skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing out the „over time“ aspect! Many people with problems want to do some kind of 30-day-program to get rid of problematic traits. Yet it might take years to really change how you think and what the outcomes are. I, for one, have had active bad personality traits that were holding me back (I wanted to overcome them, but couldn‘t), yet when in my early 30s, I came into a peer group that was very supporting, I finally got the grip and was able to reveal the better parts of me and had good success in life (and boy, life feels so good now). I certainly have not deleted the bad traits, but learned to work around them so they do not affect me much. Time and people were my key factors. Who wants to join a 3-year-program... does not sound that sexy, but is what it often takes to change.
Dating apps (e.g. Tinder) are quite popular though.
Nordic cross skating. To spend more time outdoors exercising entire body.
I can hear a small buzz when something is rendering as well. Turns out that in my case it was coming from the VGA cable making interferences in my loudspeakers cable.

Moved the VGA away from the RCA, no buzz now.
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Never thought I'd see the day when somebody got defensive about McNeil. I remember when they built the high school there, near where my sister lived. It was almost "out in the middle of nowhere..."
Thank you for clarifying that for me.

I recall reading some article about how, when mining for bitcoin (for example), what was really being mined are progressively larger prime numbers, or scientific data, or some such data requiring lots of computation.

Isn't there something of real value being mined? If not, what is being done when people _mine_ bitcoins?
On a related note it’s interesting how electric shavers (which could easily suffer from the same issue) are allowed on aircraft, but mobile devices need to be in flight mode. Are the frequencies of RF noise from an electric motor in a different range, so they don’t cause issues with aircraft?
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Ever heard of United Fruit? Read more history and you'll find plenty of examples of the government taking action on behalf of one or a handful of corporations or individuals.
OTOH passive investment will only track the market and return an average of 7-10%. Compared to that small-time landlording (which I define as 1-10 units), a popular side-income stream for many working professionals, returns 10-20% in return for higher risk and volatility (you could get bad tenants or have units go vacant).

Also since passive investment requires "no skill and little luck" it's one of the few entry routes into the capital-owning class available to working-class people and middle-class professionals. Anyone can buy an ETF for a couple hundred dollars. You don't need a hot stock tip or a insider lead on an undervalued property. So I'm not sure why one would want to start treating unearned income exactly the same as earned income at the precise point in history that we've learned about the magic of passive investment.
> Is it certain that a couple inches of laser beam scar tissue in a liver has not, and will not in the future cause any medical issues for the patients in question?

It could well lead to Cirrhosis of the liver. Not to mention Adhesion that could become painful. I'm not too sure how likely either issue is, however I wouldn't like to assume that scarring your liver is going to be completely free of complications... Though by the time you're having an intraoperative procedure done on your liver, you're already not free from complications.
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The problem is that you guys can't even see how wrong it was. Only when it is starting to gain publicity and blowing in your face, then you are even "starting" to have a discussion about it.

There were very disappointing answers by mozilla employees on r/firefox.
Yup, take those Repository designs, where you can’t join on two tables unless stars align very specifically. Of course there are very good technical reasons for that, but isn’t this because the abstractions are leaking onto each other? What’s the added value of the extra layer then?
I would prefer JavaScript as scripting language. Or make support all clr compatible languages
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So apparently I am the only one who think that device manufacturers shipping unsecure devices is not an excuse for an unrelated third party to damage it?

The same as the fact I did not lock my door do not allow anyone to rob my home, that I did not replace my fire detector batteries is no excuse for anyone to set it alight, etc.

To me good security starts by catching this guy and if he had done the damage he claims he had then make him pay for it.

Only when one had been hold accountable for what he has done should we go after companies for negligence, no?

"I discovered this security hole then proceeded to exploit it and damage some random system/workflow for the sake of demonstration" should not be acceptable.
I didn't know about the dawn project, thank you for the reference and figures.
I have been working with EF for years now. It has it quirks - but this is not something that I have ever experienced, nor have I heard of anything like it before today.

What I have heard of is traversing the entire graph and causing cascading loading of navigational properties. Yes, I have done that. Something like AutoMapper will do that to you, if you are not careful. Been there and done that.

How did you determine that it OOMed while generating the query?
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Could DevLyst be the next 'black'?
> First, Chinese government has no human rights abuse in Tibet

Hah!

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

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/china...
City of New York and the neighboring state being New Jersey?
> Mathematically, it's a question regarding the order of limits. Evaluating 0^0, is akin to considering a^b as a-->0 and b-->0, and the order in which the two limits are taken will make a difference.

