skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you going to contact people who live far from artificial light? Typically that's concomitant with not having electricity needed for internet communications, as that typically prevents powered cell phone internet communication as well.

You could fly then drive there, but the costs are going to add up quickly. You're going to have to find them, get someone to communicate with them, and have liabilities covered. This quickly becomes very expensive with even just a few people.
I know that this is not a good sample by any means, but from my own life thus far here in the UK as someone with a middle class accent and pale skin tone, who smokes a bit of pot and these days stay out of trouble, however used to get exceedingly drunk and got into numerous stupid drunk incidents in public, I have been held in police station cells 6 times and officially cautioned twice.

2 of the times in the station were alcohol related, everything else is weed from stop and search. One thing to note, as soon as I opened my mouth in each incident, there was no further threat from the police of taking it to court, despite me having no decent legal representation. Sounding posh goes very far with the police here.
SHRDLU? It was goal oriented.
It would be good for YouTube to remove these and other scam videos.
I just realized the one I bought is supposed to mimic daylight. Same issue regardless dur to incomplete spectrum?
Thanks for sharing this article. I was shocked when they removed my channel for things like this.
Not the same.

> Congress is prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_State...
They are not rare at all in Europe, there are more kebab shops than people
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This story is even more ridiculous since in the metro DC area (inc Silver Spring), public buses are pretty much the schoolbuses and it is an everyday thing to see groups of kids ~5y and up taking public transit all across town for school...
I always made it very clear not to make medical claims.
Are they the only provider in your area?

Every year when my contract is about to expire they tell me my rates will be increasing from $60 to $90/mo., I call in and say I want to cancel and go to CenturyLink unless there is a comparable retention offer, and they continuously offer me a similar rate if I sign a new contract. It takes about 5 minutes, though I wish I didn't have to jump through hoops.

In a competitive market, they will do this for me within 2 calls usually with no escalations.

My friends in places where there is no other option go all the way up the chain with no results, since their threat to leave has no teeth.

It was crazy observing the difference in customer service when I moved to a major metro.

What I'm trying to say is that I agree that they suck, but they do subsidize the cities with higher fees in the country, and also that haggling is important.
Actually, at least in France, it used to be a traditionnaly man job... back when it was a respected one. The it shifted to a job that's looked down on, as it started becoming a woman's job. I never studie the mechanisms through which it went by, but it's a pattern that you can see in several jobs : that once male dominated, respected jobs become women dominated, not-so-respected jobs.
When I (briefly) looked at serverless it I thought it was a wrapper around just Lambda (and other Lambda-like services), but it sounds like it actually let you configure other types of AWS services. Are there any AWS services it doesn't work with?

That said, I'm not seeing how serverless is any more "immediately understandable" than Lambda. The serverless.yml files I'm finding when looking at examples seem about as complex as aws cli commands.
The question I have about this, gun related content and anything else that is "A violation of our T&C" is this: when does YouTube/FB/whatever stop being a safe harbor according to the DMCA? Which special interest group (NRA?) is going to bankroll the law suit against Google for hosting copyrighted content without permission and that they are entirely liable because they're exercising editorial control? Or is the safe harbor provision toothless because Google is a giant?
While I disagree that the titles are medical advice, I do see your point. It's funny because actually my YouTube mentor suggested use titles like that so people who didn't know what the products were could get an idea for what they were used for. I still made disclaimers in my videos.
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Those are all good points - I was focusing on my use case (i.e. small deep learning jobs), but definitely locking into pre-built configurations can be wasteful. I'll likely use GC anyway, but appreciate the extra reasons given.
It was really just my intent to share my experience, and I wasn't selling the magnesium.
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Just to add onto this, there's a whole field of people who design things with human psychology in mind. For example, when you got onto Twitter, they _could_ show you how many notifications you have right away, but they implemented an artificial delay so you stare at it intently and when it finally shows you feel gratification [1].

So while a design may not make sense right away, there may be other factors at play.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/vv5jkb/the-secret-ways-so...
> If it took a full 3 days that's 24 hours of work

I should have clarified. It took 3 days end to end. It's unlikely the actual labor was 24 hours (the tech even admitted that once they take the transmission apart they have to let it soak in lubricant).

> rent, utilities, general supplies, insurance, etc.

Of course. But as you can probably imagine, most auto shops skimp on those costs as much as possible. The point is, a developer charging $200/hr (even remote) for their time is also paying for insurance, workspace, computer, internet connection, etc.
Umm ... ok, so in the past 1 year, things have vastly improved ? Haha !
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I would look to improve the pricing strategy. You wouldn't believe how a few changes to a pricing page can improve a business' bottom line.
Why not donating them to developing countries?
The last line of that article mentioning Alex Jones being active and me getting shut down is certainly wild lol.
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Those are called non-functional claims and are allowed in the US.

