skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By 'scam' I don't mean you as ecosia are scamming, and sorry for conveying that sentiment. I do however think that about the airline scheme I mentioned :)

What I mean is that my work has done this and is patting themselves on the chest for doing 'a green thing'. Meanwhile they are making billions and not using any of that money to improve the environment.

I think we should go beyond trying to find 'win-win scenarios' and really do something. This is where the 'scam' part comes in. I appreciate what you're trying to do but IMO it is a matter of too little too late. Companies should put their money where their mouths are and not just trying to 'be green' with some quick freebies. It gives them a cheap cop-out.

The real problem is that people don't want it to cost money. Meanwhile the problem gets bigger and bigger...
Synopsis of “That's Interesting ” by Murray Davis
is there a self-hosted alternative that provides the same functionality?
Microsoft definitely needs software engineers. Privacy and security of users is on the line, even if they literally aren't going to die, lives can easily be ruined by a data leak from the wrong company.
> that an entire class of unit tests are no longer necessary

That's not what I wrote about. I've seen people implement entire DSLs in types. So now you have to test that.
That sounds like the stories we used to hear of Microsoft. It only took them like, what, 2 decades to get things back together?
Robots are ready to serve in the Beijing Olympics Canteen: robotics
Aren't they basically being kept alive by Google at this point? Almost 90% of their revenue is from that one deal at it has felt like they have been more concerned with other initiatives for a while now.
The entire point of bread is turning wheat seeds into a digestible food. Part of that is milling, part is baking, and a big part is the fermenting and the long natural yeast rise.

Mass produced bread never does this long natural yeast rise. Cheap versions use all kinds of chemicals to get the texture right, even the high quality variants use rapid rising yeast because natural yeast is way too slow. Only in a local bakery or at home will you find bread that is made in the healthiest way possible. The natural yeast fermented slow rise results in a much healthier product, bread that even gluten-sensitive people have no issue eating (and it tastes better)
Under "Visitor locations right now," 1% are coming from Graceville. As far as I can tell, that's either a town of 4k in Australia, 2k in Florida, or there are two Gracevilles in Minnesota with a few hundred people. Any idea what's up?
Engineers can both perform the problem solving and design for desired projects and...

AND...

If need be reduce it down to the underlying science and mathematical principles from which it came from, and because of that can analyze why things are "good" or "bad" at a much more fundamental level.

Practitioners/Crafters are repeating "recipes" with far less comprehensive knowledge of the principles that led to those recipes. They may know historical evolution and practical reasons why one recipe is better than another, but their depth of knowledge is far less.

So getting back to software, you can see two types: people that know algorithms and can mathematically design and analyze problems. Or you have people that are just following the api docs and basic examples of loops + if-then but don't know how CPUs work inside, how OSs work, and why.

And do you need full engineers for a website layout or ruby on rails site? No. But if you are scaling or have complex data models or will have actual load, then ... you need engineering.
When it says "now", how "now" do they mean? I've refreshed a few times and the number hasn't changed (171,533). I went to cisa.gov (disabled all my blockers) but the number here is still the same over here.
Turning on the radio does not convince me that this is true.
But to be cynical, there's likely already enough music in existence today that you could spend your entire life quite fulfilled by it. So maybe it's a slight waste of resources to keep producing it (except for the pleasure of making it).
The naming scheme is unfortunate.
Reading Code Like a Compiler
Maybe a system of always pandering to the lowest common denominator isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?
The pace of new legislation has been far, far higher and the powers granted much more broad under the LNP than it ever was under Labor. Under Labor as well, with most of the bad ideas that they came up with (like the internet filter, that has just recently basically been legislated by stealth as the eSafety act by the LNP) they were able to be persuaded to drop them.

But I'm mostly hoping for a hung parliament to keep them in check (couple more Indies and maybe another Greens MP). Labor's gutlessness in not voting against the LNP's bad laws because they were scared of the media response has shown this is needed. But experience shows that even under a Labor majority we'd be seeing far less of the bad laws coming before Parliament.
What if the difference is because of pre-existing health state and conditions of those people i.e. those who's health is poor enough they are likely to die soon, just don't have energy to walk a lot?

Meaning, this may be a classic case of correlation which is not a causation.

I would speculate that in particular case of the U.S., there is also a social factor in play that is, people with different health outcomes and longevity are also people from different social classes who may or may not have time and space/environment appropriate for these activities?
Thanks. I stand corrected
I launched Vilke (https://vilke.co/) back in 2018. It's an anonymous, adult-oriented, NSFW website where people can post teasing pictures or videos of themselves, and engage with others. Think Jodel or Yik Yak with an adult twist.

Originally I wanted to learn PWAs. At the same time, people were posting teasers on Jodel but suggestive material is banned according to Jodel's community guidelines. Hence, I decided to smash two flies at the same time by building something that people wanted.

