skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are all good points and for anyone reading along with curiosity, I'd actually recommend the Wikipedia link two posts up as a nice starting point for learning more. Wikipedia on this general subject area isn't too shabby, I thought when I last went down the rabbit hole.
> They are allowed access to promising therapies in late stage clinical trials in the hopes that they will help them

These drugs would be similar to or worse than drugs available on the Cancer Drugs Fund in England. We found that they i) are very expensive and ii) had no menaingful benefit. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097

On top of that you've got to factor in unpleasant side effects.

There are better ways to die than spending all your money on meds that make you feel terrible and don't provide any benefit.
It's not too much of a stretch to describe 9/11 as an act of war.
Python is my goto language but let's not forget it disrespects it's own mantra very often. Like a certain pirate would say, "it's more what you call a guideline than actual rules".

Duck typing is implicit interface.

Foo().bar() is an implicit Foo.bar(Bar()) as self is only explicit on declaration, not call.

__init__ is called and passed parameters implicitly.

__new__ is an implicit class method.

Some time the magic is nice to have. Sometime it's like yield.

Yield implicitly turns your function into a very different object, which makes everybody goes wtf the few first times.

They fixed that with async / await, but I still wish we had a "gen def" to allow yield in bodies, like we have "async def".
One remark: with "What are you avoiding doing right now?" it prompts to answer many activities. In my case they were different (chores vs creative and open-ended stuff), so it was not easy to answer questions in a meaningful way.

(It should clearly prompt to write a single thing/activity.)
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It's not that black and white.

Working on missile guidance? Then I can see your point of view... but everything else in some way facilitates or contributes to facilitating such things.

One can rapidly reduce it to "fixing a Linux bug... facilitates the military industrial complex". You might wish to not work on things that directly are used by the military, but the vast majority of technology is indirectly used because the military and their supporting companies, processes, logistics is so broad that it's almost everything.

At which point can you say your work truly does not facilitate or contribute?
Scarcity bias.

You know the limited offers that make you buy useless stuff just because you didn't want to miss the opportunity. Same idea. We instinctively place higher value on stuff that is perceived as scarce. It means that your roommate viewed that soon-to-be-banned caffeine powder as more valuable than it really is.

Needless to say, that effect is a marketing classic.
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Lloyds is not at all a good example of postmodern facadism. It's to the contrary of one the worlds greatest examples of modern architecture. This tiny "wedding cake" front has nothing to do with the building itself. It's separated, everyone can see that. This is a pure example of wrongly understood city planning and preservation. But they let it build which is the most important point.
He is one of the architects of the Centre Pompidou in Paris btw.
Well if you want to make these sorts of comparisons why not ban cars (cause lots of death, including children) and firearms (accidental shootings alone probably make magnets look like...well toys).

If you ban stuff at some point someone has to at least implicitly weight utility against risk. That's ultimately going to be fairly subjective. I'd say cars are overall still a good thing, guns I'm not sure about (but in the U.S. the constitution trumps the death statistics), magnets...I have a hard time quantifying the utility but there's probably a decent economic argument for them overall.

It's obviously easy to say "protection of innocent children" but that doesn't mean it's all there is to it.
It's not too much of a stretch to describe the Bush claims leading to the Irak war as completely fabricated.
Yes you can. "Additional TSIs are available for purchase in either a 2-pack for $99 USD or 5-Pack for $249 USD in the Code-level Support section in your account."
I struggled to parse that title. A more verbose, paraphrased version:

"A list of the mistakes that teams make if they are new to the concept of Chaos Engineering"
A few years ago I read Nick Lane’s The vital
Question, which explored “junk DNA” extensively, in the context of abiogenesis.

The analogy I particularly liked was that they are little turing machines, and the very original stuff of life - indiscriminate, self-replicating, and therefore part of the bootstrap for everything that came after.

Also, more on LiNE. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon#LINEs
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But think of how much better off we'd be today if we hadn't treated it like one.

9/11 was not an act of war. It was the work of a few deranged cultists who got lucky, nothing more and nothing less. Our response was equivalent to reacting to the Branch Davidians by bombing the Vatican.
Hi, My name is Rocky Sharma.

I am the founder of provlem.com and I wanted to build crowdsourcing consultancy community for quite some long time.

The mission to start something like what today is "provlem.com" begin a long time ago and with multiple stories and events of other people's life including mine - It was just getting hit up pretty badly to me on every occasion.

People in today's world has lots of problems and with increasing population and competition - Situation is more worst than you can even think.

There are enough of stories from suicide, depression, failure, unemployment to bully or getting dominated from bad people in school, college, work, politician to bad parenting.

The stories and problem go on and on but there are very fewer people who are lucky enough to have motivated people around them to get over the problem and kick-start their life with vengeance.

