to ski in moderate avalanche danger. It's up to you whether you ski down the steepest descents.

However when skiing in a resort, others can bump into you by accident. Your muscles cool down while sitting on the chair lift, and get tired at the end of the day without really noticing it, which leads to a number of accidents.
I've torn my ACL in a resort couple of years ago, and ski touring feels much safer - at least for me.
Never claimed it was altruistic. Is altruism the only acceptable way to make a living?

And my claim, to be specific, is that I disagree with your definition of lying. So does the dictionary.
Damn, this Solitair game isn't available in Germany.
Last thing I read was there have been around 150 people arrested since November for starting the fires in Australia... whether or not they were coordinated has not been revealed.
Cheap housing is everywhere.

Tell that to someone living in SV or London.
The Mythical Mythical Man-Month
Yeah, that works. I'm glad you're willing to put in the work, but I have to tell you, if you'd just focused on delivering the content and followed the principle of progressive enhancement, you'd be delivering a better experience for probably the same amount of effort at this point.
Where are you?
If you are in San Fran or Seattle, rumor has it that you can convince an angel investor to give you a convertible note, 20% discount at a $5mm cap without any real sales.

But every where else that I have seen, your intuition is correct: friends/family.

This might be a good thing, because the sales is really what proves the product. Look at the dozens of low code platforms that compete in your space (if I understand your concept).

Good luck.
they are not. the current consensus in computational neuroscience is that a neuron can be equivalent to a 2-layer or 3-layer ANN with point nonlinearities.

Edit: i am blocked from posting, so here are the refs:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20800473

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25554708

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
So what have you done with the laptop? I love the build quality and lightness of the pixelbooks but spending so much for something to brick in 5 years is an issue.
You can use /proc to get what you need. It has a memory map and the memory itself. Read the map, pull the heap segments out, and read them into files named after the addresses. On an identical machine, load the process up, attach via gdb, and (this is the tricky part) then mmap in the files saved from the other side at the right addresses. If you can get the roots into your heap (tough), you can use gdb'd python API to write a traverser to get the data you need back out.
If I have a project I'm working on, like a website for myself or someone else, I'll spend like 2-5 hours a week; otherwise, almost nothing outside of work.

I don't feel compelled to code outside of work just for the sake of coding, it's only if I want to make something.
(GKI = generic kernel image)
If you want a read that takes this to the utmost extreme, I recommend "People of Sand and Slag": https://windupstories.com/books/pump-six-and-other-stories/p...

It's scary to me how true it rings.
The raptors escaped because the The Jurassic Park security system was never restarted before in its history :)
It is not a next generation OpenGL, unless one wants to become an expert in driver and compiler development on top of mastering graphics programming.

Currently Khronos answer for those that don't want to become such experts it to stick with OpenGL, the problem is that is isn't gettting much updates beyond 4.6, and Vulkan is not getting a more developer friendly API.

Most devs will be better by choosing a middleware engine and just check the respective box of the desired graphics API backend.
notably this kind of dendritic spikes has not been found in other animals which have been investigated for dendritic spikes extensively (mice, rats, monkeys)
Right I guess I forgot that the same position at a fancy company is somehow worth more because the company name is part of the FAANG acronym.

You can't pretend that there aren't plenty of non "prestigious" companies that do this. Frankly the fact that any company would judge you based on "oh, you don't spend your unpaid time doing work that we consider important?" is absolute bullshit, no matter the "reputation" of the company.

These jobs are just another cog in the wheel job for christ sake, stop putting companies on a pedestal just because of their name.

Furthermore, if you're applying for a "desirable" role and you don't have any previous experience and NEED to use a github profile to show yourself off, it's clear that the only thing making this role "desirable" is the name on the fuckin company building which, again, is a bullshit reason to consider a job "desirable".

Otherwise, a "desirable" role would be one that could be a senior role in a field that you already have experience in, so your actual work experience should be plenty of evidence for your worthiness for the position and you shouldn't need any outside hobby code to show that you're qualified.
Freedom Pass (http://freedompass.ski) is another option similar to Indy Pass, which may be better depending on where you live in the US. In the northeast, the Dartmouth Skiway and Magic Mountain are both on it, and are two of my absolute favorite "hidden" places (I have more fun skiing them than most of the mid-size places on Ikon or Epic).
No: GP said "out of academia long enough." Recent newcomers to politics with extensive backgrounds in professional science (for some definition of "recent" and "extensive") could still count.
This is why I’ve embraced Apple Arcade... it’s inexpensive and no games have in app purchases or ads it’s great
The majority were either natural starts (lightning) or accidental (unsupervised campfires and I think one was due to a tossed lit cigarette) however after the fires had been burning for a while there were a few cases of arson because some people just like to see the world burn.

