skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main cultural difference is that they never threw off English rule, they're still technically subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England (or something like that.) Quebec has this dual culture going on where the French were overthrown by the English and are still a little huffy over it from time to time.

It boggles the mind why people think this of Canada. The queen takes up a combined 0% of our collective thoughts and concerns. English rule is non existant, we're a sovereign nation.

With the possible exemption of some archaic laws 99% of people wouldn't be able to cite, England has 0 influence over Canada.

Likewise your assessment of Quebec is quite dated by a few hundred years. It's the equivalent of Europeans wondering if the US south is still dealing in slaves. With that said, tensions in Québec are not imagined, but they often miss attributed. As an English Québec I feel I can confidently state that issues are almost 100% due to how the government of Quebec desperately seeks ways to preserve their French culture while being in the middle of North America. Most of their laws and issues, no matter how misguided come from this very understandable motivation to keep their culture.
Come on, brick wall of 150cm? It's insane, no one builds that for individual house.
The Vienna State Opera is releasing one opera a day, up for 72 hours (subtitles in multiple languages) https://www.staatsoperlive.com/live

The Metropolitan Opera (NYC) is releasing one opera a day, up for 23 hours, has English subtitles.
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-...

https://operawire.com/ has a complete list of opera companies doing free streaming.

Wikipedia has details and synopsis for many operas.
And because many Americans are ignorant about how things work in other countries, when they do realize there are some downsides to American culture, instead of recognizing it's an American problem they will usually blame it on whatever group they're politically opposed to.

Eg take for example the lonely individualism and lack of community the article talks about. If you discuss that with an American gender studies student, they'll say "oh we have many studies about that, it's called toxic masculinity" which implies it's a global problem with men who need to be "fixed". But actually as the article points out, no such lonely individualism exists for men in many other cultures, so it could more accurately be called "toxic Americanism".
Even if we made them here in the US, we still need a stockpile. We used to stockpile masks.
A large fraction of websites with Crawl-Delay set it a decade ago and promptly forgot about it. No modern crawler uses it for anything other than a hint. The primary factors for crawl rate are usually site page count and response time.
You do not need an app for taking a screenshot, but apps can and often do provide additional functionality than the OS - the OS cannot provide by itself every single functionality you may need, its developers may not even think about all cases or consider them important to implement them.

For example while the snipping tool (and printscreen and alt+printscreen, etc) exist, there are tools like Greenshot and Snagit that provide functionality like instant saves to files, better on-screen snipping, an embedded editor for annotations, etc that can be very useful when you want to create many screenshots fast.

Another thing is that some tools may not exactly do what the OS would do (screenshots in this case) but use the mechanism for something similar but different. For example ScreenToGif uses pretty much the same mechanisms for taking screenshots to create short GIF animations from screen captures and then provides a simple timeline editor to for editing the frames, adding annotations, shapes, etc.

The OS simply has nothing like these and it is impossible for it to provide every single functionality that could ever exist.

Note that this applies to other stuff too, not just screenshots.
Much of the "progress" of the last few thousand years, and in particular the last few hundred, has been the move away from the sort "polite society"-centric policies and towards a model in which we recognize the value of so many different kinds of human activities.

Besides, I think the comment you were replying to was really about the almost complete absence of post-secondary "technical education" in the USA, in particular when compared to countries like Germany.
Generally aside from games , them taking a 30% cut is generally the profit margin for most software companies. So unless of you can survive year 1 with funding of some kind, or are making side hustle apps, you have to wait till next year to get that 15% increase in subscription revenue. So you pay 30% + cost of user acquisition + all other costs and hope that you can profit. Definitely not developer friendly. Then there’s the issue of rejecting apps, pulling it when they want, building out the functionality themselves or buying a competitor and pushing their own version. Forgot to include Apples return policy for digital products is very hurtful for developers too, there’s been hundreds of articles on it, you literally can get anything digital for free if you contact Apple support and say you want a refund... LinkedIn subscriptions, game products, anything.
You don't seem to understand how insulation works (or is necessary) in the US.

It's not that wood is super-insulating (though it's certainly better than stone). It's that wooden beams are spread far apart, and the space between them can be chock-full of insulation.

And as another commenter pointed out, the main reason isn't summertime insulation -- it's wintertime insulation. Stone is freezing. When it's -20°C out, insulation in between wooden beams makes all the difference.

Concrete blocks filled with insulation still just have way too much concrete to transmit the cold directly from outside to inside.
"The safety of thimerosal is entirely possible to evaluate. It was in a bunch of childhood vaccines; it now is not. Has there been any demonstrable difference?"