Mathematically, you don't take limits as a sequence of single-variable limits. You take them by constricting an n-dimensional circle (two points / circle / surface of a sphere / etc.) around the point whose limit you're interested in.

This immediately implies that there are infinite possible approaches to the (0,0) point, rather than only two as there would be if you were taking it as two single-variable limits in sequence.
The article also cites Comcast's campaigns to oppose municipal networks. These campaigns failed too:

https://muninetworks.org/content/totals-are-comcast-spends-9...

They might try again, but then they might lose again. No need to give in to cynicism and apathy just yet.
This is why I think there is strong value in preserving organisations such as the Scouts and Girl Guides. Kids should definitely have these experiences - both boys and girls.

I'm a bit biased, as I was in the scouts for 17 years... In Australia that was Joey Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts, Venturer Scouts and Rovers. Theres a group for basically every age.

I feel that years of predatory leaders may have irreversibly damaged the reputation of the organisation though.
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GP just wants to keep all that sweet sweet Austin air for his/her self.
Briefly because I'm pecking this out on an iPod :-)

In your description you have just tipped us off to an analytical gift. I would suggest that you deepen your analyses of your speaking performances, develop and test theories, and refine what you described above into a model for improvement that ever more closely fits your problem like a tightening wrench.

Archetypally, I recommend that you watch films or read books like The King's Speech and note every thought pattern and technique that you can single out. "He talked to so-and-so about X. She encouraged him to try Y. In Y he found that..." (Now, who can I talk to? How will I approach their feedback?) Even if you have no speech impediment, these patterns will probably be broadly applicable to your needs. Good luck!
This debate always reminds me of the quote by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty.

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own."
Can they also do some explaining on how they get to those seemingly completely irrelevant match percentage scores? I have to _avoid_ things that have too high of a match, to the point that I don't think it's just a crappy match system but rather one that actively tries to push content on me that I _hate_.
Memory management/garbage collection is not defined by the JavaScript language specification.

It is 100% vendor specific. As such, each Garbage Collector implementation can behave in any way arbitrary way they see fit.
I have the same feeling. These VC interviews all seem so alike. All of these dudes (it's mostly dudes) just repeat the same generic phrases and don't really say anything specific.
I remember when I was a child than my next door neighbour had a remote control on their TV, which was connected to the actual set via a 5m thin cable.

I thought it was pretty cool that she could sit on her chair and change the channel & volume without getting up.

I suspect that if a dog had been involved that cable would have quickly become a tangled mess! (I'm not sure how common "wired remotes" were, that was certainly the only one I ever saw, in the early eighties.)
So? That's my exact point. In all of your examples the righteous eventually prevailed due to their own merits, and history proved that they were on the right side.

You don't get claim victory by shutting down the debate at the beginning. You don't get to moral high ground by "proclaiming" it, you get there by engaging the opposition in debates and by fighting to change people's mind with positive examples.

MLK knew he was right, and he worked hard to convince the remaining 66% of the country by engaging with them, by changing one mind at a time.

>My point is that here you are again, in a similar situation to those, saying the exact same sorts of things the people who were wrong in those circumstances said.

That's some crazy logic fallacy. Just because you are pushing new agenda doesn't mean you are automatically correct and your opposition are literally the same as Nazis. You also automatically assume that your ideas are the "good ones" and anything that differs even slightly to your opinion is "bad ideas". How can you tell that you are not the one being sympathetic toward "bad ideas", it is after all, like you said, hard to tell right?

You know who used the same kind of logic? Literally Nazis and Communists. They automatically proclaimed their ideology as the "righteous ones" and brutally shut down any debates.

I'm of the opinion that if you have to forcefully shut down opposite views from even debating you, then your idea is not worth debating in the first place, and you are just some immature child putting himself on a moral pedestal.

I don't know how old you are, but I wish one day you get to learn that the world is not black and white, but different shades of gray. And yes, even your own opinions will change throughout time, for different reasons.
But with Tim Ferriss's reputation and background

You mean his reputation as a bullshit artist? http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-t...
Forgetting to lock the house or batteries in detector running out is an accident. Not providing secure and up-to-date firmware for devices which are known to be an easy targets is a company policy, which comes out of incentives (the cost of security is huge compared to the cost of a breach to IoT manufacturers). While we cannot/should not legislate against accidents, we sure can and must legislate against harmful policies. Shifting blame from companies to hackers simply is not as productive as making companies responsible for the quality of their product.
Most of those apps could we written in Klik & Play, and it wouldn't make a difference. 90% of "tech" industry is the same old CRUDs run on the cloud, with only real difference made by the people drawing layouts in different colours.

