skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know the business you can focus on one area. I had a friend who was a fanatic that specialized in workout performance. He was in his late 70s and would use twitter, forums and other sources to identify about a dozen horses that he would track tightly in the spring.

Then he'd go to Belmont in the Spring and basically live at Saratoga in the Summer. He'd watch workouts, assess the horses, watch the trainers and jockeys and gather various datapoints. I was skeptical at first, but he at a minimum made enough to live in Saratoga for the meet, which is not cheap, and funded alot of his toy purchases from his winnings. He'd call out of the blue give me picks that were good winners about 50% of the time.

Basically, there were two ways he made money -- he followed his dozen horses for the high quality stakes races, and was able to eliminate shitty horses for the lower quality races based on trainer or workout performance. For the low quality races, he would hit a few wins/exactas a week (exacta = bet on 1st and 2nd place), and for the higher quality races he would do more exotic bets (Pick 6, trifecta, exacta)

This guy loved horses, the track, and the people around it. He was a widower and had lots of time on his hands. Definitely a labor of love that kept him sharp for a long time.
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Pair programming is great. But as with all things, only in moderation. An hour or two per week can actually be quite enlightening and eye opening.
Not the same at all. Most Chinese immigrated outside China in the past two decades or so have pro-China opinions and are becoming more pro-China as they live abroad. Younger generations born after 90s living in China also have more pro-China viewpoints. You'd still hear them critisize the government a lot but what they care about is dramatically different from people in western world. In issues like Hong Kong, it's quite rare to see any mainland Chinese supporting rioters in HK, no matter where they live.
I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictionary and a conjugation chart. I started with _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ but found the diction too difficult to slog through. I made it through _Le Petit Prince_, but I really clicked with Simenon's detective novels. Since it was a familiar, modern form, it was easier for my brain to fill in the blanks through context. The dialogue, especially, was realistic and quite to the point ("Ici c'est moi qui pose les questions" sticks in my mind).
But you are replying to a comment that says you don't need the tweaks.

I think the situation is a little bit made worse by the fact that historically, FreeBSD had some poor or out of date defaults, so it is prone to putting something in a config file and forgetting about it as it meanwhile becomes obsolete. This is not really an "open source desktop" problem so much as a FreeBSD problem.
OOPSEC Fail
Maybe they would have the money to invest in infrastructure if everybody got 18k per year.
In the long run? Just another one I think, and smaller than many.

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

(I guess that wikipedia is good for something)
In the easy-to-clean category MS Natural wins easily. I never used the 4000 but my Elite (still work after more than 20 years) can be washed in the dishwasher.
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I already walk for 1 hr everyday.
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> bonus points for a standard layout...The Ergo Sculpt met all of those well

My main problem with it is that it isn't a standard layout. For that reason, I went with the Surface Ergonomic instead, which, while still not standard, is more standard than the Sculpt.
On a software product note, "Pocket", the client-side product that does local-only interest analysis so it can get a full list of interesting articles from the server, and then locally filter out all the stuff you probably don't care about, is not "the server application that accepts volutary user submission analysis to determine what goes on the API response list with which categories".

No one ever talked about open sourcing the service that the pocket client relies on, as far as I can remember.
Yes, let them ride bullet trains! The downtrodden masses would surely rise up after being forced into such indignity.
That shows how shitty all previous versions where.
In the example he gave, he was impersonating a phone company employee, not an officer of the law.
I map it to lock the screen which makes so much more sense!
In what way is it easier to scan? Every scanner has settings for both black and white and color neg. Plus, scanning "black and white" shot on C41 introduces a host of issues into post-processing.
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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Especially not race war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Unless reducing parking incentivises people to not have a car in the first place.
Is there a way to run Live Caption on a command line?
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Yeah, it doesn't seem that merely blocking third party cookies can address a scenario like this, where the main site colludes with the third party tracking site.

To avoid this, it still seems like the best approach is to use an ad blocker add-on like uBlock Origin, which will block any content from known tracking domains from being loaded. That should get rid of the third party image.

There's also uMatrix (from the maker of uBlock Origin), which can selectively block images, scripts, etc. from third party sites.
Nice stacks!

Personally I would have used a generic type, i.e., class Stack<T>, instead of limiting the values to string.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/generics.html#g...

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By the way, I think this may be the first emoji I've seen in a title on HN. It sure made it pop out of the list and catch my attention.
I think companies experimenting with licenses like the AGPL are trying to suss out what open source means in the cloud age. When the GPL came to be and software ran on people's computers, there was no way to distribute software that didn't trigger the distribution clause and require modifications to be available under the same license. With the cloud, there is: cloud companies can and do host all sorts of GPL'd software, make modifications, do whatever they want and are under no obligation to release any of that because running a service was not accounted for at the time the GPL was created.

MongoDB Inc's license switch may earn them some hate but I think the bigger issue is what license terms will open source contributors be comfortable with? What license captures the same spirit as the GPL, should that spirit still be desired, as software moves to the cloud? When every piece of functionality, no matter how trivial, can be used by a cloud provider to bolster their closed ecosystem, are the developers that created that software comfortable with a license that allows providers to do so without giving back?

AWS et al. are committing no violation here of course, they are taking advantage of a market opportunity to offer hosted software, some open source and some not. The market is overwhelmingly saying that they value the convenience of having all of these services available at the click of a button and that the closed source nature and potential for Oracle-style vendor lock-in is not a concern.

There's certainly value there and some folks may feel perfectly comfortable contributing to such an ecosystem, as is their right. Others may desire a more reciprocating agreement, and perhaps the AGPL is a first step towards such a license. I think we as software engineers need to recognize just how high we're standing on the giant's shoulders and put some thought towards helping a community that is trying to adjust to the new cloud reality. "Fuck you give me your stuff for free" is unwarranted and not likely to encourage contribution.
There is still a text only version of NPR that is exceptionally lightweight.

https://text.npr.org/
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> In the absence of a true standard for browser extensions, maintaining compatibility with Chrome is important for Firefox developers and users.

