skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also opens up a compelling use case for having a nice web interface for working with the shell (where you can button sort and export to Json on output) since the structure is common.
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My outrage is from making scientific conclusions before the science has been done. A hard justification of power density limitations And it’s economic meaning is necessary before you can make a blanket statement like “D+T magnetic confinement will never be economically viable”. The price of electricity is always changing, and public opinion is shifting towards the idea that we have been grossly underpaying for our electricity.
How hard/expensive would it be to print 10k copies per week of a simple broadside?

I am wondering how hard it would be to disentangle at least the distribution part of the student press from administrative concerns.
I pay electronically almost everywhere, but I do recognize that cash payments are a basic human right. Going 100% cashless opens doors to all sorts of monopoly/distopia scenarios.
Of course not, that's the bleak alternate reality. The status quo is "you don't actually own your device". Apple or Google finds malware in an app and they remove it from your device automatically. That's the status quo. The status quo is if you get malware on your PC and it negatively impacts other people on the Internet, nothing happens and you're not punished for it so others suffer from your lack of ownership. That's the status quo.

The statement you quoted is what would happen if everyone were to actually completely own their own Internet-connected devices and took full responsibility for them. It's not a comforting idea. People like to throw around words like "ownership" but shy away when related words like "responsibility" show up.

I'm personally liable for the damage my car causes, because I own my car. I'm not personally liable for the damage my computer causes. Do people actually want to be? That's what ownership means.
The parent comment reminds me of how often commenters on articles posted by The Economist wonder why the article wasn't about economics. https://www.economist.com/unknown/1843/08/05/prospectus
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Hi,

I want to develop a web-based 'business intelligence' app to analyze and visualize data. CB Insights (https://cbinsights.com) comes very close to it. Some features are: visualize company information, add companies to a watch-list, send alerts etc.

For starters, I am looking for an efficient way to visualize time series, but I cannot find anything that seems to work for large amounts of data (up to one billion rows). At my company we have a data warehouse, with a star schema on top and Cognos, Pentaho etc. visualize the data.

Is there something similar for the web?

So far I have tried:
* Django and Superset (https://superset.incubator.apache.org/): this works great but then my Superset-visualization is decoupled from Django and I cannot do anything with the data I visualize.
* Django and Cubes-Framework (https://cubes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#): This looks like a great solution but it is not fast (loading the same data in Superset, for instance, is instant, whereas it takes around ten seconds in Cubes)

What are some standard solutions for such applications?

Thanks!
~ Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.

There remains something bizarre about how the language of international trade is couched. I still don't see downsides from having a strong currency that are so bad it needs such a response.

The basic problem is you want Swiss Watchmaker to be able to swap watches for, say, Italian tomatoes. Devaluing the Swiss currency doesn't cause him to be able to buy any more tomatoes; it just forces him to sell more watches. If he was happy to swap watches for tomatoes at that rate, he already had the power to sell his watches more cheaply.

Honestly, I don't like transfer payments but they are better than trying to hold down a currency with financial shenanigans. If the market says it will give you 10,000 tomatoes for 9,000 watches, the gain of forcing the equilibrium to 10,000 tomatoes and 10,000 watches is highly questionable. And any individual watchmakers could already force the equilibrium in that direction if they wanted to without any help.
Totally agree, older models were better. I’ve been wearing my PRG-80T titanium Pro Trek, Tough Solar Casio for nearly two decades and it’s working like day one. You can’t go wrong with a Casio ABC (Altimeter Barometer Compass) watch ;-)
You read their website and pray they don't lie...

The only good way is somehow lucking out and finding an independent researcher that tests them without financial incentive from the company. Otherwise typically the findings will always be on favor because companies request preliminary data and pull funding to continue research if it looks bad so it doesn't get published
I don't suppose we'll ever really know, if only because people are so good at adjusting their memories as needed but...

One does wonder if the self-driving promise here was:

1. A cynical con job to get investors on board from the beginning

2. Not quite so cynical but nonetheless recognized by management as a hail mary pass

3. Uber just got swept up in the overall industry overoptimism/groupthink around self-driving dates and capabilities
It’s embarrassingly bad. Potholes everywhere, poor transit options, no police, no resources for homeless....I could go on.
The fact you're logged into Google everywhere after checking your Gmail...
Maybe you're just not very imaginative. I can see my workflow improve considerably by using a structured-io shell, and I'm already quite proficient in bash. So, I'm very happy some people are trying to make it happen.