(For some reason though, each company has to have its own implementation of that same CRUD.)
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> The level of public support is not the problem. The NYC MTA and DC Metro get about 40-50% of their funding from the public (taxes and grants). Boston MBTA gets over 60%. Transport for London gets just over 25%. JR East, in Japan, is fully private and not subsidized at all.

But now you're listing places where public transit actually works and lots of people use it. It fails in SF because it's chicken and egg. As long as most people don't use it, most people don't care or even realize how bad it is.

It also makes little sense to compare costs in NYC to costs elsewhere to try to prove municipalities are bad at things, because the lower cost one is also a municipality. And even NYC is doing something right because they actually have a popular subway system.

> On the one hand, wireline telecom is both highly labor intensive, and a heavily unionized field to begin with. So costs would be high.

How is that any different than when provided by Comcast et al?

> On the other hand, while everyone uses the internet, few people really use the kind of bandwidth people on HN do. There would be huge pressure to limit capital investment to keep prices low. If we’d built out fiber in DC in 2005 under the municipal, we’d still have 50/50 BPON for $50/month instead of gigabit GPON for $70-80/month.

Why do you assume it would cost $20-30/month more per customer?

ISPs have huge capital costs, but a huge part of that isn't network upgrades. It's a fleet of trucks that wear out and have to be replaced, and equipment strewn all over the city exposed to the elements, and tons and tons of UPS batteries, and other things that have to be replaced not because they're obsolete but because they don't last forever.

Even overall capital costs don't include all the regular staff, rent, utilities, etc.

The cost of upgrading a network switch to support faster links is a small fraction of their overall costs.

I half suspect the reason the incumbent ISPs don't like to upgrade is that it makes it harder to price discriminate. You can't charge $1000/month for a symmetric 100Mbps connection while offering gigabit for ~$50/month.
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it might be theoretical in hibernate, but sqlalchemy does a TON of this stuff

as an example: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalch...

heaps of this kind of thing are nicely dotted around the code so you don’t have to deal with weird driver quirks, maps “Text” column type to whatever it needs to be in your given database to have an unbounded text blob

id say that’s far more than theoretical

EDIT: typo

EDIT 2: also, on DB specific features, SQLA supports a bunch (not all). eg: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalch...
For those who do not want to talk to themselves: https://darkwire.io/Bkhi21HMz
So let me get this straight.

Mozilla did a free advertisement for Comcast owned TV Series Mr. Robot?

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You can execute patches but they don’t run as fast or as reliably as your underlying personality. Over a long period of time, the patches can become habituated and a kind of hybrid personality results. The underlying code remains.
Linq looks like a free monad: you declare the program as a data structure and the runtime implementation just interprets it on the go (something you could - not so easily - try to do with a strategy pattern)
Great! Thank you for all these references.
> (For some reason though, each company has to have its own implementation of that same CRUD.)

I think it's for talent retention / hiring reasons. They want to give engineers something to tinker with and build up their own frameworks and libraries.

It's what makes working on CRUD after CRUD at least little bit more exciting. Otherwise engineers would be bored to death and would leave to different companies.
Something like this happened when I was a kid and it scared the heck out of me. Suddenly there was this loud garbled voice booming from the stereo speakers. I thought it was the devil or something. Turned out to be the radio enthusiast who lived next door. There was a big antenna in their backyard, so they were probably broadcasting with some power. Plus my dad had the whole Hi-Fi rigged up with lamp cords.

I knew someone who lived two blocks from a radio station, and they would get interference everywhere, there would be staticky top 40 music coming from the phones, from clock radios, from the stereo. It would come and go. They would complain, the radio station would fix something, but in a few months it would be back.
I think the point he’s making is that everybody could not cash out at the listed price at once if something were to happen that made holding bitcoin undesirable (such as say, a possible crack for their elliptic curve crypto implementation). However, the same is true for banks which only keep 10% of deposits. Bank deposits are FDIC insured up to $250,000 though.
+1 SQLAlchemy has had a solution for every problem I threw at it in 5 years of heavy use!
How do I use Wordpress without going crazy?
I've never had a good experience with Wordpress. No version control, slow GUIs, bad GUIs, over-reliance on 3rd party support, difficulty migrating to production server.