I hope, the IDEA of building the site to help provlem seeker is fulfilled with "Provlem.com"

Couple of features, that is ongoing -

Video calling option

In built Wallet for user to pay/hire in case of paid consultancy.

Improving chat option with emoji and other stickers.

Anonymous and non-anonymous Chat between user is already there.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.
"Local-currency emerging-market bonds sound like they’d be pretty illiquid. Packaging them into an exchange-traded fund might make them seem more liquid, but if someone wanted to get out of a big ETF position all at once, they might find that the liquidity isn’t there. By selling the ETF they’ll cause a fire sale of the underlying bonds. Right?

And every actual event undermines it! The bond index underlying EMLC was … um … up 0.45 percent yesterday. Obviously a $321 million bond trade is not a particularly big one, but still, it’s a record for this ETF, and it just didn't have a whisper of an impact on bond market liquidity."

Only if you are assuming that who ever is holding the bonds now will want to just outright dump it and thus exacerbating the 3 month trend on that particular ETF… not to mention you have to ignore that there could be liquidations in portfolios (FX/Cash/Swaps/Equities/ other derivative contracts) going on to re-balance/cover losses as well as ignoring how central banks from India to Indonesia have been quite vocal in their worries…
A guarantee is only as good as the guarantor. A guarantor can be a company providing a service, as well as all sorts of assorted guarantees about said service.

In time, the situation can change. The product can get sold. Cash can be spent. The guarantor can no longer make good on its guarantees.

You're back to square one where the guarantees are as worthless as the original service.

You need 3rd party backing (insurance) in such situations, but that costs money. This money is a cost which makes competing against unbacked entities tougher.

In most cases, you can not have 100% foolproof guarantees of anything. The closest I can think of is governments standing behind their banking institutions. Even there though, governments have defaulted on their guarantees.

The world is not a stable, perfect, and cut-and-dry place as many would like to believe. It is dynamic, and ultimately backed by trust.
Your supplier getting acquired is also a well known risk that you cover by reading/negotiating the contract.

The problem is, if all suppliers use the same contract clauses you may not have a choice.
You can't transfer assets into a shell, but you can buy certain assets you want (e.g. IP) for a reasonable price even if it is much less than the liabilities, and take over the employees (which aren't "owned" by the company and thus an asset), and leave the old company to bankruptcy.

Also, it's quite plausible that Smyte had negative value before the acquisition - that it's going to be an "empty sack" not because valuable assets were transferred elsewhere (which can be reversed in courts) but because its debts already exceeded any value it had, that it was an empty sack in the first place and no debts can be paid in full in any case.
I find your choice of words here interesting. Why does the US need to “compete” with Russia and China? I don’t want to sound too much like a hippy, but is strenthening our militaries like this really the best long term goal?
By your logic, we should ban vehicle for it cause traffic incidents.
The fact that it's a fixed price per month service is ridiculous. Do they think it doesn't matter how long the videos are, what the quality of the content is, or the quantity?

But then of course, I remember that they used to have (and for all I know may still have) this internal policy where if you don't upload regularly (IIRC the rule was once a week and at least half an hour) your subscribers were less likely to be notified of new videos.

A flat fee means that content creators are encouraged (yet again) to upload more videos, because otherwise most people will not consider five bucks a month worth the price.

One of the things that makes the Internet in general special, and by extension YouTube as well, is that niche topics can find an audience. This policy actively hurts the niche content creator who only uploads once every few months.

I honestly do not understand their apparent insistence on turning everything into either a carrot or stick to get content creators to upload more videos, regardless of whether the type of content in question needs it. There is more video material uploaded per second than anyone can watch in a lifetime already! Why not focus on encouraging quality instead?
> If you're saying that a restart didn't make fixamo work, would you mind filing an issue so we can try to fix it?

No I haven't tried that. After I run :fixamo and that didn't work I just opened about:config and change those settings myself without restarting firefox.

Edit:
Since I now continued to test tridactyl I found that this newtab overwriting function gets pretty annoying from a usability perspective. When I start a new Tab with [Ctrl]+[t] and immediately type my desired address part of it will be overwritten when 'about:blank' is inserted. I guess you want people to use just a binding to :tabopen, but I do like my options. Also since :tabopen do not contain my bookmarks I prefer using the address line.
Here's a practical approach that have been working well for our family.

Forget about recording your transactions, it is way too tedious.

The solution: Use 'jars' for budgeting. Our jars are bank accounts.

First we have a main bank account where money comes in. Set all recurring bills (eg. rent, utilities, phone) to direct debit from this account. Let's call this income account. Leave the debit card at home, don't use it.

Then set an estimate of how much you be spend every week on groceries, transportation, etc. See this as your pocket money.