Also, I'm not sure what your argument is, except "I don't get it"? It's fine, lots of people don't get stuff. Just move on, and maybe in a few years when it's mature, you'll see it again and go "Ah!"
Fair enough, but I did give a concrete reason why I believe some "no name mentioned" products may be better than Defender and other common antivirus products.
Having a tough solar pro trek Casio I totally agree, but keep in mind that the long battery life is due to the very low power consumption and sleep function. Around 8hrs per day my watch is in standby mode and then for 95% of the time it only displays time/date. It’s only when you use the extra functionality/backlight that the battery starts to drain.
You're using external service.
You’re confusing where people campaign with who has influence.
Wyoming, as a state, has as much influence as California - and that’s how it was designed. Nobody campaigns in either state very much, because their state wide preferences are mostly set - but that doesn’t mean they have no influence.
Nah, there are some pretty high-end tents that are really nice.
(Hackers, as Sanders meant it, referred to physically hacking someone to death, not the digital hacking prevalent today.)
France banned paternity tests for the sake of filation, i.e. to protect the rights of children and to promote stable families.

I differ with the previous poster in that I don't think that many men are unknowingly raising children that are not theirs. I've seen estimates that vary between .6% and 5%.

I do think that a man ought to have the right to know if he's the biological father and I think it's understandable if he wants to leave if he isn't. Yes, familial bonds are important but what kind of family do you have if the lies run that deep?
It wouldn’t be bloodless, but it would be a civil war.
From the article:

> China’s so-called Generation Z are instead migrating to other social media apps less popular with older adults, such as Douyin, the short-video app, or ironically, QQ, the grandaddy of messaging apps that was conceived originally for the personal computer era but has undergone a reincarnation of sorts to become a popular messaging tool for adolescents.
It happens but on a very small scale. Very niche fabs for stuff that isn’t at mass market scale.
Aye perhaps, but I thought Reuters were a fair bit bigger than CBC. I think CBC are a similar sort of hands off corporation to C4 and the Beeb, but I don't know Canadian laws too well so there may be differences.

Asking for a security vetting of senior staff isn't so different to BAe (at the time) or a local council asking for one. There'd be a far larger scandal if someone revealed a fascist or communist ended up running the place, no? Hardly interference in programmes...

Agreed on Murdoch. :)
Whenever I see yet another article by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Robert Martin & co I ask myself - where is the evidence for what they are preaching?
What are the graphs based on? What is the evidence behind the proposed rules?

These authors are clearly accomplished blog and book writers, but anyone whose software-related accomplishments are not open source or at least well known should have their statements scrutinized more closely.

I don't see any studies cited, case studies presented or concrete examples. All I see is yet another reasonably sounding yet unsupported piece of folklore.
>ownership of an item is incompatible with safety

No, but close. Lack of responsibility is incompatible with ownership. You can own something that's potentially unsafe (cars, guns, pets, fireworks, etc) as long as you're responsible for the damage they may cause.

Hypothetical Apple car aside, cars are a great example of ownership and personal responsibility. If I change my tire incorrectly and it causes my car to damage another person's property, yes I am 100% liable for that damage. That's why we have car insurance, to cover that liability.

If I administer my computer incorrectly and it gets infected causing damage to other Internet-connected devices, where's my liability? I have none. What damages do I pay to other Internet users? None. How do I get paid damages from the person who infected me? I can't.

The point is you can't talk about ownership without talking about responsibility. If you can't be held responsible for what your device does, you don't own it.
Thank you good soul!
Buy from a European supplier - testing is mandatory and all e-cigarette products must be registered with the national healthcare regulator prior to sale. It's not an ironclad guarantee of safety, but we have an effective regulatory regime.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/e-cigarettes-regulations-for-con...
I think it depends on your trust level with the colleague. Or rather, their trust in you.

When you leave sometimes you don't want to help improve things for people staying, you just want/need to get the heck out. It can feel petty to present a laundry list of things you wish your former employer would change.

I'd approach that head on and assure them that:

1. You will keep anything they say confidential (unless there's anything illegal that surfaces)

2. You are acting in an unofficial capacity, not as a company person

3. You are having the conversation to help the other team members, not the company (because they will likely care more about them)

4. You want to hear whatever they have to say, no matter how big or small
Hello, I tried the experiment a few years ago briefly and it did work. Some back of the envelope calculations show that it is cheaper and more energy effiecient. However there is a risk that lichens and or moss will thrive on a moist roof. So could be more trouble than it is worth.
Having no experience with clojure, this reminded me of pipeable RxJS syntax, as well as more generally the sometimes seen use of _ to denote an unused “threaded value” in more functional styles of js (although _ commonly comes as the final value in js in combination with unary functions, or will sometimes be named but unused to assist in establishing context for readability).
Or just open a ticket on the package and inform the user one "has 'technically' done all one could do given time constraints"?

