skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent. This summer was my first attempt at vegetable gardening. It was fun but not very fruitful unfortunately. I had high hopes for my tomatoes but they didn't do well. I'm looking forward to trying again next year. Hopefully better planning and reading more on the topic will lead to more success.
The clear page functionality has been asked before, but I'm not sure I want to implement it. It seems useful when you are alone on your board, but when there are dozens of participants, you don't want a single one to be able to clear everything in a single button press, be it by mistake or maliciously.
> Not the same company as TrollTech.

Yes it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qt_Company
There's literally no reason to be happy about a mass migration to your neighborhood. Regardless of who the newcomers are (even internal migration in the same country), the target areas always suffer from the social problems the newcomers succumb to at a higher rate than the "natives".

The question then becomes how unhappy they are? I don't think nationalist lets-close-the-borders parties have ruling majority in any west- or north-European country yet.
Really helpful! Thanks.
> The point is that the photo is used to make a joke about how ridiculous Scott would look if he was gay.

You seem to have decided that Troy is homophobic and therefore this picture is mocking gay people, and not just mocking Scott's attempts at being sexy.

> He couldn't just have a normal dating profile photo.

They both delight in getting unflattering pictures of each other into every security presentation they can. I think you're reading into this too much.

What would be the point of changing the photo if it didn't annoy Scott when he saw it?
That study might be not support the wild conclusion in the title.

They determined fluency in two languages (Spanish and Catalan) in people hospitalized in and around Barcelona. There are some hard-core Catalans that hardly --or even refuse to-- speak Spanish there, but not that many in Barcelona, but there are (many) people from other regions in Spain who are not fluent in Catalan, because they started working and living there a long time ago, when speaking Catalan simply was not needed, or perhaps still forbidden. These will be older, poorer and more frequently hospitalized. So they might simply be looking at two very different groups. Not a word about that in the abstract. I can't access the article.

If actively speaking two languages has an influence, I wouldn't expect much of a difference between Spanish and Catalan: they are close enough to be seen as dialects. They should test this on e.g. English/Urdu speakers or Hungarian/Rumanian.
Does it prevent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
I too have fallen out of love with my Mac for similar reasons. However I think once the ARM based platform is properly integrated it will change a lot of this.
> why haven't universities long since given way to models like Lambda School, but for every discipline?

What could Lambda School look like at its best?

- self-directed learning under the close personal supervision of an expert tutor

- being deeply immersed amongst a group of highly motivated people learning at the same time that you can reflect off

- time and space to learn and grow and build a reputation and portfolio

- help connecting you with industry or other fields for a job when you finish

...but wait isn't this what a good college already is?
My dad bought us a commodore64 at a market. He did not get the tape drive, so it could not save any programmes. It came with a manual that demonstrated how to code in basic. I recall spending hours typing out code to get a ball bouncing across the screen. From there I convinced my dad to get us a computer. Never look d back since then! Funnily enough I got into Linux by picking up floppy disks with Slackware at a market as well!
Half of Europe is poorer than almost any state in the US. You can be born in an EU country where the average monthly income before taxes is below $800. 10 years ago it would've been half of that.

Chances are that you would have a higher chance of getting a tertiary education in the US too.[0]

[0] https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...
In my mind, the biggest mistake the EU has made is not being more vocal about its achievements. Perhaps this was because it was felt it would stoke some anti-EU nationalists and threaten the project, but now that that cat is well and truly out of the bag it's now actually a great opportunity to finally take more vocal leadership around the EUs values, goals and achievements.

Ironically, today, the integrity of the institution only seems to be enhanced by the less than savoury reputations and agendas of many of its detractors.
Is there anything a like license that would prevent cloud providers turning my software into a service they sell?

And at the same time is fully open for usage that does not sell it as a service?
Contiguous high-res landuse map by combining Copernicus data and Openstreetmap
> The median house in Lafayette costs roughly $150,000. A family living in this house would currently pay about $1,500 per year in taxes to the local government of which 10%, approximately $150, goes to maintenance of infrastructure [...] To maintain just the roads and drainage systems that have already been built, the family in that median house would need to have their taxes increase by $3,300 per year.

As best I can tell, the author was saying that Lafayette is spending only $150 / ($3300 + $150) =~ 4% of what it needs to spend to maintain its roads and drainage systems. That seems implausible. I wonder whether he has made an odd assumption: "currently, 10% of taxes go to maintenance of infrastructure; thus, if we increase taxes by $3,300, only 10% of the increase will go to maintenance of infrastructure." That odd reasoning might account for his "need to have their taxes increase by $3,300 per year" claim.
In paraconsistent logics one cannot use a proof of "X" and "not X" to prove any arbitrary statement, so it can indeed still be useful. However we still need to formally reason about the system to be able to establish that it is indeed a paraconsistent logic (that the principle of explosion doesn't apply).
For perspective, the ice sheet is melting at an average rate of 195 km^3/year. It is a total of 2,850,000 km^3.