Any time you see something non-specific like "boosts the immune system" or "increases energy" it means the product is likely worthless because those claims don't actually mean anything.
Defense in depth is a lesson other industries have learned - that's why airliners are incredibly safe these days. It's not safe because parts don't fail - they do fail, as the recent engine compressor failure showed. But the airliner is designed to withstand those failures, the pilot is trained to deal with them, and the process is designed to prevent them from happening again.

Notably the Fukushima Nuke plant and Deepwater Horizon disasters did not have defense in depth. One failure each had a zipper effect.

(Of course, defense in depth is a concept from the military, look how medieval castles are constructed for a very visible implementation of it.)
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I've got news for you. Unless you own the business, your work of any kind is a cost to be repressed.
You've included the link to Xochimilco's in Illinois, not Xochimilco Detroit (which apparently doesn't have a web site - but does have a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/XochimilcoDetroit/)
But, I will attest to their food being excellent!
Sorry, but this is wrong. Wheat production is also heavily subsidized. Corn prices have also dropped precipitously since 2012.

The problems described are endemic to both crops.
Stop underestimating front end developers
Can you explain? I thought Rocks was an LSM storage engine and mostly excelled with write heavy work loads.
In addition to what novia said about your first sentence, your comment is so weirdly off-base. You have very strong opinions about pen computing, but where in reality are they coming from?

No, we are not talking about the 1940s, why would anyone be talking about the 1940s? How does that make any sense at all?

We aren't talking about a Microsoft demo that worked well for you once, either. We are talking about the fact that, since the 2000s when it was tried repeatedly, people do not like to hand-write on computers. It is a strange thing not to be aware of when you're speaking so emphatically on the topic.
If you leave icloud off, apple hwalth won’t leave your device. And I believe it only can leave the device with encryption encrypted by a local password that apple can’t decrypt.

I am not certain of the technical measuees safeguarding thus, mind you.

For tracking, I use autosleep. They say the data doesn’t leave the device. The data is done through apple health, so there might be a safeguard apple enforces which means it is not possible for the data to leave the device, but can be used by an app.

http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/privacy

This indicates that apple enforces a prohibition against health data export. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32622306/can-i-store-hea...
That's the right conclusion. Most use cases will fit into memory and InnoDB will win vs Rocks when all of your data fits into memory. Very large users are the ones who would more typically benefit from Rocks, as their data sets may dramatically outstrip available memory.
Starts at $500. We can't quote a firm price because you can do things in the company (it is your company, after all) which make it more complicated. There are an infinite number of contracts that a company could hypothetically sign, some of which have interesting implications for conversion. Those contracts have to be read and interpreted; that isn't going to be free for a lawyer.
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If that’s your version of very clear, maybe you shouldn’t be giving people advice.
That's quite a lot more than I knew about statistical areas! Thanks for keeping me honest and informed.

I mostly mean that in the following sense: due to some historical Michigan laws, the "City of Detroit" is vastly poorer than, say, Houston. However, the actually equivalent comparison due to Houston's absorbing its own suburbs over the last hundred years is to Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. This does eliminate Washtenaw County that Ann Arbor is in, but the idea is that the "Detroit Metropolitan Region" is actually not on hard times and hasn't been any more so than any other major city in a very long time. It's just that no one wants to pay Detroit city income taxes, so they live literally across the street in Ferndale or Dearborn. Or, like me, they suck it up and commute from Ann Arbor so that they live somewhere with lower crime, but the job still counts as that region.
The book this article describes: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vanishing-middle-class
-- Update: Buried deep in the depths of TN website and using the most confusing and counterintuitive language ever assembled is this article:

https://revenue.support.tn.gov/hc/en-us/articles/204647155-W...

Essentially it says if I am a disregarded entity for federal tax purposes I am exempt from both franchise and exercise taxes.
Depends on what you view the law for. Personally I think the law is a tool that acts as a proxy for group morality, and is useful as much as it serves that aim. The law itself is not sacrosanct and can be wrong, which is why we revise it. Under this view, those who broke a law we then get rid of should be released, as we have agreed that the law was wrong, we also have agreed that they were right. If the law itself is not put on a pedestal, then if the law was wrong then those people who broke it should also no longer be regarded as criminals as we are simultaneously admitting that it was also wrong to have labelled them as such in the first place.
“You Get What You Measure” – Hamming (1995)
Just going to point out that percona IMHO is potentially hugely underappreciated in the MySQL world...