I get the frustration, but this looks like a case of improper idiot handling that just escalated...
Probably hard. And the general rules about the effort to handle all the edge cases.

It's also reasonable, especially if you're prioritizing time to market and especially if you know you may have a small window, you may decide that a lot of the edge cases just aren't very important. How much does JUMP really care if US visitors to Berlin can use their bikes or not?
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Does this setup block youtube ads on iPads for example?
I love my paper dictionary (2017)
At least in my whereabouts all (solo or both) cars have same role. One for mom and another for dad. Likely one is coming in later to drop kid off and other is leaving job early to pick him up. Or maybe multiple kids go to different institutions. There's no clear separation between kids-ok and no-kids car in family.

IMO the fantasy of car sharing is naive and I'd even say it's counterproductive for the supposed goals. Just a few bits to consider:

- empty cars are going to drive a lot of junk miles. More resources to be burned, more wear on cars.

- car-sharing companies will try to keep brand-new fleets. Reliability, image and whatnot. What are we going to do with used-but-drivable cars?
I was 10 when Voyager 2 flew by. I was certain trips to Neptune, pictures, and further exploration would become common. And 30 years later, we haven’t gone back. It’s far, expensive, priorities, and all that. And now enough time has passed I may never see us get there again.

sigh
Thank you for calling that out: it’s interesting seeing how resistant tech workers have been to basic market negotiation while we have such a culture around things like long hours, poor working conditions, being blamed for management failures, etc.
Not nearly as much of a win as not inhaling any smoke or vapor at all though. If vaping is a path to quitting altogether then that can be a win. If it's just a different vice then no. It's probably never going to be 100% safe to inhale foreign substances into your lungs
I think 'asthma' would work as an answer then. I've only read the English version so I don't know, but was wondering if the 'degenerate' case also comes up in the German version.
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Signal could allow using it without a phone number, and let people themselves choose between anonimyty, social graph and trust. Why didn't they allow it? Because they don't want anonymous users I assume.
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I use a Pi-Hole and on top of that uBlock Origin. Seems a pretty nice combination. For privacy though, you need to know what level of privacy you're aiming for. At a certain point, adblockers and tracking protectors won't help and you're better of with something like Tor. For like, general daily use though, I very much recommend a Pi-Hole + uBlock Origin. Oh, and Firefox, not Chrome, for obvious privacy reasons.
You're just passive-aggressively rejecting his argument on facile grounds, that this specific popular exposition didn't include the details you demand. It's sad you don't have enough self awareness to see what you're doing here.

If you want more detail of this sort of analysis, look at the Pfirsch & Schmitter paper from 1987 I linked to below. Lidsky also had a paper in the technical literature going into more details, although I don't have that reference. The basic argument as given by Lidsky in TTWF is not difficult to understand though, if you allow yourself to try to understand it.

In any case, the experience since then confirms what he was saying. Why don't you show me a fusion reactor concept with a power density approaching that of a fission reactor? Someone, somewhere must have been able to produce such a schematic if Lidsky's analysis was wrong, yes? Understand Lidsky's point is independent of limits due to plasma physics.
In my experience, the size of the hosts file matters on some devices, and some os.

On older versions of Windows, for example, networking and browsing slows noticeably as the size of the host file increases.

The same can be said for rootable mobile devices, though it’s less noticeable off WiFi because cellular latency is so much higher.

I would guess, marginal consumer and home routers will suffer with larger hosts files, but I don’t have sufficient experience to claim this for certain.

Background: years of discussions and issues at https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts, which I maintain.
I would say that in the enterprise you would have for example a global strategy of the company for the next years. This would somehow map to your department and then somehow to your team. This means not everything needs to be sourcecode but probably Epics derives stories and derived tasks which might span across the company.
For some of these speakers, I’ve literally never seen any evidence that they’ve written a single line of code. Why should we listen to Fowler? What large successful projects has he created using his ideas are there that I can look at? Where’s the data behind his slides? It’s all just talk talk talk.

I’d listen to someone like Chris Lattner talk about how to design and write software because I can see whatever approach he uses must work well. I should listen to these full-time speakers because... I don’t really know and perhaps we should start challenging their talks by asking for the data behind them.
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Also this bloated ruggedness is mostly an aesthetic feature. I mean there are no moving parts in a digital watch. Why would you need such excessive casing. And what's the benefit of a watch that can sustain a blow with a sledgehammer when there's no wrist left to wear a watch.