Then set up another bank account, set an automatic weekly transfer from the income account to this pocket money account. The amount is what you estimated previously. Everything in this account is for you to spend. If you spend less the week before, then you can spend it this week... or not. But you should not spend more than what it is there.

Adjust the automatic transfer amount if needed.

Now, if you want to save... it is the same strategy. Set up a saving target, open a savings account and do automatic periodic transfer from the income account.

Try it... it requires very little effort, makes you more conscious on how much you spend and on what and after a while you will be surprised with how much you're saving.
Or the modernist manifest of all manifests "Ornament und Verbrechen", Adolf Loos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime

Fulltext (english) at https://web.archive.org/web/20141108111449/http://www2.gwu.e...
> "Thanks, means a lot. We're glad you like it!" If the response is "We'll pass that onto the team!" it's okay, but not great.

Why rank them in that order?

Is your point that the representative should feel like part of the team?
Not trying to defend the killing, but military is important for a nation. Even if the US military is very ethical, the foreign militaries may not be. Hence the US military has to be on an offensive all the time. There is no dearth of countries who would want to see the fall of US, or any other western nation.

(Having said this, US military has done their share of mass murder in Cambodia, Iraq etc.)
It is simply isolated data center racks for government. Just like AWS gov cloud. Apparently the article author had never heard the term "air gap."
As long as we can see the ingredients it seems like a great idea, better than what is on offer currently. My suspicion is that the machines otherwise would look like the inside of McFlurry machines rather soon.
Is our military capable? We've failed horrendously at two wars in Iraq and one war in Afghanistan. We like to claim that we defeated ISIS, but let's be real, we defeated ISIS in about the same way we defeated Germany, we let everybody else fight for us, then took the credit.

ISIS? PKK & YPG defeated ISIS, and as a thank you we're about to throw them under the bus to stay in the good graces of the Turkish dictator.

We hear a lot about the great might of the US military, and yes I will concede that we do manage to destroy a lot of countries, but we don't seem to win wars.
From TFA: "But there are still no known turquoise deposits in Mesoamerica. The explanation, say Thibodeau and her colleagues, is that turquoise deposits tend to be shallow, and they can be mined to depletion in short order. And there are copper deposits all over Mesoamerica. Thibodeau and her colleagues said the turquoise mines that supplied the Aztecs may have been mined out well before Europeans set foot on the continent."
Or "spyware"? The fact that it historically meant something else doesn’t make it less fitting in my opinion.
Ok, great. That means the only bug is bad documentation and feedback to users. Thanks for your time!
I found this difficult to follow since it requires you to learn Haskell, but luckily typeclasses.com is a paid service to learn Haskell.
Evaluating the business viability and solvency of any important suppliers is something that you should be doing yourself even if you have a years-long contract.

Also, such risks can be insured.

Also, such risks can be mitigated in various ways - I recall having a contract where the source code of any product version delivered to us would be held in escrow at a third party, and in case the supplier went out of business or a bunch of other conditions, we'd get their code and legal rights to use/modify/maintain it ourselves or through some contractor.

A contract is between you and some entity - if you want to protect yourself against that entity "dying", then that can be done by a contract with someone else (e.g. insurer, escrow, etc) who can make you whole even if that entity is dead.
When I'm buying privately I care about the price I pay - not the price a business can pay when reclaiming the VAT. It's not like VAT is going away with next change of govt, or even with Brexit. Everything gives you a receipt breaking out the VAT or shows it in the online basket and checkout for those that care, or reclaim, so I don't see how it lacks transparency.

Why does it matter who of buyer or retailer covers the few pennies, or if retailer makes a small price change to stick at a .99 or .00 price point? Retailers have done this forever in both directions.
I think you'll find quite a few people would find it is quite a stretch.

The attack was planned by a group that wasn't the internationally recognized leadership of any country, and they hid in a war-torn country whose government was being violently contested. And the Taliban were also not recognized, at least not officially, as the leadership of Afghanistan.

So to call it an act of war is indeed a stretch.
Ah yes the word "present" through me off.