If you don't believe that proper clinical trials are important to evaluate safety then there's not much more I can say. Epidemiological studies are rife with problems and the data can be manipulated to claim almost anything you want.

"Not necessarily. Could just not be worth the fight with the anti-vaxxers spreading bullshit about it. See also: Subway ditching azodicarbonamide because some blogger started a scaremongering movement around it."

Good point, but mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to man, does not break down, and is scientifically proven to bio-accumulate in mammalian tissues and never leave. It was also injected directly into the body, bypassing all the normal biological defenses a compound must go through before entering tissues. Furthermore, people can chose to not eat Subway without consequence. If vaccines had thimerosal in them again, it would be unavoidable without major life changes and being forcibly removed from large swaths of civil society. A consequence so severe necessitates a more proof than just saying you think mercury is safe in small doses with zero supporting concrete evidence.

Thimerosal was removed around 2001, well before the anti-vaxxer movement had enough influence to matter.

Your feelings and weak suppositions about thimerosal in vaccines are not science, and rather just indicate that you want to believe what you want to believe without presenting any concrete evidence.
> How many people can find success in life in the absence of money, such as with mathematical glory on the secret of the primes?

This question itself is quintesentially American. Here in Poland, I don't hear ANYONE EVER talking about wanting success. I think people here just want contentment and some sort of balance.
I remember so many of the games of that time made the exact same mistake: they would focus so heavily on a piece of technology that often just wasn't-quite-there-yet, and yet since that was the game's "thing" (especially since games were hyped so early in magazines), they could never really let it go. With Tresspasser, if they had gone with the initial vision of it being a survival-horror dinosaur game, but they had designed it more like a contemporary like say Half-Life, it's an idea that totally could have worked. Remember how scripted Half-Life was, especially some of those early levels that were almost like standing in a movie? (A new experience back then). I could totally imagine a dinosaur game working with that kind of model and tech. You can imagine showing a JP-style scene where the dinosaurs do something very clever in a controlled environment, and maybe having player's project more into the AI based on that; which would have been a much better investment than a state machine they ended up just having to mostly disable. (I remember people were very complementary of Half Life's AI, but I think it really boiled down to clever level design more than anything). The problem was that while the physics were really interesting, there just wasn't enough there to actually build a game on, and a lot of things that were interesting were awful gameplay wise (the weird floppy arm for instance).

I do have a lot of nostalgia for it though. I remember playing it when I was 13 or 14 on something like a K6-2 300mhz, and as disappointing as it was it was also really interesting.
These days, I simply don't. I used to have multiple ways of storing content but I found that they were write only, as I never went back and read what I was storing. These days, I simply read the article now or don't bother with it, rather than procrastinating on reading it.
What you write sounds exactly what you'd get with JRE and Python which worked ever since the Win9x days. My questions are about the differences that make this necessary.
Accounting 101: balance sheets, cash flow analysis. Those tools were not created to have interesting graphs and tables to look at but to promote and show explicitly what’s going on behind the scenes. I get that a lot of people just invest on their emotions (like-able CEO; must invest!) but what’s actually happening is they are just taking in debt and passing on the risk (while profiting temporarily and leaving the company exposed naked).

I have tons of friends with small business that own 2-3 personal property, all the luxuries and yet officially the business is in shambles (right now). The attitude is “who cares”, they take the money out and spend it on themselves and just fire everyone. They pass on the risk. That money came from greener days and now employees have to file for unemployment. I guess people see this as normal, but it isn’t and it shouldn’t. Tax-payers are now subsiding those unemployment checks while the profit taking already benefited the owners.
Other interesting cross platform IDEs include imgui when used with Nim. This is remarkably easy to use
https://github.com/nimgl/imgui
Log cumulative graphs make it hard to see whether the daily rates are increasing or decreasing. Here are non-log, non-cumulative, new daily deaths per 1M people to compare different countries:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1dNAVpgRGjEViK-9ULhE...
The employer pays a lot of "non-taxes" on top of your gross salary in Russia: social security, healthcare and retirement funds are not funded from your 13% income tax.
Very typical in the U.S. for the professor to do the 300 person lecture twice a week, and have a TA go over homework, proctor quizzes, or run labs in smaller sections of ~30 people. At my undergrad, smaller classes that are lower division would be taught by a grad student to like 30 people, upper division seminars are usually faculty though.
Viruses evolve in a way that's very similar to living things (and some scientists consider them living, but that gets into philosophical definitions of life). They have genotypes that can mutate, and some of these mutations find ecological niches where they reproduce better than others, which leads to those genomes reproducing themselves more, i.e. evolution by natural selection. They're taxonomized similarly to living organisms as well, into phyla, orders, families, genera, species, etc.
My favorite part of this already great article is where the Armenian guy referred to the US tax system as Byzantine. Bravo!
Anyone got an idea why this story was scrubbed from the front page so fast?

