skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been wanting something like this for years, but I need it to work across different services. My work calendar and personal calendar on not both Google. Hopefully you can expand it in the future. But I'm very glad others are thinking about this annoyance :D
US Birth rates 2020: how the pandemic affected births in the US
And labor costs are already going up, as employers are competing with unemployment stimulus.
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Haha, I discovered "always TRIM both leading and trailing
spaces on both lookup criteria cells and source tables" the hard way too. At 3 in the morning...All of the 20-hour days/nights I've done as a data analyst were due to Excel malfeasance.

Also - 15 digit NUMBER precision leading to truncated values that you only discover when it's too late; no Macro undo; no way I'm aware of to transform columns/rows from formulas to their values without intermediate cut/paste steps; lots of essential features (like "Copy only visible range containing hidden cells") buried in Find & Select > Go To Special menu without keyboard shortcuts; Excel's magic ability to change cell data types by merely touching a CSV (open/closing without saving changes)...
r/btc is "uncensored" only insomuch as there are armies of trolls/sockpuppets lurking there manipulating votes and posting tons of noise.

It's easy to "not censor" when you run around with a loudspeaker making sure content you don't want seen never makes it past new.

There is also tons of false information posted there and upvoted; either through ignorance or mal-intent. Either way, it's disinformation.

An "unmoderated" forum is always controlled by the people with the most free time to post nonsense.
I’m not sure I completely buy that in-person conversations are a net positive. Constantly being interrupted with drop-in conversations definitely hurts productivity. The vast majority of the time those conversations could have been an email and our two minute chat is going to take me ten minutes to get back in the zone of what I was working on.
Amazing use of SQLite! Thanks!
Brick and stone are still more expensive than lumber and require more technical know how to do it right.
New Corrupt PDF Recovery Tool Repairs PDFs by Data Restructuring
And all this from classical mechanics and no fancy ML/AI right?
"1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2]."
LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
> Dungeon Finder and Raid Finder made it so you didn't need to find people or be in a guild to do these things.

I used to feel this way more but in the past couple of times I picked the game up Raid Finder and Dungeon Finder were completely irrelevant to myself and every player I interacted with. I did 0 Raid Finder and like 2 queued dungeons on my raid geared characters.

Having a guild is more important than ever in my opinion as relying on getting invited to pug groups is very frustrating. Especially if trying to gear up a character later in the expansion.
Normally no but given the almost complete lack of inflation during the post financial crisis years, despite continuous predictions of its eminent arrival it's become a lot harder to say. It's honestly one of the big mysteries in contemporary economics.

It's possible this current wave of anecdotes of price increases is indicitive of a large wave of inflation. It's also possible it is just a short lived mismatch between the demand economy ticking on slightly before the supply economy does.
For me, part of it is establishing MVP. Software can always be improved, that's why companies still have massive development arms years after launch.

Establish the minimum features for your product, build it, then talk to your customers to find out what they want improved.
Almost impossible to get a mortgage for unimproved land.
Not news: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/Brazil-soy-deforestatio...
Maybe...

But conversely, maybe an indie game studio could monetize their game hugely by getting a lot of hype and carefully sizing license issuance with demand.

If they said "We're only selling 10 copies per day" and the game was very popular, the price could shoot up very high as owning the game early becomes a status symbol, and developer would have a chance to do 'whale' sized monetization from initial customers.

If a million people wanted to play a game, but only 1000 licenses were available (and there was a good chance you could resell the game at the same or greater value) demand could get huge.

Other customers will complain, but there are definitely gamers that would pay 10x to be able to play a game before others - I think price discrimination that monetizes early hype around media is probably inevitable as there is demand currently left on the floor. Probably not great for society, but I bet it's coming.
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Yeah same; I'm thinking of investing in a simple chainsaw mill as I have plenty of trees on my property I could use. In the past I had someone mill stuff that I cut down but he is no longer doing it and I suspect that is getting hard to do anyways.
Definitely agree. Most of my searches are mundane and I don't have an existential stake in whether they are slightly "better" or "worse" than what I would get from a different search engine. I always start with DDG because I don't like the business models of its other main competitors. But if I don't find what I am looking for (and believe should be findable) I hold my nose and switch over to google.
I’m currently reading “Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman”, and this reminds me of his experience in high school where the teacher thought he talked too much and was too noisy because he was bored - so he gave him a copy of “Advanced calculus” by Woods to work through during class time and told him he wasn’t allowed to speak in class until he was done with it. He clearly found that a valuable experience.
I used cargo decking from old semi-trailers (lorries), the wood that makes up the cargo floor. Its nice maple butcher block. I don't think they'll stop building and retiring those trucks any time soon.
"My 'reason' domain name has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my domain name"
> Like millions and millions of people, I have a mortgage and a car payment and a credit card

That’s not the strange part. Volkswagen cannot deactivate your car if you stop paying - it’s the banks problem. Same with your house. There are legal mechanisms to kick you out or recover property, but none of them involve a subscription and remote deactivation. Imagine your front door stops opening if you miss a payment.
Yeah, agreed, the marketing angle seems to be miscalculated.
I find smurfing funny. I’ve never tried it in overwatch, but in other games with good match making smurfing doesn’t last very long. You rise to the level of incompetence really fast. I think the last time I smurfed in LoL I got about a dozen games before I started to hit a wall, which was like half as long as my previous attempt.