If it is about writing - I always find that re-reading what you wrote the next day helps with refactoring the text.
What are you both doing ?
Well, it goes both ways. No shortage of tech worker manchildren who despite their financial situation still have no idea how to behave in a way that will encourage people to like them.
The ideal case is that the representative is part of the team. Perhaps he/she is in the same office or actually a developer. But it's okay if they're in a different team as long as they can open a communication channel if needed to say, clear up some confusion of a docstring written deep into an SDK by a developer.
Shockley aspired to take on more executive roles at corporations but was relegated to take up academic roles, for which he was more suitable.
I find in C# you use it without thinking about it because it usually makes sense when you have specific things you are trying to do, you often don't think too much about the types.

public interface ITalker
{
string Talk();
}

public class Robot : ITalker
{
public string Talk() => "Beep Boop";
}

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var robots = new List<Robot>() {new Robot()};
MakeEmTalk(robots);
DoStuffWithRobots(MakeEmTalk, robots);
}

private static void DoStuffWithRobots(Action<List<Robot>> robotoStuff, List<Robot> robots)
{
robotoStuff(robots);
}

private static void MakeEmTalk(IEnumerable<ITalker> talkers)
{
foreach (var talker in talkers)
{
Console.WriteLine(talker.Talk());
}
}
}

so intuitively, with MakeEmTalk, a list of robots should be able to be used where a enumerable list of talkers is required.

conversely ( contraversely? ) with DoStuffWithRobots, an action on a list of robots should be able to use a more generic action that works on an enumerable of Italkers, while we are only dealing with a list of robots there shouldn't be anything that stops us using something designed to work on a broader set of things.
PR is just another word for Propaganda, isn'it ?
I don’t disagree that a lot of technological benefits have come out of military technology, it’s just that your comment completely ignores the death, destruction and calamity that’s also arisen. You’re fine to believe that the military is a net benefit for society, that’s your choice. I just don’t, and that’s mine. And while yes, I’m sure you’d think less of me in an interview situation that’s not been my general experience of hiring managers.
> And if I were hiring, I'd certainly think less of you for taking that stance.

If you don't want to hire me because of this fact, I am perfectly fine with that. In fact, that is exactly what I and the OP would want. I do not blame you for working on military projects. You are free to do that, and I think no less of you for it. But by the same token, the OP and I are free to not wanting to work on military projects.

If you want to judge people for their personal preferences, that is your choice to make. They might reciprocate, though.
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I was referring to the fact that people spend a lot more time looking at the parts of a building that are at street level rather than the roofline, particularly in a narrow street in London with traffic around.
Pixels on screen come from the display controller, which on mobile is often a distinct piece of IP from the GPU, unlike desktop systems. Scenarios like watching a video full screen can often happen without GPU involvement at all.
The existance of a contract does not prevent actions like this. A contract will get you compensated later, but if the provider cuts you out, nothing can prevent it. The outage will be there wether it is legal or not.
Sadly, don’t get to spend all my working hours in that environment. It’s where I get a disproportionate amount of the actual work done, though!
Have you used Azure? They're the same company, just a new product line.
I have that exact model of alarm, purchased for $2.50 from eBay.

Seeing this report, I decided to test it, and have taken a few barbeque coals smouldering and left them near the alarm.

The alarm goes off within about 1 minute, and the screen shows first 25, then "50ppm" of carbon monoxide.

I also tested the behaviour with a low battery, and it does indeed warn you.

Overall, it seems to be working as advertised - I can only suspect that not all of this model of alarm are bad, or perhaps that the british standards have some strict requirements (like perhaps it needs to go off quicker than 1 minute).

For the $2.50, the safety per dollar seems like the best deal around, and it is still way better than not having an alarm.

If anyone else tries this, beware that once the alarm has gone off, it keeps beeping for about an hour, even after you remove the carbon monoxide...
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To be fair, America didn't really win WW2, we hardly even fought, mostly we just supplied Hitler with arms, and when that wasn't fashionable anymore, we supplied the allies with arms.. Then we swooped in at the end to take all the credit and the fat construction contracts.
Off topic but does anyone else find that guy incredibly annoying? I also get the impression he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about most of the time.
I cant quite see what this supposed military tech is "air gap technology".

From the article it seems to be setting up a separate air gaped clone of google infrastructure for use on DoD contracts.

This isn't exactly improving image recognition for drone strikes or identifying cars containing brown skinned kids near the Mexican border for Donalds child catchers to intern in the camps.
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I have a google sheet with an attached form. I then use simple queries to retrieve the data. For example, I have a sheet that displays the expenses per category (food, holidays, etc.) for the current month and also shows me the % of my income I have spent.

I added a few lines of Javascript which are run on what is probably a rough equivalent of a cronjob. They just check if it's the first of the month and if so append my current, recurring, monthly expenses to the form.

This is a simple and pragmatic approach where I can leverage the data analysis tools of google sheets (charts and stuff), access and add my data from everywhere and not have to implement anything myself.

I also use that to track what I buy for me and my GF so that we can eventually reimburse each other for shared purchases (mainly food). We could also get a shared account but so far it's been working really well.

If I am interested in my overall net worth I just log into my bank account and check out how much money I have and what my ETFs are doing.

The form is pretty simple: Amount, category, name, comment and then choose if it's both (me and my GF), I O (see comment for whom I am owing money).