At $work we are managing a fairly heavy MySQL instance and having scaling issues (~5TB, lots of blobs, and frequent user-managed schema changes for interactive/batch data analysis, many concurrent complex joins involving multiple 1M+ row tables) and after reviewing the various MySQL derivatives, it seems that the percona ppl are really focusing on 'real deal' operational reliability/scalability issues... (e.g. minimizing transaction locking issues for coherent backups, real-time db cloning, replication data integrity testing, etc). I strongly recommend anyone looking at mysql flavors to not overlook their offerings. Looking forward to doing some production tests of their XtraDB mysql flavor in the coming months (for now usage has been limited to unit tests and using the percona toolkit/xtrabackup)

Also: no I am not a paid sponsor.
I compile a Qt Quick application statically for the Raspberry Pi on a regular basis, and the whole binary is around 7 megs big. If you remove Qt Declarative (Your hello world just requires QtCore) it will be a fraction of this size.

So nice to see people fabricating numbers and passing them off as data.
I don't think you could spin it that way. "The popular media can only handle ideas expressible in proto-language, not ideas requiring nested phrase-structure syntax for their exposition." Though maybe a better reason is that there doesn't seem to have been any such spin on big open source issues (such as Heartbleed) of the recent past. Why would they spin it as an open source problem rather than say a government/contractor competence problem (or something else) in the IRS case?
These program will all be illegal at the end of the year anyway, so don't invest much in hacks.
Save 3 seconds of your life when naming things
They don't make money on the interest on the minimum balance, they make money on the total balance. True, for some customers this will be very low or zero. But as long as some of the companies they work with have money in their accounts (not an unlikely state of affairs), they can make their money from those accounts.

As long as they've set up their underlying tech stack such that the marginal cost of an extra account is nearly zero, then offering accounts with no fees or minimum balances is useful way of attracting customers, many of whom will grow into good sources of revenue.
But you can index the hashes.

Hash the email first, then check if the hash exists.
STEM problems are better defined by their nature, which makes them more appealing - they are easier to see and understand, both the problems and solutions. In business, I find people frequently make the mistake of latching onto well-defined, easy-to-measure distractions, rather than the actual problem at hand which is frustratingly hard to measure and which will never have a clear solution.

Social sciences and humanities are hard to measure, but they are often the most important problems: Peace and war; prosperity and opportunity; truth, freedom and justice; politics and policy. I'll observe that the problems of the world today aren't due to a lack of technology - we're doing very well with that - but to the very problems addressed by humanities and social sciences. (And perhaps that's not unrelated to the shift in focus from those fields to technology in recent decades.)

Here's an alternative perspective: STEM only allows precisely-measured problems; if you can't measure it, it's not STEM. Arguably, STEM is taking the low-hanging fruit and leaving the hard stuff, the problems you can't measure but which absolutely must be solved, to the other fields.

EDIT: Major revision; sorry if you read the first version.
While you are certainly right, news is meant to be objective. Whether they use it for good or not makes them less useful as if they stop being objective then they will lose their ability to sway opinions for “good.”

There’s also the issue of why would they do this good versus another. Is this the neediest city? What evidence do they use to target their good? Most charities and government have controls in place to focus this. If news goes against their charter to try to improve social good, what mechanism do they have to measure this? The NYTimes is a BCorp. They aren’t a charity with a board.
I apologize for not meeting perfect standards of mood at all times. I have bipolar disorder, for what it's worth, and working on a packaging tool is very stress-inducing.
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I've found MySQL to have issues with datasets that don't fit into the innodb buffer pool. Are you doing a lot of partitioning to make everything work well?

If everything is behind an ORM, have you considered trying out PostgreSQL w/ the MySQL FDW? pgsql 10's improvements to FDW's make it a truly viable option.

Also to clarify: I'm just saying this as pgsql seems to handle queries that involve disk access and large datasets much better. I have found that as long as your hot dataset fits into the innodb buffer pool and/or you're doing only key lookups (e.g.: select * from tbl where pk=1;) MySQL is most certainly faster for real-world usage. If you're pulling and sorting/filtering millions (or billions) of rows per query, I find that pgsql stands up extremely well to that. Even in a single huge server setup.

Also a semi-unrelated ditty, but as someone who has to run migrations on pretty big (100m rows) tables, ALTER TABLE LOCK=NONE ALGORITM=INPLACE is pretty great (here's a table of what you can user per-situation https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-...)

If you made it this far in my comment you'll probably realize I didn't grasp the article well. I just re-read it and tl;dr, MyRocks works well (as expected) with datasets that don't fit into the innodb buffer pool. :)
Dat jitter tho.

