skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have lower back problems and digestive problems? They might be related, even if you have a MRI showing degenerative disc disease.

Every time I "forget" that I'm lactose intolerant, I pay for it in the bathroom and in my lower back for the next few days, even if I use lactase enzyme pills.

Keep away from all lactose for a week? Back is generally fine.
> I was randomly one day looking at dentist new patient forms and one even wanted to know your relationship status, not sure how that's relevant if a single or married guy gets a cleaning...

This is for spousal rights - i.e. if your spouse is allowed to request access your data.

> I'm surprised banks haven't figured out a way to offer deposit only option

They have, some German banks assign an IBAN also for "Sparbücher" (saving plans). These cannot be withdrawn from.

For withdrawal security, under SEPA rules you have 8 weeks to (instantly!) reverse a transaction. If you misuse this, you can get your account closed and criminal proceedings filed so that is a relatively effective fraud prevention.
> no mention of NYC, Boston, nor do they appear on the infographic.

Yea, the metric used here is rather convoluted, it's ranking cities by how much their share of total national employment increased. This is going to favor cities that experienced population growth and discount cities that are long since 'at capacity' like NY / Boston.
Did you inherit it?
Don't forget cities that have influxes of young population so have increasing tax receipts but much lower legacy costs (retirees, infrastructure maintenance, stable growth rate education costs per capita). Most of those cities will mismanage the growth and 20-40 years from now you'll be reading about Nashville and how it was gutted when the software jobs dried up. These come in cycles and cities that have some sort of reason to exist (natural ports/harbors, river confluences, trade points, etc) will continue to exist and most of the rest will not.
Someone at Google should check in a Bitcoin hashcash library into the tree and watch HN go wild.
anecdotally: i have heard that new equipment that gets installed in or near the driver's compartment in trains needs to be built to be extremely rugged. Some drivers are suspicious that new equipment is to let management spy on them or automate away part of their jobs, and will endeavour to render it non-functional.
Having seen all three examples, I am now convinced that JSON was the correct choice. Thank you for posting all three examples, it's much appreciated. I hadn't seen s-expressions before and I was considering them a plausible alternative, but now that I've seen it, I don't believe that prefix-operator functions in Lisp-compatible syntax are the appropriate way to construct and transmit data from APIs.
By the way: why Signal/Wire/WhatsApp? (That being your earlier question):

* End-to-end encrypted by default, to the point that it's difficult to send plaintext.

* Radically simplified UX that doesn't meaningfully involve key management, which lawyers and activists cannot handle.

* By-default support for message log grooming / "disappearing messages".

* Modern cryptographic primitives.

* Extensively vetted cryptographic design.

* Works on phones, which are (1) the platform of choice for ordinary users, and (2) almost always more secure than desktop computers.

If you narrow the list down to Signal, you get to further add:

* Serverside privacy optimization / metadata minimization, so there's no targetable repository of all-pairs communicating parties, which is extremely valuable information for state-level adversaries.

* A commitment to not releasing features that don't square with those privacy objectives, so that for instance you can't share GIFs in the app until Moxie and his team figure out how to tunnel Giphy requests to foil traffic analysis, and you don't even get user profiles until a year or so ago, when Moxie and his team figure out how to provide them without generating a serverside database of identities.

* A multi-year track record of deep security auditing and a high-profile recipient of volunteer auditing unmatched by any other messenger.
That's part of the problem. People aren't getting Netflix to watch their original programming.
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Links for the lazy:

https://ziglang.org

https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014
Lucene should work great for this use case. It has been awhile but I have successfully used it for this exact use case.
I'm not sure how browsers using the API would be a concern. Someone paid for the key, so it should be up to them to use it how they please (within rate limits).
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Couldn't agree more about Envy... and that said, I was at an event where I got to sample a Cosmic Crisp apple and happy to say that it's pretty good. Not sure if it's better than Envy, but... it's very close.

Currently, when shopping I'd go with Envy > Braeburn > Honeycrisp (seasonally, the go off so quickly) > Cameo > Gala... Courtland are somewhere in there.

Also I live in Texas and all the apples here taste bad compared to Washington and New York and New England. Apples, bagels, and pizza... you just can't get good ones in Austin... and it sucks.
Sorry for clipping out the 'neighbors' bit, but my point is that "stopgap measure", "couch cushions for change", and "is a distraction" imply that the size of the PFD is insignificant compared to state revenue. Or, the PFD size should at least be considered sacrosanct.

Rereading your comment though, it's clear that you're mainly focusing on the legislators not dealing with the budget to your satisfaction. Closing the deficit caused by low oil prices/production will require more revenue or lower expenditures.

