skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very useful if you want to ship new features without constantly changing DB tables by adding new fields to models.

Example scenario:

- Year 0: ship v1.0 of software with EAV table in place

- Year 1: a few months later you need to store some extra attributes for a feature, so you change the code to look for these attributes if they are available, and ship updates v1.1, v1.2, v1.2.3-experimentA, etc. none of which require DB migrations.

Like @lsaferite says, this is not super efficient as it requires an extra DB lookup when retrieving each object, but hey... features! (and less stressful software updates, since migrations will never break the system)

Using an EAV table also allows you to ship special features only for specific clients (e.g. special integrations that apply to only certain users or custom builds).

- Year 2: When shipping v2.0 you can convert all the attributes from successful feature experiments into "real" model attributes (field) and ship the v2.0 data model, possibly still keeping the EAV table around for v2.1, v2.2, etc.

I think it's a nice pattern since it puts all the "DB migration risk" into a few big chunks (less upgrade paths to test), but these days Django migrations have gotten so civilized that there is less need for this...
That's very true. Languages have always been drifting.

With the internet it's just that we're drifting more and more towards English.
I always thought of math more as a abstraction layer.
I think the Harvard trend is probably too little to late on their part. Having worked on both coasts in a variety of companies I didn't even know Harvard had an engineering dept.
Not in the marginal cost of servers/apis...

Have you ever heard of companies that buy services from other companies under the same VC?
This is what people don't get. It's simply not sustainable and of course we need to invest in battery research. And the sooner the better.
Lets just say humanities is not the easy path to a well paid job. Certainly there are people who have been successful like Steve Jobs but I feel it was his individual qualities that made the difference.
Wiktionary confirms that the name of the fruit came from the name of the country:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A...

(via Greek, via Venetian!)
Probably because it doesn't have full official status at the EU. Google has a ton of data for EU languages because documents have to be translated between them all.
Mozilla tried with Shumway project, but it got abandoned.
Any experienced psychonaut knows this is utter bullshit. It doesn't take a lot of LSD or psilocybin for one to experience "unconscious" thought, it is amongst the first things to manifest on a trip. To clarify, this is cognitive activity that results in various streamS of thought that is ordinarily hidden from the conscious self but one can become aware of under altered states of consciousness.

Moreover, if we examine more powerful trips (mystical experience, induced psychosis), there can be no doubt whatsoever as to the presence of a multitude of intelligenceS that one can communicate with. In fact, one can take away the psychedelics and learn to gain access to these parts of the mind through other methods (Jung - active imagination, western esoteric tradition, shamanism). It boggles the mind that the author of this nautilus drivel has nothing to say on these matters.

Finally, he makes the classic mistake of assuming that the unconscious processes of the mind work in the same way as the conscious ones, in terms of one taking advantage of them, when he describes the experiments he uses as proof, that are based on verbalisation and language instead of visualization and symbol reinforcement.
I wish there was an equivalent of CI and peer-reviewed pull-requested contribution to their system, to ease collaborative improvement to the methods. You'd really want many sets of eyes able to look at all aspects of the drugs to vastly reduce risk.
I can’t imagine imperialism was a significant factor. Relatively few people need to interface with the imperialist power; but the new wealthy market imperialism makes available to you incentivizes you to learn the language of that market.
Of course IMAX is on board with AMC's plan. IMAX was one party that was credibly threatened by MoviePass, since MP customers were prevented from purchasing IMAX tickets. MP customers will see Mission Impossible tonight in normal 2D for free, reducing the demand for IMAX.

AMC completely flips the script. Its members can see IMAX films without any premium cost, even on opening weekend. Regular screen, or 3D IMAX for the same cost (both for free)? Of course, let's go see IMAX.

The problem for AMC is that it is now on the hook for paying the IMAX premium. Your article says, vaguely: "the theater chain will ensure there is no reduction in Imax’s overall economics." So it's a no-lose proposition for IMAX but AMC now has to cover the cost of tickets sold to A-Listers.

Here is a link to Regal theaters showing Mission Impossible tonight: https://www.regmovies.com/movies/mission-impossible-fallout/... Notice how nearly every showing says "No Passes"? That's because giving away a free seat to a sold-out show reduces ticket revenue. That's been basic policy at movie theaters for decades. AMC has decided to toss that model out the window.
And sometimes the new community wins out over the existing one. LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, X.org vs. XFree86, etc.
possibly some internal metric they have? 80% might be the pairwise similarity for a pair of images and across a whole dataset this might have a 5% error rate.
Curious, did you CC Spectrum on your letters, or did they find out after being contacted by your AG/Senator?
In natural conversation in American English of the 21st century, people use a name only to get your attention or to refer to you when talking to another participant.