Regardless of which fires were started by what cause however, the fires burn extremely hot and spread fast as a result of conditions caused by climate change. This turns something as simple as a tossed cigarette into a meaningful fire hazard and turns a normal fire into one that spreads aggressively enough to render it nearly impossible to stop with a large amount of manpower. That makes them actually impossible when they are burning all over the country and the mostly unpaid volunteer fire fighting force is spread thin dealing with them.

That's the thing I've taken away from all of this, climate change doesn't necessarily increase the number of incidents to unreasonable levels (the rate goes up but not to apocalyptic levels), instead it takes otherwise minor or normal incidents and sets the conditions to allow them to escalate in increasing severity.
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> Clever idea. I'm curious why you decided to allow games with DLC though. That's technically an In-App Purchase. I get it's not a Consumable IAP, but it's still IAP.

That's why I called it "No-Bullshit Games" instead of "No-IAP games" :P

> Ads you can pay a few bucks to remove

That's fine by me.

> then a couple of consumables that are optional and you can earn during a game anyway if you're lucky, but can buy more if you want (it's a push your luck game, so luck is part of the design)

That's where I kind of start to consider the game "bullshit", I want to play and enjoy myself, not have constant FOMO of what could be if only I'd spent some more money. That said, it doesn't sound nearly as annoying as some of the crap I've installed.

> yeah, I'm hoping mine doesn't come across as obnoxious (obviously it wouldn't qualify for the No-Bullshit list, though).

Oh, I didn't read this far before starting the reply :P I hope so too, and yeah, it probably wouldn't qualify.

Good luck with the game, I hope it goes well!
Here in Toronto I grew up with snow all winter long - quite literally, we'd get the first snow around the start of December and it would stick until the start of March.

Now, this winter has been 30-50 degrees F all winter, save for the occasional blast of polar air. We haven't had snow that has stuck longer than a week. The GP's message was correct. Besides, do you really think that an exaggerated claim will be what makes/breaks a climate denier's point of view?
This is what’s happening with Greta Thunberg and young climate activists, and explains why the boomer generation is so upset about it.
Maybe referring to this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

> The window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house.

I don't know if this tax was levied in the Netherlands, but I've heard of other towns that developed narrow house fronts to minimise this outflow.
We are off to the 3 Valleys in a couple of weeks and the full area lift pass for 6 days is ~300 Euros - which given the vast size of the area and quality of the lifts is actually not too bad.

Certainly better value than the £35 a day you can pay here in Scotland on the rare days where we have snow and no wind!

[€183 for 6 days at Nevis Range, ~€300 for the same in the 3 Valleys....]
When I was in primary school we had at least a week or two of actual snow every winter, whereas today we barely even get freezing temperatures. In the eighties Berlin got 37cm of snow per year (median) and 21 frost days, in the 20-tens we only got 17cm and 13 frost days.
LUVOIR can provide up to about 25 km imaging resolution in visible light at Jupiter

The planet is ~10,000 times further away. Back of envelope puts the resolution at 250,000km. The earth is 12,000km in diameter. At 5.8x Earth mass and assuming similar density it would be a bit more than twice as wide and 25,000km diameter is easy to work with giving the planet a width of 1/10th of a "pixel". That's not nothing. In fact it's quite a lot relative to nothing. But it's still a long way from a well resolved image.
We are located in Europe. Thank you for your advice!
That wasn't my point - we are talking about a specific scenario here, not "all"
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Here's an equally correct example invoking Godwin's law.

>Why yes I do donate lots to the ANP.
>Why? Well they align with my love for Hitler, racial purity and fascism.
>What do you mean the board things this'll make jewish employees uncomfortable?
>A wider range of customers/employees won't like it either?
>So what. It's legal, protected political speech in donation form!

