skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently using their free trial and so far it has been working for us. One of our servers went down two times last week and I got SMS notifications.
Curious to learn about other alternatives.
As someone who has now done this exact thing a couple of times for work, I'm going to say that I disagree with the article about one point: you probably do need developers/data scientists unless your extraction/standardisation exercise is trivial in size and complexity. Obviously that depends on your subject matter a bit, but generally people won't approach you if its small scale and already in a good structure.

It's all well and good sucking out tables from pdfs in something roughly akin to the format they were entered, this doesn't make the tables magically analysable by machine, even under the assumption of perfect extraction (which rarely holds in real life, at least in my experience).

So fundamentally, you need someone that can define the problem, parse the text and information from the pdf, munge the data from its original form into something useful, while writing some tests and procedures to verify and quantify the quality/success of doing so.

I'm not saying that's sysadmin work or not (since job titles don't really mean anything much to me), but it definitely sounds like developer/data science work, and it's beyond the abilities of the non-tech crew...ymmv
The Prius succeeded in spite of itself. They are ugly as hell, didn't offer plug in capability for years despite customers begging for it, so slow you can barely merge onto the highway and not the most ideal family car. It's the kind of car you put up with because you want to be green or you have a shitty commute and you're tired of paying $4/gallon for gas. Nobody buys a Prius for any reason other than that it's a hybrid with great fuel economy. Nobody. Then there was the Honda Insight which was worse in every way.

Teslas appeal to both the customers who want to be green and the ones who don't give a rat's ass about the environment. They look nice, they go fast, they hardly require any maintenance and they have a badass infotainment system which no other manufacturer has been able to get right. The first Model S really popped and people were buying it in spite of the uncertainty around it being electric. Then they started loading them up with tech and driver aids.

I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I don't know how anyone who's into cars can look at one and not find something cool about it.

As for "expensive infrastructure", you do realize the first car manufacturers didn't decide to start building gas cars in the beginning simply to take advantage of the gas station infrastructure that was already in place? Electric cars are here to stay. Sooner or later somebody had to start building charging stations just like somebody had to start building gas stations.
No you're spot on, historically this has been a huge problem. You can make it illegal to log an area, but people will log anyway.

What's different about the project we listed is that it uses satellite monitoring and drones to very quickly catch illegal logging. So instead of loggers taking out 100s of acres over a few weeks, they can be caught on day one and authorities can be sent to the area. This makes it very difficult to log at a large scale. They also send several patrols each month to walk through the area and inspect on the ground to make sure the forest is as expected.
This is great, thanks for writing it!

Brings to mind the words of renowned Victorian lifehacker Jerome K. Jerome:

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”
Wouldn't that change the heat dissipation characteristics and skew the results? Is a metal surface coated with epoxy exactly the same (from transmission, convection and radiation point of views) as a naked metal surface?
Can I use my own custom addons with Firefox? Or do I still need a developer/unstable version of Firefox for that?
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> Any good email client should prohibit you from

Most e-mail servers required a login (regardless of fetching or sending), and it would take a real incompetent sysadmin to allow that to happen in the clear.
That's a cop out. AirBnB as a platform introduces systemic problems that weren't there before (effect of scale matters), exploits them in full knowledge of their impact on people, and does nothing to stop them.
> Even if you had a point, which you don't

My point is simple: "calories in" is unmeasurable. It depends on the food you eat, how it's prepared, what else you eat with it, etc. "Calories out" is unmeasurable. It's based on what you do, how you move, how your body processes what you eat, etc.

The first law of thermodynamics can apply all the live long day, but the statement "calories in minus calories out" is useless.
We keep forgetting that in the 1920s they said -all- cars would be flying in the year 2000, and it never happened... Heck, some could say we still don't have cars that can fly realistically, we only have flawed prototypes, and they aren't safe. It's not being pessimistic, it's being realistic. Most of the hype surrounding the self driving car discussion is generated and promoted by people and companies on the profit receiving end of the discussion.

Right now it's primarily based off of cameras watching painted lines on roads. Also not a solid practice. If someone wanted to cause accidents all they'd have to do is paint the lines off the road on a section above 60 MPH.

Another problem is maintenance of these vehicles. Accidents are caused a lot by owners not properly maintaining the car's subsystems like brakes, fluids, and even keeping sensors and windshields clean. Too much performance unpredictability is introduced into the equation by things like this to make self driving cars a reality, and makers cannot reliably answer who will own up to responsibility in case of an accident.