It will take over 14,000 years for all the ice to melt at that rate.

The rate has increased 16% since the 1970's. Still, I think we'll be okay.

This is the first time I've actually done the math. I feel a lot better now. I doubt we will see any appreciable rise in sea levels during our lifetime.

Why do they make it out like it's imminent?
That made me chuckle, I still work on Fortran applications. Some were written in the 70s/80s, but maybe that just means the industries I've worked in are a bit _inflexible_?
So you are implying that this is natural and humans are not contributing. Sounds like climate change denial to me.
To your first question, definitely not. Like, not at all. Generally speaking countries in northern Europe are very good at English, it's used often in cities and if you live in a major city you can do almost everything in English. I lived in Berlin for 3 years and you can do virtually everything (but administrative stuff) in English (in fact that makes it difficult to learn German by immersion, people switch to English as soon as they notice that you have a foreign accent or speak a bit slowly or with difficulty).

But that's it. Local languages are dominant for any other situation. And while English is the main language used for business, the majority of people don't speak it fluently.

That varies a lot per country, for example Sweden and Norway are really good at teaching English, Austria, Germany and Belgium are ok, France, Spain, and Italy are bad.

You can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index for some comparison between countries.
For a generation, observers have bet against Europe’s future, arguing that it lacks the high growth, centralized political institutions, domestic legitimacy, and hard military tools required to have an effective global presence.

Every time I read about USA's "high growth", I think of how hollow that "growth" has been. [0] The latter three things are curses rather than advantages. Anyone who is surprised that military activity leads to suffering, has only the vaguest, most abstract understanding of either of the words "military" or "suffering". FP has published plenty by such people, so TFA may be some kind of breakthrough.

[0] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Here means Germany? Or EU in general?
Not really right now. Usually(before covid) we have off-sites where all remote devs spend time together - it was the best time for new ideas.
Three Ways of DevOps
Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?
Kickstarter for Tau Station, the world's first Biblio-RPG, has launched
Europe wins because it doesn't play stupid games. Sure, it still has to deal with the down sides of other people's foreign policy mistakes. But it's doesn't also have to deal with its own mistakes. Because it pursues a simple, equitable policy instead of trying to dominate everything.
What I meant was that I forgot that holding option when the Menu is open will show the alternative shortcuts. No need for external cheatsheets or apps.
Can't we use twitter ? Just curious...
If someone's not aware about Aaron's story, I suggest to read Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
14,000 years for it all to melt. See my other comment for the math. You can sleep easy, as will I.
Thanks! So do you and your friends just use a common chit-chat app or some other platforms?
The economics of vending machines
This was a good explanation of why US cities will never be able to cover their infrastructure maintenance costs.

The town I live in recently completed a $20mil sewer treatment plant and is in the process of beginning a $2mil+ project to replace the water lines.

It has approx. 1,600 residents, although the neighboring town is a customer of our sewer plant and they supply our drinking water (even though we are on the river).

I believe, as an investor of municipal bonds, the tax liability is eliminated, so this may be a reason this type of investment is ‘pushed’.
Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US and UK next week
I've gone back and forth on this. Yes - sometimes your worry is completely unfounded, but this article lost me here:

>Untangling messy parts of the codebase, identifying and removing dead code, cleaning up build, deploy and monitoring systems - these tasks often feel overwhelming because they can overwhelm you, sucking up days for no real gain.

Those aren't the risks I'm thinking about when I'm worried about problems like this. Difficulty/time is not the concern. Unknown-unknowns are the concern.

Upgrading our NodeJS version takes about 10 seconds with Elastic Beanstalk on AWS, but we're not on the latest version, even though it seems to run without issue and our tests pass. Why? Because maybe it'll expose some race case that would only appear in production. And worse even, maybe that race case will affect a lot of people sometimes in an extremely hard to reproduce way. Maybe it'll break something that isn't apparent for weeks.

We had a bug where some SMS notifications weren't being sent in production, and it was hurting our retention metrics for a couple months before one of our engineers stumbled across it. It was caused by a maintenance upgrade of one of our very few dependencies. In a small company or on a new product, you don't have the kind of bulletproof reporting to know when something like that is broken - your metrics are moving around quite a bit by default.

Code that works and has been working for ages without issue is code that I am not interested in changing unless I absolutely have to. Leaving/avoiding code that hasn't been changed in forever is sometimes the best option to ensure stability.