Nobody gives a fuck. It's equally legal to not want to associate with such a person.
Whether it's a racist or someone that wants to ban gay marriage, etc i wouldn't to work for them, with them or fund them.
And guess what.
I don't expect the Mormon church or whatever to put part of a gay couple or an advocate or donor for related stuff in an executive position either.
So what I'm saying is you'll start to get goods shortages too.

So is it better to build enough houses or enough Televisions? Right now the richest parts of the world are flooded with consumer goods but starved of decent housing. This isn't just a problem for the poor, I know plenty of high earning middle class people who have to put up with poor housing.
So PWAs will have support for Bluetooth and all the other features of Chrome apps?
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People on the ground with missile launchers don't go through airport security.
Tax was levied on the width of the house.
Among those who don’t deny it are a bunch who don’t believe there’s anything we can do (or have done) to change the pace in either direction, there’s just too many unknowns. When it comes to legislation, few are going to tolerate forced lifestyle cramping on something that ranges from “no way of knowing” to “overconfidence in our ability to know”.
> those things may be related.

I can't tell if this is parody or not. Of course they're not related. The "civil war in Syria" is a regional power proxy war and has nothing to do with climate or "the price of bread."
Good idea, thanks! I'll add that soon.
One small detail - though COND and IF/ELSE are very closely related, they aren't quite the same thing. Early Smalltalk also started out with COND (a right arrow which made code look like modern switch/case) and later evolved to #ifTrue:ifFalse: which is still postfix, so feels backwards compared to other languages. Lisp and Scheme got more conventional if/else eventually.
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TBH I dont understand the developers preference for laptops, generally.

The laptops are good when you need to be mobile - but you can pry my multi-large-monitors desktop out of my dead hands, because I'm not giving that up for serious be-in-the-zone development.
I have long thought that pair programming and open offices were yet another way of punishing anyone who is neuro-atypical.
Looking at the charts in: VAL D'ISÈRE SNOW HISTORY [1]

I don't get the impression of reduction in snowfall nor snow depth.

2010 and 2011 look bad comparatively.. but recent years look variable-yet-stable.

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https://www.onthesnow.co.uk/northern-alps/val-disere/histori...
I wish there were officially supported csharp bindings
"Some experience with people with disabilities" implies a far lower level of commitment and immersion than the "exposure to science" that's being discussed in this thread.

If a politician claims they have a scientific background, but it turns out all they did was take gen bio in first year and follow a dozen popular scientists on Twitter, they'd be derided.
This is intentional misinformation designed to elicit this exact response. Right wing blogs are taking the stats from NSWs police force who caution people for things like discarding cigarettes and having small fires on their properties and heavily implying there’s some leftist arson campaign that is responsible. It’s laughably implausible.

https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_s...
> biometric authentication looks like a promising solution to this problem

Yep, and if it gets hacked, then all you need to do is change your fingerprints.
No. There were hundreds of individual fires across the country, as the entire continent saw unprecedentedly dry weather conditions. It wouldn't matter whether it were lit by lightning, a utility pole or a match, the fact was that the forests and air were unprecedentedly dry and the fires became quickly impossible to control and spread quickly.
Thanks for the kind words.

Sandstorm the company definitely failed (ran out of money and couldn't raise more, while having negligible actual revenue). Sandstorm the open source project continues and has actually seen an uptick in development activity lately.
We also need taxing of emissions to curb emissions of other greenhouse gases (mostly methane) that are not tied directly to the burning of fossil fuels. For example emissions from household animals, drained farmland and so on.

The problem with these kinds of taxation systems is that they are really difficult to enforce, because you need a way to measure the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by each individual business.

Taxation of emissions is another tool in the toolbox, but we also need to guarantee that the consumption of fossil fuels is decreasing at the same time. Taxation may help, but it provides no guarantee of that.
You didn't mention anything about your goals for the business. I'd start there.

Taking funding might get you out of a short term hole, but it's a tradeoff with costs down the road that will be paid one way or another.

> We have only 8 months of runway left, and will need to raise capital to stay afloat.

Depending on your goals, there could be a number of paths open to you that don't involve outside funding.
Arrived in the Sierra Nevada right this moment - to ski.... to find a single patch off fake snow amidst green pastures
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This is correct and also why you see the super-wide houses on Herengracht ("Gentlemen's canal") as that is where the wealthy traders lived. They could afford the insane tax.
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Hahaha, thanks :-)