There's also the concept of "free will", i.e. how will these cars work around human drivers, what about everyone relinquishing their personal rights to own cars, will drivers be able to go off the maps and radar routes, etc. And none of those questions can be answered. For planes, boats, large haulers and buses maybe, provided they stay in designated lanes, but for cars? I don't see it happening any time soon unless all of the questions can be answered acceptably.
Yeah snagging the official case was a big let down imo. Having to modify it just so the board will operate for a generic use case was a sad moment for me. Glad to see your solution though, time to bust out my old hole saw kit!

Also excited to follow your Dramble project!
It's definitely all about capital now. The algorithms are just not smart enough to make accurate judgements in such a competitive landscape... It might have worked a few decades ago when competition was low, but now the idea that an algorithm can outsmart an army of human SEO experts is ridiculous.

I wonder if things would be better if Google went back to the old approach of Yahoo which involved hiring humans to manually rank the pages (at least partially). I think search results would be significantly better.
Almost any other language can now compile to WebAssembly:
C/C++ via Emscripten, Rust (it's already bundled), Go and even Swift.

That offers a very nice transition to the WebAssembly ecosystem, so you don't need to rewrite your business logic in other language (in contraposition to the JVM)
How is complying with this different than complying with a U.S. Government subpoena?

Are you asking how censorship and subpoenas are different?
I hope it sparks a price war, but even then it's still hard to stomach. Especially given the amount of active users allowed on an account, it's hard to even share logins anymore.

Netflix keeps increasing their price, and if it goes up any further, my one and only video subscription may get cancelled.
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I think they are boosting ranking for Google Aanalytics integrated sites with DoubleClick cookies running. If you remove or change analytics Google tanks your ranking. I ran experiments including google ads for a few months a couple of years ago. They set me up with an account manager who moved me to a new analytics account that added Doubleclick cookies. I've been trying to remove the advertising cookies since then and it's impossible from within the Analytics console. If I plug in a new Analytics account my SEO placement tanks. I feel like it's a racket that gives away my site's user data in exchange for rankings. Help!
Thanks for the pointer. I was mostly using discard material and accidentally discovered that screws can make threads (yeah, not a machinist) — otherwise I’d planned to use nuts on the other side. I might be able to find a tap at maker space nearby — I didn’t know what a “thread making tool” was called.
More than half your RDA saturated fat, almost half of your sodium, and a decent carb spike in the buns. 437cal (almost a quarter of your RDA there), and it's almost always paired with a soda and/or fries.
Probably would.

Again, I think the light was only part of it, the rest being that you're very limited in what you can do without electronics. Even if you make an exception for, say, putting on an album to listen to and then not messing with it (no skipping around or browsing music on a screen) there's still not a ton. And what's left might be lots of fun—you can board game in low light, certainly, and toss maybe ten candles around the room and you could play card games just fine, you can read sheet music and see well enough to play an instrument, you can write, and so on—but none of it's the kind of sensory assault of watching TV/Youtube/whatever or playing a video game is. Reading or practicing your scales isn't in the same sleep-banishing league as inviting a world-class acting troupe into your house for the evening to put on any show you desire, ya know? Or having some kind of answer-any-question-you-think-up-on-a-whim (kinda, almost, as long as you don't dig too deep) oracle available. Which is basically what the modern Internet is—anything you want, any time, wall-to-wall world-class performances of anything you like, answers to whatever dumb trivia pops up in your head, at a button press. Every stupid nagging thought can take hold and drive you to action at any time because it's actionable. Powerful, sure, amazing, sure, but a good (healthy) idea to let it loose in your home at all hours? I think not.

I did try to find some sort of small desktop battery-powered incandescent nightlight for a while but all that stuff's LED now. Probably would be fine anyway, I just wanted the smooth and warm light frequency curve. May try the LED route some time, though even fairly weak ones are a hell of a lot brighter than two candles so you'd have to watch the wattage carefully to not end up with something that, in an otherwise dark house, is actually pretty damn bright.
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Your point is not my point. Your point is that social media isn't as harmful as people make it out to be. My point is that older people need regular physical activity.
The proposal for dragonfly had two conditions set by the Chinese government - the first was to provide censored search results in compliance with the firewall. The second was to link search queries to user phone numbers, which a director tried to hide and many employees revolted against: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-r...
OCaml has native support for unboxed ("flat") double arrays.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/d3e73595e55e84250fa77f04...
Part of me says this is great because we need every single action towards reducing carbon in the atmosphere - big and small - we can get if we want to even get close to where we need to avoid catastrophe.