Anyway - Seiko manufactures everything from the caliber to the casing which makes them in my opinion superior to most Swiss watch makers as those just design a casing and put an ETA in there. Also the value for price ratio of a Seiko automatic is unbeatable. Plus they revolutionized the wrist watch technologies and have lots of history to show for.
I was born around the time prop 13 passed and it wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I realized _why_ everything had been obviously built like an affluent society but crumbling due to lack of maintenance for as long as I’d been aware of it.

One memory in particular was when the San Diego Union Tribune ran a picture of new computers from one of those supermarket programs, sitting under a hole in the roof because the district had been underfunded on maintenance for three decades.
The problem with maintenance is that you are trying to keep the status quo, and not really improving things permanently. That is the main reason for me that I don't enjoy that work as much, because next week all your effort will be gone again.
I'm just waiting for them to solve the problem of the package manager taking multiple gigabytes of memory to run. My last experience with it involved a lot of "unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory". It's insane that a package manager would even exceed even 100mb of memory usage, let alone run into multiple gigabytes. No way there's that much information to manage.
The assumption with powershell is that your admin tasks should be coded in .net, and their dependencies should be imported from .net. Not required, but preferred.
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Locally being a euphemism for "by folks in the State capitol"?

Sure there are attempts to design government to balance rural and urban. They work better or worse, at each level. Abolishing them because they are 'out of balance' is maybe not the best solution.
You can just provide a choice, whether user wants to use a phone number and a real name, or just an anonymous login, not linked to anything. Why Signal doesn't want to do this? They don't want users to be anonymous, they want real names, addresses and GPS locations I assume.
Having only one wife wasn’t a commandment and the biblical patriarchs had multiple wives. This is more about Jesuits and the Catholic church trying to enforce their own belief systems on someone.
Food safe and inhalation safe are not the same thing. Try vaping some habanero oil to have the difference made clear.
Does PrivacyBadger interfere with uBlock or vice versa? I really like this on paper but wouldn't want to fiddle too much with adding exceptions to each of them just to make sure they don't cannibalize one another.
It is a fairly good cross-platform list; would definitely recommend O&O Shutup 10 (Windows) - disables Telemetry and other intrusive features. Also, changing to DoH (Cloudflare) and enabling ESNI in Firefox is a good measure. I did not know about Buster, tried it with the reCAPTCHA demo; it works intermittently, which is better than nothing at all. Although I have a add-on for WebRTC, it would seem that the latest version of Firefox sets the attribute to false by default.

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I have had this thought for many years. Where is all the perfectly designed, bug free, maintenance-bliss, fully documented, fully tested, future-proofed code located so we can all marvel at its glory?
Aha, thank you. Seems a reasonable way of them handling it.
Maybe this is just my impression, but it seemed like smoking was falling out of favor among younger generations until vaping came along.
AFAIK Firefox does not share the extensions it uses; Chrome does.

Using these tools [1] [2] [3] suggest I'm most profileable by the fact I use macOS. Which I can hide in the useragent string, but is then still detected.

[1] https://ipleak.net

[2] https://panopticlick.eff.org

[3] https://amiunique.org
What goal do you mean? Sell users to marketers?
The evidence disagrees, the link I posted provides evidence that the majority of the forest fires stem from previous clearances.

While there is a natural role for fire in forests this is unsustainable and close to a tipping point of unrecoverable.
The roof is a fragile thing. Fool with it at your peril! Folks throw ideas around casually - "Put a garden up there! Use solar shingles! Spray water on it day and night!". Most will end in disaster.

The roof is designed to hold itself up, keep out occasional rainstorms, and not blow away immediately in a storm. Nothing else. Pushing it way past its design parameters will end in grief.
What browser, and how?
Thank you.

If I want to design excellent architecture I will crack open SICP and transpose it to the fabric of modern computing.

I also take issue with much of what Fowler et al say, but that's another conversation.
Not necessarily- but it takes financial savvy and raising capital and a lot of hard work...sorta like building a tech startup. In fact, I had this conversation this week randomly with 2 different groups of former tech execs...they are leaving tech and applying their skills to engineering commercial and residential real estate portfolios...they have each been dabbling for the past few years but now growing disgruntled with tech (not for financial reasons, more quality of life stuff). They each started small ~$50K initially, and use debt and tax law efficiently. They look for underpriced areas across the US (without giving away any proprietary info, mostly Midwest).

The returns are consistently well north of 10%, and that includes deals pre-2008. Naturally that may be harder to do at scale.

But the point is you don’t need a time machine, you need skills, effort, discipline and focus.