Seconds story I've seen wiped without reason just today and I haven't even been on here much.
I mentioned in another comment, nobody's building houses out of sheets of plywood. (I mean plywood may or may not be involved, but that's not the "wood" part of a "wooden house".)

Wooden houses have wooden frames, with the wooden beams spread out, so that the space between them is chock-full of insulation.

This insulation is far, far, far superior than brick/stone can ever be. Brick is a terrible insulator. That's just a fact.
You can download all your Keep notes via Google Takeout.

And there's an unofficial Python API, that works well and is actively maintained: https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi
How is this different from Glimpse https://meetglimpse.com/ ?
Although I don't plan on a lifelong "rat race", I want enough success to enable me to take multi-day motorcycle trips or own a ranch. I plan on pulling out of the rat race by 35, definitely by 40.

That's not to say I'm not finding time here and there to enjoy now.
> Cars and suburbia are destructive:

That may be the thing which saves the US in a pandemic like this.

Gotta love the constant car hate that is usually coupled with an anti-development NIMBY attitude that prevents denser cities.
Sites also use 403 and 503 to send rate-limit signals, despite what the RFCs say.
If anyone believes a for profit company is looking out for anything but their own interests they are sorely mistaken almost all the time.

The thing with Apple though was there were good reasons to believe that their interests were strongly aligned with their users’ and by extension with indie developers.

At a time when the Mac was definitely not the obvious choice, Apple had a very strong interest in promoting high quality indie apps because that was a differentiator for their platform (they were also not as financially strong, so this pushed some of the costs of building differentiators out to Indies).

At a time when Apple made money solely off selling hardware directly to consumers, there was reason to believe their interests once again aligned with those consumers as opposed to MS who largely sold to OEMs and Google, who didn’t even sell their OS but made money off the user data.

But as Apple’s hardware growth is beginning to stall, it appears they’ve decided they must continue to grow financially, and the only way they can do so is by wringing more money out of their existing base. As a result it’s become more about doing stuff that was earlier being done by 3rd parties themselves. And that means indies are screwed becUse Apple can crush them in a way it couldn’t an Amazon or a Netflix, not that it’s not trying.
Where I live, that only exists on actual county highways or new suburbs. When they get to be 10-15 years old (and if it's grown enough to become a town or something), the local area typically makes an ordinance to have sidewalks.
Slack and WhatsApp seem to be adding to your case, and they drive lots of usage.
This definitely depends on who you spend a lot of time around, and where you consume your news/media/entertainment from. I experience the opposite. Where I only hear mostly negative things about the US, and positive things about most other countries. Of course, some perception bias could come into play here too.
Germans tend to pronounce A's in English as if they were E's ("cat" is pronounced as "k-eh-t" instead of "k-ah-t" -- which I don't really understand since A in German is pronounced as "ah"), so I'm not sure if everything you learned in English class is correct ;-)
I have done so on the smallest cheapest gcloud instance and it worked alright. Under a cent an hour for privacy seems worth it.
We both find rising trends but we differ in so many ways.

First and foremost, we are an actual tool you can use, not a simple newsletter.

We give our users the ability to monitor a keyword/topic over time. As a user, you can receive daily, weekly and monthly email alerts.

Secondly, you can search a keyword/topic in any country and what you search stays private to you so that you can build your own private library of trends.

Thirdly, each trend has so many related topics that we find by querying Google, Amazon, YouTube, etc that you can dive into.

And finally, we have a beta feature where the tool forecasts how a trend will likely perform in the next 6 months.
Have you used PostGIS at all? It seems like a good choice for this kind of lookup.

https://postgis.net/
That doesn't really answer any question i made though. Is it something specifically about Windows 10X and MSIX limitations? How would i use it? Etc (i do not want to repeat my questions, i'd just copy/pasting them :-P).
> Much of the rest of the world takes for granted architectural principles of how to build life-affirming human settlements. These principles evolved over thousands of years, and it’s no accident that so many cultures reached the same conclusions. Urban Europeans, and indeed Armenians, are accustomed to vertical growth, mixed-use development (shops on first floor, apartments above), sidewalks, plazas, public squares and street cafes. These are the fixtures amidst which your halcyon childhood days played out, where you walked hand in hand with your first love, where you met friends for coffee, and hopped the train to work. It’s the corner with the pastry shop, it’s the supermarket down the street, and the bench in between.