"Pat, good to see you. Have you met Sandy?"

"Charlie? Could you explain that bit again?"

Those are natural.

Unnatural:

"Well, Bob, I'm glad you asked."
"Can I get you to sign today, Sandy?"
I have zero sympathy for either of those people.

And I'm disappointed that our taxes are going towards fruitlessly prodding-at their poor excuses of lives, in the sheerest pretense that anything more can be made of them.
Which is a shame, because I would happily teach Latin for a guaranteed $18,000 a year.

Latin is an amazing language that has a lot of tangential applications. At the very least, Latin shouldn't go extinct.
Jens' page was one of those "ain't the internet great" moments I had in the late 90s (or early oughts). There you just browse the web and suddenly you find out that the keyboard player of this silly metal band you like doesn't just have his own web presence, but actually wrote it in a templating system of his own devise (written in Perl, as was tradition[1]). Including a diatribe about the sad state of HTML ("HTML 2.0 was pretty OK — couldn't they just have left well enough alone?").

After I found this, I altavistad quite a lot of musicians, but I don't think I ever got to repeat this epiphany. These days it's all instagram pages and twitter accounts anyway, and the biggest nerd jolt I get is when you find out that musician XYZ played D&D in the past.

[1]: http://www.panix.com/~jens/parse-cgi-about.par
Is this a point you'd like to elaborate on? Without accusing you of anything, when I read a one sentence dismissal of humanities/social sciences, what I tend to think is that this is someone who thinks "post-modernism is bullshit", "third wave feminism is bad", "intersectionality isn't real", "everything is cultural marxism", "safe spaces", etc. and who is appealing to Jordan Peterson as an expert on everything. If we're lucky, they'll throw in Sokal or some other sincere attempt to engage with problems in the discipline.

This might be an unfair judgment of you personally -- certainly it doesn't suggest charity on my part. But I just mention it because, in the event that you have something to add to the discussion that isn't just boilerplate, you might want to know that in the absence of actually adding it, you are being judged in this way.

(Personal disclaimer: I'm not in the humanities, I have my own critiques of where major humanities disciplines are. I am an academic. But I also waste enough of my time on awful websites that I am very acclimatized to driveby dismissals of anything that emerged out of critical theory, and I can't say I agree with that.)
Not. But koboll was extending this from English to other languages.
OSM has awesome maps of tracks in woods and parks and shopping centres.
As long as the police still do their jobs, why does the existence of such an underclass worry you?
I can buy beer at Bay Area Century cinemas
You've posted about ISP related things in the past. How viable do you think it would be to start a WISP in rural New York State? I'm mostly interested in last mile rural stuff (I don't like cities), but from the looks of the rest of this thread it would probably be more profitable to start a WISP in NYC itself.
Hard to live and work around Boston on $18,000 salary
Definitely true!
Similarly, the birds called redbreasts, whose chests are orange as well
Right, because subtlety and implication aren't a part of communication, especially in English, which is so precise that sentences in it are practically computer code.
Perhaps worse than the death of Flash was the death of Shockwave. I feel like so many Shockwave games I played back in the day are completely gone with no reference to them on the modern internet. Today, you can install some version of Flash on most operating systems, but I don't think there's any modern standalone Shockwave player and I could only get the plugin to work in Safari on macOS. Chrome and Firefox don't even run those types of plugins anymore.

There's one particular Shockwave game that I was recently able to recover from the depths of the Wayback Machine, which was a game from Disney for the Inspector Gadget movie; terrible film, but their website had this nifty little game that wasn't necessarily difficult but was addicting in that I wanted to see just how far I could go with it. For years I thought it was gone for good, and was glad to finally see it again after I lost it 15+ years ago.

Here it is in all its 1999 glory:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031017000018/http://www.disney...

I always liked it in part because I don't think I've seen a similar game. It's kind of like if you took the random shapes part of Tetris and added a "jigsaw puzzle" element.
You've missed a lot of the point here. MapQuest isn't something Google cares about, but it is an extremely popular search term, particularly among the computer illiterate, who learned what it was back in the 90s, and have ever since considered it "where to get directions". Like many other search terms, it's a high value term for malicious content, and Google's happy to rake in the cash. While "Google does not sell your data", they're more than willing to redirect you to a malicious browser extension that does.

Those of us in the tech industry don't use MapQuest. We don't click on ads. A lot of us have ad blockers. So we don't really think about the fact that the cushy online presence adtech has built for us is built on taking advantage of less technologically savvy. You may not pay for Google, but indirectly, the old lady down the block does, every time she has to take her computer into Best Buy to have the garbage scrubbed off of it.