This all being said, I agree that this worry can be carried too far. Like I said - I've gone back and forth on this. Fundamentally it's a tricky line to walk.
AGPL is the closest but arguments abound over whether it covers orchestration/deployment layers.

And there's nothing saying they won't just reimplement your service (see AWS DocumentDB).
Most of the elites are weak, cowardly and selfish hypocrites. There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. They'll fall like dominoes the minute the tension starts to rise...

If you're an elite and you have any strength at all, you'd better start throwing your buddies under the bus soon. It's going to be you or them. They're so weak and so selfish, you don't have much time left before they start to crack.

If there is any dirt at all, it will all come out. Always has, always will. There are too many people in the world. You can never control all of them.
I'm selling a book via Gumroad (https://www.vimfromscratch.com/book). Not much, around 30 books per month in good months.

Here's why I think it worths it:

1) You can write it slow in your free time. No hurry.
2) You learn a lot and organize your thoughts in your head.
3) You can start selling before the book finished. It will allow you to test your audience and keep motivated.
4) When it's finished it's mostly passive income (though it's a good idea to also build a website and publish some blog posts regularly)
The Department of Defense gets the lion's share of U.S. tax dollars, but we're not supposed to talk about that.

At this point I can't tell if the politicians fund the DOD because they want to, or because they're afraid of the lengths it might go to protect its cashflow.
No doubt, universities are not in a good place.

For me, the position of the university as a societal institution is threefold:

1) Foster deep, foundational learning in an interested and talented portion of the populous.

2) Fund basic research, give academia a home, and further scientific progress.

3) Act as a filtration mechanism.

But I think these goals are different, and are now becoming so clearly differentiated they must be split apart. The university as an institution is probably best suited to fund research and science. Filtration mechanisms can be established with independent standardized testing and learning programs like Lambda School and OpenClassrooms etc. Deep, foundational learning is possible online, and parts of this learning could be delegated to colleges specialized in specific fields (medicine, technology, etc.).

I would also expect things like community colleges to spring up for associates-degree level education and vocational training.
The notion of a "proof" is only meaningful in a formal context.

Logic, mathematics, computer science, proof theory... same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_theory

We are eternally stuck interpreting all of our theories in the context of their meta-theoretic assumptions.
Yeah, we all miss that.
Reading about Macs, I'm beginning to suspect that different vintages are very different.

I'm no Mac fanboy, at all. But I love my 2014 MBP, best money I ever spent on tech. Its 2020 now, it runs like new, withstood mechanical stress, battery still holds all day with careful use. Bluetooth works fine. Keyboard is fine for laptop. CPU is fine for intensive calculations. Terminal is as good as Linux. Homebrew 'just works'; I can't count how many times I got my apt package manager into a major pickle, that required awkward backtracks. I went through a number of system upgrades that didn't break anything. 'Setting up' the computer involved powering it up, I didn't have to debug my hardware like I had to every time with new/upgraded Linux.

This is 180 deg different to my Linux experience, never mind Windows (that's a disaster). Linux is cute, but caused me issues with all the points above.

Sounds like this is very different to your experience, so much so that perhaps it is just that Macs have a large variance in quality over the years. Reading what I see now, I'm not sure I would buy another Mac. This makes me sad - my trusty 2014 MBP is the perfect computer, as far as I'm concerned, but surely at this age its days are counted.

People who seem to share this opinion often mention the 2014 vintage.
You can. Cmd+J will let you choose defaults system wide. This will be overruled if there are local settings manually selected for a specific folder.

If you want to force system wide view settings in finder, delete all DS_Store files and then do the thing with cmd+j
> A true write once, run anywhere

Despite I never worked on modern web apps, as a user, I don’t believe it’s true. I observe broken web apps more often than desktop apps.

Browsers are incredibly complicated these days, the APIs they expose to developers are less stable than APIs exposed by operating systems. The internet between frontend and backend is a huge source of bugs (latency, end-point security, packet inspection in enterprise, public routers using custom web-based authorization forms). Some web apps collect their dependencies in runtime from all over the Internets and become broken when these third parties update something.

> frictionless install

For mobile platforms or UWP it’s equally frictionless. Windows desktops have ClickOnce, and even with traditional MSI installers clicking “I agree-next-finish” only causes minimal amount of friction.

> no gatekeepers platform

Right, on mobile that’s a very good reason :-(
> I can't stand Ubuntu because it has too many commercial interests attached and its bloated [...]

But instead you use macOS?
> https://wbo.ophir.dev

Good show!

It's impossible to get something exactly like Apple Pencil/iPad Pro, in a shared Web-based tool, but this comes close.
Being from a so-called "developing" country my contact with computers was highly limited. Like, I used one for the first time when I was 11-12 years old and had the very first one until I was 17, and it was an Acer Note Light that had Windows 95 - but we were in 2005.