Currently it's Finnish-only but it's making around ~200 $ / month. Have wanted to internationalize it for a while now but my day job is taking too much time.
> The keyword here is incentive, not coercion.

This summarizes. In India the union government is trying to push Hindi as the national language while the state governments are pushing back. This has been going for 70 years.

The interesting change is the due to jobs in south India north Indian state migrant workers moved to southern states. Their kids who go public school score higher in the native language classes than the native kids. This applies only for the low income migrant workers. The white collar job workers send their kids to private school and still learn Hindi.

In South India at least English is given more importance than the regional language.

PS: To those who are unaware of India, India has 23 officially recognized languages
I mostly use Blender recently but I've used KDenLive, Openshot, and Shotcut alot as well. GDQuest has some good tutorials on video editing in Blender.
The most common website is USPS by a significant margin. Could that explain much of the international traffic?
There used to be half a dozen or so cities that did Sunday mail in lieu of Saturday, typically in areas with a high Seventh Day Adventist population. However I think most of them have since moved to do Saturday delivery instead
The issue with gifted children isn't about indoctrinating them to whatever beliefs. It's the destructive belief that high academic achievement is the result of some unfair "privilege" which they seek to counter by limiting opportunities for advancement.
Isn't it weird that this internal marketing strategy guidebook is public?
Any time someone comments on Texas or California you can be assured state based nationalism will show it's ass. I live in California and was raised in Texas. I love both states and am extra tired of people's edgy comments about either.
I'm uncertain.

You don't need a quote from a Walmart executive to know that Walmart is benefiting from its employees getting Medicaid and food stamps. So similarly you don't need a quote from a criminal leader to know that the criminal organization is benefiting from lax law enforcement.

But I'm not finding good data on how lax the law enforcement actually is.

There are certainly a number of places pointing it out, such as a member of the board of supervisors of SF saying Thieves “are obviously choosing locales based on what the consequences are,” Safaí said. “If there are no consequences for their actions, then you invite the behavior. Over and over.”, Walgreens saying the thefts in their SF stores are 4x other cities, and CVS calling SF “one of the epicenters of organized retail crime”[1]. One woman stole 120 times[2]. Former assistant DAs say the DA "selectively enforces laws"[3]. The police say hundreds of repeat offenders are responsible for shoplifting in the city.[4]

On the other hand, the police's actual numbers aren't convincing:

>In 2018, there were 238 repeat offenders, 20% of them were rearrested. In 2019, there were 219 repeat offenders, 29% of them rearrested.

>While in 2020, there were 116 repeat offenders -- 33% rearrested.[4]

So the repeat offender numbers are going down. That seems to indicate no problem caused by bail reform. And why are the percent rearrested low? That seems like it's the police's fault, not directly a bail problem. Also, I'd be more interested in knowing the number of thefts committed by repeat offenders, rather than the number of repeat offenders. And especially what percent of thefts are committed by repeat offenders. Shoplifting has been declining in SF, and SF, while much higher in shoplifting rates than some cities, is also much lower than others.[5]

So I think it's obvious that lenient bail and prosecution will aid shoplifting groups, but it's unclear to me how lenient the bail and prosecution is, or how severe shoplifting is in SF.

Thanks for spurring me to look into this more; it's more complicated than I thought.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...

[2] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/07/aziza-graves-sa...

[3] https://abc7news.com/chesa-boudin-recall-brooke-jenkins-san-...

[4] https://abc7news.com/sf-shoplifting-retail-theft-in-san-fran...

[5] http://www.cjcj.org/news/13165
Who is “that girl”? (a study of style) [video]
Why not use something like notion or Evernote and be done with it.
Is it mainly students in schools? They wouldn't have much reason to access govt sites yet
For security stuff it's 100% twitter
In other words, people who can’t walk or can barely walk are likely not that healthy - is probably a more intuitive theory than walking causes better health.
This one primarily, word of mouth second
These Electron solutions (VSC plugins, Obsidian, whatever) become really slow when you have a large document with markdown, code and latex in it.

I recommend learning Emacs org-mode. Painful, but eventually faster.
The antigen test is supposed to show if you're currently spreading covid, which is a little different from experiencing it. You'll have symptoms for a while after you stop being infectious too.

With omicron the gap between them is a day or two smaller IIRC.
Really either would work, depending on your specific use case. DynamoBD can emit an event stream based on writes/updates, which would be published to an SQS queue.
You are correct, the vehicle manufacturer cannot come and take the dash away. However, under literal threat of metal shrapnel exploding in one's face [1], I would argue that the consumer is coerced with great bodily harm to present his vehicle for service.