And where the antitrust drops back in: Google doesn't let people bid on ads for their own products, so "google maps" never returns a malicious map site.

And, as I noted above, this site's been heavily promoted in Google Ads for years, at least five, and there's no way to report it in Google Search. Several Google employees are likely reading this thread who have the ability to do something about it or know who to escalate it to, but I'm reasonably confident it'll still be there next week.
No, because supporting a character means knowing all the metadata about it, not merely drawing it on the screen. You have to know whether it's a letter or a number or punctuation so that you can match against it in regular expressions, or do word breaking when you double click on it, etc. You have to know its bidi class so that you can render it in the right direction when putting it on the screen. You have to know the shaping rules so that apply when it's near other characters. None of that comes from your fonts; fonts just have glyphs in them. All the other metadata comes from the Unicode specification.
Off topic, but whatever happened to app.net? That was supposed to be the next new thing.
I'm always fascinated by sentiments given by people living in the self-declared land of freedom of the form:

> Cops don't [...]. But [govt agency] can do whatever they want.

It seems to me as-if there aren't many real freedoms beyond the first one.
I don’t know if YC proactively seeks organizations to fund but these folks look like a pretty small potential investment with a huge social win. If ever there was a time to “do good” with that enormous pile of capital and connections y’all have— this might be it.
I don't know about French, but when I learned Danish in school we were definitely impacted by the standards body on the Danish language.

Sure, it doesn't change things overnight, but generation by generation these standard bodies can slowly but steadily push how grammar is taught in school and what language the is used in the media.
Janusec Application Gateway, an application security solutions which provides WAF (Web Application Firewall), unified web administration portal, private key protection, web routing and scalable load balancing.
That sounds against GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

"The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided [...]"
In China, everyone takes compulsory English courses from a fairly young age. Due to the importance of it as a school subject, preschool children are regularly placed into English classes to help them get an early leg up on the language.

In the US of A and most other English speaking countries, nobody bothers learning anything but English; the minority of people who do learn a second language tend to go for something relatively easy like French or Spanish.

While this says nothing about the inherent difficulty of learning these languages, it does speak to the differing language learning priorities at a national level.
The cause is probably the other way around: college has become a necessary (but not always sufficient) ticket to the middle class, and so (by this calculation) is no longer valuable for its own sake.
> proprietary platforms

... as in Windows, MacOS (to a much less extend), PlayStation, XBox, Switch (and/or other Nintendo platform)?

This warning makes no sense.
How do you archive, deduplicate and search e-mails offline?
I have thousands of emails from multiple accounts. Some of them are .eml and others are entire .mbox mailboxes.

I would like to be able to search them and also import new emails (manually, I'm not going to connect to IMAP or anything else). It would need to ignore duplicated e-mails e.g. re-import a Google Takeout .mbox without creating complete chaos.

- me@example.com
-- inbox
-- sent
-- folder1
-- folder2

- the-other-me@example.com
-- inbox
-- sent
-- thingsishouldnthavesent
Communication is integral to society. Haveing a different class of communication technology that is not accessible by a large portion of the population pushes the haves and have nots apart
Part of me thinks it might be difficult for a well documented language to go extinct today.
I'm not sure this works all that great as a rebuttal, given Facebook alone just lost more value in a single day this week than the combined 2017 revenues of those three...

Also, Nokia and Siemens were founded in the 1800s, they did not emerge in "the last 20 years". SAP dates to the 1970s as well.

It pains me to admit as a European, but the lack of any real large modern internet success stories to emerge from our continent is a real shame.
Wait, are you talking from the US? Are banks blocking their customer's money there without the government intervention?

I haven't heard about something like this happening anywhere, but it's not hard to imagine it, unfortunately.
I think we're talking past each other. I'm not claiming that the DPRK is telling the truth.
Steve Jobs dropped out of school.
Approaching operations from a software development perspective wasn’t unique to Google.

Also ops is engineering and has been since before Google existed.
So, leaving your kid in the car is actually a significant danger for them in America, because it creates a risk of men-with-paper-trail taking your kid.
If you can just dig and evacuate the tunnels, you can get energy-free transportation to anywhere on earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train
As someone working in a customer facing role for a lot of my tech career, most of it is sound advice. The one missing item that isn't is deescalating urgent situations by not assigning blame during the interaction.
Maybe this is more an indictment of universities than of the humanities? Is it possible that university study in general is on borrowed time, and the future is simply here earlier for the humanities? It's not as though the Classics will be forgotten, nor will writers, artists, connoisseurs, or critics disappear. Professors haven't ever been [EDIT:] a vital part of this.
Something I've done on some projects is to install (or check) the hooks as a side-effect of a script that any contributor is guaranteed to run. In my case, `./configure`. The Makefile would be another place for this (`make test`). It just copies the hooks from `.hooks` to `.git/hooks` and chmods them to be executable. This solves the problem of contributors (or myself) forgetting to set up the proper hooks in every checkout, and it's very low-maintenance.
I had a slightly different experience: my parents both majored (and onwards) in liberal arts, and expressed (mild) skepticism when I initially majored in Computer Science.