However, I would note that governor Walker made a "hard choice" increasing revenue from the PFDs given that it caused voter outrage with people such as yourself. All of the money the legislature manages is the "people's money" since the government should be answerable to, and working for the residents of Alaska.

---

Tangent, reading the statutes, it's painful to be reminded that Alaska was the first state in the US to pass a constitutional amendment denying marriage to gay people.

> AS 25.05.013. Same-sex marriages.

> (a) A marriage entered into by persons of the same sex, either under common law or under statute, that is recognized by another state or foreign jurisdiction is void in this state, and contractual rights granted by virtue of the marriage, including its termination, are unenforceable in this state.

> (b) A same-sex relationship may not be recognized by the state as being entitled to the benefits of marriage. (§ 2 ch 21 SLA 1996)
This is a great niche for Algolia, instant fuzzy 'autocomplete' style search of short strings
What I have learned in the last year is that Cannabis can be a medicine, but when it's over-used, it can become an escape from your problems. May be common sense to a lot of people to use it responsibly, but it's easy to go from responsible use to getting baked every night after work and watching TV.

Not that there's anything wrong with coming home, getting baked, and watching TV / gaming. We all gotta unwind, and that is healthy. But you just have to watch and make sure it's not interfering with your goals. It seems that the key to everything in life is moderation.
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I think what he means to say is that software is their core product. I think the same argument could probably be made for Google, albeit a bit weaker.
Have you tried overdosing on fermented foods?

I thought I was allergic to so many foods, but I guess my gut ecosystem was just messed up. Eating loads of fermented foods everyday has allowed me to eat all the foods I thought I was allergic to again.

Of course, varies per person, but it may help.
Forgetting any particular political whatever, it seems odd to define someone who favors tradition / nostalgia as anything but conservative. Although perhaps current conservatives have kind of co-opted the term to mean something very different.

The idea of preferring shows you have already seen is unthinkable to me.
Used to be called Personnel Management.
As well as bugging your phone. I don't think companies were ever allowed to do that.
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asdfman123 is referencing The Simpsons.
Let's say they make it mandatory. Would it be possible for a group of people with one having unfettered access because, say, they cross the border all the time to a place that has full Internet, and they use wget to tar/gzip entire sites, places this on a server in a city, and provides access with a self-signed cert that everyone involved with knows about.

Or failing that, some kind of digital dead drop with the files. If this could be updated a few times a week, that's better than not having access to material that you don't want the government to know about. It has to be possible.
This post was a fun & great read -- kudos the author! By describing our failures & misadventures hopefully will help newbies will learn more (or at least require less antacids when making big prod changes).

Did wanna question / add commentary around this though:

You can’t build partitions on null fields.
That throws a database error.
That database error says “Yo you can’t write this log”
That error throws an exception
That exception bubbles up
Your API request fails
Every API request fails
... continues till later ...
Why was a failure in logging able to crash the system it
was observing? No excuse. The move to AWS Lambda
automatically solves the problem but damn

Lambda alone will definitely help with scale-related downtime but the switch to queueing looks like what was the big difference maker. Which is true! Queues help a lot and AWS hosted queues have great uptime at that. But depending on what this system is doing & how important the data is -- a lot of log/metrics systems fire&forget over UDP to prevent problems like this. Your entire metrics backend could go poof, and yeah metrics data could go into the ether -- but you would not take down prod through it.
> As a result of the vote on the proposed ordinance, the word “manhole” would be changed to “maintenance hole” in city documents, the news site Berkeleyside reported. “Human effort” would be substituted for the word “manpower,” and “sorority” or “fraternity” would be changed to “collegiate Greek system residence.”

Maintenance hole makes sense, but "Human effort" sounds pretty alien to me. The use of manpower make sense because of mankind. I guess under this goal mankind would become humankind. Wouldn't "human effort" make more sense then?

This is a positive thing overall, it seems like they are making an attempt to keep laws gender neutral. I think this help ease out sexist laws.
We're not talking about taking a venerable tool that's been sitting around for years and rewriting it though. We're talking about an actively-maintained and extremely highly-used library. I'm sure it's still bogged down by tech debt, but I'm also sure that any easy performance wins have already been taken.
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A lot of it I learned when I studied Radio Astronomy in college (my major). I'm a little rusty now after about 7 years.

However, here's a few resources I remember and was able to dig up.

1) A presentation from Max Plank University, which has one of the strongest radio astro programs around: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/3244052/IMPRS_BB_HRK5.pdf

2) Presentation from ASTRON, an interferometric array in the Netherlands, part of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy: https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2015/eris2015/L6_Heald_cali...