Another part of me wonders why would anyone chose Wren over COTAP[0] (for example) - a non-profit (501c3) where 90.9% of funds go toward their projects, you get a tax deduction and you can check in on their finances via their non-profit filings to ensure they are actually allocating funds how they say they are.

[0] https://cotap.org

edit: grammar
Time to start blocking their requests to your bank account.

As to why they’re doing that I have no idea, I guess they want to see your traffic in the clear and so block most VPN protocols (though you should be able to get a TLS-based VPN working over port 443 as it’ll look like standard HTTPS).
> I do however think that it's important to note that opportunistic STARTTLS is vulnerable to downgrade attacks by mitm

See SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS):

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8461

And STARTTLS Everywhere:

* https://starttls-everywhere.org/
And the direct link to San Francsico:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671581511/in/album-...
I currently end up doing most things on my Windows desktop. Developing on Windows is... not terrible, but not great. I don't do a lot of funky Linux-y stuff so I don't have much use for isolating my dev environment. It also doesn't sound like the things that annoyed you about your MacBook are things that annoy me.

I also just really want a real laptop. I've heard good things about the Surface, in general, but a) I have virtually zero use for a tablet, and b) I like to put my laptop in my actual lap sometimes, which tablets-with-keyboards don't do a great job at. I've considered the XPS 13, but I know the trackpad won't be as good and of course it's Windows.
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The study says that both food deserts and food swamps contribute to obesity. Also:

> The present study has limitations. First, as noted by Dunn, highways are an imperfect instrument. There were 1672 counties with no highway exits, so this IV approach did not provide information about counties where the food environment is not associated with the number of highway exits.

1672 counties is more than half the country. I recommend reading the rest of the Limitations section as well.
This is one of a very few places where I don't mind projecting my cultural values, and in fact consider it morally unjust not to do so.

Another would be equal rights for women and ethnic minorities. I don't care if someone else's culture dictates that men should have legal control over their wives, or what have you—that's abhorrent, and human rights should be universal.
> Flamethrower innovator
It was a small project or just sidekick. It's done

>Boring Co
Seems like no struggles there. Tech is established

>Tesla
They scaled it and are out of production hell

> SpaceX
Things are going smooth there. They have nailed landings and launches. No immediate fires to address

Looks like Elon have some capacity to focus on other endeavors.
There is a clash of fundamental values, it's deeper than politics.

Technology is driving confrontations with our values, our ideas of what it means to be human.

Organlegging was science fiction, now it's happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organlegging

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China

"What kind of future do we want?", is no longer the question, because it's here, now.
Over the last few months, I've had a thought that only very recently I've been able to put into words: it's more profitable to appear to be a source of truth than it is to actually be a source of truth.
CCP Games integrated it into Eve Online and says that it significantly reduced the number of players using insecure passwords:

> When we first implemented the check, about 19% of logins were greeted with the message that their password was not safe enough. Today, this has dropped down to around 11-12% and hopefully will continue to go down.

From https://www.eveonline.com/article/pu2gdi/account-security-im...
1. That arrangement isn't similar to Amazon Fulfillment at all from a legal perspective. Best Buy is just using the warehouse fee as a gatekeeper to filter out low-value/low-scale products. They have limited shelf space and relatively low turnover. Best Buy is in the business of selling products in its stores, but not in the business of marketing them unless they're the type of products that bring people into the stores (i.e., doorbusters). They rely on the product makers to do the bulk of the marketing, especially for new products where demand is not known. Key factoid: they refund the warehouse fee if the product actually sells.

2. Yes, but it's not comparable. Amazon isn't being investigated for competing against the likes of Champion or Under Armour. They're being investigated for competing against third party sellers (which might or might not be their own brands) by promoting their own products against their competition.

Again, you don't seem to understand this basic point: the product maker's income comes from Amazon buying the product, not the end customer. If Amazon launches a white label brand, that's not an antitrust violation on its own. It's also fine to use data from selling Product X to sell the white label brand. Antitrust law rewards competition. It's even fine for Amazon to promote their own products over competing brands, since those brands have other sales channels they can use and they've already been paid for their product or are contractually obligated to get paid for their product.

The problem is when Amazon promotes their own brand over other products in unfairly competitive ways, such as in search results for those competing brands' products. (Example: if searching for Lululemon brought up Amazon's peak velocity as the first few results). This is still a weak example of antitrust because Lululemon's already been paid by Amazon. But if you replaced Lululemon with Cococyle, an upcoming brand that sells through Amazon's marketplace, you'd have a clear antitrust violation.