My list of complaints is longer, but those are my biggest problems. More and more clients are asking me to build their sites with Wordpress, and I'm afraid I'm going to start losing work if I can't go along. Right now I consider Wordpress unusable. Are there any themes or techniques I should know about which can alleviate these issues?
California says housing next to freeways is a health risk, but funds it anyway
To me (an electronics engineer) it sounds like your neighbor's alarm did not pass EMC immunity tests quite ok... and at the same time the car's tests were passed with way too thin margin.

Or it could be that one of the alarm inputs is in high impedance, but then it should trigger to way more than just putting a car in reverse. Little bit of site surveying with portable spectrum analyzer may reveal something. Or playing around with wide-band emitters -- which may be illegal.

Then again -- it may be something else. Good hint would be to know what sensor is triggered exactly. Usually alarm control panels tell that.
This quote seem to talk about a group controlling the judicial process, which is unlike the situation Tim Ferris describe where people are punished in an extrajudicial manner without due process.
I had to debug my home this summer and I think it makes a good story. I have been renting this appartment on the ground floor for one year, and for environmental and economical reasons, I decided to try to reduce my electricity bill, which was quite large for the size of the appartment. An obvious culprit was the Canadian winter in a poorly isolated place, but I was also wondering about why in summer I had around 22-23 kWH of electricity consumption every day. I have no A/C, so I figured it was either my electronics or the appliances or a combination of both.

I bought an electricity usage monitor plug and started to measure every electricity consuming stuff, but couldn't account for more than 3 or 4 daily kWH. Then I went in vacation for one week, turning off almost everything in the house, and the electricity consumption, that I can check every day, had barely moved. Something was consuming at least 20kWH every day in my home and I didn't know what it was.

At the same time in prevision of the winter, I bought a thermal IR camera to spot isolation problems. I started to play around with it, and discovered a fairly large hot spot in the bathroom, on the bottom of the bathtub. Touching it with the hand, it sure felt warmer than you would expect from a baththub. Maybe it was some hot water? But the water heater was on gas and my gas bill was fairly normal. The hotspot would also not go away after hours. Then I remember a visiting friend remarking weeks ago that my bathroom was warmer than the rest of the appartment.

To test my suspicions, I tried to play with the electricity meter of the appartment. After some experiments, I found out a switch that would turn off the mysterious heat source. The baththub started to cool down and the power usage displayed went down to 0. My theory was validated! Something under my bathroom was drawing around 800W constantly every hour of the day and every day of the week and that was making my appartment so hot in summer and my bill so large.

At this point, the only thing I could do was contacting my landlord and detailing my findings. It turned out he had installed a dehumidifer in the basement the year before to dry out the air and fight a moisture problem, but he had configured it to a very low setting, like 30% humidity and that was making it work constantly. The dehumidifer was installed just below my bathtub and its operation was heating it at the same time. Since it was an old home he had bought out a few years before, he didn't know where the basement was drawing its electricity from. Well now he does.

He reimbursed me the electricity and changed the settings of the machine and then my electricity consumption went to almost nothing... until november came and the cold of the last weeks of fall started to hit Montreal, but that's another story.
These allegations are tame compared with what Richard Blum's (husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA) financial interests with the Chinese have done. The Chinese even benefited from elements of her so-called Desert Protection Act.
In "Creativity Inc." (the book I'd recommend
to anyone interested in managing people and teams, alongside "Peopleware") Ed Catmull argues that people are more important than ideals. His logic is this: if you give a good idea to the bad team they will screw it up. If you give a bad idea to the good team, they will either improve it, or come up with something better.
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I've always been impressed by zzzeek's near-omnipresent participation. Years ago, I had a question about SQLAlchemy that he'd answered on the mailing list which amazed me given the relative rarity of developer interaction. Yet here we are almost a decade later and he's still answering questions directly, but on many more platforms. I'm actually not convinced he ever sleeps.

I wish more people aspired to be like him, because you know there's no more authoritative answer when you run into a Stack Exchange post and he's offering up his assistance.
That isn't reading the graph correctly. The saw tooth pattern means that memory is being allocated, but not that it's slow. The CPU usage graph tells you if it's slow.

Object pooling is generally considered to be the worse approach, because it's tricky to know when to put object back in the pool. Realistically this mean ref counting. The code will get more complicated and bugs will happen when an object is returned to the pool but is still used. Each object will get bigger, since now it has to have an extra word associated with it.

Also, this puts undue stress on the GC. Collections won't pick up pooled objects, even when they could have been. This causes memory pressure because the program may actually need
to allocate a large amount of memory, but none could be freed up.

I think the real answer here is to just do less work. Don't try to change a program to let it keep using lots of memory.
Instead, make it so it needs hardly any memory in the first place.
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