3) George Moellenbrock's slides from the 14th Synthesis Imaging Workshop (hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory) is pretty detailed on calibration specifically: https://science.nrao.edu/science/meetings/2014/14th-synthesi...

There was at one time a video of the last link, but it appears the hosting site is no longer live. There are other lecture slides on radio interferometry available from the Synthesis Workshop site: https://science.nrao.edu/science/meetings/2014/14th-synthesi...
> A self-aware city is an efficient, healthy, safe city.

I don't see how efficient, healthy, and safe follow from self-aware.

Self awareness _may_ enable such things, but it is easy to see how they could also enable a dystopia.
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Thank you for taking the time to give a thoughtful response, in this and your other comment. Here is what I take to be the use case - it concerns whistleblowers, who have among the most serious real world security needs.

I'm thinking of sending files to people. Large dumps of documents and other data from several GB to several TB. Imagine that any of the following apply:

* The data is in a secure location and can only be exfiltrated by the internet, not via a thumb drive. (And so my connection will be closely monitored.)

* The data needs to be sent to someone with whom I don't have another means of secure communication. In other words, I can't use symmetric encryption with a pre-shared key.

* I or my correspondent have slow or unreliable internet connections and maintaining a direct connection between each other would be difficult or impossible for the length of time needed to transfer the data.

* I or my correspondent are being closely monitored by the authorities, such that connecting directly to each other or using intermediaries that would allow us to do so is an unacceptable risk.

If any of these situations apply, I can't use Wormhole or similar approaches. I need something that will allow me to encrypt files for my correspondent without a shared secret, where I can upload those encrypted files to a service like Google Drive for them to download on their own time. This is precisely what PGP does.

I don't think it's unrealistic to imagine situations in which a source or journalist has one or more of these issues. I would very much like to see an alternative for use cases like this one. I'm in agreement with you that PGP is bad in many ways, from usability to the cryptographic implementation. But it's hard to deny that it's a remarkably robust solution to problems like this one.
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That's awesome, good to know! One more reason to learn Julia!
The full enterprise version lets you export the entire message history.
Which Netflix shows would you say match the quality and viewership of GoT, Breaking Bad, Westworld?

Maybe only House of Cards. HBO just has Netflix beat in terms of content over the last couple years especially.
X.509 parsing has no allocations and call depth is significantly less than OpenSSL.
I'm glad that sites like Wikipedia, StackOverflow, and HN exist. I don't think the world is a worse place because they exist, and I respect the people who post there.

This is the same attitude that says, "why would someone just give away Open Source software when they could build a SaaS business instead?"
I compiled go as an x86-64 to ARM cross compiler (ubuntu to raspi). Worked great. I even confused myself a bit by running the ARM binary on the x86-64 machine (turns out binfmt will detect the binary and run it under QEMU).
or moderating HN comments
'Unregistered' as in pirated? I think they embed a warning message into the background for pirated Windows and that is probably why you can't change it.

Microsoft is saying 'Hey, we know you pirated this copy. Instead of locking it down, we're just going to put this un-dismissable nag message here.'
The article presents the ideal of this technology, how it’s meant to gently improve productivity, guide training and alert about problem employees. Perhaps they are marketing to employers who haven’t yet jumped on the bandwagon, perhaps to non-US companies?
But companies are little dictatorships and once you give top level managers this snooping capability, leaders can’t help themselves from making personal personnel decisions which erodes company talent. Instead of centers of excellence it creates centers of social compliance. I see a trend in VC backed valley companies, where this technology is well-entrenched, that favors inept-but-familiar culture, as long as your workplace data falls below the radar, you have a little expertise and you are above average social, then you have a job for life. But if you push your personal boundaries in the pursuit of excellence, and criss cross the harmonious flow of work-as-usual then you’re flagged and operating under negative management bias. This is because it requires management to be far more mature and impersonal than it’s reasonable to expect. The Scott Forstalls of the world are more likely to be driven out in favor of the nice guy who says nice things about your management style on Slack.
It undermines the traditional go-get-em startup culture which helped the valley create great new technologies.
F* not F# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F*_(programming_language).
It compiles to C.
Apparently "Orange Pippin" is a variety of apple, but I'm amused that a site with "Orange" in its name is actually "all about apples, pears, plums, and cherries"
In this case, I think that's especially true, but maybe not from the perspective you intended: they were sold on the idea of reduced costs, and they're marketing the changes to their employees (and the public) as retention-improving changes, despite the bald-faced absurdity of such a statement.
Hallo Leute. Believe me I would really like nothing more than for you to be right when you write:it worked
The share of renewables may have risen, but at huge costs, and most importantly the installed capacity of non renewable plants has not been reduced, mostly because of intermittency of renewables. The net result: all the plants, just with lower utilisation.
For nuclear this is a tragedy because the marginal costs of production are minimal, lower utilisation just hits profitability, which may indirectly be raising risks.
For coal, well just look up how much the Energiewende Germany still mines...
More on this here: https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/societal-choices/...
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With Postgresql you can use pg_trgm, might be not as powerful as what SOLR/ES provides, but easier to run.
That page you linked seems to be a gigantic wall of buzzwords and I'm not going to spend the 2 hours it would take to wade through to determine whether that company actually does anything at the end of the day. (I'll assume they probably don't, because if they did, they would put it front and center.)
This is extremely useful and for me - timely. Many thanks.
They used to be larger, and I believe that restrictive, inconsistent moderation drove people away, but that's merely a guess of one probable cause.
The proposed solution of equal reward for question and answer does not make sense. Many questions are badly worded or repetitive and do not help anybody but the asker. In a perfect world these questions would all be removed but a lot of them stay up.