I actually wonder a little if smurfs in a game like overwatch with a steep starting cost are tracked and treated special to keep that revenue stream.
Is there even a way to make a tracker that couldn’t be used for stalking?
Why a peaker plant? I thought those were the most expensive energy sources, only used during demand spikes because they can ramp up and down quickly.
Sometimes all it takes is that one extra bullet
> CS just felt formulaic after a while and there was an element of discovery that was missing.

I think that's the whole point, actually. The game itself is pretty known, as well as it's strategies; to get good, it really requires raw mastery and someone with a feel to know which strategy to apply when. The simplicity of CS is, in my opinion, it's main selling point.
Xoogler here. Google has been doing remote-work from the office for years. The campuses are so big and have so many buildings that meetings are often held over VC anyway so people don't have to walk back and forth. I occasionally had VC meetings with people elsewhere in the same building. Meetings between campuses are also common and obviously require VC regardless of laziness.

VC is automatically added to meetings, every room is equipped with the proper AV, and culturally, people often actually click the right buttons to start the VC even when they aren't expecting VC guests. I don't remember ever attempting to join a meeting over VC and having the main location forget to join (although it probably happened to someone every once in a while).

At least on our team, we tended not to have those 2 minute conversations. The code-review tools are top tier, so we would use those if at all possible. Most of our non-meeting communication otherwise was in buganizer (the bug tracker), Google groups via email, Google docs, or IRC (they were getting rid of it around when I left).

I think the only exception was Nooglers. We had Nooglers sit next to a mentor on the team, and they would usually ask lots of simple questions out loud throughout the day.
In the US they’re treated with a chemical called Creosote which is carcinogenic so shouldn’t be used inside or in the garden, unfortunately.
Thanks for creating such a great tool!

I used Pts around a year ago to make a music visualizer for an art class, it was really great for that use-case and I was really happy about my final result.

I'm excited for the future of your work and the future of the greater creative coding community.

Also while I can still edit: iirc the documentation is high quality. I was able to get a basic prototype working really fast, and the docs were extremely helpful.
Scratch your own itch. Solving a problem you have will motivate you, but more importantly it’s the only way to be able to navigate through a problem space.

Without being the customer you will have so much trouble coming up with solutions to problems people are willing to pay to solve.
This was me as well. I was actively playing Starcraft 2 up until then and logged at least 10 hours a week. I still miss the sense of purpose from trying to hit master, and following the esports side of it, listening to streams and YouTube videos, etc. I couldn’t play or watch again in good conscience.

It felt like a big personal sacrifice at the time, but I’m glad to see that it added up into a noteworthy headline here, even if there are other reasons for player decline.
The UX is garbage, but if you use the nightly there is a way to use arbitrary extensions.
Anecdotally, I've noticed an uptick in metal-framed house construction in my neck of the woods. So, yes, there are alternatives, even in the US.

I doubt this results in lower homebuilding cost all-in, though.
love Wormhole, but that animated background chews up an incredible amount of battery power on my M1 Macbook Air (even when the tab is in the background).
Please wormhole crew, turn it off.
Interesting, thanks for sharing
D3 is really, really fun. It started out at launch ok at best. Pretty grindy, and slow. One or two playthroughs was enough for most people. Nowadays though the endgame is definitely on my top 10 list. Once you hit level 70 and get an armor set finished with some Kanai's Cube and start leveling up your legendary gems... Oh man
Are we at risk of running out of trees?
> That's a broad claim to make. I have seen plenty of prevailing opinions and discussion the other way; commonly referencing Tommie Smith, prior country boycotts and similar events.

It's not really broad, even here on HN I'm getting downvoted for pointing this out, even tho out of all places we should know better. If you want to see the overwhelmingly non-controversial responses to this you can check out the Reddit discussions about it [0], those are mostly defined by understanding, and not outrage.

> In any case, I think it's reasonable for Americans to think that US companies should not sacrifice American ideals on the alter of foreign profits by cowtowing to (perceived) regressive demands of foreign countries.

And there it is again: The narrative that there were demands from the Chinese government to do it, instead of Blizzard just proactively putting the lid on it because it's bad for business.