Like most things, the devil is in the details.. And the use case.
As additional anecdata ive tried the gamut of piracetam, oxiracetam, aniracetam, pramiracetam, coluracetam, sulbutiamine, etc. Out of them all i found oxiracetam to be the easiest to use since it doesnt require rather large doses or extremely small ones. I did notice that racetams made it easier to sustain focus but gave me a bit more tunnel vision, it was easier to miss things that were obvious in a more relaxed state. After prolonged use (more than 5 days or so) I would become somewhat more emotionally blunted and irritable. Im also a smoker and would recommend not mixing nicotine with racetams since they both impact nicotine acetylcholine receptors which are involved in many places but specifically in muscle control. On higher doses combined with more cigarettes I noticed my muscles would be extra tight and stiff which caused me to eventually discontinue use. Using moderate doses every other day without smoking I didnt notice any ill effect physically and felt I got more out of it by alternating states. Its hard to pin the emotional aspect on it as it could have been due to other life factors, just made existing feelings more apparent.
Ok, let's try the subtitle.
Also:

> From what I've heard, Pipenv "has been officially blessed" only insofar as its maintainer got commit access to PyPA's documentation and inserted a recommendation.

This is blatantly false.
It's a non-profit, running off of donations. https://freedom.press/crowdfunding/signal/
there needs to be a decentralized YouTube
There doesn't appear to be any law of physics or higher power that enforces us to make these two things consistent, why would you assume they have to be?
Life is short, you need plugin.
But I bet you that when the singularity arrives, it will be named "Watson".
I'm guessing it's because of the First Amendment.
WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol, but somehow managed to make this work with WhatsApp Web, so the limitation isn't inherent to the technology.
For those that do seagull management... yea.
Someone filed a complaint with the taxi company about me once... The safety manager read it to me: 'passenger states driver was hitting on her daughter'.

... I asked for the location of the pickup, and remembered her. The complaining passenger was distressed when I arrived at the address. Her 'friend' had thrown all her stuff out of the car (before I arrived on scene). The passenger's daughter's birthday cupcakes were 'ruined'. We first went to get the daughter a short distance away.

Mom wanted daughter to get in the cab. Daughter protested that it was her birthday, that she was having a good time and wanted to stay.

Eventually mom won the argument. Daughter got in the front passenger seat, as if to say "fine I'll come but I'm not sitting back there with you."

I chatted with the daughter to hopefully take her mind off her mom ruining her birthday celebration. At the end of the ride I was going to ask something, then reconsidered as that would be crossing the line into 'creepy taxi driver' territory.

After hearing my version of the story, the safety manager told how the person who took the complaint had commented that if I was actually a problem, 'mom' would probably have called sooner than 3 days after the ride.

The company safety manager had stories of his own about how his efforts to be helpful were misinterpreted...

He also told of another driver who had some unaccompanied pre-teen girls. They wouldn't stop playing with the power windows, so he disabled their button, which greatly irritated the girls. When they got home, they told their mother that their driver had touched them. Mom called the police, who investigated... the taxi company consulted the cab's GPS logs, which were suspicious on account of the driver stopping his meter some time post-trip in the car wash... The driver was sweating bullets for a few weeks. The girls eventually confessed they'd made up their story...

There are certainly women who have problems with their drivers, but slander is a problem for the drivers too.
If two basic research teams ask for a grant, assuming we only have money to fund one, how do we choose?
> The success of a grant proposal shouldn’t hinge on whether the research is driven by a hypothesis, especially in the physical sciences.

You're looking at it the wrong way. If one call for proposal (meaning availability to fund only one project) receives a hundred proposals, then the acceptance rate is going to be 1% no matter what. Requirements like hypothesis inclusion are just ways to split the weed out work into two phases, e.g., eliminate 50 of the 100 proposals because they don't have hypothesis, and then eliminate 49 out of the remaining 50 after more careful reading. If you don't have the hypothesis requirement, that only means 99 out of 100 are eliminated after full reading. And what do you think the likelihood is going to be that the reviewers would accept your hypothesis-free proposal over dozens others that have one (all other things considered equal)?

The problem is lack of funding (or alternatively, too many researchers and not enough research work to go around, depending on how you look at it; Masters degree is the new Bachelors degree, PhD is the new Masters, etc, etc). What you're focusing on are marginal issues.
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I was planning on using my apu2 with the built-in antennas, just because that's what it has.

Would you mind describing your setup/config? Is it just the apu2 plus a ubiquiti AP? Which AP?
Hey Scott, how did you get your unlisted YouTube link for your presentation? I don't think I ever found mine from the same conference.
Neither -- I am saying that scientific funding primarily serves to keep scientists housed and alive (okay, and a little equipment too) and the money would go further without the overhead of means testing (that is, squabbling over which research is "worth funding" and which is not).