Furthermore, questions are a lot easier to ask imo than it is to answer a question, and the answer is the most important part since if a question helps more than one person many people have the chance and the want to ask it while to answer it someone would have to take the time to read the question and have the knowledge to be able to answer and the only reward is additional points on one's profile.

A good question should be more rewarded, but so many people don't upvote questions or don't even have an account or login anyways.
Is this only applied to 'real time' modelling or is 'near real time' also included?

Curious because I used to write software for IIOT predictive analysis (3 years ago?) and I never heard the term 'digital twin.' Curious if it applies to NRT or if this is a different beast.
I was always surprised at the popularity of the "Delicious" apples. My favorite is still Granny Smith, but then I prefer tart apples. I have noticed the explosion of types in the last few decades, but nothing I've tried is as good as a Granny Smith.
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They just get hate from people that just want to use a normal macbook.
The guy is a grifter, no doubt. But the general tone of the article implies that I should be concerned about some random sleazeball for raising my healthcare costs, rather than the insurance companies themselves (who in this case basically administered the defrauding of their client, Southwest Airlines, by not having proper vetting procedures), the MDs who undoubtedly commit the vast majority of insurance fraud, or policymakers.

edit: First-line treatment for sciatica includes typical fitness stretches and "lumbago" just means "back pain" which is treatable with typical fitness exercises: https://www.verywellhealth.com/back-pain-stretches-exercises...
Do you mean for file sharing or as a directory server? File sharing I can definitely understand but I'm more skeptical about the directory server functionality.

Big companies have the resources to do many weird things but it would still strike me as odd to be running Samba DS in production.

How far along is the directory server these days in terms of stability and features?
> Spotify vs Google Play Music is the perfect showcase for this. They both get the job done but Spotify is better in so many small ways. Meanwhile, instead of being improved, GPM is in the process of being abandoned for the new shiny thing, Youtube Music.

What degredation have you noticed that makes you think it is being abandoned?
You’re forgetting that people use search to find things, not just to get their technical-snobbery nut off. If the thing I’m precisely looking for is a SPA, how could I or any average user care? Why would a search engine hide that from me?
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Inheritance tax only applies to the really wealthy also
>The entire historical debacle just illustrates in vivid color how horrendous politicians are at managing money.

This is not true everywhere. Norway has a sovereign wealth fund that is doing quite well. Libya was once the most prosperous African nation before the US demolished their government. Sovereign wealth funds are an effective management strategy for the resource curse, if western nation backed multinational corporations don't find a way to seize control of it and/or block you from accessing the global marketplace.
I share that experience with you. I always hated running. Even made myself do it for months on end. Nothing made it feel good. Always just sore and tired. I definitely made gains in my ability to run farther without stopping. It never gave me that good feeling that people always talk about.

It was always just suffer and put one foot in front of the other for the first 15 minutes, then you get the "runners high." That part wasn't all that amazing either. I see how you get in the zone, and it gets easier to keep going, but it's still not enjoyable at all for me.
Right. I totally missed that. Thanks for pointing that out.
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GP of comment says:

> I learned most of the topics mentioned in this document while in school, and although they are all valid, they are not enough for real world needs.

Emphasis is mine. I do not know how to interpret the emphasized part except as an indication that GP thinks OP skipped the listed topics. I was simply pointing out the overlap between GP's additions and OP's original list.
But this is good. Those who the cuts impact will relocate to better states, and Alaska will be left holding that bag as oil revenues continue to decline.

Market forces at work.
Does HBO have good shows and a large auidence? Absolutely.

However, that does not mean that the catalogue of Netflix is "99% unwatchable garbage" which was the point I was refuting. Nor does it mean Netflix isn't allowed to raise their pricing as they see fit.