Anecdotally, though, all of my university friends had the same experience as you.
Long ago we decided as a country there were significant collective benefits to near-universal electrification and phone service. Internet is a bit more complicated for various reasons such as wireless options but there’s at least an argument for government rural broadband initiatives.
I'd bet that someone in either the legislature or the prison system is getting some "consideration" from the providers of these "free" tablets. Nobody would agree to allow these things otherwise.

I don't think Assemblyman Steve Hawley (R) is being stupid when he's asking "why can't we get "free" tablets for students, too?" I think he's in on it. That's the simplest answer.
I agree of course that there are many languages in which great literature is produced. I just happen to find that books, be it fiction or non-fiction, written by English or American authors, have a very refined way of pleasing the reader.
Same here but it looks like they're partnering with MIT.
You can search them using Stanford's ePadd software.

edit: For deduplication you can use Aid4Mail, MailStore, or BitCurator.
This is truly amazing work, and I hope they are able to achieve their goals. The future of humanity depends on it.

If you want to help, they need someone to crack a rar file containing the Chematica data (which was acquired by Merck pharmaceuticals)

https://twitter.com/MichaelSLaufer/status/102263726560276889...
> A lot of homeless people are just having a bit of bad luck and a few steps in the right direction will have them be non-homeless people is short order. If you live paycheck to paycheck and then don't have a paycheck anymore then things go bad real quick.

I absolutely sympathize, and I think that safety nets are important insofar as we as a society can guarantee them. However, the library is not the place for that. If someone is homeless and wishes to spend their time reading, then so be it. However, most people are homeless due to mental illness, not lack of jobs. And drug addicts have non-negligible increased rates of criminality and impulsive or violent behavior.

Libraries, as halls of learning, and thus for a people centered around learning, a community center, must be safe.
It says a lot about a society when "let her kid ride the subway alone" is enough to get the parent a Wikipedia bio.
Come to think of it, several years ago I had to migrate a website from Wordpress (I think it was Wordpress) to Django. The Wordpress database schema was nothing but EAV tables: Every damn thing had all of its attributes listed in a separate table, and object retrieval traversed several tables each time.

I suppose this was necessary or at least useful for a general-use web framework like Wordpress, where no one knows what kinds of attributes various users will want to create, and therefore table _columns_ are stored as table _data_, and no one ever has to do any migration.

But it was dog-slow. The switch to Django halved the number of tables in the site, and the whole thing went about three times as fast (plenty of other reasons for that, though).

Granted, now I have to do Django migrations rather than Wordpress web-console manipulation, but as someone said in a different post, Django migrations aren't that hard these days.
FWIW, current releases of LibreOffice 6 can open and edit documents from SharePoint document libraries.

Also, I have not had trouble opening OOXML files (.docx, .xlsx) in LibreOffice.

The main problem with LibreOffice, from my point of view, is that there are many third-party applications that expect MS Office to be installed or use it exclusively for data import/export. For example, Autodesk Inventor can create a bi-directional link to Excel and export the list of parts of a model to Excel; ePlan, too. Our PDM system comes with an Outlook plugin that allows users to upload emails. Our ERP system can export stuff to Excel, but not to LibreOffice. The list goes on and on. For a large number of use cases, LibreOffice is perfectly cromulent as it is. But as long as all those third-party application rely on MS Office, it will remain dominant, regardless of the price or technical merits.
how is MacOS to a much less extent?
"Zwischenspeicher" is a magnificent word! Betweensaver. I love the Germanic way of nouncompounding.

As an American who learned German in high school and have since only admired German from afar, that word sounds great and I love the way the meaning is derived.
Yep, it's essentially the same thing. I guess EAV approach was the old way from before JSONField days.

In both cases the cost of this flexibility and migration-less data model extensibility is extra code paths and guards to check if these "optional" attributes are present or not. Spaghetti code anyone?
I agree. In the past, there were fewer people with university degrees so they were worth more. Humanities degrees were seen as a indicator of intelligence and accomplishment. Now they are seen as an indicator of someone who went to university but had no real idea of what he wanted to major in.