[1] https://www.classaction.com/takata-airbags/
Philip is Greek for lover of horses i.e. ‘Horselover’. Dick is German for fat. So Horselover Fat = Philip Dick.
The Apple original, Swagger, is also very good. Does a best job of depicting the onset of the pandemic that I’ve seen on screen.

It also has the best motion graphics integrations of social media I’ve seen. It breaks new ground in the way House of Cards did with texting.

The Apple Original sci-fi series, Invasion, is terrible. I can’t believe they renewed it for a second season.
I think "Software Engineering" should mean "The study of how to best develop software".

That is different from "software development" which is the practice of developing software. Or you could say "software development" is applied Software Engineering.

When you build a house the engineering part is designing the house and designing the processes how to build it. The rest is just the building-part which is not really engineering.

In software you could say there is little difference between designing software and actually writing software. But the subtle difference is that whatever makes it GENERALLY easier to develop software is "engineering".

Engineering is a study of how to do things, not the actual doing of things. So I would say that someone who writes a compiler, or reusable library, is a software engineer when they are doing that. But if they are just writing code they are equivalent to a construction worker, not an engineer. You can of course be both, at different times.
Around 2000 years ago the city of Rome had 1 million people.

Even 8000 years ago human beings were not so distributed that they never encountered strangers. There were a few proto-cities back then with ~1,000+ people, which is enough for strangers on a regular basis.
Yes, and messages could be found by Gmail search. Simpler times.
It's now showing 168,571 people, maybe it's every few minutes or possibly every hour as it's x:05 currently.
You forgot LSD, for which Albert Hofmann is famous.

Less well known is that he was also the first to synthesize psilocybin.
It does treat it if you have worms, since those increase the risk of severe COVID outcomes.
Over here in Sweden there was a massive investment in public transport and I think it's called transportation driviven development. So we did not get the same amount of dettached housing. The view of suburbs as comfortable has always been away to exploit the commons of cities like Galesburg. It's not only Galesburg that pays for this, it's the surrounding towns. People live in the suburbs of Galesburg travel to another town making it impossible to use public transport unless everyone works in a star network topology.

We are seeing that develooment in Stockholm now work is much more organic so and the rays of the star are over burdened by suburb transportation (public true, but mostly private).
> Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search.

Until they pull a Google and either make it not-free, or drop it altogether. It is difficult to have any faith in the long-term prospects of all these services that depend mostly or only on the goodwill of a company.
Tungsten FTW!
I made thisSongPlantsTrees.com

-it's a 31 second audio recording you can add to Spotify playlists.

-Every 100 streams we plant 1 tree

-7000 trees planted so far

-www.mptr.ee
Any specific accounts to follow?
Since you bring up LeGuin here I guess I will respond to the canard that Dick does not do characters well, in 'Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown' LeGuin argued that Dick had one of the only interesting characters in all of Science Fiction, that being Nobusuke Tagomi from The Man in The High Castle, the other being D-503 from Zamyatin's We (IIRC) of course it has been nearly 4 decades since I read the essay, and I have a hard time finding an ebook version of The Language Of The Night (which is where I encountered the essay) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night that I can pay for.

on edit: grammar, moving text
> We went from a really vibrant blog culture with a ton of platforms and different setups

I mean, don't we still have that? I know that my RSS feed is still too content-free to keep up with (even after culling a double-digit number of hefty ones.)

And now we have even more RSS aggregators (Feedbin, The Old Reader, etc.) than we had before!
> (b) If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.[1]

Yeah my experience is trad engineers don't believe in nice things, haha. That's the difference. Just look at how moribund hardware is with a lack of open source tools compared to software.
They will use imessage again when they aren't sitting in their rooms chatting. Waiting for a discord to load on a spotty mobile connection is no fun. Meanwhile imessage, either through its own channels or via sms, just works, and is still the best way to get a hold of people you know in real life, since the audio fallback is just as reliable too.
I contacted someone at a well known large firm back at the start of May last year about a role. Filled out loads of forms online. Heard nothing.

Yesterday I got an email inviting me to arrange an interview, wondering if I'd still be available, and asking me for my salary expectations.

Sometimes you wonder how these firms work at all.

For those looking, my experience is that virtually all aggregator sites like efinancial and LinkedIn are black holes for applications. Just find the person who put up the advert and contact them directly. You can often see how many applicants there are and from there you can extrapolate how much time there really is to look at CVs. It's not good, but also it's impossible for all the CVs to be relevant. I've been on the hiring side myself and I can tell you there's a heck of a lot of people who apply for jobs they can't get.

People say a lot of things about third party recruiters but I keep in touch with a good few of them. They have certain benefits, mainly that you can straight up ask them about salary and they know a lot of firms who don't advertise.
Don't worry there's plenty of streaming originals on Apple TV+ catering for people who don't work in an office too.