About as close as Mozilla can come to outright saying, "Chrome is big enough and we're small enough that what they do _is_ the standard."

Still, it's encouraging to see that they're not removing the blocking API for now. I kind of hope this does push a few adblocker extensions to abandon Chrome.
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That isn't "counting cards" that's edge sorting.

Counting cards isn't considered cheating because you're manipulating numbers in your head and in NJ, where the case happened, you can't be asked to leave a casino just for counting cards. Edge sorting is considered cheating as it's basically a form of marking cards. (This is an oversimplification of the rulings in the US
It is a restate of the conspiratorial claim in my first post. One is justified to say anything one pleases, but it could still be a detraction or pointless speculation: "News flash: Alice Zhang has long hair. Women frequently have long hair. But, Bobby Joe is a surfer dude, and surfer dudes like long hair and frequently have long hair too. I haven't seen Bobby yet, or saw a photo of him, but I relevantly pose that I am justified in saying -- using my a priori knowledge of surfer dudes -- that Bobby, a man, likely has long hair too. My evidence is that Bobby, being a surfer dude, has an incentive to like long hair. I am not contradicting that Alice does not have long hair, just complementing the discussion with extensively documented history of surfer dudes and the likelihood of Bobby's hair length."
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The additives are not new. So probably not, but maybe.
The article was about the Chinese using it, not the US.
I'd say Espressif has a near monopoly due to first comer advantage.

There are way, way more moneyed companies in the wifi MCU game, but I have not seen a single competitor chip outside sales demos yet.

Redpine had big dotcoms backing, but it seems that even they dropped the ball on them in favour of Chinese chipmakers. Amazon and Google recently reached out for MXCHIP and Espressif, and their Redpine based solutions never went beyond the tech demo stage.
A corollary is that our field is not as coldly rational and technical as we'd like to think.
Indeed. But sadly that's not how plane tickets are currently priced.
I think Stallman is more of a Tiresias
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> I'm not sure you should want to.

Then how would I be able to quickly solve the same problem the next time if I am not in control of the process?
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Yes, we eat burgers all the time sans the bun and it's an incredibly nutritious meal with a perfect mix of macro-nutrients. Great protein, good source of fat, and tons of nutrients. Hard to beat honestly.
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Ah, that makes much more sense. Thank you.
> History will show that Theo was right in a manner similar to how Stalman was right: technically correct analysis and eerily accurate predictions, but lacking in sufficient charisma

Your assessment of charisma is foreign to me. I cannot imagine anybody who is more charismatic that these two men, theo and rms.
> " A well-made hamburger contains part protein, vegetables and carbs. It’s a whole meal"

Why do people continue to make nutritional arguments using macronutrients as the basis? Macronutrients tell you very little about how healthy something is.

"It's a whole meal" - what does that even mean?

What tells you if something is healthy is the nutritional value - vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients etc. Just because something is high in protein or high in carbs or low in fat does not tell you whether it is healthy.
How will Google avoid being sued (like Amazon / Audible is being sued https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-lawsuit/top-u-...) for the "Live Caption" feature?
I switched to desktop Linux in 1999, and then to FreeBSD around 2014. For me it's about culture. When you use software you're interacting with hundreds of decisions that the devs made, and the more they think like you the more they will have made the same calls that you would have.

Linux's success ended up bringing in a distinctly different crowd than it had when I first started using it, and when the software decisions started to reflect that evolving culture I just found myself going against the grain for a lot of common tasks.

Switching to FreeBSD was like coming back to your home country after being abroad - there were definitely nice things about the place you were travelling in, but it's still a relief to be back in your own culture. When you travel there's lots of random surprises because everything's built on a different set of values and assumptions - that's part of the charm of being abroad - but eventually you want to get things done and it's great to be back home where you can devote your whole brain to the task at hand.
Glad. I do affiliate marketing, and as part of my research into this area I have to look at hundreds of landing pages with talking heads explaining how to buy cheap cialis. One notable ploy they use is autoplaying audio & video to grab your attention. Little do they realize that users instantly find the offending video and close the tab. Autoplay actually increases the churn rate.
While true on the first part, these days many cases don't have insane primary efficiency needs that would be affected by that log(n). As always though, you choose the tools based on the job at hand, not the tools. In my experience, functional philosophy often is about the gained mental and consistency advantages achieved by the features offered.
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Oh crud, all my lighting runs off these things. I wish more smart controller/switches used powerline networking rather than WiFi.
The fake beacon frame issue is the key one here - relatively few people are using Enterprise WPA2, but ESP8266 (or compatible - such as the Tuya TYWE3S) chips are in all kinds of random low cost IoT devices. I've got some smart plugs which use them, as well as a few of the dev boards connected up to various sensors, so looks like will have some patching to do...
You might collect Ferraris, which might all be objectively Robust Wire / USB Cable
better than a Honda Civic, but you aren't going to drive one every day.
Please don't cross into personal attack here.

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Kind of a simplistic view in my opinion. I installed Linux and BSD out of pure curiosity and enjoyed the configurability and newness of it all. I was in a rural area, wasn't in college yet and didn't have anyone to brag to about it at the time. I used it because I wanted to. I know there are many like me.
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The challenge is getting the tractors into the right locations and keeping their operators out of the spray. It would be harder to get precise application so they are more likely to use more and higher concentrations of pesticide.

The most cost-effective response using traditional application of pesticides is probably bigger drones (aka a flying tractor)