At my school, which was actually a "social project" of a school for rich people, they lent us the computers they no longer used for us to learn how a computer worked - at that time they were old b&w Macs and some years after Win95 pcs (they had the then-new iMacs but lent us only for one class; I recall the "wow" factor was so much I even thought the round mouse was cool).

After school I went to try to study electronic engineering but was a total failure, I ended at graphic design that is what I do for a living now. But at that time on a little show the cool kids were toying with PCs running several flavors of Linux, and showing off Compiz and that stuff. They gave us an (original!) Ubuntu 5.10 CD, which was the thing actually blew my mind off - a whole free OS! How that was possible?

Tried to install it in my PC at home (I could afford a crappy clonic when I got into uni) but, as usual, deleted all my stuff I had in my hard disk. That didn't put me off, though - we hadn't internet at home at that time, until some years after, but eventually I could manage to install it. Some years after using Ubuntu, pulled the trigger and installed Gentoo. That was in Jan. 2009 and hadn't distrohopped ever since, did my whole graphic design degree using FOSS and now in what I do for a living. Can't see myself using privative software.
not good enough in abstract mathematics, got a programming diploma instead because I liked computer graphics
Useful dataSet: List of 920 venture partners and associates reviewed by founders
And/or watch the documentary, which you can watch legally and free on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...
This hurts so much, Goes on to show the lengths people will go to portray themselves as being politically correct.

Whenever I get thoughts of doing something to change the "system", I just end up getting discouraged and disheartened to the core because of what happened with Aaron.

The one thing which stood out to me was that this guy spent time interning in government offices just to understand how it operated from inside out.

I have enormous respect for people who stop being being keyboard warriors and actually head into the swaps to understand how difficult and complex a situation is, instead of just intellectualising and theory-crafting about society based on information available online.
>If Zuckerberg started Facebook on Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE) today he would need to abide by GDPR. Means he can't just start a student DB without consent.

What you really mean is that Zuckerberg would not have started Facebook if he would've been in Europe today. Would the world have been better off? Facebook does seem to offer quite a lot of value to millions of people.
This sub being shut has nothing to do with restricting free speech, isn't it ?
Yet they have a lot of content. It works if you don't try and build up a profile and just talk crap on the internet.
Being surveiled by Google, Apple and Facebook (America), and soon in greater effect by the Indian state isn't exactly appealing, but at least it means competition I guess.

Honestly, what alternative exists? Corporations won't be OK with publishing on F-Droid, but is there some kind of opensource store that can be used for commercial apps? If some people put their heads together, maybe they could come up with something opensource that respects privacy, is secure and allows closed-source stuff to be published.
That's a thoughtful setup for a project and licensing; it's making me question and consider a few assumptions about open source projects.

Do you think there'd be ways to reduce (or at least assess) the time costs you encounter when accepting contributions, to the point where they'd be more manageable?
I've always worked remotely and it has always been the case. We always have random conversation out of nowhere.
Yes I'm aware of that definition, and I still think it is a legitimate example of tragedy of the commons.

The commons here is an abstract one: it's the lack of incentive within a society to perform a kidnapping, which is a shared benefit/resource.

The family of the victim who decides to pay the ransom is taking from this commons (by decreasing the lack of incentive), making everyone worse off in expectation, in order to benefit only themselves and the specific victim they're trying to help.
When I was 16 I had to redo my year in high school because I flunked 10 out of 12 classes that did not interest me (languages and economics, I only passed my native language course and sports). I was forced to change orientation and I chose electronics/ICT because "I spent a lot of time on the computer (playing games)" and that was the only computer-related orientation that was available. That year I discovered C++ and labview, figured out programming machines was my thing, suddenly passed all classes without having to study.
Around that time (circa 2004-5) I got hold of those Ubuntu disks, messed up my only desktop machine trying to install it (wiped drives, broken Xorg, that kind of stuff), learned a lot trying to get everything back up and it snowballed from there.

Fast forward a few years to college, still passing classes without studying because I had to "understand it" instead of "study it". Moved on from Ubuntu to Gentoo and learned a lot more.

Fast forward 12 years and now I'm a freelance backend/devops guy working mostly for healthcare companies, trying to use my skills for good after I got sick of money-chasing in ad-tech companies.

Also, I was really lucky to have a couple of good senior mentors during my first 5-7 years of working. (Thanks @gbin if you ever read this). Now I'm mentor to some junior devs.

In hindsight, flunking all those classes in high school due to lack of interest was necessary for me to discover my true calling.
Monolith – Services: Theory and Practice
GP can't possibly mean Germany with chronic communal underfinancing (yet being hit by federal law creating entitlements all the time such as for eg kindergardens, energy efficient housing, etc),