Such as Mr. Corman about a school teacher who used to work in a classroom but due to COVID is working from home.

Or Acapulco a comedy series about a twenty-something cabana boy who works at the hottest resort in Acapulco during the heady days of the 80s.

And for people who prefer a side-hustle, there's Physical which tells the story of a housewife that starts running aerobics classes in her spare time while successfully launching an accompanying home video lifestyle startup.
> Today, I have a hard time coming up with an argument why using modern PHP and Laravel makes more sense than Rails or Django. Maybe we need a post-modern PHP movement focusing on bringing PHP back to its roots.

Over Django:
- Because if not doing SPAs, it provides infinitely better tools for the frontend, such as an integrated assets pipeline, a good template language with componetisation support
- Because it is faster
- Because during development every change is not a restart
- Because it has an integrated queue system
- Because you have popular frontend solutions such as Livewire

The only better thing I've found in Django is the admin.

Over Rails:
- Because it is faster
- Because PHP is far, far, far more popular tan Ruby
- Because it has integrated authentication
- Because it is easier to hire for

just some reasons from the top of my mind. I don't have a ton of experience with Rails and I think it is still great, but IMHO Laravel is better. I have worked with Django for about 10 years, and other than the Admin, I don't miss anything when working with Laravel. Language wise PHP vs Python is just syntax, I don't care as both ecosystems are pretty healthy.
COVID tests, I assume.
I'd say that a year or a year + 3 months is a reasonable transition period.

People need to assess the situation, evaluate existing solutions (including paying for the service), what needs to be done, etc. They're not doing it as their job, so do not necessarily know the current market offers.

Then they need to allocate time and resources to do the transition. Time, when the transition is the least disruptive, and the resources are usually availability if an in-house specialist. I know plenty of companies where upgrading a software take more than a year, with all their budgets, IT departments and external contractors. A typical G Suite user won't have all that expertise readily available.

That means that the transition will often require an IT enthusiast working in their free time. It's reasonable to assume that they will have at least one vacation per year to do that. So if the transition is ≥ 12 month, everyone and their mom should be able to do it.

If the transition is 3-5 months, I can see how it can be a problem even for commercial users with a dedicated task force.
Also Visual Studio does `Edit and Continue`[0], which I believe works by patching function prologues to jump to another location.. I don't think it handles structure changes all that gracefully, but honestly I haven't used it that much to know for sure.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/edit-...
While I was looking at the data, the ranking of the top visited pages changed without reload, so I assume it is streamed in real-time. But I guess that the real-time data comes from aggregated and somewhat delayed data.
Let's say there's not enough supply. People are asking for X, and peaker plants can offer it at Y. They would also be willing to offer it at 10% of Y. At 1% of Y!

What sort of societal good is being offered by making it so that people are on the hook for a much higher price than what is needed for guaranteeing supply? What sort of value is added? The point of all this stuff is so that people produce electricity, and others can purchase it at a reasonable price. It's not to find some hypothetical equilibrium using a model that assumes atomicity of actors and some sort of instant feedback loop that didn't actually exist during the blackouts.
Yes. Because non-free is infinitely more than free.

Imagine nothing changes, but now your wife demands you pay her cost of cup of coffee every time you have sex. Does that eff you up a little bit or do you barely notice?
I think the obsession with gifted learners being "different" from the "normal" is... weird. I look at the phenomenon as more of a "Here's how we cater to what we perceive as our best and brightest" ... when the reality is that everyone has the capacity to be bright, environment and competition just play a huge role.
The problem is that we don't really have any good ways to do that. If it's encrypted in flight but not end-to-end encrypted, for example, it's open to information being stolen, or people being stalked, or information gathered to groom minors (and later even evidence being deleted) by bad actors at the messaging platform's companies (such as sysadmins who have access - these kind of things have actually happened!). Further, all the private (and sometimes intimate) information that has been messaged is open to hackers if the security of that messaging platform is breached.

So the trade-off is that law enforcement have to look for other ways to enforce the laws - like they need to find one side of the message conversation and get a warrant to access the data stored on their phone to view the communications. Technology has actually given them far, far more scope for access into people's lives for surveillance than they've ever had! They are exaggerating the problems with things like end-to-end encryption because it's taking away a very effortless source of surveillance - something that they probably shouldn't have ever had (the ability to easily snoop on everybody's phone calls and messages, which we know in the US and other places that they did warrantlessly for many years).
UK inflation rate soars to 30-year high as cost pressures continue
A reasonable standard is one month for every year of use, especially for those of us who are not businesses.

It's not 60 bucks a year for most of us, it's whatever the domain costs plus $6 per account times the number of accounts. In my case it's 720 dollars a year, which is more than it is worth.