That reads as though it were written by an alien. L'enfer c'est les autres. The idea of being required to live in an apartment above and next to a bunch of other people I didn't choose, and where I am immediately confronted by teeming masses of humanity whenever I leave my residence, is a dystopian nightmare, like Winston Smith in 1984 or something. This is the exact opposite of "life-affirming".

(I am perhaps exaggerating a bit, but the writer acting as if this is some sort of universal desire is ridiculous.)
I have run into the same situation; it doesn't really matter how to write down 'to read' articles if you never actually go back.

I used to drop bookmarks, use a reading list or drag the url to my desktop but the writing method was never the issue, it's the reading.
I think everyone involved in this project should be ashamed. Energy shouldn't be wasted into bruteforcing sha1 checksums of lists of transactions, a hash of a previous block to have a neat Merkle tree, and random data to find checksums starting with enough zeros. This is so unnecessary when we have global warming and much better things to do with our energy budget.
It is likely to help, of course, but it's a happy accident and doesn't come close to making up for the amount of pollution, deaths, and money spent on this unnecessary structure.
For anyone else reading, Epikur is known as Epicurus in English.

edit: OP edited it to Epicurus as I posted this!
Already this is happening in a roundabout way. Much of the bitcoin mining is unused hydroelectric in China, they are using the excess power that is basically free.
I agree with you on 1) and I'm not saying models and serialisers will always be the right choice. In certain cases custom serialisers will make sense and you will have to write code, but you'd be writing the same code with a framework such as FastAPI or Flask.

Regarding 2), REST will get you most of the way there, and depending on what "approval" means (does it trigger some process, or does it just change a flag in the database?) it might just be a PATCH "approved = true" on the RESTful endpoint, but when that's not the case you can indeed extend DRF ViewSets with custom actions.

I disagree on not exposing the data model; unless the model is really bad or needlessly complex, I think exposing the model is fine instead of "fabricating" a new model full of RPC-style endpoints. I've wasted way too much time in RPC-land where every little extra bit of data needed a change in some other microservice managed by another team with a convoluted deployment process meaning the change took a good part of the day, where as if they were just using REST I would've had the data to begin with. I don't think CRUD is handcuffs, at least the "R" part feels very valuable to me.
Normally I agree, but during a time of global pandemic, it would make sense to at least acknowledge if it was or was not the pandemic that caused it.
I do this, and sometimes I also copy the entire text of the article to simplify search in gmail.
> "The plant used to only open at peak times in the summer and winter months; the new mining initiative means it now operates all year round."

This is actually pretty sad. This isn't power that would otherwise be wasted: they are emitting more pollution and greenhouse gasses in order to mine Bitcoins.

Bitcoin has created a perverse incentive to pollute here.
The <marquee> tag is a throwback! Love it (in a toy project like this)
There are other ways of reducing pollution and deaths without making us live on top of one another.

Also, not everyone can afford to live in dense cities. Cities may be even worse in terms of pollution if we cared to look at data rather.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-myth-of-the-s...

Urban areas are usually celebrated for their energy efficiency and low per capita carbon dioxide emissions,
but such accounting ignores how and where they acquire their resources

Poor people commute for miles to denser cities for jobs everyday not because they want to pollute but because they have no other choice.

It is usually the poor racial minorities who end up commuting for hours daily.

https://www.abc10.com/article/traffic/she-commutes-from-stoc...
As mentioned in the article, they still get estimates from the Directions API, which takes traffic into account. However, instead of getting the ETA for each bus they get it for the path, apply some clever interpolation and refresh the base data from the API once a while
Then its still not end-to-end encrypted. The difference is that the only point where its no encrypted is under your control as well. So you're right that your meetings cannot be recorded if you host your own instance.

Unlike Zoom, Jitsi never claimed that their system was e2e encrypted which is a huge difference if you ask me. Apparently its a technical limitation of WebRTC, so I'd assume no webbrowser based solution can be e2e encrypted as of now. Which is ashame since the browser compatability makes meetings with people outside your company (or with less tech savy family members) so much easier.

edit: misunderstoot your point
HN can be brusque.
Vitamin C
That's a fair point indeed. I don't think I will ever expose non-anonymized data, because that's just too sensitive. But if I ever do, I'll make sure people are made aware they are listed, and that they can opt out easily.
I think it's obvious, and I even believe he is on record confirming this, that Spielberg saw something of himself in Hammond. As such he wanted the character to be more sympathetic and more of a showman than someone in it for the money in the movie.
Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless *
I was the first one in history class to speak up naming and condemning the Armenian genocide. I find that both the treatment of the Armenians and the Greeks during the time of the fall of the Empire and rise of the Republic was an enormous mistake on all possible accounts and by not allowing that plurality to happen in Turkish society they lost out on innovation.