If we would apply similar assumption to this situation, then that would mean the IOC was apparently pressured by the US government to make that statement, yet that's not something anybody even dares to speak out.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/n5i7iu/black_liv...
I couldn't agree more. Coherent vision at every possible level of the company will add more value than "hard work" or a dictatorial fanatic at the helm ever could.
The CLA gives permission to sublicense, but it isn't clear to me if this allows proprietary relicensing or not.
In this case her Army experience is going to be the thing to focus on. She could look for small government contractors who need tech work (because they’re government, the tech lags cutting edge which is good for her) and subject matter expert work. If she can do both it’s a big win.
That's just how consumer protection and liability law works pretty much everywhere in the world. I don't make the rules. But they do exist for a good reason.
I don't think it's income inequality. It's legality-of-prostitution inequality. That is, the traffickers decided to move their operations from countries where prostitution was illegal to countries where it's legal, because, all else being equal, it's easier to operate in the latter. The link doesn't claim that the total amount of trafficking increased, and the quoted results don't favor the "net increase" hypothesis over the "movement" hypothesis.
Protect Grandma ––Asians do not to allow themselve
Recently, there have been frequent attacks against Asians, especially vulnerable Asians in the United States. On March 17th, a video of 76-year-old Asian woman Xie Xiaozhen being punched in the eye by a white man caused a lot of media and public attention. In fact, in January this year, a 91-year-old man in Oakland's Chinatown was pushed to the ground and accused of contracting COVID-19; MSN News reported on March 15 that Nancy Tang, an 83-year-old Asian woman, was spat on, punched and called a "Chinese virus" by a white middle-aged man in Plains; and NBC News reported that some people in the U.S. had launched an online challenge “slap Asians” to incite random attacks by teenagers on Public Transportation in San Francisco. It is specifically targeted at Asian seniors and women. On the 19th, a 58-year-old Asian woman was harassed by several young people on a bus. With the spread of the COVID-19, more and more such incidents follow. The nongovernmental organization “Stop AAPI Hate” received 2,800 reports in 2020, of which about 240 involved physical assault. Since last year, when AAPI Emergency Response Network began tracking hate incidents directly linked to the COVID-19 disease, more than 3,000 reports have been received. Asian-Americans being spat, beaten, cut and even thrown chemicals.
"Asian=virus" is not an innate belief, it is a man-made misunderstanding and a source of discrimination and violence against the Asian community.
The other comments seem to be missing the point of this, but as I understand it's in reference to building construction.

In Europe pretty much nobody builds stick frame houses today. I'm building a house right now, and the only wood that'll be part of the structure is the roof struts. Floors are concrete and walls are made of clay air bricks. In milder climates these walls are insulated enough that you could get by without any extra insulation (here it gets to -25c/-5F). The interior is finished by plastering, and the exterior by cladding or concrete render.
As others said, toxic players can be easily blocked. Unfortunately, sometimes that is not enough because they continue to abuse other players (with friendly fire, friendly flashes etc…) To be fair, players like that are very rare. In my experience, much bigger problem are cheaters. From those who don’t even hide it to very leery ones.

I think that many players would gladly change CSGO with similar game (even non free), in which cheating is harder. Valorant seems better then CS in that regard, but for me biggest dealbreaker is unrealistic aspect of it.
I think it's one of the most important concepts ever noted down. It's applicable to every learned behavior. Are you mimicking behavior, or are you understanding principles?
LiveLeak was the only video site that still felt like the wild west. If I was ever linked to a LiveLink url I knew something crazy was about to happen.

I'm sure serving this kind of content had its hurdles legally. And running a video site cannot be cheap in the first place. LiveLeak will be missed.
Don't want to sound negative, but there needs to be at least some value proposition. An employer isn't going to be super impressed if the pitch is "I'd like flex hours, training, open to anything, gimme gimme gimme". Everyone is "willing to learn"; the difference is who talks the talk and who walks the walk. She needs to have some sort of target role and be at least able to demonstrate passing familiarity with some popular technology.

As for cold networking, two options are:

- talking to recruiting agencies, which often have a pool of employers that they have relationships with and can help open doors

- good ol' cold calling - research companies that you feel are good matches and are hiring, send a resume and go from there

A third potential option is to do freelance w/ local mom-and-pop shops, at least temporarily, to build up a small portfolio, dust off tech chops and getting the google-fu up to speed.

Often times, non-tech companies have less strict/technically challenging hiring processes. These are good companies to aim for.

For her old experience specifically, I hear that there is demand for COBOL in some government niches. Might be worth looking into.
I am sorry but this read like a report from fantasyland. In the past 3 years I have seen several AWS failures but not a single powercut.