3. There is a competitive concern here because these retailers control shelf space and promotional material and uses their physical retail space and sales data to compete against brands. Walmart more-so than all the others.

No, false. There is competition here, but it's not unfair competition because the brands have already been paid for their products. Also, the brands have a very strong defense: they can simply pull their products from the store. (This strategy has actually been used many times to fight off store brands and it's the reason store brands and generics are given lower-shelf placements.) Most people go to grocery store for the branded products, not the white label products. TJ's is pretty much the only store on your list where they opposite might be true.

Again, for emphasis: competition is fine. What matters for antitrust is unfair competition, and none of the stuff you've cited is unfair.
> A redesigned WebAssembly, with richer types for memory and function pointers [23], might be able to perform some of these checks at compile time, but that could complicate the implementation of compilers that produce WebAssembly.

Great info, thanks for sharing! So, to summarize:

Performance will get a bit better for WebAssembly 1.0, but we'll need a WebAssembly 2.0 (for lack of a better term) to realize major performance improvements. And/Or we'll need advancements in JIT technology.

Beyond that, there will always be some limitations because of the Javascript interop requirements.

And, as other threads here have pointed out... maybe who cares? It's still pretty fast!
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I saw a TV report today and they still don't allow people under the part of the roof that collapsed.

Currently they are clearing the rubbles there using remote-controlled robots.
The "hole" is a part of the ventricular system that produces cerebro-spinal fluid that circulates within the brain and spinal cord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_system
I already do this with hue white LED bulbs and timers in the app. I love how the blue mid day light looks like natural sunlight, and in the evening it's a nice warm glow. I have it fade to dark between 9pm and midnight, so I know it's time to go to bed when it starts getting difficult to see things.
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I feel like if I buy official parts, they shouldn't require modding to get the max performance out of the product. They should work without issue together. Currently you can barely get moderate performance with the official case.

This article and mod are helpful, even if obvious, for people like me who bought an official case with my RPi4 expecting them to work well together.
There are Teslas with 900,000 km. It's a bit less than 3 times the distance from the earth to the moon and a lot of 30 years old card have less km than that.
I appreciate the arguments but they do still rely on _using_ a JVM language _and_ shipping an additional runtime (since browsers are already on all devices in question here). Those are two reasons (in addition to Oracle, which as much hate as Google gets I'd bet people would still take them over Oracle) people are excited about WASM.
I imagine the severity of the hilarity was dependent on whether or not one's job description implicitly included "preventing patients from using the corridor as an otter slide".
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
— Herman Melville
> Does this work in blocking or non-blocking mode? Naively I imagine there might be more opportunity for the GraphBLAS implementation to optimize execution in non-blocking mode.

Non blocking mode.

> Is there a way to efficiently store and load matrices to and from files? Ideally in a such a way that the data is just mmap'ed or copied directly into memory on load?

The Matrix.from_mm and Matrix.to_mm methods will read and write files in the standard Matrix Market format. They are wrappers around the underlying LAGraph functions.

> Does this only work with SuiteSparse or could it potentially work with a GPU implementation like https://github.com/gunrock/graphblast too?

It uses a lot of the GxB "extensions" that are to my knowledge only present in SuiteSparse. Investigating other implementations has been on my radar but not a high priority, certainly very open to getting PRs for helping with interchangeability!
TV shows, Movies, YouTube, etc. makes sense. Would you consider gaming to have the same effect?
the only thing I see in this thread are hundreds and hundreds of people who have never had the opportunity to drive a car with Tesla Autopilot or Comma.ai EON (this article included)

Those two products are literally the best purchase I've made in years, and have enabled hours of mental energy in my life freed up from the confines of soul crushing traffic in major American cities.

remember that slashdot comment about iPods being lame?

people will look at articles like this, and threads like this in the same way in 5 years...
I have not yet. I'm monitoring craigslist, local yard sales and the facebook marketplace.
Should be a part of the PIs firmware.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/warn...
Didn't know that - great point
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You might try bedtime bulbs. They have a good spectrum and can be combined with dimmers.

Had similar experiences to you when going camping with no electricity. Feel asleep very early. I should try to replicate it at home. I do low lights but still use screens too much.
What was the judgment without facts? The seminars cited Muslim biographies, no? Surely telling people what's in the Quran can't be considered anti-Muslim incitement, or else every imam and mosque would be guilty.

> The courts felt it was an intentional move meant to rile up participants and disturb peace.

Are you saying that the seminars caused anti-Muslim violence? Were there incidents reported that made the connection?