You entire take is based on the idea that AWS replacement has to be superbly reliable and scaleable, while your grid replacement does not.

Lets compare like for like, your grid replacement has to have redundancy so that generators can be repaired without power loss, it has to support megawatt scale spikes in demand in case several friends with electric cars come to visit, it has to have mean time between failure measured in years, withstand extreme weather, and be renewable. Also you need to have black start capacity and logistics to replace equipment promptly when it fails.

How is the cost for that going to compare to using the grid?
Yeah, the family emoji are a mistake of sorts. Fortunately, individual emoji strung together convey the idea of a "mixed family" with three kids and require no effort on Unicode's part to add new emoji. Ex:
No, because the dominant cost of construction is still labor, not materials. Masonry labor is waaaaay more expensive than stud framing labor.
The article mentions room 305/2 as an area of particular concern. I was curious about this and did some looking. Before the accident room 305/2 was a hall directly below the reactor core, below the biological shield. It was lined with steel and was reachable through a labyrinth of hallways.

When the reactor exploded, the biological shield was forced downward almost 4m and broke into at least two sections, ending up in room 305/2 and allowing core debris and fuel into the room, where it melted into corium and flowed downward and burned through a wall into an adjacent room.

So when the linked article says "Radiation levels in 305/2 preclude getting close enough to install sensors", read it as "it's not possible to safely go into a nuclear reactor core even 35 years after it last generated electricity". The core, or what remains of it, is essentially in room 305/2.
Here you go https://outline.com/pCLMtG
I think that working from the office 5 days a week is on the table if your home isn't set up for remote work.
There’s not many greater missions out there than helping pioneer human space exploration. Realistically whatever your role, it’ll be incredibly small - SpaceX has thousands of employees. But however small, it’s moving the needle forward.

If you’re at the point in your life where you can make major sacrifices to a greater cause I’d say this is a fantastic opportunity.

Disclaimer: I’ve have no affiliation to SpaceX, I just believe in their mission.
This. "I can't do this, the computer doesn't let me" ought to be as absurd a statement as "I can't do this, the intern doesn't let me".
He's citing year-over-year? Seems to me that for some reason the economy was in the toilet this time last year but it had reason to be an aberration. I don't know, it's a real mystery.
Because LFR Raiding and non-mythic dungeons exist? It's worked in the past, why is the only way to move forward to remove the casual nature of things? I play FFXIV and I like playing with random dungeons, raids, and trials, and it's to advance without having to have a dedicated group or a super intense focus.
primo (https://primo.so) has a lot of what you’re looking for, but it’s coder-friendly instead of designer-friendly like Webflow. Also free and open source.
We will be using masks until either someone breaks the ice and people just get over it or most states rollback the mask mandate. Could be months or years.
> It's honestly one of the big mysteries in contemporary economics.

I assumed it was due to the increasing income/wealth gap. You have automation and cheaper labor from other countries reducing the price of labor for a substantial amount of people, seen in the lack of meaningful rise in wages for decades.

You also have the US splitting into very desirable areas seeing lots of increase in prices, but more of it seeing price decreases due to lack of demand. Concentration of businesses that offer higher paying job opportunities contributes here, as well as people’s preferences.
The chart on page 16 blew me away. I know people give Apple a hard time for taking such a large cut - but it seems the be the industry standard.
That’s funny I wonder why that is - in the UK carpentry is considered more skilled than bricklaying and a carpenter is much more expensive than a brickie.
This confirms my suspicion that the Negev is the best gun in the game and all the others are a waste of money. Although I understand that competitive players need to keep the game entertaining, which is why they use different guns during tournaments.
They do the same thing for digital-only subscriptions.
I think the most useful feature is the damage fall off at range. It would be nice to visually see how far away a target is when you adjust the feet away/units away.
Have you ever had any success?
The tech got sold off to make the Pendolinos, so they do talk about its descendants.
Whoah, this comment is dark
Could you go in a bit more about how this is done?

The only way I can think of this working is if the symbols are exported in the lib file but not exposed in a header. Is that what you mean?
The Guide to Robocopy
It's a pity it only supports Python >= 3.6. Large codebases with dead code are usually from the 2.7 era.
My mother-in-law always says, “lie-berry”, like she’s getting books from a deceitful fruit.
Work a little bit on the project every day. Consistency is key. Even if it just means developing for an hour or two after your day job. It sounds cliche, but 2 hours - 5 days a week for a year adds up to 520 hours you can build your product with. It's how my business got started.

Focus on building and releasing your minimum viable product as soon as possible. This will also help you gain some internal motivation. As soon as you have people using your product and start getting feedback, you'll feel that the project has a life of it's own and you'll just want to keep working on it more.

Have fun, and pick an idea that doesn't feel like work (too much) :)